DayZ, a zombie mod for ArmA2 - Now standalone on Steam Early Access

[CreamyBlood]

First impressions of v1.7.1 , I made it off the coast. Didn't whine about my death like a fucking pussie.

There's nothing like having someone else to talk you through difficult times.

No shots fired here, move along. Just good friends having a great time. (I raped your tent last night)

 

[someone else]

1.7.1.1 hotfix

Loot appears to be less, esp beans and drinks.
FPS drops for many servers, some servers are still playable.
Managed to run in and out of towns and managed to evade the zombies chasing me by running around corners and through houses, so some good news.
All vehicles were reset recently.
Players keep getting killed every few minutes, this is what happens when you take away starting gun without giving the ability to melee. I still haven't died yet so...

Next hotfix will give beans and water back.

 

[Jashiin]

just a heads up:

IMPORTANT: Tents will be wiped in update 1.7.1.5
This is to ensure we remove some of the tent cities.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Ha ha! There's going to be a lot of butthurt over this I assure you. Thanks for the warning. I just spent the last few hours organizing our meager supplies spread over a few servers.

Luckily I know where a couple of cars are and have enough parts to fix one so I'll stash it somewhere and put a few things in the trunk. Including a tent. Not sure if all tents getting are getting wiped or just placed ones.

(Today 08:30 AM)Pfc.William Wrote: Rocket you said that we were going to lose all of our stuff in the tents next update, what about items in cars?
If you car is a tent, then yes. If it is not a tent, it will be fine.

 

[villain of the story]

But it's alright. It's even easier to pitch tents now. And I can make a new one much easier and faster now, even though I don't even need one any more:

Of course, I've managed to hide one in a better spot in a town, with only inches of the tent available to access and even that, perfectly hidden behind a bush by the building.

 

[Menckenstein]

How many bros are usually playing at once and what are you using to vchat, not the ingame shit right?

 

[villain of the story]

I have yet to play with anyone from here. I don't use voice chat at all. It's just so gay when you're playing with strangers. I use autohotkey macros for quick chat messages instead.

But I do use Team Speak to listen on others on servers where it's used.

SHEEET:

* [NEW] Infected bodies will despawn after x minute(s) of their death (improves performance)

You could store an unlimited amount of items in zombie bodies and they sticked around until server resets, unless someone hided the body. I will miss this.

 

[Menckenstein]

That sucks... now you'll have to rely on the forest of tents approach.

 

[thesoup]

How many bros are usually playing at once and what are you using to vchat, not the ingame shit right?

We're using codex' vent hosted by Ulminati.
Server address: dm.clanwarz.com
Port number: 4205
Status: ONLINE
Password: PM Ulminati to get one (or just use the gust pw: newfag)

Usually it's me, CreamyBlood and Someone Else playing together with two non codexers. Darklife also comes, but I have yet to hook up with him. Chef Hathaway used to play but he got bored so now he's playing Dota 2 instead.

 

[CreamyBlood]

The tents did get wiped but were still around on 1.7.1.4, I managed to shuttle a few things over. Unfortunately is was mostly standard stuff, the car parts and the few good weapons were on servers that had already migrated to 1.7.1.5.

I managed to set up two new tents and filled them with the basics. Raynian and I did a few loot runs and made them a bit better but after returning one was completely empty. Not sure if it was a 'Villian' tactic or just a bug but such is life. Still have one backup.

The zombies are sort of hit and miss, in one town we enraged zombies while in the church, and everyone came to greet us, no survivors though, so that was good. They respawned again, and then we ran after they started respawning for the third time. Needs more tweaking. The new animations are kind of cool as well as the sounds. They do hit hard, will have to get used to maneuvering around them.

He fixed the hatchet so it fits in a tool slot again and you can harvest wood or use it as a melee weapon. Tonnes of animals respawn so food isn't much of an issue.

Framerates seemed okay, didn't run into any obvious bugs. One more hotfix is what I'm guessing. Night was quite easy infiltrating another town. Loot spawns seemed normal. I'm guessing the tent got raided by someone but more likely was part of the 'tent' clean-up. Hard to tell.

And yes, it's definitely easier to place tents. I'll have to get creative like Villian.

 

[Darklife]

Yeah I haven't had much time to play this week due to exam shit and whatnot. Maybe it's for the best as I was getting a bit burnt out with the game. I think it really needs some end game content or a serious amplification of the survival angle. Right now the only true threat are other players, maybe zombies with the new patches, but you only get into such situations when you get bored. If all you do is live like a hermit in the woods after acquiring a knife and matches you have no logical reason to leave the safety of the trees. Even procuring phat loot is only an end in itself, as cows and zombies go down from a winchester just as well.

I did read about people finding mission logs and such in the game files, which gives me cause for hope.

 

[villain of the story]

Melee is the best new thing. You can hit with hatchet/crowbar from a good distance, like about 2 meters and aggroing all the zombies in a town is no longer an issue. You can just take them down one at a time without alerting others and if you get several zeds on your tail, just go into a building and take them down as they slowly walk towards you. It's amazing. I absolutely love it. It's only a bitch to switch back to your main weapon when you hear or see other players.

Saw an "axe bandits" video where three people with NVG go Shining on other players at night. It is hilarious.

 

[thesoup]

It will definitely get nerfed and you know it.

 

[revealer]

Saw an "axe bandits" video where three people with NVG go Shining on other players at night. It is hilarious.

link or it didn't happen

 

[villain of the story]

Can't find it back but I found this instead:

 

[Menckenstein]

Can't find it back but I found this instead:

What the fuck happened at 49 seconds?

 

[Damned Registrations]

So what shit do I need exactly to play this? I don't want to download any expansions or whatever I don't need.

 

[CreamyBlood]

You need both ARMA II and ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead.

They are also sold together as a package called ARMA II: Combined Operations:

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4638/

You don't have to buy it from steam.

 

[villain of the story]

What the fuck happened at 49 seconds?

Bug. Players and zombies you killed with melee weapons got Fus-Ro-Dah'ed. It's fixed now.

 

[thesoup]

So what shit do I need exactly to play this? I don't want to download any expansions or whatever I don't need.

If you want to get the cheapest price, you just need Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead. You can download the free Arma 2 vanilla. 15€ on steam, 10$ on amazon.

 

[MetalCraze]

I like that axe-on-a-shoulder stance

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/22/d...ad-skyrim-player-emotion-and-in-game-disease/

Glorious interview. Many lulz.

Buchta:: People started helping each other, right?
Hall: Yeah, they started helping each other.
Buchta:: While the Russians…
Buchta:: I’m usually playing in the morning, the European morning, because the servers are full and I have family to take care of in the evenings. It’s always like I’m somewhere in the hills, and I’m always so glad I’m away, because the Russians are all chatting about how they killed people in Chernarus.
Crowe: If there was a real zombie apocalypse, I hope to God I’m in New Zealand. Anywhere near Russia, just end it now.
Hall: They get it, they so get it. I love watching their live streams. They’re crazy. They’re all bandits. All bandits. They’re just ruthless, they don’t care if they get killed. And they’re not PvP… They’re not player killers. Or they are, but they care about their gear, they care about staying alive. They’re just cutthroat. It’s great.

Putin needs to invade Czech Republic now. This must not stand.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Last night three of us came under attack by a couple of bandits on an ATV. They were using DMR's and thesoup took damage but didn't get killed. We all managed to escape with our lives.

This morning Someone Else stumbled upon their camp and we went to investigate. Sure enough there was an ATV and a whole bunch of DMR's among other stuff. We got the hatchback and the Ural truck but then I was on my own. I went back and got the landrover and looted the place down to the last band-aid, I didn't leave anything.

I didn't have time to grab any more vehicles and after only a handful of people being on the server all day a whole bunch showed up at once. Shortly after, as I was cruising down the highway at 100km/h they reset the server. When I logged back in my jeep was parked a few miles back where I'd fueled up. I'm guessing they were hoping a reset might revert a couple of them, no such luck.

Too bad I couldn't destroy the bus as well but what can you do? Villain would be proud.

 

[mck]

Taking out the starting pistol really sucks the fun out of this for me. I already sucked bad enough as it was, but now without the starting pistol I'm even more fucked. It takes 20 minutes for my game to create a character, only for me to be killed by bandits 3 minutes in without any defense.

 

[Jashiin]

Nice find there Creamyblood. Next time use the cars to destroy the tents also. and maybe park vehicles you want to blow up next to eachother. might take damage from the explosions.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Yeah, I know that driving over a tent destroys everything inside but I emptied everything and loaded up the vehicles that we stole. I think shooting in the engine makes them blow up faster. I actually came back with more ammo and was going to blow up the bus or drive it down a ravine and stick between some trees or something but I heard a truck nearby. I decided to leave because I figured they wouldn't be in a very good mood.