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

[villain of the story]

2. Download this batch file and put it into your Steam OA folder (which has the main exes, no subfolders)

There's no such folder without sub folders.

 

[someone else]

Dayz wiki
http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Suggest renaming thread title to "Dayz, zombie mod for Arma 2". I thought this thread was about military simulation from the title.



http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

[villain of the story]

Ah great, the beta patch fucked my game. Resets game resolution to half the monitor standard and the window dimensions to a weird non-standard one every time I run the game. It's blurred as fuck and for some reason, the GPU fires up the fans to the max even though all settings are the lowest they can be. FTS.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Ah great, the beta patch fucked my game. Resets game resolution to half the monitor standard and the window dimensions to a weird non-standard one every time I run the game. It's blurred as fuck and for some reason, the GPU fires up the fans to the max even though all settings are the lowest they can be. FTS.

Ahhh. I'm no expert here but make sure your something like 'Interface' and '3D Rendering' match. I have no IDEA why they do that, put them together. Kill the AA if you need to and definitely the Post Processing: off. Good luck.

Will your name be villianofthestorydex?

(As I almost shot you between the eyes)

 

[villain of the story]

Kill the AA if you need to and definitely the Post Processing: off.

LOL. I never use AA anyway and post processing in Arma 2 is utter shit. Anyway, reinstalling now.

My in-game name is Voss-Dex or Voss-San.

 

[someone else]

I think we should all use Prestigious Codex names lke Darkunderlord, Skyway and Andhaira.

 

[MetalCraze]

Beta patch fucks nothing bro. If anything it's more stable than stable version. And it doesn't change/replace any stable 1.60 game files so no need to reinstall anything. Just launch an original exe instead of beta's exe.

However hands growing out of an ass do fuck things up.

 

[CorpseZeb]

Matey... that's why all the sailors, in the all ports of call, called her Beta... She is for all, but not for anyone.

 

[villain of the story]

Ran the beta installer. Let it do its thing.
Put the .cmd where the OA exe was and ran it.
Game is fucked up.

Anyway, already reinstalled. I'm not touching that beta shit again.

 

[MetalCraze]

Beta doesn't affect your game at all. It doesn't change a single file. Then again CorpseZeb is maybe correct


Also I just had a 5 hours-long monocle run with a group of 5
The increased numbers of zombies were no match for our serious firepower. And apart from an unlucky guy we found in one of barracks (whom we killed and robbed) we didn't encounter any human. Wonder why lul

 

[villain of the story]

Beta doesn't affect your game at all. It doesn't change a single file.

The beta installer tells you that to remove the beta, you have to reinstall the game.

Also, fucking zombies that climb ladders.

And saw a strange thing happen: next to the indicators on bottom right, there was a compass for a very short while but it disappeared as I moved on. Environmental stuff?

 

[thesoup]

No, lol. You just run a different .exe file. At least in steam.

 

[MetalCraze]

The beta installer tells you that to remove the beta, you have to reinstall the game.

BIS are too lazy to change the text in their patch installer for betas?

 

[someone else]

Also I just had a 5 hours-long monocle run with a group of 5
The increased numbers of zombies were no match for our serious firepower. And apart from an unlucky guy we found in one of barracks (whom we killed and robbed) we didn't encounter any human. Wonder why lul

Speaking of bandit groups...
I was looting a isolated town's church and chatting on global when I spot a bandit crawling away from the entrance and I heard a pistol went off, then a couple of bandits running around him. I caught their names, more importanly their clan tag, a group of around 4 players with that tag is on the server and I'm guessing that they are a bandit clan.
I took up position behind the pews and grab my grenade, I threw as they come charging in. Two of them came at me at the same time, a well-coordinated assault where each took a side (charging me from my left and right), while the rest came in from the entrance. I didn't hear any fire from them, and wondered where did my grenade go, did I threw it out of the church? Then I was knocked down with ringing in my ears and the server message came up that I killed two. I lay there unconscious while one of the survivors put a bullet in my head. I'm guessing that I got knocked down from a bullet and not hurt from my own grenade.
Time for them to reformulate their assault tactics. :/

 

[MetalCraze]

Lol your grenade probably bounced off of a wall. You just unlocked "Allah Akbar" achievement.

 

[villain of the story]

Found a stash in the middle of nowhere that respawns new items every few minutes if you take all the previous items from there. Got a CZsomething scoped rifle, AK Kobra, a shotgun, an ALICE, plenty of bandages, assorted ammo, flares, morphine, painkillers. So much stuff I had to leave a LOT. I don't know if it was specific to that point or a general mechanic but the more I waited, more zombies spawned out of thin air in front of me. The place eventually got too risky. I didn't have that happen elsewhere before.

I wish it was one big giant persistent world across servers so when I hid stuff in a spot, it would be there when I came back.

Also, find what's peculiar about these screens:

 

[SerratedBiz]

I guess clouds in Russia are just different, like everything else.

 

[MetalCraze]

But bro

It's a one big giant persistent world across all servers. Your char is saved across all servers and I think your tent too (but I've read reports a week ago that saving tents is still buggy which may have been fixed since it's possible to find them - we found two yesterday, nearly empty though)

In the next updates Rocket is planning to expand fortification functionality too - to help players create safe havens against zombies. He is also working on a group system. Basically you will be able to invite players into the group, possibly see each other marked in the game world and use group chat.

 

[villain of the story]

Yes but a tent is one big "LOOT ME OLOLO" sign.

I've already seen plenty of fences placed strategically to fend off zombies. Too bad they hack through walls, negating fences when used by buildings. Also found fence kits. I think it takes two people to set a fence up. I wasn't able to set one by myself.

I guess clouds in Russia are just different, like everything else.

It's not the clouds.

 

[Quilty]

Zero zombies? What the?

 

[SerratedBiz]

It's not the clouds.

The clouds are still wrong, unless you're used to seeing stars through them.

 

[MetalCraze]

Yes but a tent is one big "LOOT ME OLOLO" sign.

It's camouflaged. It's just that some morons can't place them properly. One of the tents we found was in the middle of the field. This was retarded.

Dudes I play with have a "tent city". Basically many tents hidden in the forest with a shitton of weapons and ammo in them. Nobody seem to have robbed it yet.

I've already seen plenty of fences placed strategically to fend off zombies. Too bad they hack through walls, negating fences when used by buildings. Also found fence kits. I think it takes two people to set a fence up. I wasn't able to set one by myself.

Yeah I think right now zombie hit implementation is some kind of a hit zone in front of it not taking into account objects. Zombies were created from scratch though, including their "intelligence" so Rocket will debug them yet.

 

[villain of the story]

Well he said zombies are actually wild life.

Zero zombies? What the?

At first I thought there was a coordinated mass zombie extermination movement going on, because there were about 200 zombies when I joined and it was steadily going down. I ran through every building in Cherno and Elektro with a couple of guys when the Z-count hit 0. Then, suddenly, dozens of them spawned around us and we got fucked. I myself died while climbing a ladder and failing to land on the platform, falling down. Fucking glitches.

And just now, two shitstains shot me dead in the woods. All my loot gone, again. I had the jump on them, actually, I could easily take the two of them but they weren't bandits so I cut them a slack. But then they spotted me and I knew I was fucked when they immediately split left and right to flank me. All of my sweet loot gone. Goodbye AK Kobra, had fun with you. Gonna walk all the way to the spawn spot again.

 

[thesoup]

Played with Chef_Hathaway today. Not sure if that's his nickname here. He got headshot by some dude with a sniper while I got rushed by zombies. I managed to escape, but I died from blood loss shortly after, hidden in a building, trying to get my bearings together. There's always some nice lewt there, at the power plant in Elektro. Many people die there so there's nice stuff to loot. It's quite risky, though.
Now I'm outside of Elektro, to the west. Found some nice stuff in Prigorodky. Gonna head up the hills and maybe rendezvous with Chef to fight the good fight.

 

[villain of the story]

There is no good fight. There is only me and my gun and whatever tries to come between us.