Day Z - Zombies + ARMA2? Yes please.

[Lleman]

So, funny little run tonight, found a crashed heli and an uncommon gun which loot-addict Julian picked immediately. A few deaths (mainly remotely that of Kresjah, he of the newfish status) and a nice little toy to play with... One picture speaks more than words:


Julian / Penguin / Cagecrawler - Chernarus, June '12 "How does that work again?"

[Ewokz]

My poor death

I didn't even find out who killed me with that perfect head-shot, he didn't appear to loot me though so I'm guessing he was just some bastard murderer. I hit up cherno a little while you guys were online but I didnt find much due to me only skirting it. After you guys logged I hit Elektra in force and due to the server population (13) I managed to hit all the decent loot spots without issue, only the church required me to server hop so I could get past the wire exploit. Managed to pretty much restore everything, found an Alice which is full of drink, water and a few stag mags, also I'm sporting camo, an AKM with 2 mags and a nice little tent Still going to miss the M4 but this'll do.

I logged off a decent distance from Elektra, so I should be heading up to Berezino tomorrow afternoon if possible. I presume the same server again? If so we could set this tent up somewhere decent along with our transport.

Julian was lucky as hell finding that Fal with thermal scope, think that guns one of the rarest ingame at the moment.

[Rivy]

Huh, Akranadas' rants have confirmed my worst fears D: (ie: bad people)
I think I'll wait till someone makes a whole game out of this with the option for non-pvp servers xD

[Akranadas]

In any type of zombie scenario, it's always the other survivors that are the biggest threat. Most people are shoot on sight because they think you are shoot on sight.

It's what I do now. I've killed someone who was obviously friendly because he walked up to me and did nothing while I was AFK. Sucks to be him but i don't know how long I could have someone with a gun following me before the temptation to shoot me gets the better of him.

[Ewokz]

Some sort of Conscience meter would be nice, maybe similar to the shakes you can get from zombie injury? After maybe 30 mins it wears off, though maybe longer, possibly also some form of sickness to represent how bad you mental state is. Increasing the noise you make on movement would also be a good idea. Then reduce the effects after a number of murders until it does nothing after say 3-5 kills?

This would create some sort of motivation for not shooting on sight, which the game needs. We only work as a team in real-life because we will suffer both social and mental issues from things such as murder. even with a lack of any sort of social structure in place we would still be hesitant to shoot people on sight after an apoc due to the mental/emotional issues it would cause, some mechanic to simulate this ingame would be a welcome thing. The reduction in effects would be explained by the hardening of a survivor in the apoc environment, and it wouldn't be a path followed by many due to amount of issues you would have to deal with in order to get there. Plus its a good counter for loot gain in pvp, it'll stop/reduce players treating each other like mobile valuable loot piles.

Being sick and incredibly upset after a murder would be completely realistic and simulating that in the game makes sense, player characters being these emotionless beings is one particular area of game-play that makes it really hard to correctly role-play with. I like that you have to consider the weather and basic needs, it makes the game all the more real, but the current pvp situation flies completely in the face of that atmosphere.

[Akranadas]

Honestly, I think that is a great idea Ewokz, but is it doable in Arma2?

At the moment I feel remorse for killing any player, even when they are packed to the brink with loot.

[Inq]

Played briefly with Faek. Found an AK at a military site on the way, first gun with more than two rounds of ammo! Headshotted some Z's on the way, all good!

Meet up with Faek, go back to military site and see two Z's next to the tower. Shoot them and around 7 aggro from the forest! :O

Good five minutes of team work...

[Lleman]

Ewokz, Cage and I are across the road North of the milcamp in Berezino or you can hit Black Lake to rejoin Jules and the depraved flightless avian. We'll check the Bere milcamp anyway so save yourself some run. Catch you tonight.

[Akranadas]

I ran into a tree with a tractor going 1km and died instantly

[Lleman]

Welcome to Julian's Club of Faildeaths. You probably aren't that numerous to have achieved such a feat, congrats.

[Ewokz]

Think I'm outside Solnichniy to be honest, think I'll raid that then head up to Berezino. Really need a compass. Perhaps we can find somewhere decent to put up this tent so we can have some sort of semi-permit base?

Thinking we should just skip past industrial areas in future as this is the full list of what they spawn:

Hatchet 10.78%
Hunting Knife 6.86%
Wire Fencing Kit 5.88%
Car Wheel 4.90%
Military loot 3.92%
Scrap Metal 3.92%
Windscreen Glass 3.92%
Jerry Can 3.92%
Tank Trap Kit 3.92%
Fueltank Parts 1.96%
Toolbox 1.96%
Engine Parts 0.98%
Main Rotor Assembly 0.98%


Its all pretty damn useless unless we need to fix up a vehicle.

EDIT: Think I'm going out tonight with some mates into town so I wont be on, also I've gotten the Supcom 1 bug so if that falls through I'll be playing that all night. I've managed to get to Berezino anyway, don't you guy wander too far tonight

[Lleman]

Right, time to bugger off and leave that burden valuable teammate.

[Lleman]

So, after our massive execution (only Julian survived out of 6) and subsequent respawning, we managed to gather in Elektro itself. All contingencies had been planned way before that and we took the party to play with a much moire carefree attitude (grab axe, run through town, aggro Zs by the dozens, hack anyone in our way ). This led to a much funnier gaming time and to absurdly deadly situations (thanks Penguin for shooting me in the face while i laid bleeding out in that fire station tower :P) which we recovered from without much trouble. What's the point of being stealthy? Loudly shoot your way through towns, run past zombies and shake them off on a steep slope, announce yourself in noise and fire, it's all fun and you'll be fine, totally.

Same run tonight, gents!

[Lleman]

A few deaths, lots of nonsensical running around, a few good catches and we're back on the serious survivor saddle. Happiest of us all was Penguin who found his favourite garment, frills-fetish that he is...
Is that an Ent, is that a SHRUBBERY (Ni!), is that a funny bush? No, it's a Penguin!!!




Here's also what we could do next time, possibly with Alliance meeting us up in Vyshnoye (and Cage retrieving us?):

[Akranadas]

Fuck hackers. Pumped a guy with 20 rounds of M16A1 ammo and he turns and pops me once with a Lee Enfield at close range.

[Lleman]

Sucks. The former is not right (nor admissible), while the latter is. What server was it?

[Faek]

Fuck hackers. Pumped a guy with 20 rounds of M16A1 ammo and he turns and pops me once with a Lee Enfield at close range.

That's almost as bad as being teleported to the middle of the air and falling to your death. At least you got to shoot your weapon.

[Akranadas]

Some Seattle server, was playing on it due to it being dark on all the Australian servers. I got the jump on him by a good 5 seconds, shot him right in the centre of the back and head for a full 5 seconds. He just whips around and shoots me, killing me instantly.

[Recaso]

Still waiting for the inevitable steam summer sales, before i venture into the wilds

[Akranadas]

I've heard rumours that there isn't going to be a steam summer sale

[Trizzdog]

Wonder if it was going to be the third summer sale...

[Civik]

Re: the hacker, I thought that was a known bug wher if you fall to your death and manage to survive at a negative blood level, you become invincible to damage since you are below 0 blood. I'm going to wait for Arma 3 to be released since the coding is supposedly compatible, I'm sure they'll be porting it over.

[Lleman]

And then we was teh vikings!


And in spite of my shooting Penguin like 5 times (perhaps more, really) for various totally valid reasons which he'll never accept, we were back to the new camp, everything going okay as usual with us...

[Ewokz]

Awesome boat, think I'll stop being so Emo (as Lleman put it ) and log on tomorro for some antics. Fresh respawn so here goes the cherno and Elektra raids.

[PacPomarnacki]

So yesterday and the day before the central DayZ server was down, which led to excessive staring at "Waiting for character to create". As such me, Julian, Lleman, Kresjah and Penguin all piled onto an armoury server to delight ourselves in vehicles that actually worked, I just so happened to be recording it.

So I give you "What happens when you cant play DayZ"



Please note Julian still dies a lot. Even without Zombies and Bandits.

[Ewokz]

Hilarious video

[kais58]

That is the best thing ever, when are you doing it again? I'll get ArmA ready

[Axyl]

That is the best thing ever, when are you doing it again? I'll get ArmA ready

THIS! I'm howling with laughter as I'm watching the video.. I want in!

[another penguin]

So I decided to go and loot Electro for some stuff, found 2 binocs, compass, matches, loads of ammo, meds etc and then I was shot. Respawned at prigorodky, went through Cherno, now on the western outskirts of Cherno with M1911 with many mags, lee enfield, compass, czech backpack and some meds. Someone's gonna have to pick me up in a boat.

[Ewokz]

Managed to spend about an hour in Elektra on 3 servers looting and walking around, eventually managed to get inside every building (stupid bloody wire/tanktraps/sandbags would think its COH with all this path blocking).

About 30 minutes in walked into a tank trap and broke my legs, caused me pain and made me lose 2k blood so i was forced to crawl to the hospital and break the glass with gunfire. Lost another 1k blood from the subsequent zed rush. Luckily filled my pack with meds, when I'd gotten past more wire inside -.-

Heard gunshots on each server multiple times, and I found 3 dead survivors which was pretty lucky. Only encountered a living player in the power-station fire-station, who I dropped with my M1014 before he could shoot me much with his Mak. Currently hiding on the hill overlooking the plant, only on about 5k blood but I'm packed with meds so a dolt could fix me up good

[DeafMute]

I think this is the best deal any of us without the game will see.

https://store.bistudio.com/

£15 for both games either shipping or steam version.
CageCrawler posted this up in the cheap games thread, thought id add it here.

[Lleman]

Nice. That should bring a new influx of players (and a new wave of plump little piglets to kill ).

Now, led into a false feeling of safety by a first swim with a full pack which i never lost i decided to get back 'home' from my latest foray by swimming with my Alice pack on, laden with a M14EP1 and various gears and goods, and a M1014 in hand. Woe betided me, as soon as i started Johnny Weissmüller-ing my pack and all of my weaponry dropped to the ocean floor, barely 1m from hand range. Yes, i know, noob mistake, but as i wrote, i was led into thinking this was now safe...
Now, has anyone ever found a way to retrieve part or all of their gear in such a situation? It's particularly infuriating considering my pack lies so close from reach.

[DeafMute]

I havnt played thegame yet but how does it handle with player collision?
Im thinking if there is some sort of collision ingame you could try having someone swim ontop of you to push you further down. Just an idea.

-Edit Purchased the game now I just need to clear up some space for the install! I wont bother burdening you guys just yet, need to find my footing and playstyle in this game first.

[bman3k]

So I hadn't logged to Day Z on since my last rage post here and I just did now and I have full hp and no broken legs thanks to the update (I guess?), but I still have my ghillie suit and M1014 .

[Rivy]

Woo, got me Combined Ops for 25$ ! It should be done installing in 3 hours or so. I'm pretty sure nothing good will come out of this.

[Inquisitor Lok]

After coming back from a Zombie Survival Themed Airsoft game tonight, ive decided i really need to pick this game up, as i kept hearing how awesome it is and how we were playing this mod out just with real people xD Heres hoping it goes on Sale in the upcoming Summer Steam Sale... (*Crosses Fingers*)

[Lleman]

@DeafMute: i doubt that'd work, seeing as you can 'bury' yourself in the beachline geometry while swimming, either due to a faulty anim or a strange collision factor.
In short, back to square one except for a watch, a knife and a torchlight. ELEKTRO HERE I COME!

[bman3k]

How exactly does night time lighting work? I just experienced the brightest night ever, everything was dark, but basically black and white and very visible, usually it's literally pitch black and unplayable.

Anyways I found finally have matches, a hunting knife and a hatchet all at once, I was finally able to cook some meat . Picked the matches off a poor dead fellow near the airbase, assuming he was murdered or at least previously looted as he only had tools and heat packs left on him. As of now I'm in good shape, got camo, decent weapon, and I can make food; I predict its all going to go downhill very fast soon. I'll probably break my leg standing still too long or something, my current "quest" is to find some morphine and maybe painkillers. I'll be checking in on mumble a bit more regularly, as I'll actually be of some use now.

[Lleman]

Night time for the geeks

Come night, your best allies are the following:

-Video settings
Turn brightness to the max and push your gamma up until you have a decent night vision; setting HDR to the max also helps. Iirc this process has however been toned down in a past update.

-Chosing a full moon server
Obvious, isn't it?

-Torchlight
pros: very good lighting, decent cone of light;
cons: visible and therefore usable to aim at you from afar by survs; doesn't light your way if you're crouch-/running.

-G17/Remmington
pros: wonderful weapons both; their light attachment allows you to light your way (same as Torchlight) AND have a firearm at the ready in case of trouble;
cons: same as the torchlight.

-Military flashlight
pros: same as the torchlight (perhaps with a slightly reduced visibility); barely visible from afar due to the red tint.
cons: very little that i know

-Flares
pros: very large radius of illumination; throwable; attracts Zs and survs alike.
cons: ask Penguin (seriously, that's a bait for all things deadly in Cherna )

-chemlights
pros: very discreet light, almost undetectable; useful in stealth 'ops' and grouped runs.
cons: the aura of light is very limited and quite muted therefore providing just enough light for you to see your feet.

[Rivy]

I'm a bit disappointed by the fact that you start completely unarmed, but I can totally see the potential in this game. I just need a few hours to properly sink my teeth in it.

[DeafMute]

Any tips for an absolute noobie to DayZ and ARMA2 in general? From the gameplay vids ive seen the inventory looks complicated. Downloading the mod now, will give it a try within the next 20-45minutes.

Edit---
I think I have the right DayZ files, from the torrent on http://www.dayzmod.com/downloads.php but I try and connect to servers and its saying I dont have the files I already do?
this is what my install file line looks like.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\DayZ\Addons Is this correct? with 14 files within the Addons folder.

[Lleman]

1) http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inventory

2) Read OpelFalcon's thread to get everything right from the start on.

3) Join us over irc (needed infos in the above thread).

4) Don't whine and pine over your lack of gear upon spawning and over your deaths; you'll die, a lot, then you'll find ways to be less conspicuous, loud, clumsy, spottable, edible, killable,... in short, you'll become better by playing and dying.

[Rivy]

4) Don't whine and pine over your lack of gear upon spawning and over your deaths; you'll die, a lot, then you'll find ways to be less conspicuous, loud, clumsy, spottable, edible, killable,... in short, you'll become better by playing and dying.

Oh shut up ¬.¬

[Ewokz]

That's probably the hardest part of this game to adjust to, not caring about your gear. On the one hand you have to be willing to risk your character over anything half decent, but when you die you've got to be ok with it. Personally I've started to become only annoyed about losing the essential items, ie a map, compass, knife and matches. It's annoying to lose a good weapon but generally you'll either find it again or realise that it wasn't much more than something shiny to look at while you tekk through the woods.

[DeafMute]

So I need the beta patch from http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php in order to connect to servers?
Someone mind downloading the latest version and posting it here? It doesnt seem to want to work for me.

[Lleman]

Try right-clicking and saving it thusly, DeafMute. I've indeed encountered troubles but this method seems A-OK. Once done, follow OpelFalcon's instructions.

@Alex: did you feel like it was addressed to you? That rather was a very generic way to present things and to tell anyone reading it that things aren't that important after all. Not being anal about your deaths helps a lot to appreciate the mod, as Ewokz also pointed out. Period.

[Rivy]

I didn't actually die yet :P (I intend to fix that soon)

[DeafMute]

Lleman. R-Clicking and save was one of the first things I tried. Its refusing to download for some reason or another, file size is only 8mb to, strange.

Edit. is working now. Wasnt before =P. must of been a server/website issue. Ill be able to try it later on tonight.
Perhaps this is premature but is there an ETA on when this mod will enter BETA stage? 3-6months or more?

[Lleman]

It IS working right now, 00.59 GMT. :/

[another penguin]

So tonight's game went fairly...something. While it didn't go particularly well it didn't really go very badly either.

I started in the west end of Cherno and headed into town while Pac dropped off Julian and Kresjah at the other end of Cherno. After some fairly uneventful looting we all heard gunhots and I snuck around and popped a survivor in the side of the head, granting us a CZ550 and some other bits and pieces. Julian and Kresjah met me at his corpse and we rejoiced before swiftly returning to the waiting boat and heading home to drop our stuff off.

We then headed for a raid on Electro, this time with Lleman. Julian dropped Pac, Kresjah and myself off and went back for Lleman, and Pac climbed a ladder to provide overwatch for when we went in. Then, disaster! kind of. Pac somehow fell off the roof and landed on Kresjah, so Pac died and we looted him. Lleman was soon dropped off and Pac made it back too soon after. Lleman, Kresjah and me moved into town and quickly found a survivor in some grass, and shot him. Then, as we neared the fire station, I spotted someone in the window. We ran over, but the surv heard us coming, took refuge in the tower and killed Kresjah. Cue 10 minutes of Lleman and I shooting zeds, looking for the surv and me shouting a lot. (I've really got to stop talking so much) However, eventually Lleman killed this surv as well and krejah made it back just in time to see his body despawn and yet another surv run for the hills.

We then headed further into town, where more survs awaited us. Kresjah gained an M1911, I discovered that gaps in shelving somehow block bullets, and LLeman killed someone else. Having attracted every zombie and his dog to us we legged it back to the boat and fled, richer with an AK74u KOBRA but not too much else.

Nevermind, we'll do better tomorrow. (And I'll learn to shut up)