Day Z, Arma 2 zombie mod.

[krisvds]

I'm seriously tempted to purchase Arma 2, a game I had zero interest in, just for this. Looks epic!

http://kotaku.com/5908753/this-might-be-the-greatest-zombie-game-ever-made

[Rancid Carcass]

Now that's pretty damn kick-ass. Found a nice youtube video, not much happens but's pretty intense though, somehow, lol.

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[Tricky]

Make sure you have a beefy PC to play it on though, I've been playing Arma 2 for almost 3 years now and even after upgrades its still a demanding game, mainly down to the sheer size of the world you play in - an entire country!
I've not played the zombie mods, but the vanilla game is very good, it feels extremely realistic to play, much more so than CoD or Battlefield etc

[AcesandEights]

I'm seriously tempted to purchase Arma 2, a game I had zero interest in, just for this. Looks epic!

http://kotaku.com/5908753/this-might-be-the-greatest-zombie-game-ever-made
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

I had been interested in Arma/Arma2 for a while, even shot Tricky a few PMs asking him about the game. I haven't pulled the trigger on buying, but will do so now. It doesn't hurt that the game is 50% off on gamersgate currently ($19.99) :)


Now that's pretty damn kick-ass. Found a nice youtube video, not much happens but's pretty intense though, somehow, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOB7YGgREFg

Watched this whole vid last night and was pretty psyched, only problems I se are PK griefers, lack of enterable structures (comparatively, it seems) and not having a (truly) integrated and expansive harvesting/crafting system.

Still, I'm up for giving it a shot and will download it tonight. I figure the vanilla offerinfs should be damned cool in and of itself.

Anybody plays, let me know! Also, anyone know if the mod support for this on Steam is workable? I like gamersgate, but sometimes not going Steam shoots oneself in the foot with regards to community access to groups and mods.

[Rancid Carcass]

Okay, just spent the last few days getting to grips with the Arma 2 demo, it's pretty frustrating at first but once it 'clicks', it's in a class of it's own. Going to order the anniversary edition sometime this weekend - comes with a map! Love game maps! Should be quite handy for the Day Z mod. Talking of which, you need to watch this video, it's 20 minutes long but it's funny as hell - if you're not sold on it already this should change your mind. :)

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Left4what...? :D

[AcesandEights]

Okay, just spent the last few days getting to grips with the Arma 2 demo, it's pretty frustrating at first but once it 'clicks', it's in a class of it's own.

I'll give this new vid a watch. So you picked up the game, too? Maybe we'll have to team up sometime. You know, once I get the hang of the demo :confused: I think I have to crank that mouse sensitivity down.

[MikePizzoff]

I've been following this game on another forum. So bummed that Mac gets no support.

[Tricky]

Okay, just spent the last few days getting to grips with the Arma 2 demo, it's pretty frustrating at first but once it 'clicks', it's in a class of it's own.

The community is huge surrounding the game, if you go on the Bohemia interactive forums & the Armaholic website you'll find infinite amounts of user made scenarios, mods, extra vehicles & units, maps, campaigns & missions. Its such an awesome game and it feels "real" to play. Being spotted by an enemy patrol and coming under fire gives you a genuine sense of fear, knowing that you can be felled in one bullet. CoD it aint! :cool:

[Neil]

Reviews...

http://www.ywbl4da.com/?p=318

http://www.onrpg.com/MMO/Arma-II/review/DayZ-A-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-Zombie-Hunter

[Rancid Carcass]

Its such an awesome game and it feels "real" to play. Being spotted by an enemy patrol and coming under fire gives you a genuine sense of fear, knowing that you can be felled in one bullet. CoD it aint! :cool:

Yeah, I'm getting that vibe from the demo (still waiting on my amazon order, ETA 9th of June! Damn it!). Find myself crawling along ditches and tree-lines a lot weighing up my options, and crapping myself everytime you hear that familiar crack of gun fire overhead and you haven't a bloody clue where it came from! That's how it should be. Loving the environment too.
Of course, I've always said I'll never upgrade my system just to play a game again after Oblivion, but having seen some Arma 3 videos... think I just might. Ha, ha. :D

[paranoid101]

Watched a few videos and this looks really good and they mostly contain running and screaming lol, might have to buy the main game just for this lol if I can find in cheap enough.

[Rancid Carcass]

There's a new patch out - now you can become sick and spread it to other players!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/23/dayz-patch-1-5-8-adds-sickness-temperature-might-cause-havoc/

Also, a nice interview with the mods developer:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/16/day-z-interview-how-zombies-arma-2-created-gamings-best-story-machine/

Anyone get the feeling that this might become the new Counter Strike? It seems like it has that kind of momentum behind it.

:cool:

[Sammich]

Is a quad 2.8ghz cpu and nvidia gtx 250 enough to run this game?

[Neil]

There's a new patch out - now you can become sick and spread it to other players!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/23/dayz-patch-1-5-8-adds-sickness-temperature-might-cause-havoc/

Also, a nice interview with the mods developer:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/16/day-z-interview-how-zombies-arma-2-created-gamings-best-story-machine/

Anyone get the feeling that this might become the new Counter Strike? It seems like it has that kind of momentum behind it.

:cool:

I'd be worried about trolls. ie:-
- Numpty bandits just suicide attacking you to kill you not caring if they get taken down.
- Numpty survivors just running upto groups of other survivors solely to infect them with this new infection!

[Neil]

The BBC report on it - www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18280173

[SymphonicX]

Right so I have this now - I paid for the Arma games and got the Alpha 1.7.0 version of Day Z.

All I can say is I'm glad it's still an Alpha cos right now it's borederline unplayable. Zeds can hit you through walls, see you through walls. The servers are often in "nightime" mode when the server is based in another county - and when the game is in night mode, it's unplayable. You can't see anything, literally not even the ground below you - I had to up the gamma settings to see what the hell was going on, and even then couldn't see past my own gun.

Zombies appear out of nowhere, behind you with nothing but a beach there before. You'll get attacked and chased by 10 zombies at once, and you have no means of defending yourself. You bleed out in ten mins or less - depending on how much you get beasted.

Oh and you want to meet up with a friend in game? Good luck. You'll never find a server you can both join, first of all. Secondly, if you do get in the same game together, you've no way of orienting yourself to your friends location. No maps in game and random spawn points along the beach mean you cannot find a friend unless you know the game, and you certainly cannot find a friend if it's nighttime and the game takes hours and hours (real time) to go from night to day.

Not impressed so far, but it is an alpha and can only get better.

[AcesandEights]

Oh and you want to meet up with a friend in game? Good luck. You'll never find a server you can both join, first of all. Secondly, if you do get in the same game together, you've no way of orienting yourself to your friends location. No maps in game and random spawn points along the beach mean you cannot find a friend unless you know the game, and you certainly cannot find a friend if it's nighttime and the game takes hours and hours (real time) to go from night to day.

Are you sure there's no way to group up beforehand and spawn together? I've seen pretty large groups convene together, so I figured there was a way to do it. I have Arma2, now as well, but haven't gotten round to figuring out the install, as it gave me some trouble when I dpwnloaded it the first time. Plus, running arma2 doesn't seem to be a problem, except the heat the damn game generates.

[SymphonicX]

Are you sure there's no way to group up beforehand and spawn together? I've seen pretty large groups convene together, so I figured there was a way to do it. I have Arma2, now as well, but haven't gotten round to figuring out the install, as it gave me some trouble when I dpwnloaded it the first time. Plus, running arma2 doesn't seem to be a problem, except the heat the damn game generates.

Are you getting a table.shadow config error message? You can fix that, I had it myself - you have to be careful what you're choosing from Steam as a launch option.

you can see an install video on the Dayz website to find proper details of install, I followed that and it worked a treat - you need Arma 2 and Arma 2 Arrowhead - but I bought "Combined operations" from Steam.

You have to work really hard to get a map in game - but you can steam PM your friends with a link to a map and it'll open up in the steam browser, in game. That's great - then you have to very quickly read the text that pops up when you spawn telling you your location - then use that to reference the map and all your friends so you can find a centralised meeting point...

That's the only way I can do it, personally - there's definitely no function to "friend" or team up with anyone in the game - whatsoever. Anyway the unreliability of the servers negates all this - as I spent all Sunday trying to get into a game and didn't manage a single moment in the game... :(

[Neil]

Anyway the unreliability of the servers negates all this - as I spent all Sunday trying to get into a game and didn't manage a single moment in the game... :(

Oh! That doesn't sound good!?

[Rancid Carcass]

Seems like things might be moving forward:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/rumour-dayz-creator-instructed-to-work-on-mod-full-time-by-bohemia/

If this is true then you would think he'd be getting help/funding so tech issues should be ironed out sooner or later.

Also, if the bugs are proving too much, you might wanna try the undead mod, could be worth a punt:

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9207

[Neil]

^^ ..and a dedicated game being designed/produced could be very exciting too. ie: Think hardcore Left 4 Dead!!!

[SymphonicX]

So this last few days I managed to get into loads of games.
In fact this time, I found more working servers than not!

Finally I managed to meet a friend in-game - we spent a shedload of time looting and building up our characters until I made a fateful decision to pop into a town and accidentally lured the whole city towards me - my friend survived, I didn't - but by that time we were so far deep in the world that it was impossible for me to return to her location - so we didn't meet up again for a couple of days.

Last night we had three of us online and again we didn't manage to see each other - we however got two people into the city of Chournogoblskyskysky or whatever it's called (having real fun mispronouncing those names) - and that's when I left - so hopefully when we reconvene we'll all be in Chourno and can finally have three of us together.

On a side note....we joined a South african server, for fun really expecting it to lag us to death - but it was smooth as f**k and really nice to play - but the server manager decided to limit the map to just 24 zombies - and with 8 humans on the map - just so they could free roam and loot the place to death for other servers.

I raided the hospital in Elektro - and got TONS of stuff - before opening the church door to see three humans running around inside. They chased me out, and shot me dead. Back to the start...again.

In fact all my deaths are usually from bandits - the times when I've survived long enough to get a really good haul of stuff, some idiot sniper takes me out or something. It's a bit frustrating - but still it's a good element of the game, not knowing if people will be friendly or not.

My first kill in the game was hilarious - I saw a flare off in the distance at nighttime and went over to inspect - nothing there. Had a look through inventories and whatnot and tried to get my bearings - when i popped the menu off there was a human in front of me - I had my gun out. He stood there for a while then reached into his inventory....I shat myself..."what if he's a bandit?" I asked my friend...no reply from her...I considered letting him kill me, taking the chance - after all I didn't have anything of value to lose....his hand came out and he lit up green...."motherfucker's throwing some green shit at me!!" I screamed, before pumping my whole clip into his head. His lifeless body hit the floor, but not before the glowstick landed at my feet. He threw a glowstick....I felt bad!

[AcesandEights]

How's it feel to be a bandit, Symph? :lol:

[SymphonicX]

How's it feel to be a bandit, Symph? :lol:

There should be a category for "really shit good guy" that goes between bandit and friendly....or "jumpy bastard, stay away" category....

haha

[Tricky]

So is it worth me downloading Day Z? I've had Arma 2 for 3 years now and love the milsim game, absolutely played it to death! There has been a few zombie mods for the game but they looked a bit choppy, so is this one a bit more professionally done?
Also worth checking out is the new World War 2 game which uses the Arma 2 engine, Iron Front I think its called, just been released.

[SymphonicX]

So is it worth me downloading Day Z? I've had Arma 2 for 3 years now and love the milsim game, absolutely played it to death! There has been a few zombie mods for the game but they looked a bit choppy, so is this one a bit more professionally done?
Also worth checking out is the new World War 2 game which uses the Arma 2 engine, Iron Front I think its called, just been released.

Yes you should definitely get it. It's not in any way close to acceptable, let alone perfect - it's got bugs, flaws and choppyness all over the place - and all of that is dwarfed by a really solid game idealogy and a hugely fun map - with some of the best ideas and shityourpants scary moments...it's not easy, because it takes the ideas of frustration and makes them gameplay elements - and in doing so you're left out in a world not knowing whats going to happen - the idea that any human you meet could be either a real asset to your survival, or a complete liability to it, is fantastic...it's a slow burner but you'll find yourself desperate to explore the world as you get stronger and stronger. It's become the closest thing to a realistic zombie game so far.

I'd say best zombie game since...left 4 dead...

[Neil]

^^ You've got to wonder if they do a dedicated game/mod how much better it could be :) There's clearly a desire/market for it!

Wasn't Left 4 Dead initially a mod, but when Valve saw it they quickly threw money at it to turn it into a dedicated game/release?

[krisvds]

Exactly. The hype for this game has reached such heights that it being turned into a standalone release seems like a smart move. I surely hope the philosophy behind this zombiegame gets carried over into other games; the instadeath coupled with a large open world environment online is gold.

Now if only we can have shamblers we are one step closer to an online Romero - rules experience.

[Tricky]

Ok I've played it now, I also downloaded a mod so I could play it in offline mode seen as I couldnt get on any servers. It seems pretty good, but despite my current rig being pretty beasty, it feels very choppy to play despite the fact Arma 2 runs fine on the same graphics settings. The running animation is still as laughable as it was when Arma 2 first came out as well which is painfully obvious when a zombie spots you and starts running around in a weird kind of way, that definitely needs to be worked on. Plenty of atmosphere though, the music adds to it and the graphics on Arma 2 have always had a gritty realistic look to them which I've never seen recreated in any other game. I already know the Chernarus map well through Arma 2 so its easy for me to find my way to towns & villages. I found myself upstairs in a barn with a crossbow and a few bolts at one point with zombies coming in from all sides, was a creepy moment and they got me eventually. I couldnt figure out how to stop bleeding once injured though, I clicked on the bandages and they disappeared from my inventory, but nothing happened! :confused:

[Neil]

^^ I've seen videos of the zombies running/atacking you, and it seemed difficult to aim at them due to them zig zagging around to quick. It seemed a little unfair TBH!

[Tricky]

The thing with Arma 2 is that the running and walking animations on the soldiers are very realistic and look great, but the civilians who are only really there to either stand around or run away from combat in a panic are a a bit daft looking, and in DayZ they have used the civilian models for the zombies when they would have been far better using the soldiers and re-skinning them into civvy clothes. Its something they can work on though & I'm sure if this is going to get a standalone release they will sort it.

Have any of you who are new to this actually played the milsim game yet then? Its really good, especially if you use some of the explosion & smoke mods that are available. Night combat looks awesome through NVG's!

[Rancid Carcass]

Have any of you who are new to this actually played the milsim game yet then?

I wish! Still waiting for the game to arrive, might well be looking into to that later to see where it's got to... hmm... :(

Have played the demo missions though and was rather impressed, like the scope it gives you to get the job done. Reminds me (a little), of the original Ghost Recon in that respect, just ten times better.

Like I said, I came for DayZ, but stuck around for the milsim - or at least I will when it arrives!

DayZ article on Eurogamer:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-08-the-future-of-day-z

[SymphonicX]

I've not played the normal Arma game yet - your recommendation Tricky, is positive - I'll defo give it a play through when I get some time.

I haven't been back to Dayz since last posting - its always the way that when I have mates around, my other mates want to play - when I'm alone, no one's around and when i'm about to go out and see Prometheus, they get in touch demanding my help in DayZ! Godamnit having alternately sociable friends.

[Sammich]

I have been watching Day Z gameplay on the justin tv and it looks interesting.

The difference compared to other shooters is that this is a sneak around and try not to shoot salvage type game. Zombie are pretty easy to avoid if you don't run or make lots of noise. There are the bandits and people known as "stream snipers" who watch people streaming games with the intent of finding what server they are on, ambushing them and stealing all of their stuff.

The gun models look very nice but if you are going solo or in a small group everyone will mostly be using handguns. The game I was watching last night the guy was all happy to find an AK74 but never even shot it once before getting stream sniped 2 hours later.

Unlike most games, Arma 2 performance is highly dependent upon system cpu and not video gpu. This makes me very hesitant in buying the game because I am still running a core 2 quad 2.8ghz and am not sure how it will run. Everyone is recommending and i5 cpu.

[Neil]

I have been watching Day Z gameplay on the justin tv and it looks interesting.

The difference compared to other shooters is that this is a sneak around and try not to shoot salvage type game. Zombie are pretty easy to avoid if you don't run or make lots of noise. There are the bandits and people known as "stream snipers" who watch people streaming games with the intent of finding what server they are on, ambushing them and stealing all of their stuff.

The gun models look very nice but if you are going solo or in a small group everyone will mostly be using handguns. The game I was watching last night the guy was all happy to find an AK74 but never even shot it once before getting stream sniped 2 hours later.

Unlike most games, Arma 2 performance is highly dependent upon system cpu and not video gpu. This makes me very hesitant in buying the game because I am still running a core 2 quad 2.8ghz and am not sure how it will run. Everyone is recommending and i5 cpu.

^^ My concern is for people like me coming to the game, there will be to many 'career bandits' making the game frustrating beyond belief!

[Rancid Carcass]

Don't know if anyone has seen these, but there are some pretty funny videos over on PC Gamer - if you only watch one, watch number 5, it's sooooo bizarre... :lol:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/15/10-awesome-dayz-moments-freaky-stalkers-blood-fountains-tractor-rampages-and-more/

[Sammich]

This definitely isn't a game for people accustomed mmo's like world of warcraft. Once you get killed in Day Z, you don't pass go and you don't collect $200. You lose EVERYTHING and have to start all over again. I heard a some guy going into a rage and uninstalling the game after his 2 day old character got rolled by bandits.

[Neil]

This definitely isn't a game for people accustomed mmo's like world of warcraft. Once you get killed in Day Z, you don't pass go and you don't collect $200. You lose EVERYTHING and have to start all over again. I heard a some guy going into a rage and uninstalling the game after his 2 day old character got rolled by bandits.

Here's a video of anyother DayZ player...

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/103360_o.gif

[SymphonicX]

Here's a video of anyother DayZ player...

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/103360_o.gif

lol

that's the genius of the game in a nutshell - emotional investment.

You build survivors relationships, you make enemies - everything tries to kill you. When you finally get plumped up with weapons, ammo, food etc - you feel powerful. And you start to walk into towns and take out all the zombies like proper redneck Romero zombiehunters.

Its because you start out at the coast, so you get further and further in each time, and each time you need different provisions and you take different routes and there's always the threat of meeting a random person - good or bad. Your own adventure is forged - and each time you log on, a different path opens up really.

I'm playing with my friend and we've got to the very north east airfield - we went to Devil's Castle yesterday. We've trekked across country and have nice backpacks, plenty of food, a shitton of ammo - I've got my Makarov and an AKM with about 10 clips - 5 bandages, everything...

Yesterday we spent maybe 6 hours getting to these places - when we got to the airfield, zombie bodies kept popping up - someone was nearby. I found a dude looting the army barracks - here's my dilemma: A) Don't know if he's good or bad B) he's looting stuff...hmmm...c) if I don't shoot first, eventually I'll have to turn my back on him...even if there's two of us...
At that point I decided that forging an alliance wasn't going to be worth the risk...so I murdered him in cold blood. He wished me to get eaten....lol.

I'm now a bandit! Character's been alive for three days, 78 zombie kills.

[Neil]

So if you kill one survivor, you become a bandit?

[SymphonicX]

So if you kill one survivor, you become a bandit?

Yeah, but I didn't know if he was a bandit - there's no way to tell...!

I think if I had shot him first, but he'd killed me, that'd make me the bandit and he would get a bandit kill - but as I didn't even give the guy a chance to see me, let alone fire first - I'm the bandit.

My friend logged back in and instead of spawning at the airport she spawned in the "debug" zone - which you're not supposed to get into. Once you're there you can see a load of dead players, and you can't leave the area. So she's had to respawn - and was allegedly trying to get back to the airport last night...

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should also add - the servers/game is now updated with additional cruelty!

Aside from a shedload of bugfixes - such as the monkey zombies animation and the hitting through walls bug, the game now starts you on the beach with the following items:

Torch
Flashlight
Painkillers...
and f*ck all else.

So you have to find a gun, you have to find ammo - you literally get nothing.
Don't know if I like that or not yet - it's hard enough to meet up with mates in the game upon spawning - now it's impossible until all the players at least have a weapon.

It's definitely not a forgiving game....

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On the plus side now you can hide from the zeds if you get far away enough....and they can't see you through walls apparently..

[Neil]

Yeah, but I didn't know if he was a bandit - there's no way to tell...!
I thought your entire appearance changed?

[SymphonicX]

I thought your entire appearance changed?

At first it did, then it became a death match with zombies - so they turned it off so you've no idea who you're really trusting in - which adds a fantastic social element to the game...!

[Neil]

At first it did, then it became a death match with zombies - so they turned it off so you've no idea who you're really trusting in - which adds a fantastic social element to the game...!
So what's the penalty in just shooting anyone/everyone you see (to be safe)?

[SymphonicX]

So what's the penalty in just shooting anyone/everyone you see (to be safe)?


Good question - there is no penalty, it's a lifestyle choice!

You can become a bandit and hunt your way through the wastelands, killing any human character you see and looting them to death. You run into the following snags:

No friendly will trust a known bandit, you'll get no help if anyone's nearby to your plight.
You'll probably be alone, making your journey through the wasteland 100 times slower and harder
People won't think twice about killing you if they know you're a bandit.
But there's more loot for the lone bandit!

On the friendly side:

You'll find it easier to group up with people (how you gonna group up with other bandits in the area? They're always gonna be bandits and you're just a big target yourself! You don't know them, so you're a victim to them too) -

if you demonstrate your trustworthyness by helping your fellow survivors, they'll have your back in times of a hoard.....thus it's easier to make friends and get into a group that will see you progress 100 times quicker in the game.

On the negative side, you all have to share the loot - well you don't, but who likes a hoarder in their team? No one. share and share alike will certainly take the helm as an idealogy.


However having said all that - I think there's a chance that when you "mouse-over" a character on certain servers, it tells you the type of player they are - but you have to be close-ish and that option needs to be enabled on the server - and there are various differences in configs such as no cursor, no third person view, no mouse over character etc...

also the servers run in real time and reflect the time of day outside of the locale that the server is in - so when you're on a UK server, and it's just getting dark, it starts to get dark in the game - so when you're in the night, you're literally in the night...! And man does that game change COMPLETELY in the nighttime!!

[Neil]

No friendly will trust a known bandit, you'll get no help if anyone's nearby to your plight.
You'll probably be alone, making your journey through the wasteland 100 times slower and harder
People won't think twice about killing you if they know you're a bandit.

But you said, no one knows if you're a bandit or not?

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^^ He says (@52:00) you need "Combined Operations"? I already have Arma II so was hoping I could just buy "Arrowhead"? But they imply I have to by "Combined Operations"?

But I thought "Combined Operations" was just Arma II + Arrowhead? Or does it have more too (like better textures)

[SymphonicX]

You usually know someone's a bandit when they start shooting at you! haha

I'm not sure how the expansion thing works - I just bought the full thing from Steam - combined ops is indeed Arrowhead and Arma II combined, but to launch the mod you need to launch "Arma 2 Combined Operations" from the steam right-click menu on the library....

Probably worth more research - but I think it *should* be ok, but definitely not sure.



I've had a really bad time in Chenarus over the last few days - I'm still very much alive - but my friend spawned in the "debug wilderness" - which is a special area of the map for debugging - sometimes you get spawned there and will basically starve to death before getting out of this untextured landscape of rolling hills. It's a nightmare. So she died, and spawned back at the start.

Unfortunately now though, you don't spawn with even a gun - so it's ten times tougher. We tried to meet in Berenzhino - and spent all day getting there. I got there first but quit out, with the intention of joining her later. We both connected to the same servers later on, had loads of update issues - I spawned on a server withtout any HUD or sound, the server had put me in a sort of server limbo map with no zombies and no loot....I ran about a bit, and when I logged back in....doom....debug wilderness!!!! ARGH.

I did some research, long story short - log into Canada 2 server, it puts you in the debug "forest" - which is about 2.5km west of the actual map....

I got a hair tie....strapped up my analogue thumbstick on the controller, and let him run forward for about 45 minutes....much to my shock, agony and dispair, I suddenly hear growls and screams - I was back on the map but I'd alerted the whole farm of "Myshkino" to my presence....I screamed, tried desperately to rustle the hair tie from the controller...I got it free, killed the zeds....took a breather. I'm now down to 3500 units of blood...black and white and shaking all over the place.

I then spent another hour running what I thought was West to East - in fact I'd just ran directly north - and ended up off the top of the map in a town not even logged on the pfficial Chenarus map - a place called Grovozy Pass.

Yesterday I spent all day AGAIN running from what I thought was West to East - spent all day running in black and white - checked me location, Grovozy Pass AGAIN!!!!!

I'm now following the road in vain down in the hopes I actually rejoin the damn game at some point....ugh.

On a side note, I've found an infinite food glitch....so haven't starved yet!

[Tricky]

I found in single player mode that if you go on to the map screen (M key on the keyboard) and click on the radio, you can spawn any weapon and supplies you want, takes the fun of scavenging out of it but it was good to just play about with and see whats available. Havent played online yet, every server I try to join I just get kicked from before I've even got logged in which is irritating!

[SymphonicX]

I found in single player mode that if you go on to the map screen (M key on the keyboard) and click on the radio, you can spawn any weapon and supplies you want, takes the fun of scavenging out of it but it was good to just play about with and see whats available. Havent played online yet, every server I try to join I just get kicked from before I've even got logged in which is irritating!

Are you launching the mod through "Six Launcher"? It's on the Day Z website - it's a small program that looks at the Day Z servers, and updates you with a small file so you can join...I have no problems joining now because of this...

[Rancid Carcass]

Well, after a week of calamity (Arma boxset arrived the same day my psu died!), I've finally had my first venture into Day Z - lasted all of five minutes! Some nutsack whacked me in the face with an axe the instant I spawned and proceeded to chase me around some woods while I slowly bled to death. Fortunately I lasted just long enough to aggro a village full of zeds and ran back towards him - last thing I saw was his sorry ass high-tailing it down the road with a shed load of zombies after him, lol. Awesome!

I'd also recommend the six-launcher too, takes all the hassle out of it.

:cool:

[paranoid101]

Decided to get in myself, how hard is it to install and get running?

[SymphonicX]

It's not that difficult - just drop the mod files into Arma 2 Op Arrowhead and launch the game using a command line in the launch options in Steam - it's all on the website....

My friend sent me a .exe file that forces the game to use all your cores and launches the mod straight away - not sure where it was gotten from though.

I think all this stuff's on the main Day Z website on how to get it working...it's not hard at all really.

[paranoid101]

Decided to get in myself, how hard is it to install and get running?

Thanks got it running using the six updater and a youtube guide lol.

Now just need to find like minded people that don't shoot on sight lol.

[SymphonicX]

Thanks got it running using the six updater and a youtube guide lol.

Now just need to find like minded people that don't shoot on sight lol.

Well I'm usually on server EU28 during European daylight hours, and in the night time I'm usually on NY8 to continue playing in the daylight - so if you see a player called "Trevelyan", feel free to send a message! :)

[krisvds]

't was inevitable:

http://kotaku.com/5932418/dayz-is-officially-being-turned-into-a-standalone-game

[AcesandEights]

if you see a player called "Trevelyan", feel free to shoot him in the back of the head.

I'm on it!

[Zombie134]

The free MMO Arma 2: started the open beta on June 24, 2011. Anyone who would like to play MMO shooter games could join the open beta testing servers. If you are interested in Chinese Kung Fu, you should come to MMOWood site because it is introducing a new mmorpg game Age of Wushu (http://www.mmowood.com/age-of-wushu). And the screenshots of this game look great!