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

[Darklife]

Did you actually see it? Because unless dayz_vehicles_v0.1.rar is updated (which it isn't), there isn't a bicycle entry in the mod files. But maybe it's server side, who knows. There are, however, motorbikes. A mountain variety and one "old bike".

Not personally no, but the global chat was aflame with talk about it and so are the mod forums.

 

[thesoup]

Global chat doesn't work only on beta servers. Also, you will never spawn in the middle of the ocean or in the middle of nowhere on beta servers.

I also hope they're gonna make some logout timer like in WoW so that random faggots can't just hop in and out like one guy did today. He eavesdropped on us on ts3 (arguably our own fault since we were in a public channel; /v/'s of all) and just hopped in and out, killing creamy and badly injuring me in the process. He was probably aiming for me all along because I mentioned I had NVG's (didn't know he was in the channel, though). I wasn't gonna give the retard the pleasure of looting my NVG's so I Alt + F4'd when I was passed out with 1.6k blood and bleeding. We hopped servers and a buddy managed to save my sorry ass. Normally, I let people get their deserved kill, but I wasn't gonna play fair vs a faggot.

/v/ is a mixed bunch. There's a bunch of bros who will go out of their way to help you and you can generally have a good time with them (guys gave me NVG's even though I didn't manage to save them) and then there's the server hopping, eavesdropping "LOLO UMAD I TROLOLO AM I COOL YET XDXDXD" bunch.

I was playing with some /v/ bros in Berezino. There were like 10 people on the server. We were a group of five and we stumbled upon a group of people (yes, the rest of the server) in one of the military tents in Berezino. Idiots got all in the same tent and shot zombies. One of our guys threw a frag grenade, killing 3. One got killed shortly after that, the other tried hopping and getting us off guard, but he was disposed of too. They must have been pissed, seeing how they had coyote backpacks, NWA grade weaponry, a few GPS', etc.

Also, if you want to avoid faggy campers, go to servers with disabled 3PP since you can pretty much prone behind a little hill, go 3P and see behind it without anyone seeing you.

Oh and yeah, vehicles are working now, which is why I've been carrying a bunch of car parts this whole day. We found two ATV's and got them up and running after a lot of scavenging. Thing is, though, handling them is so incredibly shitty. I stumbled into a little bush and couldn't get out afterwards. Tried maneuvering, but I flipped to the side instead. This is how we pretty much lost both of our ATV's. Next objective - find a decent Jeep, use it as a tent on wheels and hide it way the fuck in the middle of nowhere.

Also, Vots, you should play with us some time.

 

[someone else]

I also hope they're gonna make some logout timer like in WoW so that random faggots can't just hop in and out like one guy did today. He eavesdropped on us on ts3 (arguably our own fault since we were in a public channel; /v/'s of all) and just hopped in and out, killing creamy and badly injuring me in the process..

From Rocket the developer:

Disconnecting to avoid death
I don't know why, but people are assuming that I think this is part of the game.

It's not. I posted in a thread that was talking about that, that META-GAMING is explicitly allowed. I.e. infiltrating teamspeak servers and groups etc...

Disconnecting to avoid death IS an exploit.

It will be patched out, very easily, in a future update. The update is ready to go and will be released when the Beta patch for ArmA2 is out.

Respawning to get a better spawn point is also frowned on.

As for that player, he disappeared when I started firing, but without global chat I couldn't tell if he DC or proned etc. Had I shot first instead of being a carebear and reporting his position (which he is also listening to), Creamy may not have died. I was watching our rear (I was even crawling backwards) as I suspected the gunshots were from Vybor because I noticed zombies despawning and respawning just as we left Vybor.

Hurray for vehicles!

Very difficult to find the location.

NW of Myshkino in our last game, someone already installed a tire and 3 jerry cans in the trunk.

 

[Darklife]

Global chat doesn't work only on beta servers. Also, you will never spawn in the middle of the ocean or in the middle of nowhere on beta servers.

Nah, global chat can be disabled in the beta, but it depends on the server. There's been a lot of complaining about the ocean spawn on the forums so I dunno.

On a side note it would seem that I've inadvertantly become a bandit. Somebody was shooting the shit out of Stary Sobor, so I formally typed in an inquiry as always. Nobody replied, but when I got to the base there was a bunch of dead dudes lying around and some guy was leaning out of a tent aiming at me. I popped some bullets at him and proceeded to try to patch things up over global, when it once again turned out he was dead.

Got an m16 and an entrenching tool out of it, so it's not all bad, but I think nobody on the server is going to trust me anymore.

 

[someone else]

I actually like global chat a lot, once I was chatting with this stranger for hours and he found a working heli, coincidently I happened to be nearby and got a ride.

 

[villain of the story]

Oh and yeah, vehicles are working now, which is why I've been carrying a bunch of car parts this whole day. We found two ATV's and got them up and running after a lot of scavenging. Thing is, though, handling them is so incredibly shitty. I stumbled into a little bush and couldn't get out afterwards. Tried maneuvering, but I flipped to the side instead. This is how we pretty much lost both of our ATV's. Next objective - find a decent Jeep, use it as a tent on wheels and hide it way the fuck in the middle of nowhere.

Practice in Arma 2's Armory. Or better yet: get the Single Player adaptation of Day Z and practice in there. You can spawn any item via a menu, including vehicles, or load up the Loot Finder mission and see which items spawn where and their probabilities (except for vehicles, it doesn't show where vehicles spawn). You can learn a lot of interesting and valuable stuff that way.

Also, Vots, you should play with us some time.

Where and when do you play? Crowds attract attention, though. It's particularly messy when avoiding zombies. In case you haven't noticed, my zombie count in my last game was zero. It's been a while since I killed any zombies. I avoid them and don't like to waste precious rare bullets on them.

 

[someone else]

Where and when do you play? Crowds attract attention, though. It's particularly messy when avoiding zombies. In case you haven't noticed, my zombie count in my last game was zero. It's been a while since I killed any zombies. I avoid them and don't like to waste precious rare bullets on them.

Get on CDS or Codex Ventrilo. I get kicked out of US 11 due to high ping so I cannot join that.
Large groups with players can sneak if they are experienced, and only some of them need to, the rest can hide and overwatch.
Large groups also have lots of ammo, I have enough ammo for 200 zombies and I shoot them just for fun, leaving behind AR ammo pains me but there is no more space. I have found tents of other players which I did not touch that I can always loot for rare ammo.

 

[villain of the story]

I actually like global chat a lot, once I was chatting with this stranger for hours and he found a working heli, coincidently I happened to be nearby and got a ride.

Yeah. At the very least, I hope for in-game tools to provide global chat. You find an in-game radio, for instance, you can talk to anyone who has one over it. I have short list of wishes to enhance PvP, actually:

Radio (or smartphone): to replace global/side chat except without your name declared.
EMF Detector: to detect players using GPS, Radio.
Parabolic microphone: to detect any sound sources + direct voice talk where you point the device to.

 

[Darklife]

There's also been a lot of crazy shit popping up on some servers. People are reporting well armed AI convoys mauling zombies, working radios with strange broadcasts and bombing runs. It might be hackers, but there is a suspicious lack of dev posts on those threads.



Edit:
here's some more

 

[villain of the story]

Hackers.

Found a bike footage:

 

[someone else]

Was scouting out a town in the woods and a cyclist pop out of nowhere 5 meters to my left, only heard him when I saw him, he swerved and rode away. Skyway would have shot him and stolen his bike.
So no need for gas, quite and can go through thick woods, why am I building a car?

 

[Luzur]

There's also been a lot of crazy shit popping up on some servers. People are reporting well armed AI convoys mauling zombies, working radios with strange broadcasts and bombing runs. It might be hackers, but there is a suspicious lack of dev posts on those threads.



Edit:
here's some more

it would be nice with some NPC army units trying to clean up.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

That helicopter exploding video looked very laggy. He was shooting the zombies and nothing was happening. Is that common? I don't want to play a game like that.

Also, is the point of the game to just shoot other humans and nick their stuff? I was more interested in the "Bros group together and try to survive" kind of thing.

 

[villain of the story]

The point of the game is whatever you want it to be. Since there are no objectives. Literally. It's all about emergent survival.

 

[villain of the story]

Was scouting out a town in the woods and a cyclist pop out of nowhere 5 meters to my left, only heard him when I saw him, he swerved and rode away. Skyway would have shot him and stolen his bike.
So no need for gas, quite and can go through thick woods, why am I building a car?

I'll look for bicycles first thing come night time. It's incredibly annoying that a lot of the servers seem to have different in-game times than the time zone they are claiming to be. Even more that time is inconsistent between players. While a player has pitch black, another might have day on the same server simultaneously.

 

[villain of the story]

People are such pussies. It's becoming harder to find servers with real night time. When I first started playing 1.5, nights were the real deal. Pitch black. You actually had to use flares and pay attention when you could barely make out silhouettes and relied a lot on sound. Now every server I join, it's just a pussified "darkened colours mod" bullshit. You can still see everything perfectly in the darkest hours. Fuck this shit.

 

[Darklife]

That's only because of the lunar phase. The full moon makes things a lot brighter.

 

[villain of the story]

Hmmm. Makes sense.

Fucking moon, why haven't we still nuked it out of orbit?

 

[Darklife]

WOULD YOU MISS IT!?

 

[CreamyBlood]

I've done the pitch black thing and just did a run for the last few hours through known territory, it was almost relaxing. I wasn't worried about the bandits.

I was collecting flares and chemlights but didn't need them. It was even brighter out several days ago. The dark will be back. It was nice to see so many people on a night server even if it was nicely lit up by the moon over a cloudy, raining sky.

PS I still wish there was a category for Veteran with NO crosshairs and NO 3rdPerson. Call it 'Uber' or anything. Sifting through the patches and having to read through the server descriptions just to find the one you want is annoying. I'd just like a level playing field.

Does anyone know the official difference between regular, expert and veteran?

 

[villain of the story]

Summoning skyway, he might know: MetalCraze

 

[someone else]

Look out for servers are called hardcore in description = no 3rd person, no cross hair, no tags.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Don't summon him! I can hear his laughter now. Anyways....

This could be boring to anyone but those involved yet the beauty of this game is that there is no scripting, no writers, no production managers and no actual rules. It just happens. The strange thing is, is that it's actually fun. I'm not sure why I typed the preamble out as the 'experience' speaks for itself, at least when you're there. I find that the biggest fuck-ups are the most entertaining and you never know around which corner you'll find it in this game.

I'll write up an AAR later.

 

[someone else]

Some info for assault rifles:

M16 range 400 meters, 3 round burst mode. 5.56mm
M4 range 300, full auto. 5.56mm
The M4 is a carbine version of the M16; with a shorter barrel.
Some M4 comes with CCO red-dot sight, which stands for Close Combat Optic.
It is not a 'sniper rifle' and is in fact has shorter range than an M16.
'Scopes' are just another way of aiming instead of iron-sights. Unless a scope comes with magnification, it should not be considered a specialized long-range rifle.

AKM range is 400, full auto. 7.62mm
IRL the Soviet Union thinks a smaller caliber will have better accuracy.
So they made the AK-74 which uses the 5.45 caliber.

AK-74 range 300, full auto. 5.45mm
AKS-74U range 200, full auto. 5.45mm
The AKS-74U is a carbine version of AK-74.

There are other versions of these guns, with different sights, silenced, grenade launchers etc.
Silenced weapons can only use silenced ammo, but normal weapons can use both normal and silenced ammo.

Be careful of picking up hacked weapons, some people have complained that they have been banned for possessing them, they picked them from other players.

 

[thesoup]

Skyway already told you the difference between difficulties.