Day Z: An ArmA II Zombie simulation mod

[termhn]

A fast-rising ArmA II mod called Day Z recently came on my radar and I'll definitely be playing it when I get my new computer. Check it out here. There's a crap ton of streams going on on twitch.tv right now and a bunch of youtube videos as well:
http://www.dayzmod.com/

If you need some help getting started, both of these vids are great:

DayZ Beginners guide - YouTube


THEN WATCH THIS TOO! GET YOURSELF SOME GREAT LOOT :D

How to loot electro - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=0hRQ3vFkh_c&v=rzB5ZEkVf9A)

[DviddLeff]

Been looking at this today after reading the rockpapershotgun stories.

Looks amazing - just a shame that I do not own ArmAII or the expansion as I ended up returning it to the store due to the bugs...

I may wait until its a bit more developed and I can get the base game for cheaper...

[MBRicochet]

It's very cool.

If I've found anything to be a major downer...

Arma aiming+Fast zombies= me bashing my head against a wall.
Plus the game has no melee system...

You really have to sneak around to do anything alone or you get chased down and beaten. It's not impossible, but it makes for very obnoxious gameplay.

Love the concept though! I just wish Arma 2 was more intuitive and had more satisfying weapon handling.

[Naz The Eternal]

Hmmm curious to hear what others have experienced with this, just finished downloading, but not sure what to make of it yet :/

[DviddLeff]

On the brink of buying this, just want to get some of my outfit to do the same...

[The Desert Fox]

Just a heads up Army 2 Combined Arms Download is half off on amazon, only 15 bucks and I figured why not. We should get a PSU group going!

[DviddLeff]

I just started the download [Edit - Ill be in game tonight]

If anyone wants to play together feel free to use my outfits TS server, PM me and Ill give you the details.

Looking to survive and avoid becoming a bandit for as long as possible...

[termhn]

We should totally get a PSU group going! Just downloaded it yesterday (just got my new comp up and running yesterday ;) ) and I've already done some. I'm on the outside of a semi-major town and ready to loot it, but it gets nerve racking without people in a group lol

[DviddLeff]

Here is the map of the game world.
http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/images/1/18/Map_Chernarus.jpg

Here is my story of my first day:
http://www.thevindicators.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16647

[The Desert Fox]

can anyone help with how to install with a non-steam version. iv googled it and there are like 20 different ways. and please dont link me to the wiki and stuff iv tried all that. if someone here could walk me through it im not stupid i just don't understand wht's wrong, i have followed the directions exactly the only part i dont understand is this.

Make a shortcut to your ARMA2 exe file and add "-nosplash -mod=@dayz" without quotes in the target line so it looks like this "C:Program FilesBohemia InteractiveArmA 2arma2OA.exe" -noSplash -mod=@dayz
Click the shortcut to start ARMA2 with Dayz enabled


help please

[blackfang]

My second life story is pretty cool. My first was boring since all i did was running until i eventually found a rifle then trying myself at a village just to be shot by some sniper. I know because i heard the bullet and saw the guy.

My second life is however very different, i started at the beach. A survivor with a few mags for my makarov. Nothing good really. I headed inlands, raiding barn after barn and earning a lot of cool stuff. I even found an ak and a pkm or something (uzi) with no ammo, it was on a bandit. Anyways, i ran onwards very far. Eventually i reached this town with my recently acquired enfield. I had racked up 50 zombies killed by this time. Its pretty good, anyways i tried to get in and eventually i got into the barn. Running, one zombie saw me and i had to loose a shot at it. Not a good idea, suddenly there were around 60 zombies heading in. I killed 30 or so but then i was out of bullets. With no bullets where i was i had to take a chance. Running through the zombie horde and up the stairs on the other side of the barn. I found a winchester. I quickly dispatched of the reast having racked up a kill count of 109 all in all.

After this, i headed back to the coast. I needed pain killers and there were none inland. I couldn't find any painkillers of morphine at all. My entire screen was shaking, now i was getting close to banota (the village with the airstrip close to chernogorsk) killing one zombie here and there to avoid getting seen. Eventually i came to the airstrip. It being empty of people and zombies i looted tons of stuff. Keeping my winchester and looting a g19 or something? Along with smoke grenades and a lot of useless stuff. Then i heard shooting. There were several shots, and from what i could hear there were two survivors of the gunfights. I tried to contact them but they didnt answer. Eventually they found out where i was and tried to hit me from the top, with no luck for either of us. Then one of them opened the door at the bottom. I was still shaking from the fight with the 60 zombies in the barn. So i missed twice and hit three times. He hit me as well, we both went down. His friend got all my loot and his friend's loot as well. It was pretty awesome:rofl:

[KiddParK]

my son texts me last night.. 'dad.. i have to get this Arma II mod.. can i buy it?'

although this does happen weekly, this one looks good.

[The Desert Fox]

After a huge hassle i finally got it to work and so far it seems worth it, playing at night really sucks though. so lets get a group going!

[Gandhi]

I've been lone wolfing it for a while trying to get a feel for the mod, but I don't have a lot of time usually so it's pretty slow going. I did learn that the Enfield should be renamed the Zombie Spawner, and that you can't trust anyone.

That's actually been eye opening for me. I always figured it might be kind of fun to try to survive after some kind of apocalypse, team up with other people, build safe havens, go out looking for supplies and that sort of thing. But playing this mod a bit I've realized in that situation trusting a random stranger with your life is a tough call, especially when you have equipment he could use for himself. I've actually had someone pretend to team up with me just to shoot me in the back the second I turned around, even though I had barely anything more than the starting equipment.

I imagine it only gets worse further in when you're decked out in great weapons, maps, GPS and so on. You really can't trust anyone except people you know from outside the game.

[duomaxwl]

I broke down and bought ARMA2:CO from Amazon for $15. I look forward to playing this.

[termhn]

If anyone needs some help getting over the learning curve these are GREAT vids:
watch the first one before the second
DayZ Beginners guide - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=0hRQ3vFkh_c&v=rzB5ZEkVf9A&annotation_id=annotation_664267

You guys wanna just get together on skype or hop on someone's TS... if TS the DayZX server is pretty good: ts.dayzx.com:9999

[atone]

been playing this for a couple of days. very intense, unforgiving and time consuming (last point good for downtime til ps2;) ).

Has anyone tried playing during night yet? Server time dictates time in game so if its dark where the server is its dark in game and DARK IS DARK. you literally cant see anything but stars. if you turn up the brightness and gamma in the options menu you can make out sky line. flares or flashlights(haven't found one yet) is a way to see but that also alerts other players and zombies to a degree. There's also night-vision but i haven't come across that either.

I have been doing okay. soloing most of the time but when I'm seriously wounded or out of essential equipment, I'm pretty much as good as dead.

i have found the Arma 2 controls to be okay. You have to do a lot of seemingly unnecessary juggling of equipment though I do like the ability to free look and aiming at oncoming zombies with there ludicrous speed, jerky animations and lag is a pain. But over all its been a fun/challenging game.

[Gandhi]

I think I've died more to falling off of ladders than anything else, but hopefully that's been fixed a bit in the latest patch.

[duomaxwl]

I've been trying to have fun with it, but when I get into Elecktro I get like 15-22ish FPS. No idea why, my rig isn't horrible. Glad I haven't run into bandits except one in the wild, I probably wouldn't be able to fight them with that bad fps.

[termhn]

I've been trying to have fun with it, but when I get into Elecktro I get like 15-22ish FPS. No idea why, my rig isn't horrible. Glad I haven't run into bandits except one in the wild, I probably wouldn't be able to fight them with that bad fps.

Try joining a different server - I find the Chicago and Virginia ones are awesome ;) Yes, the server can actually effect your local fps.

[duomaxwl]

Try joining a different server - I find the Chicago and Virginia ones are awesome ;) Yes, the server can actually effect your local fps.

Yeah, I actually got on Virginia 08 last night, didn't have many people, and the ones on were chill, and it ran pretty good.

[XPquant]

QUANT has been spending a lot of time in this mod and all I have to say is WOW. Considering that this is an alpha Day Z has no where to go but up, it is a little buggy/clunky but once you get into it there is no going back. The simple challenge of surviving is so deep and addictive. Go watch a video right now.

If you need help starting out or are frustrated, I would be glad to help, you just need ventrilo and to join: quant.typefrag.com Port: 29448

[termhn]

After the new update I just tried US12 and MAN IT IS QUICK! Try joining that up you should be in game in less than 2 minutes :D Also the new update is sweet! Hatchets, lootable skins (camo and ghillie suit), female characters... :D

[bigcracker]

Its a great game and very fun a lot better then some games I payed for in the past.

Guide for noob bandits.
1. Watch other noob run in town and get loot
2. Stand outside said town
3. Shoot said noob in the head when he leaves town
4.Take his loot
4. Repeat steps 1 - 4

[termhn]

Its a great game and very fun a lot better then some games I payed for in the past.

Guide for noob bandits.
1. Watch other noob run in town and get loot
2. Stand outside said town
3. Shoot said noob in the head when he leaves town
4.Take his loot
4. Repeat steps 1 - 4

Man I used to hate people like you... then I got better and was able to notice you guys and not get killed most of the time ;)

[Windmill]

Man I used to hate people like you... then I got better and was able to notice you guys and not get killed most of the time ;)

Yea, unfortunately when the mod got popular the amount of jerks who would kill everyone they see increased a lot. Then, that made it so people who would otherwise be helpful kill others out of fear of being killed, themselves.

If this doesn't get fixed I think it will kill the mod.

[WebCole]

Was playing this a month or so ago when there was only two servers (one EU, one NZ). Its been really quite satisfying watching it blow up like this, as it is such a deserving and uniquely executed game :)

[duomaxwl]

It's fun, but the performance is too varied for me to enjoy it. Some servers I log on and get 60fps, some I log on and get 8fps in the same area.

[The Desert Fox]

While I will be the first to admit I hate getting killed 3-4 times in a row by bandits, I don't think they will be the death of the game. Every time I get killed by a bandit I learn from it, and lets be honest without them the game wouldn't be half as intense if everyone worked together. Teamwork is amazing but only with the looming threat of bandit death around every corner.

[bullet]

This game looks pretty interesting, but the controls, UI, and gunplay just look horrible to me. I saw a video where it looks like the shots take 2-3 seconds to register any damage. If this came out on a better/different engine, I would definitely get something like this.

[Ieyasu]

This game looks pretty interesting, but the controls, UI, and gunplay just look horrible to me. I saw a video where it looks like the shots take 2-3 seconds to register any damage. If this came out on a better/different engine, I would definitely get something like this.

pretty much spot on what I thought when friend showed me the video and wanted me to get arma II combined ops on steam. I have arma II non steam version but just dont care for the engine enough to check it out.

[Warhound]

Lovin this mod so far!
By far the best zombie survival sim out there, absolutely love playing.

P.S. If anyone wants to play together and roam the wastes PM me.

[Peacemaker]

I've been playing a lot too, we should group up and use PSUs TS server

[blackfang]

I would never trust anyone of you because my weapons and gear is currently the highest tier you can obtain of medium-long range weapon and stuff, and anyone getting to close to me is dead. I am willing to risk some to keep my gear.

Now i shoot first, and don't bother about the questions.

[Greeniegriz]

I would never trust anyone of you because my weapons and gear is currently the highest tier you can obtain of medium-long range weapon and stuff, and anyone getting to close to me is dead. I am willing to risk some to keep my gear.

Now i shoot first, and don't bother about the questions.

Im the same way. I've been roaming up north for about a week now. If I see anyone I avoid them. If I can't then I make sure I have the jump and if they act funny, they get iced.

My gear isn't great, but I prefer to not start back at the coast.

Cheers

GG

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[blackfang]

I am at the coast right now. I trecked all the way up north and stayed there for a while with a group i play with. Then they all died and i headed down south again. Currently waiting for a time for them to be able to play again until i move:rolleyes:

[Peacemaker]

I would never trust anyone of you because my weapons and gear is currently the highest tier you can obtain of medium-long range weapon and stuff, and anyone getting to close to me is dead. I am willing to risk some to keep my gear.

Now i shoot first, and don't bother about the questions.

Thanks man, glad your so attached to pixels you won't make new friends.

[Vash02]

Currently downloading, if anyone wants to play shout out.

[duomaxwl]

My buddy and I play together now that the performance is better, and we have another RL friend starting with us next week. It's so much better when you are playing with friends.

I would never trust anyone of you because my weapons and gear is currently the highest tier you can obtain of medium-long range weapon and stuff, and anyone getting to close to me is dead. I am willing to risk some to keep my gear.

Now i shoot first, and don't bother about the questions.

:lol:

Typically, when I see other players, I yell in Direct Comms not to shoot, and that we can get them hookers and blow. They tend to leave us be after that. I'm going to try not to shoot any survivors unless I really feel my (virtual) life is endangered. The mod has too many run and gun, don't ask question noobs right now. I have found playing on a server without crosshairs and third person has eliminated a lot of those issues though, probably because the super l33t bandits don't want to give those up.

[Zidane]

Some guys in my outfit have been playing this and say its awesome!

[Vash02]

I spawned, I have no gun, no food and only a bandage and painkillers. I tried to get into a village but then I saw another player get eaten and now I'm too scared to go in. Someone hold my hand.

[duomaxwl]

I spawned, I have no gun, no food and only a bandage and painkillers. I tried to get into a village but then I saw another player get eaten and now I'm too scared to go in. Someone hold my hand.

:lol: Dude, it gets tense, not even lying. My friend and I raided an apartment complex last night, when its two vs 20 zombies, it gets tense as hell.

[blackfang]

Thanks man, glad your so attached to pixels you won't make new friends.

Well, i have enough friends as it is. So i would rather have my pixels then more people that i have to relate to:(

[Peacemaker]

Got the weekend off from work, other than PS I'll be playing a TON of dayz. I'll be on the PSU ts if anyone wants to join me.

[Greeniegriz]

Got the weekend off from work, other than PS I'll be playing a TON of dayz. I'll be on the PSU ts if anyone wants to join me.

Sounds like fun Peace. Maybe i'll see you on there once I find the TS info :mad:

Cheers,

GG

[Peacemaker]

It's right on the front page. Don't expect me to be on much if at all tonight. I'm at work till midnight. iPad ftw. I'll be on tomorrow tho.

[Greeniegriz]

I see the image showing the TS status but not address etc. I know it's around somewhere though, had it some time ago.

Cheers,

GG


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[Peacemaker]

Ok, just woke up, gotta run some errands and ill be back. Hope to see y'all soon.

[Peacemaker]

Uhg so im pretty sure our morphine / blood bag supply got deleted -_- stupid tents. Everything is organized tho. Ammo in one tent, consumables in another, primaries in a third and pistols in a 4th

[Vash02]

I am mighty warrior!
I log on, I slay and cook a mighty cow. Then I went forth to seek supplies, I come across glorious treasure in the form of a downed chopper and discover an FN FAL. I head into Berezino and help myself to the morphine in the hospital and an alice pack in the market. I head back to the tents and then promptly delete 2 of the morphine I carried back! (tents are full btw :p )

Also on the way back I heard a far off gun shot just as I was getting back to the tents. Hopefully he wont have stumbled upon them.

[Peacemaker]

Ugh five minutes in first hit by a zed broke my leg

[duomaxwl]

My buddy and I are playing, he shoots cow, gets shot by sniper, I run, eventually die defending his newly respawned body from zombies. Anyway, so we get gear back, everything, been looking for tents, I get attacked in Dubrovka, leg gets broken. So we check the area, no morphine, so he runs to Berezino. Checks hospital, all deerstands, residential areas, and nothing. So, he's running back south about to go into Cherno for me (his love is eternal) when I crawl into a house he already checked (and got ammo from,) and behold, Morphine had spawned! I rejoice, using it to fix my broken leg. Than I hear expletives on TS3, turns out his guy glitched and fell off a deerstand, and has a broken leg. Oh Day Z...

[Vash02]

I found someones camp.
http://s13.postimage.org/5jc0cdr2f/camp.png
It's got an AK70SU somethingorother some random ammo, epi-pens and some food. I took his morphine and am putting it in our camp, (not that we really need it :p ) So dont be surprised if he's moved it since then.

Searching for one bloody car, not a whiff of a vehicle since the bucking ATV. I just know someones got them all stashed in the woods somewhere.

[duomaxwl]

I found someones camp.
http://s13.postimage.org/5jc0cdr2f/camp.png
It's got an AK70SU somethingorother some random ammo, epi-pens and some food. I took his morphine and am putting it in our camp, (not that we really need it :p ) So dont be surprised if he's moved it since then.

Searching for one bloody car, not a whiff of a vehicle since the bucking ATV. I just know someones got them all stashed in the woods somewhere.

Morphine, that's something that you should keep a million of. Because my leg got broken a second time today by a zombie. =\ Luckily they're fixing the leg damage in the update tomorrow.

[Peacemaker]

Vash, seriously man ur my best friend haha keeP ur eyes open for more tents! I won't have time to play till tomorrow night see ya then tho

[Vash02]

Morphine, that's something that you should keep a million of. Because my leg got broken a second time today by a zombie. =\ Luckily they're fixing the leg damage in the update tomorrow.

Me and peace raided the Berezino hospital and we have something around 23-24 morphine in our camp. That alone will last us a few weeks or so.

Vash, seriously man ur my best friend haha keeP ur eyes open for more tents! I won't have time to play till tomorrow night see ya then tho

I was thinking of just emptying them out and taking the tents and the most valuable stuff to our Berezino camp.

[Peacemaker]

I don't think u can pack up someone else's tents, and seeing as we died after putting them there technically they aren't ours. The only one I own right now is the berizno tent

[Peacemaker]

So, I got my foot cut open last night so im going to be playing quite a bit lol

[Vash02]

So, I got my foot cut open last night so im going to be playing quite a bit lol

OW! .... awww yeah DayZ time! :lol:

I got my job next week 9-5 so I'll only be able to play around 6-11pm GMT+1 from now on.

I also haven't been able to get on to the server, they haven't updated to the recent beta update. Been running around on other servers and managed to find myself some camo clothing.

edit: oh wait, I can get in through the six launcher but not through arma2 itself. That could also be the reason for the TS troubles, my overlay isnt working with a six launcher game.

[Naz The Eternal]

It is very fun, Toxin jas been keeping busy with dayz along with other games

[Peacemaker]

Im having troubles my self with TS.

[Vash02]

Dude Peace, if you check that camp I found, he's put in 3 sets of camo clothing if you haven't got any yet.

also, our berezino tent is empty :( dont know if its a bug or if someone found it.

[Peacemaker]

Yea it got cleaned out. I found a bus on Friday and was driving it when I suddenly died for no reason. Full blood too. Pissed me off to rage quit for a few days. Bout to log in now tho and start over.

[Peacemaker]

It seems all of our tents on the Seattle 36 server are gone :( ohhhh well. Setting up another camp near nwaf till I can get a few nice items.

Edit: just scored m4 cco silenced and ten mags for it, that's a lot of dead zombies

Edit2: and now I've got an m249, just got no where to stash it....

Edit3: vash I have a silenced m4 for you, keep your eyes open for STANAG SD mags. Trying to find some for you, this gun is great for raiding as you can drop any zed that might get u easily.

[Vash02]

Sorry man, just started work and my computer has decided it doesn't like its own hard drives. I haven't been able to play in ages.

[Sovereign]

Been having a blast with this lately with deathmatching like 5 or 6 other guys at the airfield with that silenced mp5 and also raided a dudes tent that had shitload of good things in it: NVG M107 coyote backpack etc.

Sadly progress has had a turn for the worst today due to the new patches... If anyone wants to play just holla usually always on it.

[bullet]

I was running around in the woods today on US 785 when I stumbled upon 3 tents nicely hidden in some pine trees. Check one, nothing. Check another, AK-74, nice! Check the last, Night Vision Fal, PRO! Now I can play camping with Night vision!

[Rabaan]

oh man this is an intense game, i spent 2 hours last night literally crawling threw a town to avoid detection

sorry for the double post but i just realized that i now have justification for having the zombie survival guide ( max brooks )

[Zulthus]

Just started playing this actively, and the night is frustrating as shit. Even with my brightness/gamma maxed out you can't see anything. On top of that it's spooky because you can only hear most zombies, not see them.

Other than that, I am hopelessly addicted now. I love scavenging, desperately hoping to find a gun (I now have ammo for every gun in existence but no gun) and sneaking around is really fun. It's more fun with more people I'd imagine. I always join low population servers to decrease my chance of being found and killed by bandits because I don't feel like dealing with that.

[bullet]

For me the game has lost its allure. I played for about a week solo where I got all the supplies I needed a few times and just ran around doing pretty much nothing. So I got bored of that and started playing with a random group I found. That provided a different experience since were able to find multiple vehicles and set up a "base" of tents. We actually used tactics such as snipers to overwatch us and groups of 2-3 to scavenge a town.

But during those times you encounter bugs and other players where you die and have to regear. This eventually became boring because I just knew where stuff was, how the zombies would react or how to handle them with no problem, and what to do. So the whole survival issue became non-existant and the only focus was to get gear to PvP which is pretty lack luster in that game due to its engine and frustrating due to server hoppers and people who disconnect.

Its a great game for about a month. Hopefully with more updates, possibly different maps/larger world it could be a better experience. Its got a lot of potential but as of right now, it doesn't stand the test of time for me.

[Bittermen]

Is anyone looking to play some Day Z? I need a friend lmao!

I keep getting killed by some sniper mofos.

[KiddParK]

have not played much, but what i have... i enjoy.. or am terrified.

[duomaxwl]

My buddy and I logged into a different server because our usual one was down, and about 30 seconds south of where we had our tent on another server, was a camp with 10 tents, two trucks, a bus, and an ATV. We made out like kings on that one.

[Zulthus]

Shit's just getting annoying now. Thrice in a row I've helped a person by killing the zombies trailing behind them, then they turn around and shoot me in the face.


Really? Really now?

[duomaxwl]

Shit's just getting annoying now. Thrice in a row I've helped a person by killing the zombies trailing behind them, then they turn around and shoot me in the face.


Really? Really now?

Yeah. I avoid people, which is sad, but I don't trust people. I don't shoot people unless I see them coming at me with a gun.

[Zulthus]

Just had my first 'real' bandit encounter... I don't know how, but I won... here's how it played out...


I was just done unloading some gear from Stary Sobor into some tents. On the way there I saw a dead body, he had a winchester/m1911 on him, nothing special. I looted the guns and deposited the gear in my tents.

I decided that before I logged off, I'd check the local deer stands for some gear. I put everything away but my G17 and 3 mags and ran off to the first stand.

I approach it slowly and begin to take some shots at the zombies guarding it. The first 3 drop easily, but as I approach another 3 spawn. Ok, no problem. I take the first one out, and I all of the sudden hear shots near me. Before I know it my screen goes gray and I'm bleeding. I swing my view 180 degrees and I see a bandit crouched in the field taking shots at me. I take a few shots at him and he goes prone. I don't know at this point if I broke his legs or if he's trying to evade fire. No time to think, I sprint into the nearest treeline to bandage my wound. I fix it up with just 5,500 blood remaining. I sit behind the tree for a while looking for him, and I see him crouch up and start walking in my general direction after about a minute.

At this point I know he's wounded, because I know I saw my 4 shots hit him. I don't know how damaging a G17 is, but I know if I don't fight back this guy will kill me.

I pause another minute as he starts to shift his trail away from me about 45 degrees. At this point my heart is beating fast and my hands are shaking. (This shit was intense) It was hard for me to aim IRL. I really didn't want to die here. Even though my gear was stowed away, it would be an hour of running back to my spot. I poke my head out from the tree and he doesn't see me. I line up my gun and unload a full clip at him. With my character's shaking aim and my shaky hands combined, only about 4 shots hit him. Luckily, it was enough. I saw his name in the lower left corner state that he is dead, and his body hit the ground.

The funny thing is, he really must have sucked at this game. Turns out he had a MP5. He had the drop on me from 30m away, and I managed to get a few shots on him before escaping into the forest. He had a [THOR] clantag, no idea who he was. I had the feeling he was the same guy who murdered the guy I looted on the way back to my tents, so I felt great about killing him.

That was enough DayZ for me today; I've pushed my luck enough. I don't think I've ever played a game where you want to survive this much.



Bandit Kills: 1.