I did a quick search and I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned in the forums yet o.0

http://www.dayzmod.com/ - The homepage with forums and downloads. I suggest going here and looking through the newbie section.

For any of you with ArmA 2 combined ops (original game and expansion), there's a mod I just discovered the other day and it's FUCKING AMAZING.

It's in alpha, so a bit buggy, but the amount of immersion I've had in the game is so far unparalleled by anything I've ever played (And I'm not even exaggerating o.0 )

The servers run with about 40-50 people on the map, Chernarus, which is 225km squared. It has a real-time day/night cycle (going off server's clock) and is free-for-all pvp. Your character is saved on a main server so if you swap servers, you will log in with all your stuff and in the spot you were at in the last server (Note: after new patches, I'm often not where I was before). Oh yeah, there are vehicles too, but those aren't as fleshed out as they should be since they're new.

The basics:

You start out as a survivor, tossed randomly into the world with nothing but a torch, bandage and painkillers (previously had water bottle, a couple of food cans, some meds and a shitty pistol called the Makarov, but the mod dev is changing stuff up so it changes) From there, you're on your own. Your only goal is survival.

To find guns and food, you've got to scavenge around in houses and barns, or if you feel like being a douche, turn to a life of banditry and start shooting newbies.

Depending on where you go, you can often run into survivors, usually hearing them before you see them. These are the most tense moments in the game. Many a time I've spent 20 or so minutes tailing someone trying to figure out if they're friendly or a PKer, other times we've bumped into each other and had a tense mexican standoff where we both slowly back up, with guns raised, yelling at each other to "stop fucking moving!"

The big towns have better loot than the smaller ones, but you're MUCH more likely to find action with other players there. Bandits often go to the major coastal cities (Cherno and Elektro or something like that) in search of prey, which brings in the bandit hunters, trying to gain back morality points.

(OLD INFORMATION KEPT IN FOR POSTERITY AND LAZINESS) Basics of the morality:

When you start in the game, you have 2500 humanity. Killing a civilian will cause it to go down, killing zombies and bandits raise it back up. It can also tick up over time.

When you dip below 0 humanity, you get a special bandit skin (It's sorta desert camo looking) that lets people know to either kill you on sight, or run like a bitch. You're stuck with the skin until you get above 2000 humanity again.

It can be really hard to crawl back up if you go around killing people, but they often drop the best loot. Just be careful not to dip low, or get a reputation as a PKer or alot of people will try hunt you down.'

At the moment, humanity is tracked but doesn't show up anywhere and isn't used for anything. Bandit skins are non-existent now. Anyone could be a bandit, watch your arse!

The Zombies:

So the zombies are probably the buggiest part of the game at the moment (alpha is alpha) because they have really jerky animations and tend to phase through walls and stuff (though that's being fixed, hopefully).

You can (finally) outrun them by breaking line of sight, but they're damn fast. Best bet is to try run through a house with 2 entry-ways. They take 3 shots to kill with the makarov (1 with 1911 and revolver) and a single zombie can knock you out in an instant and kill you if you're not careful. At the moment, they tend to spawn as you come into towns, so sometimes you can clear a place, come back in a few minutes and it has a zombie in it again.

You have 2 stealth icons in the top right. One is an eye. This shows how visible you are to the zombies. Standing in shadows, crouching or going prone limit your visibility. The other one is an ear. Obviously, that shows how noisy you're being.

You can't crouch walk near them without alerting them anymore, after a recent patch. They have vision, based on where their body is facing. They can REALLY fuck your day up. I got a bunch of good items one life and then a couple of zombies tore me to shreds and I lost it all :(

Empty bottles and cans are almost a must have now, until the zombies are fixed. Throw one of these (cycle through with F) and zombies near the impact will go to investigate the noise.

Vehicles:

So very infrequently, you'll come across a broken down vehicle. These can include: Tractors, Bicycles, ATV's, Dirt-Bikes, Jeeps, Cars, Buses and even a Helicopter.

When you DO find a vehicle, they're almost always broken. You need to go hunting around to find the parts it needs before you can get it up and running, plus it also needs petrol.

I'd suggest if you want to get a vehicle running, google up some basic guides as it's rather in-depth.

Also, you know the vehicle can be fixed up if you're able to climb into it.

Dying:

This game is 100% hardcore. You die, you restart a new character with only the starter gear. Your old body will stay around for a while and be completely lootable (you'll hear flies buzzing around bodies of dead players). To start afresh, you have to hit the abort button and disconnect back to the lobby, count to 10 or so, then rejoin.

Final advice:

My trust reaches as far as the end of my gun barrel and so should yours. You can meet people in game who are nice, but you'll quickly learn that sometimes they act nice just to shoot you in the back later.



The official trailer - think it's old though couldn't find a newer one.




That's the video-series that got me hooked.

this sounds like my kinda mod. any aussie servers?

Atleast 3, they're pretty much always full atm, so you gotta spam enter to get in.

I'm guessing that atleast 2 are hosted in Sydney, given the 20ms latency I get.

I meant to post about this because it looks awesome. The server requirements are ludicrous so there aren't many .au servers - I have been trying to get onto the team about it to see what can be done but apparently because it is in "active development" they're not willing to make too many compromises.

This video is hilarious:

Aye, I watched the entire series of vids in one sitting because the dudes just kill me!

I think the few servers up atm just bumped down to 40 people due to server load, but hopefully as word gets out, more clans will be willing to put a server up, or perhaps some of the big ISP's.

Also, it will hopefully get better with time, the game's still only at version alpha 1.5.6, so it still has a ways to go, plus I'm fairly sure it's gonna be coming out for ArmA 3 when that launches too (mod maker has early access, I believe)

Out of all the great engines they could have made this in they choose arma? ffs...

I feel your pain, but considering the scope of the map and the mod, I don't think there's really anything else out there that would support a mod like this as easily.

that looks awesome.

what a great game

http://www.gadling.com/2009/03/30/gadling-teaches-you-to-read-the-cyrillic-alphabet-in-5-minutes/

For the signs everywhere :P

There's also an english / cryllic map, but the alphabet is pretty easy to learn and may save your arse in a pub quiz some day ;)

lol skythra, that was my plan all along.

>=)

The guy who did those vids (CHKilroy on youtube) is just a funny bugger, has alot of other stuff I've been watching lately.

Just got off an awesome session in DayZ where I sniped a bandit from about 450m away, had another mexican standoff that left me wounded and the other guy dead and also got to play overwatch for a guy I met who was trying to build a car.

If it wasn't for a server crash, I'd probably be writing this at 4am instead of 2am lol XD

Without local servers I dont really know why people are rushing to buying this...

looks rad, how much is arma2 these days?

I'd be thinking that most of this RDP requirement is because they can sometimes patch several times in an hour.. so maybe they just want to force push that latest alpha everywhere.

Also their site lists that later they're looking for a stand alone private server hosting thing.

Stats for character 537

Character owned by Sa-Matra.
Character is alive.
Character has killed 913 zombies (388 headshots).
Character has murdered 1 other characters.
Character has walked 1227.7km.
Character has lived 34h 12m.

He's walked over 1000 KM in 34 hours :)

This is the kind of game you'd want a steam sale where you buy 1 for you and 3 friends for like 50 dollars so you can at least start playing in a small group together to get started. I'd be keen if someone could find the necessary prerequisite game for the cheapest possible online price and digital download.

$35 USD http://www.cdkeysdirect.com/products/Arma-2-Combined-Operations.html
27 pounds http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/search.php?search_query=ArmA&x=0&y=0 (buy each individually)
600 baht https://www.zest.co.th/content/view/id/9346/ but out of stock (roughly 20 AUD)
$30 USD http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4639/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

The thailand one seems cheap but yeah i 'm not really good at finding stuff online and GMG didn't seem to have arma at all when i searched, then when i tried going through FPS's the site timed out. Odd.

Edit steam is cheapest realistically i think.

Surprised that steam is the cheapest you've found so far, rather counter-intuitive lol.

Stop, some of the bugs are just from the way ArmA 2 works. I love the game and all, but my god that thing is a buggy, unoptimized PoS lol.

Hopefully it'll get sorted in ArmA 3 (They are probably releasing DayZ for that as well, since I think the code is easily portable)

Also, how the hell do you find your character stats? Can't seem to find a search thing on the website?

How exactly is Arma poorly optimized?

it runs like ass and looks like shit on my system that plays BF3 on ultra.

I think it's a term people (mostly non-programming types) have just latched onto to describe a game that doesn't perform as they expect.

It's very clear to me as a programmer than BIS have spent a fuck-tonne of time optimising everything. You cannot work with a map that size without really careful thought about every aspect of what is being displayed on-screen, what is being sent across the network to server/clients, etc.

Yea it seems that when it doesn't play like CoD or BF3 etc. they get all pissy and start to argue from ignorance... speaking of which.

it runs like ass and looks like shit on my system that plays BF3 on ultra.

BF3 and Arma 2 do not compare, the environments are far too small. I'm no programmer like Pinky but I can tell that Arma is handling shit loads more than any other game I've played. When BF3 is played on 225km squared and has at least a 2500m draw distance and does not sacrifice any of it's detail and capability while doing it then you can compare the two.
The fact that my middle range gaming PC can even run Arma 2 is amazing to me. The fact that for Arma 3 they're adding in physX and new lighting on top of the biggest map in Arma yet is mind boggling.

I made a 16km squared map in CryEngine 3 recently, with just the terrain and base textures it brought my PC to it's knees until I pulled the draw distance way down.

I have also played OFP, ARMA, ARMA 2 and OA. I love the game, but it still runs like a piece of shit.

@Trauma So you dropped the settings to make it playable... great, but that doesn't work with Arma, i drop the settings down and it STILL plays like shit. That is a poorly optimized game.

I run it at 1080p, all on high apart from AA, that's either off or on low but no post processing cuz I hate it, typically at a 2.5-4km draw distance. Though some missions (like DayZ) force draw distance for balance reasons.

I'm running a Quad core Phenom 2 @ 4ghz, 8gb of ram and a GTX580 and the game struggles to play smooth (regardless of 1920x1080 or 1280x720) , while people with significantly worse PC's are apparently running smoother than me.

I tried bumping settings down, changing resolutions, turning off things like shadows and my game has never felt smooth.

When an average gamer says "unoptimized" they usually mean graphically. It should run significantly better on my PC than alot of other PC's, yet doesn't for some inexplicable reason

I've heard ppl say this with the 580 a fair bit. It may be card related though I find that hard to believe.

I'm running at 1080p atm because it just doesn't seem to matter what I do, it's never gonna be smooth it seems.

About the only time I get smooth movement is when I'm on the coast, looking out at the water.

Also, the view distance seems to change on a server by server basis. Was really small on one of the aussie servers (like 500m) and atleast 1km on another, was weird.

I have no issue inland framerate wise, I get some slowdown when in the major cities. And if I'm scoped in and looking at something highly detailed then it can be a bit slow as it loads up the object detail while taking down my surroundings.

As for the variation between servers (assuming this is while playing DayZ) that is caused by the dynamic weather, it's fog.

Looks absolutely incredible. Going to download and play the fuck out of this.

The inventory system is infuriating, and buggy. I picked up a torch so it dropped all my gear on the deck. Then someone nicked it before I could fix the mess.

But the game has promise, so long as you know who you're playing with.

What's the deal with the voice chat in the OP videos? It looks like they can hear each other in a limited radius, is that the case?

Some annoying guys were piping up on global in my last game until everyone made them shut up, I'd really like it if you could chat globally but only be heard within earshot. And of course your voice should alert zombies.

There are several chat/VON channels; they are Global, Side, Command, Group, Vehicle & Direct. There are two default keybinds that will cycle them; they are ',' & '.' - next to '/' which opens the chat field. I personally unbound those keys and use up and down keys when I have the chat field open. This way I never accidentally swap channels when going for the chat or map buttons.

Pro tip: Any map markers you set on the map will broadcast to the current chat channel you are in.

Pro tip 2: When the chat field is open, Page up and down will scroll the chat window.

All chat is proximity, meaning that if you are in side chat using VON but there is an enemy near you in game they will hear what you're saying. Using direct channel will only use proximity chat. There was a bug that was breaking direct recently that is fixed using this beta patch.

It's about 50m, don't know the exact range. Don't know it will be louder if you talk louder, but the closer you get to the player talking the louder it will become.

Arma isn't magical, its not a huge technical feat to design a scene manager or terrain engine that can handle maps of that size, its just rarely necessary in games I guess so it isn't done often. And from the sounds of it, Arma could have done it a lot better anyway.

The mod does sound awesome though, how bad is the griefing?

Hahaha you dog Shaexan. But MP5's are rubbish imo, unless it was suppressed and you have sub sonic ammo.

Arma isn't magical, its not a huge technical feat to design a scene manager or terrain engine that can handle maps of that size, its just rarely necessary in games I guess so it isn't done often. And from the sounds of it, Arma could have done it a lot better anyway.

The mod does sound awesome though, how bad is the griefing?

It's the only engine that does it, but no feat. Nice logic.

I was bleeding out in a control tower. I ask for help... This guy offers to help. He asks me to go up to the top of the tower and throw some flares so he can see where I am..

Next minute a high velocity bullet penetrates my brain.

GAY

Oh, I was bandaged and all that, but when your blood gets to like 2000, you start passing out all the time.. I needed a transfusion.

that night video was great. i really should get this game up and running. looks just so intense.

Ahhhh. so thats what a knife and fire is for!!!!! Can you put out the fire once you've done and still keep your matches?

Yea you put it out then recover the fireplace, if you don't recover it then you can't place it again (crude system for now).

So just then I'm playing with these 2 randoms I met up with and we're running along the rail tracks at night (pitch black) but the guy with the chem light leading us keeps falling over because of blood loss. So he falls over and we all are just waiting for him and then all of a sudden hear a shot and I'm dead. Some prick from the shadows just gunned us all down.

Oh well karma's a bitch.

You need combined ops, both Arma 2 and Op. Arrowhead.

This is amazing, buying arma 2 on steam to play it.

It's a shame about the zombies being fast. Are they all fast zombies? I have to admit, I'm more of a traditionalist when it comes to zombies. I prefer the inevitable slow tide of death that will ultimately kill you.

That would be more AI for the server to process, Arma is already very demanding of servers. I've seen some full servers reach 1200 zombies at one time. That's a lot of AI to be handling on top of all the player actions and items.

Skyrim does it, Oblivion did it 6 years ago, most MMOs do it like WoW or ToR or Secret World. Its like I said, most shooters don't do it because theres no point having tech like that in something like CoD.

Skyrims large geometry is nice but it's up close stuff is a bit meh, mainly due to poor textures and the draw distance is very short for objects. Large patches of trees pop in at about 200m, not a big deal when you're in the forest though as you view is largely obstructed. As for WoW and ToR, hardly comparable to Arma in looks and from memory it was very common for mobs to fade in and out at fairly close range in wow.

Getting it going through steam is easiest..

I got the Arma II combined operations pack (Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead in one bundle Also includes the Combined operations patch
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4639/
$30bux

Installed Arma II First.
Ran it.
Quit
Installed Arma 2 operation arrowhead
Tried to run it. It didn't work so I verified the files and installed battleeye anticheat from the right click menu and it ran fine.
Quit

Download all of the DayZ Mod files into a folder (Go here) http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/
Make a folder named "@DayZ" in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead (or your Operation Arrowhead base folder)
Then make a folder inside "@DayZ" named "Addons"
Paste all of the downloaded files inside the "Addons" folder
Extract all of the downloaded files
Go to Steam and right click, properties, set launch options on ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead
Insert "-mod=@dayz -nosplash" and click OK
Open Operation Arrowhead and select to "Launch ARMA 2: Combined Operations"
(If you get "Requires addon "CaBuildingParts" error, click OK and ignore it)

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Thanks very much Boxhead and Trauma.

It's FUCKING SCONIC THE HEDGEHOD line as a zombie jumps out of the bushes is hilarious.

AHHH! Hahahahahaha

haha what the hell d^ is that Arnold on the other end?

COMEON BACK HIM UP. YOU'D WANT DA SAME. GET UP YOU PUSSY. IM BEING SUCH A PUSSY.


hahaha

Need to connect to an Australian server, anyone know the IPs?

@greazy I'm not sure mate, think it may be a voice emulator, funny none the less.

Edit: Found 2 servers, both max at 50 players, can't join hnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

No queue option either.

just use the Filter bit in the server browser to set a list based on DayZ as the host name then throw in high ping amount of like 150 and it'll do the rest..

Thanks guys, no luck connecting to them at the moment. One requires a beta of some type? The other max capacity.

Fuck me, the lack of zombies on the weekend made it a big gank fest. Now you can't walk 10m without running into 10 zombies, going to change the dynamic of the game alot I'm thinking.

What a massive fucking waste of money.

Only two <300ms latency servers and they are always full.

Also the mod is buggy as all fuck (or it might just be REALLY BAD netcode/hitregcode).

The inventory system is horrible. The default keybinds are REALLY non-fps standard. I guess they make sence to armaII fans.

Some questions so far:

1. Does anyone have a basic 'cheat sheet' of basic stuff you need to know like how to bandage, how to prone (default basic buttons) etc?

2. Is there any way to get a crosshair drawn?

3. How the fuck do I use the inventory system? What does clicking through the different shaped guns do? To loot a zombie do i look at it and press G ? then what? how do i know whats his and whats mine etc?

cheers

Only two <300ms latency servers and they are always full.

Mash enter while you have the server highlighted, I play tiny-tower on my phone while tapping enter and get in pretty quick.

Also the mod is buggy as all fuck (or it might just be REALLY BAD netcode/hitregcode).

I said it was an alpha. Alpha is alpha. I don't think the mod's even been around half a year yet. Work started in January iirc.

The inventory system is horrible. The default keybinds are REALLY non-fps standard. I guess they make sence to armaII fans.

They're not TOO horrible, but there's so many things in ArmA 2 that it makes sense there are lots of buttons :P The inventory IS absolutely horrid, but it's at the very least functional once you figure it out.

Some questions so far:

1. Does anyone have a basic 'cheat sheet' of basic stuff you need to know like how to bandage, how to prone (default basic buttons) etc?

Most of the stuff is context sensitive in the scroll wheel menu. If you're bleeding and have bandages, it will show up in the scroll wheel menu as "bandage myself" etc. Eating / drinking / most other things are accessed through that window.

2. Is there any way to get a crosshair drawn?

That's the server you're on. The other one has crosshairs, but also has the names of other people when you hover over them and can break the game pretty bad, esp when stealthing at night.

3. How the fuck do I use the inventory system? What does clicking through the different shaped guns do? To loot a zombie do i look at it and press G ? then what? how do i know whats his and whats mine etc?

Again, mouse wheel for looting generally. If you point at a corpse, you get an option in the menu to look at the gear on it. The numbers on the left side of the inventory list that pops up are what is on the corpse, so if they had a makarov mag, it would have a 1 next to it on the list (or 2 if it had 2 mags, etc) on the left hand side. Numbers on the right hand side show what's in your inventory.

As for the different guns, I take it you mean in the inventory? There are buttons there that toggle a filter so you can find stuff easier. Don't bother messing with them usually.

Your backpack is accessed by clicking on them in your inventory list and clicking the "open bag" button in the bottom right of the inv window.

Once you get acclimated, you'll do fine and settle into it.

Really hope AG gets a server or two. Although it seems like crazy specs to run. Here's hoping because I can't get on either of the two hosted.

Really keen. Have been waiting on the server browser for an hour, sigh.

lol @ gamer complaining about wasting his money on an alpha game.

i actually purchased arma 2 aswell just for this mod, but i REALISE its an alpha mod and still in development (and no guarantee it'll ever be completed).

However before complaining, take some time to LEARN the freakin controls, theres a tutorial built into Arma2.. geez.

It's not so hard once you get the hang of it and used to it and realise its just different to other FPS's out there.

I havent had any problems with the netcode, i've stalked and killed people at distance on both local and foreign servers with no problem.

Awesome mod. Can't wait till the day it h its BETA! :)

PS Gamer was that you running around with flares on ANZ last night?

PS how to prone? really? you cant just goto the configure controls section IN the game?

How retarded are you?

Is anyone in here on one of the servers, i'm on as d^ and stuck on a coast line in pitch darkness. Need help.

Np gamer, glad you got over your rage. Just remember what you bought is Arma 2: CO.... that is actually a fuck ton of content you have there, it is worth checking it out when you're not playing DayZ.

As for bandwidth, AEF clan had a server up a while ago that they had to pull down because it was using about 160gb a day. I've heard monthly numbers around the 4TB - 6TB area, depends on how many slots of course, also Aussie servers are almost always full because there are fewer of them and some people chase the daylight, but ping limits handle that pretty well.

This is the main reason why there are so few Aussie servers, well more to the point it's the cost of bandwidth in Aus. You could rent a powerful box with 10TB/month for 60 euros... in Germany. More or less the same for the US, hence there being dozens of US/euro servers up.

These quotes are from a thread Rocket (the guy who made DayZ) made about the latest update.

Patch 1.5.7 and this being an Alpha and fucking zombie spawns

Okay, so still people don't realize this is an Alpha. If you do not know what this means - go look it up on wikipedia RIGHT NOW.

When I fix one bug, many can crop up.

I fixed some zombie spawning bugs, time syncing bugs, and now there are alot of zombies. This became apparent in testing, but rather than delay the patch release by a few days (too many people are helicopter dying) the update was released.

So yes, the zombie numbers weren't my intention - but now that it is here, let us see how they play out. Maybe we might actually learn something from it or maybe everyone just wants to jump to conclusions in the first ten minutes...

Damn you video game industry for confusing consumers so that nobody knows what Alpha's, Beta's, or releases are!! Damn you!

But yes, lets all approach this with the spirit of experimentation. How will this ridiculous mistake affect the gameplay? I physically cannot release a patch for a few days (I was up all night with this, and I go to work shortly, and it's my birthday) - so regardless of how bad the situation is we're all just going to have to make do.

What a beast, patching DayZ by night; making Arma 3 by day.

I can't really comment on it yet as I've been geared up and inland since it was brought in, I'm sure it is a pain when you only have starter gear.

But if you're not shooting other players for fear of the zombies attacking... then BINGO.

If you're new to DayZ then maybe don't read this bit.

Spoiler:
It's been needed badly from the start, once you get the hang of it, zombies actually are not a threat to you. Lead them into choke points to make them walk and they're easy kills and they can't actually hit you on the run. This coupled with a lack of direction after a while because it's an early build just leads to death matching. Increasing the numbers would be a band aid but it's better than nothing, I guess now it's just a question of how many more is the correct amount to make you really question shooting another player in town but still have you believe you can get away with it if you want it bad enough, I'm getting the impression that the current amount is a bit too high for that.

Hmm looking over the map today I have no idea where I am, all I know is I have about 4 flares left and a few clips of ammo?

Would love to get into it more, hopefully everyone flooding diablo 3 will leave a few empty slots.

sigh, Battleye has decided to be an absolute cunt and I cant join a game at all, have tried fuckin everything. over it.

Yeah I've tried a manual update, no good. disabled my router firewall and windows etc etc still no go.
I'll have another go at it later but for the moment my patience has worn a little too thin :P

*SPOOGE*

We can only hope...

GON: So is ArmA II always going to be the base engine for Day Z, or are you considering moving across to its own engine, or...?

Rocket: Well, I think it’s reached a point of critical mass in terms of - well, it’s affected the bottom line of the company that owns the engine, the company I work for. And it’s also obviously raised some eyebrows in the gaming industry, otherwise you wouldn’t be talking to me! So I think it’s reached that critical point where either we would take it further, or someone else would. Or at least take elements of it. So I guess it’s just a matter of ‘when, by who, and with what engine’.

From my perspective, the mod will see itself out. It’s an experiment, so it will ‘experiment itself’ to conclusion, which I imagine is three, four months maybe. Maybe five. And then, I would see it as a game. But how that game comes about, people will have to wait and see. But I’m confident it will.

Hmm looking over the map today I have no idea where I am, all I know is I have about 4 flares left and a few clips of ammo?

Would love to get into it more, hopefully everyone flooding diablo 3 will leave a few empty slots.

I have played hundreds of hours on Chernarus... I still got fucking lost last night. I was genuinely shocked, missed my mark by like a full kilometer. Shit be dark.

But then that removes half of the game, namely, the tension between players.

As I said elsewhere, if you want a game to kill zombies en masse, go play L4D. This game shines because of the player interaction, not the dodgy AI of meh zombies.

If you remove the PKing aspect due to too many zombies, the game loses all the drama and dies quickly as people get sick of just killing zombies and hoarding.

Hell, might as well just release it single player if thats your focus.

I explained this a bit more in spoiler part of my post which I assume you didn't read. I'll explain sans spoiler.

Pre-update the zombies were too little of a threat and this made people seek a challenge beyond the zombies after a while, this obviously led to death matching. Very common for snipers to set up shop along the south coast to pick of new players, simply because they are either bored or just griefing assholes. The fact that the amount of zombies now is making you think twice about shooting that other player you saw is great, now it's just a case of finding the balance point between the current number of zombies and the previous number.

Yeah I jumped on a server last night and almost immediately found a body with an AKM, map, compass, toolbox, watch and other assorted goodies. Was sneaking through the middle of some town and saw a zombie. I felt cheeky so I shot him from the darkness only to be absolutely swamped by zombies and lost all my sweet gear :(

The really initial grind now is soooo hard.. I ran through 5 clips before i got even close to an enterable house :) Once i got into the house i got a shotty and a bunch of other cool stuff (Zombies got stuck on a table in the house so i was able to just plug them from the otherside of it!!) so maybe they've tweaked the drops a bit aswell? I didn't make it out of the town however!!

From twatter;

dayzdevteam Day Z Development
ArmA2:CO is TOP SELLER on steam. Win for PC Modding, validation of BIS company philosophy - Rocket

Pretty crazy that it topped it, right now it's second to Max Payne 3. Must have added a few hundred thousand so BIS accounts by now.

The thing is it's not making me think twice, it's making me NOT BOTHER thinking about it, because I know that if I shoot, I'll die. I'm not the only one, as I said. I ran into tons of survivors in 3 hours played time and not a single one even attempted to attack me, even on the roads.

It's basically as if they've turned on rebound damage in towns and for a good few hundred meters around them.

The spawn points basically become a fuster cluck of dead corpses because it's too much effort and not enough reward to go into a town and scavenge when you could just PK on the roads.

Also, I shot a single zombie in a field in the middle of nowhere and about 5 more spawned and surrounded me -_-

Yea my point is that it's gone in the right direction, just needs to be pulled back a bit, look for that sweet spot.

Decided I will only play on the vet server. I kind of like the idea of not automatically popping up in people's sights like you do on the regular one. No crosshairs is going to be hard to get used to, though. I am enter-spamming as I speak :(

hey fpot.

shame we got taken out last night on the train tracks. we'll get revenge one day on jarrod and tagbadger!

play again some time!

Yeah I want to kill the fuck out of those guys.

lol poor Max Payne XD

This mod has to be the next minecraft ?

Not in it's current form, doesn't have the legs.

:C

to call it buggy is a fuckin understatement.

The biggest problem is that half of the 'bugs' are that it's ARMA...
I wouldn't sell your firstborn to play this; ARMA isn't a 'new game'

pc gamer article

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

Damnit, I've become attached to ANZ2 server since I found someones car and stole it... server is perma full :(

There are rumours going around there will be a version made for Arma 3 but going by the whole it usually takes PCs three years to catch up to Arma's requirements plus the olde 'lol new version is shit compared to previous version' curse I reckon DayZ will extend Arma 2's lifetime by literally a shitload.

According to an interview I saw, it would take him a year to bring it over to ArmA 3 apparently. I don't think it's gonna be a simple port like we originally thought since they're making such huge engine changes (I assume so anyway).

From the sound of things, I think he's just gonna keep working on ArmA 2 since alot of the work has already been done.

Also, potentially dogs coming. Sounds fun *shrug*

I'm sure they could do it in far less time if they devoted more people to it, perhaps for a post launch payed DLC.

Damnit, I've become attached to ANZ2 server since I found someones car and stole it... server is perma full :(

who'd a thunk it... you're a cock in games as well as Ausgamers threads... enjoy your endless queueing.
Karma is a bitch.

Also, I was more identifying that a lot of the 'problems' are from the original product moreso than the 'Alpha-ness' of the mod.

can someone help with the basics of communication?

I understand <> switches the channels, but how do i actually type something. When i hold capslock it wants to use my mic

thanks i'll give it another try

"Irish potato farmer we meet again!"

I've put about 16 hours into this mod... I would strongly advise you NOT to waste your money at the moment. Things to look forward to

- The 5 AU/NZ servers ALWAYS being full and having to spam them for 30min+ to get in. Joining any other servers = night time, which is fucking horrible.

- NO items fucking ANYWHERE

- After checking over 50 houses/buildings; finding that not a single fucking building has an openable door or room to loot shit from

- The most buggy and horrible hit detection known to man

- Zombies that can walk through doors

- An engine that allows you to get stuck 'turning around' because your have your arm out front pointing a weapon. Oh thats fucking fantastic you built your engine to recognise that impossibility of being able to put your hand through a wall.. but seriously in real life what fucking IDIOT wouldn't be able to turn in a doorway?

- The inability to find any of your friends

It's so fucking frustrating and just absolutely no fun past the 1-2hrs of novelty.

It's a shame the creator works on the dev of the ArmaII engine, judging from the node games interviews... it's doubtful he will move away from the engine because 'its made for this game'. So I don't expect to ever see vast improvements made on this in the next few months let alone the next year.

Patch coming soon that will drop the amount of zombies, dunno how much though. Along with other fixes/changes. I know the bandit model system is getting pulled in favor of change you skin in game.

Thank christ for that.

Now all that needs to happen is the night's get a tiny amount of ambient light so it's not literally a black screen with white dots on half of it and then this will destroy my life more than D3 has.

When you only get to play at night, you get real sick of being blind 24/7 really fast, esp when coupled with millions of zombies.

I have put the game on hold till the zeds are fixed. It's fun sneaking through towns literally metres from zeds and scrounging items but annoying not being able to shoot anything because it means insta-death. Hopefully they will hit that nice balance point of enough zeds to deter tkers while still keeping it possible to go on a bit of a zed killing spree without a 100% chance of dying.

for the love of god, don't call them zeds

Fun Fact: Total play time for DayZ is almost 28 years.... later!

More Fun Facts from Mutonizer on DayZ forums;

- With 3.410.047km walked, we walked 85 times around the earth but barely a bit more than 5km per individual on average.

- For every ten survivors, bit more 9 died. This is a 90% mortality ratio, almost similar to some cases of the Ebola virus or the Marburg virus which makes the "Agent Smith" quote truer than ever: "A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure"

- With 104.484 murders, we have an homicide rate of 16% (not counting the death of outlaws I think). This is more than 300 times the homicide rate in the US and yet only slightly more than Lithuania's ratio of death during the WW2 where 14% of their entire population died.

- Counting all bandits, we have a 10% criminality rate. For some sort of comparison, let's say all these bandits were jailed, that would be 3 times the ratio of the US which is 3.7% of it's adult population being incarcerated, the highest in the world and of course very few of them are murderers. (around 50% for violent crime in state prisons).

- With close to 9 million zombie killed, we already cleared more than 10% of France's population, close to 3% of the US population, then entire population of Austria, more than twice the entire population of Croatia, or close to 3 times the population of Lithuania!! All in all, so far, we pretty much should have totally cleared out a small country of zombies.

- That said, it's only 0.6% of the population of China, which is a country you do NOT want to be in should the zombie apocalypse come!!

Nothing homo about the walking dead.

Hmmmm I kind of like zeds I wil continue to say it :P People call Extra Drys TEDS

Timing of Patch 1.5.8
I'm still working on it.

Unfortunately, the lull in peak time never happened. And I had forecast that the usual lull would be started now. That isn't happening. So we will try and figure out a way to roll out the patch but it is complicated.

There are so many people playing (over 6500) that if we auto-update the servers the reconnect load caused by everyone coming back on within the same period could, well, crash everything. We don't know if it is possible to handle such load, and I don't really want to try.

So we're coming up with another plan. But it will be within the next six hours assuming that testing has gone okay.

RE: Timing of Patch 1.5.8
Patch 1.5.8 delayed because I'm still at work, its 3:30am, and I need to sleep. Sorry guys, out tomorrow.

Um... lol. Not a bad problem to have, I guess.

I was wondering about if night time would be an issue for aussies playing on foreign servers.

It would be good if they sped up the time just a little 18 hr days instead of 24, that would give everyone lengthy time playing in both day and night.

Its almost unplayable at night since you can't see anything, or anyone to meet up with.

i've played both day and night servers, and nights much better with chemlights, also much less chance of getting assasinated just walking through a field too if you don't light up at all.

Finding items during the day is much easier though, but so is finding other players.

i'm finding this game to be very hard.

I spend most of my time alone, and it's lonely.

I eventually see someone being chased and help them out and team up with them, but they really need the voice working better.

How close can you get to a zombie in crouch without them seeing you?
How long or far away do you have to run for zombies to stop chasing you? I had 2 crawlers chase me around for nearly 10 minutes in to the bush. I thought I lost them and eventually they caught up, luckily I had found a crossbow by then and killed them.

How long or far away do you have to run for zombies to stop chasing you? I had 2 crawlers chase me around for nearly 10 minutes in to the bush. I thought I lost them and eventually they caught up, luckily I had found a crossbow by then and killed them.

They don't stop.. They're zombies.. they want to eat you!

You speak like a man who is not out of ammo :-)

Build 1.5.8 rolling update
It's here!

Patch 1.5.8 a.k.a. "More New ways to get fucked up"

So before it was zombies + players + ladders vs. you.

!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CONTENT SERVERS ARE BEING MAXED OUT SO DO NOT REPLY BACK WITH 500 SERVER ERROR!!!!


Now its zombies + players + the environment vs. you.

Good luck.

------
Changelog:

UPDATE : 21 MAY 2012
Affected addons:
* dayz_code 1.5.8
* dayz_equip 1.2.4
* dayz_sfx 1.1.2
* dayz 1.2.5
* dayz_weapons 1.1.2

Developer's Note:

* TO INTERACT WITH MOST ITEMS: YOU NOW NEED TO OPEN GEAR MENU (G) THEN RIGHT CLICK ON THE ITEM! SUCH AS BANDAGING AND EATING AND SHIT

* This is a pretty major update. I don't really know what affect the new sickness and temperature system will have on player behavior especially with antibiotics being so scarce.
* It is the genesis of an idea, so please remember this might cause havoc. You need to be careful.
* To light a fire, you need matches and wood in your inventory. Place more wood in the inventory of a fireplace to keep the fire going.
* A fire that does not have wood in it will go out when you try to light it.
* You can tell you have an infection, because your character will start coughing. The infection causes you to loose blood down to a minimum of 6000. This leaves you with reduced blood until you take antibiotics.


* [NEW] Server cleanup system replaced with a more agressive one
* [NEW] Inventory Interaction system (right-click on items in gear screen to bring up interactions)
* [NEW] Temperature System now implemented (effects are limited)
* [NEW] Chance of catching an infection the lower your temperature
* [NEW] Chance of catching an infection from already infected players
* [NEW] Water can be filled in ponds, all water pumps, wells, but not the sea
* [NEW] Forced disconnection saving for abort and alt+F4
* [NEW] Zombie's will investigate player deaths
* [NEW] Adrenaline rush from panicing causes greately increased hunger for a while
* [NEW] Bandaging Sound when bandaging yourself/someone
* [NEW] Coughing sound when you have an infection
* [NEW] Camera Shake when temperature drops extremely low
* [NEW] PROTIP: Use Global Chat/VOIP in populated areas
* [NEW] Fire requires wood to keep burning
* [NEW] Various Loot spawn balancing changes
* [FIXED] Should not be pellets for the Winny
* [FIXED] Whinny is way to powerful and quiet (mmmm your tears will be delicious)
* [FIXED] Helicopter loot despawning too fast
* [FIXED?] Too many zombies for the Carebears to be able to play
* [FIXED] Fog is way too thick
* [FIXED] Climbing a ladder with a pistol will cause you to fall
* [FIXED] Zombies not attracted to Flares and Chemlights
* [FIXED] Panic noises going apeshit all the time
* [FIXED] Zombie spotted alert far too quiet (increased slightly)

and

Build 1.5.8.2 Hotfix
HOTFIX : 21 MAY 2012
Affected addons:
* dayz_code 1.5.8.2

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature way too fast
* [FIXED] Not enough wood available for spawn
* [FIXED] Matches way too rare
* [FIXED] Reduced impact of infection (coughing amount and blood loss, will only loose 2000 blood)

and

Bandit/Survivor Morphing to be removed
As the title said, the Bandit/Survivor morphing will be removed. You will find skins around the world, that you can wear if you choose. Humanity will be retained for an undisclosed purpose.

Because humanity is the feature DayZ deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll remove bandit transitions, because its not helping. Because its not a good feature. Humanity remains as a silent guardian, watchful protector. An ... unfinished feature.

Well it can go both ways, if you're a bandit then you think fuck it, kill em all cuz they will shoot me on sight... no bandit skin give them a chance to not kill. But some will still kill you on sight of course.

If you see me fpot, will you kill me?

Just to clarify, I don't think it has happened yet

Well, I just went AFK in the woods, prone to make a cup of tea... come back and I'm dead. Who ever took the cheap kill got some serious gear out of it. Cunts. Had that character since 1.5.6.

Trauma that sucks hard. The servers up to the new version?

Trauma that sucks hard. The servers up to the new version?

Yeah, the servers are pretty much always up-to-date because I think the dev pushes the new files out to all the servers at once.

Also, Winchester ammo is so damn scarce now :( The zombie spawn rate is perfect though.

Shame, my char logged out in a building in elektro before the patch and came to at a small town in the middle of nowhere and I was shot by a sniper on the hill ;_;

here's a good tip, if you want to know if you can enter a house from a distance, just look at the windows.. if the windows are transparent and you can see inside, you can generally enter the building..

GREAT tip mate!

gamer,

i've barely had any bugs in this game, i got attacked through a wall once, and died on a ladder once. thats it.

If you have a character that has been a bit of a dooche and killed lots of people and have a low humanity, when they die does the humanity score carry over to the new character?

yes, yes it does.

suddenly a stack of evil doers get punished in what will be likely a creative and fitting manner.

I've only had 2 kill 2 people. both in self defense (real self defense, as in they started shooting, not they looked at me funny), I've been killed by other players about 4 times though, but only once when i had anything more than the starting equipment.

first one was a survivor, my humanity went down to 400, it didn't move (after several life/death cycles) i bleed out shortly after.

second one was because a bandit shot at the wrong person. (he must of been really pissed too, because he got the jump on me, had me hiding in a barn with no exit and half my health, he had a full auto weapon with scope and i had a starter pistol.) i bandage and morphine up in the barn while closely watching the doors and windows for movement, after sitting in the barn for a good 20 min, i figure the bandit has gotten bored or something so i go to leave, i dash out the side door and try to go around the far side of the barn for more cover when i hear "crack crack crack" (with the wizzing sounds of close by bullets), i glance back around the corner and hear another "crack" then "thud" (must of hit the wall), so i continue around, go wide and flank his right behind some low walls. as i go around the corner to face the barn again the bandit is headed straight towards me but i was ready this time, i nailed him in the chest about 4-5 times before he got a single shot off, which thankfully missed... thankyou bandit for all the equpment, and for putting my humanity back up to 2000, unfortunately that character got mauled by zombies in the typical fashion (someone with a hoard of them runs past your cover).

OK, I'm pretty much going to grab this from steam.

ArmA 2: CO

Is there anything I need to know before I do so?

- Watch install vid (I posted it in this thread) to get it running sans rage.
- Remember it's alpha.
- I personally get the beta patches but I dunno how those or normal patches are handled via steam.

Add me on Steam Toll (and other Arma players) - fpotyay

Who here will be playing DayZ this afternoon/tonight? I believe I'll be trying to survive with fpot, any other takers?

add me too

http://steamcommunity.com/id/natslovR/

Not sure I can play tonight, but I'll definitely be on Saturday

Will be on later tonight. Expect invite from Mr. Furious

Yea I learned a while ago that you don't help people. The odds are you will get shot in the back.

Um... lol.

Anywhere to pickup cheap keys for combined ops?

Steam? Google?

Steam? It's $30, hardly expensive for an entire game and an entire stand alone expansion.

Had an interesting day of it today.

I joined into a server (after avoiding the game for a few days, in short I got ganked by Zeds and was waiting for some mates to meet me out at Zelenogorsk with some blood transfusion bags) and whilst I'd come back into the server with 12000 blood (w00t I only had 1000ish blood) BUT it put me back on the coast (instead of 'half-way to the military airfield').

So anyway, here I am, crawling into Chernogorsk, scoping out the terrain in front of me.
There's a group of guys who have identified themselves as 'between Cherno and Elektro' and I decided to push on regardless.

On my way into Cherno, I hear gunshots coming only a few hundred metres from me and turn to spot a Bandit, with an assault rifle honing in on the position described by the group of survivors I'd just left.
I moved to intercept and managed to find him exposed on the face of a hillside where he was watching the group for a few minutes, I took aim with my Lee-Enfield, and pulled the trigger, striking him with the first, and killing him with the second shot.

THEN, he just fucking quits, and as such his corpse disappeared too.

/me is so mad.

Nice kill but him quitting did not cause the body to despawn, it's a bug in the current version that has been fixed for the next version.

Patch 1.5.9 changelog (not out at time of this post, but not far off):

Quote:Changelog:

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 5 minutes)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Wrong M107 is spawning on occasion (Correct one spawns)
* [FIXED] Crashed heli uber-loot not spawning (does now thanks to GhostBear!)
* [FIXED] Wire Fencing Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Tank Trap Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Invisible character models occuring
* [NEW] Hatchet for chopping wood in forests
* [NEW] Wire Fencing kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Tank Trap kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Construction options moved to items in gear menu (right click wire fencing kit to use etc...)

1.6.0 just came out. Enjoy..

UPDATE : 27 MAY 2012

Affected addons:
* dayz_code 1.6
* dayz_equip 1.2.5
* dayz_weapons 1.1.2
* dayz 1.2.6
* dayz_sfx 1.1.2

Developer's Note:
* To collect firewood, you can either find it in loot piles, or go into a forest and use the hatchet (gear > Right Click). I will expand this mechanic but its enough for now.
* You get a ONE TIME OFFER to change your player gender!
* Only two types of new skins are available in this update, "Camo" and "Ghillie Suit" in addition to normal survivor
* Skins a player is wearing are NOT lootable.
* When you change skin (right click on clothing package in inventory) your old skin will appear in inventory
* If you want a players skin, you will need to make them take it off first

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 15 minutes)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Loosing gear when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Wrong M107 is spawning on occasion (Correct one spawns)
* [FIXED] Crashed heli uber-loot not spawning (does now thanks to GhostBear!)
* [FIXED] Wire Fencing Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Tank Trap Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Invisible character models occuring (No longer invisible models)
* [FIXED] Panic not being activated (Your character will sometimes panic)
* [FIXED] Blood washout sometimes not being displayed (now will always wash out color depending on blood level)
* [NEW] Hatchet for chopping wood in forests
* [NEW] Wire Fencing kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Tank Trap kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Construction options moved to items in gear menu (right click wire fencing kit to use etc...)
* [NEW] Hospital Loot Spawn probabilities changed
* [NEW] Players can choose to be a female survivor (once only per CD-Key)
* [NEW] Heat packs for increasing temperature in an emergency
* [NEW] Bandit Skin transition for low humanity is removed
* [NEW] Players will receive an error message if the server they are on is running an incorrect HIVE version

Gender change is a one time thing, the dialog when you login. If you don't select yes then you will not have the option to change again.

Knowing that Arma itself does not support female soldiers I'm kinda worried about this.

Really have to try this mod, sounds like it would be a heap of fun with my mates at our LANs. Are there more Australian servers now due to the mod?

There is about 10 Aus/NZ servers but they are very high demand, it makes it problematic (slow) to join them at times. Earlier tonight I loaded it up and all local server were full.

haha did you take all her stuff?

Someone in game chos girl, spawned as achick. Died then spawned as a man from then on. So it seems a little broke.

D-Sub, Do you have steam? A bunch of us Steam-Chat to get easy communication that isn't Side Chat mic working.

Side Chat is great for finding people to .. 'mine' hahah.


'Help me out with a transfusion'
'OK'
'Cherno?'
'Yup'

Meanwhile I'm across the street in the apartments...

also, A Map for newbs Going to try and find a chance during the day to print this on the work printer. hi-res A3 map should come in handy :)

also, A Map for newbs Going to try and find a chance during the day to print this on the work printer. hi-res A3 map should come in handy :)

That is a GOLD idea. I'm gunna do that today..

If anyone asks, I'll just say I'm planning my next trek in the bush..

Add me on trenlen for steam, looking for some peeps to roll with now that I've got some serious swag going on

Installed from stea. ran arma2, ran arma 2 OA.
did Dayz files as per install tutoiral etc. et.c
get to server browser fine, start launching to play, just get booted back to server browser. anyone with any ideas/help?

Ah I did a manual btatleeye of OA in the directory seemed to fix it.
Now... dear god the controls, its building a timemachine to do stuff!

almost every button is used. Are there some redundant commands not used in dayz? for exmaple "commandfire" or something in the controls menu, I'd like ctrl for crouch rather than whatever that is for e.g.

The controls are a bit weird at first, but they do make sense after you use them for a bit.

I just turned my gfx to low or very low, works just the same.

ie. no blur, no fancy shit, just low quality good framerates

The game is survival against other humans. That is the charm of it. Zombies are just there to kill the stupid, to make it so you have to think about shooting in cities and whatnot.

I believe the plan is to slowly add more PvE stuff to make survival much harder. Sickness, temperature have been added and will be expanded upon and I bet my starting Makarov they will increase the speed you get hungry and maybe reduce food availability too.

Killing zombies for the most part takes only 1 shot to the head. Sometimes the server is a bit slow to show their death, but in general if you see blood then you hit them, so give it a couple of seconds. No need to waste precious bullets.

Also the game very much needs you to set your own missions beyond just plain surviving. It is kind of easy to just hide in the bushes and occasionally get beans n water.

Soon they will re-enable vehicles and that will give something more to do. If you are going to survive you may as well do with style.

Also NVG spawn in the game rarely, I plan on getting one of those. Military zones only.

Playing with another friend is SOO much more interesting, you have more options. It is also amusing having to find each other, I love using the online maps trying to get a baring of where you are. It is really satisfying to go from one town to another far away and not get lost.
Sometimes you do get lost when you have to bolt because someone is shooting at you or you agro'd too many zombies and unprepared for it, particularly when you go north into the deep forest. Even more so at night. Night is pretty hardcore to play in, not recommended until you really get a feel for the game. There are a couple of ANZ servers that have 'reverse' time. So our PM is AM in game. It allows us to play daytime during night.

Enjoy.


last edited by Tollaz0r! at 18:42:43 28/May/12

Which setting gets rid of the blur? Would love that gone!

Disable post processing.

Yes, it already is completely disabled, always has been and its still a blur.

Requesting Character Data from server fo rthe last ~5 mins. Is this typical?

last edited by Mephz at 19:03:41 28/May/12

Yes, it already is completely disabled, always has been and its still a blur.

Requesting Character Data from server fo rthe last ~5 mins. Is this typical?last edited by Mephz at 19:03:41 28/May/12

It is on a server that is being hammered.

lolwhat?! I met up with a guy in the airfield tower, then I was just standing there and broke my leg. Guy gives me morphine.. we start heading off then I just magically instantly died 2 minutes later (guy was in front of me and hadn't shot me or anything afaik).
Weird bug/lag?

Never had that.

Yea if you get jammed in a door that can do some damage.

I've had a death by geometry. Sucks, o well, Alpha.
However if you died just running along, you may have been sniped.

From what I understand, server that have been around for a while still have vehicles. New servers, such as most of ANZ if not all, have them disabled.

I've had a death by geometry. Sucks, o well, Alpha.

It's got nothing to do with "alpha" at all.

Your talking about the game engine fucking up. The game engine that has been around for 10+ years. I think they've had more then enough time to fix it.

This whole mod is going to turn into another minecraft where changes and bugfixes never come, even after months and years and despite the mod author being part of the engine project team.

Not because the mod author doesn't address them but because they will be part of engine bugs that will never get fixed.

last edited by BlueMoon at 08:29:37 29/May/12

Well the mod has served its purpose.

It's shown a proof of concept to the world and hopefully some indie team will pick it up and realise that persistent non-mmorpg worlds are a good idea. Especially in the survival FPS genre / horror.

I'll be waiting for that to come around or major advances in the arma engine.

I noticed Arma3 is coming. Is that just a major fork of the arma2 engine with new lighting and day/night? That's all it really looked like.