[Gen X]

Whats your steam?

Same as my Gaf name. =)

At work, considering taking a half day to go play MORE :)

I work the graveyard and my shift starts in 1.5hrs. Have been resisting the temptation all afternoon to throw a sicky so I can play this. Work is going to go slow tonite, but on the upside, I'm home when the internet is at its quietest.

[Teknoman]

Damn Steam, why u no sale?

[SparkTR]

no one playing right now?

Too many people are playing right now, can't get into a damn server ):

[Conceptor]

So many crazy stories. One from our last playthrough -

Found a bandit den filled with bandit bodies in Cherno - pillaged their remains for some sweet ass gear, including a shotgun with an under-barrel flashlight. Came in super handy when we ran out of flares to signal our location to a friend and I turned my character into a spinning beacon of bright light. Game is so goood

One day, DayZ bros, one day -

[Cannon Goose]

Sometimes the most interesting sessions feature no other human players. I started near a factory and did my best to explore without alerting any zombies to my location, creeping around and keeping my distance. Near what looked like a train station I found my first new weapon: A winchester rifle and 15 rounds of ammo! I felt like a god! Then I went inside the station and found a pair of binoculars! These were my first real supplies apart from food and drink that I had ever found.

So I creep around the station and factory area a bit more, holding my rifle with confidence the whole time. Suddenly I realise I'm about 10 metres from a zombie and he goes nuts, so I run up a ladder (big mistake) and am now stranded on this scaffolding as about a dozen zombies go crazy underneath me. I wait a while to see if any other players come along but no one does, so I attract them down to one side of the scaffolding and then quickly race to the opposite side's ladder and climb down. Then I ran maybe about three or four miles, picking up more zombies as I went through a small town.

Finally I see an electrical yard and I race towards it, praying that there is something I can climb up or a place I can bottleneck the zombies so I can take them out. I find a two metre high ladder that leaves me on top of a big ol' fuel tank, and I take a hit while climbing. So that leaves me here:


Luckily the zombies are really stupid and can't operate ladders (but they've figured out how to teleport through doors!) so I headshot about 15 of them with my Makarov and the heat dies down.

Now I'm holed up in another small town a few miles away from the electrical yard, smoked a few more zombies from my second story hideout, and I found a jerry can!

This game keeps getting better and better.

[Arucardo]

Awesome, turned out that today's classes were canceled so I can play some more today before heading back to school for Wed and Thursday.

I'll fire up the game and mumble in a bit if there's others looking to group up.

[ColeTheMole]

Story time.

Finished my early dawn Stary Sobor gear run and backtracked south to cover my retreat from this hostile area since i had to kill a fellow traveler in the dark. Looked like a bandit from behind, one flash in the dark and i was a murderer again lol :(

Bit southeast i found a dead bandit inside a remote barn. Seemed a bit odd since he had his valuables still with him. I was very surprised he had blood bags among other things so that was like a jackpot since i didn't feel like traveling to hotspots just for extra. No fancy weapons, just winchester, uzi~ ... I asked in chat what happened but since there were only dozen players online i didn't get any answers.

Barn was on my route to east so i kept going, then i saw a tent just uphill from the barn!
Must have been storage for him, somehow he died at that barn, no zombies around so what happened there :/ Tent was bursting with gear, M16, M4, lots of ammo for military weapons, 5 blood bags.

I didn't figure how to pick a tent from the ground so i just took what ever i needed and moved to darkness.

all survival gear within 15minutes, feels good.

[Arucardo]

During out GAF group adventures last night when we raided the military camp at stary sobor I lost 6 mags for the m16 when I switched to another M16 that uses the same ammo, screwed me over pretty bad. I'll have to go sneaking around to try find some ammo or a different weapon, don't have enough ammo to kill even one zombie right now.

[Orgun]

Sometimes the most interesting sessions feature no other human players. I started near a factory and did my best to explore without alerting any zombies to my location, creeping around and keeping my distance. Near what looked like a train station I found my first new weapon: A winchester rifle and 15 rounds of ammo! I felt like a god! Then I went inside the station and found a pair of binoculars! These were my first real supplies apart from food and drink that I had ever found. So I creep around the station and factory area a bit more, holding my rifle with confidence the whole time. Suddenly I realise I'm about 10 metres from a zombie and he goes nuts, so I run up a ladder (big mistake) and am now stranded on this scaffolding as about a dozen zombies go crazy underneath me. I wait a while to see if any other players come along but no one does, so I attract them down to one side of the scaffolding and then quickly race to the opposite side's ladder and climb down. Then I ran maybe about three or four miles, picking up more zombies as I went through a small town. Finally I see an electrical yard and I race towards it, praying that there is something I can climb up or a place I can bottleneck the zombies so I can take them out. I find a two metre high ladder that leaves me on top of a big ol' fuel tank, and I take a hit while climbing. So that leaves me here: [img]http://i.minus.com/iqOQ3Fv8J0YSf.jpg Luckily the zombies are really stupid and can't operate ladders (but they've figured out how to teleport through doors!) so I headshot about 15 of them with my Makarov and the heat dies down. Now I'm holed up in another small town a few miles away from the electrical yard, smoked a few more zombies from my second story hideout, and I found a jerry can! This game keeps getting better and better.

Hahaha I've been stuck in that save situation, fired off a Lee Enfield and got swamped on one of those fuel tanks. Ended up jumping off and running up a nearby hill towards a friendly who tried to help. I ended up dieing while climbing a ladder and then the zeds started chasing him.

[IMACOMPUTA]

So many crazy stories. One from our last playthrough - Found a bandit den filled with bandit bodies in Cherno - pillaged their remains for some sweet ass gear, including a shotgun with an under-barrel flashlight. Came in super handy when we ran out of flares to signal our location to a friend and I turned my character into a spinning beacon of bright light. Game is so goood One day, DayZ bros, one day -

How do you sit like that!?

[Arucardo]

How do you sit like that!?

There's a key bind for it in controls, I forget what the default is since I changed it.

[IMACOMPUTA]

There's a key bind for it in controls, I forget what the default is since I changed it.

Ah, i'll look for it.

We should play together sometime!

[Label]

How do you sit like that!?

Z = Prone
X = Crouch
C = stand-up

[Arucardo]

Ah, i'll look for it. We should play together sometime!

Yeah, good thing is EU servers seem to be playable for US people and vice versa, Rygar 8 Bit wasn't having any more connection issues than we were, haha.

Be sure to join the steam community too: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/NeoGAFDayZ

[ksimm]

Hahaha I've been stuck in that save situation, fired off a Lee Enfield and got swamped on one of those fuel tanks. Ended up jumping off and running up a nearby hill towards a friendly who tried to help. I ended up dieing while climbing a ladder and then the zeds started chasing him.

Heh, it was one of those fuel tanks where I saved a dude from a load of zombies, then we both got chased to skalisty island.

[paperboywriter]

ìs there a quick/easy way to form a group without running miles and miles to a certain destination? is it possible for 2 or more players to spawn at the same location?

[Arucardo]

Holy shit, Arma II Combined Operations is now the third best selling game on Steam, crazy!

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It's worth going through the basic training in ARMA II's single player. It tells you the basic controls, you get a bit of practice, etc.

[Gowans]

Anyone else want to see if they can track down the process or people to speak to about setting up a open/private server for GAF.

Once we know how I'm sure we can follow it up with implementation super quickly.


The way this is growing the server issue is going to be getting worse and worse and it's already a nightmare now.

[MasLegio]

Arma 2 Combined Ops is now the third bestselling game on Steam

[Gowans]

Arma 2 Combined Ops is now the third bestselling game on Steam

I think that deserves it's own thread, wow!

Edit Done: DayZ Free Zombie Mod Rockets ARMA II Sales to 3rd in Top Sellers on Steam

[J-Rock]

Holy shit, Arma II Combined Operations is now the third best selling game on Steam, crazy!

Can't be said enough, polish the fuck out of it and make it a full retail game. It deserves to be it's own franchise.

[Santar]

Would be very nice if they'd allow people to host their own servers in this.
Then I'd be willing to give it a shot, sounds fun just exploring a huge world with randomized loot. Not a fan of being restricted to other peoples servers though. Not a huge mp player.

[ksimm]

Holy shit, Arma II Combined Operations is now the third best selling game on Steam, crazy!

See developers, supporting your fans by allowing mods can make your base game cash.

[Arucardo]

See developers, supporting your fans by allowing mods can make your base game cash.

Indeed, DICE needs to take a good hard look at this, there's no way that making mod tools for Frostbite 2 wouldn't increase sales down the road.

[Gowans]

Would be very nice if they'd allow people to host their own servers in this. Then I'd be willing to give it a shot, sounds fun just exploring a huge world with randomized loot. Not a fan of being restricted to other peoples servers though. Not a huge mp player.

Trying to get info in their forums: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1301

[Arucardo]

Trying to get info in their forums: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1301

There are few threads here offering hosting services:
http://dayzmod.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=14

[Sordid]

Yep, a GAF server would be awesome. I luckily got into the servers pretty quickly last night but I've heard of folk trying for ages with no luck.

[Arucardo]

Yep, a GAF server would be awesome. I luckily got into the servers pretty quickly last night but I've heard of folk trying for ages with no luck.

Yeah, at one point we were rolling around on the side of the road for about 30-40 minutes waiting for the rest of the GAF group to get back in when the server crashed.

[Gowans]

There are few threads here offering hosting services: http://dayzmod.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=14

How did I miss the server forum???


Anyone want to pick this up and move forward with it?
And anyone want to manage server donations for hosting fees?

[StoppedInTracks]

Damn @ 3rd Steam best-sellers place. This is gaining pretty quickly. I wonder if Bohemia won't oversleep this success.

[ksimm]

Damn @ 3rd Steam best-sellers place. This is gaining pretty quickly. I wonder if Bohemia won't oversleep this success.

There are 3 Zombie games in the top 10... Braaaaains! We're clearly just a world of zombie lovers.

[paperboywriter]

ìs there a quick/easy way to form a group without running miles and miles to a certain destination? is it possible for 2 or more players to spawn at the same location?

sry for bump, but anyone?

[Arucardo]

sry for bump, but anyone?

That's a part of the charm, figuring out where you are and where to meet up with others. We spent a good few hours getting the group together yesterday.

If you spawn as a new character the game will briefly display where you are at the bottom right, but sometimes it might just say wilderness. There's a fairly good map you can open up in the steam browser I posted here a page or two back if you haven't found a map in game yet.

[Gowans]

Man we are desperate for a update OP for the answers to all of this plus the handy links like that map and key bindings etc.

Sure we could create one and get a Mod to inject it in.

[PantyPhantom]

I bought ArmA 2 CO for this.

This game is awesome.

Oh yeeaaahh.

[Spat_triate]

I ran up to a guy and shot him in the head with gun after saying i was friendly. I took his ALICE bag and his rifle and headed to the closest tower. I threw flares around me and began searching for curious people. If people approached me I would shoot them. Got about 9 people killed when I noticed someone below looting my victims. I shot one bullet which missed and he ran behind a wall saying "I'm friendly" at least 20 times and even yelled out on his mic. I responded to him saying he could come up and join me. We killed many people for a good hour and we took turns going down to loot and scavenge for items. Until it was time for me to sleep, I told him it was good playing together and he had a sick aim. I was ready to disconnect from the server after I gave him a salute, but I stopped for a second and went back into the game. He was already down on the floor, prone and looking for others. I grabbed my revolver and shot him 3 times in the head, leaving the loot there. Had good dreams that night.

One of my favorite stories from the DayZ forums. No honor among bandits.

[Slair]

Would you guys forsake the gaf mumble if the ingame comms worked properly and they included long and short range radios to find? Or does this create a layer that might ruin some peoples time trying to get into groups?

[StoppedInTracks]

One of my favorite stories from the DayZ forums. No honor among bandits.

...

That guy is gonna get killed one day by a sniper. I hope.

[Sandldan]

Have yet to try this mod out, but will definitely do it soon with some friends, looks ridiculously awesome.

Would be nice with a full version of it, where I'd like the user limit and world to be a lot bigger with features like 'seasons' would be pretty cool. As in you only get one life every season with some new twists thrown into every run, a bit combined with Battle Royale. Really intrigued with all the possibilities you could have with player interactions at this level.

[Sikamikanico]

Spent most of my morning reading every post on this thread...

I'll be downloading this tonight. Sounds so fucking intense! :)

[Orgun]

Would you guys forsake the gaf mumble if the ingame comms worked properly and they included long and short range radios to find? Or does this create a layer that might ruin some peoples time trying to get into groups?

Yes, in a heartbeat.

I might use mumble/steamchat to get bearings with people and decide where to meet up though.

[Arucardo]

Yes, in a heartbeat. I might use mumble/steamchat to get bearings with people and decide where to meet up though.

Ingame voice chat should have directional audio/voice chat so that would be awesome, would make keeping the group together in the middle of a pitch black forest slightly easier.

[nekosaur]

Would you guys forsake the gaf mumble if the ingame comms worked properly and they included long and short range radios to find? Or does this create a layer that might ruin some peoples time trying to get into groups?

Yup. Greater immersion for sure. Especially if as you mentioned you needed to find radios to do any kind of long range communication.

I would also like the option to turn off chat messages.

[legacyzero]

Poor Joel

BAHAHA!! Dude had it coming. For his sins and all that.

[MickeyKnox]

And so the tale of Mickey Knox the VI's of his name comes to a close.

His journey began on the ship yards of Elektrozavadosk, he crawled, ran and fought his way across miles of bad road through cities and villages, acres of forests and grass lands, climbed mountains, he watched the sun rise, set and rise again, battered by the rain, hidden by the fog.

He died alone in a field, finally succumbing to his wounds.

[The_Squirrel_Menace]

The game is already tense. But when its pitch black at night, raining with thunder & lightning... I had goosebumps.

[Sh1ner]

Yup. Greater immersion for sure. Especially if as you mentioned you needed to find radios to do any kind of long range communication. I would also like the option to turn off chat messages.

i think they need to limit chat messages by range as well. I rather not know of a massive duke out on the other side of the map and the chat messages involved when I am in some quiet village sneaking about as it has no relevance. Maybe limiting to 10km or something.

[Arucardo]

Oh snap, one of our survivor buddies sent me this on steam:

If/when the mod gets ported to Arma 3 it's going to need a higher player limit.

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Oh snap, one of our survivor buddies sent me this on steam: If/when the mod gets ported to Arma 3 it's going to need a higher player limit.

oh jesus the map is big enough as it is lol