[DoctorZ]

Is there any reason to go into the middle of the map?

All I keep hearing is "Keep the shore to your right."

I sort of want to just explore around the map, is this a viable option if you go solo? I might need to try and get in a group.

[Krappadizzle]

:( I've tried many US servers, NY1/2/3/4 seem to have the lowest ping for me (100-140). Even in those, the hit from each bullet usually takes a second or so to register.

That's not lag. I promise. That's just the way the mod is right now. It takes about a good second for the zed to go down after they have received the kill shot.

[WedgeX]

If I start one I think it goes to Community after a certain time frame, doesn't it? Streaming!

What we could do is create a seperate Community OT for meet ups and off-topic discussions, thus keeping the main thread filled with impressions, new information, etc. in the gaming side.

[Bulk_Rate]

Well i starved to death for the first time. There should be an achievement for that.

And Sweet Bippy; I had not played in a few days...the new nights are dark dark.

[wolfmat]

Is there any reason to go into the middle of the map? All I keep hearing is "Keep the shore to your right." I sort of want to just explore around the map, is this a viable option if you go solo? I might need to try and get in a group.

You want to be in the middle of the map if you're solo, I think; you won't run into others quite as often that way. Loot is everywhere anyway. Find towns, crouch, walk slowly, get your loot on.

It's also easier to build vehicles without getting lots of attention in the middle of the map. However, you won't find it as easy to find parts there.

When it comes to zombies, I don't think there's much of a difference inland. Towns = zombies. Hunting stands = zombies. Barns = zombies. So be alert at all times. But you won't be able to cheat the AI by going onto piers inland, so that might turn out to be a crucial difference when shit gets bad.

[The English Conquistador]

This fucking game.

When it's good, it's good!

When it's bad...can't see shit, run out of flares, guys you do find end up popping ya, zombies are too fast (I know...I get it, fast ass zombies are fine...but when they're zipping left and right in the jankyness of the arma 2 engine, it's fucking ridiculous.

Ugh, loving/hating this mod at the moment.

[Enduin]

Spent the last hour or so stock piling a tent, which are server locked. I've got it chock full of bandages, food, water, Winchests, 1911s, ammo. Extra maps, watches, compasses, knives and binoculars. I doubt anyone will find it, but if they do theyll have hit a goldmine, but I have everything Ill need for a while on me.

I've become a master of avoiding Zombies. Its hardly even stressful anymore, especially if 3rd person is available then its not even remotely hard to sneak through an area. Even in the daylight you can crawl nearly 10-15 feet near a Zombie and not be noticed.

[Krappadizzle]

Streaming with GAFhttp://www.justin.tv/krappadizzle

[TheNiX]

http://www.justin.tv/nixel - Me too! Brightness!

[diddles]

this vid is cracking me up

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

i swear that's gotta be the real arnold playing

[The English Conquistador]

this vid is cracking me up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgKIeKavdkI i swear that's gotta be the real arnold playing

No..way...

[xxracerxx]

Sounds more like Lou Ferrigno to me.

[The_Player]

Another awesome interview with Rocket. Dog companions incoming!

[DTKT]

Another awesome interview with Rocket. Dogs companions incoming!

wtf

30k polys for a tin can.

:|

[shagg_187]

Dog companions, eh? Would that mean feeding the dog as well? What if the dog is not fed for a while and it chews on a dead. Would be nice to see it become a zombie! :P

[MickeyKnox]

Another awesome interview with Rocket. Dog companions incoming!

NeoGAF gets a mention.

[shagg_187]

NeoGAF gets a mention.

Yep. Good to see the love coming our way.

[The_Player]

Yep. Good to see the love coming our way.

[Cramoss]

Another awesome interview with Rocket. Dog companions incoming!

Good interview!

[J-Rock]

Another awesome interview with Rocket. Dog companions incoming!

Hell yes to Dogs! Just give me a Mad Max skin and I'm set.

[Extollere]

Go to Stary. Get loot. Get shot :(

It was fun while it lasted though.

I spawned near Cherno. Restocked fully with a loaded AKS and 1911. Bag full of everything. Dark as shit still. Climbed to the top of a tower slowly. So dark, I couldn't see shit. I get to the top and the room is literally pitch black. Okay. I'm gonna slowly light this chemlight and just take a look and see where I am and what's in this room, then extinguish it. I light it up and two bandits with a sniper rifle and some kind of silenced gun are staring me in the face. I die instantly. Gave me a heart attack.

[CzarTim]

This new patch killed the game for me until the number of zombies is brought down. The game definitely needed more, but this is overboard.

Also, need more servers in the US that are daytime at night.

[DTKT]

This new patch killed the game for me until the number of zombies is brought down. The game definitely needed more, but this is overboard. Also, need more servers in the US that are daytime at night.

Rocket said that he would fix the zombies spawning. And yeah, there needs to some kind of incentive for playing at night. Its a real big challenge when you are alone.

[CrazedProfessional]

In Australia this game is called Day Zzz,

Because by the time you get into a server, you'll be in bed!

[The_Player]

Rocket said that he would fix the zombies spawning. And yeah, there needs to some kind of incentive for playing at night. Its a real big challenge when you are alone.

Actually, he said that this many zeds was a bug, not a feature. And he's not yet sure if he should fix it or not, since there are enough contradictory statements on the subject.

This new patch killed the game for me until the number of zombies is brought down. The game definitely needed more, but this is overboard.

Looks like you lack of one of the requirements to play the game:

ArmA II: CO DayZ Mod Files (Available on the downloads page) Balls

[Dmax3901]

So I should have this all ready to play shortly, what are Australian Gaffers doing in terms of servers and groups etc?

[CrazedProfessional]

There's only 3 Australian servers and they're all full 24/7

[HotHamWater]

Goddamn Killroy videos are the greatest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOOsTCAPp8

[Cannon Goose]

I have had a very hard time getting into any Australian servers. Almost always full and when I do get in the server usually goes down and boots everyone.

[BioHazard]

this vid is cracking me up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgKIeKavdkI i swear that's gotta be the real arnold playing

GET UP YOU PUSSY

DON'T DIE ON ME NOW

[Hawkian]

Holy.... shit.

[Lonestar]

this vid is cracking me up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgKIeKavdkI i swear that's gotta be the real arnold playing

:lol that's great. Maybe it's his regular voice, or it's close enough that the Arnold voice is easy for him. But what makes it great, is it's not an impersonation of Young Arnold. It's old Arnold.

"STOP WHIIINING"

[CrazedProfessional]

petition for ausgaf server.

[DTKT]

Goddamn Killroy videos are the greatest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOOsTCAPp8

That was amazing.

[INDIGO_CYCLOPS]

That has GOT TO BE Schwarz...

[demolitio]

There's only one way to find out if that's really Arnold. Let's join their server, repair a helicopter, and then land it in front of him and see what he says. The real Arnold wouldn't be able to resist...

[Longshot]

GET UP YOU PUSSY DON'T DIE ON ME NOW

"You shoot me I'll crush you!"

I think he knows he sounds like Arnie, lol.

[Gen X]

wtf 30k polys for a tin can. :|

Lol. If you'd asked me to guess how many were in a can, I would've said 100 polys tops. THe textures make them look like lo-poly models.

*Edit*

Just finished reading that review linked above. This is one of my favorite snippets from all of it...

Even as I’m sitting here now I can see that email box ticking up with people offering me support, and very skilled people as well. People coming from inside the industry saying that they may be a bit jaded by things as well and they want to see this emergent gameplay style grow out as well. That was really surprising. The amount of people who want to get involved and play something with all the rubbish of the industry removed from it.

[diddles]

"You shoot me I'll crush you!" I think he knows he sounds like Arnie, lol.

"Are you okay?"

"I broke my bones."

that got me laughing

[Steeven]

Here's another great CHKilroy video. This isn't strictly Arma-related but it is a multiplayer, roleplaying military game and CHKilroy is hilarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6c4CP_YN3Q

I'm crying with laughter here. Amazingly funny.

[Foliorum Viridum]

Salacious Crumbs, Gen X and I go on an adventure with a stranger: it ends in a slaughter.

So Crumbs and I were on an adventure when Gen X joins the server. As stand up guys, we tell him to come join us. We decide to meet up at Mogilevka and started off on our journey. That's where the video starts.

Immediately we see some random guy running into a building in the distance. I let him know we're friendly but he doesn't respond. Slowly we make our way up to where he was because we were low on supplies and needed loot anyway. The town was absolutely SWARMING with zombies so we did our best to avoid them. A few see us and attack us, but nothing too bad.

As we make our way further through that building we notice he's taken cover at the end and has us in his sights. He didn't shoot, so we assumed he was friendly and I made sure he knew we were in the chat again. I stupidly got attacked trying to get loot, but we meet up with him in the barn with no shots fired and recruit him.

Then it all went to shit. Pretty much every zombie in the town SWARMS on us, and we take them down best we can. A few sneaky zombies hit Crumbs and myself through the goddamn wall. We take them down and move on to a house to loot it. We find some good shit but we get attacked by another horde, which means I have to heal Crumbs before we leg it out of town.

We got for a bit of a walk and end up on a road. There's a few zombies there so Gen X and I take a few shots and before we know it we're overran. I go down and have to heal myself and as I get back to my feet there's just a constant stream of undead running down the road. Cue a lot of violence.

After all the zombies are dead Gen X was pissed because he dropped his water bottle and didn't know where it was. We looked for it but couldn't find it and Crumbs told him to go over to a dead zombie which had one on him. I follow him over.

SWWWWWWWWWWBAMMMMMM.

Gen X goes down. We don't know what the FUCK just happened. I take cover and ask Crumbs if he knows where it came from. He says it was the random guy with us and I agree he must have turned on us for some reason. I go out of cover and put a shot in him. As I pop back in cover Crumbs puts a bullet in his head to finish him off.

"Thank fuck, the dick" I said in Mumble as I ran over to loot his corpse, feeling pretty victorious.

SWWWWWWWWWWBAMMMMMM.

Dead. At first, shock. Secondly, anger I lost all my shit. Then it hits me: we just killed this poor fucking guy who was with us for no good reason AT ALL. I apologise in the chat as Crumbs manages to quickly kill the guy who took Gen X and I out.

It was such a beautiful moment all round. We formed a bond with this guy and the second things went to shit our paranoia took over and we turned against him. Thankfully he wasn't really pissed and was probably just as confused as us.

BONUS: Keep watching after I die to see how Crumbs attracts a horde and I decide to fuck him over.

I've had some damn good adventures in this game but I think this might have been my favourite so far. More zombies kill the ability to explore by yourself, but christ it makes a tense team activity. This story shows that it's the human element that is the true gem of this game, however.

[AkIRA_22]

Hell yes to Dogs! Just give me a Mad Max skin and I'm set.

Auto.... Gyro..... BOOM!

[wolfmat]

A dude said on the chat that he needed blood north of Balota; I was in the woods nearby, so I found a cow and a boar, tracked the guy down (he was fainting over and over again), got him to the dead animals, let him gut them, I made a fire, he cooked his food, we exchanged a few words and parted ways again. Shit like that is why I like playing the game. You just meet guys, hang out, fight zombies. The bandits beef doesn't even phase me.

To be honest, once you got used to the setting, it's little more than an elaborate chatroom.

[Gen X]

Salacious Crumbs, Gen X and I go on an adventure with a stranger: it ends in a slaughter. It was such a beautiful moment all round. We formed a bond with this guy and the second things went to shit our paranoia took over and we turned against him. Thankfully he wasn't really pissed and was probably just as confused as us.

:lol This is what Rocket was talking about in the interview, that emmotional feeling after you kill someone. Why did you not trust him, what benefits do you get out of killing a survivor etc etc?

I'm going to be hopping on soon for a massive session and will be in Mumble if anyone want's to meet up and go on an adventure.

[MickeyKnox]

Great session with the late-night GAFz crew, ended with a massive fire fight and a betrayal by Slope, who I believe has earned a standing KILL ON SIGHT order for leaving his team behind when the shit hit the fan only to reconnect after we pulled off the Zed genocide.

[OatmealMu]

Most people might think these things would be your worst enemy. Those people would be wrong.

[AkIRA_22]

I have had a very hard time getting into any Australian servers. Almost always full and when I do get in the server usually goes down and boots everyone.

Yeah it's arse at the moment. Hopefully AUSARMA can sort out a few more servers.

[Jim E. Rossler]

Great session with the late-night GAFz crew, ended with a massive fire fight and a betrayal by Slope, who I believe has earned a standing KILL ON SIGHT order for leaving his team behind when the shit hit the fan only to reconnect after we pulled off the Zed genocide.

I warned you bro, I said we should aggro the horde then disconnect
But you had to go waste what little ammo you had shooting zombies for no reason
Then I come back in and try to congratulate you and give high fives and you FUCKING TRY TO ROB ME
It's ok though, I forgive you

[Foliorum Viridum]

They were right. Disconnecting like that is so lame.

[MickeyKnox]

I warned you bro, I said we should aggro the horde then disconnect But you had to go waste what little ammo you had shooting zombies for no reason Then I come back in and try to congratulate you and give high fives and you FUCKING TRY TO ROB ME It's ok though, I forgive you

Do you want to live forever?