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DayZ - zombie apocalypse online FFA permadeath survival Arma II mod

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EdibleExplosives

Member
Sh1ner said:
Arma2 + Combined Ops downloaded through SPRocket.

Hey guys, need some help:
Downloaded Arma2, installed path to: F:\Games\ArmA2
Downloaded AO, installed, same path, I see files such as in arma2OA in ArmA2 container.
Downloaded all bits of Dayz and installed to: F:\Games\ArmA2\@dayz\Addons
including old folder (under Addons) which I believe it not required.

Used the spirit launcher to load @Dayz and combined Ops. Comes up correctly as expansion.

Tried to join any DayZ server. Recieve "connecting failed" error. No more info. Any help?
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That's the exact same error I'm getting, and all I could find were people saying you had to forward ports.
 
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Darknight

Member
any live streams??? hope Criken comes back for another night release. That was epic they were being hunted in the woods at around 12am-2am EST...LOL.
 
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OrangeYouGlad

Banned
CoolS said:
I know, but how am I supposed to find anything if I can't see anything? I don't get it :D
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I found night to be much more fun for me. Not sure why everyone hates it.

Without turning your brightness/contrast up, just attune yourself to the dark, take it slow and constantly stop to take a look around. When searching through towns and shacks, just look down while you move. Almost every barn, shack or house that you can enter has items in it.

The best piece of advice I can give you is this: Never assume someone saw you in the dark. I had a bandit try to flare me out, so I hid against the side of a house that was shaded from the moonlight. I watched him look around at me, even look in my direction, but wasn't able to find me.

Also, Zombies have shit for eyesight. If someone else is being chased by zombies in the night and you can't help, seek darkness and crouch or go prone. I've had them run by 3 feet in front of me without any issues.


Darknight said:
any live streams??? hope Criken comes back for another night release. That was epic they were being hunted in the woods at around 12am-2am EST...LOL.
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I plan to play with a gaffer tonight. I'll try to live stream it.
 
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Orgun

Member
I HAVE A MAP! AND A COMPASS! AAAAANNND A MOTHERFUCkeR WATCH! I AM THE LORD OF DAYZ! BOW BEFORE ME...shit im dead.
 
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PrematureQuiche

Member
I have been playing for the last 4 hours trying to meet up with Orgun with no progress haha. met one other human player and he seemed to always be pointing his gun at me so I thought it was me or him and used my last 4 bullets on him :/ he seemed upset in chat.
 
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EdibleExplosives

Member
Sh1ner said:
well FUCK... fuckity FUCK, FUCK IT ALL!!! god damn router won't let me back in. :'(
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I've got a feeling that might not be what's wrong though, because I can connect to ARMA2 servers fine, it's just OA servers I have a problem with. If it is, I'm basically fucked since my router is awful for stuff like forwarding ports, it doesn't let you do anything.
Is your game updated to the latest version?
 
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Sh1ner

Member
EdibleExplosives said:
I've got a feeling that might not be what's wrong though, because I can connect to ARMA2 servers fine, it's just OA servers I have a problem with. If it is, I'm basically fucked since my router is awful for stuff like forwarding ports, it doesn't let you do anything.
Is your game updated to the latest version?
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Got in, added the 3 UDP ports to my PC. Still connection failed. I agree with your assessment. Will try and load OA and join a server.
 
oxrock

oxrock

Gravity is a myth, the Earth SUCKS!
Finally get into a server and now I've been "waiting for server response" for 10+ minutes. I know it's a mod and I shouldn't be whining but I want to play dammit! ><
 
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Sh1ner

Member
So self troubleshooting guide:
So I can connect to certain servers.
Confirmed can connect to Arma2 servers no problem.
Can connect to some OA servers in the list. When doing a search most have Xs next to the server name. :|
 
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spindoctor

Member
Sh1ner said:
So self troubleshooting guide:
So I can connect to certain servers.
Confirmed can connect to Arma2 servers no problem.
Can connect to some OA servers in the list. When doing a search most have Xs next to the server name. :|
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The X next to the server name means you're not running the version of the client required by the server.
 
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Tain

Member
Sh1ner said:
Arma2 + Combined Ops downloaded through SPRocket.

Hey guys, need some help:
Downloaded Arma2, installed path to: F:\Games\ArmA2
Downloaded AO, installed, same path, I see files such as in arma2OA in ArmA2 container.
Downloaded all bits of Dayz and installed to: F:\Games\ArmA2\@dayz\Addons
including old folder (under Addons) which I believe it not required.

Used the spirit launcher to load @Dayz and combined Ops. Comes up correctly as expansion.

Tried to join any DayZ server. Recieve "connecting failed" error. No more info. Any help?
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Did you try manually patching AO to the latest (1.6ish) version?
 
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Labombadog

Member
Freakinchair said:
Had the most insane session last night playing with 3 other buddies over mumble.

The night started off with all three of us eventually dying outside Elektro - overrun by zombies while trying to fill our water bottles at a nearby shore. After respawning in different parts of the world we decided to meet in Bor (or as we like to call it, Bor bot). At around this time a fourth member of our team finally installed the mod, determined to find us, but was still figuring out the controls and getting killed in the process. So there we were, myself, fromthefuture, tomat and conceptor all trying to get to Bor in the middle of the night with nothing to guide us but the moonlight and a rough idea of where we started. I started on the southern end of Elektro - a coastal town on the southeast corner of the map - widely known for its rampant bandit population. I don't think I've been more tense than when I snuck through that town trying to avoid both zombies and gunfire. Eventually I made it to the outskirts only down two bullets and up two dead zombies, a few bandages and 3 cans of coke thanks to a mercifully deserted warehouse that I stumbled upon. I ran into the woods and never looked back heading in a direction I hoped to be west.

Fromthefuture and Tomat spawned in southwest corner of the map at a town called Kamenka. Fromthefuture (henceforth known as FtF) ran into another player, identified as a survivor, called Deemon. With safety in numbers the three of them scrounged what they could in Kamenka finding a lot of supplies such as food, water and flares. While looting the city they killed more than a dozen zombies with each bullet often attracting more and more. Deemon seemed to relish in killing them - often opening fire on them even when they weren't a current threat. He then began to throw flares to light up the city in an attempt to find more zombies, possibly attracting bandits to their location. Ammo counts were dwindling and it seemed as though Deemon had lost his mind. He had become a liability and Tomat made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life - he shot Deemon in the head. On impulse Tomat hid the body not realizing that this makes the corpse unlootable. Whether he did this out of guilt or fear we may never know - but we do know that his response to the act was "sorry". And so our two fearless members headed north-northeast to Bor.

After what seemed like an eternity I came out of the woods at a crossroads with a road sign. Excited at the prospect of not actually being completely lost I looked at the sign - 1 kilometer east to Bor. I had made it and I could only hope my friends would do the same. I waited for them at the highest point just west of Bor and stayed prone near the road concealing myself from any wayward bandits. It was then I also realized that I was starving and had no food. Being reassured that my friends had food and were on their way I had no choice but to wait and hope they find me. About 5 minutes later I heard a gunshot from behind my vantage point. Confident in my hiding spot I did not move and a few moments later two people ran right past me out onto the open road. Upon identification a wash of relief flooded over me - I had found my friends.

The three of us then proceeded into Bor and upon finding nothing of value we ventured north upon a dirt path aiming to get to the airfield in hopes of finding weapons or a vehicle. After exploring another village with nothing to gain we came upon a small electrical station with a shed and radio tower at the top of an incline. Tomat proceeded to scout ahead while we waited by the path. Suddenly we heard gunfire and screams... zombie screams. A horde of zombies rushed us at once; There must have been at least a dozen of them. Attempts to connect with Tomat were met in failure as we defended ourselves. I could only assume he was already dead. With only 4 bullets left between myself and FtF and both of us low on blood we finally finished off the last of the horde and moved up to the shed dreading what we would find. In a strange turn of events we found about 5-6 zombies trapped at the top of the radio tower and, upon further inspection, the corpses of about 3 zombies and Tomat at the bottom of the tower. It turns out after expending the rest of his ammo Tomat climbed the tower in hopes of luring the rest of the zombies after him and then jumping off. He hoped they would follow his leap off the tower to add their deaths to his own. We mourned his loss and were sure that we would soon follow him to the afterlife.

We continued north (or what we assumed to be north) towards the airstrip only to run into more trouble. Ambushed once again by zombies we used our last bullets and ran. Following a main road we arrived at a military base where FtF came up with the plan that he would lure the zombies around while I scrounged for a weapon. I sprinted into the first building I could and ran up its winding staircase. At the very top I found exactly what I needed, an AK-47. It wasn't until after I looted it that I realized that it had no ammo and that some of the zombies had come after me. I made a hasty retreat down a ladder that went from the roof to the ground level and searched the nearby warehouses. Nothing, absolutely nothing. Running back out to the open area in front of the military base I saw that FtF was slowing down. During his kiting he had been hit and was slowly bleeding to death. I made a desperate move and attempted to lure the zombies off him so he could bandage himself. This was a mistake as I only succeeded in training a few of the zombies on my own person and the rest on FtF. We were both going to die. I proceeded to run down the main road in hopes of finding help and after about a minute my friend proclaimed that he had passed out and that the zombies were eating him. Shedding a single tear I ran on down the road - completely lost and alone in the world with the exception of a few zombies nipping at my heels. I'm not sure how long I ran down that road but it felt like an eternity. My only salvation would be an open building with usable ammo inside and I wasn't sure the zombies would give me a chance to reload my weapon even if my luck would stretch that far. Ahead I finally spotted my first building, a gas station. With renewed resolve I sprinted forward aiming straight for the open building at the back of the station. Just as I turned past the fuel tanks and aimed for the doorway to the building I saw a man staring right back at me. I had found Conceptor.
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Great story! I can't wait to start playing. Btw I joined the GAF Steam group for this game.
 
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Sh1ner

Member
Tain said:
Did you try manually patching AO to the latest (1.6ish) version?
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You make a valid point the downloads did not download AO to 1.6. The latest patch in the folder is OA_setup_1_5906.bin I assume.

I just downloaded this direct from the devs, I expected the latest patch to be included. :|
edit:
Downloading the 700mb patch just to be on the safe side:
ARMA 2: Combined Operations / Operation Arrowhead / Reinforcements Patch 1.60
http://www.arma2.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=20
 
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NIN90

Member
Putting "dayz" into the search bar on Twitter reinforced my assumption that people are idiots on the internet. Including the gem about a girl giving "bj's 4 dayz" [sic]
 
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Orgun

Member
All that stuff I got btw, I got from two bandits and at the airfield :) AK74, Winchester rifle and a huge backpack.

FElt gooooood gunning those bandits down.
 
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WedgeX

Banned
Problem connecting: I connect, click ok, and it loads. Then as soon as its done loading, I am back to the server listings. Thoughts?
 
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MNC

Member
I just hope the concept will stay alive long enough to stay interesting. Once in a while it should throw every server to a completely new map, unbeknownst to every player. The survival and exploration part needs to stay key. Keeping the map the same, I fear after lots of hours this might die out.
 
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Gowans

Member
Man should I be staring at this black screen with chat saying Server Responded, creating character for this long?

EDIT: I hit exit and then respawn and now I have to make a new player, whoops!
 
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Mafro

Member
Spent ages waiting to get into an EU server and when I finally do, the jackass admin decides to kill everyone and I lost all of fucking stuff I spent hours scavenging.
 
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EdibleExplosives

Member
Welp, got past one error to find another. It'll let me join servers now (I think) but when trying to join a dayz server I get the following error message:

"You cannot play/edit this mission; it is dependent on downloadable content that has been deleted.dayz_code, dayz_weapons, dayz_equip, dayz_vehicles".

Anyone got any idea what's wrong? I'm assuming I've installed the mod wrong and it's not a problem with the game anymore.
 
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Orgun

Member
Mafro said:
Spent ages waiting to get into an EU server and when I finally do, the jackass admin decides to kill everyone and I lost all of fucking stuff I spent hours scavenging.
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Just happened on the RU server too!

edit: Cost me my:

Hunting Knife
Compass
Watch
Map
AK74
Winchester
Binoculars
Revolver
Matches
Big ass bag
Meds
Smoke grenades

:(
 
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