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DayZ - zombie apocalypse online FFA permadeath survival Arma II mod
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Schobeleth
Member
This sounds like my dream game. I want it now. I want to revel in this type of experience FOREVERRR
Basically it gets stuck at the end for me every time, but if you press space a few times with the "Ok" button selected it should join the game.
cr_blah_blah
Member
Sometimes it's quick but others it takes a good few minutes at least. It's rarely stuck, just takes a long time. Maybe it's the initial load that takes forever. When I exit because of death then rejoin it's usually much faster. I alt+tab out and browse while it loads.
Syph Medwes
Member
Fuck this looks absolutely amazing, I would pay any price for the games the mod is based on, sadly though I recently switched over to a Mac.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
first bandit kill shit got real after he killed my friend he thought he could hide in a building so i stormed him with a pistol and took him down felt great
Schobeleth
Member
Hate to be a troll, but that's why you don't go Mac
No games ever hit Mac and if they do they're only the big games.Syph Medwes
Member
Hate to be a troll, but that's why you don't go Mac
Yeah I know you're kinda right but I was never a PC gamer to begin with besides maybe CS:S but of course once in a while a game comes out that you just have to play regardless of which system it's on...this is that game. It's just something I've always wanted to play.
AceBandage
Banned
Watching these "The Days Ahead" videos.
So fucking amazing. Haha.
So fucking amazing. Haha.
Pisuke1983
Member
first bandit kill shit got real after he killed my friend he thought he could hide in a building so i stormed him with a pistol and took him down felt great
Good job. Hate those guys.
holy fuckballs taht was tense. Sneaking through ruins in the dead of night with only my beans, canteen of water and my Makarov. It was about an hour before I had to fire my first shot!
Came across a village and couldn't resist the urge to explore it, plus I was running low on beans and was out of water. Started sneaking through the village (it's still night) and saw some movement in a building, I drop prone and watch. It's two zeds that appear to be having an indepth conversation...either that or in an animation loop. I dropped them but the noise of firing brought more zombies to me and I ended up dropping another 5 zeds...with about 4 clips of ammo lol. Wild firing.
In the building I found...some empty cans. On the plus side I did come across a Lee Enfield and a whole mess of ammo for it in the next buildilng
Came across a village and couldn't resist the urge to explore it, plus I was running low on beans and was out of water. Started sneaking through the village (it's still night) and saw some movement in a building, I drop prone and watch. It's two zeds that appear to be having an indepth conversation...either that or in an animation loop. I dropped them but the noise of firing brought more zombies to me and I ended up dropping another 5 zeds...with about 4 clips of ammo lol. Wild firing.
In the building I found...some empty cans. On the plus side I did come across a Lee Enfield and a whole mess of ammo for it in the next buildilng
holy fuckballs taht was tense. Sneaking through ruins in the dead of night with only my beans, canteen of water and my Makarov. It was about an hour before I had to fire my first shot!
Came across a village and couldn't resist the urge to explore it, plus I was running low on beans and was out of water. Started sneaking through the village (it's still night) and saw some movement in a building, I drop prone and watch. It's two zeds that appear to be having an indepth conversation...either that or in an animation loop. I dropped them but the noise of firing brought more zombies to me and I ended up dropping another 5 zeds...with about 4 clips of ammo lol. Wild firing.
In the building I found...some empty cans. On the plus side I did come across a Lee Enfield and a whole mess of ammo for it in the next buildilng
if you fire that enfield, be prepared to waste the next 4 clips on a city's worth of undead.
HotHamWater
Member
Was hoping no one would say anything, and we'd get another post in 5 mins about him getting swarmed
MidnightRider
Banned
I need to check this one out it looks like.
Syph Medwes
Member
So is this version DRM free? Also is this version the only one where you have to buy that military dlc to get the proper models??? Thanx
PS: Just looking for the best place to buy OA (non steam) as I have Arma2 from GreenManGaming.
Was hoping no one would say anything, and we'd get another post in 5 mins about him getting swarmed
Haha I haven't fired it yet, thought it best to save it. I haven't encountered any other players yet
Really hope we can get a GAF team going at some point.
I just can't seem to get into any servers. I get past various loading sections, I'm not stuck at the same point each time, but I've yet to actually fully load into the game, despite trying multiple servers for the last hour and a bit.
I'm not getting errors or anything, just "stuck" while loading, sometimes at "receiving data", sometimes at "wait for host" and sometimes beyond that.
Edit: of course right after I typed this, I got into my first game...
I'm not getting errors or anything, just "stuck" while loading, sometimes at "receiving data", sometimes at "wait for host" and sometimes beyond that.
Edit: of course right after I typed this, I got into my first game...
cr_blah_blah
Member
How long do you wait when it gets past the point of showing the player list and into receiving data? It's taken at least 5-8 minutes initially before for me at that point. It's inconsistent.
legacyzero
Banned
first bandit kill shit got real after he killed my friend he thought he could hide in a building so i stormed him with a pistol and took him down felt great
Fucking JUSTICE. Thank you for doing that. As an honest player, I feel great seeing a dead bandit lol
I got into a game right after I typed that... I think the servers are just getting hammered and a bunch are dead / not working.
Starfish_Oxide
Member
Bandits are honest too, honest to themselves.
And that's the awesome thing about this, the human interactions.
PjotrStroganov
Member
How do people become bandits? Just kill other people and get a spiffy suit?
You start the game with a stat called "Humanity" set at 2500. When you kill a player with a survivor skin, you lose something like 700 points. Once you get negative humanity, you get a bandit skin. You can regain some points by bandaging other players, using blood packs on them. It also automatically goes up each 5 mins.
I'm at -21k humanity.
ColeTheMole
Member
I feel like i am in a state that trusting to anyone has become too high risk to take.
I'm currently roaming up north gathering supplies from town to town, skipping bigger high zed populated towns, moving from water source to next ( stopping to take water can be risky like in animal world lol, but water bottles are so much better than cans).
I have had few encounters with "friendlies" but the way i see myself with big backpack and military gear i'm not even going to take risk.
Still 0 human kills but iv had my m24 ready to blow unexpected travelers brains out few times because of that.
Lone wolf ftw.
I'm currently roaming up north gathering supplies from town to town, skipping bigger high zed populated towns, moving from water source to next ( stopping to take water can be risky like in animal world lol, but water bottles are so much better than cans).
I have had few encounters with "friendlies" but the way i see myself with big backpack and military gear i'm not even going to take risk.
Still 0 human kills but iv had my m24 ready to blow unexpected travelers brains out few times because of that.
Lone wolf ftw.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Just watching the videos of this is incredible. Thank GAF for bringing this to my attention.
Just died for the first time, was going to that "mine" spot near the water (FIRST TIME PLAYING ARMA 2 SO PLEASE) a zombie screamed I was like lool noob zombie, shot him with my winchester and I was surrounded by 20 zombies I was like lol noobs! Ran to the water and what do I see? I can't bandage myself in the water.
And I died.
And I died.
Shake Appeal
Member
Hey, if I download the Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead Demo on Steam, will that give me an indication of how well DayZ will run?
Karak
Member
Anyone who is waiting because they feel the price might be high, or are having a problem getting the mod to join a server please realize that ARMA 2 is an amazingly detailed game in its own right. It also has one of the easiest drop-in editors you will ever find.
A gamer with no experience can go into the editor load a map drop a player in and drop in 10 enemies with random %'s to appear(slider bar when you drop an enemy into the game) and adjust the enemies placement chances(a simple number from 1-10000 indicating yards from the icon) and start a level by hitting the "preview" button within 60-90 seconds. It is literally that easy. And that level will then have a totally unique feel every single time you play it due to the slider bars that allow for random placement and chance of even appearing on the map.
Want to go to a different location on the map? Simply highlight all the icons and drag them to anywhere on the map and drop them again and hit "preview".
Want a team? Drop another character from your side right next to yours, they automatically join your team. Want a tank? Do the same.
Want to change the month, weather, time of day, fog? Just click on the sun icon in the top right of the editor. It's now December and near dusk and the entire way you have to play has changed.
Try it out guys. The game is awesome even in its own right in fact the editor alone is almost worth 30 bucks. The amount of time you can spend simply feeling out the AI and building your own battles is amazing.
A gamer with no experience can go into the editor load a map drop a player in and drop in 10 enemies with random %'s to appear(slider bar when you drop an enemy into the game) and adjust the enemies placement chances(a simple number from 1-10000 indicating yards from the icon) and start a level by hitting the "preview" button within 60-90 seconds. It is literally that easy. And that level will then have a totally unique feel every single time you play it due to the slider bars that allow for random placement and chance of even appearing on the map.
Want to go to a different location on the map? Simply highlight all the icons and drag them to anywhere on the map and drop them again and hit "preview".
Want a team? Drop another character from your side right next to yours, they automatically join your team. Want a tank? Do the same.
Want to change the month, weather, time of day, fog? Just click on the sun icon in the top right of the editor. It's now December and near dusk and the entire way you have to play has changed.
Try it out guys. The game is awesome even in its own right in fact the editor alone is almost worth 30 bucks. The amount of time you can spend simply feeling out the AI and building your own battles is amazing.
Sort of. I believe the available demos are quite outdated, lots of performance fixes since then.
Phanatic8390
Member
Totally agree. I think within 30 minutes of playing around and a few youtube tutorials I had a mission with random objectives and artillery support. It was really easy to build as there are a lot of tools for randomly generating missions built right into the editor and it is really easy to jump right from the editor into testing it out.