http://www.dayzmod.com/

The mod is called DayZ, it's a persistent multiplayer zombie survival game. The map is 225 km squared, so very large for a FPS game. You spawn with basic supplies, and from then on its your job to keep yourself alive by killing and scheming your way to get food, drinks, weapons and ammo to stay healthy and defend yourself. PvP is enabled. The mod's grown extremely quickly, to the point that all servers are full at peak times.

Other things:
Vehicles (Cars, helicopters, but you have to rebuild broken ones, pretty rare to even see one)
Realistic 24 hour day/night cycle
Plenty of weapons, from Winchesters to M107 Sniper Rifles
Loot dead people

If you want to some videos, I'd recommend watching this guy's videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPIyJDSEQ&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC8CE0B4B2771FF3D

If you're interested in purchasing, you need both ArmA 2 and ArmA2: Operation Arrowhead. The two can be purchased together on Steam as ArmA 2: Combined Operations for a $10 discount from buying them separately. Installation can be confusing so follow this guide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWFv1CUa6Y

This is the kind of game I've been wanting to play for years now. It's only a month old, in its alpha phase, with a dedicated developer who wishes to make it a standalone game if the hype gets large enough. The installation and process of joining a server takes a lot of patience, as does the game itself, so don't be too surprised if it takes you five or ten minutes to join a server or two hours to cross Chernarus to meet your buddy. In the end though, its a very rewarding experience.

A friend showed this to myself and others a few days ago and i'd totally be playing it now if I didn't have to purchase ArmaII games.

Edit:Seeing as how Arma II is only $20, I might buy it to play this - anyone want to meet up in a mumble and roll some zombies? Edit: From what I read, you can steal shit from other players - we totally need to ruin the video game experience for these other people by stealing all of their food and weapons. :3

turtsmcgurts wrote:

A friend showed this to myself and others a few days ago and i'd totally be playing it now if I didn't have to purchase ArmaII games.

Edit:Seeing as how Arma II is only $20, I might buy it to play this - anyone want to meet up in a mumble and roll some zombies? Edit: From what I read, you can steal shit from other players - we totally need to ruin the video game experience for these other people by stealing all of their food and weapons. :3

You need ArmA 2 and ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead (a combined $40), or just Arma 2: Combined Operation ($30).

You used to be able to walk up to people and take stuff from their backpack, but for some reason I couldn't do it earlier this week. Maybe I was just bugging out, but stealing is probably intended. You can definitely take things from other people's tents though, which act as storage units.

Me and harbleu have been playing this game a lot lately, it's a very tense game and requires heavy thinking and planning every time you make a step, anything else will get you killed pretty fast. It is not uncommon for the more patient players that have heavy experience playing ArmA to constantly be able to camp one area with a Sniper rifle for hours on end. Unfortunately, the real threat in the game are the players and not the zombies themselves. Everyone in the game is a fucking jew and can't be trusted, just shoot everyone on sight. Killing someone with a survivor skin will also give you a bandit skin which will make you be seen as an unfriendly player to everyone else. I was able to get a nice 10 murders and 2 bandit kills before getting destroyed by some faggot camping in a corner of a dark building during my last run.

Another thing I don't like how there are only a few places where you will find good loot which causes them to be really heavy PvP areas. This concentration of good loot makes the entire rest of the map really useless and unrewarding to scavenge since you will quickly run out of ammo before you find anything decent. All the real action in the game probably happens on 20km^2 out of the whole 225km^2

There's always threads on /vg/ with tips on how the play the game and you can learn a lot from reading them.

here's a map you guys can use to calculate your ingame locations according to signs and shit

http://rien-ici.com/dayzmap.jpg

holy fuck that map is huge

Rigel wrote:

turtsmcgurts wrote:

A friend showed this to myself and others a few days ago and i'd totally be playing it now if I didn't have to purchase ArmaII games.

Edit:Seeing as how Arma II is only $20, I might buy it to play this - anyone want to meet up in a mumble and roll some zombies? Edit: From what I read, you can steal shit from other players - we totally need to ruin the video game experience for these other people by stealing all of their food and weapons. :3

You need ArmA 2 and ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead (a combined $40), or just Arma 2: Combined Operation ($30).

You used to be able to walk up to people and take stuff from their backpack, but for some reason I couldn't do it earlier this week. Maybe I was just bugging out, but stealing is probably intended. You can definitely take things from other people's tents though, which act as storage units.

From the website;

"Requirements:

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

It seems that you only need that one game, but I have never played any of the ArmA games so i could be incorrect.

ArmA II: CO is a combination of ArmA 2 and ArmA 2:Operation Arrowhead so it's like as if it were two games.

me and warped have been playing this game for the past week or so, and the other day i logged onto my character and i spawned in a barn i was close to and there was four dead human's on the ground and they were all pretty stacked, i ended up finding two 1911's w/ ammo, two enfields w/ ammo, a Winchester shotgun w/ ammo, alot of canned beans, and well you get it they were all stacked lol, cool story i know.

I fucking hate it when I come across dead survivors that haven't been looted, often makes me worry about Snipers nearby since people hardly ever die to zombies in this game. I went out to check the loot on someone out in Elektro that had an AKS-74 Cobra but I swear I heard a CZ550 fire at me and I heard the bullet hear the ground nearby so I wasn't able to loot anything at all. This is one of thoses game where you go on full alert and even get scared sometimes when you hear pistol/auto fire or even worse, sniper fire. Dying in this game is extremely punishing, can't stress it enough, you really do not want to die; play out your game out just as you would in real life especially if you have good loot. If you're playing as a bandit, it's very satisfying having killed someone with good loot because it means you just fucked up someone else's hours and hours of hard earned loot.

how do i fix the mouse in this game?

I've started playing it a little. I'd be up for grouping up with some NATF2ers. :>

turtsmcgurts wrote:

how do i fix the mouse in this game?

holy fuck this looks awesome

turn off mouse smoothing

I'm reinstalling ARMA right now. I've got another 2-3 friends that will reinstall to play this too. Add me.

it's $15 for arma2 + oa on amazon download http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JZNDN4?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwideagamesc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003JZNDN4

I have always wanted to play a game like this. I think we should all get in a server, team up, and own the server.

Zigzter wrote:

Turning off v-sync and lowering the graphics helped me somewhat. It still feels a little weird, but at least there's no more input lag.

It's fixed by turning the gpu_maxrenderedframes (or w.e) in the config from "1,000" to a lower number, like "8".
C:\Users\turts.turts-PC\Documents\ArmA 2\ArmA2OA.cfg

capnfapn wrote:

I have always wanted to play a game like this. I think we should all get in a server, team up, and own the server.

My friend and I would be down to play, the only problem is you can't spawn with your friends. When you first spawn you are put on a random place on the coast so you have to meetup at a certain place, but the mod is persistent. That means whatever you do in Server A will be saved and loaded on Server B, so all you do is have to find your friends one time (assuming you don't die).

As Marisa said, do not trust anyone. If someone sees you, kill them. If they don't, kill them anyway because chances are they have better shit on them (when you're new).

When you spawn on the bottom right of your screen some text will popup telling you where you are. I highly suggest typing that out in a steam chat so you don't forget it, you can't see it again afaik.
http://ttp2.dslyecxi.com/images/chernarus_big_hq.jpg

turtsmcgurts wrote:

As Marisa said, do not trust anyone. If someone sees you, kill them. If they don't, kill them anyway because chances are they have better shit on them (when you're new).

I think half the fun is risking a potential virtual bullet to the face for some spontaneous teamwork with a complete stranger.

The sale is still going on, not at the previously mentioned link, but this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Meridian4-40365ned-Operations-ArmA2-Combined/dp/B003UV8RRE/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1337492639&sr=1-1

Me and a friend of mine just died taking on about five bandits. Killed three of them from a roof top with a sniper, got surrounded by zombies. I threw a grenade to clear them all out, made our way to the bodies, killed one more, then both died to the last guy. Very epic stuff. Lost my AK though :(

Been reading some stuff about DayZ whilst bored at work and found some good stuff.

Beginners Guide: http://www.elunah.com/2012/05/dayz-a-beginners-guide/
Using the backpack: http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=785

Here is a stack of tips as well:

Here are my tips for newcomers and experienced people alike. I have played almost 100 hours of this amazing game over the last 8 days and I feel like these are the essential tidbits everyone needs to know. Please read them all, as they are not in any order:

- Nvidia users: Go to control panel and set "Max Pre-Rendered Frames to 8"

- Double tap CTRL to lower your primary weapon (not handgun)

- NumPad Enter to enter 3rd Person Mode (not on all servers)

- Double tapping NumPad "-" (minus) will zoom out and sticky it (better FOV)

- Talk in the Side Channel (blue)

- Don't use in-game VOIP on the above channel. Everyone can hear you and they will hate you

- While climbing ladders, have something other in your hand than your handgun, if you don't have anything and you really must climb a ladder (deer stand with a weapon for an example), leave your handgun on the ground

- Best backpack in the game is not ALICE, it's Coyote Elite (24 slots, Alice has 20)

- You can't succesfully put primary weapons in your bag

- If you attempt to put items in your bag that is full, the added item gets deleted

- Only access your bag while away from corpses and loot on the ground

- If you have shit on your bag and you pick another bag, your bag spawns on the ground with the stuff still inside it. Pick it up

- B is for Binoculars and N for Night Vision Goggles (as if you'll ever find the NVG ;-)

- Canned food restores 200 blood

- Cooked Meat restores 800 blood

- Blood Pack restores full blood

- You get raw meat from animals (with a knife) and you cook it on a fire (made with matches)

- Epipens are a waste of inventory space

- Always carry 2x Bandages, 2x Painkillers and 2x Morphine (I keep one set in my bag and the other in my inventory)

- You can fill empty water bottles in the ocean or in wells in backyards

- You can sometimes fill empty water bottless in ponds and lakes, but not always (Also IRL you'd never want to drink stagnant water)

- There are at least two types of car and two types of helicopter that you can fix. I've only seen on type of boat, but who the fuck would fix a boat anyway?

- If you spawn on the coast and you are unfamiliar where you are, always keep the ocean to your right and keep moving

- If you hear flies buzzing it's either 1) Mass Grave that is just for looks (these are rare) or 2) Most likely it is a player corpse

- Always loot both "Gear" and the backpack on a player body

- Gunshots can be heard really far away. If you hear them, don't panic. Try to listen how far it's coming from and act accordingly to your status (bandit, survivor etc.)

- Don't never ever shoot zombies unless you abso-fucking-lutely have to.

- Because players will hear you

- And because you will aggro like 20 zombies

- Now let's talk about loot. Weapons are usually in barns, deer stands (or military base lookout-towers, they are the same) and in cities in the yellow-brick corner houses and red-brick houses

- Best place for additional gear and ammo is the grocery store and what I call "school" (three storey building with a "tower" in the middle, not the fire houses)

- When ever you see a building you can get inside, pay close attention to it because there are only a couple of buildings in the whole game that have interiors. They all use the same few models

- When you pick up anything that goes in the bottom slots (compass, map etc) all the ammo in your inventory that you don't have a weapon for will be put down on the corpse / loot node you picked the item from

- Best weapons for ammo are Winchester 1866, Lee Enfield, Revolver, CZ550 in that order. AK-74 and AKS are strong contenders, but if you ever will use them with full auto, you will run out of the two clips you find every hour or so in a five minutes

- Makarov (the starting handgun) is a piece of shit. Replace it as soon as you can. Revolver is awesome (not an opinion, a fact :-)

- Handguns like G17 and P9 or w/e it was have almost no ammo down south. Never pick them up

- Winchester 1866 has two kinds of ammo: pellets and slugs. Pellets are low-medium range spread and slugs are higher range single ammo

- Lee Enfield has a (loading?) delay after each shot and is really loud

- CZ550 (sniper) is a piece of shit turd shitty fuck at long range

- You can vault over wire fence, but it might hurt you or break your legs. it's only happened to me twice and I do it every time, but be warned

- Fixing cars is easy. If you ever see a fixable car, DO IT! I can't stress this out more, but driving a car from the middle of Cherno (that you stole from a bandit as he was fueling it) is the best fucking experience you will ever have of having a goal of any sort in this game

- See a jet? Don't enter it

- See a helicopter? If it's green fix it. Gray, forget it

- See a boat? Move on, what the fuck would you do with a boat?

- At night time, use chemlights instead of flares or change servers

- Want to be a bandit? Shoot everyone in sight. Never ever second guess your banditry and help people out or try to approach them. Only approach other players to loot them

- Don't want to be a bandit? NEVER EVER shoot anyone, even in self defense. I'm fucking sick and tired of this "friendly bandit" bullshit.

- See a bandit? You a bandit = shoot and loot, you a survivor = shoot and loot

Here are some tips to get back to adventuring after dying:

-- Go to Elektro and Cherno and loot bandits and dead survivors

-- Go to Elektro and Cherno and loot yellow cornerhouse, red house, market, "school"

-- Want to gear up form small towns? Head inland and loot barns, forget everything else

-- One more thing: Which is better? Looting Elektro and Cherno from dead bodies and buildings and getting full bags of shit in 10 minutes after arriving and maybe dying once or twice -OR- spending a full day killing zombies and looting those annoying two-door black houses you get stuck on? I will guarantee I will gear up to full gear from Elektro and Cherno (even with dying once or twice) and travel to the northen airfields by the time you find your first compass, map etc. in running the smaller towns. Seriously.

Played this for 8 hours straight, really really fun.

Found a Coyote Elite backpack and an m14 in the north eastern airfield. Awesome.

-The most dangerous places have the best loot.
(Starry Sabor/Any Airfield)

This game looks really interesting and I am deciding if I should get it, but the issue is how much of a casual game can it be? It sounds like a game where you need to play multiple hours at a time for much of anything to happen but I think I will only be able to play like an hour a day. Is it still fun/viable with short play times?

Fzero wrote:

This game looks really interesting and I am deciding if I should get it, but the issue is how much of a casual game can it be? It sounds like a game where you need to play multiple hours at a time for much of anything to happen but I think I will only be able to play like an hour a day. Is it still fun/viable with short play times?

I'm getting a group of friends together to play, and we're all going to try and play over a weekend(probably like two weeks from now). The plan is to figure out a meeting spot where we all get to before the weekend starts so we can all start playing on the weekend without spending forever trying to reunite. If anyone wants to join us for a giant TF2 DayZ party I suppose I could make a steam group for it or something.

the medical stuff is AMAZING. i would totally get this.

Fzero wrote:

This game looks really interesting and I am deciding if I should get it, but the issue is how much of a casual game can it be? It sounds like a game where you need to play multiple hours at a time for much of anything to happen but I think I will only be able to play like an hour a day. Is it still fun/viable with short play times?

Depends on how patient you are really.

Some days, nothing can happen, you'll die a lot. I played it casually for a week and I had just as much fun and got just as much done at times as I did playing it less-than-casually on the weekends.

You spend a lot of time walking.. so that might turn you off, but you can play in a way that minimizes walking or at least maximizes your fun while going from point A to B. If you want to do things like build a helicopter or a car, you might not have fun playing it. But if you just want to play it as a bare-minimum survival game, then it can still be fun.

sounds pretty fun, would i enjoy this if i hated battlefield or left4dead?

Me, overseer, huey, and cowbeef have been playing this together for a bit and streaming it on extvretro. Ran into Kalkin on TX3 last night.

We're trying to scrounge food and supplies before we eventually head north inland to get away from bandits.

Also, game is best with Godspeed You! Black Emperor in the background.