Arma 2: Combined Ops (ARMA 2 Base game now free!) (Zombie Mod!)

[CmdrSlack]

I use six launcher because it's easy. I have no idea why it shows locked servers and whatnot, but hey, it's easy.

Today, I find a server that is locked, with two players. "Hosted by 1337 CR3W."

 

[NiX]

Could be one of those servers that isn't connected to the HIVE.

[Surlyboi]

And the "CR3W" are probably using it to farm gear to gank noobs with.

[Slayerik]

Just got this gifted from my brother (Thanks Zaljerem) - so I will be on tonight hopefully. I'm pretty pumped.

[CmdrSlack]

And the "CR3W" are probably using it to farm gear to gank noobs with.

This.

ETA: It was a server running @hive. Obvious farmville.

[Kageru]

You can report that sort of thing on the forums, and if it's not the admin's doing repair work they might well do something about it.

It constantly impresses me how much effort the PvP/PK crews will put into domination. I figure because their ego is directly connected to being "the best" and they will sink a lot of time (and grab any exploit) that allows them to get that rush.

Though it also means the casuals and zombie survival fans are going to get squeezed out. The official forums are an ongoing pitched battle between the two camps.

[Slayerik]

Just to throw it out there to anyone looking for some survival partners, there are a few guys playing here. PM me or post here and we'll sort it.

[Raguel]

You can report that sort of thing on the forums, and if it's not the admin's doing repair work they might well do something about it.

It constantly impresses me how much effort the PvP/PK crews will put into domination. I figure because their ego is directly connected to being "the best" and they will sink a lot of time (and grab any exploit) that allows them to get that rush.

Though it also means the casuals and zombie survival fans are going to get squeezed out. The official forums are an ongoing pitched battle between the two camps.

I've been following CHKilroy since I saw the video in this thread. Lots of people wanted to know why he was no longer making "Dayz Ahead" video, and he basically said he no longer plays it because it's gone from survival to deathmatch.

[Surlyboi]

There's a fuckton of epeenage in this thing, yeah.

I think that's one of the other things that keeps me playing. The knowledge that I'm playing fair against shitheels that probably aren't and potentially ruining their day when I end them unceremoniously.

[Arthur_Parker]

1st go found a grenade and some rifle ammo, wandered around for an hour, ended up running away from a zombie for 10 mins, then got jumped by another and died trying to figure out how to use the grenade.

Next time tried a town run and ended up crawling around/passing out after bandaging myself at 12 blood.  Still figuring the controls out but it's great so far, just wish you could make a club or something as a starter weapon.

[Surlyboi]

So, I tried fruitlessly to get on and play with Slayerik and Slack, but kept getting "Waiting for Host" no matter what server I logged in to. I think it has something to do with my version, but I'm way too drunk tonight to be arsed to reinstall, so I'll do that on Sunday.

[Slayerik]

My first murder. It was glorious loots! Story when I gots time :)

[CmdrSlack]

So, I tried fruitlessly to get on and play with Slayerik and Slack, but kept getting "Waiting for Host" no matter what server I logged in to. I think it has something to do with my version, but I'm way too drunk tonight to be arsed to reinstall, so I'll do that on Sunday.

Slayerik and I haven't even managed to connect in-game yet. We were partially able to use TS to chat -- if you count one guy unable to hear the other as partial. Sooner or later, we'll get it right.

I was way too tired to play by the time I had time to get on yesterday. Based on the Steam PMs, Slay had someone bring the NWAF to him.

[Slayerik]

My journey began on a familiar coast, between Balota airfield and Cherno. I decided to head east to sweep the supermarket and a few of the better spots on the west side. I, of course, aggro a train of zombies and end up losing a few thousand blood in the process. Good news is, I make my way back west out of Cherno with an Enfield and even some ammo for it. My plan was to raid the military stands south of the airfield, then have enough ammo/weapons to check the Balota hotspot.

That's not going to happen. Too many Zeds, not enough ammo, and the Enfield invites all sorts of people to the party. I decide to go straight for my objective, the medium value military spawn at the airfield. With three rounds lift in the mag, I need to avoid as many as possible and just get inside.  I do fairly well, only aggroing a few and end up with two rounds as I make my way up the stairs of the military building, in search of Enfield ammo. I see the packpack of another survivor, looking the other way - pistol out. He turns on me......we stare at each other and he says "friendly" in chat. We begin talking on voice, swapped some m9 ammo for some Enfield when he called out "You hear that motorcycle?"

We look out from the 2nd story to see a guy doing figure 8's, messing with zombies, having fun. I say in voice (and probably heard by the motorcycle guy) "I'm gonna pop that guy!"

CRACK! I miss badly behind the bike, rack a round, kneel and pick a spot where I think he will be.
CRACK! Another miss.
He slows down right in my sights...
CRACK!

The bike comes to a stop, and the rider falls to the ground. Nearby zombies begin maiming the guy, and I put a final round into his prone body. Murders: 1

We excitedly finish the remaining zombies, and I sprint down to loot. Big score. Alice pack, m4 silenced, m9 silenced, matches, knife, map, compass, assorted food/drinks. And a guillie suit. My partner, while looted is assaulted by a zed...and he somehow ends up with a broken leg. We have no morphine. We search the nearby area, but it is getting late. I am now armed and dangerous. In hindsight, I think motorcycle guy musta been drink. He hung out being fired at WAY too long. The motorcycle was trashed, or else broken leg guy mighta had a chance. I hope he rolled his way to some morphine. I think had I murdered the first guy, I never would have pulled off the actual good kill. Thanks, broken leg friend.

[UnSub]

Day Z tells us that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, don't skimp on your daily calcium intake.

[Arthur_Parker]

Found barn with a Winchester shotgun & an axe, then found another barn with 4 weapons, some hunting rifle with a scope, enfield, another winchester and a double barrelled shotgun.  Am I correct in thinking you can only carry one rifle type weapon?  I kept the Winchester as it's fun popping zombies and I have lots of ammo now.

[CmdrSlack]

Rifle/primary weapons take 10 backpack slots. Starter pack has 8 slots. With the starter pack, you can have a primary and an axe on your belt, or just an axe.

Secondary/pistol weapons take 5 (I think) backpack slots. You can therefore keep one pistol on your person and one in your pack if you are so inclined.

[Arthur_Parker]

Ok got it thanks, I'll resist asking more silly questions.

[CmdrSlack]

Ask away. There is no good one stop shop for info, IMO. 

[Surlyboi]

We've got a good number of vets at this point. Ask away.

[Arthur_Parker]

Well third go ended with 33 zombies dead, I just ran out of blood, was playing with a black and white shakey screen for ages.  I assume the only way to get more blood solo is to eat (I don't group in these types of games, just explore and defend myself is possible), also where's best place for food?  I'd taken pain pills, plus a morphine thing I found but at 3000 blood with the icon showing red they didn't seem to help.

[CmdrSlack]

Painkillers are for shock.  Morphine is for broken bones. Antibiotics are for when you are sick. The only way to restore blood is by eating or via a blood transfusion.

The most effective way to use food to restore blood is to kill animals and then cook their meat. Cooked meat restores 800 blood.

[Azazel]

Next time tried a town run and ended up crawling around/passing out after bandaging myself at 12 blood.  Still figuring the controls out but it's great so far, just wish you could make a club or something as a starter weapon.

That clearly wouldn't be realistic. 

[Arthur_Parker]

I love running round town with an axe, sod this sneaking everywhere.  Been player killed twice now.

[CmdrSlack]

I love running round town with an axe, sod this sneaking everywhere.  Been player killed twice now.

I have had one "blitz into a city and get shit and get out" run work. That was on a low-pop server on a weekday in the morning.

There is a decent route for Cherno, and an "ok" route for Elektro.


Quick start Cherno

Quick start Elektro

Now, I endeavor to do that, but end up just hitting the medium to large farm, resi and industrial spawns as I make my way towards one of the cities. Once I have an axe and either a gun (pistol or long arm doesn't matter to me) or some of the other basic survival tools (hunting knife, matches, water bottle), I just head north and try not to do anything stupid.

I also rather like deer stands. I believe BW has already linked this map, but it's handy to have open if you have an iPad/tablet or a laptop or a second monitor.

DayZDB Map

[Arthur_Parker]

I hadn't seen those videos before but that house in Elektro is where I ran in unarmed found a revolver, then turned and killed the zombies that trailed me.   That map is great already using it, thanks for the advice.  I haven't gone to the hospital yet but ended up on the southern airfield last time with only an axe, had to run everywhere then as had a fever or something from swimming too long to escape.  It's definitely more fun to just go for broke and try to tool up fast, so going to try his Cherno run next time.

[CmdrSlack]

Be careful with swimming. It can cause you to drop your gear.

[CmdrSlack]

For some stupid reason, I am considering trying to host a server for this. It seems as if they've really relaxed on "who gets a server."

Why would I consider this? Because of a thread like this.

I have no idea why owning my own server would make this any more worthwhile, but yeah. Granted, I also caught wind of a bunch of fucked up hacking on various servers the last day or so (teleporting all players to one location, then shooting them all) and that has me blowing off playing tonight.

[Kageru]

The hacking sounds entirely out of control, and the admin tools to deal with it more or less non-existent (people parsing logs to recover GUID's they can ban). Plus it's fairly resource intensive on the server side. You'd have to be pretty keen to host a server now.

[CmdrSlack]

Interesting talk at some indie gaming convention with Rocket.

It drags at the beginning, but picks up steam after the first fifteen minutes.

[Mrbloodworth]

I would play on your server.

[CmdrSlack]

Heh, I was looking at the various server hosting threads last night. I have no idea what server would cost hosting-wise. I'm tempted to ask our IT dude to set me up with something on the cheap.

[Mrbloodworth]

ArmA servers are rather pricy due to the bandwidth and high user counts.

[Slayerik]

I was headed to Stary for a final fill-up of supplies before my trek to deep woods, to live out my life in peace...foraging off the land, hopeful I would never see another zombie again. I needed to fill some water on the way when I was attacked by a couple zeds. One, of course, lands a bleeder shot on me before I take him down. I stabilize myself at around 4500 blood...no biggie, I have a hunting knife, matches, and a hatchet. I can kill some wildlife, and easily restore my blood. Things are going to be alright! I kill a rabbit, fumble around and make a campfire, and apparently pop a squat right on top of it.

I went unconscience and I burned to death. No big deal, I can get back there and recover my stuff. I have a map!

Come to find out my navigation skills aren't what I thought they were. I followed the wrong powerlines, crested the wrong hill, and went down the wrong valley all the way to the Balota Airfield. I made My way all the way back north to near my loot when it happened "Session Lost". I couldn't reconnect to the server. My stuff was officially gone.

When I reconnected on a different server, I wasn't too far from Stary so I hit a couple deer blinds and a residential, and made my way down the power lines to the Stary stash! I had an ax, and that's about it. I made it to the military tents without much hassle, and began looting. AKM, and a clip. I am now armed and dangerous. Next tent, nothing. Next tent, some dude laying on the ground. I, not being used to seeing many people in game, did not recognize that he was a bandit. He turned towards me, and I put the reticle on his head.... I could tell I was hit so I unloaded on him. Bandits killed: 1

I got hit hard. I thought we might die together there....I was down to 1500 blood when I finally stabilized. I looted some morphine stuff, blood bags, etc off the guy and actually left an AS-50 (?) sniper rifle on his body because there was no ammo anywhere for it. I hid the body (if it wasn't a bandit it wouldn't have, but to me that's karma). Every 50 feet or so, I fall down due to lack of blood. I'm pretty sure I'm never gonna make it out of here alive. I need a transfusion bad, and Stary is a slight bitch to get to from anywhere....



Also, found a sweet launcher for Day-z

http://www.dayzcommander.com/

[Arthur_Parker]

Playing at night is crazy, I thought should be fewer players stealing all the equipment, I'm sure I can find my way around.  Pitch black running from zombies, turn my torch on to quickly get my bearings at exactly the right time to see a zombie 3ft in front of me coming the other way snarling.