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

[CmdrSlack]

Cool, I'll message you on Steam.

I'm gonna need blood and am still somewhere on the outskirts of Nadzwhatever.

[Surlyboi]

Nadezhdino.

I got shot at on the way out of the airfield and attracted some zed aggro in the ensuing firefight. I'm down to about 3k blood and blacking out occasionally. Should make meeting you guys interesting.

[Slayerik]

I have 4 blood bags, I can get ya both fixed up. Surly, hang tough we can come to you. Get on that mumble from last night :)

[CmdrSlack]

Here's a nice steam overlay with dayzcommander link.

It's a bit of a kludgy process, but seems legit.

[Slayerik]

Day 1: Food is INTENSE

Well, after a night of horrible fail we decided we were going to try to make the Stary Sobor run again. My friend Silenus ,CmdrSlck, and I pick a meeting place at a pond called Ozerko. Sil and I meet after I play a quick game of 'Escape from Cherno'. I am loaded with medical supplies, and the usual Enfield. Silenus, armed with a Winchester 1866 and nearly starving, makes it to the location with few problems. Slackdaddy gets turned around, and catches some out of game aggro...so we proceed to one of our objectives...Castle Zub.

Silenus' food situation is becoming dire. We have searched all of the nearby buildings and zombie corpses, with no signs of beans anywhere! His food light begins flashing, and we know something needs to be done soon. We finally have met up, and now this curveball! There's gotta be some food at the Castle, we think, and sift through piles of junk, ammo, and drinks...basically everything but food. On our way out, lady luck finally throws us a bone...a set of matches. We take stock of our hunting gear, and luckily I have a hunting knife that will allow us to gut an animal...if we can find one. Neither of us have a hatchet, but we remember seeing a random woodpile at a nearby residence.

On our way to get the firewood, we see a wild boar foraging....completely unconcerned with our presence. I whip out my Makarov, and put about three shots into em. I do my best Ted Nugent impression, gut and load up the four piles of uncooked meat. Silenus informs me his starvation is now causing him to lose blood. We salvage the firewood, I fumble with the UI for a sec, and get the fire started with our newfound matches. Bacon never smelled so good! Silenus will live to die another day! It was pretty intense, for what is completely ignored (or poorly done) in most games...hunger. We were pumped. And to make things better, Cmdrslck had found his bearings and we spotted him coming up the hill. We were only missing one of our party, the survivalist Surlyboi who was busy navigating the Debug Forest, and we knew he'd never get to us on time this evening.

GF aggro causes me to log for an hour, and when I come back the boys are still hanging out, looting Zub and the nearby homes to the fullest. I come back just in time to hear Silenus has mysteriously broke his leg and started bleeding from being to close to Slack inside a building, or some other buggy shit...though if you ask me I bet Slack whacked him with a crowbar all Goodfellas style. Fortunately for Sil, I had come prepared with morphine and blood bags and he is no worse for wear.

Tonight we leave Castle Awesome for Stary Sobor. I know at least one of us is going to die. My money is on Slack, karma for crowbar'n my bro. ;) Anyway, I was pretty impressed at how the hunger system caused some adventures in itself. It was such a feeling of victory coming through with some food to save him. I've always found in life that food you kill yourself always tastes better. The same is true in Day-Z.

[silenus]

Dude that whole battle for the steak dinner 1 hour epic mission was the coolest thing I've done in a video game in YEARS!

Thanks for the awesome heals too after that weird Slack / Silenus / Barndoor fiasco... I wonder if we should report that or anything, or are doors a known hazard or whatever?

Fuckin DayZ man, awesome.

[silenus]

Haha, and yea, I wonder if Slack wasnt filming another one of his gun safety videos when I suffered my injury. I swear I didnt hear any shots go off though. Too funny.

[CmdrSlack]

The game is just that buggy when it comes to leg breaking. Doors can crush you and break your legs, cause bleeding, knock you out, etc.

I think the broken bone may have happened because I collided with your character. Which makes no sense. But, in DayZ, it's totally plausible.

[Xanthippe]

My game playing time evaporated this week. This sounds awesome.

How do you mend a broken leg?

[CmdrSlack]

College football style. You rub some dirt on it, take a shot of morphine, and get back in the game.

[Xanthippe]

Trying to play this. Stuck (or am I?) at the loading screen. How long does it typically take to load?

[Surlyboi]

If it takes more than 90 seconds, it usually means you're not getting in.

[Yoru]

After a two-week break, I played some today.

On my way to pick up a bro at Cherno, I spotted a heli crash site located - no shits - inside of Rogovo. Despite having a FN FAL with 6 mags, I got loot-hungry and decided to go check it out.

The FN FAL, by the way, sounds like, and acts like, a goddamn 120mm HEAT cannon. One shot through the center-of-mass and a zed drops like so many cans of beans off a newbie. I cleared out the zeds around the chopper, and then the area around the area around the chopper, and proceeded to search.

Now, most Heli Crashes are pretty decent. Some medical supplies, some rare ammo, usually at least one rare gun. Once I found a crash with three Bizons (with 2-3 mags each) and a nightvision FN FAL. This time? Some chemlights.

I decide that I've missed something and keep searching. Bad move, bro, as the zombies nearby respawn and, before I know it, I'm surrounded. I whip out the trusty one-shot M1911 and fire at the nearest zed. I mean, one shot, one kill, right?

He keeps coming.

Panicking, I squeeze off two more rounds and he goes down. Wait, the 1911 is now a multi-shot kill gun? Fuck. I'm in the open, there's angry zeds zeroing in on my location, and I'm stuck with a freshly-nerfed peashooter and not enough ammo.

Next z gets all up in my grill and I go down unconscious, and a minute later I'm staring at the bloody hand. "You are dead".

Great. Respawn in Cherno, time to find a hatchet...

[Xanthippe]

Ok, I got it all installed and working and now I'm trying to figure out how it all works. Thanks for all of the information!

How do you end up finding the same map to play on together?

Do you get to keep your stuff if you don't die between play sessions?

[Malakili]

Ok, I got it all installed and working and now I'm trying to figure out how it all works. Thanks for all of the information!

How do you end up finding the same map to play on together?

Do you get to keep your stuff if you don't die between play sessions?

Basically you just have to get in touch with other people and see which server they are playing on.  Yes, you keep your stuff between sessions, and between servers for that matter.

[Xanthippe]

How do I pick things up?

[Malakili]

How do I pick things up?

I think the default is middle mouse

[Xanthippe]

Thank you! Yes, that works much better than the space bar and all my other guesses.

[CmdrSlack]

Also, you may want to interact with various kinds of loot piles by using the mouse wheel (yes, I am a gamer who has a standard non-gaming mouse). For example, let's say that you find an ALICE pack or a 24-slot coyote backpack. You currently have a starter backpack that is full of gear. If you just select the default middle-mouse-command for that pack, you will likely lose that full newbie backpack and its contents.

However, if you use the mouse wheel to scroll through options, you'll discover that you can open the pack. My move is to open the pack, then select my newbie pack in the inventory screen and click on "open backpack." This allows me to swap items from my newbie bag to the new bag. I then select the new bag and "take" it via the same mouse wheel menu.

EDIT

Newish video: DayZ for Beginners Part 01 Survival

Also, here's the best map by far: DayZDB Map

And the wiki.

In other news, come play with us. PM Slayerik for the mumble info.

[Xanthippe]

What a fun game! Even though I never could get on your server. I ended up suiciding on zeds after getting sick of crawling around because I broke my leg walking down stairs. Stairs are treacherous!

[Yoru]

If you think stairs are deadly, wait until you meet a door.

[CmdrSlack]

Or your friends just when you rendezvous with them, amirite, Slay?   

[Slayerik]

Or your friends just when you rendezvous with them, amirite, Slay?   

Lol

Day-Z: Night of the Drunken Dead

Our night began like so many before, Silenus and I decided to meet up at an HV farm near our Castle Awesome. We were headed to Stary, and this time we'd make it!!! Sil reported that he had to go get fresh beers a few times, so I suspected this could be an interesting night. It got even better when Slack logged on, already sounding a bit toasty. Long story short we eventually make it outside of Stary on the hills overlooking it. Slack is running at about half speed. I constantly have to wait up for him, and he confirm's his guy is in run mode. But his character in game is doing a moon-run. Regardless, we cautiously overlook the scene, take out a few zeds and began ze looting! Well, Sil and I do. Slack has wandered off to some nearby farm/industrial area and we stuff our bags with AKs and ammo. Full loaded, we hear Slack slur something about being surrounded in a farm so we go to look for him.

Silenus knows hislocation, and tell him torun around the left sideof the building and we'd take out the zeds as he came into sight. You probably see where this is going. I look over just in time to hear a crack and notice a guy in a baseball cap crumble into a lifeless ball.  Silenus had put one right in his domepiece.

"OH SHIT DUDE! IM SO FUCKIN SORRY!"

Slack took it pretty well, making sure I got his 24 slot bag...and I promised him an AK for his troubles. Sil and I decide we had to venture on to greater loots at the airfield! Silenus was an AKMing madman, taking out about 40 zeds before going down to some razor wire right before I could transfuse him. Too many loud shots brought a metric fuckton of zeds in, and I was low on good ammo. I managed to score an M-16A2 and an AK-74 kobra (for Slack, lost later to a backpack bug) and make it out alive, and back down to Castle Awesome to hand the unarmed Silenus my G17 with 3 mags. So, we are worse off than we started....but it was an adventure to say the least! It was worth it for all the jokes I made at the treacherous Silenus.

I may or may not have shot him in the foot once in the zombie craziness at NW airfield. Don't tell him, though.

[CmdrSlack]

Yep, don't drink and DayZ.

[Xanthippe]

Neat - I am able now to log into the server I couldn't get on last night. I think it might be nighttime though.

[Surlyboi]

Yep, don't drink and DayZ.

That's pretty much the only way I play.

I shoot better hammered.

[Xanthippe]

Btw, might want to update to latest version today:

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/48598-server-side-hotfix-072-helicopter-status-and-server-info/

[CmdrSlack]

Yep, don't drink and DayZ.

That's pretty much the only way I play.

I shoot better hammered.

.08 and it's all good.

[Sir Fodder]

Though tempting, doubt I'll pick DayZ up anytime soon due to the various bugs and not fully fleshed-out parts of the system. I did end up having a great time watching some streams on Twitch TV though, I LOL'ed several times and was literally in tears at one point watching a guy named Towelliee goof around with his buddies.

More than anything DayZ has me excited that more games like this will be created. I really like survivial type games that are tough, I think there is a huge untapped demand for these multiplayer survivial things.

[Xanthippe]

On the Beginner page on the wiki, it says:

"While cities are lucrative, avoid them whenever possible. If you need gear, you may be better off looking for a Deer Stand in the woods. "

Warning: They are infested by soldier zombies that are really mean and will swarm you.

[Surlyboi]

If you have a rifle, drop those milspec zombies from a distance. As long as it's not an enfield, you've got a decent chance of dropping them from well outside their aggro range.

[Xanthippe]

Here's another warning: zombies can swim.

[Surlyboi]

Here's another warning: zombies can swim.

And climb ladders to deer stands.

[Slayerik]

I have an MP5 with like 4 mags I'd REALLY like to clean out of my bag tonight....

[Surlyboi]

I'll take it if you're looking to unload it. Though, I'm thinking of making another airfield run if we can get enough people.