DayZ Mod General- Beans, Bullets, Bandages (Open-World Zombie Mod)

[QUOTE="True_Sounds"]

I'd shoot a rando unarmed guy as well, that's more your own fault for telling him that.

with_teeth26

why? that just makes you part of the problem. Please give me your in-game ID so I can avoid playing with you.

Oh, he's no threat to me and has nothing I could use. IMMA KILL HIM! People who treat this like deathmatch with zombies need to stop playing.

[QUOTE="with_teeth26"]

[QUOTE="True_Sounds"]

I'd shoot a rando unarmed guy as well, that's more your own fault for telling him that.

Toxic-Seahorse

why? that just makes you part of the problem. Please give me your in-game ID so I can avoid playing with you.

Oh, he's no threat to me and has nothing I could use. IMMA KILL HIM! People who treat this like deathmatch with zombies need to stop playing.

Yes, but how would killing an unarmed player with basically nothing help you survive? There have been lots of times when I've encountered other people when we were both armed which didn't end in death to either person. I've even had other random players save my ass a few times. Last night I helped an unarmed newbie kill some zombies who were chasing him. It sure felt better than killing him.

Sure there are situations when it makes sense to shoot first ask later, but I identified myself to this guy, he acknowledged this, then killed me. Stuff like this happens way too frequently.

[QUOTE="with_teeth26"]

[QUOTE="True_Sounds"]

I'd shoot a rando unarmed guy as well, that's more your own fault for telling him that.

Toxic-Seahorse

why? that just makes you part of the problem. Please give me your in-game ID so I can avoid playing with you.

Oh, he's no threat to me and has nothing I could use. IMMA KILL HIM! People who treat this like deathmatch with zombies need to stop playing.

the new patch just ruined this game. Food is very hard to come by, and you spawn with none, so half the time you starve to death even in a major city. Zombies spawn in buildings and still clip through walls, so even if you find a building with food in it, its probably full of zombies. Zombies also get aggrevated super easily now, its not uncommon to see a zombie sprinting towards you from 50+ meters away even though you were crouch-walking.

Congrats rocket, you didn't fix the two things you said you would, and managed to make the game even more broken.

I went into a supermarket unarmed and used direct chat to tell a guy in there I was friendly and unarmed. He said ok and then shot me. I see the devs plan to stop player killing is really working out.

To make matters worse, servers are spread across v. 1.7, 1.7.1 and 1.7.1.1. Half the servers don't even run the version they say they are on. I think i'll delete the mod and revert back to 1.7 because this is just awful.

with_teeth26

No food? What in the hell... I found a whole crap load last night in two cities. So much in fact that I had to leave a crap load.

Someone must have got all the food before you did or something, because I played for 4-5 horus last night on two different servers and I found tons of food, drinks and ammo (just the wrong ammo haha).

[QUOTE="True_Sounds"]

I'd shoot a rando unarmed guy as well, that's more your own fault for telling him that.

with_teeth26

why? that just makes you part of the problem. Please give me your in-game ID so I can avoid playing with you.

Oh, he's no threat to me and has nothing I could use. IMMA KILL HIM! People who treat this like deathmatch with zombies need to stop playing.

I don't have the expansion game so I haven't played yet. But you should know that trolling will happen in every single online gaming community, and not be surprised. Maybe in your next game someone will approach you saying they are unarmed, only to whip out a pistol and kill you when u let your guard down. That might help explain why that player didn't want the company of some random other player. But he also might have been ignoring chat, or just someone like me who doesn't mind killing other players.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="with_teeth26"]

why? that just makes you part of the problem. Please give me your in-game ID so I can avoid playing with you.

Oh, he's no threat to me and has nothing I could use. IMMA KILL HIM! People who treat this like deathmatch with zombies need to stop playing.

with_teeth26

Yes, but how would killing an unarmed player with basically nothing help you survive? There have been lots of times when I've encountered other people when we were both armed which didn't end in death to either person. I've even had other random players save my ass a few times. Last night I helped an unarmed newbie kill some zombies who were chasing him. It sure felt better than killing him.

Sure there are situations when it makes sense to shoot first ask later, but I identified myself to this guy, he acknowledged this, then killed me. Stuff like this happens way too frequently.

Some people are just bandits 100% and thats what they do.

If this happened in real life you would get a good amount of people going bandit style all the time, its just the way it is.

This is why I did nothign but help people for the first few months. It felt wonderful, but then one situation changed me in DAYZ. Me and a dude had helped this guy who was bleeding out, gave him a few things and then he shot us. Since then I stick to myself unless its a friend on my friends list. I never thought I would kill a survivor in thsi game, but now I am alot mroe protective. Sure most of the people I have ran into have been helpful and there was the few times we got jumped by a bandit group but I was fine with that. Good guys vs bad guys just surviving. But the line between good and bad is not so day and night.

Being killed by a dude who I had pretty much revived changed my personality in that game. Now I will more then likely either hide from others or shoot them. Its just the way it is. Some decide they want to be a bandit or survivor but experiences in teh game can cahnge that. I still like to help out survivors but its hard to tell who is a survivors these days so like I said above I stay to myself alot more then before and I am ALOT more protective so to speak.

i dont like the bandit life but I can understand it, either because thats what they want to do and thats it, or they where like me and they got backstabbed after savign someone. And now are a little bit more careful. I wont shoot you if you type like you explained, but ALOT of people will because they have been stabbed in the back many times by people 'acting' as godo people/survivors.

Whats crazy to me is how back and forth things can be. My first week or two on thsi game was not that enjoyable. Shot by alot of bandits, could nto fiind many good things to get started,etc... but as the weeks/months went by I expreinced sooo many different experiences and different people. I went from being worried about anyone, to helping everyone and being pretty friendly to being a bit more to myself and quiet, trying to survive in a harsh world.

Anyways, just my two cents, I hope you keep playing as sometimes in DAYZ it does nto give hte best impression. I was very close to quitting after 2-3 weeks, but since then its been nothign but a blast (even with the event I described above with someone killing me and my buddy after we saved him). Ill have one bad experience with people and then the next time im on ill have a great experience with people on the game, working together, helping out. Its unpredictable in DAYZ, just as I would expect it to be if a real zombie outbreak happened. Some would go bandit and try to get everything they can for themselves and some would go survivor and try to help others. Its a cold world and its a cold world in DAYZ :P

No joke, my best experience in this game was when me and two friends saved two groups of survivors from big zombie attacks (they had no ammo). Feeling good about we moved on and sure enough one of the dudes ahd brought us to this building. As we get up to go inside we get shot, 3 people down, then 2 more,etc... me and my buddy get down and within 10misn we die to. It sucked to die after all that but it was a hell of an enjoable time saving these groups and then getting tricked by one guy that we brought into our crew to come near where his sniper buddies had been set up.

It was awesome to have a group of 10+ that we had saved most of, but sure enough all it took was ONE of them with a evil plan to set things wrong. But in teh end it was an experience that I had never experienced in a game. We wanted a big group, but the negative side of that is that one of them is boudn to be a bandit. Was a risk worth taking and had a great time, but now I am alot more worried about joinign up with BIG groups.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="with_teeth26"]

why? that just makes you part of the problem. Please give me your in-game ID so I can avoid playing with you.

Oh, he's no threat to me and has nothing I could use. IMMA KILL HIM! People who treat this like deathmatch with zombies need to stop playing.

with_teeth26

Yes, but how would killing an unarmed player with basically nothing help you survive? There have been lots of times when I've encountered other people when we were both armed which didn't end in death to either person. I've even had other random players save my ass a few times. Last night I helped an unarmed newbie kill some zombies who were chasing him. It sure felt better than killing him.

Sure there are situations when it makes sense to shoot first ask later, but I identified myself to this guy, he acknowledged this, then killed me. Stuff like this happens way too frequently.

[QUOTE="with_teeth26"]

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"] It's part of the game. It's not a co-op zombie mod, it's a survival mod, meaning you do what you can to survive. The threat of other players is part of the experience. It won't be changed. It's not the game's fault you went in expecting something different.Toxic-Seahorse

Yes, but how would killing an unarmed player with basically nothing help you survive? There have been lots of times when I've encountered other people when we were both armed which didn't end in death to either person. I've even had other random players save my ass a few times. Last night I helped an unarmed newbie kill some zombies who were chasing him. It sure felt better than killing him.

Sure there are situations when it makes sense to shoot first ask later, but I identified myself to this guy, he acknowledged this, then killed me. Stuff like this happens way too frequently.

Yup, exactly, this is what has drawn me to the game peronally.

Its not the zombies, its not this or that... its the fact that ANYTHING can happen with the survivors vs bandits,etc..

It did take me a few weeks to experience some new things though and relize this.

you have to REALLY think if its worth it to team up with these survivors you don't know. You migth get new weapons,etc.. but they also might have buddies ahead a ways waiting for you.

stuff

kozzy1234

thanks for the comprehensive post. Yea, I love the randomness in this game. I was more complaining about the fact that the patch was supposed to increase players helping each other, but it doesn't do this. It just further punishes new players/spawns. I'm also still annoyed at the game for killing two of my best cars with glitches.

I'm not giving up on the game, Its like nothing else and I'm rather addicted even though I hate it at times, and I'm having a hard time getting into a server right now, and when I do they are usually devoid of items.

Getting player-killed usually doesn't bother me too much; this time I don't even care since my character had nothing, I was more pointing out that the patch failed in trying to prevent player killing early on.

Ahah! I knew it!

on the change log for 1.7.1.2: "[FIXED] Generic Loot not spawning (such as food etc...)"

I haven't found a morsel of food since updating to 1.7.1.1. I'm reverting back to 1.7 until this hotfix comes out. Not spawning with food + no food spawning = broken game in my eyes.

This sounds pretty cool, I'll definately check it out if my laptop can run it. How much will both the games required to run the mod cost?

This sounds pretty cool, I'll definately check it out if my laptop can run it. How much will both the games required to run the mod cost?

Xeogua

There's a version called ArmA II: Combined Ops that comes with all you'll need for $30 on steam or hard copy in store :).

[QUOTE="Xeogua"]

This sounds pretty cool, I'll definately check it out if my laptop can run it. How much will both the games required to run the mod cost?

Nickprovs

There's a version called ArmA II: Combined Ops that comes with all you'll need for $30 on steam or hard copy in store :).

Sweet, I'll will definately check it out if it goes on sell, and probably will anyway if it doesn't.

That's really a bummer that he took away weapons and food at spawn, what a dumb idea that was. I could have seen this one coming a mile away. Better off to give players a more solid foundation and allow them to avoid the cities rather than push them into the meat-grinder. I guarantee this will be fixed, again.jer_1

Its alpha.

[QUOTE="Nickprovs"]

[QUOTE="Xeogua"]

This sounds pretty cool, I'll definately check it out if my laptop can run it. How much will both the games required to run the mod cost?

Xeogua

There's a version called ArmA II: Combined Ops that comes with all you'll need for $30 on steam or hard copy in store :).

Sweet, I'll will definately check it out if it goes on sell, and probably will anyway if it doesn't.

1.7.1.2 is now out, BEANS NOW SPAWN AGAIN! Also melee weapons. I kinda wish Rocket would focus on squashing bugs before adding stuff, but whatever. I lost my double-barrel shotgun and ammo when I loaded in with the new version, but I found a hatchet which is now my primary.

Snuck out of Cherno in the dark with a makarov+lots of ammo, map, compass, czech pack and enough beans and cola to get me well north of the coastal gong-show.

[QUOTE="Xeogua"]

[QUOTE="Nickprovs"]

There's a version called ArmA II: Combined Ops that comes with all you'll need for $30 on steam or hard copy in store :).

KHAndAnime

Sweet, I'll will definately check it out if it goes on sell, and probably will anyway if it doesn't.

Do you mean the free version of Arma II on steam? And if I own the files for Arma 2 via Greenmangaming, would it work with Arrowhead on Steam? I got an answer of no from someone else but from your answer it sounds like a yes? Cause I assume you only need the data and not even a cdkey, so technically I could let my friend install my Arma 2 as well?

Either way I might just pay the extra couple dollars that will be the difference next time the CO pack goes 75% off,, but it would be nice to know

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"][QUOTE="Xeogua"]

Sweet, I'll will definately check it out if it goes on sell, and probably will anyway if it doesn't.

True_Sounds

Do you mean the free version of Arma II on steam? And if I own the files for Arma 2 via Greenmangaming, would it work with Arrowhead on Steam? I got an answer of no from someone else but from your answer it sounds like a yes? Cause I assume you only need the data and not even a cdkey, so technically I could let my friend install my Arma 2 as well?

Either way I might just pay the extra couple dollars that will be the difference next time the CO pack goes 75% off,, but it would be nice to know

Thanks, that's a great heads up and will save $10 for anyone that wants to play DayZ right away.

Rocket promptly broke the game again with a new patch that again removes most food/drink spawns and causes zombies to see you from miles away even while crouched/walking.

this is getting ridiculous.

I like it, but if I sure hate being killed by camper bandits. I play solo, don't kill other humans, and it can be pretty frustrating. I wish they brought back bandit skins so you could tell was going to kill you on sight. donalbane

Hey guys, i've been pc gaming forever. and dont think xbox or ps3 can compare in my opinion, but i can barely run arma 2 at a good rate and i was wondering if anybody could give me some help with a bit of affordable upgrading? its been awhile since ive done much with it since the cod series wow and guild wars run pretty good. Here are my specs : Geforce gt520 silent 1gbddr3 (just a leftover card we had when my other went.) Intel pentium dual core 2.60ghz 4.0gb ram 450w psu i would like some good upgrades that would last a good bit of time until football season is over. Please and thanks! :)jonny_86

try posting in the PC hardware section. If you want to play any games other than Arma II, you should probably just build a new PC.

Arma II however only makes use of 1 cpu core, so if that is all you want to play, a good GPU upgrade would do nicely.

Is it worth buying arma 2 for this mod if i can only run it on Very Low?

>Arma II however only makes use of 1 cpu core,with_teeth26

[QUOTE="with_teeth26"]>Arma II however only makes use of 1 cpu core,Toxic-Seahorse

I've heard from a few people that if you have a multi-core CPU, the game only uses 1 core. I haven't confirmed this but I trust those I've heard it from.

1.7.1.2 is now out, BEANS NOW SPAWN AGAIN! Also melee weapons. I kinda wish Rocket would focus on squashing bugs before adding stuff, but whatever. I lost my double-barrel shotgun and ammo when I loaded in with the new version, but I found a hatchet which is now my primary.

Snuck out of Cherno in the dark with a makarov+lots of ammo, map, compass, czech pack and enough beans and cola to get me well north of the coastal gong-show.

with_teeth26

It focuses on using mainly one core. It is not properly optimized for multiple cores. I've read somewhere that the engine they had been using to create ArmA II wasn't good with multiple cores. However ArmA III will use the PhysX engine and has been properly optimized. Watch the full e3 video for ArmA III where they reference why ArmA III will be better optimized than ArmA II.

[QUOTE="with_teeth26"]

1.7.1.2 is now out, BEANS NOW SPAWN AGAIN! Also melee weapons. I kinda wish Rocket would focus on squashing bugs before adding stuff, but whatever. I lost my double-barrel shotgun and ammo when I loaded in with the new version, but I found a hatchet which is now my primary.

Snuck out of Cherno in the dark with a makarov+lots of ammo, map, compass, czech pack and enough beans and cola to get me well north of the coastal gong-show.

Elann2008

Their mistake was making it a public alpha. Once it's public you need to make sure it's still playable. Especially if the mod is what's causing people to buy the game.

Their mistake was making it a public alpha. Once it's public you need to make sure it's still playable. Especially if the mod is what's causing people to buy the game.

Toxic-Seahorse

He really doesn'tneed to do anything seeing as he's not forcing you to buy ArmA II or charging for the alpha. It's a bummer that chars are getting screwed up but these things happen :/.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"]

Their mistake was making it a public alpha. Once it's public you need to make sure it's still playable. Especially if the mod is what's causing people to buy the game.

Nickprovs

He really doesn'tneed to do anything seeing as he's not forcing you to buy ArmA II or charging for the alpha. It's a bummer that chars are getting screwed up but these things happen :/.

Do we have a GS group soley for DayZ?

Do we have a GS group soley for DayZ?

mhofever

really impressed with the latest patch. The performance is much much better and the zombie AI is much less annoying - you can still sneak past them most of the time, if you aggro them you actually have a chance of surviving the encounter that doesn't require leaving the server.

Also, flashlights on the tool belt, THANK GOD! I also learned that trying to vault over barbed wire results in a broken leg. Anyone with a bloog pack and morphine feeling generous?

[QUOTE="Nickprovs"]

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"]

Their mistake was making it a public alpha. Once it's public you need to make sure it's still playable. Especially if the mod is what's causing people to buy the game.

Toxic-Seahorse

He really doesn'tneed to do anything seeing as he's not forcing you to buy ArmA II or charging for the alpha. It's a bummer that chars are getting screwed up but these things happen :/.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="Nickprovs"]

He really doesn'tneed to do anything seeing as he's not forcing you to buy ArmA II or charging for the alpha. It's a bummer that chars are getting screwed up but these things happen :/.

Captain__Tripps

Definatley, I'm a frequent poster at dayzmod. In fact, they just reset the zombie aggro to what it was before 1.7.1.1 :D. The game feels much better now.

Found an old Volkswagen Bus (hippie bus) and have been driving the crew around (with-teeth and swedish friends). It's been pretty epic. Here's a shot of a temporary base we had. Our base has since moved to another location :). Also, our fire doesn't give a single **** about the rain.

Thats me on the left!

we proceeded to blow up a cow with a grenade and feast on steak

me and the swedes divy up the rations:

I would like to join up with you two sometime if you wouldn't mind ;)

I would like to join up with you two sometime if you wouldn't mind ;)

kozzy1234

for sure, I'll shoot you a message on steam next time we are playing

Thats me on the left!

we proceeded to blow up a cow with a grenade and feast on steak

me and the swedes divy up the rations:

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with_teeth26

Just downloaded the mod a few days ago and I've got to say, while it's pretty rough, it's still an absolute blast to play. This is the video that finally made me decide to try it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isjtzE2iUA&feature=plcp

Teaming up with friends is a whole lot of fun.

I hope Arma II goes on sale so I can play this.