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

Two days, Hell two months. this gme sucks me in after work. What sever you guys play on? My in game tag is PieEyedSniper. We should get our selves a little game spot clan. I have some of the most heart pounding moments I've had in a long time from this mod. Can't wait for th next patch so I can trap yogi bear.

looks boring.

[QUOTE="Mcspanky37"][QUOTE="JC_Spot"]I've read in the forums for Day Z that in the recent patch the zeds have had their sight and hearing increased markedly and are able to here people inside building when they are outside. This is probably why I found it so hard and A LOT of people are getting upset about it in the forums. Some people even claim to being spotted by zeds 100m away when crouch running which is ridiculous. Also they need to fix it so people can't just server hop for loot, it's kind of cheap and I will have nothing of it.JC_Spot

lol, no stealth?
Thats how I play the game 95% of the time...

[QUOTE="JC_Spot"][QUOTE="Mcspanky37"] It's significantly easier than it has ever been. Anyone who is complaining at this point is a complete and utter baby. Previously zombies had X-Ray vision and could see every player that passes by a certain radius, irregardless if they were actually in your LoS or not. Once zombies detected you, they would not stop chasing you unless... A) You killed them B) They killed you C) An act of god occurs Nowadays, all you have to do is run around a corner, prone, and let the zombies get confused and walk away. Or just run through a building. Or just anything that involves breaking line of sight with zombies. In a way, the zombies are now smarter because they will investigate what they see and hear more than they used to. But over all the difficulty of them is much less than it has ever been.kozzy1234

lol, no stealth?
Thats how I play the game 95% of the time...

[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

[QUOTE="JC_Spot"] You get detected so easily though, people have been saying stealth has been removed from the game because of this. And yes, zombies do have x ray vision, often I will go into a building undetected and zombies from around the whole city/town will come swarming into the building if I do crouch run inside I obviously don't claim to be an expert because I'm relatively new but there is absolutely no way to get into some of the buildings with good loot without creating a sh!tstorm. More often than not now there will be zombies in and around the best loot places making them completely untouchable, and I'm not one to server hop to get a safe place. Even if you're running along the coast, random zeds from nowhere will come charging towards you.MBirdy88

lol, no stealth?
Thats how I play the game 95% of the time...

The other night me and a few dudes from gamespot had a game going on Dayz and this one time I looked over as all of us where crawling around and I saw this one zombie walking 2-3 feet away from us, I was slowely backing up and my buddy was slowely moving to his right, thought we where dead forsure :lol:

The first while in DayZ i would get found all the time, now I am much better at being stealthy, just takes practise really.

It's about 40$ a month to host a server. I'm thinking about doing it but I'm not sure for how long I'd be able to keep it up. That's almost as much as my phone bill >.<. Would be nice to start a GameSpot community/friends server.

I made it from Elektro to the airfield in the north-west of the map with a couple of friends - we raided every town that we came across on the way.

After all that I died from walking into a door - I was knocked unconscious, had my legs broken and lost about 8k blood:lol: My friends didn't make it to me in time and I died due to bleeding.

It was a good run anyway:)

It's about 40$ a month to host a server. I'm thinking about doing it but I'm not sure for how long I'd be able to keep it up. That's almost as much as my phone bill >.<. Would be nice to start a GameSpot community/friends server.

Nickprovs

Is anyone else having problems today? Every server I go into I get the "waiting for character to create" message and nothing happens.

Is anyone else having problems today? Every server I go into I get the "waiting for character to create" message and nothing happens.

Branmuffin316

some hackers got banned and attacked the servers so they have been on and off all day.

Day of extreme highs and lows today.

At one point I got into a server right after it reset. I went to Stary Sobor and scouted it out with my m24. I heard gunfire, and saw one character kill another in the tents. The killer grabbed some gear than started running away from the tents. I then shot him dead in 1 hit. After waiting to see if any more people were around, I approached the tents. I found a GPS and M16A2 with a grenade launcher to go with my m24. I then headed to Novy Sobor and found a Ghillie suit in a house.

The server then glitched again, and when I came back the ghillie suit had disappeared. I started heading up to Kabanino to help a friend who was in need of medical aid, but when I stopped to look at my map/gps in a field, I was shot. I thought I was safe since it was some random field north of Stary Sobor, but I guess I wasn't. Been going crazy thinking about how easily I could have avoided that death if I had taken a slightly different route or gone ahead to a patch of trees before looking at my map.

I was playing a bit today and I ended up finding two camping tents. What exactly are their purpose?

I was playing a bit today and I ended up finding two camping tents. What exactly are their purpose?

TROD_BING

[QUOTE="TROD_BING"]

I was playing a bit today and I ended up finding two camping tents. What exactly are their purpose?

Mcspanky37

[QUOTE="Mcspanky37"][QUOTE="TROD_BING"]

I was playing a bit today and I ended up finding two camping tents. What exactly are their purpose?

Elann2008

Your health is blood - if you get hit, you lose some blood, if you start bleeding, you gradually lose blood until you bandage the wound. To regain blood, you must eat; you have a total of 12000 blood, a can of food will restore 200 and cooked meat will restore 800

You can also instantly regain full blood by receiving a blood transfusion; for this, you need a blood bag, and it must be applied to you by another character. If your blood goes below 3000, you faint periodically. Colour also drains from your screen as you lose blood.

You can also break bones, to fix this you need morphine. Fractures will heal by themselves, and minor wounds will manifest themselves as screen-shaking; painkillers will fix this.

There is no rest/sleep system in the game, but since your inventory space is so limited, having space to store items is extremely useful. Unfortunately, tents are currently extremely difficult to pitch, especially in well hidden places where people won't find them and pilfer their contents.

Found a car someone hidden in the woods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkViL67XX4&feature=plcp

Nice video Nick! Finding peoples hide outs is sooo dang fun!@ :P

Some of my buddies found a big Hippy van and a big city Bus, full of things in a camp someone had made. Here are a few screenshots (I also found the ATV, so we had 3 vehicles).

What a lucky day of dayz, findign all these vehicles in the forest and all the wepaosn and items they had in them haha, to fun!

Is there a way to like add a server to my favorite or something so I can find it again?

After surviving a firefight with a server-hopper in the baccacks at NW airfield (cleared the building, then when I was walking back out someone suddenly appeared in one of the rooms), I checked the hangars and then got killed by the rubble pile in front of the control tower. I decided to spring there from the firestation, get inside and kill the zombies, but someone had put barbed wire on the door so was stuck on the rubble pile with a million zombies behind. I aborted and re-loaded unconscious, when I regained consciousness I instantly broke my legs and died despite being at 11000 blood and in good health.

I did manage to finally pitch a tent before dying in a great out of the way spot, and that character was only a day old with unremarkable equipment, so I am not too perturbed.

I'm so sick of the community that plays DayZ. Almost 70% of people I shoot at, disconnect. You go to the NW Airfield, find guys shooting at you, they miss with an entire mag, you turn around and shoot them once with an Enfield, they disconnect. This happens ALL THE TIME with me. Yes, I shoot at everyone that isn't on TS with me but that doesn't excuse the **** who disconnect because they want the game to be about them surviving. I MAN UP and die if somebody is shooting at me. Just the other day, someone surprised me with a shotgun while I was looting an outhouse. Scared the **** outta me, but I did not once think about using ALT - F4. I ran as fast as I could out of there and managed to hit him a few times before he himself disconnects. Yeah, yeah, it's an alpha I know. I'm upset with the community as a whole.Pvt_r3d

[QUOTE="Elann2008"][QUOTE="Mcspanky37"] You set them up somewhere and then store your loot in them. If you find a pitched tent, it may contain someone's stash of goodies. They save after you log out, but are only persistent on the server you pitched it on.with_teeth26

Your health is blood - if you get hit, you lose some blood, if you start bleeding, you gradually lose blood until you bandage the wound. To regain blood, you must eat; you have a total of 12000 blood, a can of food will restore 200 and cooked meat will restore 800

You can also instantly regain full blood by receiving a blood transfusion; for this, you need a blood bag, and it must be applied to you by another character. If your blood goes below 3000, you faint periodically. Colour also drains from your screen as you lose blood.

You can also break bones, to fix this you need morphine. Fractures will heal by themselves, and minor wounds will manifest themselves as screen-shaking; painkillers will fix this.

There is no rest/sleep system in the game, but since your inventory space is so limited, having space to store items is extremely useful. Unfortunately, tents are currently extremely difficult to pitch, especially in well hidden places where people won't find them and pilfer their contents.

nvm

FYI, tents are being removed from the game in the next patchreach3

[QUOTE="reach3"]FYI, tents are being removed from the game in the next patchElann2008

Wow.. me and TakeIteazy just played for 7 hours straight :lol:

Fully fixed our hippy van, saved eazy from broken bones, saved me from a shot by a bandit sniper, healed our other buddy with blood when he had 700hp and going down fast.

What a night!

I'm so sick of the community that plays DayZ. Almost 70% of people I shoot at, disconnect. You go to the NW Airfield, find guys shooting at you, they miss with an entire mag, you turn around and shoot them once with an Enfield, they disconnect. This happens ALL THE TIME with me. Yes, I shoot at everyone that isn't on TS with me but that doesn't excuse the **** who disconnect because they want the game to be about them surviving. I MAN UP and die if somebody is shooting at me. Just the other day, someone surprised me with a shotgun while I was looting an outhouse. Scared the **** outta me, but I did not once think about using ALT - F4. I ran as fast as I could out of there and managed to hit him a few times before he himself disconnects. Yeah, yeah, it's an alpha I know. I'm upset with the community as a whole.Pvt_r3d

Its a survival game, what do you expect?

its been about 60% shooting at me and 40% working together so far and ive played since the game first came out.

Just play defensive and its fine. Group up with some people and then shoot anyone else you see. People are a bit mroe aggressive now so its something you have to deal with and adapt to (When I first started playing 1/10 people would shoot me, now its about 6/10). If this type of thing happened in real life unfortunatly ALOT of people would be trying to kill each other to BETTER themself.

I personally think it only adds to the game myself, I am on the lokout more, even with my group, even more so now.

Makes the tension alot higher knowing that this person ahead of you could be good or bad. Some days or weeks ill have some bad luck with alot of bandits and then other times Ill be blown away by how nice someone is (for example my friend having his leg broken up north awhile ago and his leg broke and had no morphene. So instead of jsut respawning he crawled to the closest road and started to crawl to the city. Low and behold someone came running by and saw him on the group and GAVE HIM MORPHENE! With all the bandits out there, this person gave some stranger some morphene who was crawling to hsi death.

With every 2-3 bandit kills I see, I also witness some great helpful stuff to.

I would stick with it, as I said above, some weeks I experience one thing and then the next few weeks itll be totally different. Its one thing I love about Dayz, Its unpredictable and you gotta be on your toes.

Yes it sucks when people leave, I have had it TONS (also dying from 2 feet falls, dying from a friend runnign into me, dyign from a door closing, Tonight I shot someoen on a ladder and it said he died but he logged off and body dissapeared, etc..) But even with some of those issues, I still have an amazing time with this game. It brings out experiences and joy I have not had in online gaming in years.

Also try some different servers, it honestly sounds like you have had some bad luck. Ive had times when the exact same thigns have happened, but then ill have weeks where its the total opposite.

Got a ton of gear at the North-West Airfield today. Found a crashed chopper on the run way. A group of 5 of us left with DMRs/Silenced SMGS/Silenced M4s/Silenced Pistol/M4CCO/Medical Supplies. So we faired pretty well XD

Turned into a bandit today in Berezino after so many times being killed when giving another player the benefit of the doubt.

I was in the southern apartments when I heard shots. I went onto the balcony and saw two players with decent gear killing zombies in the yard of a house. I had a AKM which has good range, but it only had 1 mag. I decided to wait and see what they did, also because Nick was a just a little ways to the south and had a DMR which is a beat at player killing. The two players started crawling towards me, I went to the roof of the apartment and watched them.

They eventually got so close to the building that I could not see them from the roof, and I soon heard them walking around in the house. By this time Nick had arrived and was covering the entrance to the building while I covered the ladder going to the roof. I didn't expect them to come up the ladder since no loot spawns on the roof, but one of them did, so I emptied an AKM mag into him. There was no sign of his friend, and I guessed he had disconnected. After a while of hearing nothing I looted the body of the guy I killed, then peered through the hole the ladder comes up through. I slowly walked around the hole with my m1911 out since my AK was out of ammo.

Eventually I see the other player, aiming right at the hole! I shoot reflexively and he also shoots, he hits me but only once, causing me to bleed and go into shock. I backed away from the hole trying to think of what on earth I should do, but noticed my murders had gone up from 1 to 2. Even thought I wasn't really aiming and shot out of surprise, I had killed the guy in the 4 shots I had fired. The m1911 is a beast in PVP!

Does anyone have any tips for me? I'm just about to jump into this. Where can I find some decent weapons early on? Medical supplies, stuff like that.

Does anyone have any tips for me? I'm just about to jump into this. Where can I find some decent weapons early on? Medical supplies, stuff like that.

airshocker

I found this amazing map after a friend shared it with me.http://dayzdb.com/mapIt has everything. Cherno and Elektro (Two main cities on the south coast) are a good place to start.

Does anyone have any tips for me? I'm just about to jump into this. Where can I find some decent weapons early on? Medical supplies, stuff like that.

airshocker

At first avoid Cherno and Elektro because bandits will just pick you off even if you have nothing they want. Easiest way to start is to just sneak around small towns and try to find a barn. You can usually find an axe or a gun in a barn which will really help. If you find some gear that you don't want to lose then I suggest you dont trust anyone you don't know. In my experience, most people seem friendly but that all changes when they have a gun. I met up with some people yesterday and we scavenged together for a while but then one of the guys turned on us.

I found this amazing map after a friend shared it with me.http://dayzdb.com/mapIt has everything. Cherno and Elektro (Two main cities on the south coast) are a good place to start.

Nickprovs

Nice! Thanks! From the videos i've been watching it sounds like I can talk to people in my local area over voice. How do I do that?

[QUOTE="Nickprovs"]

I found this amazing map after a friend shared it with me.http://dayzdb.com/mapIt has everything. Cherno and Elektro (Two main cities on the south coast) are a good place to start.

airshocker

Nice! Thanks! From the videos i've been watching it sounds like I can talk to people in my local area over voice. How do I do that?

I just hope ArmA II price drops on summer's sales...

[QUOTE="airshocker"]

[QUOTE="Nickprovs"]

I found this amazing map after a friend shared it with me.http://dayzdb.com/mapIt has everything. Cherno and Elektro (Two main cities on the south coast) are a good place to start.

Iantheone

Nice! Thanks! From the videos i've been watching it sounds like I can talk to people in my local area over voice. How do I do that?

If a person you don't know is on global chat asking to meet up or where you are it is best to be cautious. Bandits will try to bait people using global. Not everyone is a bandit but it is best to be careful instead of spawning on the coast.

[QUOTE="Iantheone"][QUOTE="airshocker"]

Nice! Thanks! From the videos i've been watching it sounds like I can talk to people in my local area over voice. How do I do that?

TROD_BING

If a person you don't know is on global chat asking to meet up or where you are it is best to be cautious. Bandits will try to bait people using global. Not everyone is a bandit but it is best to be careful instead of spawning on the coast.

I got killed by someone with an axe on the way to Chernogorsk. I still don't know how I died I must have put at least 3 shots in him point blank. I'm only mad because I had found a map.

I got killed by someone with an axe on the way to Chernogorsk. I still don't know how I died I must have put at least 3 shots in him point blank. I'm only mad because I had found a map.

Branmuffin316

[QUOTE="Branmuffin316"]

I got killed by someone with an axe on the way to Chernogorsk. I still don't know how I died I must have put at least 3 shots in him point blank. I'm only mad because I had found a map.

Iantheone

I know, but I'd rather just press M than alt-tab.

[QUOTE="Iantheone"][QUOTE="Branmuffin316"]

I got killed by someone with an axe on the way to Chernogorsk. I still don't know how I died I must have put at least 3 shots in him point blank. I'm only mad because I had found a map.

Branmuffin316

I know, but I'd rather just press M than alt-tab.

1.7.2 has been released.

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Infected hear perfectly through objects (noise reduced by 50% through an object)
* [FIXED] Animal bodies despawn way too fast (now despawn automatically after 2 minutes)
* [FIXED] Corrupted update data causes people to spawn in debug forest (now will not save corrupted position data)
* [FIXED] States where animal might stop walking around (now should walk around more)
* [FIXED] Animal AI routines consuming large amounts of FPS (now in line with Infected AI routines, reduced FPS usage)
* [NEW] Player Syncing system replaced (increased performance and ammo quantity tracking)
* [FIXED] Error reports are almost invisible (has now been fixed)
* [FIXED] Daylight calculations causing slight FPS issue
* [NEW] Visibility now smoothly alters based on sun, moon, cloud, rain, and fog state
* [NEW] Aubility now dampened in rain and increased by fog
* [FIXED] Object cleanup causing significant (huge) performance issue on servers (reduced by up to 50%, means more players + zombies possible)
* [FIXED] Use of "allMissionObjects" causing performance issue on clients (new engine command "entities" used to improve FPS on clients)
* [FIXED] Too easy to break legs due to infected (reduced probability of leg damage, reduced amount of leg damage)
* [FIXED] Inspection of dead bodies does not work (fix only applies with ArmA2 Beta 94033 and above)
* [NEW] Exponent driven probability introduced into visibility calculation
* [FIXED] Hatchet/Crowbar requires reloading (https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34903)
* [FIXED] Unlimited Wire fence/Sandbag/Tank Trap Bug (https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34283)
* [FIXED] Duplication Exploit on object pickup (https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34031)
* [FIXED] Not full magazines disappear when you reconnect (https://dev-heaven.net/issues/33998)
* [FIXED] Dead bodies still have the heart beat for low humanity (https://dev-heaven.net/issues/35050)
* [NEW] Set Bear Traps that break player and infected legs, kills animals, when activated
* [NEW] Authentication process streamlined with new ArmA2 Beta commands (publicVariableServer and publicVariableClient)
* [NEW] Authentication for duplicate IDs supportive of the new beta patch (ArmAX users)

Anddddddddd the servers are down....