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Vatek posted:I avoid this by killing people with a single shot. Yeah swapping my Enfield for a M1014 seemed like a good idea at the time but now I can't drop people one shot at range and need to throw slugs at them or sneak up close... But I don't alert hordes now which seemed important today.
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Death Himself posted:Lately whenever I shoot at someone they slam the disconnect button. Always up around starry or the airfield because they don't want to lose their stuff I guess. Sort of sucks. It is bullshit that people do that, if you've screwed up or someone/some zombies got to you just accept it. Sort of defeats the point of immersing yourself in a game if you're just going to exploit it at every available opportunity. If you've been swarmed by zombies just waiting at the bottom of a ladder or just outside a door, face the music and either wait it out, try to kill them, or accept your demise. It's like people that abuse quick-saves, I just don't see the point.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 18:55 |
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I clear areas by thowing a smoke grenade to the side of it then crouchwalk in to scoop everything up while the zombies stand in the smoke.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 18:56 |
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Do you guys know where I can find tents?
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| # ? May 14, 2012 18:56 |
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keyframe posted:Do you guys know where I can find tents? I found one in a grocery store on my first character and haven't seen another one since. They seem to be fairly rare.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 18:57 |
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They spawn in churches and convenience stores.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 18:57 |
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I intend to use it as bait to lure pubbies in. 
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| # ? May 14, 2012 18:58 |
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Well drat, I've been looking for something to play for forever, and within two days I get D3 and this gem. Now I can't decide. Woe is me 
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| # ? May 14, 2012 19:18 |
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Does anyone have details to the mumble? I keep trying to log in but I keep spawning at some grass with no movement or sound (debug area?).
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| # ? May 14, 2012 19:29 |
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I think the main server is down, because I've tried over 2 dozen servers and nobody can get in anywhere.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 19:43 |
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Mumble info is in the PGS thread
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| # ? May 14, 2012 19:50 |
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Day Z mod 1.5.7 Where masochists reference non-existent real world zombie apocalypse scenarios in order to justify why they think crawling for 2 hours in search of a can of beans is the height of creativity and fun in a survival video game.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 20:00 |
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Bahh, I finally cave in and buy OA during a fit of mid-afternoon workplace depression. And now everything is falling apart? I need this guys. I need this, please tell me it will be O.K. Also I see some talk about buying the PMC DLC for better textures, is that the only addition (that affects the Day Z mod)? And is it a huge difference? H. Helluva fucked around with this message at May 14, 2012 around 20:21 |
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Doctor Butts posted:Day Z mod 1.5.7 Yeah it's really loving over the top with the zombie count right now. I don't think it would be a problem if their mechanics were better but as it is right now it's really loving tedious and annoying.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 20:17 |
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Doctor Butts posted:Day Z mod 1.5.7 DayZ: Realism Only Zone (No Girls or Bandits Allowed)
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| # ? May 14, 2012 20:20 |
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So I'm the only one who thinks it's still more fun than 1.5.6? Also, I don't mind dying in this, no matter what my loot is. But dying bullshit deaths in combat kinda sucks. This time it was right after a server restart, some survivor that spawned next to us got killed by my brother. He in turn got killed by a bandit who had also spawned near us. The bandit didn't see me, so I waited for him to start looting before I put a couple of DMR rounds into the back of his neck. He falls down bleeding like a fountain. I move up. 2 seconds later I get killed and he magically reappeared where he had dropped, shooting at me.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:15 |
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Sorry double post.
keyframe fucked around with this message at May 14, 2012 around 21:28 |
| # ? May 14, 2012 21:23 |
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We killed like 20 zombies around a barn while our characters are literally starving and went in hoping to find food and all we found was empty tin cans  MrOnBicycle posted:So I'm the only one who thinks it's still more fun than 1.5.6? It is not imo. It really needed more zombies but not this loving many. I really hate how every zombie can get a gold medal in 500m dash in Olympics and they chase you forever. Disconnecting from server is the only way to survive right now when you have zombies on your rear end.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:27 |
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MrOnBicycle posted:So I'm the only one who thinks it's still more fun than 1.5.6? No. I like it better too. I would just like to see the respawn rate lowered so you don't see new zombies magically appearing while you're still killing the original group. Maybe I just got lucky though, since none of the barns I checked out had more than 6 or 7 zombies around them and those were easy to sneak past. Edit: Oh yeah and obviously I hope the way zombies run and their clipping issues are fixed soon too.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:31 |
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The respawn rate/location has always been bullshit, its just more obvious now.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:42 |
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I like the zombie counts but the respawn is just bananas. If I throw a smoke grenade and then kill the horde it attracts with a frag grenade by the time I get down there a new horde has spawned. If you stand at the edge of a town and fire in to clear it you will have a never ending fight because more will spawn to replace the first ones you shoot before you kill everything. Well it ends when you run out of ammo.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:42 |
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MrOnBicycle posted:So I'm the only one who thinks it's still more fun than 1.5.6? I agree with you as well. I think the number of zombies is great currently, I just wish they wouldn't respawn on top of you. And I also agree with you about the bullshit deaths. A friend and I were looting the Stary Sobor camp when I saw a survivor approaching. I didn't have a good shot and I let him get way too close to the camp. He kills my friend, but I get him once he stands up. I see him die in chat. On my way to check his body, I see movement. He's back and with all his gear. I fire a couple of bursts at him with my M4, he turns and caps me in the head with an M14. Dead. Not a good day.
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Mimetic posted:I agree with you as well. I think the number of zombies is great currently, I just wish they wouldn't respawn on top of you. And I also agree with you about the bullshit deaths. A friend and I were looting the Stary Sobor camp when I saw a survivor approaching. I didn't have a good shot and I let him get way too close to the camp. He kills my friend, but I get him once he stands up. I see him die in chat. On my way to check his body, I see movement. He's back and with all his gear. I fire a couple of bursts at him with my M4, he turns and caps me in the head with an M14. Dead. There is no way that was the same person. It was someone else you didn't see at first or the death notice in chat was someone completely different.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:44 |
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Do not go prone up against walls. Apparently walls have a tendency to break your legs and cause you to bleed to death.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 21:52 |
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So, my buddy really likes to kill dudes.
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^^^^ Reminds me of me before I died. Death Himself posted:There is no way that was the same person. It was someone else you didn't see at first or the death notice in chat was someone completely different. Unless it was like on Norway 4 earlier today when nothing got saved. And yes, I think the zombie spawn system is bullshit as well, but it's still more fun with shitloads of zombies than hardly any at all. I'd rather have this until it gets tweaked than how it was like before. It's pretty hilarious at the moment to watch the zombies spawn in, sling their invisible rifles, and go about their business.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:05 |
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Death Himself posted:I like the zombie counts but the respawn is just bananas. Back when I first started playing over a week ago, I was holed up in a fire station in either Chernogorsk or Electro. I shot a zombie with a makarov. 5 more zombies came in the door. After I killed all of those zombies, it wasn't more than 2 minutes later I heard more zombies spawn in the immediate area. The respawns have always been horseshit.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:05 |
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Just use the winchester. You will have more ammo than god.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:11 |
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There really needs to be a radius around each player that zombies can't spawn in to stop them spawning right on top of you. The respawn rate itself is fine to me, it's just that it can happen in the most ridiculous or annoying places. For example, just after starting my current life, I was being chased by three zombies on the way to Elektro, and just as I killed the third one, a fourth spawned right next to it, ran up, hit me and started me bleeding  EDIT: Also, I really seriously hope that reddit/4chan never discover how to do custom radio commands. Icedude fucked around with this message at May 14, 2012 around 22:34 |
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Doctor Butts posted:Back when I first started playing over a week ago, I was holed up in a fire station in either Chernogorsk or Electro. I shot a zombie with a makarov. 5 more zombies came in the door. After I killed all of those zombies, it wasn't more than 2 minutes later I heard more zombies spawn in the immediate area. That makes sense. The sudden increase just really shone a light on how the respawn works I guess.
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MrOnBicycle posted:^^^^ Humanity is the only thing that carries over when you die, so if you're a hardcore bandit you'll always have a negative humanity score.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:29 |
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Vatek posted:Humanity is the only thing that carries over when you die, so if you're a hardcore bandit you'll always have a negative humanity score. forever alone 
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:32 |
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Just read about this on Rock Paper Shotgun which has a very compelling two part article about Day Z. Sounds awesome. It would seem the mod's website is down, no doubt collapsed under all the traffic of the past day or two. Does anybody know if the goon mirror of the mod files listed in the OP is up to date with today's patch? I would love to give this a shot, it sounds like the game I've been waiting for my entire life. Also is there a particular server that goons congregate on? Sounds to me like joining a group of bandit goons is my ticket to ride.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:40 |
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No there is no real goon server but check the PGS thread. We usually hop from server to server for one of the following reasons: 1. The server went to poo poo 2. we can't find vehicles
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:46 |
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I must be retarded but I cannot find the 1.5.7 patch anywhere or on a mirror. Can someone help me locate it? It appears their main website is being updated and is down.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:46 |
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Welp, just turned from a bandit to a survivor and lost an M4SD with 5 clips of SD ammo, and my night vision goggles..
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| # ? May 14, 2012 22:56 |
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Here is a link to where the mod files are located. The website does seem down right now. http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/ This game was honestly a lot more fun without all the crawling past zombies. I don't care so much that there are so many (well I do a little), but the way they re-spawn is kind of ridiculous.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 23:03 |
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Professor Cthulhu posted:Here is a link to where the mod files are located. The website does seem down right now. http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/ Thanks for the link. If it is any consolation I read on the DayZ forum that the dev didn't mean to make the spawns so crazy. They just wanted to make the helicopter death glitch go away. I, too, liked it more without a ton of zombies, felt more desolate.
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| # ? May 14, 2012 23:09 |
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This mod really needs a bit more randomization with zombies. It's kind of dumb that every zombie is completely capable of doing everything that every other zombie does; if they made it so that some zombies ran/walked at different speeds it would make it far more realistic, and it would make it so that you aren't totally hosed if more than 10 zombies started chasing you. Having every zombie run at the same speed as the player is an exercise in tedium, some zombies should lose interest, some zombies should run a lot slower than the player and some should run at a similar speed to the player. Being followed by 20 zombies for 10+ miles is absolutely ridiculous.
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Have any zombies in close proximity to each other be assigned to a temp squad, and have that squad run at a target in a delta or line formation. This formation combined with the zig-zagging the zombies normally do would make a much more convincing horde than the conga line chasing someone in single-file down a street.
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