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That's a great story, thanks for writing it up! I think toolboxes are bugged at the moment, no one seems to have one. This is why I'm saying in the forests up north, I'm scared!
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concerned mom posted:That's a great story, thanks for writing it up! I think toolboxes are bugged at the moment, no one seems to have one. I have one on my month and a half old characer 
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 21:00 |
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I love the random encounters with other players in this game. I was exploring Elektro and as I was making my way towards the fire station a group of 3 guys with AK's ran out. They stopped when they saw me so I ran back the way I came and circled around a house. They came chasing after me. Luckily they ran right past me and continued on. I spotted another survivor watching them from about 100m away, so I fired a few shots towards him from my Makarov. In the confusion a large shootout erupted between the two groups and I ran into the fire station unopposed! Edit: just got killed by a truck carrying 10 people, all with camo and M4's. What. Blamethrower fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 21:19 |
| # ? Jun 7, 2012 21:01 |
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Doctor Butts posted:My incorrectness is based on two things:
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 21:07 |
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Insert name here posted:Yeah it's definitely in base ArmA2; I was on a co-op domination server the other day and some badass marine rolled into town riding on a bicycle. I wish I would have heard about bicycles being in the game before my run to the bus last night. I definitely saw one on my 30 minute run to Elektro. I paused for a couple seconds debating whether or not to investigate, but figured I wouldn't actually be able to ride it because that's just ridiculous. Edit: Actually it wouldn't have helped me get there any sooner. I didn't have a toolbox until after I met the goonbus and watched several goons eject themselves from the bus at 70kph. McPantaloons fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 21:24 |
| # ? Jun 7, 2012 21:21 |
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Has anyone else been having issues with zombies hitting them from impossibly far away? Just died to a bunch of zombies that were ~50 meters away from me...
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 21:49 |
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zarg posted:Has anyone else been having issues with zombies hitting them from impossibly far away? Just died to a bunch of zombies that were ~50 meters away from me...
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 21:50 |
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Sagebrush posted:I know Rocket wants to remove anything that resembles a "game" from his game and make a super hardcore edgy tactical zombie survival simulator, but I think that having tags enabled within like a 10 meter radius (or maybe the ability to make groups of players who can all see each others' tags) would make it vastly easier to play in a group. Blamethrower posted:I love the random encounters with other players in this game. I was exploring Elektro and as I was making my way towards the fire station a group of 3 guys with AK's ran out. They stopped when they saw me so I ran back the way I came and circled around a house. They came chasing after me. Luckily they ran right past me and continued on. I spotted another survivor watching them from about 100m away, so I fired a few shots towards him from my Makarov.  
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 22:06 |
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IRSmurf posted:Odd. I know if you're de-synced the tags may appear. I have just confirmed with three players on my server, as well as on my own screen, that tags are not turned on. Several of us got on...yesterday? And tags showed up when we looked at each other. I'll give it a shot again later tonight I guess. Blamethrower posted:I love the random encounters with other players in this game. I was exploring Elektro and as I was making my way towards the fire station a group of 3 guys with AK's ran out. They stopped when they saw me so I ran back the way I came and circled around a house. They came chasing after me. Luckily they ran right past me and continued on. I spotted another survivor watching them from about 100m away, so I fired a few shots towards him from my Makarov. What kind of truck was it? It may have been us if you were on our server and not in mumble. I like running people over in the UAZ. Synnr fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 22:12 |
| # ? Jun 7, 2012 22:08 |
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 22:12 |
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Just started playing this yesterday and I'm loving the ever living (mostly dying) poo poo out of it. I'm sad to see that so many players rather shoot you without question, rather than try and get to know you. I understand even then most people are just backstabbers, but drat, lone wolf gets boring sometimes. Steam name is IAmSogard, add me if you want a partner you can actually trust. I'm sure it's been mentioned several times but, why not, it's important. Got a horde of zombies after you? Best bet is to find the nearest building you can enter, warehouses/large barns being my favorite. Once they hit the doorway they all slow to a stumble, even the sprinters. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, just hope you have enough ammo to fend them off. Also, just incase: http://avidblur.com/arma2/ Put that in your steam browser in the overlay, boom, moveable, zoomable, detailed map. I Am Sogard fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 23:25 |
| # ? Jun 7, 2012 22:53 |
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Well, my friends and I were heading to the NW Airfield about 20 minutes ago. We got pretty complacent and were just sprinting the whole way there from Berezino, and it didn't end well. I ended up hearing a car and telling everyone to go prone after having spotted the car and a player on a treeline moderately far away. The player started shooting at me and I tried to get away, but eventually got shot 4-5 times by what sounded like a sniper rifle. My friends decided to log out which is what I should have done. I ended up losing: 1x Alice pack 1x AKM with 6 mags 1x 1911 with 3 mags 1x Frag grenade 5x Blood bags 3x Bandages 3x Painkillers 3x Morphine 1x Hatchet 1x Hunting Knife 1x Binocs 1x Matches 1x Map 1x Compass 1x Watch and some other assorted goodies such as food and water. TL;DR if you hear a car coming after you and gunshots log out immediately.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 22:53 |
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DanrewS posted:TL;DR if you hear a car coming after you and gunshots log out immediately. Oh come on! You're going to have to face the facts sometime. I got sniped at the airfield and while I probably could have just logged out hearing the first shot, I just said to myself, "welp, today's a good day to die as any" and booked it unsuccessfully to cover.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 23:22 |
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Lblitzer posted:Oh come on! You're going to have to face the facts sometime. I got sniped at the airfield and while I probably could have just logged out hearing the first shot, I just said to myself, "welp, today's a good day to die as any" and booked it unsuccessfully to cover. I haven't ever logged out to avoid combat, but I think I might start doing so until there are consequences for doing it. DanrewS fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 23:33 |
| # ? Jun 7, 2012 23:25 |
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Or suck it up and die like a man. You pansy.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 23:45 |
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You didn't lose anything you can't get back in 30 minutes if you go between balota and cherno apartments once or twice. Also how many of you were vs the one? I bet the second any of you put more than one round snapping by his head he would've peeled off in his car.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 23:47 |
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How do I eat and drink now? I haven't played in a few weeks and the mechanic was just using the mouse wheel scroll menu. Is it different now? I know I have food and water. Is this a bug? I've also have everything updated as far as DayZ mods and have the latest beta patch for those servers that require them.
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Jabronie posted:How do I eat and drink now? I haven't played in a few weeks and the mechanic was just using the mouse wheel scroll menu. Is it different now? I know I have food and water. Is this a bug?
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 23:49 |
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McPantaloons posted:I wish I would have heard about bicycles being in the game before my run to the bus last night. I definitely saw one on my 30 minute run to Elektro. I paused for a couple seconds debating whether or not to investigate, but figured I wouldn't actually be able to ride it because that's just ridiculous. There are at least three bicycles, actually -- an old fashioned one, and two mountain bikes (one red civilian version, on olive drab paratrooper model). Also a tractor. And this thing.  Seriously, what's in the game so far is like 10% of what ArmA has to offer. I can appreciate keeping spare parts and rare weapons scarce, but these maps should just be littered with random broken down cars and lovely old pistols and stuff.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 00:36 |
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Grey Fox V2 posted:Or suck it up and die like a man. You pansy. Where is the fun in that? If people are shooting at me and I log out they waste ammo and time which I find hilarious.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 00:56 |
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-Find motorcycle -Make runs between factory and motorcycle -3 guys with pick-up truck crash parts-farming party -Shooting -Free pick-up truck Fake Edit: Sagebrush posted:*picture* 
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 00:58 |
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DanrewS posted:Where is the fun in that? If people are shooting at me and I log out they waste ammo and time which I find hilarious. All five seconds of shooting at you wasted, while you have to switch servers and reload. Also logging replenishes ammo in a mag at a certain number so really you just look like an idiot.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 01:11 |
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I am really angling for that "least accomplishments while wearing a ghillie suit" achievement, now that I was killed by zombies after surviving for three days, having never once found anything better than a Makarov and running out of ammunition while stuck in a small house. Best game ever. Also, drat, look at that car. Just look at it. That is my new goal in this game. Is that modeled after a Dakar Rally vehicle or something? I love it, no matter what.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 01:14 |
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I would love for bicycles to become a common vehicle. It is horrifically dangerous riding down a hill through a thick forest.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 02:15 |
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Had my first encounter with some hackers apparently. Was near Stary Sobor when I saw an AC-130 fly over head. Players were reporting strafing runs on Chern and Elektro. Not too long after I hear an engine down the road ahead of me so I try and hide behind a church out of sight. He finds me anyways, either saw me or GPS. Oh yeah, and he was driving one of these: Hope this poo poo doesn't get too wide spread. Also, sup Gazaar, long time no see. I figured that was you I saw in a server the other day.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 02:42 |
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Are there any Aus/NZ goons looking to pal around? I'm kind of sick of lone-wolfing everywhere. Ed. plus I just shelled out for a new mic. Flaky fucked around with this message at Jun 8, 2012 around 03:21 |
| # ? Jun 8, 2012 03:16 |
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Troubleshooting: Installed retail Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead yesterday. Installed DayZ per instructions here onto the clean Arma 2 install. Exception: Put @DayZ folder into the main ArmA 2 folder, since I don't have a separate Operation Arrowhead folder as described in the OP. When I attempt to launch Day Z, I get the main Operation Arrowhead menu screen and background, with an error to the effect of: "no entry "bin...[directory]\soldier_crew_scope.pmc". I know I'm correctly pointing to the DayZ folder, since if I put in a bogus mod name, the normal game loads up with no PMC error. I first downloaded the files from the second link in the OP (Where you just download a single file). I then downloaded the individual RARs and replace the files I had - they were all identical in size, and this did not fix the problem. I have 14 files (7 PBO files, 7 BISIGN files) in Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\@DayZ\addons. My shortcut line is "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2OA.exe" -mod=@DayZ" When I click "Expansions" in the main menu, I have Arma 2, Operation Arrowhead and DayZ. Arma and OA have green boxes next to them, Dayz has a black box. I can't enable it. Dominoes fucked around with this message at Jun 8, 2012 around 04:12 |
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Dominoes posted:Troubleshooting: Just hit ok and play.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 04:18 |
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Flaky posted:Are there any Aus/NZ goons looking to pal around? I'm kind of sick of lone-wolfing everywhere. There's me but I mostly play the Virginia servers anyway because they are day at our night
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 04:24 |
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DanrewS posted:Well, my friends and I were heading to the NW Airfield about 20 minutes ago. We got pretty complacent and were just sprinting the whole way there from Berezino, and it didn't end well. I ended up hearing a car and telling everyone to go prone after having spotted the car and a player on a treeline moderately far away. The player started shooting at me and I tried to get away, but eventually got shot 4-5 times by what sounded like a sniper rifle. My friends decided to log out which is what I should have done. So in other words you lost what takes ~15 minutes to get if you spawn near any larger town? I feel for you bro.
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MrOnBicycle posted:So in other words you lost what takes ~15 minutes to get if you spawn near any larger town? I feel for you bro. The frag grenade is actually the rarest thing in that.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 07:48 |
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How are you guys running into so many vehicles? I've not even seen a bicycle?
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 08:30 |
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simosimo posted:How are you guys running into so many vehicles? I've not even seen a bicycle? They've just seeded new vehicle spawns on all servers (since they still don't respawn). There's some at the usual locations (Elektro, Green Mountain, Stary Sobor).
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 08:34 |
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I Am Sogard posted:Was near Stary Sobor when I saw an AC-130 fly over head. That's just a regular C-130. The only AC-130s that exist are mods.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 09:21 |
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Found my first automatic weapon today in a fire station in electro. Not a minute later gunned down someone in a ghillie suit with it who tried sneaking up behind me inside a building. 
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 14:37 |
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I think the rampant duping is going to end up sucking a lot of the fun out of this game. Instead of heading to dangerous locations to gear people up it takes a few seconds to spawn a care package. So there isn't really any reason to put yourself in danger. When we find a vehicle it would normally give us an incentive to spend time searching for parts, but those just get duped and we're on the road in a couple minutes. After we're in the car there isn't any desirable location because we all already have the best gear. It seems like the past few nights we've also only played on a low population server that only has goons on it, so there isn't anyone to kill with our elite gear. I suppose not having a lot to do could also be attributed to this being in Alpha and there not being enough objectives in the game, but we've kind of trivialized the only objectives that are in right now.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 16:03 |
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McPantaloons posted:I think the rampant duping is going to end up sucking a lot of the fun out of this game. Instead of heading to dangerous locations to gear people up it takes a few seconds to spawn a care package. So there isn't really any reason to put yourself in danger. When we find a vehicle it would normally give us an incentive to spend time searching for parts, but those just get duped and we're on the road in a couple minutes. After we're in the car there isn't any desirable location because we all already have the best gear. It seems like the past few nights we've also only played on a low population server that only has goons on it, so there isn't anyone to kill with our elite gear. I suppose not having a lot to do could also be attributed to this being in Alpha and there not being enough objectives in the game, but we've kind of trivialized the only objectives that are in right now. Well we tend to get stuck on one server because VEHICLES, and people just get blinders when someone finds one. I was with someone else separate from the main body of goons and had more fun than probably the guys all together did. As to duping, I'm amused that NO ONE EVER TOTALLY GUYS (JUST GOONS DO IT) dupes. Not that the 20 or so pubbies I've killed obviously duping were or anything. This poo poo is like republicans and gay sex, they rant about it in public while being huge consumers in private.
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 16:11 |
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I just hope Rocket fixes it soon so everyone can just shut up about it. Slightly related: Another good RPS article on DayZ - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...is-day-z-story/
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 16:22 |
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I was riding along in the goonbus when the driver moved himself to the backseat and we flew off the road down an hill into a tree and died.
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Reverand maynard posted:I was riding along in the goonbus when the driver moved himself to the backseat and we flew off the road down an hill into a tree and died. Hey at least he got ejected from a vehicle later, and then driven over. :dayz:
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