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Sputty posted:I had the option of going with the Enfield, the Winchester and the CZ and I went with the CZ. I hope I made the right choice but access to lots of stuff was something I'm not used to. My backpack was too small to fit any of the weapons in without losing too much stuff. I feel like out of those three the Winchester is the hands down most useful followed by the CZ550 then the Enfield. The Winchester is pretty drat powerful, takes out zeds in 1 shot, carries 15 shots per stack of ammo, and doesn't aggro them for miles like the other two sniper rifles do. Also, it's one of the most common ammo types I've happened to run across, only coming second behind spare Makarov mags. I almost absolutely never pick up the Enfield, the CZ is far more useful with the scope and ammo commonness is about the same between the two. Honestly the only reason I'll ever pick it up is if I see one around and have to climb a ladder, so I wont break my ankles.
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Orv posted:What's with the compass ring on the right? How do you manage that? Also, here's another video, featuring cows and bandits.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 08:04 |
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Orv posted:Your character is saved across all servers. More specifically it's saved to a global database that connects to all the servers. Things like tents and vehicles (to my knowledge!) are not. Someone described it as four dimensional chess, where you could log off in a standoff, get behind the guy on a different server and log back in on the other server. Sadly, with the auth servers in the state they are, this is a practical impossibility. I'd settle for a decent rifle, a shotgun, or a high-caliber pistol. Just something that's easy to use and can reliably drop a zombie with one or two shots. As it stands right now I'm holed up on the rooftop of a factory. I've cordoned off the stairs leading up to it with barbed wire I found in a building nearby. I'm not intimately familiar with ARMA's map, and I don't have a map in-game, but according to a sign outside (I can read Cyrillic!) I am in Elektrozadorsk. I've only got two magazines for my makarov, and the area's swarming with z's, but I've got plenty of food and bandages, and 45 shotgun rounds. I'm hoping to just hold out here until night-fall; I'll put up some flares and hopefully attract someone I can trade for ammo, or for a shotgun.
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thehumandignity posted:I'd settle for a decent rifle, a shotgun, or a high-caliber pistol. Just something that's easy to use and can reliably drop a zombie with one or two shots. Just a small tip: always keep the Makarov unless you get a ton of rounds for a better pistol. Finding ammo for the other weapons can be a hassle sometimes. Barns are probably the best place to look for weapons because they generally have a few chances to get stuff.
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I've heard that, and I was walking around the edge of town trying to get into apparently inaccessible barns but couldn't find any I could actually enter. The only buildings, for the most part, that I have been able to get into have been houses and industrial buildings, so I started going closer to the center of town searching those, found a bunch of food, bandages, and shotgun ammo and barbed wire I mentioned, and then zombies chased me up here, and here I am. I know there's a building in town with two or three makarov mags that I had to leave behind (At the time I had five full ones, and thought stocking up on other supplies was more important) but I'm not exactly sure where it is and I don't want to risk going out there with only two mags on me. I'd probably use at least one of them just getting out of this building.
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thehumandignity posted:I know there's a building in town with two or three makarov mags that I had to leave behind (At the time I had five full ones, and thought stocking up on other supplies was more important) but I'm not exactly sure where it is and I don't want to risk going out there with only two mags on me. I'd probably use at least one of them just getting out of this building. If you're entering barn after barn and not seeing anything, not even tin cans, the server may be hosed and not spawning new items.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 08:20 |
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What does the white icon above the broken bone mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupf1UwgeEE&hd=1#t=177s
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Yeah my bag is full of bandages and shotgun ammo. Thanks for the tip about the houses, though, mostly if I see from the windows that the inside isn't rendered I don't bother. I think I'm going to try chucking a flare outside to distract the zombies and try to sneak out and get to the ammo I know is here. There's also a dead guy downstairs, I think I'll stash my bag up here and take his on the way out.
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BIFF! posted:What does the white icon above the broken bone mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupf1UwgeEE&hd=1#t=177s Shock. I've never had it do anything (noticeable) to affect me, but a friend once reported blurry vision. Though I suspect that was the blood loss talking.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 08:26 |
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Orv posted:TL;DR - A minute thirty of gameplay more tense than most things I've ever experienced in gaming. Oh definitely. Today I played drat near all day with three friends and basically nothing happened, kept hitting areas that had just been massacred. Hell, in the NW airfield we found at least a dozen corpses to pilfer. One of them got a single kill on a survivor and it was all worth it when we were mindlessly trundling around from one town to the next and ran into a loving zombie out of nowhere (it was night and raining so visibility was zero) Two of my friends screamed like girls and we all panicked, nearly shooting each other in a made scramble to kill one lousy zombie. Totally worth the 8+ hours of nothing. Also, this is why Day Z is the best mod ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6sZJDd6FH4
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BIFF! posted:What does the white icon above the broken bone mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupf1UwgeEE&hd=1#t=177s That if you disconnect, you will be unconscious when you log back in for 3 minutes.
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This game is literally just an idiot murdering simulator with a thin veil of zombie apocalypse behind it.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 08:28 |
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VulgarandStupid posted:Spent most of the day fixing up a dirt bike and driving it up and down the coast. It was pretty uneventful because I didn't remember it was a not so popular server. At one point I broadcasted that I would be going by on the coast and I told everyone when I was approaching major cities. Here's a video of some big jumps (at least for Arma) and some road kills Is that a gps?
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| # ? May 12, 2012 08:29 |
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concerned mom posted:Is that a gps? GPS and NVGs. The only reason I put the headlight on is so people would try to find me. It kind of worked.
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Gazaar posted:This game is literally just an idiot murdering simulator with a thin veil of zombie apocalypse behind it. I'm not sure if you think that's a bad thing or not. I personally love watching some idiot clear a small section of town with a flare or five only to walk up behind him and unload a pistol mag into his back/face. I might be an rear end in a top hat. I'm probably okay with it.
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Orv posted:I'm not sure if you think that's a bad thing or not. I personally love watching some idiot clear a small section of town with a flare or five only to walk up behind him and unload a pistol mag into his back/face. No it's a good thing. This is what more games should be.
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VulgarandStupid posted:GPS and NVGs. The only reason I put the headlight on is so people would try to find me. It kind of worked. That's awesome. I haven't seen gps or night vision let alone a bike!
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What a load of absolute bullshit. I spotted a guy running around town shooting zombies and made contact with him. He was a bandit, but realized that I had him at a disadvantage as I could see him but he couldn't see me. We talked a bit and I tried to negotiate a deal but ended up shooting him anyway because he was a bandit and he was acting weird. On his body, I found an alice pack, several cans of food, an extra canteen, some medicine and bandages, and seven magazines of 9x18 ammo. I took all of it. Then the game, for absolutely no reason, knocks me out, gives me a broken bone, and, after I wake up and bandage myself and use morphine, it does it again. I use all my medicine and eat all my food trying to get myself back in some kind of condition, but in the end ended up blind and out of food. I used most of the ammo fending off zombies that were converging on me while I was unconscious. In the end I was no better off than when I started except for the alice pack, and also I was blind and without any food or medicine. So I opted to respawn. Hopefully I can find the alice pack again before anyone else does.
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thehumandignity posted:Then the game, for absolutely no reason, knocks me out, gives me a broken bone, and, after I wake up and bandage myself and use morphine, it does it again. I use all my medicine and eat all my food trying to get myself back in some kind of condition, but in the end ended up blind and out of food. This has happened to me. I've randomly rejoined a server with broken legs and the worst was when I was in a town with a friend waiting for someone to show up, he went through a doorway and died, instantly. I hit the deck and looked for a sniper but nope, he just loving died for NO reason at all.
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It gets better. I tried to rejoin the server to go get my alice pack, but was afflicted by a glitch where sometimes, when trying to join a dayz server, a second instance of ARMA randomly starts up. This takes up so many resources that I won't be able to get into either of them until I close one, but how do I know which is the one that will allow me to rejoin the server where my alice pack is? I have no idea. e: nevermind, they both crashed! e2: They have been reverting people's characters who have been killed by glitches, right? I'll e-mail them and see if they give me back my alice. thehumandignity fucked around with this message at May 12, 2012 around 09:11 |
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Barrel and I managed to take a couple of pubbies hostage after robbing them of their stuff. I even got them to pose for us. Because they were such good sports, we ran them to Starry and got them a whole bunch of equipment.
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Hahaha, I was in the mumble overhearing, the whole thing was friggin' hillarious. Then someone walked into the barn I was in with about 40 zombies chasing him and I procedeed to have an adrenaline-filled mexican standoff for the next 20 minutes as I peppered him up pretty good in our little back and forth. I felt bad though, as the guy generally was hosed with no supplies, so I called a truce and transfused him back up. I'm such a softie for pubs (survivors at least) because I think about all the times I've died and how badly it sucked to run an hour somewhere just to get a decent gun.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 09:19 |
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Well, someone already took it. And things just get better! The game has now erroneously made me a bandit with -297 humanity, even though I've never attacked another player before ever! So now I'm completely fair game for anyone that wants to take a shot at me. Joy. e: What is the mumble? Now that the game has decided to force me to play as a bandit soloing is absolutely impossible because everyone shoots me on sight. thehumandignity fucked around with this message at May 12, 2012 around 10:07 |
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Reminalt posted:Can you REALLY see what the hell is going on in this screenshot? Because I sure as poo poo can't. Is the game always so dark at night?
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| # ? May 12, 2012 10:13 |
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Since last night I've only seen bags as gear, even in shops. The hospital had some blood and I found some stuff on dead players but that's it. Not even empty cans and bottles anywhere, just the odd bag. I've tried about 6 or 7 different servers but it's all the same. Does anyone know what's up with this?
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| # ? May 12, 2012 10:16 |
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Look at the thread in Private Game Servers for the mumble. And if you're only getting bags then the server needs a reset.
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nullscan posted:And if you're only getting bags then the server needs a reset. What gets me is why is that even a thing that happens. Where does the loot code go wrong at +6 hours that it goes "ALICE PACKS FOR EVERYBODY" for the rest of the day? Just weird.
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Does anyone know of a server that has loot on then? I'm almost out of food and every server I try just bags !
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| # ? May 12, 2012 10:23 |
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Is there a MachoManRandySavage sound pack? This is a very important question.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 10:27 |
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Coal posted:Can you REALLY see what the hell is going on in this screenshot? Because I sure as poo poo can't. Is the game always so dark at night? That isn't dark. This is
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| # ? May 12, 2012 10:42 |
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So, I DLed all the stuff required and extracted it into the correct folder, and whenever I launch CO, it gives me a brief CMD window where some text scrolls by, and then, nothing. Anything obvious I have missed?
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| # ? May 12, 2012 10:57 |
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DJ Dizzy posted:So, I DLed all the stuff required and extracted it into the correct folder, and whenever I launch CO, it gives me a brief CMD window where some text scrolls by, and then, nothing. Anything obvious I have missed? Run in Administrator!
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| # ? May 12, 2012 11:15 |
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They seem to have added a new load of EU servers. This, unfortunately, has the by-product of making it take even longer to log in now. I've been sitting at "Waiting for server response" for about 15 minutes now. Edit: Trying to connect to different servers seems to make no difference, still and endless wait to login.
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Gunder posted:They seem to have added a new load of EU servers. This, unfortunately, has the by-product of making it take even longer to log in now. I've been sitting at "Waiting for server response" for about 15 minutes now. It would probably be wise to beef up the auth servers before they hit 50+ actual game servers, now that you mention it. A little while ago: Oh jesus christ what is going on why is every zombie... oh, thanks, random survivor that I decided to be nice to. Thanks, so much, for firing an Enfield in the midst of Cherno. That's so helpful, you incredible prick. The one time I decide to be a human godsdamned being in Day Z and you go and do this. Thanks rear end in a top hat. It's like they want me to shoot them in the face!
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| # ? May 12, 2012 11:20 |
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I found an M4A1 CCO the other day, how loud is that? Is it unusable in cities? Edit: I also found some SD ammo for it along with the standard ammo. Is the SD any quieter if the gun isn't fitted with a suppressor?
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| # ? May 12, 2012 11:25 |
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Gunder posted:Edit: I also found some SD ammo for it along with the standard ammo. Is the SD any quieter if the gun isn't fitted with a suppressor? To humans, no, to zombies, yes, apparently.
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This mod seriously sounds like the best thing ever, and I am thinking about buying the main game just for this. I would have bought it already if Diablo 3 was not so close to release... Argh. Too many cool things and too little time...
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| # ? May 12, 2012 11:57 |
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Well I made it all the way to the airbase this time. Thankfully I had a map and a compass or I'd have never found it. Unfortunately I'd used all my pistol ammo by then and all I had left was a Lee Enfield. Yeah that was a bad idea.
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| # ? May 12, 2012 12:55 |
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I found a .45 revolver and several speedloaders for it, but I decided I should hang onto my makarov, so I put it in my coyote pack and... it disappeared. Along with most of my makarov ammo.
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TattoosAndTenacity posted:I'm assuming that (from what I'm reading) there usually isn't too many players / zombies on the screen at the same time? If this is true, it bodes well for my humble "gaming rig". Zombies don't spawn until you approach major towns or cities. Players hang around cities because of free poo poo/pubbies to kill. If you avoid these places it should be better in terms of performance. Also Chernogorsk runs like poo poo on a lot of computers. Also ArmA2's netcode runs very well. We had aussie and egyptian players playing on US servers quite fine.
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