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So how does playing with friends work? Do you both randomly spawn somewhere on Chernarus and pray that you can somehow find each other, or is there some kind of mechanic in place to make grouping up easier? Also, if you have a character on one server, does it transfer over to other servers?
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| # ¿ May 9, 2012 15:31 |
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| # ¿ May 27, 2013 02:54 |
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I just found a group of 4 guys in a town, shot all of them to death over the course of about 2 minutes, then took all their poo poo. I think I'm in love.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2012 23:53 |
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I wish they would tone down the obnoxious screen blurring thing when you get low on blood. I had a great pistol fight with a guy that left me with about 400 blood left and it took me about an hour to scavenge enough food to get it back above the threshold. I have an ALICE pack that's filled with medical poo poo and blood packs but I didn't have anyone to do a transfusion and I don't trust anyone that doesn't have an LLJK in front of their name.  I spent my entire evening sneaking around the perimeter of towns dropping people with a CZ 550, then going in for their stuff. Pubbies on rooftops and looking out windows are real easy pickings so my humanity is down to around -10,000 now. Vatek fucked around with this message at May 11, 2012 around 14:46 |
| # ¿ May 11, 2012 14:43 |
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J4G's are people who sign up for SA only to get into a goon guild/clan/whatever in whatever game they are playing.
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| # ¿ May 11, 2012 14:55 |
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Jon Joe posted:Alright, so I bought the game and installed the mod correctly and whatnot. I didn't see it in the original post, so what server is the 'best' and what's the mumble info? Look in the private game servers subforum.
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| # ¿ May 11, 2012 17:22 |
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Staying away from large cities, doing careful recon from a distance and having a very long range weapon has done wonders for my survival rate. Plus, sniping pubbie strongholds from 500 meters away isn't getting old anytime soon. I get most of my supplies from inland towns because the odds of running into anyone in them is exceedingly slim. Cherno and Elektro draw tons of people and staying in them for very long, especially during the day, is a great way to get killed. Plus, all the equipment you get there is lovely. Vatek fucked around with this message at May 11, 2012 around 17:30 |
| # ¿ May 11, 2012 17:28 |
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wargames posted:Going with around 2,000 people bought the game to play this mod, and with the game costing 20 bucks this makes 40k in revenue is just a good guess by me though. 30 bucks, you need to buy Combined Operations. And seeing it's number 5 on the Steam top 10 list right now, I don't think 40k in revenue is a stretch.
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| # ¿ May 11, 2012 20:57 |
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Dongattack posted:About ten people i know also bought the pack to play this, many of them enjoyed the main game also tho. Hopefully he continues to develop this or sells it to someone official. He is official, he works for BIS.
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| # ¿ May 11, 2012 21:48 |
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The inland areas seem really devoid of players. I've spent two days wandering around Stary Sobor and the NW airfield on multiple full servers and I've seen exactly one person. The item spawns are pretty lovely too.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2012 18:46 |
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Console Parade posted:Newb question here, because I think it wasn't a bug. I had two makarov magazines but couldn't reload my makarov. When I pushed F it would toggle between flares and an ammo type I didn't even have, some kind of M*** type. How the hell did you fix this? F isn't the reload key. R is.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2012 19:18 |
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SERPUS posted:For anyone thinking about spending $30-40 to play this mod: don't. The gameplay is not improving at all. Care to elaborate? keyframe posted:No I was in the game for two hours. the counter showed 0 zombies and not a single loving thing anywhere. That's a badly bugged server. The zombie count should always show at least something.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2012 19:30 |
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The servers are hosed right now, I spent about half an hour trying to get into any of them and couldn't. Whatever they are using for an auth/character server is just completely incapable of handling the load.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2012 20:31 |
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Nighttime after the moon starts to come up is my favorite time to play.
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| # ¿ May 13, 2012 04:45 |
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Orv posted:Both true. I think I'd have to see what his defensive emplacements are that he has planned, before I could really recommend a course of action to solve that. Making the zombies be less sprint-worthy might be enough, but we'll see. You can already set up sandbags and barbed wire barriers. 
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| # ¿ May 13, 2012 22:43 |
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semicolonsrock posted:Yea, I got it straight from the website. I guess I'll try with dvorak's zip maybe. Did you go into the Steam launch options and add the -mod=@dayz flag? Also, when you launch the game you need to select Combined Operations otherwise it will not work.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 04:07 |
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Not only that, but non-Makarov/revolver pistol ammo is rare as gently caress so if you have to kill more than a handful of them you're going to burn all your ammo in a matter of minutes, assuming you don't get raped by a mob of zig-zagging lightning fast zombies.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 04:53 |
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You can't loving lose them either, unless they get stuck on terrain they will chase you forever.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 04:55 |
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Well, they overdid it big time if it's intentional.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 15:24 |
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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. I avoid this by killing people with a single shot. 
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| # ¿ May 14, 2012 18:52 |
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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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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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Owlkill posted:I now understand the pubby-murdering mentality. On my first life I thought everyone was being kind of a jerk with all this killing pubbies for no reason, "hey, no point ruining anyone else's fun right?" Welcome to the life of a bandit. It's pretty awesome, no? A lot of my initial equipment on a new life comes from dead pubbies, although my current guy has been alive for something like 3 days. Sputty posted:I think in-game voice chat could fix a lot of the deaths from lack of communication. Hopefully it starts to work well In-game voice chat works fine on the global channels but the localized channel does not work. Vatek fucked around with this message at May 15, 2012 around 00:03 |
| # ¿ May 14, 2012 23:59 |
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Turin Turambar posted:They don't say anything like that. quote:So, I guess it was time for the devs to support another community project and Marek Španěl has stated himself Dayz will be included into Arma 2 with the next patch, being patch 1.61! They don't?
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| # ¿ May 15, 2012 14:51 |
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Swimming is a pretty good chance to lose everything except your pistol belt gear, so I don't recommend it.
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| # ¿ May 15, 2012 15:12 |
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If you wade in you're generally fine but every time my character changes to the actual swimming animation I've lost my primary, my pack and everything in my main inventory.
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| # ¿ May 15, 2012 16:33 |
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Goetta posted:I was just on a server with zero zombies, is that a server option or was it just bugged? It's bugged.
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| # ¿ May 15, 2012 20:04 |
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Joda posted:I finally got the game to work, but it's loving murder on my GPU temps. They were rocketing pretty steadily towards the 100C until I had to close the game. I really don't want to play with a lovely, murky vision that's obstructive as all gently caress, so I play with 1080p both regular and 3D, but are there any other settings that are particularly hard on GPUs? If your GPUs are running at 100C you need to dust out your case and take off the plastic covers on the GPUs and clean the dust out from the heatsinks. This game puts a lot of stress on GPUs but 100C is a cleaning issue, not a load one.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2012 20:36 |
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Luckily the window between the sun going down and the moon coming up is only 30 or 45 minutes.
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 21:11 |
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treat posted:I think it's an alright mechanic that forces people to make more life or death choices, much like food, water and medical supplies already do. It forced a buddy and I to make some pretty hasty decisions in Stary Sobor tonight that lead to our demise. We could have opted to high tail it out and strike a camp in the cover of the woods, but we had already been spotted, so instead we tried to take on what we thought was a lone bandit in the town. Turns out, he wasn't alone. Go figure. It gets to the point where you need to carry way too many goddamn things just to survive and if you run out of just one of them you're hosed. I'm all for the survival aspect but when you have to fill 3/4 of your inventory with blood, food, water, painkillers, antibiotics, matches, logs and on and on it goes from interesting gameplay to tedious checklist. Vatek fucked around with this message at May 22, 2012 around 04:48 |
| # ¿ May 22, 2012 04:25 |
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zarg posted:If anyone can give me some help with this I'd appreciate it. I've got one food and one water left, and I've not seen a town or road in quite some time Find a paved road and follow it and eventually you will find a town.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2012 17:51 |
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There is nothing you can do as a player to stop people from disconnecting, it's up to Rocket to implement things to prevent that kind of poo poo. The latest patch notes mentioned something about it.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2012 18:42 |
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thehumandignity posted:Unrelated: Arma is the only game where I've actually felt like I was shooting an M4 when I shoot an M4. I want to try to track down an M24 and see how close to reality that one feels. Do they spawn in deer stands? I found one at the northwest airfield. It's basically a nicer CZ 550.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2012 21:33 |
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Eonwe posted:So I bought ARMA II a little while back to play with Goons, but it felt pretty laggy and clunky. I understand that this is probably in part just how the engine is, but I'm curious if Operation Arrowhead has improved the engine at all? I'd really like to play Day Z, but I had a pretty bad experience with vanilla ARMA II. It's always clunky but OA and patches since then have improved the performance, depending on how long "a little while back" is.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2012 22:00 |
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:G17 is awesome, you're just a terribad shot. Nah, he's right. It's disgustingly weak in stock Arma 2 as well, it used to take me half a dozen shots to put a Russian soldier down with the goddamn thing. The only redeeming quality it has in Day Z is the flashlight.
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| # ¿ May 23, 2012 23:42 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Getting in on this, do I need both Arma 2 AND Arrowhead installed at the same time? Yes, you do.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 17:17 |
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Heavy rainfall is brutal, especially at night.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 17:48 |
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zarg posted:How do I tell a grocery store from other buildings? They're easy to recognize. Square, 1 floor, glass walls with shelves inside. They are only in some of the towns, though.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 18:36 |
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Chief Savage Man posted:Did cooking meat change? I made a fireplace and tried to cook the meat on it, by scrolling like it used to be, by right clicking on the meat in the gear menu, by putting the meat in the gear of the fireplace, nothing seems to work. Is there a trick I'm missing? The fireplace has to be lit and the spot for getting the interaction menu to trigger is incredibly tiny now. You have to prone and crawl right into it.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 19:19 |
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Chief Savage Man posted:Eh, I tried this and this doesn't seem like any angle will make it work. I found another wood pile so I'll hang onto it to try again later. This is frustrating I want delicious meats. If you have "put out fire" you should have another option for "cook meat" assuming you have raw meat in your inventory. The whole thing is very buggy, which is odd because it worked just fine prior to the change where you needed firewood.
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| # ¿ May 24, 2012 20:44 |
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| # ¿ May 27, 2013 02:54 |
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JosefStalinator posted:Just curious, do you spawn randomly when you first start this game? If I want to play with my friends, do we just need to navigate towards the same location and hope we meet up before we die? Yep, that's pretty much how it works. JosefStalinator posted:Yikes, does this mean we should get north as quick as possible before the bandits destroy the spawning newbies? There are several spawn points and camping them is not really practical or worthwhile. You're more likely to be shot by some guy who just respawned for your beans than death by bandit. The major coastal cities (Chernogorsk and Electrovodsk) are new player magnets so shitloads of people get killed there. Vatek fucked around with this message at May 25, 2012 around 01:26 |
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