DayZ: Arma 2 Zombie Apocalypse Mod

[Asterix]

Have to say I'm getting rather bored of having my legs broken instantly all the time even when fighting with a hatchet.

[luke111s]

Wow, interesting evening! I found how brutal the game is when I ended up out of water and with a broken leg in the middle of nowhere, I had to suicide as it was taking too long to die of thirst!

Next I ended up with an AKM in Electro and had quite a successful looting trip. I then heard another play creeping around when I was in the pub, I couldn't risk death after grabbing some nice stuff for the first time ever, so I assumed enemy and pumped him full of the (only) AKM clip. Fortunately for me, he had lots of nice gear so I now have an Enfield with lots of ammo (AKM was out), M1911, lots of food and drink, and A MAP!!

The map is quite a let down though as it doesn't show position (am I doing it wrong?) but it makes me feel good

I feel ready to actually play now that I have no need to find anything for a while, my only problem is that I lost a lot of blood.

I'll have some fun on my own exploring the more interesting places like the airports, then I might be ready to join TS and party up

[wst]

You have to figure out your own position on the map using landmarks

Don't shoot the Lee Enfield anywhere near zombies, you'll draw hundreds of them to you!

I got lost and I have no idea where I am, I have no water, no food, and I'd just found an L85A2 AWS on a crashed helicopter so I'm narked because it's a great gun and I don't want to lose it! When I log in it says "Wilderness" which isn't encouraging...

[luke111s]

wst said:

You have to figure out your own position on the map using landmarks

Logged back in a bit later and it does have the position marked now, pretty handy

wst said:

Don't shoot the Lee Enfield anywhere near zombies, you'll draw hundreds of them to you!

Tell me about it, I shot one the other day and couldn't believe how much aggroed!

wst said:

I got lost and I have no idea where I am, I have no water, no food, and I'd just found an L85A2 AWS on a crashed helicopter so I'm narked because it's a great gun and I don't want to lose it! When I log in it says "Wilderness" which isn't encouraging...

Wow, nice find! You can find north via stars, the sun position and things like that so I guess if you head SE you should come across something?

[Stutorious PID]

Playing now if anybody else is online

[Asterix]

I get booted from the UK 25 server due to a ping over 150

[luke111s]

Oddly, the map didn't show my position today - odd! I died to zombies unfortunately, random hit from nowhere knocked me unconscious and I didn't wake before death. I had even built my blood back up to near enough 12000, I was knocked out for ages!

I found a compass and some good kit and headed up to Stary, where I was quickly sniped.

Now have a Ghillie and I'm considering heading north a bit later for some more exploring.

ETA This game is so addictive

Edited by luke111s on Sunday 8th July 18:30

[Asterix]

luke111s said:

Oddly, the map didn't show my position today - odd! I died to zombies unfortunately, random hit from nowhere knocked me unconscious and I didn't wake before death. I had even built my blood back up to near enough 12000, I was knocked out for ages!

I found a compass and some good kit and headed up to Stary, where I was quickly sniped.

Now have a Ghillie and I'm considering heading north a bit later for some more exploring.

I never find any clothing.

[flat-planedCrank]

Some DayZ info, not sure if you guys have seen it....

"Just how popular is DayZ?" - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-07-just-...


Gameplay & interview with DayZ creator video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj9Tih-esfw

[wst]

Found where I am! Wooo! Found water, no food. Though with this L85 I am hopefully able to get some food fairly quickly if anyone comes near me without dropping their weapon...

[gregd]

OK, really dumb question so apologies in advance! If I install the Day Z mod can I still play regular ARMA 2 / Operation Arrowhead as well?

[Asterix]

Yes

[gregd]

Thanks!

[130R]

luke111s said:

Oddly, the map didn't show my position today

Server setting I think. Most servers will not show your location but once you know where you are it's quite easy to follow roads to get around, even without a compass.

[Muska]

I'm just working through dual booting my mac and downloading the Arma combined ops. Should be on by tonight hopefully.

[gregd]

Does anyone else keep getting stuck at the "loading" screen once you join a server? I can hear the SFX so I seem to have connected but I'm stuck at this point. So far i'vr only managed to connect once to any server.

[luke111s]

gregd said:

Does anyone else keep getting stuck at the "loading" screen once you join a server? I can hear the SFX so I seem to have connected but I'm stuck at this point. So far i'vr only managed to connect once to any server.

I had this initially, I *think* the fix was to do the following:

- backup the original Arma2oa.exe file (default C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\)

- copy the beta Arma2oa.exe file (default <snip>\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\beta\) to the location of the original (<snip>\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\)

It's a good idea to use SixLauncher if you are not already.

130R said:

Server setting I think. Most servers will not show your location but once you know where you are it's quite easy to follow roads to get around, even without a compass.

I agree, the map is a bit pointless as there are better versions online. I find the compass is very handy for short cutting through woods rather than following landmarks/edges/roads.

Nearly died again after heading north, survived with 150 blood Fortunately the attacker fought my AK with a pistol so he (just) ended up worse!

Asterix said:

I never find any clothing.

I found it in a pub in Cherno! I've also found a normal camo suit in a pub in Elektro previously so they can't be all that rare. I do like visiting the pub

Edited by luke111s on Monday 9th July 17:32

[size13]

I fixed the loading screen problem by downloading and installing the arma2 oa patch 1.60 update from
http://www.arma2.com/index.php?Itemid=20&optio...

[Muska]

is anyone else having trouble getting onto a server? First it was the loading screen forever now its character creation it never leaves

[KemP]

Muska said:

is anyone else having trouble getting onto a server? First it was the loading screen forever now its character creation it never leaves

yes there is a server side fix for this. its seems to be a bad patch tho