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*hms*non   Registered Member #85 Joined: Tue Feb 03 2004Location: Netherlands Posts: 1087 |  Started playing DayZ yesterday with Blood and my girlfriend Lila. For those who have never heard of it, this is what its all about: A 225 km2 open world post-soviet state and one of the areas hit by a new and presently unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world's population. You are one of the few who have survived and now you must search this new wasteland in order to fight for your life against what is left of the indigenous population, now infected with the disease. Go Solo, team up with friends or take on the world as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape using whatever means you stumble upon to survive.  Realistic "Zombies" with custom animations - These once human creatures will act and behave as if they have a heighten sense of hearing and smell but less sight, on top of that they use motion captured animations such as walking and eating from your unconscious body. If you look into any built up area you'll see them walking around waiting for their next victim which dares to venture in. New weapons and vehicles! - Ever felt like you needed a Crossbow? Or maybe a less military like weapon? If you have then this is perfect for you as we have both of these created to high quality standards all ready for your use in this wasteland. On top of that you can even pick up the bolts fired from the Crossbow to reuse! Not only that we also have created custom vehicles which can be repaired and ridden around to show the world what you're made of! Custom Medical System - ArmA II's magic medic feature is a thing of the past with this medical system - If you get shot, expect to bleed and to lose blood until you're bandaged up. Lost too much blood? Then expect to fall over unconscious. If you get shot in the leg then you won't be able to walk until you get morphine so you can man up. Pain is also a factor taken into consideration so without pain killers after taking an injury you'll continue to shake. This is medical at it's best! Persistent Server - Fed up of spending so many hours working towards a goal or finding supplies and then the server crashes on you losing all your progress? Well with the DayZ server all stat's are saved to our external database so where ever you log off, whatever you have will be keep on you next time you come back in. This means you can spend however long you want doing what you want to do. As long as you don't die during the night! Tons of new objects - We haven't just added in big things like weapons, we take pride in little details so expect to find things such as water canteens, a number of canned foods, junk and car parts (Along with more!) each of which have their own models, textures and UI imagery, once again all created to that high quality you expect in a full scale modification and we're sure you won't be disappointed with it. Nothing has been rushed. Hunting and Survival - Eating and drinking is a core part of gameplay, you can tell if you need something by a very subtle GUI which doesn't effect the atmosphere, and if you don't fulfil those needs. You'll die. Wandering animals can killed and gutted (with the right tools) to gain access to their meat which can be eaten so you live longer but also to gain blood. For once these animals actually have a use. Heavy Optimisation - The DayZ server has been designed to give the best play possible. Custom coding and edits have created a smooth running world which can easily have thousands of zombies spawned at once! And Much More! - The only way to find out - is to survive! Requirements: ArmA II: Combined Operations DayZ Mod Files (Available on the downloads page) Balls  That been said, we started playing wondering around in the game but we were scattered around the map. With an app on our phone called iZurvive, we were able to pinpoint our locations and trying to get together. That was easier said then done... It is hard to survive! You have to be lucky to find the right stuff at start. And once you think you got it, there are a lot of ways to lose it all again and you probably have to start all over again... Once I managed to meet up with Lila, at that point I was also being attacked by a zombie, I died. Lila survived and took all of my gear. After a while the server lost connection and after restart Lila ended up inside a glitch under a house. After 30 minutes of restarting the game we finally figured out a way to get out of the glitch. Next Blood and I were trying to meet in a city where we set a meeting point in the iZurvive app. After running for 30 minutes we were almost there, then Blood died. We decided that was a good time to leave the game and give it a shot another day.  my opinion so far: After playing a couple of hours and struggling to stay alive I have to say the game is very hard but fun and interesting! There is so much to do, so much to discover. And although the game is not perfect, with glitches and bugs it is playable and most of the time it runs smooth. Also keep in mind it is an Alpha release so they keep developing it with feedback from players. I keep playing to see if I have more luck this time and stay alive a bit longer.  | ||
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Life is like a box of chocolates...  Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | Actually, its been in alpha release for well over a year. Doesn't really give much confidence that they will even finish it. Kingpin, Smf and I played it ages ago when it was the mod, before they decided to make it a stand alone game. But as Non stated, very difficult and frustrating. You spend lots of time building up your inventory only to get shot from some jackass who found a sniper rifle. The zombies were also very difficult to get past, and from what I've read the zombies are even harder now. Perhaps if they ever reduce the price I might try it again, but never at $30. | ||
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HmS.Blood Registered Member #455 Joined: Mon Jan 10 2005Location: Denmark Posts: 1812 | *HmS*NON wrote ... After running for 30 minutes we were almost there, then Blood died. LOOL  | ||
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| *hms*non Registered Member #85 Joined: Tue Feb 03 2004Location: Netherlands Posts: 1087 | Grunt wrote ... Actually, its been in alpha release for well over a year. Doesn't really give much confidence that they will even finish it. Maybe they will never finish it, nevertheless they still update it. Like with the latest patch/update you can drive cars ... if you can find them that is  So who knows what the future brings... I know it is not a new game and I know it is far from perfect, but me and my girlfriend were looking for a survival/sandbox game and we thought let's try it! (blood was stupid enough to join) We are also playing the Forest, but that is really getting boring after a while and it is also far from finished... At least last night we finally got together somewhere in the middle of the map and have some good equipment so hopefully we can keep it that way and discover more of the game.  | ||
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| Life is like a box of chocolates... Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | *HmS*NON wrote ... .... Like with the latest patch/update you can drive cars ... They finally brought vehicles back?? Cool. Yes, it IS a fun game, provided you can all get together - and survive. I also remember having to run a LONG time to try to team up - and if one person isn't in you have to be damn careful to note your position so they can find you again. Word of advice though, don't bother setting up a camp - you'll just get it raided when you're not there. The only way to truly set up a camp is have a HUGE group of players where you always have a few people in the game. Of course a lot of times those groups also go out raiding and killing. I think that's what turned me off most - putting in many hours of dodging zombies and building up inventory only to have it all taken when some jackass decides to go people hunting. Hope you have a lot better luck than we did. | ||
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| *hms*non Registered Member #85 Joined: Tue Feb 03 2004Location: Netherlands Posts: 1087 | ran out of luck 6 times in a row now hahaha was shot/killed by a player each time... going to play much more careful from now on!  [ Edited Thu Dec 11 2014 ] | ||
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| Life is like a box of chocolates... Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | DayZ would be such a great game if everyone would work together, trading items and food, but so many just shoot first instead because everyone is so paranoid they will get killed. All the more annoying when you've finally found that excellent item that will help you survive. | ||
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| HmS.Blood Registered Member #455 Joined: Mon Jan 10 2005Location: Denmark Posts: 1812 | Dayz Update : New Items: Full Ghillie suite Stone Knife Torch Guts Chainsaw Meat cleaver Prison uniform Silencer east Silencer NATO Handgun Silencer V3S interior Teddy bear Long Sword MP5 Compensator Prison Jacket Prison Pants Prison Cap Hunting Knife Pumpkin seeds Pepper seeds Wool dress (color variants) Bomber jacket (color variants) V3S (color variants) New Mechanics: Suicide (variants) Using scopes for scouting Redone horticulture mechanics Redone spawn points and amount of vehicles Exiting and entering animations for vehicles Christmas presents Crafting of fishing rod, stone knife, bow, with nature only resources You can cut out seeds out of vegetables Torch crafting Blade sharpening Silencers working Using of almost all items for melee New locations: Kamensk village Stary Yar village Location "Lysaya Gora" "Grozovye Doly" Krasnoe village Christmass assets Meadows and Farms under Svergino village Ratnoe village Zaptudnoe village Zaprudnoe kolhoz Meadows and Farms near Grishino Polesovo village Updated locations: Stary Yar surrounding Kamensk mining complex Severograd mines Powerlines is now connected with West part of map Forest improvments General bugfixing Fixed: Muzzle blast, Impact sounds fixed. Small fish trap exploit fixed Supressor visible on steyraug now Damage transfer added to ghillie crafting Security fixes Telescopic Baton retracting Improved heatpack and gut heat transfer, support for multiple heat sources Drowning while cuffed under water surface Heatpack and more items properly positioned in hand Supressor visible on steyraug now Animation polish Loot distribution polish and much much more. Known Issues: Item locked in hands slot Items can't be picked up sometimes Left earpice sound volume is lowered sometimes Ghillie will probably react badly on chemlight, flare and other light sources Some items will visually duplicate themselves if used from the ground Server crashes Client crash when disconnected from server | ||
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| HmS.Blood Registered Member #455 Joined: Mon Jan 10 2005Location: Denmark Posts: 1812 | Had a lot of in game video, and screen shots from our journey in DayZ.. Crap video but fun game ;-)  watch in full screen Running For DayZ 4K [ Edited Wed Mar 04 2015 ] | ||
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| *hms*non Registered Member #85 Joined: Tue Feb 03 2004Location: Netherlands Posts: 1087 |  | ||
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