unkillable94

A lot of people seem to agree with the sentiment of the game is that since its a sandbox you can play however you want. This isn't the case. It may have been at the time of creation, but not now. The fact of the matter is that KoS players restrict other players from playing how they want to. A lot of new players are born into a KoS world and adopt that because they haven't been exposed to other playstyles because they get killed on the coast. This leads to more KoS and introduces more new players to it. Give it a term like "banditry" and that makes it more appealing to new players. By this point the cycle has completely overshadowed other playstyles and my hope is that the SA fixes this. Until then, I'm sticking to things in regular Arma like the Life missions. There you can actually roleplay and not get shot on sight like (not trying to be some old bitter fart) the good ol' days.

There's a difference between being a troll and just being a dick.

Hello, my forum name is Mazon but you can call me Brown. I am the OIC of the 8th Tactical Division, an Arma/DayZ tactical military clan. We are currently stepping up our recruitment effort, but before you commit to something you probably want to know a little about it. 8Tac was created about two weeks ago, and at first it was just me. We've slowly been growing since. We are primarily a DayZ clan, but have been branching out into the Arma 2 multiplayer missions and armory as well as the Wasteland mod more recently. We have a presence online daily despite our small numbers. We specialize in tactics, when you join you will be asked to choose one of three MOS's: infantry is our basic frontline member, taking the fight to zeds and bandits alike. Recons are our eyes, ears and swords, operating in teams of 2-3 to gather intelligence and take down long range targets. Resource managers are the life-blood of the clan, bringing us all the supplies we need and making sure the base is organized and ready for action. We already have a record of filling the power vacuum on some servers, establishing a base and showing our muscle to dominate the server in a passive way. You heard that right, we are a passive clan. We are not friendly to outsiders most of the time, but we are not aggresive either. Let me be clear though, if you mess with us or the bambis on the server, we will fuck you up. You have been warned. In our 1.5 week history, we have performed operations using deception and subterfuge to take out 5 targets of interest, the details of which must remain confidential within the clan to protect future operations. If 8Tac seems like something you would be interested in, register and put in an application at 8tacdayz.enjin.com or come to our teamspeak at vs9.tserverhq.com:9034 and poke either myself or Capt. Unser and we will move you into one of our rooms and talk with you. Happy hunting. Col Brown CO, 8Tac

Hello, most of you might remember me as being a hero as I was one for quite a while. I have to say though, I had a major event in DayZ that caused a return to my bandit roots (I was a bandit when DayZ first came out, then converted to hero when all the deathmatch "banditry" bullshit started). I recently saw something about the new housing feature in Origins and really want to get into that mod as I'm getting a little bored with vanilla. I'm looking for anywhere from 3-4 guys (or girls) up to 8-9 to start a bandit squad on a good Origins server. You don't need experience, I'll be learning the mod as I go so don't worry if you've never played before, I haven't either. But let me make one thing clear. We are going to do actual banditry. Kidnappings, extortion, ransoms, roadblocks, and the like. We only kill as a last resort if we are fired on or if the target will not comply. Then we will kill them and anyone in their group with extreme prejudice. We also do not target fresh spawns. If we end up holding up a fresh spawn if anything we will offer him a ride or weapon. If he does not follow our directions to a letter, we let him know that fresh spawn or not if you don't go along with it we can kill you in a heartbeat. We will help eachother build houses, making a small complex to operate out of, go to salvation city and all that good stuff. But if you kill unprovoked, deathmatch in any way or kill fresh spawns I'll kill you on the spot. The only requirements I have is that you be 18+ (will accept 16+ if necessary and you can prove you're mature enough) have a working mic and enjoy old style banditry. (Sorry for the wall of text, my enter key is fucked up on dayzmod for some reason)

You became a hero? Bloodbagging the people you shoot doesn't count.

Part of your motto is honor, but you kill on sight. Oh well, have fun with that, good luck recruiting and I hope I meet you in a dark alley of Cherno some day.

Hello, I am Col Brown and I am the leader of the small military structured clan known as DayZ's 8th Infantry Division. I would like to welcome you to the more permanent topic concerning our weekly Survival GameZ events. Before we get started, let me tell you a bit about what these GameZ are and where we hope to take them. The Survival GameZ we are talking about here are not related to nor are we affiliated with the larger, more well known events of a similar name. This was an idea I hatched at 4am one morning as a way to gain publicity for our clan and private hive, but after the first event on February 16th, I knew it could be so much more. The first event was fubar at first, I was sick recently and slept in, and then getting everyone organized was hectic to say the least. We ended up starting two hours late, but in the end for a first event it went pretty well and left all parties with a good feeling to my knowledge, or most at least. These games consist of multiple game types rotating every week. I would love to see this event really take off after these rough first few weeks, we have already been reached out to by well-known DayZ organizations which we are very grateful for. In the future my ultimate goal would be that we could get well-known streamers and YouTubers such as FrankieonPCin1080P, JackFrags, PsiSyndicate, or others involved, but instead of making the games exclusive to these DayZ celebrities actually allow regular players to play with them. We will also be opening up for donations if there is good sentiment towards it so that in the future once we stabilize the GameZ we would be able to offer cash prizes to groups who win. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few final things, we would like to give thanks to a few groups who have helped us out: -LADZ [CMC], Madsnake [MsN], Reddit Rescue Force Special Task Force [sTF], DayZ 10000 [DayZ10k], and Exertion [e] for bearing with us through the multiple hiccups of the first event. -Reddit Rescue Force for fielding a team for the first event and reaching out to us with some really awesome offers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now, the confirmed GameZ in the rotation are: King of the Hill (KoTH) -Teams start out on the coast with the objective to capture and hold an objective for a certain time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations to our past winners: -KoTH 2/16/13: Panics, Azrael, Noob, and Flower of team Madsnake [MsN] -Runners up: Quick, Colonel, Face, Sierra of team Reddit Rescue Force Special Task Force [sTF] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAQ: Q: Can I stream? A: Absolutely, we welcome streamers with open arms. Just be aware that we can not prevent stream sniping nor can we compensate you if it happens, but we will do everything in our power to create a safe and secure streaming environment. Q: Can we use our own communication software? A: Unfortunately, no. We require everyone to use our TeamSpeak server to prevent any kind of cheating. We provide each team their own private room and we are always available in a public channel if you have any questions. Q: Can we have more than one team from our group? A: No, each group may have only one team per Game. Q: Will there be video of the event? A: Yes, in addition to streams from players I will be streaming live coverage at twitch.tv/8th_Infantry_DayZ as well as uploading a highlights reel the following day to our YouTube channel. Q: I died. Can I stay and watch? A: No, but you are more than welcome to join us in a public TS room or join us on one of the live streams. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 23 - [New Game Mode] Hostage Rescue: 8Inf members will be in a convoy escorting a vehicle with one randomly selected team onboard, the "hostages," around Chernarus. The teams must work together to gear up, assault the convoy and rescue the hostages. Whoever manages to survive and rescue the hostages will then make their way to the NWAF to a waiting biplane which they must load the hostages into and takeoff in, flying to a location to be given by me once the biplane is airborne, and ejecting, finally bringing all remaining survivors to me. Only one team will win, so once the hostages are rescued be ready to turn on or be turned on by your former allies. A hostage will be killed if he/she tries to run from the convoy or announces its position in chat. Otherwise hostages will be used as shields during any firefight, so remember to check your fire. If there are prizes later on in the GameZ, the amount of prizes given will depend on the number of hostages alive at the end of the Game. Team 1: Team Madsnake [MsN] Team Leader: Panics Team Members: Azrael, NoobaciousD, Flower, Loakes, Scott, Meatburnz, Lord Smokey (awaiting final lineup) Streams (if any): none Team 2: LADZ [CMC] Team Leader: KezzMiester Team Members: Rogie, Gaz, Bunce, Azzasin Streams (if any): http://www.twitch.tv/cmc_azzasin Team 3: DayZ 10000 [DayZ10k] Team Leader: Malicious Team Members: Raptor, Brenden, Mathias, Cowboy, Harlan, Swayze, Mandis, Grinch (awaiting final lineup) Streams (if any): none Team 4: Reddit Rescue Force Special Task Force [sTF] Team Leader: Quick Team Members: Sierra, Colonel, Face, Doobikhan, Jung (awaiting final lineup) Streams (if any): none Team 5: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 6: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 7: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 8: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Reserves: Team 9: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 10: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any):

Hello, I am Col Brown and I am the leader of the small military structured clan known as DayZ's 8th Infantry Division. I would like to welcome you to the more permanent topic concerning our weekly Survival GameZ events. Before we get started, let me tell you a bit about what these GameZ are and where we hope to take them. The Survival GameZ we are talking about here are not related to nor are we affiliated with the larger, more well known events of a similar name. This was an idea I hatched at 4am one morning as a way to gain publicity for our clan and private hive, but after the first event on February 16th, I knew it could be so much more. The first event was fubar at first, I was sick recently and slept in, and then getting everyone organized was hectic to say the least. We ended up starting two hours late, but in the end for a first event it went pretty well and left all parties with a good feeling to my knowledge, or most at least. These games consist of multiple game types rotating every week. I would love to see this event really take off after these rough first few weeks, we have already been reached out to by well-known DayZ organizations which we are very grateful for. In the future my ultimate goal would be that we could get well-known streamers and YouTubers such as FrankieonPCin1080P, JackFrags, PsiSyndicate, or others involved, but instead of making the games exclusive to these DayZ celebrities actually allow regular players to play with them. We will also be opening up for donations if there is good sentiment towards it so that in the future once we stabilize the GameZ we would be able to offer cash prizes to groups who win. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few final things, we would like to give thanks to a few groups who have helped us out: -LADZ [CMC], Madsnake [MsN], Reddit Rescue Force Special Task Force [sTF], DayZ 10000 [DayZ10k], and Exertion [e] for bearing with us through the multiple hiccups of the first event. -Reddit Rescue Force for fielding a team for the first event and reaching out to us with some really awesome offers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now, the confirmed GameZ in the rotation are: King of the Hill (KoTH) -Teams start out on the coast with the objective to capture and hold an objective for a certain time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations to our past winners: -KoTH 2/16/13: Panics, Azrael, Noob, and Flower of team Madsnake [MsN] -Runners up: Quick, Colonel, Face, Sierra of team Reddit Rescue Force Special Task Force [sTF] -Hostage Rescue 2/23/13: Malicious, Mandis, Mathius, Swayze, and Raptor of team DayZ 10000 [DayZ10k] -Runners up: Panics, Azrael, Loakes, Lord Smokey, and Meatburnz of team Madsnake [MsN] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAQ: Q: Can I stream? A: Absolutely, we welcome streamers with open arms. Just be aware that we can not prevent stream sniping nor can we compensate you if it happens, but we will do everything in our power to create a safe and secure streaming environment. Q: Can we use our own communication software? A: Unfortunately, no. We require everyone to use our TeamSpeak server to prevent any kind of cheating. We provide each team their own private room and we are always available in a public channel if you have any questions. Q: Can we have more than one team from our group? A: No, each group may have only one team per Game. Q: Will there be video of the event? A: Yes, in addition to streams from players I will be streaming live coverage at twitch.tv/8th_Infantry_DayZ as well as uploading a highlights reel the following day to our YouTube channel. Q: I died. Can I stay and watch? A: No, but you are more than welcome to join us in a public TS room or join us on one of the live streams. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 2 - Hostage Rescue: 8Inf members will be in a convoy escorting a vehicle with ,yself, the "hostage" around Chernarus. The teams must work together to gear up, assault the convoy and rescue the hostages or split up and go their own way, whatever they think will work. Whoever manages to survive and rescue the hostage will then make their way to one of the airfields to a waiting biplane which they must load the hostage into and takeoff in, flying to an altitude of 300 meters. Only one team will win, so once the hostage is rescued be ready to turn on or be turned on by your former allies. Team 1: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 2: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): T eam 3: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 4: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 5: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 6: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 7: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 8: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Reserves: Team 9: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any): Team 10: Team Leader: Team Members: Streams (if any):

I might try to keep this thread going and just edit it every week so people can find it. Nothing this week unfortunately, my wonderful hard drive is having memory issues and has been in and out of the shop all week, next week we will get it back up for sure.

Yeah this week was a bit rough, I'm in the middle of an unexpected move and nobody other than you found the new topic, going to advertise more and try again next week to get things back on track.

I found this game a few months ago at a friend's house, it was called DayZ. He let me jump on his account and play for a bit, and it was awesome. He told me about these guys called "bandits" and showed me how to be one. We set up road blocks, held people up, and got a lot of nice loot. Fast forward a few months, I hadn't played DayZ for a while and I finally bought Arma myself to get back into it. Now everyone is a bandit, but not in the sense I remembered. Now anyone who shoots people is a bandit and the game is a giant deathmatch. What happened to the days when bandits actually banditized people? The days when you could get military gear by setting up a roadblock and potentially not having to kill anyone? And what is the point of being a bandit if everyone else is too? Just my thoughts, being an actual bandit was a lot of fun, but with everyone you ever meet being a "bandit" and just killing on sight - like it's some CoD free for all - I completely lost faith in the majority of this playstyle. There are a few old style bandits still alive and it's fun to run into you, but for the rest of you player-killing CoD kiddies I enjoy killing coast snipers and wear my new hero skin proudly.

Seriously, the military even does it now. It's called a bayonet.

Sounds pretty cool, might give a use for NVGs on all-day servers.

Oh, no, they're not gone. There are still plenty here. They're just all up north. You know, the place you go once you leave the coast.

It means instead of killing you they had the ability to manage to get your stuff without shooting, that's much harder than just shooting someone and taking their stuff.

We're going to think about that one, on one hand it was nice to spawn randomly because we could keep the server locked until we start to prevent cheating, but on the other people who spawn in cherno/elektro would have advantages over those in kamenka, krutoy cap, etc I think we will keep the biplane a mystery, making you guys split up to check both airfields might be more interesting :P

We have every right to be here, I am in fact a hero but a reformed bandit as well. You have your opinions we have ours, nobody is restricted from voicing theirs. Sorry to dissapoint if you were expecting a carebear bandit love-fest where everyone tells you you're right and encourages you.

Rocket has come out and said that if someone in the community ported DayZ to ArmA 3 he would not be opposed, but he would not do it himself nor would the dev team, and it would not be "offical" DayZ like the SA or the CO mod.

We are considering starting something like this for my clan's private hive, but instead of buying weapons it would buy stuff like skins (pay $xx and get camo clothing, etc.) excluding ghillies and actual humanity skins since we can't spawn those, or other minor things like spawning with an extra bandage or a thing of morphine, so basically for aesthetics and a bit of extra help for starting out in terms of defense, not offense. Any money we would make would either go into the hive rental or website and everything else would go back into the community as prizes for our Survival GameZ events, and I have no problems with us potentially operating like this. The problem is when people take this concept and plug in weapons. If you want to start out with that much gear to PvP, which is what I imagine most people who buy AS50s do, go play Wasteland or vanilla ArmA. You don't actually have to pay for your weapons there.

Pretty much. Having played all 3 sides though, I don't get it. I get much more satisfaction out of earning someone's trust and not betraying it or being betrayed than I did the one time I tried playing KoS.

Minor details aside, killing everyone you see on here just for the hell of it is no different than a deathmatch on any other FPS.

Yeah I had some issues getting it up and only just realized that it didn't publish, the next and hopefully permanent GameZ thread is here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/126087-the-8th-infantry-divisions-survival-gamez/

Romanticize it all you want, fact is that doesn't happen anymore like it used to because the fighting moves down to the coast. Bandits do definitely add depth to the game, but when everyone is a bandit and everyone kills eachother the second they see eachother, other than the health system and having to find your gun why is this any different than CoD or battlefield?

Because your definition of bandit seems to be different than mine, I see a bandit as being someone who holds people up, robs them, can find ways to get around killing everyone you see but will kill when they need to in order to survive. When I was a bandit we created traps, roadblocks, and organized kidnappings to get stuff to survive without needing to go to the coast. I fail to see how killing some random fresh spawn who might possibly in some fashion could potentially come back to attempt to try to maybe kill you in the future counts as banditry, unless I'm so old school I wasn't informed that now anyone who can buy the game, jump on a server, grab a gun and shoot the first person they see in the back is coined a bandit.

Killing everyone you see before they have a chance to even attempt to play the game isn't creating fun. I like, though, how you're talking all this shit about being KoS and your signature is about being a medical service/