xiangrim

I know you said you aren't too familiar with editing pbo's but the fact is, you'll have to edit them if you want to make any changes. I found a pretty good link that shows you what to edit and where. [url=http://opendayz.net/threads/adding-custom-loot-spawns.7327/]http://opendayz.net/threads/adding-custom-loot-spawns.7327/[/url If you have trouble figuring it out, feel free to hop into my clans ts (ts.gsc-clan.org) and pm me. I'll walk you through it. Good luck and have fun!

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Tons of players have joined our server and our ranks lately since this threads been up. Myself and the other admins have been working pretty hard to bring some really awesome things to our server. We are the FIRST DayZ server to introduce a moving and working train, courtesy of Zonekiller Moon for letting us use his designs. Axeman from opendayz.net graciously made his AI Bandit scripts public and we've done a few edits of our own to bring GSC Bandits to the table. I personally designed and coded our very own Dynamic Helicopter Crashes, which can been seen here We're doing a lot of awesome things. We are definitely not going to take anything away from the spirit of the game. This is a zombie survival game and we aim to keep it that way. We're just add some cool stuff along the way. So come visit, stay for the day, stay for a week, its going to be a hell of a ride until Standalone comes out!

Again, the explosion is just for the visual. It may not be entirely realistic for some but going, that was exactly the point. The old heli crashes were just on the ground smoking with zeds around them. In a later build, I will be taking the notification portion out, it was really just there for testing purposes. Most of the work really goes into working with and around BattlEye to get things the way I first envisioned this. For the record, BattleEye does not like things blowing up in the sky lmao For right now, the loot is actually on the pilots themselves. Our video sucks in regards to the ending, we're going to be doing a completely new one with tidbits of all our additions to our server, the Heli crashes, our AI bandits and our working Train. The pilots are basically ejected once the heli settles down and the players can then loot the dead bodies. Each pilot is scripted to choose a random loadout set. As far as activation goes, that was the best part in my opinion. Because I was going for that Wow! factor, I designed so that a player would have to be relatively close to the chopper for it to set off the explosion. Whether he was flying by, driving in a car or on foot, if the chopper flew by near him, there is almost 0% chance of them missing the excitement.

The heli is actually a reg huey. It may not be completely accurate as the regular crashes but my entire goal was to just spice up the regular heli crashes. As far as making the explosion less pronounced, personally, I'd only go bigger lol The stock ones were just so boring. These heli crashes currently do no spawn any type of zombies, as they fly around the map until a player is within a certain range. Not much of a challenge but we've got more additions to our server such as AI bandits that challenge our players elsewhere on the map. When I showed my wife what I had accomplished, her reply was "So what if it explodes, what makes that so special?" And really, the only answer I could come up with is "Sweetheart, we're men. We just NEED to have shit exploding." I haven't really looked, anyone know where we could go to post this video for the devs? We'd love to work with them on this.

My next idea is to actually give the helicopters a probability point as well, say about 50% and only have 3-4 on the map at a time. I don't want to give too much away as of yet but I love all the feedback we've gotten with this, really makes all the work that was put in not only by myself by Luxifer as well for helping test and work out the bugs really worth it. That being said, I have quite a few ideas brewing around my head. Bigger and better things will be coming from this.

Just to throw out some info, we designed it so that the train essentially starts in BZ and travels the entire track to Kamenka, reverses and travels back. Once in BZ, it repeats. At each train station are those little raised platforms that you would walk on to enter/exit the train. It stops at each for 1 minute, blasting its horn before its arrival, before continuing on to the next stop. Is it "realistic" to have a working AI driven train in a post apocalyptic atmosphere? No. Is it cool as shit to see and hear that thing rolling through town while you're looting the store in Electro? Hell yeah! This is a freaking video game designed for entertainment.

GSC has a working train on our server! Big shoutout to ZoneKiller for the original design. Myself and our other modder Devineus spent about two weeks updating the scripts to work with DayZ. As far as our research shows, and by all means correct me if I am mistaken, we are the first DayZ server to accomplish this. We are working on other additions as well, such as dynamic helicopter crash sites. You will actually see them flying around, blowing up and then spawning gear. We are currently working on a DayZ+ private hive. Hack/cheat free, no admin abuse, just an all around great group playing the game the way its meant to be played. Check us out for more information and to join us at www.gsc-clan.org

Well yes, people tend to get "whiny" when you are hacking on their private server and then ban you from said server. So sorry we couldn't allow you to continue to cheat.

New to the game? Veteran looking for a place to call home? Sick and tired of cheaters and hackers ruining the amazing game that is DayZ? Well then swing by www.gsc-clan.org and check our website for whitelist instructions. We offer benefits and protection for clans who wish to join as well as injecting buildings for "bases". Take part in our various server events for prizes! Events range from checkpoint races around Cherno, to Custom made Arena style PvP matches and coming soon, Cooperative combat against waves and waves of AI! We offer more than just a worry-free environment for DayZ but we are building our own gaming community and we want you to be a part of that! Whether you are brand new to the game, veteran, solo player, or bringing an entire fleet of players; any and all are welcome! Check us out, you will not be disappointed!