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Standalone will be much tougher. Learn, or die.

Huh interesting never heard of this before

No that would be too hard to manage server side... But that is an interesting idea for standalone maybe? Imagine not being able to camp in the forest because its too cold in winter :o

That picture frightens me...

Most likely a hacker spawning in the wrong vehicle, or just them playing wi your head...

Why isn't it on DayZ commander then?

All the avagaming servers are great. But I also play on the NZ servers, great ping, even though they are in New Zealand...

My longest might be like 8 hours? But that was with a mate over, and it was raining I think...

Woohoo DayZ, and congrats on rocket for the unparalleled success! Hopefully standalone can be so lucky, maybe pulling in some of its own awards? GOTY?

I have some suggestions for camping, and the use of fire in DayZ. ————— CAMPS/CAMPING 1. For starters, there should be a wider variety of tents available. In real life, there is a plethora of different tents available, not just military 'hutchies' as they are called here in Australia. 2. Tent storage should be redone completely. It is highly unlikely you would be able to store up to 10 weapons of varied sizes, 50 pieces of survival gear such as medicals and food, and 5 backpacks in a single military tent. In a real 'hutchie' there is enough room for yourself and two backpacks and webbing at best. Obviously if my first point is implemented, then storage would vary. 3. Give different tents different (subtle) advantages and disadvantages. For example. A military tent, would have less storage space, but it is less visible due to camouflage. While a larger family camping tent, would be able to carry a larger amount of items, with the cost of being seen, due to a brighter colour. CAMP FEATURES AND USES 1. Basic trenches, or traps should be able to be engineered to combat intruders. Even the ability to build in trees, to make lookouts and over watches. 2. Tents should have an option where a player can actually sleep in real time, to accelerate recovery of infections, blood loss and injuries. Players should be able to killed while in this state. Also, vision should be blurred, so you cannot look around for intruders too easily. However, in this state, you get enhanced hearing, since you have cut back one sense, enhancing all others. FIRE/COOKING 1. You should be able to know roughly how old a firepit is, by looking at the coals. If a fire has just been put out. It should continue to smoke or steam, for a few minutes. Then, after smoking for a bit, it should turn to just smouldering coals, getting less red hot as time goes on. 2. Fires should be able to be put out with water, otherwise, it will continue to smoke until the coal burn out. If put out with your water bottle, it will just steam for a few minutes, and then go cold, limiting the timeframe where someone could pass by. 3. Cooking meat should take longer, it shouldn't be like half an hour or anything, but longer. Possibly 30 seconds to maybe 2 minutes? 4. A camping stove should be able to be used instead of a fire, which used petrol instead of wood. It would have less light emitting, reducing chances of being spotted from afar, while cooking meat quicker. (Sorry for long read and unedited post, but I just wanted to get out my ideas as soon as possible!)

:o No one has told me this! Thanks so much smash you aussie legend :P Enjoy your time in standalone ou lucky bastard haha

If this game became a Call of Duty with zombies redux, I would surely stop playing. In fact another game reminds me of a COD with zombies... But I have faith that rocket will keep dayz the way it is, or better yet make t even more punishing!

The Q and A's on reddit? Yeah I have read them over thorougly but the last one was almost a week ago wasn't it?

So there hasn't been any (new) information about anything regarding DayZ Standalone, apart from the post about not trusting alpha key giveaway sites, but that doesn't really count does it? So I was just wondering if there had actually been something new, without me realising, or we are just in a moment of radio silence while the dev team sort out a few things before the closed alpha can begin? Anyway I am too excited for this game, I am even excited to just see what the character models look like in game, and even the new in inventory system has me wondering...

Loving the thread guys, I read it every night in bed, scaring the goat out of me ;) Anyway, here is my little tale of The Ghastly Goats of Chernarus. (Now before you read any further, this is not to do with Green Mountain as such, as the action happens in the preparation for the journey.) So me and my good friend Grommetfull, or as some of you may know him, Habibi R, had just logged in for the day. I had recently linked him to this thread, since I had enjoyed it, and was so frightened of it, I thought he might like it all the same. He did, and started reading it at night, under the covers of course. But we had kept reading about the so called Curse of Green Mountain and all the strange and unsettling occurrences and happenings tied to the place. We decided at the beginning of our session, we would prepare for our journey (at night) to Green Mountain. We spawned back in where we logged off the previous night. At Cape Golovo, where we had decided to meet up at the lighthouse there. After a clumsy 5 or so minutes we finally found each other, he decided to scare me a little, but firing an MP5SD shot above my head, proving how quiet it really is. Me being half-scared and half-amazed at the submachine gun, brought up my map, and plotted a course for Stary Sobor, Grommet did the same. He took the lead being our point man, watching for any activity, and me covering his bandit ass with my M4A3 assault rifle. Somehow, he had faster sprinting than me and was moving 2 metres ahead of me every 5 seconds. But I heard that it was an issue a lot of people encountered, so I disregarded to to either me holding heavier weapons, or some kind of Alpha glitch. Anyway, about halfway to Stary, I saw a helicopter crash site which my 'point man' had completely missed. We made our way over, Grommet taking the high ground while I crawled through the sprawling military zombies. It was quite awesome watching the zombies fall around me, and I give him credit for being quite a badass at times. Anyway, as he cleared the few remaining zombies, he comes over joining me. To our dismay, we find nothing. "That's pretty sh*t." Grommet says. So, a magazine down from his MP5, and on his last 10 rounds, we desperately need to get to Stary, in case we get into an unexpected firefight. So we double time it out of there, being extremely exposed in a place of high interest. We run across the fields. Something catches my eye. A goat. Sweet, some meat for our troubles. Grommet takes the shot, to avoid attracting the wrong sorts of attention. In the head, blood spurts out. Nothing. He tries 2 more shots, before I step in. I pull out my 1911, however this triggered something in the goat. It turned it's head towards me, which looked strange and unnatural because it was turned almost 180 degrees, this made uncomfortable, as I had read about these 'possessed' goats before, and I was having none of it. I unloaded my whole mag into him, and to no avail. After being baffled by this, I told Grommet to not worry about it, we would find a cow or something along the way. He said "Probably just glitching out or something." "Yeah, sure of course." But my voice was shaky, I knew it wasn't as simple as that. No. It was much more complex. We had arrived at Stary, we came around the North Side, hoping to flank any potential snipers/bandits in the area. We surveyed the area and saw no movement. We continued. Grommet had found himself a tent, filled with some goodies. A DMR with 5 mags, two NVG's, car parts and some food and medicals. He took the DMR, and provided an overwatch, as I checked the tents and the car spawns. After doing a raid of the tents, finding nothing notable, but an overdose of STANAG's I got back to the car spawns. Both cars where there. The GAZ and the UAZ. We ultimatley decided the GAZ, as it only needed 2 wheels, while the UAZ needed, some more work. After putting the lone car wheel on, that we found in the tents, I decided to run down to a Factory, and Solchiny if need be, to find this last car wheel. Unfortunately, I found all types of rotor assemblies and engines, but no wheels. I told Grommet I needed to head to Solchiny for the wheel, he said he needed to go, cause he was heaps bored of keeping the area safe. I said sure whatever, I'll be careful in my approach. Luckily I found a tractor along the way, and later an ATV. With the wheel acquired, I made my way back. Unfortunately, flipping the ATV, I had to double back for the tractor. I was driving beside the roads, watching it get darker, I couldn't help but feel paranoid as I drove past goat after goat, in the fields. It made me uneasy, and I decided to get on the road, to speed things up, to get the hell out of there, I drove about halfway, when I turned around a corner, and found a HELICOPTER! Whohoooo it was my first helicopter in the game and I was heaps excited, It was fully repaired, and had full fuel. I should have suspected a trap of sorts, but that was the last thing on my mind, with all the excitement rushing through me. I took off and told Grommet of my find, he immediately logged back in, watching the area for players, we were ditching the car, and were going to fly far away, to try and find a base. As my rotors span, I couldn't help but notice 2 goats, staring at me, their heads following me up, as I ascended. I was really freaked out now. I fiddled with the controls learning how to fly forward I flew the rest of the way to Stary. We were talking about how cool our base was going to be and everything when I approached Stary. I bank right, into the field there, with Gromment sprinting to the chopper as I skillfully landed it. I brought up my map, plotting a course, when I froze. There was a blue illustration of another chopper, parked outside the industrial building. I told Grommet, and we got on the gun. We flew slowly past the chopper, and not wanting to be followed, Grommet opened fire. We surely damaged the hull at least, but we saw movement so we agreed to make distance. Going a flat out over 200 km/h (or miles, whatever the measure is) we had made good distance, and saw nothing behind us. I suggested letting Grommet have a go, so he could be comfortable with flying in an emergency. I saw a field which looked flat, I landed and got and and stopped the engine. Grommet got out ready to fly. But there was a problem, the Helicopter was sliding along the ground. It was about 200m from trees, so I got back in, and started spinning the rotors, I had lifted off, and just barely missing the tops of the trees, as if I was in an action movie. I travelled about 500m when I decided to turn around, and pick up Grommet. I pressed the button to bank right. Nothing happened. I tired again. Nothing. This time I tried bank left. Nothing. After another 10 seconds of pressing random buttons trying to get a response, I notice that a helicopter is headed straight for me. Freaking out I am smashing buttons, nothing works. As I accept my imminent death. I stop touching the keyboard, still flying forward. Then, about 100m away from the heli, a nameplate pops up. An orange tag, which read Animal. Not really thinking too much about it at the time since I was moments away from death. The helicopter suddenly lurched into a dive, and crashed into the wooded forest. The last thing I saw. Was 2 goats. Staring at me through the trees. They were trodding along towards me. But instead of trodding, they were actually gliding. As I saw the "You are Dead" screen pop up, I think about my death. Then I remember the nametag. Sometimes, when looking at an animal, you will see this tag come up. I know this because I have seen it whilst looking at goats, before they became my next meal. I guess this time...I was theirs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moral of the story, if you see a goat, don't mess with it. You will get blown up, and your corpse will be mutilated.