ottovonlarnie

After almost 14 months away from both the standalone and Mod, I have returned, and here are a few of my observations thus far: 1) There are more zombies now, I reckon the zombie spawns in SA are perfect, no more or less required for the finished product. Also, the zombies are a lot more hazardous. 2)There are far fewer weapons, I mean come on wtf! Don't get me wrong I understand the Dev's are wanting to make it more difficult for you to gear up, thus increasing your eagerness to survive, but surely the game has maybe gone a bit too far. There seems to be very little in the way of even essential loot available, which makes the finding of weapons seem even more amazing when it eventually happens. 3) The everquest I have for a can opener, when I last played dayz I had everything required for the apocalypse if I had a can opener, today that holds true but there doesn't seem to be any anywhere. I know you can use a screwdriver etc. but surely in an apocalypse people aren't going to run to the local shop and clear out the can openers, surely they could be more common. 4) I still feel that the best experience is to be had on the mod, and possibly even the vanilla mod. I think having the traders in any server ruins everything. What are the biggest changes you have noticed, and what are your opinions of it?

10-15 kills so far, in maybe 50 hours. Mostly because they were trying to hold me up/ were trolling/ or unresponsive in chat. I am now looking to kill anyone I can, in an effort to try and get myself killed, as I would like to try and get geared up all over again. I'm looking forward to some new content in order to spice things up again! bring on Hunting!

I'm at 32 hours and still on my first play! :) Now I'm tooled up and surviving on my own it's easy, it is definitely much easier than the mod, but it was tough to get going at first. After getting to grips with the Food/Health/Water/Blood system thanks to MerinoDAYZ's vid's the game does get better, you spend less time gathering the meaningless stuff and simply travel from water pump to water pump when moving around, you have more time to travel and find trouble. My only thing so far is that even though I play on busy'ish servers I rarely discover proper action, I've had a good bit of fun at Lopatino getting caught up in a clan war type thing, but the map now seems more detailed and better balanced so it spreads people out more. I was absent for most of the Balota carnage early on.

Combat logging is a horrid thing, and while I appreciate you were trying to do something good, it is in excusable. It takes all the fun out of the game, if you avoid KOS'ing and then your prey simply logs out to avoid you, its a real painful thing which makes people more likely to KOS afterward. I have had a few close calls, when I wasn't careful enough and they've got the drop on me, I haven't logged once. I enjoy the duck/spin/shoot combination, its a great card to play in those situations, even though it only works 25% of the time.

Loved this! Loggers really boil my piss! ...And just to weigh in on the argument, it is such a good way of dealing with the combat logging problem! It is obvious when someone logs, and whoever 'forced' the person to combat log is able to take advantage of the guilty's cowardice, I reckon you'd have to be awfully unlucky to fall foul of this if you were simply logging off in a bush somewhere. ...unless you were a total muppet! I always find a nice out of the way spot before logging off, it helps a lot when you log back in knowing you are not going to be under pressure straight away, giving you time to settle in.

This was a triumph! My first character is still going, despite having had a few close calls, and here is the story of what happened today. Me and some guy called 'xXFLAPSXx' who I picked up on the way were doing a bit of scavenging near Berezino, some psycho ran in out of nowhere swinging a bat around and xXFLAPSXx brought him down with his magnum, all this was fairly routine and I had seen it a thousand times before. ...we thought we could hear a chopper at first, but we knew this wasn't the case, and so we continued to go about our business. On returning to a fountain near to where we killed the guy earlier, the sound grew louder and we could make out someone talking, it sounded like someone talking to or playing with a small child. We could hear some non descript murmors and then we'd clearly hear '...there he is, aren't you clever..' or the even scarier '...nom, nom, nom I'm going to eat ya', yes I am nom, nom, nom...' We knew someone was afk nearby, so we decided to look for him, after what must have been 15-20 minutes we spotted him prone in some bushes. He was marvelously hidden, we'd walked past him a few times already and hadn't seen him. We decided to see if he would move anytime soon, but he didn't, we could still hear him chuntering away to the 'baby' in the background when all of a sudden it struck us. If we could hear him in direct chat, he should still be at the keyboard, we decided he must be able to hear us and we started to try and communicate. No sooner had we said 'hello?!', he was up and running toward us with a fireaxe saying 'I'm going to get you little man' in the same voice he had been using the whole time! Realising we had just been epically trolled, I pissed myself laughing, as xXFLAPSXx panicked and started to unload his revolver at the oncoming attacker I called out to him. ME: 'Hey mate, we're friendly!' (a difficult stance to try and take when you're buddy is shooting at the guy) TROLL: 'Here comes the aeroplane!... <NEEEAAAAOOOOWWWW>' xXFLAPSXx was killed by MyFavouriteEverPerson* with a fireaxe (*not his actual name) ME: 'DUDE STAHP!, this is funny, but please, stahp, I don't wan't to kill you' TROLL: '<NEEEAAAAOOOOWWWW>' MyFavouriteEverPerson* was killed by GreenMachine with an M4 (*not his actual name) MyFavouriteEverPerson* body disappears into the ground (*not his actual name) Words cannot describe how much I laughed! This is an urgent appeal, if you were, or you know who this mystery man was please get in touch. I figure it must have been captured on film, I am so eternally gutted that I didn't get it, I will never forgive myself! Please share this with people, spread the word, I need you're help to find this man!

Ok, today me and a buddy were heading back up North after meeting up not far from Balota. We managed to see of a couple of bandits on the airfield, they limped off and we were left to take the spoils, so my mate now had a hunting backpack and an M4. Moving North we encountered a few bambis running headlong through the fields, whilst this was entertaining, it soon got sinister around Lopatino. It seemed that about 4 guys had hunkered down in Lopatino and were seeing off any potential invaders with deadly force, it must have been a clan war kind of thing going on, because we couldn't make head or tail of it! We decided to weigh in on the action, we took out a fella with a Moisin in the large industrial building, and then tried moving up on the town proper. There was someone in one of the buildings to the right, and he had us pinned as soon as we got into the open, after a few minutes of absolutely bricking ourselves, we decided to leg it! Tom got shot up quite badly, for some reason he got a bit confused and ran the opposite way to what we had agreed and then had to run back to me, we edged carefully around the West side to try and spot any of the others. We encountered someone taking a drink at the fountain near the church and took full advantage, bringing him down with a well placed round from my M4. After a few more minutes of moving around, it became clear that they were covering the outskirts of the town and not the interior, Tom eventually succumbed to a magnum wielding maniac in one of the buildings we were trying to clear. I decided that it may be tough to take the remaining guys on my own, so gave it legs to the West, eventually reaching cover in trees and started heading South to meet up with Tom again. Anyone know whats going at Lopatino?

sorry, have seen that its called the hunting backpack, not the assault backpack. my bad.

it was more of a rhetorical question, but either way I don't know which server I was on.

After countless hours playing the mod, you eventually get to know the map, but once private hives come in with custom buildings etc. it can get a bit confusing. IMHO try to avoid using online resources such as DAYZDB for maps while playing, it is more fun to get lost and have to work it all out yourself, but they can be worth studying a bit to work out locations for looting and routes for travel across country.

Ok, so I've been playing DAYZ pretty solid over the weekend, I've amassed 775 M4 rounds. Today I found my first M4! I am carrying 2x300rnd. boxes and 3 of the bound 30rnd STANAG mags. I am now tucked away in the North of the map exploring all the funky new shit that has been added there, I have only met 1 person so far but he ignored me, do I really need this much ammo? should I ditch it? I don't have anything else taking up those slots at the moment. What are your thoughts, what should I do? how much ammo does everyone else carry/ would like to carry? Finally, where are most people choosing to rest up? staying near the coast or venturing to the unknown of the North?

These video's are great! I watched your other videos the other day, and made a comment about hydrolysis of starch in uncooked rice! I have followed much of your advice, it has helped me greatly, I've been plugging your videos in one of my other topics.

You're welcome! and yes, that post processing tip is important, lots of people assume its buggy because they sometimes can't get the blurriness to go away (its also quite severe at times). But this isn't a bug, its actually an important indicator.

really? holy sheet! lol! I thought it was pretty good, but I ditched mine in favour of an extra 300rnd box! ;)

I try to play with my settings on as high as I can go all the time for every game (that's the way it should be played!), I am fortunate that on my PC I have no problems running everything on max and still get 45-60FPS. Despite some people saying that certain settings cause bad FPS drop, I haven't seen any significant change in frame rates other than what you'd normally expect. Resolution and effect detail seem to soak up most of the resources here, none of the post processing or anti aliasing settings seem to change anything noticeably. My laptop seems to run it well with medium settings, but that is at a lower resolution, my advice is... Spend a good 10 minutes tweaking your settings in a quiet corner of the map, see what works best for your rig and you. Try not to disable post processing if you can help it, as it serves as the only indicator of your health status (it's responsible for the blurry screen which gets worse the less health you have). Also, I have seen the benefit of tweaking my FOV to a slightly higher value!

Right, I am now at 1050 rounds!!!! 3x300rnd boxes and 3 coupled STANAG mags! Today I cleared out three fellas at the NW airfield, to be fair I didn't mean to kill one of them, he was a friendly dude I'd met a few moments before. Him and this other guy started shooting and in the heat of battle I did what I had to do to survive! lol! ...I shot everything! The third guy tried to hold me up, when I do it to people I am always very nice about it this guy was blatently going to kill me. For some reason he thinks its safer to get me to drop my M4, which was previously on my back (big mistake), as soon as I got it in hands I dived left spun round and emptied 30rnds into him! he managed to get 1 .357rnd off, but missed me thank fuck! So, now I have explored a good chunk of the new stuff up North, leaving the NW airfield now heading to the wreck N of Berezino. I'm going to go via Grishino, Devil's Castle, Gvozdno, Krasnostav and NE airfield. Plenty of water pumps on the way, got to keep drinking. On a slightly unrelated note, check out some vid's by 'Merino Dayz' on YouTube to do with the hunger/thirst/blood/health jobbie, they changed the way I manage my inventory and it means I don't have to waste valuable ammo space on carrying beans! I now permenantly have the 'healthy' status indicator, and in my minor skirmish earlier I managed to go straight back to 'healthy' within a few minutes.

This was my point, I am usually playing on servers with around 20-30 players, so I should be bumping into people. I have nothing else I need to carry, and everyone is always saying M4 rounds are tricky to come by. I may head to the coast and try to spend some ammo, still exploring the nuances of the far north at the moment.

Lots of folks use the mic from a webcam, they don't bother to 'tune' the mic either, result is absolutely shocking audio quality!

Lol! I'm no noob, I am only carrying all the ammo because I can't seem to spend it quick enough! I haven't encountered anyone to shoot at, I don't KOS, so I don't know what else I can do with them! I mostly play alone, so there's no team mates to share them with. But I don't need many medical supplies, nobody does really, just keep yourself well fed an watered!

I believe KOS culture is critical to the game, I myself like to always approach every situation as 'friendly' but I don't expect others to do the same, I am always ready to shoot back at someone who shoots at me. If there was no KOS mentality, the game would just be a PvE sandbox in which there would be no tension at all. There have already been moves to try and reduce the number of KOS incidents in the SA, the fact that weapons and ammo are harder to find and that items are damaged in the shootout all help, but I feel if we go too far down this road then we will lose the paradigm that makes DAYZ great. The most fun you usually have is in the gearing up phase, because you are striving to get better stuff, It is then the fear of losing this gear that makes the game exciting. We don't have the fear of zombies that we do of bandits, and without them you may as well play Left 4 Dead or Dead Rising. It is the true human interaction, and its unpredictable nature, that makes DAYZ the greatest gaming experience today.

I appreciate all the effort the team have made in developing their own engine for the standalone, but will the standalone be as accessible for the modding community as it was with the mod. The reason I ask, is that I want to know if some of the maps I know people are working on for Arma3 will be able to be integrated with DAYZ somehow? There may be an answer somewhere on the forum already, but I'll be dammed I can't find it!

I play in this particular server whenever I can, and it is often populated with a number of players from a particular clan. One of these players seems to come with some 'legendary' status as being unstoppable, mostly people say he is hacking, but I am not so sure. He is the usual bandit KOS kind of guy, this whole clan is, but I don't have a problem with that. To me he just appears to be very good at killing all the other faggots on the server, I have managed to miss him thus far, but succumbed to one of his mates in a HUMVEE once. At what point do people stop thinking 'this guy is good' and start thinking 'this guy is a hacker' and why does that point seem much easier to reach the younger you become. Any thoughts? or feel free to just gripe in general about faggots that claim hacks every time you smite them for being stupid!

I don't ever sin in DAYZ, or at least I don't feel as though I do, my conscience is always clear. But I do have a story which could go in here. Playing DAYZ EPOCH, I came across a VTOL just parked up by the side of the road. So naturally I scope it out for a while and nobody comes to look at it, so I go down and try it on for size. To my surprise it was not locked, but loaded with a few nice bits of gear (some basic food and medical supplies as well as some NVGs and DMR mags). I took off and went to my favorite vehicle stashing spot in the SW corner of Chernarus, asked over side chat if anybody wanted it and guided this fresh spawn to me with a series of instructions. gave him a spare G36 or something like that which I had in my backpack and flew him to where his buddy had crashed a light aircraft only a few moments ago. His buddy was trying to get back a heli he had left there a while ago, so the new guy went on his way to pick up his friend in the new heli, and I wait nearby for the server restart. After the restart I spawn in, attempt to take off and BOOM! something didn't like my VTOL and I exploded, grief stricken I appealed for help. Thanks to a glitched spawn I duped all my gear but was left stranded in the very NW corner of the map. My new buddy and his friend came to pick me up in their heli, and they said they would drop me off in Stary at the traders to offload some of my surplus gear. on approaching stary we see another VTOL on the ground with 2 players nearby. the other gunner on our heli opened fire and dropped one fairly quickly. (as it turned out this other guy had been trying to sell the VTOL at the hero camp, but couldn't d/t his humanity, so he managed to get these other two to help him) we couldn't kill the remaining person as they had retreated into the safe zone, so my buddy dropped me off just over the hill and I backed around again to keep an eye on them. Blissfully unaware of my presence I managed to sneak right up to this VTOL without the people noticing. (there were 2 again now, and the third was running in across the fields. So I decided to jump in and take off! ...Gutted was not the word, they started kicking off, calling for the admin and telling me how I'd pissed off a clan! I asked if they wanted it back, and they pleaded with me to land, I did give it back in the end, as I am such a nice guy, but the very next day the bloked killed me when I was loading up at a weapons crate. I was a little sore, but I can't blame him.

I have had a recent HDD failure and my system image seems to have corrupted Breaking point, now when I try to reinstall I get stuck in the infinite loop when installing '42/73 vilasXXX.pbo' anyone know what I can try and do to fix it?

I have 2 questions, not necessarily related, but I thought I'd post hem both here so as to try and stir up the most discussion: 1) What tracks would you have for a dayz soundtrack? 2) One of the guys in my group likes to KOS, I've tried to show him that there are better ways of fucking with people but I am more the hero type, how do we find a happy compromise? The latter makes for some interesting game time, as neither one of us can trust the other 100%. Interaction with other players is always tense, imagine trying to frantically persuade someone not to shoot at a survivor knowing that if he does you will have to shoot as well, the flip side is having him wait for me to 'scope out' a spot before we move when we know we are under pressure.