Viperus

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA They're just gonna take the free money, and walk away.

DON'T BUY THIS. I expected DayZ Standalone would continue where DayZ left off, only with visual upgrades. HOWEVER, that is not the case! They are starting over from scratch. Apparently, its impossible to import earlier data/scripts or something? +better graphics +zombies (all 3 of them I have seen in a few hours of gameplay) dont use twich animations like before. +more customization -kinda bad movement, tapping 2x shift somtime buggs out, moving down the stairs slows you down. -picking up items is still horrible (you can press tab to show up all items nearby, so you can pick them up more easily). But honestly, I was hoping for an item pickup mechanic, simmilar to the one in WarZ, not the same horrible item pickup which makes you spin around for 10 seconds, trying to pick up shoes. -no autorun button (we really need that one) -no suicide (yet). Since there is almost no zombies, you have to wait for your character to die out of dehydration. -punching walls with your fists makes gunfire noise and animation. -killing a zombie with your fists takes about 50hits -zombies go through doors -no acceleration/deceleration animation, meaning you are either walking or sprinting full speed, nothing in between. CONCLUSION : I dont think the new engine will improve the gameplay. Same old, buggy crap with just horrible UI. I mean, really, Bohemia Interactive devs, apply some common sense. "Hey, this mod is making us more money than our games ever did. Maybe we should improve the looting mechanics, since the mod is all about looting? Or add better melee support? You know, since our game is basically crap, with really big maps." "Nah, lets just click import->new model, and call it a new engine".

I can only hope this is a joke.

Its not that kind of pvp. In cod you have : Ill put 5 bullets in him, he'll put 6 in me, he wins. In dayz : Ill stalk him, he'll turn around and notice me, he'll run around, hide, get behind my back, and if I dont notice, he WILL 1-shot me.

Im not sure if you can actually implement this but here goes: 1. You shouldn't be able to log off 30 (maybe even more) seconds after taking damage. This would not only help PVP but also PVE, because its just lame how people pull a zombie train, loot a few houses and d/c with no consequences. 1*. If a player d/c-es due to connection loss, write a string in a local file. The string could be matched with server data. (no clue what arma engine can and cant do). On reconnecting to master server, check for the local file. If no data/invalid data was written in the file, means the player pressed alt+F4. Delete that character and respawn him with no beans XD 2. Destroy all items in 10m radius of player spawn point. Make loot reappear there 20 mins later. This would really cripple server hoppers who find a house and then loot that house in 50 different servers. Also, I passed all of my classes, so if needed, I'm willing to help with the coding.

Bump XD

Today, I'm getting stalked by 3 bandits, I find cover inside a house with 1 exit. After waiting for a minute or so, they come storming in. I knock out 2 of them (they dropped my hp to about 60%) and they all disconnect. Even the 3rd guy who had full hp. I presume the 3rd guy was the healer with blood packs, so he didnt want to take any chances. Seriously bandits? XD I guess I should be thankful they didnt serverhop behind me? XD

Alt+F4 takes about 1sec to do. Restarting your router (and possibly screwing up your brother/sisters internet) takes a few seconds + time time needed for the router to actually restart. @Rokor: Im not talking about hack such as dll injectors. Those are a real pain in the ass to deal with. Im talking about a way to prevent cheap tricks. People abuse these glitches because they are easy to do, with no repercussions whatsoever. Most people will stop doing it after they figure out theres a punishment for their actions.

Well I cant FRAPS this because my fps drops too much for me to be efficient in a firefight. So, where am I supposed to meet these legendary bandits with night visions and what not? I've been to NA , shot bullets in the air, wrote friendly all over the place, still nothing.

Crossbow arrows need to take 2x1 slot (theres some MG ammo cart that does that, so I know its possible) and we should be able to stack 6-12 arrows. Maybe rocket should make quivers that allow arrow stacking?

LaurenDanger, I suggest you join my steam group ( http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DayzEUSurvivors/ ) , you can find a lot of people there who share your oppinion.

Well excuse me for not running into any skilled bandits yet. Snipers hiding on the roof who d/c when I heal up and come to slaughter them. Close combat disconnectors - reconnectors. Idiots who I can run into and let them shoot each other. Idiots who start shoting the second I turn my back on them, but if I survive and turn around, run like a little chickens. Pros who try to run me over with a car, only to get headshotted (unless I get a desync which causes me to get run over). Night vision pros who I rape by taking cover and throwing flares/870 redfield + flash in a small room. Only 2 out of about 30 people managed to actually sneak behind me and shoot me without me figuring out and killing them as well.

I played paintball/airsoft , know martial arts, and trust me, I move a lot faster then these "survivors" who are supposed to be the most skilled people alive XD Lets say youre facing the door and going through your backpack, with both your hands, you see an enemy, how many seconds do you need to pull your gun out? For me its about 1-1.5 seconds. If you include the lag and desync crap, it takes a huge ammount of time to do that here. I would very like much to use combat roll even if it means dropping everything I got excluding the gun I'm holding.

Basically, any intellectual will not shoot you in this game. Why? Because the pvp is absolutely horrible, and should not be the focus of the game, at least not until the interface is improved. 1. Killing someone because he needs 3 seconds to get out of gear menu does not feed my ego. 2. I feel no need to kill people when theres plenty of supplies everywhere. 3. Sniping a stationary target who has no chance to fire back at you (unarmed/axe/makarov vs 500m rifle) is not considered cool. It's lame. 4. You cant look behind or pull out your gun when on the ladder. Seriously, am I the only one who can use 1 arm and 1 leg to stay on the ladder while doing "acrobatics"? 5. There are games made with PVP in mind, such as COD, UT, BF and many many others. I can only assume bandits dont play those games since they suck. Its a lot harder to shoot somebody who isnt stuck in a menu or unarmed, isnt it? XD I'm not against PVP, I in fact enjoy when a bandit tries to hunt me. But what I am against are the horribly slow character actions, compared to 1-hit kill weapons. In fact, I invite all bandits to be less pathetic, and start killing players without exploiting crap like getting stuck in doorways/inventory , killing with makarov through concrete wall etc.

Only arma sucks so much, I wouldnt play it even if you payed me to do it.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DayzEUSurvivors/ Its a private steam group. So bandits dont join in. My steam ID is darkviperus, I can invite you to it. Other proven non-bandits will be able to invite too. edit: the group is public cause we only have 2 members for now XD But seriously people, join if you're a survivor, at least we'll know how many of us are playing. You can go into steam, click join group channel and use that for realtime communcation / group finding. Better then these forums, I believe. HOW TO PLAY ARMA2 BETA WITH STEAM OVERLAY: 1. go to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead and rename your "ArmA2OA.exe" to "ArmA2OAbackup.exe" 2. go to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta and copy arma2oa.exe to the folder in 1. 3. Go to steam, right click operation arrowhead, properties->tab general-> set launch options and paste this into it: "-mod=C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2;Expansion;ca;Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion;@dayz" -nosplash with the quotes. YOU MAY HAVE TO CHANGE THIS if your steam is installed in some other folder 4. Now you can play ARMA2 beta with steam overlay just by clicking on Operation Arrowhead in steam.

Just refreshing the thread, to keep the noobies informed ^^.

or.... http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=20013

Not sure if you can do this, or is it an ARMA2 core mechanic, but it would be nice if after dying I could see who damaged me in the last 2mins or so. Viperus was killed: "3500 dmg from player Bob" "2000 dmg from bleeding" "1000 dmg from zombies" Because I have encountered immortal hackers, and I didnt even get their name due to the fact I bled out.

I am very happy to say that the group is a great sucess! We managed to administer bloodpacks, 2 of us bumped into each other in the market which somehow caused me to break both my legs and lose some hp, but the situation was resolved and we continuted to not kill other noobs. ^_^

3 people are playing, using steam multichat voice, yey ^_^ We are starting to have a decent number of members.

You should join the European DayZ Survivors steam group. Simply ask in the group chat if anybody wants to party. Nobody from the group will attack you, bandits get kicked.

Join the group, pretty please? XD

Yeah, we only have 8 members, things are kinda slow now. But I can confirm that at least 4 players here are actually friendly.

Because I can look up at the sky and see where the sun is? edit: I also managed to meet 5 different people and only 1 started shooting at me XD He got hit by 1 zombie and fainted. And then I shot the zombies and his leg, and said farewell, like a sir XD