zombieland78

Our only hope is to wait for a mod for SA that will ACTUALLY be about the zombie experience. Coz the entire community is pretty much anti zombie right now. How many times do you hear people in videos say, in a tired voice "ugh, fuckin' zombies." And like I say, no one wants to play at night. I went on a mod server the other day and asked about night. The admin said that he checked out the stats and no one played when it was dark, so he opted against having nights. How did this happen?

Yeah, I feel that people just want to push a big red button that says 'make me win now'. Or a button that says 'EASY MODE'. I hate the vanilla mod though. I live for a little base with my stuff in it. That's one area where I'd love to see more expansion. Furniture for one... customisation... keeping zombies out. It's never been properly implemented.

I fantasise daily about my own SA mod. In it, there's snow (and seasons) and hoards and the necessity for sleep. Oh how I dream.

I found this server yesterday (epoch) - 62.210.188.240: 2302 - zombies unite It's quite good. Usually half full, so not overcrowded. Doesn't seem to have too many bases dotted around. Has a gold coin system. And considering it's Chernarus, there's been the odd vehicle here and there (rare for Chernarus). My technique for finding a server was to install DayZ Launcher and just go through the list. I couldn't be bothered setting it up properly so I just did a search and manually punched in the IP in Operation Arrowhead's multiplayer menu. Did that until I found a server that wasn't stupid (i.e. slow zombies, what the hell is that all about!?)

So I haven't played the mod in about 6 months because it all went to hell after that stuff happened (assuming you all know what it was? it was so complicated I can't even remember, something to do with gamespy, dayz commander, the upgrade). Since then I've been playing SA but it's just moving so slowly and I miss base building and larger zombie numbers. So could someone point me in the direction of what the most common practise is currently? what do you use instead of Commander? or is Commander still viable? what's the best version to install AND what's the best way to install it (again, Commander was always good for this). Any help would be much appreciated :)

Just a quick update in case anyone is able to figure this out for me... I installed DayZ Launcher but it can't find my Epoch installation. When I open DayZ Commander it says that Epoch 1.0.5.1 is (up to date). But in the Launch section of DayZ Launcher, it lists a handful of mods (none of which are Epoch, but we have Namalsk for example). I also have Panthera installed and running fine but that doesn't show up in Launcher as installed either. The paths (under Settings) are identical to Commander with the exception that the mods path in Commander has '\@DayZ'. If I append the path in Launcher to reflect this it then lists NO mods.as being installed at all. Thoughts?

Thanks for the info. I'll look into it :D

So I logged in at a military camp 5 mins before server restarts. I log back in to an unpopulated server, only 1 other person on. Within 2 minutes I was shot dead. Is this likely to be an admin, punishing me for jumping on an empty server in a high loot area? It wasn't one of the popular military areas either.

http://imgur.com/a/8aLQZ I love atmosphere in a game. DayZ doesn't seem to be addressing that aspect, but likely it's because of the render engine. Here's my hopes for the future!

have they changed how to run since .48? Tried double tapping W, shift, right click, re-logging etc. just does a gentle trot everywhere. Edit: found that I can run while holding left shift, but it does stay and I have to keep it pressed down. Could it be something in the controls?

Oh right, so the last guy was either being a dick or just stupid? hmmm Thanks for the headsup!

hmmm, righto then. Cheers.

Just had such a tragic and pointless murdering after working really hard to get my shit together. Sad because I have zero intention of cold-killing ANYONE. Is there a way to find out who did it though? Feeling I was set up. Was quite weird. Something to do with Obituaries in trade cities? if so, how do I figure it out? Much appreciated.

Here's some concept art I made seeing as I love zombies and spooky fairs... This is a little on the western/American side of things, but I'm sure they could do a more Chernobyl style one. I like points of interest so would love to see more unusual places to explore. Looking forward to the cemetery as well.

Anyone else find that after a lost session, they come back and the world is pure grey. Nothing visible at all. Tried waiting, tried re-logging. By the way, what is 'session lost'? is it usually the server restarting and if so will they implement a count-down sometime soon?

might give that a try next time it happens. incidentally - damn when will they fix that blur problem?!?

Cool :) I'd actually like to set up camp in one of the rides. Board it up. Loot for candy instead of tactical bacon :)

I'm playing on Experimental and will often get booted ('session lost'). I've been playing the DayZ UK (Experimental/Testing) servers, numbered 0-XX and so I'll note down "Right, I'm joining 0-9" and then I'll get on that for a while. After getting a lost session I'll try to resume by finding 0-9 but my character is gone. I then hop around trying to find where my character went. Unfortunately the history tab doesn't tell you for sure which one you played on last. Also, I can't just shut the game down and re-start and have it automatically resume my previous session because I can't close DayZ without a crash (so it loses much of the data from my server lists). Any ideas?

What does that mean in practical terms? And how does it related to my question/s? cheers

Struggling to get to grips with a) which guns go with which ammo and b) where to source the guns/ammo that goes with them. I would ideally like to find guns that can be bought rather than just found so I can get used to it and replace it reliably. Same with ammo. I'm not yet comforable doing missions so don't want to rely on mission-finding for a particular sniper rifle. Not yet anyway. I made myself a video of all the regular and black market guns available and ammo available so I can pause it and get to know which can be bought but I still can't figure out which ammo goes with which gun. Sometimes It'll appear like I've bought the exact ammo required for the gun but then it turns out not to be. So far I am familiar with the SVD and can get hold of ammo for that. Can buy DMR ammo but then the DMR has to be found. Can buy an M24 (which I quite like) but not sure which ammo goes with that and if it can be purchased. Are there any web pages with tables for reference?

Not a massive issue but does lose my favourites every time and maybe server history. It literally doesn't close/exit to windows without crashing. Anyone else have this? I'm playing experimental.

Hmm, quick question along these lines then. What's the deal with the 'session lost' issue? Having rubber-banded into the locked room in the police station, and also having lost a session only to come back and be lost in a grey void with no way to interact with the world, I've vowed to not play SA again until these basic features are sorted. Now, I know the rubber banding has just about been sorted and is due to be implemented shortly but any idea on the lost session thing?

Sorry if this is a dumb questions, but I've been playing experimental lately and wondered - do updates to experimental come in as new features are added or is it like stable where there's one big update every month or so?

oh ok then. Guess that's all I needed to know. More frequent than the stable version anyway.

That's awesome! Only downside is that half or most of the sniper rifles are missing (and for some reason there's several hundred duplicates of the M1911)