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According to who? What do you expect them to say? "Why yes, when we saw and played DayZ we said lets hurry up and get a similar game to market before they do. And lets piggyback off the name DayZ." I said it once before and I will say it again. According to them there game has been in development for over a year and they are running an in house alpha. Yet all they have to show the public is a few screenshots and not a single in game vid of game play and yet they are taking pre orders? Does any of that make sense? If your already hitting up the public for pre-orders wouldn't you at least splash what this alpha looks like to suck in the money? The whole thing smells if you ask me, not that you did lol.

This is a fantastic idea. Not only are you guys providing a great service but I bet its also a hell of a lot of fun doing it. I hope you guys post some videos of your rescues. Good luck!

I was dealing with this shame shit last night. Frustrating as hell for sure lol. I found if you don't lock up with the host in the first two minutes its most likely not going to happen.

Especially when he just got plugged by the same guy asking if he is alright no more then three four minutes ago when he was minding his own business lol. "Hey are you ok? I really meant to blow you head off earlier, sorry I missed and got ya in the leg. Need a hand with that?"

It was my third life and after two terrible starts I felt I was doing quite well. Had an AK, couple of mags, some food and drink, life was good. I was pushing North when the tower came into view and I remember thinking that looks really cool, have to check it out. I pull up my map and noticed there are two tree stands on the north side so my plan was to circle the edge of the forest, hit the two tree stands and go check out the tower. At this point I had never heard of green mountain or its infamous reputation. So I am skirting the edge of the forest about 50 yds in, keeping a sharp eye out for the first tree stand when all of sudden came this sound booming through my speakers. It sounded like someone was bashing a thin metal panel with a crow bar or something. Scared the shit out of me, i dropped to the ground, froze and waited. Then it came again this time three times in a row, BASH BASH BASH then silence. I didn't move an inch, just sat there trying to figure out what could possibly be making that sound. I had no answers, the only thing I could think of that could make that sound was if someone was smacking the side of one of those steel warehouses. But, that made no sense because there were no buildings anywhere near me. So, my second theory was that perhaps there is a player nearby fucking with me. So after about ten minutes or so of hearing nothing further and seeing even less I decided to move out toward the first tree stand. I looted it and then the second without incident but this whole time I just have this funny uneasy feeling. I simply chalked it up to being a newb (even more so then I am now lol) and decided to carry on with my plan to head to the tower. The further I went up that mountain the more the dread grew inside me that this was a bad idea. I haven't experienced this type of feeling in a game since the first time I played silent hill but this was different. So, to say I cautiously approached the compound would be an understatement. Not a single living zed outside but I could hear some moaning inside and of course the drone of the fly's. The fly's freaked me out because at this point in my DayZ experience I only associated flies with dead player bodies. That alone gave me pause to enter thinking a sniper is just waiting for me to enter the compound. When I came upon the pile of corpses I was like WTF? After alluding a couple of Zs i climbed the tower, found a hatchet and was enjoying the view. From way up there the dread I was feeling on the ground was quickly dissipating. I was enjoying the view and plotting where I should head next, drank a coke and climbed down feeling good about everything. Just as I exit the tower I hear BASH BASH BASH! That same dam sound. In a mili second I went from care free to petrified. I ran to the cover of the shed in the compound near the pile of bodies, went prone covering the entrance and waited. All remained quite for sometime but I remained. I was convinced it had to be a player messing with me and any second he was going to round that corner looking for me. After laying there for sometime I was beginning to feel a little silly and decided to get up and make my way toward the exit and the get the fuck out of there. All of sudden a huge explosion goes off, like an artillery round had landed nearby. Holy crap, I dropped to the ground trying to figure what is going on and what to do and then bam another explosion followed by another. Now, even though it was only my third life I had spent a little time playing arma. I know what a hand grenade and a grenade launcher sound like in this game and this was neither of the two. So there I was deciding should I leave cover and run for it or stand my ground and wait it out. While all kind of thoughts were running through my head as what this could be the only logical thing that I kept returning too was another player. So i figured I would wait for him or them to enter the compound looking for my fragged body and I would get the drop on them instead of running out into a trap like a scared little girl. At least 15 minutes go by and all is quiet. Every minute that ticked by the more I was becoming that scarred little girl. Finally I decide enough is enough, time to get the fuck out of here. I cautiously make my way toward the exit seeing and hearing nothing. I was just getting ready to make a dash across the road and into the forest when I hear BASH BASH, only twice this time. And I swear before the second "Bash" ended I was already full sprint getting the hell out of there. I didn't stop running till I was clear of the forest. I have yet to hear that "bashing" sound again nor have I experienced any unexplained explosions for that matter since that time on Geen Mountain. This game has a great ability to mess with your mind sometimes but this was really quite an extraordinary experience. Needless to say I have not been back to that Mountain since and it will be a long time till I return alone. Oh, and I am never going at night under any circumstances, fuck that lol.

Great Vid, would be cool if more bandits took this approach more often. I kind of have a similar story with different results. I carefully approached a tree stand that apparently was being camped by two guys. I was unarmed and had nothing but spawn in gear. As i reached the base of the stand the two guys are on top of me with guns in my face. One searched my pack then declared "hes got nothing" then the other guy promptly shot me in the face. Good times lol

I have heard Rocket talk about this concept and implementing it at some point in a couple of interviews and I am having a hard time seeing how this fits in with DayZ. As I see it, this is a hardcore survival sim. It can take hours to just find one can of food let alone a weapon and ammo. From what I can gather from said interviews, its only going to get harder when environmental conditions are fully implemented. I just don't see how the concept of underground player created bunkers jives with this game. It strains the credibility of this game being a Sim in my opinion. You would need excavators, and steel, and yards upon yards of concrete, and on and on, all in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. In a game when finding a tent feels like winning the lottery this makes no sense. And what is going to restrict literally thousands of players creating these things all over the place? I suspect that it is far easier to implement this underground concept then it is to do something similar above ground because the drag it would create on performance and I suspect a host of other issues but is it worth it? I don't know, I get the feeling that I am misunderstanding what Rocket has been saying. What are your thoughts?

Sorry, I did a search and must have overlooked it somehow.

If you have listened to Rockets recent interviews you would know he is not talking about a whole in the ground to stuff a bag. We are talking expandable underground bunkers. He was even talking about how players could possibly create security and alarm devices for entrances. I am not making this shit up lol. As far as finding weapons, yes I know where to look and normally do not have much trouble. That is why I said "it can" not that it always does. I was mostly referring to the difficulty in finding food and drink sometimes.

lol, that was great. Very inspiring indeed :)

I am in EST time zone and new to the game aswell. I predominantly play in the 10pm to 2am area, are you guys active durring that time? If so, do you use EU and Russian servers to play in the daylight when playing late at night? Thanks

It's not your fault your invisible so I can't imagine you being banned for it. Same with weapons you might find. Are we really expected to check the wiki for each and every weapon or piece of gear we find? I guess once you have been playing a while you get it all down pretty well. But for me who has only been playing a week I lucked into an entire gear set that contained a suppressed scar (very long story). I had no idea it was an illegal weapon.

I have searched many threads and have not had any luck trying to find a solution. I down loaded DayZ for the first time this evening. I seem to have installed it properly, at the main page i get the Arma II DayZ message. I launch via steam and use combined operations. When I try to join a DayZ server I get the one of two messages. The one I get the most is- Bad Version, server rejected connection The second one I get sometimes is- You can not play/edit this mission, it is dependent on dowloadable content. In live chat it was recomended to me that I get the latest arrowhead patch which i did but made no difference. Thanks for the help and is there a forum search button that I failed to locate? One more question, is there a way to play in single player so I can see if the mod is working properly?

I am not very computer savvy so bear with me please. 1. Is game client Arma II and Operation Arrowhead? If so both are up to date. 2. I just down loaded the mod this evening so its the latest version. How can i confirm what version I have? Thanks