ZogVarnoka

He may have. And the facepaint is selectable when making a new profile. It is called W. Wallace.

Two main things I found that needed mentioning: The change of negative humanity to a bandit skin will be going away soon. May want to mention that. And the alice pack is not the largest. The coyote backpack is the largest pack in game with alice being second and czech being third. The coyote backpack is different from the newbie coyote patrol pack. Otherwise nice guide. :)

Well you can do that already to some extent. Problem is the information isnt there. Most of the time you get "Unknown was killed by Unknown." Having the information you are suggesting would be nice and add a bit more to the overall suspense of the game. I know I would be more worried finding a body at the airfield or in a small town that was killed 5 minutes ago by a gunshot wound. While being more relaxed by finding a similar body killed 30 minutes ago due to gnawing.

I tend to go solo exploring/scouting usually keeping to the edges of towns unless I really need supplies bad and barns have not been generous. I make the occasional mission to an airfield just for kicks. I've ran with a group once and it was fun. Hit NW and NE airfields no problems then move on Balota. Was good times.

I believe Rocket commented that in patch 1.5.8 the darkness setting will be adjustable by server admins. Can not for the life of me find the post though. I know its buried somewhere in some topic on the site....damn my lack of search-fu.

Check the in game options. I do not believe you can at this stage. I could be wrong though.

Decent start to a video series. Some constructive criticism now. 1. Have a run down on specific topics you are going to talk about and in what order you will do so. Do not deviate from the list while recording. Bullet list with sub-points works well. 2. I understand why you recorded at night, but it makes for a poor video to look at. Unless you are covering playing at night exclusively, record during the day. Having scenery to look at and being able to see far helps engage the viewers in what you are doing. I would hold off on a night video till video 3 or 4. Plus video quality during the day is just better. The video looked to be low quality even though I watched it at 720p. Not your fault I know, but it was a result of recording at night. 3. Be more enthusiastic while talking. Your voice was very monotone and unemotional. You obviously love playing the game so let that show through while recording. :) I liked what you are trying to do here and thought about doing something similar myself in the future. The information (other than the lost video file) would be extremely helpful to new players. Keep at it man. As others said, the more videos the better.

thats what the knife is for... lol ohhh so evil

As per an interview by rocket, the zombies in Dayz are the result of a virus. The bodies are still alive and functioning on some level. edit: It seems though we do not know how the virus itself originated. hopefully rocket will include more info at a later date as findable files, memo's, audio recordings, or something. Would be cool to have those in and search around for all the pieces to figure out what happened.

Nice write up. Great to hear stuff like this going on. :D

Interesting. Group I was with last night found one as well. Guy who has it logged off though before we had a chance to try it on anything really. will have to give it a go on a building or something.

Thanks for the update rocket. Looking forward to the patch. Hope the zed numbers stay the same as currently though.

just do a search for radio in general forums. Someone supposedly found one in green mountain radio station. It spits out various numeric code and some sort of message periodically.

I had been watching various streams of this game for a couple of weeks now trying to decide if I really wanted to get it with D3 coming out. A few days ago, I bit the bullet, so to speak, and got Arma2 CO and Dayz. This is a rundown of what has happened. Having some knowledge already from the streams and the Chernasus map on another screen, I spawned in east of Elektro and immediately headed north. I managed to get completely turned around while evading a bandit and 3 hours into playing found myself staring at Cherno from the north side with still only my starting equipment minus some food and water. At that point I closed the open map, said screw it, and headed roughly north again using the Sun and shadows. Ran into some outlying barns and homes for food and managed to find a Winchester. Feeling good I ran across "the factory" a little later and died to zeds there. Aw well, was fun so respawned again next day. But the next day things had changed, 1.5.7 had come out and oh boy this made things a whole lot better. I gave myself the goal of reaching the NE airstrip no matter where I spawned from. I was in Cherno when I finally got in game and headed north again barely avoiding a couple of bandits on the roam with CZs. Having explored north of Cherno previously I was a bit familiar with it and hit up the barns and homes I had the previous day. I found a map and a good amount of food/water but no primary weapon. As I was contemplating which hill to go over to the NE. I spotted a tent in a field not too far off. I approached carefully scanning the surroundings and taking my time. No one around so I rushed the last 30m to it and hit a bit of a jackpot. Tons of food, drinks, and medical stuff. The major find though was a m1014 w/ flashlight and tons of ammo for it. I fit what I could in my newbie pack and gtfo'ed. With those supplies I managed to find my way to the NE airfield but died due to zed respawns. I made a similar journey 2 more times and had a blast doing so solo. Being stealthy, thinking tactically, and keeping situational awareness are keys to me loving this game. Hope to see fellow survivors out there. Ran into 2 guys soloing during my roams and we parted without any shots fired and talked briefly on this or that. If you see me around feel free to contact me if you are a survivor. If you're bandit skin I will shoot on site unless you identify yourself and face away from me. Any hostile actions get ya shot survivor or bandit just so yall know. Stay safe and keep your powder dry. Zog

Played the new patch for about 15 or so hours so far and here is my feedback. During those 15 hours my objective was to head to NE airfield solo from spawning on coast. I died 3 times. Two of those times was after I had reached the NE airfield from Cherno. Cherno people. I took my time, looted outlying barns, deer stands, and homes. I played the game as an actual zombie survival game and not some run and gun cod wannabe. Did I have good gear.. not really. But I had plenty of food, water, and ammo. I actually left a ak kobra, m24, m4, and a ak-74 in deer stands due to problems finding ammo for them. Kept either a Winchester or m1014 due to them being quieter than any other primary except a suppressed one. But I'm rambling. Point is the zombie count and aggro radius are not problems. All three times I died was due to zeds respawning right on top of me as I was leaving someplace. Respawn rate is a bit of an issue. Zombie speed could be tweaked down a touch. Spawn rate of loot is good. When coming into a new area you have to wait a minute or so for the trigger to happen so all zeds and goods are spawned in. If you take it slow this generally isn't an issue. Zombies spawning around just about any structure out in the woods is nice. Zeds roaming away from structures is cool as hell. New panic feature is really unneeded. I panic enough myself and do not need the game doing it for me. The sound of it is also annoying. I had the save bug happen to me where you lose time after a supposedly "unsaved false (1 sec)" showing in debug menu and restarting play later on another server.

People do the survival thing. we're just all up north being sneaky :P

As a new player myself, I'm looking forward to it being fixed. I got hooked a couple weeks ago watching a stream and some youtube vids with the crazy amount of zombies and pvp situations. Looking forward to the mod getting back to that level of intensiveness.