zachary

Heres a user experience from someone who only bought ARMA II just a few days ago. I had patch 1.5.6 to begin with, and yes I do remember running around big towns, even ruled the centre of the major ones on my own with very few zombies to threaten me. I was able to loot everything and often got shot by other players, simply because I was the only thing to shoot. I was ecstatic when I heard the new update had more zombies. I joined a server with my brother who also just had to purchase the game after seeing me play for just 10 minutes. We had printed out a map to try to gain where we were and used the HUD hint for when you spawn to identify where we are. We use the coastline for direction and shadows often throughout the map to slowly creep around small towns and meet up, we found some loot from some bodies, most likely good players who died simply from the shock of how many zombies there was. We got a few clips, some food and a CZ rifle with some bullets. We worked our way towards each other and then headed off into the hillside. We hit small towns, often surveying the land and seeing what was inside. 8/10 we avoided the towns because they were overrun. We had one or two encounters in the woods with a zombie or two but stayed hidden for the most parts, often spending 30+ to sneak through an infested town. We found some loot but a hunting knife allowed us to kill and cook some cows. We had great fun sneaking around the town. We got to Panela I think it was and began to enter it as we tried to take out some zombies on the outskirts (with a louder than expected gun) and were low on blood and health. We looted an apartment and the Grocery store, got loaded up and headed back out. An encounter with a raging zombie forced us into a house where we unloaded our hoardes of ammo into about 20+ zombies who heard our fire. We held our ground and moved out of the town. Low on supplies again now, we needed to get out of the town and keep moving to our target somewhere up north. We lived for about 5 hours until a server connection bug caused a zombie to kill my brother somehow as the zombie zipped around the screen, next minute my brother is hurt and then dead the next. I disconnected mainly because I didn’t want to carry on our adventure without him :( We played smart and we played well. We are by no means military personnel, we are simple IT Geeks who love zombies. The game is not broken, just a work in progress and I welcome every update. I would like a way to take out zombies silently, either some more guns in the towns that are silent, although we have just realised that the several crossbows we found could have probably done the job. This is the only thing I want to see really. Some kind of silent weapon, a baseball bat perhaps, however with the current zombie combat system (they do jerk about a bit) I think this would cause a lot more frustration as I doubt anyone wants to get close to the zombies regardless of the situation. Something else is needed to tackle zombies quietly. That is the only feedback I have! To the Devs: Looking forward to seeing more of this great game, hopefully I’ll be sending the dev team an email soon as I have skills which may contribute to the development of this great mod. Keep up the great work. Best Zombie game ever.