hoffa (DayZ)

Also, google some scout's techniques on how to orient youself. I saw a great video explaining how you can tell north with just your watch. Avoid all conversation with other players unless: 1) you're armed properlly 2) you're in a better position than they are 3) you have nothing to lose, so if they help that could be great.

Supermarkets are often packed with tools, aren't they? I only find one in Electro I think, and it had many matches, hunting knives, a tent... but no map. And now I don't know where it was anymore haha, don't you just love DayZ.

I can't even find a map :|

I would also like to point out one thing: when starting - always aim for the biggest pray! Loot Electro, or Cherno, or f*cuk it - find some food and water and when you do just run and try to get to the NW Airfield. You have nothing to lose at this point, and sneaking around the biggest towns with most zombies will be a great training for avoidng zombies for when you actually have something to lose.

I don't want to see ragdoll physics in this game - the killing would be so much more fun then :D

I don't get it, why are there so many threads like this? You all need to make a public excuse why you kill players? It's a game, do whatever you want. I agree that if the game was meant to be a "good samaritan" type of thing, although, it's not possible, there should be a way to make people think at least if they would kill another player. Make a murder draw zombies on you, no matter how far they are. I don't mind players killing each other, I was killed a couple of times also. But yeah, there should be a way to make people think before they act.

You know how every post-apocalyptic movie has a rumor about the existance of a refugee camp where most survivors decide to head to? Well, this is what I had in mind, and I'll try to devide the whole thing into few paragraphs. Location: Take a few random locations. I'm new to this game, so don't know every suitable one, but Devil's Castle and Stary Camp come to mind. Simply, anywhere that is somewhat protected by walls, has high positions around it, and can make you feel like you are really in some kind of improvised structure. Now, make the camp (I'll explain how I thought it should look like later) spawn every day for about 2-3 hours. Every time in one of those random locations. To add that feeling of disbelief and paranoia which you would have if someone told you in RL situation that you could be safe if you decide to travel for miles and miles - make the server anounce a liitle rumor every couple of hours during that day. Let's say it's monday and the camp is at Devil's Castle, spawns at 6 p.m. and lasts till 8 or 9. Make the server send out information like "Rumor is there is a refugee camp at Devil's Castle" at random hours that day before and after the spawning of the camp. So the people who are far away, but want help desperately, would think "Is it really there? Can I make it in time?" Maybe they'll go, maybe not. Some of them would probably team-up if deciding to go there. The next day, put the camp at a different location, at different time, and make the server anounce the rumor, but with the location for that day. This way the players know where the camp is supposed to be, but are not sure if it really is. And 24 hours is too long to sit in a forrest next to the announced location and wait. Camp: Simple - spawn basic resources... a few water pumps and a few fire places. So people could make themselves warm, tend to their thirst. For medicine, ammo, food, or anything else, they need to cooperate, and trade with other players. Maybe make friends, assemble teams for future playing. Also spawn some unuseable tents, just for the atmosphere. Defence: People need to be defended to feel safe. Spawn a few NPCs. I'm talking about some army soldiers, with the best fire-power, make them invulnerable, so zombies and bandit players can not destroy the feeling of a safe camp, make them 100% precisse, so they hit anyone and anything they need. They should kill zombies in one shot (also, make zombies not spawn anymore in that location as long as army's there). Whoever commits a murder in or around the camp - make them kill that player. The game already recognizes murders from zombie kills - so I don't think it should be a problem. Also, everyone with 5+, or 10+ murders gets shot on sight. Despawning: As I said, make the camp available for a few hours a day, so it's a privilege to be there. When it spawns, you have a goal - get there, be safe for just a while, get geared up with medicine and go your way again. For despawning, NPCs should despawn about 15mins after the rest of the camp. So if there's 5-10 players in there, they have enoguh time to go away and not be imidiately swarmed by bandits or zombies. So that's my idea. I'm don't know if this is even doable, but I really think that players need a feeling of security and calmnes in a game like this. Not always, but just for a while. And it would be cool, because, let's take me as an example - it's my idea and I could roam that map for weeks before I'm lucky enough to stumble upon that camp.

I play on toshiba 18.4'' with numerical keyboard. So it's not that different than a PC. You'll need all the keys from a REAL keyboard, trust me.

Not if you tell us where it is so we can guard it for you ;)

I'm started a few days ago and still I type in "friendly" whenever i see someone (don't have a mic). So far, it has work just once. The other times, people usually ignore me. Then I try to writte where they are so they are sure I'm talking to them (not telling my position). If there's no reply, I just wait untill they're gone. And I'm not unarmed. I have a 1911, Lee Enfield and an Alice pack filled with food, drinks and medicine. So I'm all set for recovering even if I'm shot, but not dead. Today I did the same thing. I was on the outskirts of Electro, in a yard next to the gas station where those medical tents are. I saw two guys, armed. I hid and tried to communicate. No reply after 4 or 5 tries. They started searching for me, but stopped after a while and went their own way. That sh*t changed something in me, almost like a RL situation would. I saw one of those big chimneys or whatever those are. Thought maybe there is some loot there, and they're really high so I could see where I should go, since I don't have a map. I got up and heard shots. Saw a couple of guys running around me. I shot on of them. The other one ran away. Two more guys came and I shot them both. When I killed the first guy the other one yelled "friendly". I wrote "help your friend, i won't shoot" (he still wasn't dead). Of course he didn't do it. I wrote that I thought they were two guys who were looking for me earlier, and that I won't kill him, and that he can help his friend or loot his body so he can give him his stuff back. The guy didn't reply, but left, and shortly after came back, peeking befind a wall in the direction where they though I was. I was behind him and killed him. He could have lived, and saved his friend's stuff, but he chose not to reply. I'm all about team work in this game, but when you get silence - shoot, don't think. I wouldn't risk getting down from there and getting killed. I felt kinda bad at that moment, but I was alive and that is what matters. Some people say this ruins game. Any guy from those groups could have seen me up there, with no cover to hide behind. I was aware of that the whole time. It's just a big difference I think. Someone who kills for fun, and someone who kills to survive. I'll be sure to get a mic soon, and try to kill less people.

I tried playing about an hour ago (playing on US 5 server) and as soon as I clicked on a server it said "Bad version of the game". So I looked up beta patches, download the. 95310 version, installed it and now when I og back into the game I don't have any servers at all! (had "us 5" in filters) So I delete any filters, get all the servers available and which ever I try to start I can get into the lobby and after clicking OK I get the message "You were kicked out of the server, Battle Eye: Unknown version of the game". Now I'm installing a 1.62 version, then will try the Bata Patch again, but please help me with this in case those two patches don't work.

I tried playing about an hour ago (playing on US 5 server) and as soon as I clicked on a server it said "Bad version of the game". So I looked up beta patches, download the. 95310 version, installed it and now when I og back into the game I don't have any servers at all! (had "us 5" in filters) So I delete any filters, get all the servers available and which ever I try to start I can get into the lobby and after clicking OK I get the message "You were kicked out of the server, Battle Eye: Unknown version of the game". Now I'm installing a 1.62 version, then will try the Bata Patch again, but please help me with this in case those two patches don't work.

So why didn't it work with the previous update? P.S. I noticed that I posted this topic twice, can anyone combine all the answers form both into one? Thanks.

I was thinking about that since I installed DayZ manually last time. But why is US 5 (only Us server with 5 in it I can get now is US 1105), and some others I used to play on (De 24, DE 25) not on my list any more? :|

Read the whole post. I paid BI for Arma 2 to be able to play DayZ. The MOD made me a player and a BI customer. Now if BI releases DayZ as a standalone, then I, as many others, will pay again to play the same thing. I did not even try and play story mode in Arma or OA. I bought it, installed DayZ and that's it. I'm not saying Arma is a bad game, but it didn't attract me as a player. DayZ made me want to buy Arma in a heart-beat. And for that - I would have to pay two times for the same thing. It's like you owned a car. Some guy just made a sweet looking and sounding custom exhaust for it, which you bought. Now the company that made that car sees the potential and launches a car with that exhaust as stock part, takies away your exhaust and makes you buy the whole car if you ever wanted to have that exhaust again.

Well, it seems to me that BI will ruin this for a lot of people to earn the highest amount of money. I also bought Arma because of Dayz and I don't think it's a bad thing. This mod widely expanded the player count for BI. And BI would be stupid not to capitalize of this. But I just hope they won't do it over our backs. Paying again for the same game is rubbish! Ok, charge it. Make it a one-time-pay and give the players that play now some kind of a discount. If another game studio used DayZ idea and then charged for a game - I'd buy it if it were good. But since a lot of us already gave our money to BI because of this mod, it should be only fair not to make us give more money unless we get some kind of a deal. 20€ is ok for someone living in USA, or better countries in EU, or somewhere... I live in f*ckin' Croatia, I gave up a weeks worth of cigarettes to buy this.

I think it's up to Gamespy, but I could be wrong. Nothing much you can do... Play Arma 2 SP :P

Is using an integrated notebook microphone any different? Do I have to turn it on somehow?

Thanks to my colleague survivor - Ruben (and sorry if I missread your name in all that fuss) :D So there I am. After my first 4-5 deaths, I'm more and more wise. Laying low on the beaches of Electro, just between the city and the port. The server I was playing on yesterday is laggy as hell. I try to move a bit, see if it will go away. Bad decision. I didn't see a zombie coming behind me. Good thing, last thing last night - I found a map and a Makarov with 2 mags. Bad thing - it's laggy, I can't kill it with less than 5 shoots. The noise attracts two more zombies, and before they're done, I'm down to my last mag. Stupid lagg. On top of it all, I'm bleeding and I have no bandages, it's laggy, and I decide to make a run for it. Either I manage to find the hospital, or someone shoots me, zombies kill me, or I bleed out. I ran in a couple of houses and sheds, not finding anything usefull to me at this time, but I pick up a tent. It was a strange feeling running around with no zombies. I was lucky as hell. So I'm running around until I got to the church. One zombie spotted me, and i run inside. To my horror and relief at the same time - there's a guy there, crouchiung at the altar, aiming in my direction. I quickly hide behind one of the columns, and since I don't have a head set, try to write as fast as I can "friendly, dont shoot. im need help, i lost a lot of blood and only have this gun and a few bullets" (the bleeding stopped at this point, at just a few K blood). The guy killed the zombie, but doesn't reply. So I start panicking. Go out with just a couple of bullets, or what? I type again "im friendly, i'll look up and come out of my cover". I'm not sure if he knows I'm talking to him, so I say I'm in the church, then wlak in the middle of the church and dropped my gun. The guy then just said "it's on the floor". I come closer and there's a blood bag. (I'm almost positive his name was Ruben, but I'm not sure. Let's call him that anyway). I pick up the blood bag, but there's no option to heal myself. I figured someone else has to give me the transfusion. So I drop it back on the floor, along with my tent, which I offered to Ruben as a thanking gift. Just as we established a normal communication and he picked up the blood bag, he quickly writtes "behind". I turn and there is another guy comming in followed by a zombie dragging on the floor. Ruben has a gun, that guy has a gun (I learned latter that it was my gun he picked up from the church floor), I have a hatchet in my toolbelt - so I hide behind the benches and write again "we're friendly, don't shoot us". Zombie's getting closer, two survivors with guns are not shooting, and the undead bastard picked me as his victim. So I kill him with a hatchet. The moment it died, the new guy starts shooting Ruben. I write "stup shooting for f*cks sake". Shooting stops, and Ruben replies "bastard shot me". I try to find my gun, and it was that moment when I realized the new guy took it. Fortunately, lagg caused me to miss alot, so there were 3-4 bullets left when I dropped it - and I start cahsing the guy with my hatchet. It took about 20 hits before I killed him. 1 murder so far. As he died I noticed that I have colors back in my game. Ruben gave me a transfusuion as I was beating the new guy. He then threw 2 blood bags on the ground. One for me, and one for me to pick up and give him a transfusion. He then picked up my tent and told me to loot the guys body for my gun. I found some food and sodas also, painkillers, morphine auto-injector and another blood bag. Ruben said he was waiting for his friend, so I didn't tell him what I found. Sorry Ruben, if you read this, but I'm alone in this game, and you have a friend. I think that's a fair deal. We thanked each other and I disconnected to find a better server in order to escape that church alive. It's really a great feeling after all - to find someone who is willing to listen to you, and not shot you blindly. In the end it turned out we saved each other's lives, and lived a bit longer. I'm getting a headset asap, this was my lesson, I learned it!

Well I don't actually care if it's realised or not, I like and enjoy the game as it is already. I had an idea, and this is a suggestion sub-forum, so I layed it out here. I'm almost certain every apocalyptic, or post-apocalyptic movie, or even a real life tragedies have some sort of place where survivors are taken in. This was my idea for a place like that in DayZ, and my idea how to make it work with added effect of disbilief an paranoia about the whole thing.

Well, yeah. Make it spawn for a couple of hours, then despawn it. The other day make it spawn on another location. It's not the camp that is the main idea here (although I would like it that way), it's the feeling you would get when the server would inform you that there's a camp in some place. You know that there might not be a camp at that time, you know, even if it is, it may be gone until you get there. You should choose do you want to believe the rumors or not, and if you want to go there or not. Some players wont even have the need to go, but for new ones, and players that get shot constantly, it would be as tempting aswell as unbelieveable.

I said I don't know if that's possible. They don't have to be guards, I'm not sure if I explained right. "Guards" are just a way to make people maximally protected in that camp. It's just a suggestion Well, they would spawn for only the duration of the camp. Later, when camp despawns, they would despawn also. So they're not affecting the game, just making the camp effective.

If I understood correctly everything you wrote, there would be a difference. I was thinking about a respawning base, so the players don't know if it's there or not, and have to take their chances if they want to go to that safe place. What if you decide to go to that specific location and it turns out the camp rumor was a lie. That's a psychological aspect I was aiming at mostly. If you're 50km away from that spot - do you risk getting killed? Or do you decide to stay where you are and hope to stumble upon it some day. If I completely missed what you wrote, I'm sorry, look for an explanation in the first sentance of my post right above this one :)

Yeah, I'm not from an english speaking country, so I may have messed up some of my thoughts :D Anyway - NPC - I was thinking about guards, so people don't have to worry about enemies. And making them have unlimited ammo and health if that is possible, just so bandits or zombies can't wipe them out and that kill the entire party inside or just outside the camp. Stary camp - I think it looks well surrounded by fences and a few high buildings where guards could spawn. And it's a camp after all, so it should feel like a camp :D

Hi everyone! Well, I've been watching DayZ videos on youtube for a few days, and every one of them just sucked me into the game more and more - without me even playing for one second! So I finally bought Arma 2 CO yesterday (thank you Steam and -40%). I thought I got it all figured out from watching the videos. Get some food, additional medicine, some tools and a weapon and you're all set for upgrading your gear. Not so much. First time spawned in a city with a port and huge cranes. Forgot to read info at the begining where I was, so maybe someone will recognize this place. I learned my first lesson in about 3-4 minutes. Don't climb on roofs if you are not 100% sure there is an alternative way down. Zombies saw me, a pair of crawlers so they didn't climb the ladder, but I couldn't get down. Only way was jumping from the roof, but that got me killed after bleeding out while 4-5 zombies surrounded me. Next time i spawned in Electro. Alone. Went into town and imidiately decided to get the hell out. I somehow lived, ran through 2 forrests and ended up killing 4 zombies with a hatchet, getting into some kind of factory who-knows-where, finding a bunch of scrap metal, car windows and tyres. Found 2 DMR mags, 1 Makarov mag and some kind of M16 without ammo. Got disconnected from server and it's back to beginning. Now I really need some guidance. Where to go after starting, what to do? I'm all alone in that cruel world, have no friends that are interested in playing, so I am my only hope. Well, unless you guys help me a bit with some good tips and advices!