JAJAJAJAJAJAJA, bring back da hive. If you need anything to get it done, let me know. This means that our old charachters will come back to life, right? ; )

That is what i am thinking for a long time. Most people playing SA would like to play Wasteland or such but just do not know that. They play SA cause it is hyped while Wasteland is not (or other mods KotH, BatlleRoyal...there are so many great mods for arma). The problem is that there are a lot of options for the majority to play the kind of game they enjoy. For me there is no option at all. There is just no other antigame like dayZ.

i am a bit worried about the SA players going to the mod due to the state SA is. i can see it in reddit, some new people in this forum and even in the TS we are there are coming new players to dayZ (mod). till now i have the impression that there were real interest or curiosity by most of them from what i read and heard. and it is never to late to experience what only dayZ can deliver so i am glad for them. it is not neccesary the kind of new players i am worried about but the sheer amount. the server we play on gets more people on by every day and it is just a matter of time till it is full. my hope is that most of them will try different mods and so they spread out. i was thinking about writing a steam review for the SA where i say bad things about dayZ to scare people away from it. but that would not be fair for some who really might enjoy dayZ as much as i do. while i am glad for them i just wish that the small ecosystem of dayZ i am living in right now won't get disturbed to much. never thought about it before, but i wonder what would be neccesary to get an own server running? *investigate*

thx for the quick fix! really appriciate that you could make it so quick.

in all honesty, you might be right or wrong. worries are not unfounded but due to empirical data collected by actually playing the game this forum was created for. anyways we decided to support the server we are playing on right now and if the overall 120 slots which are available for vanilla dayZ right now are always full we will run our own server. or we go back to 1st person where slots never seemed to be a problem.

after we knew where to look, the first heli crash had one. this game : ) thx again.

wow, no shit? no wonder we do not find it but we could repair a fleet of cars in the meantime. thx for the info, we will adjust our search pattern.

can someone confirm if rotor parts are still in the game? looking almost for 2 weeks for it now and nothing. i am wondering maybe we look in the wrong places (industrial)? engine parts are rare but i could find some. i hear a heli regularily on our server so i guess this one had to be fixed sometime too. could we shoot the flying heli and salvage parts when it came down? not that i would do such a thing but we are getting quite desperate as you might imagine. if those parts are just very seldom it is a good job from the devs. those parts should be rare and to repair a heli should take quite some effort and time.

hey, good to know. if i die on the server we play now on i will visit your server and try it out. but do not count on it it will be anytime soon. i survived some crazy shit in the last weeks. *fingers crossed*.

can not agree more bullet_catcher. the 1.8.1 Zs were a big surprise and hooked me again to dayZ. i am pretty happy with the state of the Zs right now. they were not whimped down too much and can not be ignored. which happened after 1.7.7 too fast. but it was a hell of a week : )

wtf? where did i talk about low-high-pop servers? for me the growing popularity harmed dayZ as much as it did good. did not need it to start playing and do not need it to play on. if we get a hive back up and running due to the growing popularity, well that would be a good thing.

cool, did not know about that. thx for the info i will play a bit with it. edited: after a first look i think it might be not very usefull. steam wants to sell me that right now only 3 (in words: three) people on the planet are playing dayZ while about 10000 play SA. if i lookt to the server i play on (gametracker or wahtever) there are already 7 people on (and i doubt that this is really the last official dayZ server). something is wrong here, as always do not trust stats ... on the other hand does the ratio 10000:3 seems pretty interesting in a broader society context ; )

i did not even notice cause i always stop to catch my breath. i read about it but forgot again. anyway good thing if this gets fixed.

I refuse to call the Standalone dayZ. Has nothing common in gameplay or experience with dayZ so i just call it SA. Only hazzle i have with dayZ is the HUD right now. I would pay money to get the old HUD back.

i am not really in the place to judge the amount of high tier weapons cause i only were 2 times at the NWAF since the new patches and one time i did not even make it inside the fences. but i have the impression it is quite hard to get big backpacks and that is for me much more important (playing lonewolf or with one friend) compared to any weapons. it is OK and i am pretty happy that i have a good backpack donated by some bandits at stary and i can deal with the situation. but big backpacks are important if you play mostlys alone. much more then any weapons imho. whatever, i found an ACOG yesterday at a heli crash site and are quite amused about it. in over 2000 hours of dayZ i only found once an ACOG (NWAF) very early in the game. this is only my second one ever. i am wondering if you were able to shoot SD ammo with it in the past, right now it is not possible. i was discussing this with a friend but we just can not remember due to the rareness of the ACOG for us we really never played with it. i kept it anyway.

i do enjoy the game right now due to the things you call the un-fun part and the "strong" Zs. for me it is the best experience since patch 1.7.7. maybe even better due to the degrading equipment.

well, what you might give a try is an arma mod/mission called wasteland. i think that is what can give you what you are looking for. find a car, grab a gun and start fighting. vanilla dayZ on the actual patch is pretty hard. you will find guns but you need to spend quite some time to gather stuff for living. it is a completely different game than SA due to the constant need of food and water and the Zs are pretty cool. give wasteland a try or some of the bastards of vanilla.

nice video kerbo. i liked your target selection ; ) i hade once a sway problem where i could not aim down the iron sights (well the dot sight from the G36 to be exact). lasted just a couple of seconds i was so surprised it could have been the head which moved. i am not sure what happened there. i was infected at that time and i thought it is a nice touch to the infection (which is hard to survive anyway). so i am not really sure if it is what happend to you kerbo. when i am healthy i did not notice it yet but i seldom aim at anything besides some scouting.

I do not understant all this max. numbers of Zs, bubble, and what else might relate to the number of the Zs but i have the impression that there were a lot more Zs in 1.8.2. Not sure if this is good or bad cause the Zs are able to give you headaches and need to be considered when you go on a loot run. I was in berezino with both patches and 1.8.2 was insane. Not sure if this is true or was just bad luck/bug or whatever. Did i already mention that i like the Zs rigth now? I still wished they would dare to make them HS only. Would like to see that average survival time ; )

Hi, i went back to the dayZ vanilla (the mod that is) after the 1.8.2 patch and i can recommend it. I have played for about a week now and the PVE part is fantastic. Be warned though the game is pretty hard. To spawn is not a joy right now (which is very good). Loot feels better balanced (fewer loot), Zs are plentifull and hit fast and hard. You need to eat and drink very often. While this may sound not very "immersive" it is a good game mechanic to be always on the run to loot common stuff and not the next NVGs. On my prio list right now are antics/morphium and matches and stuff like that much higher then M4SD or such. There are some surprises (if you do not read all the changelogs) like matches have only 5 uses and are not as common as i hoped. 5! That is very few so you need to plan when to cook. Overall the game play is heavy on the surviving side right now. Problem could be the servers. Not too many real vanilla servers left and it looks like the hive will never come back. You can still find some nice servers but if you like lowpop it might be a challenge to find one all the time. Give it a try and you may be entertained.

yeah, TIC321, i too heard church bells in the middle of the woods, no church nearby. not that it matters much it was just very surprising. food i could find enough. i had more problems finding enough drinks till i found a water bottle which seems even more important now. loot generally seems more spread out (not sure in what patch that came to be honest) but i often can find one useful item in each big house. i only found on backpack at all yet and wonder if they are so rare or spawn somwhere i do not know of. Zs changed a lot too, besides other stuff they gonna hit you quicker and when running close by them. they are a factor right now...love it.

hi, i am confused if it is possible to play without steam or not? i searched a bit but did not find a good actual how to play without steam. so can someone confirm it is possible and maybe provide a link where i can see how it is done. i have steam but i know some who have not but are willing to play the mod again if possible. any help is appreciated.

damned, thx for the quick answer. i doubt that i get them to install steam. but i will try to convince them, bribe them, trick them, force them...whatever works ; )

just a couple of hours but it feels right. some graphic issues at the mil tents in cherno and i see some trunks and other small stuff has some black graphical issues too. but the gaming experience is fantastic. loot seems to go in the right direction, actually it felt nicely balanced so far. i forced a friend (long time dayz veteran) to test it yesterday on my machine and after 2 hours of play he was quite happy. so much that he is willing to reinstall his machine to start playing again and he will try to convince others. it is remarkable how far you razor and whoever is still involved brought dayz to. there is still so much new stuff to explore... could not thank you enough for what you did to dayz.

i really think a part 2 would be cool. wait till the release date is one year old if you think that would fit better (release of the alpha, pre-alpha, early-development-built or however is the politcal correct word for it. something was still released, right?). maybe you can although point out how this development went along compared to your post in this year. what was to be expected what might have been surprising or even what might have been unusual/disappointing. seriously. i am not able to asses the situation anymore by myself. please shed some light into my darkness.