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ExistenceRP Create new beginnings in DayZ, develop your character's story and immerse yourself in quality roleplay. ExistenceRP strikes the balance between fun and serious DayZ roleplaying, with a strong community and a range of Events, Custom Mods and Clothing available in-game. You can connect and get involved in no-time-at-all! We have a very active and wonderful team of admins and a Discord server for you to be a part of to ensure the highest quality of gameplay. Join ExistenceRP today! Map ChernarusPlus Active Discord with over 1300 members! https://discord.gg/existencerp Website https://existenceroleplay.com/ Server IP 135.148.136.126:2302 Features Frequent Events (PvP, PvE, RP) Factions and claimable Faction Territories New RP and Veteran RP player friendly Custom Content | Weapons, Gear, Items, Food Custom made Traders and Military Areas, Caves Exclusive Custom Mods: Garage Door Opener, Virus Research, Emotes/Animations, Playable Guitar Active Staff Many Custom Areas NEW Resort Island (near Skalisty Island) Skalisty Island (Bridge access and updated) Prison Island (Bridge access and updated) Tisy Military (Updated) Balot Airfield (Updated) Primary Mods Breachingcharge TrailBruizer SUV GearPDA Party On ! Care Packages Xehara's Custom Clothing Summer_Chernarus RaG_Landrover_Defender_110 RaG_Landrover_Offender RaG_Hummer_Armored Cabin_Mod_RaGed MoreDoors CarCover Modular Vest System PVEZ Notes Dingo_Truck Advanced Weapon Scopes Zeroy-FishingZ DrugsPLUS CannabisPlus MuchDecos MuchStuffPack Gerphelius Zil-130 BaseBuildingPlus Code Lock Ear-Plugs MuchCarKey WindstridesClothingPack Trader AdvancedBanking VanillaPlusPlusMap

Reminds me of Next Day: Survival with the acoustic guitar.

Mama, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he's dead. Mama, his life had just begun, and now he's gone and spawned back on the beach. Mama, ohhooohoh, didn't mean to make him die, he just ran into my room, made me jump and took a shotty to the face and now I'm full of sorrow oh ohh. Ok, it sounded better in my head with the guitar behind it. But to the dude I just killed, I panic fired. Sozza

Asking totally random people for handouts over the net is usually bad style unless it's because your whole life did totally break down. Is your life totally breaking down because your GF won't allow you to start saving fifty bucks for a video-game? My reply would be get a job, get a guitar and go to the streets or ask for it for your birthday as i assume you are not grown up. And IF you are not grown up then this kind of game is probably not for you in the long run yet.

I would also add that I do like some of the "clunky" parts of the game such as in combat. But by clunky I mean to convey that the realism is appealing. Swing an axe at something in real life for example. They have done a great job of creating animations that more closely resembles that of a real life action. Games that allow people to bunny hop around and swing an axe like they are playing air guitar gets old for me, and attracts people that are instant gratification hounds. Much like those that want no stamina at all in the game, who must get from the east coast to NWAF in a flash. This being a survival game, should side much more on realism than that off the run and gun sprinting and jumping everywhere genre of games like PubG and COD. *edit I would however like to see thirst changed just a bit, and navigating small obstacles like knee fences made easier, and firearm/knife/axe damage brought closer to reality. But I'm sure those will change as we progress. My knife for instance was ruined after taking bark off a tree 5 times.

@ImpulZ Well for me personally, the unnecessary worries come from huge surge of attention to DayZ from outside the community, in which they don't know exactly what DayZ is all about, why is it paced slow, what's the importance of hard loot, why you don't spawn with friends etc. Call me inclusive, but it is a concern when there's a chance DayZ could went and cater these audiences. I think it's fine, we all want the game to grow, with more people and interaction, as long as it doesn't rip core elements of DayZ. Some of the concerns also come from the fact that 0.63 is one of the big update and hugely anticipated. Although it's been great so far, with the movement, the zombies, animations and general feel of the game, it is missing its key feature which is the gun mechanic. In addition, we've waited the game for quite amount of time so there's that attachment. In conclusion, I think it's justified and IMO reassuring is needed in status reports on the direction of the game. And with that reply, I think I rest my case. The 0.63 is great as I mentioned above and I appreciate the immersive environment quality. The map doesn't feel generic and the small details such as the addition of ambient sound, different sound when in indoor or outdoor, blood in hands, texture etc are great. It felt relaxing at times when I'm in this game. I hope DayZ will continue to double down on these (especially the rain effect, its lackluster in 1st person). The zombies also react and acts as a threat which adds to the immersion, but I think they need to improve on it as it is a zombie game after all. Player Interaction is to be judged, well the microphone is okay so far and I think the PA system will be a blast. Even though these items are not always used such as the existing tape player, walkie-talkie, potentially guitar (I've seen development reports) and other player interaction type items, it creates memorable moments. I think these items should be encouraged, as in spawn more. Laslty, the PvP and gunplay, which is the major drawback from this update. No weapon dispersion is a little bit disheartening as mentioned in countless threads about this build but I hope they don't dumb it down too hard to the point it doesn't feel 'DayZ' authentic and more arcady BR games. Thank you for reading.

"What we need is a system that ... punishes trigger happy folk ..." "... but most of all, punishing killing without reason." I don't like systems that punish specific play styles. Especially when that play style happens to be my usual. I also don't want to have to balance time spent killing people with time spent strumming on a guitar. Don't wanna be playing Tamagotchi.

Getting Started DayZ is new to me, what is it? DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, in which players follow a single goal: to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic landscape as long as they can. Players can experience powerful events and emotions arising from the ever-evolving emergent gameplay. There are no superficial tips, way points, built in tutorials or help given to players. Every decision matters, there are no save games, no extra lives, every mistake can be lethal. If you fail, you lose everything and you need to play again from the beginning with nothing but your wits, and your two hands. Fight the hostile environment, where every other player can be friend or foe and nothing can be taken for granted. How can I buy DayZ? You can buy DayZ and the Livonia DLC for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, via The Bohemia Interactive Store Steam Xbox Store PlayStation Store Installing and launching (PC) Install in Steam After the game has installed open steam game library Select DayZ from the list Click the Play button What if the game doesn't install an update or becomes corrupt (PC)? restart steam verify cache restart computer reinstall the game If this doesn't work, please write a report to our feedback tracker. How do I report a bug? All information on how to report a problem with the game can be found here. How do I change my in-game name? You can set your in-game name in the DayZ launcher, under parameters > profile name. Is Steam required for DayZ? Yes, on PC, Steam is required to run DayZ and to browse for servers. How do I know if DayZ has received an update? We will communicate large updates via our social media channels (Facebook, Twitter) and Steam Announcements. How do I switch between Stable/Experimental versions? In order to join the Experimental version, you first need to download it. To do that, select the "DayZ Experimental" App from your Xbox / Steam Store and install it. Where can I get updated information on DayZ? The development team releases status reports that are uploaded across our website Dev Hub, DayZ Twitter and Facebook. How can I reach customer support? You can reach our customer support here. For queries related to purchases made via Steam, please contact Steam's support. If you want to report bugs or game-related issues, please go to the DayZ Feedback Tracker. If you suspect someone is using hacks, please contact Battleye. Server Hosting & Modding With the new engine and beta, will FINALLY the cost to rent a DayZ server be reduced? Yes. Right now, anyone able to host their own PC servers on their own terms, you can find the DayZ Server Files here. Additionally, we want to provide a Linux version of the DayZ Server Files, and that should further cut the costs of running a DayZ server. While we don't have direct control over the pricing offered by our selected server providers at the moment, the Linux Server Files should also lead to noticeable cost reductions with these providers. When will we get a dedicated server for Brazil? We are looking into this option. When will DayZ get modding support? Modding is officially supported for PC. You can download our official toolset and server files via Steam. You can also find already existing user-created mods in the Steam Workshop. Will there ever be mods on consoles like there are on PC? Mods are unlikely to be available on consoles. The path we took is vastly different from a path where we would be able to provide an infrastructure for modding. However, we are improving server side options to further customize the experience on community servers. DayZ on Consoles On what platforms is DayZ available? DayZ is available right now for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Is PC your primary platform? We are aiming to release our game updates to the live branch at the same time on all platforms. Is PC version of the game any different from consoles? No, PC and consoles have the exactly same content. There are some minor technical differences like the inventory and that console doesn't have a text chat. Will there be cross-platform between platforms? That’s unlikely. While it’s perfectly viable from a technological perspective, we’d rather not mix PC and console players because it would cause a noticeable disbalance in gameplay. The platforms are not only running on different servers, there are some technical hurdles as well (compatible voice chat, reporting functions, etc.) How about the frame rates on Xbox One X? It’s all work in progress, but we’re already peaking at 50-60 FPS in 1080p on Xbox One X, and we plan to support 4K@30 FPS. We’ll see where we end up though! Can I play DayZ on the new gen consoles? Yes! More info can be found on our Dev Hub page. What's the performance like on PS5/Xbox X/S? We currently have pretty stable 30 fps on the ps5 and mostly stable 60 fps on the Xbox Series X. Will the PS5 framerate be optimized to 60fps? Our goal is to increase the frame limit on PS5 in the future. Will we get customizable key bindings for consoles? This is unlikely to happen. The cars are broken on console. Are you working on a fix? Yes, we are looking into this issue. As it´s very complicated for various reasons, we can´t provide detailed information, but we are aware of the issue and it's being addressed. Why does PC have a winter map and consoles don't? Winter/Snow maps are not a part of our official development. They are all from the modding community. Can we get helicopters and other goods on consoles? Those are from the modding community and modding is only available on PC. Why is there no Experimental server on PS? Experimental servers are testing servers, working on one console platform during testing and gathering feedback from one console platform is simply more efficient. Having Experimental servers on PS platform is more difficult, so we prefer to give the PS players the final version of the update. Do you plan to add more maps on consoles? Currently not a focus for upcoming updates. You can see our plan and focus for 2022 here But we would like to continue working on how to offer more tools/functionality for community server admins on consoles. VOIP volume is too low on PS5. Is there a fix for that? We are working on this issue. At this moment, you need to turn the 3D audio OFF in the Playstation settings (it´s ON by default). You can find it under: Settings > Sound > Audio Output. DayZ in future updates Will the performance of the game be better in the future? We are working on better game performance and stability with each update. Will Ponchos get added to the game? We can't add full blown ponchos because of their length. It currently isn't possible to have any long clothes in-game, because of clipping through the legs of the character. If we would add any ponchos, it would be just short ones. For example look at the length of the lab coat. Are there any underground structures/bunkers/mines/cave systems planned? No, underground locations are not planned for now. We are missing proper support from the engine side. While there is a way to achieve underground locations even under the current tech (as seen in some older versions of DayZ), they usually have a severe impact on the landscape and visuals (both surroundings and inside). How safe are bases? How do you find a middle of getting in to easy or to hard? No base should be impenetrable. How fast it will be conquered depends on its defense, which can have varying degrees of protection. Even a locked item can be lost if someone makes enough effort to get it. What kind of water vehicles will we see? Floating platforms possible? Wooden boats? A whole set of water vehicles is something we want to do in future, like wooden boats for an example. We are thinking about craftable ones too, but that's really looking at a more long term future. Submarines aren't planned. Will there be more crafting options involving improvised weapons? Grenade arrows, flaming arrows, etc? We'd like to have some form of improvised weapons in the game, but we can't tell you more right now. Will the bow ever come back? The bow is not a priority at the moment. Will it be possible to reanimate a dead body? No, it won't be possible. Do we get a Guitar as a melee weapon and as instrument we can play? We don't have it in plans now but we would like to have something like this to enrich social interactions. What about digging a grave to bury a friend? What about false graves to hide your stash in it? These are already available in the game. Could we get a winter map? Will consoles get new maps? Both PC and consoles share the same official vanilla maps: Chernarus and Livonia. Any additional maps on PC are purely from our dedicated modding community. Why you don´t add bicycles and horses? There are technical constraints preventing us from doing so, and our current focus is on stabilizing existing vehicles. Other Are you taking any steps against duping? Yes, we are continuously working on this issue. You also may have noticed that some of the methods are not working anymore. If you suspect someone's duping, please report the person via feedback tracker or DM us on Twitter. I can't see any servers in the server browser. This might be due to scheduled server maintenance. We announce them on our Facebook and Twitter pages. You can also check our forum. If it´s past the server maintenance/update and you are still experiencing this issue, you can try restarting the game/console or manually checking for updates. If the issue persists for more than 6 hours, please contact our customer support or DM us on Twitter. I would love to work for Bohemia Interactive, where can I apply? You can check our Career page here.

You should really play on the Village dude... I keep seeing you repeat the same old thing about a lack of interesting gameplay. Meanwhile we have managed to organize dozens of players to secure a public base where all friendly players are welcome. Just recently, we have united the friendly factions under a common purpose to attempt to civilize the server. Some will always want to destroy us, but even more players come and see what we have built, and want to help defend it. Friendly players love having a place to come and relax, cook food, farm and trade, maybe sit down and play a guitar for a while; and bandits still want to come and wreck it all. Sometimes they are successful, most often from using less than honorable tactics, but we always regroup and rebuild. Interesting emergent gameplay is the responsibility of the players, as has always been the case. Instead of cynically shitposting, many of us have been making something worth being proud of, even in this state of the game. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.

Because the foundations for DayZ mod were there, it was Arma2. Right now they're still doing changes to the engine on DayZ. There's a difference between 'I need to update my mod that adds Ferraris because they changed vehicle values slightly' and "I need to completely rewrite my mod that lets players play guitar because the animation system was completely changed." Trying to think of some other way to explain it. I'll try guns. Springfield: "Hey, I made some simple modifications that will fix the problems with the M14! US Military: "That's nice, we're using M16s now and tossing out all the M14s." Springfield: "Fuck..."

Injuries: Chipped leg (barely walking, maybe with a stick), broken leg (only one), arm injuries, etc) Climbing trees Playing guitar (pleaseee) Low damage physical attacks (slaps, punches in stomach, etc) and torture for RP servers. Military hand signals Suicide joking (like blowing your head with your hand in form of a pistol, hanging yourself) Faking zombie movements (walk, run, etc) Stop hand signal (for roadblocks) Hostage grabbing from behind with pistol in head or knife

Do you ever use the search function? Many of your suggestions have been made before and again and again... https://forums.dayz.com/search/?type=all&q=guitar

I believe that adding a guitar as item and and some animations of the character playing it would be a great addition to the game atmosphere. Bet many of us know how to play, and would be amazing to be able to share some songs at a campfire in a raining night in dayz. I remember back in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. days one would get into a town and find a friendly group telling some jokes and playing some cool songs :) Actually I found a video to just show you what I mean!

Environment noise is quite controllable if a player wants to be serious about it (I mean anyone above 10yo can ask people to be quiet if he's playing, or just close the door with a note) and as I said, the voice detection technology at this point can pretty much differentiate a person voice from other sounds. In TS f.e. I play guitar sometimes and the mic does not recognize the music :). The no-mic or bad mic is a thing of pressure. If the need for a good mic is more than the laziness to go buy a new one, he will buy one (a 1$ Chinese mic headset is enough for a couple of years) . We already have the KOS if no-mic rule that almost every player has, and a lot of people bought a mic just because of this :D I haven't met anyone yet that would agree to use the ingame comms. Everyone is just "join this ts channel, etC" -.-. I sometimes go to transmission towers and try to find another survivors, or near towns with my walkie talkie. I try every frequency, and the only thing I get is static... but its quite fun hahaha so i'll keep on that.

Yeah, Rommel was a pretty cool guy - as generals go. Brilliant tactician, cared for his men and opposed Hitler. Even people like Churchill sang his praises - he shouldn't be remembered as a Nazi. Guitar would be cool. Maybe have a system that allows you to play actual tunes - though I don't know how that'd look. I know Rust has a guitar, but it seems to be a pretty shit system.

The only thing that says "shoot at me" more than a guitar is a bicycle. I pray both are implemented as soon as possible.

is the ability to add a guitar in the future? imaginene only a peer group in their camp with a guitar around a campfire , what is your opinion? (Sorry if there is another issue the same or if not applicable) From already thank you very much

First and foremost thankyou guys for stopping by. As always it means a lot. Onto the story... after our time at Tisy everyone but Rene and myself continued onto Bernezino to perfect his fireman's outfit. Upon entering Berry we came across a wild Brandon. The rest is history, enjoy :D ALL EVENTS TOOK PLACE ON EXPERIMENTAL SERVERS This series has had three content creators... all of which are wonderful, check them here: BarelyInfected: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TL... NinjaYourself: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIae... MBjustGaming: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ27... Music cinematic music is from Kai Engel. The guitar song that first played is a cover of Gravity Rides Everything by this fine lady : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxs... The last song you hear is actually my own :) Let me know what you guys think if you read this. As always, have a wonderful day.

Well I dont mean a system like guitar hero, but more of what FL Studio has build in, using the keyboard to play notes, and multiple notes can be used for chords

Well, I think this will be maybe too much ^^ We're not playing guitar hero here :D I would prefer that devZ work on something more useful than this and will be happy if there was just a playing animation when you sit down with the guitar, you've got to play live with your own guitar dude ;) If you don't know how to play guitar, you could broadcast a pop/folk song with your mic as well. :) Sorry for the topic revival Orlok, I won't do it again. But if I read the rules, I cannot open a topic which is about an already existing topic :( MIDI will be crazy :D I know that bohemia are crazy enought to do that, I'm playing Arma since operation flashpoint and spent many thousand of hours on Arma2/Dayz, but still, I noticed last week that the sea has a tide effect :O LOL ! These guys are crazy !

YES! I requested this a half year ago and I still want it! YEs YES Make it a melee weapon, but if you scroll and press ''Play Acoustic Guitar'' you can play it by using your keyboard for chords (similar to FL Studio etc, if I press an q I get a c if I press a w I get a D etc, now If I want to stop playing I scroll again and tadaa.'' Or maybe a few basic chords like AM, C, D, EM, E and G and thats it that would be fine too because than you can walk around and play

I need to revive this topic, because this idea is awesome :) Played several times some guitar on this game, but with nothing in my character's hand :( It would be super cool to have this kind of instrument in the game, it will add a lot to the atmosphere ! Guitar is the most played instrument in the world, so, there is maybe no need to have much more instrument, but maybe a harmonica would be cool too ;)

Cause you know, after wandering around fully geared for 2 hours staring at the shiny new gun i have, i get this strong urge to engage in meaningful conversation with a fellow survivor and tell some jokes, and then wander around with company for another 2 hours aimlessly, Hell why not just rally up every player i see and prance through the magical fields of the west and have a giant picnic? We will play guitar, and tell story's of our magical adventures of picking up water bottles and snaring innocent bunny rabbits. point being you cant RIP on players because they PVP, chances are those players don't even want to be "PVP exclusive" it's that they don't have any fucking choice. Also it's a survival game and most often its just overall better to shoot first and ask questions later, unless you are faced against impossible odd's and communicating becomes the most effective means of survival. My play style involves me surviving using any means, if communicating allows me to survive a situation i will do it, if it's safer to shoot someone that has there gun drawn and has spotted me, then i will do that.

Yeah - "dexterous" comes from the latin for "right handed" - "sinister" comes from the latin for "left handed" Yeah - Out brains are arranged differently. IMO that means "better" - but don't worry about it 'simple-minded normal creature', we hardly ever take advantage of our great powers I'm 100% sinister and ALSO 100% left handed, but never had trouble with guns, it's always the same - you reach over the top to work the bolt and the safety is just by your forefinger. Seems completely natural to me. [edit: also using your forefinger means you got to take it off the trigger before you start trying to use muscle on the weapon, so you 100% can not pull on the trigger accidentally] . There are left and ambi safeties but never liked them (no point in trying to confuse yourself when you already have the habit). If you "instinct shoot" pistols you can use either hand but for sights or scope always the left eye of course. - only problem is if a rifle has a shaped stock, that might be a slight pisser sometimes. I used to have a great little 22 rifle with a walnut left-handed stock, when I first moved away from home my sister sold it to the kid next door for like - nothing - to "clean up the house" - mutter spit mutter curse That's why I moved to the Dark Side of the Force. Archery I hold the bow in my right. For stuff like melee and rock climbing, and ya feet in roller-blading, you really ought to be as good as you can both ways. Guitar I play your standard "right handed" because its a damn sight easier doing the fretting with your good left hand , but all you right hander's use your weak clumsy hand for that, which is crazy. No wonder you take so long to learn to play so badly. And driving a car, the trick is you always sit on the same side as the steering wheel (heh) but depending what country you're in when you shift gear you might just open the door by mistake. I know a left-hander who plays the saxaphone real good - but, damn, how he works THAT I can NOT figure.

While I don't see the point it be fun to play a guitar or get a clarinet and smack that guy who took you beans and play a tune at the campfire with a saxophone. But if any instruments get added the better be able to be used as melee weapons.