Have you played original mod

[DrSubs 18]

Just curious. How many of you guys have played the original arma 2 dayz mod. For me, I loved the game, it was the reason I got a steam account. It was the reason I even bought a computer to play games. I played 1000+ hours of it. I was really surprised to see how many people playing standalone have not actually play the mod. It seems that more often then not the people I run into in game and talk to have not played it. It just kind of blew my mind that there isn't more die hard, from the beginning, dayz players. So I wanted to see if it was just random that the people I run into haven't played it or if there really is that many new people coming to dayz. Which is great.

P.S.  sorry if there is post about this already. I searched and couldn't find one.

[antonioajc 500]

Well, I haven't. Reason was that I didn't like the hero and bandit faction thing, that, and the humanity system.

Edited February 3, 2014 by AntonioAJC

[Mos1ey 6301]

Well, I haven't. Reason was that I didn't like the hero and bandit faction thing, that, and the humanity system.

 

There were no factions. Heroes could kill heroes and bandits could kill bandits. The humanity system was merely an indicator as to a player's actions within the game.

[antonioajc 500]

There were no factions. Heroes could kill heroes and bandits could kill bandits. The humanity system was merely an indicator as to a player's actions within the game.

What I meant was that it was a clear indicator to who was a threat and who wasn't. I have to thank the developers that the skins haven't made their way into the game and they're allowing us a range of clothes to customize our characters. :)

Edited February 3, 2014 by AntonioAJC

[DrSubs 18]

Ya. I do like how you have the option to dress yourself how you want.  Make yourself appear more friendly or hostile depending on how your feeling. There are a lot of things though that I do hope the bring over from the mod. Cant wait to see what this game becomes in like a year or so.

[snowcrash 82]

What I meant was that it was a clear indicator to who was a threat and who wasn't. I have to thank the developers that the skins haven't made their way into the game and they're allowing us a range of clothes to customize our characters. :)

 Having a bandit or hero skin was never an indicator for anything. A hero could KOS you just like a bandit. And i Know some Hero style players that had a Bandit skin, Just coz they protected some players..

 

 

 

find another excuse :)  :P

Edited February 3, 2014 by snowcrAsh42

[Gugolas 228]

I did.

[Max beans 2]

I heard about the mod, I didn't like the idea.

[k120 42]

Yes i played,a lot. Didn't register here before standalone though. :)

[DrSubs 18]

I heard about the mod, I didn't like the idea.

What do you mean the idea? Do you like Standalone? because its the same idea. Sure some of the ones like epoch and stuff changed it up quite a bit but the original mod is pretty much the same thing as standalone except standalone will be able to take it further than ever possible on arma 2.

[Sinphaltimus 262]

I did. But not a whole lot. Less than 100 hours for sure.

[SolidOwlPL 37]

Played it not as much as you have tho, only 300 hours on it...

 

Really enjoyed it, and was waiting for the standalone with great anticipation. 

[soulfirez 901]

Yeah started in may 2012 on the mod enjoyed every minute of it ( still play dayz mods only for arma 3 now eg Breaking point).

 

Enjoying the stand alone also hoping Rocket sticks to his guns and doesnt try to please the masses to much with the standalone. When the mods of the mod came some added some good stuff and some went way WAY over the top ( epoch which had some good things but it was no longer a survival game lol )

 

Can confirm the hero /bandit skins ment very very little lol i got KOS as often by a hero as i did a bandit ( they would just kill alot of zeds and or heal there friends to get there humanity back.

[archone88 29]

The first time I became a bandit in the mod, was because I killed someone in self defence.

 

Broken hero/bandit system cant be trusted.

 

 

On topic. Ive played the mod for about 200-300 hours.

Half that time on the Taviana map, which Im looking forward to see again in the distant future!

[irl-calibre 744]

What I meant was that it was a clear indicator to who was a threat and who wasn't. I have to thank the developers that the skins haven't made their way into the game and they're allowing us a range of clothes to customize our characters. :)

 

you gotta be kidding, right? I was killed more often than not by "hero" skins in the mod than bandits - and both the skins are still doable in SA.. only action defines  character not clothes..

[Etherimp 1323]

Played Vanilla on US264, on the Mod.. was a Hero with 11k humanity, and a lot of map control via Heli's and Vehicles.. Ran with a squad of Heroes, and while we could be trusted more than the average player, we were still a THREAT, unlike what someone above suggested.. 

Last group of players you want to jerk over or piss off is a squad of Heroes.

 

Also had -400,000 humanity on a Private Hive server, where I practiced PVP.. 

Most DayZ survived on my Hero: 21.

Most Players killed on my bandit: >20 in 1 life.

[DonChappWolf 0]

does anyone know what the required specs are?

 mine are:

Operating System

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz 34 °C

Conroe 65nm Technology

RAM

6.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15)

Motherboard

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35-DS3L (Socket 775) 25 °C

Graphics

PLE2208HDD (1920x1080@60Hz)

1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 (CardExpert Technology) 35 °C

Storage

298GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0 ATA Device (SATA) 30 °C

698GB Seagate ST3750528AS ATA Device (SATA) 28 °C

931GB Seagate ST1000LM 024 HN-M101MBB USB Device (USB)

Optical Drives

WRWR 6349IFK SCSI CdRom Device

WRWR 6349IFK SCSI CdRom Device

WRWR 6349IFK SCSI CdRom Device

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D ATA Device

Audio

High Definition Audio Device

[Uutgrunnen 96]

I also had a little survey on this forum a couple of days back asking people their age, gender and if they played the mod before the standalone.

 

In total 40 persons responded and 82,5% played the mod before the standalone. Quite similar with the (temporary) results here (83,33% at the moment).

[antonioajc 500]

 Having a bandit or hero skin was never an indicator for anything. A hero could KOS you just like a bandit. And i Know some Hero style players that had a Bandit skin, Just coz they protected some players..

 

 

 

find another excuse :)  :P

Well, how was I supposed to know that? I never played the mod.

[svisketyggeren 662]

Played the mod extensively...alomst all the playermade maps too. Preferred the playermade maps since Chernaurus got old pretty quickly.

[Vicco 123]

Played the mod extensively...alomst all the playermade maps too. Preferred the playermade maps since Chernaurus got old pretty quickly.

 

Got tired of the Chernarus map.  Never played other maps.  This one looks much better, with more places to loot. 

I'll wait a while to see how it progresses.  But I don't know how long.

It's getting harder to resist as things get fixed/added.

[duke0095 106]

purchased arma 2 some years ago and buyed arrowhead just for the mod because some of my friends started playing it and I saw the official trailer which seemed very interesting. played tons of hours in chernarus, later namalsk and celle. beside cs:s one of the best games I ever played.

[Play Pretend 6]

No actually I didn't play the mod, I had heard about it, but I knew they were making a stand alone and elected to wait for its release. 

[excitable1 156]

I played the mod and it was easy to farm for humanity to "appear" as a hero while shooting everyone I saw.

[GrappleX 354]

Yup, played it enough to completely wreck my social life... *sniffle*