Day Z, the post apocolyptic zombie survival game

[Alyeska]

Ural and ATV recovered. Many thanks to the support we got to pull that off.

[Shadow6]

The Ural recovery was fun, given that I managed to delete my Ghillie (Hive issue), DMR (disappeared from my pack after logging in for the first time in a few days) and silenced M4 (which I should have known better than to store in my pack after the DMR).

Some shots from the last week:

A rainbow graces the group as we loot NW airfield


The group sorts through the accumulated loot


Alyeska and I ride out to the Ural


The Ural in question


During our raid on NW airfield today (N.B. Alyeska had no NVGs)


Moonrise while on the way to Berezino hospital


More shots (that I couldn't be bothered annotating) in the album.

[Skgoa]

I dno't remember if this has been pointed out before but: Your backpack has limited slots. If you try to put something in for that you don't have the space, it vanishes. Just don't do it.

[Edward Yee]

rocket admitting how in over his head he is due to DayZ's "public" release being unplanned:

It's almost a lumbering experiment now," he admits. "It's gone from being a little experiment in a lab to being in some particle collider in Europe somewhere. It's taken on a life of its own, which has impacted on the ability to do anything.

"It's scary and it's also fun at the same time. In a way, the project is basically about two or three hours away from complete disaster at any time. Every time we do an update it's just terrifying. And a lot of people get very frustrated when things go wrong.

For hilarity, though I can't find the source:

[11:49:37 AM] Rocket Hall: so here is the situation
sickboy has loaded 1.7.2.2 while he was at the airport
but 1.7.2.2 is completely fucked, zombies don't agro etc....
so now we need to roll it back, but we cant
in 1.7.2.2 zombies don't agro and people couldnt load

[Shadow6]

I dno't remember if this has been pointed out before but: Your backpack has limited slots. If you try to put something in for that you don't have the space, it vanishes. Just don't do it.

Oh, I was aware of the issue with not having enough space. What happened was that I had stored the guns (successfully) in my backpack (so that I had a little more flexibility) but when I disconnected my backpack was reset to some strange state beforehand.

1.7.2.3 is apparently out and officially released now. AFAIK the SB server is still running 1.7.1.5.

[Lord Baal]

Ok, I bought the game, is downloading right now. In which server and where I can find you guys?

[Broken]

Just picked up Arma via the Steam summer sale and finally got DayZ working as well. Learning how to sneak by zombies and what buildings you can actually enter is somewhat painful. PM me if you have room in an organized group, I'd like to give this a shot with others.

[Lord Baal]

Ok, me too. I have the game installed and the mod running. Where do I find you guys?

[Dargos]

I committed my first pre-meditated murder last night. Just finished raiding a deer stand east of Kozlovka and was headed west. I wanted to stop by the Zelenogorsk supermarket and see if I could find anything interesting before I head off into the great northern wilderness.

I was carefully cutting through the open space between the Kustryk and Kurgan hills/mountains when during one of my quick stop and scans I noticed movement in the distance. Much too fast for a Z. I hit the dirt and pull out my Binos.
Yep..as I thought, a survivor running east to west coming out of Kozlavka. He was about 250m distant and hauling ass. I wait a second to see if he was drawing Zs behind him, or to see if he had a buddy with him. Nope, all alone.

At that moment I made to conscious decision to kill the guy. I could see that he was armed with an AK or AKM. What else might he have for me? I wait a second and then begin to shadow him. Always staying behind him at least 200m. I almost lose him going through the woods around the Kurgan hill/mountain. Had a heart attack when I almost walked right up his ass. I dropped into the bushes no less than 50m from him. He was kneeling, maybe checking his map or typing with someone. Luckily for me this guy is way too complacent. He heads north, I see now that he wants to go to Green Mountain.
He breaks the wood line and starts sprinting north. I go up to the tree line behind him and watch him run. I pull my M-4ACOG, go prone, and put my dot on his head. He is at least 150m distant. Pop pop pop. Down he goes. I wait for what seems like forever to see if my shots draw any unwanted attention. Nothing. Quick scan for movement....nothing.

I sprint to his body. My mind dreaming of the cool things I'm going to loot from this mook. GPS? NVG? Anything that would really improve my chances for survival? I get to him and search his body.
Nothing... nothing that I already didn't have. Well, except a tool box. I could use that. And some frank and beans. You can never have enough beans in this world. I look at his body and thank him. I then hide the evidence of my deed. I bury him along with what was left of my humanity, all for a box of tools and a can of beans

[Broken]

Well, after a few missteps (including spawning on a veteran server by accident/ignorance and seeing a half dozen zombies as soon as the screen loaded) and some silly deaths (hmm, which button was prone again?) I have taken some baby steps into the DayZ world. I have yet to successfully venture into a town, as I can never seem to find a house that I can actually get into in order to loot. On the other hand, I have found several deer stands and am the proud new owner of an M4A1 with over a dozen zombie kills so far.

On the other hand, my nocturnal navigation skills are clearly lacking. I thought I was heading north, but keep running into literally nothing on rolling hills until I hit the sea again and followed the road/train tracks to their south-west termination point. To be honest though, I lack a map and compass; I only figured out where I was using an out-of-game map. Since I have seen it posted elsewhere to get off the coast to avoid player-killers (my one interaction with another human being so far was getting killed while sneaking around a barn looking for beans) and I am currently heading north. Should be interesting to see if I'll survive up there or just die randomly.

[Skgoa]

Man, DON'T go into towns. Sneak into barns and deer stands at first.

[Lord Baal]

So far I have died two times, first of dehydration on a huge steppe with rolling hills. (Curiously it was under a heavy rain, I tried looking up to drink rain by to no avail). The second time a zombie hit me and I got a bleeding injure. In panic I ran inside a town, all speed ahead in the streets attracting hordes of zombies, I made a desperate attempt to save my ass by jumping from the pier, only to die in the water I think bleeding to die.

Again, where can I find you people? I think I can't do this alone!

[Broken]

I don't have a regular server I go to since I use the Six Launcher and it doesn't have a log of recent servers (or if it does I haven't seen it). I recently went on a low population server and spawning nearby, hit Elecktro for supplies. Two fire stations, a couple good residencies and a super market yielded lots of food and basic kit, but I have only found a 12 slot backpack (and my lord, is swapping backpacks a clusterfuck with this UI). I also found a sidearm for the first time, all my previous games I hit barns and deer stands so I had long arms and no sidearm for the longest time.

I also got my first player kill in Elecktro. I was crawling around the supermarket when I turned the corner and saw another human standing there, facing outside at an open doorway. I tried calling friendly over voice-com (caps lock key) a couple times and was starting to type in the direct comm channel when the zombies shuffling around nearby suddenly seemed much louder. As this guy didn't seem to be moving and standing up like that would surely draw zombies, I put him down with the M1911 the sound of which luckily did not bring zombies. I am not sure if standing or gunshots would be a more sure fire way to bring zombies, but better to deal with them then zombies and another player if he went after me. After that, I carefully crawled my way out of town and made it to the castle nearby to log for the evening.

[Alyeska]

Careful spawning at our camp Rekkon. We got raided and two of us were killed. They attempted to steal our vehicles but we managed to secure them. Currently moving, again.

[Blayne]

I just started playing DayZ today/yesterday and man it's hard and requires huge amounts of patience. I made it into the capital of Chernarus as I had nothing to lose and found a lot of stuff, like Lee Enfield ammo for my rifle, a makarov and ammo and some other stuff but I'm starving and probably about to die.

I'm frustrated though as either the game has a memory leak or its because I'm out of food but its getting really hard to move around, like the game is at half/2/3's speed or something.

My biggest frustration with the game is that most buildings I can't enter, so I died the first time trying to desperately enter a home.

[Tolya]

I just started playing DayZ today/yesterday and man it's hard and requires huge amounts of patience. I made it into the capital of Chernarus as I had nothing to lose and found a lot of stuff, like Lee Enfield ammo for my rifle, a makarov and ammo and some other stuff but I'm starving and probably about to die.

Drop Lee Enfield. It's a loud gun thats only good for attracting zombies. For a handgun I recommend a M1911, as there's plenty of ammo for it and it packs a punch. Makarov is only good if you can't find anything else, as it usually requires two center mass shots to drop a zed (and only one headshot but thats true for any gun).

I'm frustrated though as either the game has a memory leak or its because I'm out of food but its getting really hard to move around, like the game is at half/2/3's speed or something.

Change the server you are playing on, this one is probably long overdue for a restart. Poorly ran and configured servers are slow.

My biggest frustration with the game is that most buildings I can't enter, so I died the first time trying to desperately enter a home.

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You'll learn in time which buildings are lootable. You can also look it up on dayzdb.com/map as there are images of building types with their loot tables.

[Blayne]

What server by the way does SDN play on? Do we have a dedicated TS server? I could provide one if there's a pressing need.

[Edward Yee]

The ARMA 2 franchise (ARMA 2, ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead, and the ARMA 2: Combined Operations bundle of them both) is currently a Steam Daily Deal at 40% discount, so that's US$18 for Combined Operations.

[Alyeska]

ArmA2 Combined Operations is going for $18 on Steam right now.

[Blayne]

Holy shit that was the worst thing I have ever seen, so I have my shotgun, at some point I play with my scrollwheel to see something but its not appearing so I shrug and continue.

At some point I'm spotted by a zed, and then i try to shoot it.

Instead of shooting it I just throw roadflares over and over and die , I even have the shotgun pulled out I can see it, but I just die instead because eventually I'm knocked unconcious, and this was after a good 3 hour run to find that shotgun in the first place.

There was no indication that I could see, the UI just didn't appear at all to inform me I had flares equipped.

I can accept dying by my own incompetence but this just unnecessary frustration and demoralization.

Lke sure, earlier I was mugged, I took that in good grace because hey, I should've ran in the opposite direction as soon as I saw a trio of armed men approaching me. Had I died as a result of that it would've been fine. Had I died instead because say, I got tabbed because ARMA II doesn't seem to like me having a secondary monitor?

[weemadando]

Top right of the screen, there'll be a GUI element pop up when you press "F" to change fire modes, you cycle between single, burst, auto, flares and grenade depending on what you have available. It will flash up what you have selected.

[Tolya]

Abysmal UI is part of the survival experience

[Dargos]

Lucky hit by a monkey z broke a leg. No morphine. Spent 90 minutes crawling south to the nearest known medical stash. Logged out for the night 2km short of my goal. THIS GAME IS SOOOO COOOL!!!!!!

[Blayne]

I have discovered that night time is the best time ever, zed's can't see you at all and barely hear you if you are like me and just crouch the entire time and just basically explore 3-4 towns with no effort.

Died because I got sniped though as I was running around with a flash light :(

[weemadando]

Yeah, I tend to play at night and solo. It makes the game totally different to daytime. It's terrifying and like I've said - it makes it one of the best stealth games ever.