DayZ - ArmA2 Zombie survival

[fabyak]

I too am really enjoying this, but it's irritating the piss out of me that I can't use anything in my backpack since the last update. Will try to reinstall to see if that fixes unbreaks it

[Mr. Johnson]

Yesterday I found out how to pick up my coyote pack that I kept dropping, it's mousewheel. FUCKING. MOUSEWHEEL.

[Mr. Johnson]

Fucking bandits are starting to piss me off now. I had a pretty good game where I teamed up with some random fella, together we raided a firestation where I found a silenced m9 (most useful gun so far). Then we went to the hospital where I found a blood pack and some injector thingies. We saw some guy opposite the street from us so we called out to him, but he had a sniper rifle and shot us both dead. the end.

When the real zombie apocalypse happens I'm just going to shoot everybody pre-emptively, humans are cunts.

[Dog Pants]

That's pretty much the learning curve of every zombie story ever

[Mr. Johnson]

They were certainly on to something.

[HereComesPete]

Hotfixes are now up to 1.5.8.4

Variety of ways to get this and any future ones, the easy installer is best for steam versions otherwise you can download the rar file with the updated pbo files that you drop into the mod folder or a full exe that will over-write your @dayz folder with the new stuff.

The only thing that's painless is the updating.

[tandino]

Do 5punkers have a particular server we're playing on?

[buzzmong]

Do 5punkers have a particular server we're playing on?

I know Pnut and myself tend to gravitate to the Pandemic Legion ones, mostly because they seem to be in Sweden and have pretty good pings.
I think the best way to find out is probably to add the game to Steam and use the friends list to see who is playing.

[Legoshoes]

Build 1.6.0 is rolling out.

UPDATE : 27 MAY 2012

Affected addons:
* dayz_code 1.6
* dayz_equip 1.2.5
* dayz_weapons 1.1.2
* dayz 1.2.6
* dayz_sfx 1.1.2

Developer's Note:
* To collect firewood, you can either find it in loot piles, or go into a forest and use the hatchet (gear > Right Click). I will expand this mechanic but its enough for now.
* You get a ONE TIME OFFER to change your player gender!
* Only two types of new skins are available in this update, "Camo" and "Ghillie Suit" in addition to normal survivor
* Skins a player is wearing are NOT lootable.
* When you change skin (right click on clothing package in inventory) your old skin will appear in inventory
* If you want a players skin, you will need to make them take it off first

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 15 minutes)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Loosing gear when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Wrong M107 is spawning on occasion (Correct one spawns)
* [FIXED] Crashed heli uber-loot not spawning (does now thanks to GhostBear!)
* [FIXED] Wire Fencing Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Tank Trap Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Invisible character models occuring (No longer invisible models)
* [FIXED] Panic not being activated (Your character will sometimes panic)
* [FIXED] Blood washout sometimes not being displayed (now will always wash out color depending on blood level)
* [NEW] Hatchet for chopping wood in forests
* [NEW] Wire Fencing kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Tank Trap kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Construction options moved to items in gear menu (right click wire fencing kit to use etc...)
* [NEW] Hospital Loot Spawn probabilities changed
* [NEW] Players can choose to be a female survivor (once only per CD-Key)
* [NEW] Heat packs for increasing temperature in an emergency
* [NEW] Bandit Skin transition for low humanity is removed
* [NEW] Players will receive an error message if the server they are on is running an incorrect HIVE version

[buzzmong]

Oh, in a turn up for the books, after finally getting on and despite one server hiccup where myself and 6 other survivors/bandits spawned in a debug area and died, I've respawned somewhere in the NE* with all my gear...and blood! I'm no longer passing out randomly! Woo!

*Think it's Solnichniy.

*EDIT*

May I suggest people find their way to Polana?

The supermarket there is easy to reach and it has got a big red brick house next to it that also spawns some fat lewts. As it's a small place there's a lack of zombies and it seems to be not visited by people.
Managed to pick myself up a new Czech Backpack (16 slots!), swapped my Makarov for an M1911 with a bucket load of ammo and filled up on bandages, chemlights and food. Even found a compass and a box of matches.

To top it off, there's also three deer stands nearby for even more shooty goodness.

[fabyak]

Sounds like a plan, I may well be near there having wandered inland and gone through lots of trees (or not, I'll have a look at the sign when I next log in)

[Pnut]

That might take me a while, I'm just south of Zelenogorsk at the min and have no compass.

[Legoshoes]

Oooh, I logged out near a quarry near Solnichniy. that's not too far from Polana. I may have to blunder my way over there in search of something more powerful than a Makarov.

[shot2bits]

does anyone fancy a bit of this and teamspazzing tonight? im back to work in a couple hours and get home between 10 and 11 but dont have work for 3 days after that

[fabyak]

mini patch out, server response seems much better

[Roman Totale]

I think in the next patch they should add cats

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I just hoofed it from drakon to polana without too much drama, gotta love having a decent size map

[Mr. Johnson]

I'm having a kip in polana, but I had a spaz moment earlier where I shot a seemingly lone zombie and alt tabbed out to check the map assuming I was safe. However, when I returned I was getting gangraped by a at least five zombas. I managed to survive but lost a lot of blood. I ate my cans of whatever I had on me and even managed to kill and eat two rabbits for some extra blood. It's still not enough however, and my vision is incredibly blurry. This is beyond annoying as I can't really read my compass and mostly managed to find Polana by use of my excellent navigational skills (read: pure luck). It would've been a damn shame to lose this character as I have matches, a hatchet, a compass, a knife and an entrenching tool (I don't think that last one has a purpose yet though).

[buzzmong]

Earlier I moved on from Polana (after it gave me map!) to explore Gorka, I'll double back tomorrow though as I'm pretty much at the summet of hill 291 so it's not far, and I can check the deer stand on the way.

Berezino's not too far away, which has the closest hospital if we need to get blood for Mr J.

[Mr. Johnson]

Actually I have blood, just no one to give it to me.