Day Z mod for ARMA II

[Xant]

Spawned at the coast with my M107, heard gunshots directly to my right and saw a guy with an AK. Managed to shoot him before he got me, at least. Wish they'd get rid of the spawning-at-the-beach-bug!

Also Phyrex, fucking nice gear. You should start taking more risks though! It does lack end-game content though: now on the 5th day with my M107 and.. there's not really much point in looting for me anymore. But it's still fun helping other people loot and covering them, so that's what you should probably do - help other people get similar gear as you and then do something crazy like take over a town at night!

[Molly]

Best is to watch videos. Or did you mean screens to our own stories?

Well, most of the time player-screens are nicer to look at and give away more about the actual gameplay... Just capture a few nice moments... fighting, atmosphere, enemies.

[Vibe]

Phyrex go to the middle of Cherno in the night, no goggles and fire that sniper 

[Xant]

I think rocket is going in the right direction though: now that you need firewood (well, needed? Don't really need it at day anymore..) you have to go in some nubtowns even when you're fully equipped, risking death. Before you could just hunt animals indefinitely and refill your water bottle at some lake. Also the only hospitals are at the coast and that's where antibiotics spawn.

[Phyrex]

I both like and dislike the changes.

The mod isn't really about surviving, it's about the epic story/tale of your death. So increased difficulties are always welcome. However, it's starting to get a bit too much in the micro-management department.

Ideally I'd like 10 times the amount of Zombies we have now, make them slower but tougher. But I doubt the engine could handle it and the AI pathing is terrible.

Also, all the gear I have is both a blessing and a curse, you become extremly careful once you get a pair of NV googles.

[Teeth]

Also, all the gear I have is both a blessing and a curse, you become extremly careful once you get a pair of NV googles.

Well if you just play exclusively at night, you are invisible for almost anyone else, while having awesome visibility yourself. There is not really much risk to it if you just stick to night it seems to me.

[Logen]

It does lack end-game content though

Thats the biggest problem of any sandbox game.

Also DMR sucks, no range calibration wtf?

[Vibe]

Also, all the gear I have is both a blessing and a curse, you become extremly careful once you get a pair of NV googles.

That is true, but even if you are mad careful you can still lose them to a bug (like I lost my NV goggles ;E).

[B3RS3RK]

I think I wrote it before, but I think really nice endgame content would be to be able to build/recolonice settlements, with walls and shit.You would obviously need horrendous amounts of supplys and willing workers for it, making it hard to achieve, but it could be awesome once you did it.Might even be Wars break out between different settlements etc.

That would give enough stuff to do even for the most hardcore of hardcore gamers.

[ulya]

The problem is most likely in the "small" servers, lets say you needed 10 people to be able to create an establishment, that would mean 1/5th of a server already, and it would be stuck on 1 server.

[Vibe]

Servers with more players would be more interesting for that (or even for DayZ now). I'd say about 100-200 players per server.

[Overdriven]

Basically whilst it's a great mod. One of the big developers needs to go ahead and make a proper version tailored to this ideal so that the engine supports it and the multiplayer support is much better.

Probably not going to happen.

[Kafein]

Lol this game is 300% easier in daylight for beginners.

So I spawn, this time I can see buildings in the distance so I go there (in think it was the airfield but I'm not sure), loot useless things but maybe an xbow. Without bolts for it of course. After I take it I hear makarov shots so I very cautiously try to find where's the guy, but I don't find him so I continue exploring the hangars, pretty much nothing in them. I proceed to a building next to them. There's a ladder to go up, I use it and as soon as I'm up there I see a human crouching and aiming at me. He quickly goes down the stairs he was next to for some reason so I have no choice but to stay on the roof. I ask if friendly in chat but because of my severe noobishness I probably did it in the wrong chat. Then to my despair a zombie climbs up the ladder (wtf asshole xD), looks at me in the eyes then proceeds to go down and follow the other guy. I hear gunfire and the zombie hitting the human so I climb down the ladder as I suppose it is my only chance to catch him with his pants down, friendly or not. When I'm downstairs I see him eating or something like that, not even facing my direction, and I also see he has a hell of a lot of loot (compared to me of course). The combination of greed and the fact he was completely harmless pushed me to kill him. So bam I get a lot of things including an ALICE pack, more ammo, a weapon... At that moment I hear someone going downstairs. And fuck it's not a zombie. I say my usual "hi", probably again in the wrong chat, then something along the lines of  "let's share the loot" because I do want to play it friendly and obviously that would not happen if I kept it all for myself. The answer was a bullet in my head.


Roleplaying a mute guy is hard. It's not very surprising the more aggressive people are those that only have the equipment they spawned with.

[Vibe]

Basically whilst it's a great mod. One of the big developers needs to go ahead and make a proper version tailored to this ideal so that the engine supports it and the multiplayer support is much better.

Probably not going to happen.

One of the Arma 2 devs already stated they will patch up Arma 2 for better DayZ performance.
Also should work better in Arma 3 I guess, once it's out.

[Overdriven]

O quick question. Does the number of zombies on a server scale with the number of players? I assume so because last night I joined EU2 with 4 players and there were only 62 zombies currently spawned. As opposed to the 700 when that server is full.