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Community => Other Games => Topic started by: Sacha on June 27, 2014, 10:38:05 PM
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Does anyone here play DayZ? I recently bougt the standalone version, and I must say it's very interesting, and definitely the most realistic post-apocalyptic online game to date. Still quite buggy, with zombies sometimes clipping through walls and stuff like that, but I don't mind at all.
Even though I haven't made it longer than 2 hours before dying and even failed to obtain even a working gun, I get sucked into the game, creeping through bushes and houses desperate to find useful things, freezing every time I see movement or hear odd noises, feeling victorious over finding something as mundane as a pair of hiking boots, ... this is The Walking Dead minus all the tedious drama. Other survivors tend to be more dangerous than zombies, and you can literally get shot through the neck from 200 yards out out of nowhere just because you walked into someone's line of sight. The few times I've spotted other people I made very sure to run and hide. I like that being dead means just that. No revives, no getting your loot back, and death lurks around every corner. Definitely the most tense game I've played since F.E.A.R. just came out.
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The game sounds interesting, I'll probably give it a try soon. :)
EDIT: Did it by any chance surface on Steam some time earlier this year? The name sounds familiar.
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Yeah, it is originally a mod for a game called Arma, which was so popular they decided to make it a standalone game. Right now it's still in alpha stage, so quite buggy sometimes like zombies running through walls and closed doors, but still worth the money. And buy the alpha for cheaper now, you get the full game in the end.
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Nobody? That makes me a saaaaaad panda.
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I actually just got it, haven't gotten into it yet though.
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Heh... Stabbity vs Chernarus. Should be interesting.
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Just bought it. Going to install it tomorrow and give it a whirl. Steam user (I'm not sure what to do actually) is Rochefort.
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Steam id is mizr659.
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Update:
So I played for about two hours today. Died three times. Twice on hardcore, once on regular. On my first go I got onto a hardcore server, and immediately ran into someone, and to my surprise, despite them having an axe, they did not brutally murder me. So we teamed up and went on a rolling, looting stuff. We looted a police station and my partner got a .22. We ran into another guy (hereinafter referred to as Blackie) and teamed with him as well, and moved onto another town after looting the first one dry. We found another a police station, this one had two guns in it. Some sort of repeater and a shotgun. I got the .22, my first partner got the repeater and Blackie got the shotgun. It wasn't long after this until things went down hill. I didn't have a magazine for the .22 so I had to manually chamber rounds (pain in the ass), and we continued looting. We went into a multiple story building, and that is when Blackie turned. He fired at me, and I ran downstairs yelling for my partner, and I got shot at the bottom of the stairs, breaking a bone. I proceeded to crawl as far as I could, warning my partner, and then fired a single shot at Blackie. I don't know if I hit or not, because he fired too, and it killed me. I don't know how things turned out for my dear friend, but I hope Blackie rots in the deepest pits of Hell.
I tried to return, but bled to death before I got there.
So I changed servers, and went on casual, and got rolling pretty well. I'm ended up looting an over/under hunting rifle and 12 rounds for it. I spray painted it green to make it a bit more camouflaged, and am also rocking a grey hoodie, a black motorcycle helmet, blue cargo pants, a pair of wellies, some work gloves and a spray painted black fire axe. I got into a desperate sniper battle with a group of dudes who were in an apartment building across from the one I was looting. I managed to kill a guy, but couldn't get down to see if he had anything worthwhile because his buddy was running up with a shotgun, so I fled upstairs and we shot back and forth for a bit, until they gave up and left. It was pretty intense.
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Do you have any idea where you're at? All the town markers are in Russian though :P I'm currently at the huge airfield in the north-west, fully geared.
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Good god.
So the first thing to happen me. Go into the first house I see, start looking around getting to grips with the way things are. I make sure to close doors behind me because who knows what might happen, y'know? I want to have some kind of warning against whatever gets thrown at me at least. That's when it happens. I'm on the top floor and suddenly I get hit. Something hit me. I turn around and there's a person there with a bike helmet on and a crowbar in their hands. Apparently they bled out after that because they fell on the ground and I repeatedly punched them in the head hoping they would go away.
Realising they were dead I took their bike helmet and crowbar and puffy jacket before hightailing it out of there. I never did found out what they were running from.
Cue an hour and a bit of wandering around, no idea where I am, looking for loot. Find an axe, some better clothes, and a gun I have no ammunition for. See my first zombie too, but they're just standing there so I go the long way round.
Now it's gotten hot again. Sacha, I'm looking for better stuff and found an airfield in the NE I thought would be a good place to go. After discovering the wide open [unmapped] zone to the north I realised I was meant to go south. All fine until I passed through one town. Four zombies had to be killed to get through it. Bad news to start with I thought. It was on leaving that things got weird. I was periodically attacked by zombies charging at me from the direction of the town I had left. I quit the game for the night when a zombie glitched through a window and starting attacking me while I was drinking a pepsi.
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Airfields are good places for weapons and military gear, but because of that they are also some of the most dangerous places to be. I don't normally shoot on sight, but on airfields and on military bases, it's kill or be killed. The NE airfield is generally the least popular of the three (the others being NW Airfield, the big one, and the SW Airfield, which is deceptively small yet even more dangerous than the NWAF due to its proximity to Chernogorsk/Chapaevsk.
What I'd reccommend for you is to find medium towns, with police stations, hospitals and/or fire stations. Factories, barns, sheds and warehouses are also good for looting equipment. Piano houses are also good places. Wooden houses only spawn low grade loot, mostly useless clothing items and some food and drink, but more often they're just empty. Big cities like Chernogorsk, Elektrozavodsk, Berezino and Novodmitrovsk have every building except military, but see a lot of traffic, and bandits roam theses places like vermin looking for a kill.
Finally, unless you have an axe (splitting or firefighter's) or a working gun, do not engage zombies. Avoid them when possible, and if they spot you, just run like a bitch until they fall behind, and then run some more because these !@#$ers are tenacious. I had two of them chase me for well over 2 miles once, and whenever I thought I was safe and looked behind, I saw them coming from the distance, until finally I had enough of that !@#$ and I killed them with the brand new axe I had just picked up.
Edit: http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus#7.045.129 Anyone with brain cells to pair can navigate Chernarus like a breeze with this map. Real survivors use in-game maps though. And find a compass.
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That was fun. Also I forgot to give you back your scope, Sacha. I also found an AK fully geared.
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AKM or AK-101? If it's the latter, you are the luckiest bastard on the planet, and some poor schmuck is crying himself to sleep for losing one of the best and rarest guns. Also I have about 5 or 6 AK-101 magazines.
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AKM or AK-101? If it's the latter, you are the luckiest bastard on the planet, and some poor schmuck is crying himself to sleep for losing one of the best and rarest guns. Also I have about 5 or 6 AK-101 magazines.
I think the latter.
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Well, !@#$. You lucky son of a bitch, you. I've been looking for one since they put it in the game, and you just go ahead and find a kitted one on your first day. People will actually kill you if you tell them that.
I also figured out why the walkie-talkies didn't work. We did it wrong :P
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Well, !@#$. You lucky son of a bitch, you. I've been looking for one since they put it in the game, and you just go ahead and find a kitted one on your first day. People will actually kill you if you tell them that.
I also figured out why the walkie-talkies didn't work. We did it wrong :P
Definately that 101, plus a lot of ammo for it. It was amidst a lot of ruined stuff, but the gun itself was pristine. There was a jacket with a whole bunch of magazines in an ammunition box, but everything was ruined so it was left behind... except the bullets in the magazines were still fine.
Also a zombie ruined my tracksuit.
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Ok so I lost everything because the servers were being reset and something happened.
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Like, all of it? Did you randomly respawn somewhere?
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That happened to me too, lost my shotgun with a snaploader and a ton of ammo. Its okay though, me and a buddy raided a town and we're now geared to the teeth. I have a Mosin with a long range scope, a compensator and a bayonet (and I spray painted it green). I got a pair of ttsko pants, a summer camo gorka jacket, a black tanker's helmet and a UK assault vest. My buddy has an SKS with a bayonet, a gorka jacket, some hunters pants, a maroon beret and a UK assault vest as well. Plenty of Mosin ammo, but we're down to two rounds with the SKS. We were patching my buddy up at a hospital and some guy started blasting an automatic weapon outside so we took to the roof, exchanged some shots, and I killed a guy but his buddy got the loot. Found a magnum at one point but some guy hit me with an axe and it got ruined.
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Protip: If you ever find your character reset, just leave the server immediately and join another. It should give you your old dude back. If you start playing with the reset one, you'll be stuck with it.
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Had a really good experience lately with death. Found some guys who all seemed relatively new, we decided to check out some explosions and met up again later with one guy gone. Three of us headed to the NE airfield to find it completely empty, then headed north to Svet with just two of us. Just me and the guy who sounded like Old Greg.
I got sniped by someone when we were in town and despite losing my SKS and everything else I couldn't help but laugh at how !@#$ing hilarious it was listening to my friend get shot at by some guy with an automatic rifle.
"Oh !@#$ oooh !@#$ c'mon buddy you there? Aww man nigga can't even hit a running man whatchu doin boy".
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I find that I get less and less annoyed about getting killed. In fact, I seem to be having more fun with newspawns than geared guys, because paradoxally, the more deadly I become, the less inclined I am to seek out danger, because I don't want to lose all my stuff. Whereas now I charge at people waving a pickaxe around like a psychopath.
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Losing is fun!
You should play Dwarf Fortress.
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I know what you mean, if I had actually good gear I'd be terrified of losing it.
Losing is fun!
You should play Dwarf Fortress.
That's a game I have to start again since Toady released his latest update. I miss bringing home the royals to discover your ruler is a Vampire Queen.
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Tried the server change when it happened, no dice.
Got on today to find myself stuck in the floor of the hospital. Some creative rolling around prone got me unstuck. Me and my buddy continued on, and man I'm pleased with my gear, and not to worried about losing it. I have full ttsko (pants, jacket, boonie [with a fish hook in it]) and a 1911 with a mag (thats all the ammo we've found for it) and a hunters backpack and camo sprayed my mosin. I'm camoflauged as !@#$ and have 100 some rounds for the mosin. My buddy found a magnum and a ton of ammo, a crossbow, a bunch of bolts and a holo site. So we're rolling around Novodimtrovsk looking for people to mess up. None today. And we still don't have can openers. >.<
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Just use any bladed weapon to open cans. Works even with a screwdriver.
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I've been using an sks bayonet for it, but I want a can opener so I'm not losing food. Finally figured out healing now too. Nice to be able to see clearly again.
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Eh, spilling food is not that much of a problem IMO. I've always found more food than I needed, and non-canned food seems to be more abundant after the latest update. Zucchinis everywhere!
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Bananas!
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So I bought the game too... any tips?
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Haven't played in a while thanks to Chivalry but these tips should be valid.
-Don't go near zombies unless you have an axe. Try to avoid them if possible, use stealth if you can to kill them. If they do attack, just keep moving and swing at their heads. Don't use guns unless you're getting crowded, you'll only attract more zombies (and players).
-Stay hidden and alert. It's best to take the time to carefully scout your surroundings before proceeding. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't see you.
-If you see people, observe them, don't just run up and say hi. That'll get you shot. Be on the lookout for bandit uniforms (clown masks, stuff like that). Never trust anyone, and if you do run with strangers, try to keep them in a position where they can't surprise you. Even after helping you for an hour they can turn on you.
-Stay hydrated and energized. You'll heal faster and be able to take more damage.
-Learn to navigate.
-Learn which buildings spawn the loot you need, so you don't have to scavenge every single house.
-Don't hoard. In the beginning you'll tend to pick up anything that looks useful, but a lot of it is junk. Food, water, ammunition. Determine your survival style and scavenge accordingly. You don't have to take every handgun you find.
-Always have a sharp object on you to open cans with. Unless you have a can opener, you need blades to open them. Screwdrivers and kitchen knives spill the least food.
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Oh, and don't get attached to your gear. You will get killed and lose it all at some point.
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Running circles around zombies while swinging at them is the safest way to take them down, I've found.
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So... they've added a vehicle, the V3S truck, in the experimental branch. Vroom vroom mother!@#$ers!