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Title: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on December 29, 2013, 10:15:33 AM
I just got a ticket to play the game, early alpha.....So far it looks amazing....
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: branch37 on December 29, 2013, 10:26:04 PM
Did they keep the ARMA engine and interface?
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: GScholz on December 30, 2013, 08:03:32 AM
Well, it's Bohemia Interactive (makers of ARMA) who's producing the game...
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Bodhi on December 30, 2013, 08:40:15 AM
What are your thoughts on their ability to keep cheating at a minimum?
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on December 30, 2013, 10:17:17 AM
Well rocket screwed up bad on this, admins are not able to BAN players, using the same Arma 3 engine this tells me DAyz will probably be plagued with hackers as Dayz and Arma 2 were.
As far as Alpha is concerned, the game looks amazing - however being alpha there are no vehicles, no zombies, no loot either. But the question comes down to whether he's going to combat the hackers, its the deal breaker that will either make Dayz SA win or loose.

I will not play Dayz with hackers again, it just ruined the game when every 15 minutes someone spawns in and nukes an entire city. However there are also so many componants missing as well, Helicopter crashes, the AI should have missions - if not allowed to be added.

I enjoyed the AI missions as well as bandits/friendlies this was a unique addition to Dayz before, its rumored to be added, and should be, except for giving them a little AI would help rather then just stand there - spawn and start shooting at you.


Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: GScholz on December 30, 2013, 12:43:19 PM
According to Bohemia they've redone the multi-player part completely with the server now handling everything.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: LCADolby on December 30, 2013, 01:02:34 PM
Got mine through steam, I am sure they will deal with any hackers
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on December 30, 2013, 02:25:20 PM
I loved the original. Now the standalone.  :rock I haven't been on much, because this very game is cutting into my AH time.  :( I just need more time. I bet zack has one of those time machine doohickeys.
(http://www.lastkisscomics.com/blog/comics/2012-06-17-Misplaced-Time-Machine.gif)


For those of you who don't own dayz and don't know what it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1E4jwquzU
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on December 30, 2013, 02:48:03 PM
Well rocket screwed up bad on this, admins are not able to BAN players, using the same Arma 3 engine this tells me DAyz will probably be plagued with hackers as Dayz and Arma 2 were.
As far as Alpha is concerned, the game looks amazing - however being alpha there are no vehicles, no zombies, no loot either. But the question comes down to whether he's going to combat the hackers, its the deal breaker that will either make Dayz SA win or loose.

I will not play Dayz with hackers again, it just ruined the game when every 15 minutes someone spawns in and nukes an entire city. However there are also so many componants missing as well, Helicopter crashes, the AI should have missions - if not allowed to be added.

I enjoyed the AI missions as well as bandits/friendlies this was a unique addition to Dayz before, its rumored to be added, and should be, except for giving them a little AI would help rather then just stand there - spawn and start shooting at you.



You sure about that?  :headscratch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8XnO5LtZs
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: branch37 on December 30, 2013, 06:39:21 PM
it was the clunky nature of the gameplay that turned me away after about a month or two.  The interface, however unique, just wasn't working for me. 
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on December 30, 2013, 09:18:41 PM
You sure about that?  :headscratch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8XnO5LtZs

In my private server, I had 400% zombies enabled, if you even came near a town there were over 60+ zombies in the area, you used to be able to just run through town and grab what you needed and run off, it didn't work in my server, I had Self AI zombies.

They would chase you through buildings and zap you, when they did you got stunned and knocked out, most players quit playing on my server. Loot on the other hand, depended, i raised the percentage of drops on my server which means if you actually got to a military barrack, you probably got something decent,
but you also used up some ammo.

Loot was a problem and zombies, most players averaged 6 days on my server - problem was mainly hackers who flocked my server since it was busy with 40 of 50 players every day.
In the standalone there are no LOOT or zombies right now, barns have no loot, most buildings either, hackers still can use arma 2 cheats and get away with it..

I know I have two servers right now.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on December 30, 2013, 09:40:32 PM
In my private server, I had 400% zombies enabled, if you even came near a town there were over 60+ zombies in the area, you used to be able to just run through town and grab what you needed and run off, it didn't work in my server, I had Self AI zombies.

They would chase you through buildings and zap you, when they did you got stunned and knocked out, most players quit playing on my server. Loot on the other hand, depended, i raised the percentage of drops on my server which means if you actually got to a military barrack, you probably got something decent,
but you also used up some ammo.

Loot was a problem and zombies, most players averaged 6 days on my server - problem was mainly hackers who flocked my server since it was busy with 40 of 50 players every day.
In the standalone there are no LOOT or zombies right now, barns have no loot, most buildings either, hackers still can use arma 2 cheats and get away with it..

I know I have two servers right now.
DayZ Standalone is downloading right now  :rock I'll be sure to play on one of your servers if there is 40 players. If you see a ghillie near Cherno, it may be me....  :D
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: MickDono on December 31, 2013, 07:54:40 AM
its poo atm,  give it 6 months or so
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on December 31, 2013, 08:52:00 AM
its poo atm,  give it 6 months or so

Pretty much, so far after 4 days of being alive, I have an M4 with a silencer except it doesn't silence, LOL there are no vehicles, but I am around the northwest airfield if anyone cares to have some fun. My server stays full at night time with 30 players, during off hours I get between 5-10.

My Public server is 68.232.178.10:2302
My teamspeak server is ts55.gameservers.com:9716

Feel free to hop on whenever and have some fun, I have a few friends that are playing, we plan on getting the game down and hopefully when things get fixed we can start driving around and zapping newbies :D
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Dark on January 01, 2014, 11:22:44 AM
Its fun to  play being early access.  Yes no vehicles or anything like that. As far as loot I never have any problem finding anything.  As far as hackers I have only ran into one instance where the guy had some type of speed hack. But give it 8-12 months and it will be a great game if your into that type of game. Only things I really don't like is the action animation keeps messing up and I takes forever to pull anything out when u really need it.  now the spawns are really far but now ppl will go towards other places so I understand why they did that but really don't  like it though.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 01, 2014, 03:53:24 PM
Pretty much, so far after 4 days of being alive, I have an M4 with a silencer except it doesn't silence, LOL there are no vehicles, but I am around the northwest airfield if anyone cares to have some fun. My server stays full at night time with 30 players, during off hours I get between 5-10.

My Public server is 68.232.178.10:2302
My teamspeak server is ts55.gameservers.com:9716

Feel free to hop on whenever and have some fun, I have a few friends that are playing, we plan on getting the game down and hopefully when things get fixed we can start driving around and zapping newbies :D
You have an M4 with a silencer? I've got an empty magnum and starving to death somewhere near the spawn town.  :frown:

Arma 2 DayZ was better than the current standalone, but the standalone is sure to surpass the mod. For now, guns are few and far between when in Arma 2, you could stumble across piles of ordinance every 1/2 mile or so.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 01, 2014, 04:00:39 PM
My thoughts so far on the standalone: Yeah it's alright. The players? Bandits.

And since this is a role playing game, lets role play!

ATTEMPT ONE: I spawned in the spawn town and drank some water out of a nasty pond. Wandered into the starting town and found a splitting axe. Used the road to the left to ditch town, found a zombie and hit it in the head. Wandered on for a mile or so, headed what I thought was east, continued on. Found a house and a barn. The kind of barn with two sort of attics on the left and right side. Killed a zombie, fell off the top floor, and broke my leg, after the zombie hit me. I crawled out of the barn for a few minutes and found my first human player! Who beat me to an unconscious death with a wrench.

Yup, the same old cruel dayz.  :aok
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on January 01, 2014, 04:54:06 PM
Arma 2 DayZ was better than the current standalone, but the standalone is sure to surpass the mod. For now, guns are few and far between when in Arma 2, you could stumble across piles of ordinance every 1/2 mile or so.

You are forgetting, Dayz Standalone is in Alpha mode, there are no vehicles, very few weapons - very few zombies right now, give it a few months to get put together and its going to be one hell of a game.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: puller on January 02, 2014, 11:38:47 AM
Probably a dumb question for those of you that play this, and no I haven't checked out youtube to see what its really like but, is this like a FPS type of thing? read some stuff on the wiki about it...How much does it cost? Is it cool is my main point?...the concept really peaks my interest...I really only play AH on P.C....I used to play COD 4 on P.C. but the hackers anger me severely...war thunder is crap and world of tanks angers me also...would like to find another game because my daughter refuses to let me play my 360  :lol  if she's not playing modern warfare 2 she's playing UFC
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on January 02, 2014, 12:37:00 PM
Probably a dumb question for those of you that play this, and no I haven't checked out youtube to see what its really like but, is this like a FPS type of thing? read some stuff on the wiki about it...How much does it cost? Is it cool is my main point?...the concept really peaks my interest...I really only play AH on P.C....I used to play COD 4 on P.C. but the hackers anger me severely...war thunder is crap and world of tanks angers me also...would like to find another game because my daughter refuses to let me play my 360  :lol  if she's not playing modern warfare 2 she's playing UFC

Its $30 on steam right now, yes it is a first person shooter. I absolutely love the game concept, you are a lone survivor - you spawn in southern russian in a 300mile large map. Your job is to survive, scavenge, and live.

Survive is harder then it looks, with zombies running around isn't the biggest problem, other survivors are the problem, you have to be stealthy, collect food and guns and survive.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: B4Buster on January 02, 2014, 09:10:22 PM
I'm anxiously waiting for a bit more content and bug fixes before I purchase. I'm thinking in another 2-3 months I'll go ahead and buy it.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Curval on January 03, 2014, 12:02:59 PM
ATTEMPT ONE: I spawned in the spawn town and drank some water out of a nasty pond. Wandered into the starting town and found a splitting axe. Used the road to the left to ditch town, found a zombie and hit it in the head. Wandered on for a mile or so, headed what I thought was east, continued on. Found a house and a barn. The kind of barn with two sort of attics on the left and right side. Killed a zombie, fell off the top floor, and broke my leg, after the zombie hit me. I crawled out of the barn for a few minutes and found my first human player! Who beat me to an unconscious death with a wrench.

Yup, the same old cruel dayz.  :aok

LOL

My son had a similar experience, except whomever it was that beat him into unconsciousness actually left him a bunch of food and supplies....after stealing his wrench.  :)
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on January 03, 2014, 02:45:58 PM
Well if anyone gets bored, my server will remain up as well as the teamspeak, so far we average 3-4 that join to play :)
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 03, 2014, 04:50:09 PM
Well if anyone gets bored, my server will remain up as well as the teamspeak, so far we average 3-4 that join to play :)
If it's a daytime server, I'll be there  :rock
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: MickDono on January 04, 2014, 11:27:45 AM
I'll Hop on your server next time i play
-db-Dono is my steam name

Do u still have a mod server btw mate, aswell as the SA server?

Thinking about getting an epoch mod server and was wondering if i could get any tips?

Cheers mate.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Estes on January 05, 2014, 02:58:11 AM
I'll Hop on your server next time i play
-db-Dono is my steam name

Do u still have a mod server btw mate, aswell as the SA server?

Thinking about getting an epoch mod server and was wondering if i could get any tips?

Cheers mate.

I just want to let anyone else that plays this know that I'm willing to play it and any other game they may have on steam with them. Thanks for saying what I was going to say Mick  :lol :salute
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Butcher on January 05, 2014, 09:49:37 AM
I'll Hop on your server next time i play
-db-Dono is my steam name

Do u still have a mod server btw mate, aswell as the SA server?

Thinking about getting an epoch mod server and was wondering if i could get any tips?

Cheers mate.


I had an Epoch Mod server, problem is I didn't get any visitors in 3 weeks. I advertised the hell out of the server, one of the problems is hackers plague Epoch servers really bad, of the 10 vistors I had totally in december 4 were hackers that blew up Cherno or Electro.
Setting the mods for Epoch are really really easy, it just takes some time to get used to modifying the files on the server. Its best to make yourself a little Dayz Folder, and learn to pack and unpack the PBO Files.

If you haven't done it before, its a pain in the bellybutton and tricky, if you mess up modifying the server files, the server will either not run or be screwed up, however! as many times as I screwed it up on my server, I can tell you it eventually gets easy to figure out.

I had AI missions (which is a must, this puts 1-4 missions on the map at all times, it allows players to go see out AI bots and kill them for decent weapons) plus it tends to attract players in the area who also want some of the weapons and gear.
Sarge AI is a must as well, this add Bandits/Heros/Survivors to the game, you can modify their weapons and skill as well as numbers, I had between 3 and 9 Bots that randomly spawned in every grid in the game (I put a maximum of 5 groups per grid) which means just about every few minutes you tended to run into a group or two of Bandits or survivors, depending on your reputation, you would either be left alone or attacked! This keeps players on their feet, and if you kill the group your rep goes up or down.

The only BAD part about this, the AI does steal vehicles - I once hopped out in electro to check the hospital for some bloodbags and the bots stole my damn vehicle and crashed it when they ran into bandits (it blew up) doh I forgot to lock my car (grand theft bots)

I would of kept my Epoch server, but the new SA server is twice as expensive, maybe you being in England you will have a better chance to get players to jjoin and have fun, if you DO by a server let me know I will be glad to help you out and show you what to do to set it up.

It wouldn't take but a few hours to have everything fixed and working.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: kappa on January 29, 2014, 03:52:45 PM
I seem to be addicted now..

thought this was lol funny.. the end could not stop laughing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REP_0vNhv1Q
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Triton28 on January 29, 2014, 03:58:28 PM
I keep almost buying this on steam.  Enough bugs worked out to make it worth it now?
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: kappa on January 29, 2014, 04:01:53 PM
its not too bad.. the zombies still kinda bug out.. the human players are ultra melons for the most part..

but that video!  You can't cage a yeti!!!
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Curval on January 29, 2014, 04:32:51 PM
I seem to be addicted now..

thought this was lol funny.. the end could not stop laughing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REP_0vNhv1Q

 :lol

"I love that guy!"
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: kappa on January 29, 2014, 04:33:54 PM
lel and the guy chasing.. 'I live life on the edge!!!'
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 29, 2014, 08:00:20 PM
I keep almost buying this on steam.  Enough bugs worked out to make it worth it now?
Actually, yeah. The game is pretty fun.  :aok

There is still the occasional getting stuck in a wall, and glitching into the floor, but it's still and alpha. Bohemia is working to smash bugs left and right. And they've been doing a darn good job!  :old:
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 29, 2014, 08:04:45 PM
Let me just throw this out here....


The game is fun, but the other players a total pain in the [insert word here].

People who try to kill other are everywhere! I get shot in the back so many times I almost have to turn around ever 3 seconds!

Tip: Stay away from Elektro. Most hostile city ever.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 31, 2014, 08:08:14 PM
Heres a gif that explains human interactions in DayZ

(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/594774821053548157/CA3D06D344163C592C094C0E67FC64C4B832C964/)
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: Vulcan on February 02, 2014, 05:29:24 AM
You are forgetting, Dayz Standalone is in Alpha mode, there are no vehicles, very few weapons - very few zombies right now, give it a few months to get put together and its going to be one hell of a game.

more like years, and no mods like epoch in the near future.
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: MK-84 on March 01, 2014, 10:32:55 PM
I ponied up and joined. 
And I thought I died alot in AH  :uhoh
Title: Re: Dayz Standalone
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on March 02, 2014, 08:50:40 AM
I ponied up and joined.  
And I thought I died alot in AH  :uhoh
Many things will kill you. Including stairs and ladders.
The other day after killing a bandit my friend walked off the top of a hospital on accident.  :cry