DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

Fussgangerzone

Lacoona wrote: »

That's why there's an anti-boards clan! To stop the mindless hoarding and server free roam. A bit of a contradiction, but necessary all the same. I welcome anyone to play with us, or even shoot us in the back, we've even hunted other anti-boards members for the laugh. It's a game of infinite possibility - but not if there are dictators out there

Honestly, I play in the boards group and generally there's been a mix of styles from friendly-friendly, wait-and-see, shoot-on-sight both in the clan and on the server in general.

Despite having the benefit of the clan, I like doing solo runs, and introducing myself to strangers, come what may.

With the introduction of the anti-boards clan, things took a noticable turn towards the aggressive. Largely that's simply down to having two active clans on one server. That said, the anti-boards lads seem to be 100% shoot on sight.

In general though, the game has become very popular, and with popularity comes dickheads, who watch griefer videos on youtube and think that's how to play. So that doesn't help either. In general, I think DayZ has become very unbalanced, on any server.

It'd be great if there was eventually some sort of optimisation based on play-styles.

Villain

dan_ep82 wrote: »

FAO Villan
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=cache:http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=25955&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b&ech=1&psi=9J_xT5PgMIifhQfO1MDcDA.1341235188872.3&emsg=NCSR&noj=1&ei=9J_xT5PgMIifhQfO1MDcDA

Website is down,above is a cached version.

Cheers Dan but already in contact with them and import of existing server is underway so we shouldn't see any downtime all going well.

dan_ep82

Villain wrote: »

Cheers Dan but already in contact with them and import of existing server is underway so we shouldn't see any downtime all going well.

Ah grand so,on the ball:D

FrostyJack

The boards server isn't showing up on sever list anymore, I have messed around with the filters and no joy. Trying to get into any server it just sits in the "waiting for character to create" screen, others are stuck there too. Tried a few servers.

Thornography

Andrew76 wrote: »

they sound like a bunch of kiddies wanting to play the game like a COD deathmatch

I think you are taking this game a little to serious buddy. I'v never played COD, But myself and Lacoona did play amongst professional quake 3 and quake live players, being sponsored by Zowie and represented our country numerous times in the ESL. I think we deserve to play a mess about game like dayz in which ever way we see fit, and that's just what we will do.

Villain, Cheers for sorting them boys out much appreciated.

Magill

Thornography wrote: »

I think you are taking this game a little to serious buddy. I'v never played COD, But myself and Lacoona did play amongst professional quake 3 and quake live players, being sponsored by Zowie and represented our country numerous times in the ESL. I think we deserve to play a mess about game like dayz in which ever way we see fit, and that's just what we will do.

Villain, Cheers for sorting them boys out much appreciated.

LOL.

FrostyJack wrote: »

The boards server isn't showing up on sever list anymore, I have messed around with the filters and no joy. Trying to get into any server it just sits in the "waiting for character to create" screen, others are stuck there too. Tried a few servers.

Yeah, i just installed the game a hour ago, haven't been able to get into a game yet because of this "Character creation" thing. Couldn't find the boards server on the browser either, is it possible to just connect via console ?

Andrew76

Thornography wrote: »

I think you are taking this game a little to serious buddy. I'v never played COD, But myself and Lacoona did play amongst professional quake 3 and quake live players, being sponsored by Zowie and represented our country numerous times in the ESL. I think we deserve to play a mess about game like dayz in which ever way we see fit, and that's just what we will do.

Villain, Cheers for sorting them boys out much appreciated.

If you read my post then that's exactly what I said - you folks are free to play the game as you see fit. My COD kiddies comment is how I see all this score keeping and only playing the game to kill certain individuals rather than actually trying to survive and embrace the zombie environment etc.

As for your comment about taking it too serious - I'm the definition of a casual gamer as I have very little time for gaming in general, so definitely not taking this or any game too seriously. I have no idea who Zowie are, nor what ESL is, so if playing quake professionally is supposed to be some sort of achievement then fair play to you.

Villain

Thornography wrote: »

I think you are taking this game a little to serious buddy. I'v never played COD, But myself and Lacoona did play amongst professional quake 3 and quake live players, being sponsored by Zowie and represented our country numerous times in the ESL.

:D

Lacoona

Andrew76 wrote: »

Sure look at the anti-boards gang/group/clan - they sound like a bunch of kiddies wanting to play the game like a COD deathmatch - they're perfectly entitled to do so, who gives a fcuk about them or how they play or how others play the game. As long as you're not cheating or hacking then all's fair.

Lol at the mindless hoarding comment from Lacoona. :rolleyes:

Just trying to bring a bit of dynamism to the server. Your comment is the exact reason we're doing this, anything outside of what your team does is viewed as "kiddish". We originally went on the server a month ago thinking - hey this is cool, Irish server, Irish people - it will be fun. Came on the server, all vehicles hoarded, all loot hoarded, everything hoarded, no one dying, just boring. Now we are creating our own fun, which if you see it as "kiddish" then you are missing the point and philosophy of dayz (freedom to do as you please).

ps. Never played COD in my life.

Villain

Lacoona wrote: »

Came on the server, all vehicles hoarded, all loot hoarded, everything hoarded, no one dying, just boring.

I don't know where you got that idea from, it's ignorant though and incorrect, most boards people I have seen online that were on mumble was about 10 or 12 so that leave about 30 others on the server. The most vechicle we ever had at one time accounted for about 20% and that lasted a short time.

The score keeping is silly and childish but hey you can excuse it anyway you like.

Laviski

pointless hoarding vehicles until dayz goes at least into beta. too many resets and bugs with vehicles.its kinda like gear you don't get attached to it as 1 day you spawn in the middle of nowhere wearing nothing and start over again.

Andrew76

Lacoona wrote: »

Just trying to bring a bit of dynamism to the server. Your comment is the exact reason we're doing this, anything outside of what your team does is viewed as "kiddish". We originally went on the server a month ago thinking - hey this is cool, Irish server, Irish people - it will be fun. Came on the server, all vehicles hoarded, all loot hoarded, everything hoarded, no one dying, just boring. Now we are creating our own fun, which if you see it as "kiddish" then you are missing the point and philosophy of dayz (freedom to do as you please).

ps. Never played COD in my life.

Must have hit a nerve with you quake pro's. I've already said, twice, that you're free to play the game as you please which is what DayZ is all about. I just coined your play style as "COD kiddie" because of the score keeping, has a nice ring to it actually. Maybe you could call the boards group "The Hoarders" or something? Even though that's not what was happening at all.

badbeatcentral

From an outsider perspective (read: plays as a solo survivor, interacts/forms groups with other survivors/bandits through direct coms) neither of the two *clans* (lol) are playing the mod as it is intended, and the server has been boring as **** as a result. Thankfully there are 100s more servers that aren't dominated by teamspeak leetsquads.

Ri_Nollaig

Thornography wrote: »

... I'v never played COD...

Lacoona wrote: »

...
ps. Never played COD in my life.

sure

Andrew76 wrote: »

...
play the game like a COD deathmatch
...

Love how "playing CoD" has become a gaming insult

Genghiz Cohen

How do you horde all the loot? It keeps spawning.

Genghiz Cohen

badbeatcentral wrote: »

From an outsider perspective (read: plays as a solo survivor, interacts/forms groups with other survivors/bandits through direct coms) neither of the two *clans* (lol) are playing the mod as it is intended, and the server has been boring as **** as a result. Thankfully there are 100s more servers that aren't dominated by teamspeak leetsquads.

Wait... wut?

Lacoona

Villain wrote: »

The score keeping is silly and childish but hey you can excuse it anyway you like.

Then why is there a score board in game? That's your opinion, don't try push it down my throat Re-stating things does not make it fact! Btw, I'm not taking you comments seriously at all, would be a shame if you thought it effected me in some manner :S

ps. I still have never played COD.

Laviski

ummm score board in the game mainly refers to zombie kills over player kills.

Nichololas

badbeatcentral wrote: »

From an outsider perspective (read: plays as a solo survivor, interacts/forms groups with other survivors/bandits through direct coms) neither of the two *clans* (lol) are playing the mod as it is intended, and the server has been boring as **** as a result. Thankfully there are 100s more servers that aren't dominated by teamspeak leetsquads.

Given that it's a sandbox game with a lot of meta-game tom-foolery, what exactly is the game 'as it is intended'?

There are 100s more servers that aren't dominated by teamspeak leetsquads (you sure?), and there are 100s that are. Plus, ~10 people can't dominate a server..

badbeatcentral

badbeatcentral wrote: »

From an outsider perspective (read: plays as a solo survivor, interacts/forms groups with other survivors/bandits through direct coms) neither of the two *clans* (lol) are playing the mod as it is intended, and the server has been boring as **** as a result. Thankfully there are 100s more servers that aren't dominated by teamspeak leetsquads.

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Wait... wut?

What don't you understand? The boards server is **** for anyone looking to play the mod as intended. Loot cycling, large groups on external communication and their shoot on sight mentality all contribute to this.

badbeatcentral

Nichololas wrote: »

Given that it's a sandbox game with a lot of meta-game tom-foolery, what exactly is the game 'as it is intended'?

There are 100s more servers that aren't dominated by teamspeak leetsquads (you sure?), and there are 100s that are. Plus, ~10 people can't dominate a server..

The mod is a zombie survival simulator, seems pretty explicit to me that external coms aren't intended, particularly with the direct communication system and the removal of global chat.

Villain

Lacoona wrote: »

Then why is there a score board in game? That's your opinion, don't try push it down my throat Re-stating things does not make it fact! Btw, I'm not taking you comments seriously at all, would be a shame if you thought it effected me in some manner :S

ps. I still have never played COD.

The score in game is for zombies, if you actually knew what the game was about you would remember bandit skins and humanity etc etc.

I'm giving you facts as a member of the boards group that was meant to have all the vehicles and loot etc, those comments are incorrect. I am simply telling you the truth what you do with that information is up to yourself

Genghiz Cohen

badbeatcentral wrote: »

The mod is a zombie survival simulator, seems pretty explicit to me that external coms aren't intended, particularly with the direct communication system and the removal of global chat.

The game isn't finished, comms are in the works.

Nichololas

badbeatcentral wrote: »

What don't you understand? The boards server is **** for anyone looking to play the mod as intended.

Loot cycling,

Yeah, longer respawn times / loot doesnt respawn if being camped would be a nice fix for this. But mod is alpha yada-yada etc etc.

large groups on external communication

Explicitly allowed.

shoot on sight mentality

What are you expecting? Hugs on sight? Either shoot first or stay out of sight altogether.

Br4tPr1nc3

anyone on at the lookin for another person to tag along?

Nichololas

badbeatcentral wrote: »

The mod is a zombie survival simulator, seems pretty explicit to me that external coms aren't intended, particularly with the direct communication system and the removal of global chat.

And I would love to use it when it works. Of course, you're assuming that the other player has a mic / is within range / is paying attention / isn't lying on mic anyway. You said it though, it's a survival simulator, and other survivors are more dangerous than zombies - play the game like it actually is rather than what you wish it was?

Thornography

What would you suggest as an alternative?

FutureGuy

Thornography wrote: »

What would you suggest as an alternative?

DON'T use external coms which weren't intended to be used.

DON'T use an internet forum to find people to join a clan.

DO use the internal coms and your judgement to find people you can trust to play the game in the manner it's intended.

In all my years of gaming, I have never experienced a game that simulates a real life disaster as well as this. It's stunning. You and people like you are literally sucking the fun out of it for the people who want to enjoy it as is.

Andrew76, you completely missed my point. Yes, playing in a team gives you a better chance to survive by strength in numbers/resource sharing buy by having a clan formed on a fcuking website, you are bypassing the hard work that needs to be done by meeting random people and getting to trust them. 7-8 boardies agreeing to meet at a particular time and not hurt each other is rediculous. No worries about dying and little worries about zombies.

Rule number one...Find boards server. Avoid it like the plague.

Villain

FutureGuy wrote: »

Rule number one...Find boards server. Avoid it like the plague.

Just an FYI but many other servers have far more clans using off game coms, the only difference is you are reading about the boards server here.

Genghiz Cohen

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