DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

Zatoichi

dreamers75 wrote: »

This mod is worth for sense of dread when you see another player. You simply **** yourself

I can feel my heart beating it gets so intense sometimes. :P

Within the space of an hour I had two similar encounters which both prove how invaluable it is to be prone, and keep your head on a swivel. I was in the mini-hills just opposite the NNW barracks watching them, when I just happened to look over my shoulder. A dude was crouched right behind me. I don't know if he mistook me for a teammate, or if he was getting ready to switch to a handgun. Either way, I bolted to safety.

Second time, again prone, scoping out Starry Sobor. Just glance to my right to check coast is clear for me to move on, and I see someone with what looked like a L85A2 standing up, looking at the town. I'm freaking out because he has both thermal and an AR, and I just have my Barrett equipped. So I switch as quick as I can to my M4, toss a frag far over him so hopefully he'll run away from the explosion, and into me. He runs towards the frag... now I feel like I'm boned. So I stay there, hugging the incline and watching my flanks but it stays quiet. Crisis averted. :cool:

dreamers75

I would like to turn off 3rd person

MadYaker

Did the ie1 server just go down? I got a message saying session lost and i got disconnected. trying to join again now and getting infinite load screen :mad:

Edit: I reconnect and I'm back at the f*cking coast! :mad: An hour and half spent sneaking around elektro collecting loads of gear and another half an hour making my way to a crashed heli site on my map all gone in the blink of an eye. Is this happening to anyone else or just me?

I'm going to play skyrim I'll try this again tomorrow and see if its any better.

FlyingIrishMan

Zatoichi wrote: »

I can feel my heart beating it gets so intense sometimes. :P

Within the space of an hour I had two similar encounters which both prove how invaluable it is to be prone, and keep your head on a swivel. I was in the mini-hills just opposite the NNW barracks watching them, when I just happened to look over my shoulder. A dude was crouched right behind me. I don't know if he mistook me for a teammate, or if he was getting ready to switch to a handgun. Either way, I bolted to safety.

Second time, again prone, scoping out Starry Sobor. Just glance to my right to check coast is clear for me to move on, and I see someone with what looked like a L85A2 standing up, looking at the town. I'm freaking out because he has both thermal and an AR, and I just have my Barrett equipped. So I switch as quick as I can to my M4, toss a frag far over him so hopefully he'll run away from the explosion, and into me. He runs towards the frag... now I feel like I'm boned. So I stay there, hugging the incline and watching my flanks but it stays quiet. Crisis averted. :cool:

Was that you who threw the frag?!? You scared the sh!t out of me.

Zatoichi

dreamers75 wrote: »

I would like to turn off 3rd person

I think UK9 has it first-person only. It's great for a while, but I start getting the beginnings of a headache soon after.

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Was that you who threw the frag?!? You scared the sh!t out of me.

lol you scared me first. And I had a feeling you were with a group at the time too, and me all by my lonesome.

Kells...

Was it anyone here who died in the Elektro supermarket with a box of matches on them?

By the way the wire fencing is getting a bit of a joke now.

Zatoichi

TroutFisher wrote: »

Was it anyone here who died in the Elektro supermarket with a box of matches on them?

By the way the wire fencing is getting a bit of a joke now.

d0gb0y

I finally bothered to sort out my boards account.
Anyway I just wanted to thank the op and the regulars in this thread for the heads up on this mod.
Been playing for 2 months now but haven't been playing on the IE servers since the server changed location, I miss my 19ms ping.

MurQ

Kells...

That's exactly what I was on about

dreamers75

TroutFisher wrote: »

Was it anyone here who died in the Elektro supermarket with a box of matches on them?

By the way the wire fencing is getting a bit of a joke now.

Pisses me off tbh

d0gb0y

There is at least one benifit to wire fencing, I get artifacts when its evening time or early morning even from 2-3km away from wire and I have used this to find loads of camps, even one that was 7km away from the map border(before the cleanup) it was the biggest encampment I have ever seen with at least 15 vehicles and loads of duped gear.
But it is just a griefers tool along with all the other entrenchment gear

Techniques07

dreamers75 wrote: »

I would like to turn off 3rd person

+1

If you're gonna play veteran then surely 3rd person shouldn't be an option. It means that guys can hide behind a bush and pan the camera around it to see other survivors. That really takes away from the game. 3rd person and regular should go together imo...

Star Lord

Techniques07 wrote: »

+1

If you're gonna play veteran then surely 3rd person shouldn't be an option. It means that guys can hide behind a bush and pan the camera around it to see other survivors. That really takes away from the game. 3rd person and regular should go together imo...

Doesn't free-look allow this kind of thing anyway?

FlyingIrishMan

Zatoichi wrote: »

lol you scared me first. And I had a feeling you were with a group at the time too, and me all by my lonesome.

I didn't do anything to scare you, I was just sitting there. :P
And I was all alone with an L85 and an M107 so thank you for being too scared to kill me

Techniques07

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Doesn't free-look allow this kind of thing anyway?

No because with free look you're seeing with your characters eyes the same as normal, but in 3rd person you can actually see over and around objects that you otherwise wouldn't be able to. Doesn't make for realism.

hawkeye_bmr

what a sight after almost 2 hours running....well 2 hours with the W key wedged down. Just made it on 2 drinks and 2 cans of food.

hopefully it will save my location now.

Zatoichi

Techniques07 wrote: »

No because with free look you're seeing with your characters eyes the same as normal, but in 3rd person you can actually see over and around objects that you otherwise wouldn't be able to. Doesn't make for realism.

The extremely limited FOV of first person is not realistic either. It's a comprimse between both perspectives.

Techniques07

Zatoichi wrote: »

The extremely limited FOV of first person is not realistic either. It's a comprimse between both perspectives.

Oh well he says it's ok then it's all good... But how would you not know how close to a wall you are? I don't get it, and haven't changed my opinion on it.

therealwillie

feck it, lost a bison sd and an m24 to desync crap today.... arrrrrghhhhhh!!!! a full hour didn't register

Zatoichi

Techniques07 wrote: »

Oh well he says it's ok then it's all good... But how would you not know how close to a wall you are? I don't get it, and haven't changed my opinion on it.

Because of the extremely limited FOV, compared to real life. Even the FOV in third-person isn't as good, but it's far more realistic than first-person. Seeing around walls etc. is the unfortunate trade-off.

Hellrazer

I just want to know who shot me last night.First time I even found anyone else on a server and someone decides to shoot me :D:D:D.It was in that Komarvo place and I hope you choked on whatever I had although I was only after spawning so only had the basics :D:D

Funny though.3 people crouched near a warehouse--I decide to follow these peeps to try and find something useful and bang-dead.

Not funny considering my last game after finding loads of stuff and falling off a roof!!!!!

platinums

Zatoichi wrote: »

Techniques07 wrote: »

Oh well he says it's ok then it's all good... But how would you not know how close to a wall you are? I don't get it, and haven't changed my opinion on it.

Because of the extremely limited FOV, compared to real life. Even the FOV in third-person isn't as good, but it's far more realistic than first-person. Seeing around walls etc. is the unfortunate trade-off.

have you double pressed the minus key on the numberpad keyboard? It increases the fov. I never play with out it, my routine is login press
enter to get 3rd person then minus twice to increase the view

Zatoichi

platinums wrote: »

have you double pressed the minus key on the numberpad keyboard? It increases the fov. I never play with out it, my routine is login press
enter to get 3rd person then minus twice to increase the view

Yep, I'm a regular Arma 2 player.

SgtBob

Are animals disappearing for everyone? I've been running around with 4000 blood for ages, everytime I get close to animal, hoping to get some meat, it literally vanishes.

Techniques07

SgtBob wrote: »

Are animals disappearing for everyone? I've been running around with 4000 blood for ages, everytime I get close to animal, hoping to get some meat, it literally vanishes.

Only happened to me once today with a cow

hawkeye_bmr

SgtBob wrote: »

Are animals disappearing for everyone? I've been running around with 4000 blood for ages, everytime I get close to animal, hoping to get some meat, it literally vanishes.

Yeah seems to be an issue, think it's because they constantly walk about without stopping.

Idioteque

Met my first other survivors, two of them....



...got killed by the first other survivors I meet....



...and so begins the mistrust...

SgtBob

I had a nasty one on, I think it's called black mountain. I was crawling past some Z's on my way in to check it out. Suddenly saw two survivors, 1 hits me and I'm down to 6000 blood, So I leg it into the forest and bandage myself. Move about a bit to make sure they aren't following me. Happy days they didn't pursue me. Next thing I notice that I have desync'd (full yellow chain). A couple of seconds later I resync and I am down to 1500 blood and have a broken leg and shock.

Had to trek for miles, while collapsing every couple of minutes, to find an animal. Though I did see the 2 guys that got come down across a field from me. I popped a couple of shots off at them. Just to make them paranoid. :P

platinums

Boards server seem to be overrun with =AFFE= clan dudes 'bout 5 of them, me scared, no backup. (hops on to less lethal server)

hopefully they dont have brains

FlyingIrishMan

platinums wrote: »

Boards server seem to be overrun with =AFFE= clan dudes 'bout 5 of them, me scared, no backup. (hops on to less lethal server)

hopefully they dont have brains

You won't play on the server when there is 5 AFFE clan guys with likely nothing good but you'll play on it when there is 10+ of us armed to the teeth with the rarest guns in the game?