DayZ Standalone

Varik

CatInABox wrote: »

Played this a little bit the other day, finally got fully kitted out at the NW airfield, a lovely M4, loads of ammo, loads of food, was set for the long haul. Was heading back towards Stary when I practically ran right into another guy heading towards the airfield. Not sure who raised their guys first, but I have to admit, I fired first, three into the chest.

He dropped to the ground, and I followed up with another couple of shots just to make sure. That was my first ever kill, and while I didn't really give him a chance, I was quite proud.

Guy was fully loaded as well, thought I could get some more food off him. Right as I was looting his body, I started taking damage, from what appeared to be an invisible player. Incredibly frustrating that I could spend ages getting to the point where I am self sufficient, and some invisible dude comes along and punches me to death.

Probably not a player, more likely an underground zombie.

Canis Lupus

CatInABox wrote: »

Played this a little bit the other day, finally got fully kitted out at the NW airfield, a lovely M4, loads of ammo, loads of food, was set for the long haul. Was heading back towards Stary when I practically ran right into another guy heading towards the airfield. Not sure who raised their guys first, but I have to admit, I fired first, three into the chest.

He dropped to the ground, and I followed up with another couple of shots just to make sure. That was my first ever kill, and while I didn't really give him a chance, I was quite proud.

Guy was fully loaded as well, thought I could get some more food off him. Right as I was looting his body, I started taking damage, from what appeared to be an invisible player. Incredibly frustrating that I could spend ages getting to the point where I am self sufficient, and some invisible dude comes along and punches me to death.

It's one of the overall downsides of the game... or possibly a pro depending on your point of view. It can be very very frustrating to spend hours dicking about gathering up bits n bobs and just when you get to the point of thinking you're good to go you get shot in the back of the head.

Rossin

being shot in the back of the head is acceptable, being murdered by and invisible zombie is a load of ****e!

Cravez

CatInABox wrote: »

Guy was fully loaded as well, thought I could get some more food off him. Right as I was looting his body, I started taking damage, from what appeared to be an invisible player. Incredibly frustrating that I could spend ages getting to the point where I am self sufficient, and some invisible dude comes along and punches me to death.

Looking at the change log for the 0.45 release (which should be within the next week?) the "being hit by invisible zombie" thing should be fixed when it goes live.

CatInABox

Yeah, I don't mind if it was an invisible zombie, as that's just an alpha issue.

I didn't even hear any Zombie noises, so that's what leads me to believe it was a player.

After looking around, apparently the experimental branch has this problem as a known issue:

Changelog wrote:

Players Invisible. Don’t know what that’s all about.

I think maybe it's an issue in stable too then.

Maximus Alexander

The thing is though, once you're fully geared up there's not really anything left to do and I find myself so concerned for my gear that I become overly cautious. It can almost be a relief to find myself back on the beach. :pac:

Timmyctc

Varik wrote: »

Probably not a player, more likely an underground zombie.

Loads of complaints on the reddit of late about speed hacks and invisible people killing people though. Apparently many public servers are now untenable as a result.

simon360

What about this "network bubble" that Rocket always went on about that made it basically impossible to hack? One of the many things still not implemented or forgotten about?

UserNo1

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

The thing is though, once you're fully geared up there's not really anything left to do and I find myself so concerned for my gear that I become overly cautious. It can almost be a relief to find myself back on the beach. :pac:

I only mess around myself don't really care about my gear or time it takes to find it. I use the Alpha not as a functioning game but to test things out and have some fun. Being overly cautious dose not really work solo. One hit from a zombie can break your arm and finding sticks or morphine solo is pure luck.

MagicIRL

Do zombies still ignore walls/fences/doors and just walk through them? I stopped playing because of that nonsense. Drove me mad.

FlyingIrishMan

MagicIRL wrote: »

Do zombies still ignore walls/fences/doors and just walk through them? I stopped playing because of that nonsense. Drove me mad.

Yes.

MagicIRL

Guess I'll be staying away for a while longer so!

raymix

MagicIRL wrote: »

Do zombies still ignore walls/fences/doors and just walk through them? I stopped playing because of that nonsense. Drove me mad.

They are using open source solution for AI, so I am guessing they are not compatible with "View geometry LOD" on models that Arma uses. If you think of it for a bit, sounds like it shouldn't be a huge deal to fix it, but apparently they are facing some technical difficulties with it. Dean says that integrating "Infusion" engine should fix that, but that will take a while...

MagicIRL

raymix wrote: »

They are using open source solution for AI, so I am guessing they are not compatible with "View geometry LOD" on models that Arma uses. If you think of it for a bit, sounds like it shouldn't be a huge deal to fix it, but apparently they are facing some technical difficulties with it. Dean says that integrating "Infusion" engine should fix that, but that will take a while...

I consider it to be the biggest game-breaking bug I've personally experience in any game at any stage. It's gone unresolved for so long as well, it's bizzare. They really don't seem to be doing anything about it. Sony's H1Z1 will kilL Day Z methinks, purely because Day Z seems to be at a standstill and has been for months.

CatInABox

The latest update came out yesterday. Had a quick look see, but didn't spot any major changes immediately.

Timmyctc

CatInABox wrote: »

The latest update came out yesterday. Had a quick look see, but didn't spot any major changes immediately.

Changelog for any interested parties

Actions: Added cancel current player action on self and on target back to gear configuration
Actions: Added cancel current player action on self and on target back to data and character configuration
Actions: Added cancel current player action on self, on target and on items back to actions themselves
Actions: Added new animations for drinking from pond and well actions
Actions: Igniting fireplace depends on wind strength and rain
Actions: Salmonellosis is curable with antibiotics
Actions: Emptying large magazine will split ammo in adequate amount of smaller piles
Actions: You can sharpen a bit badly damaged blades using stone
Actions : You can tear few blank pages out of a book
Actions : You can go fishing (ponds and lakes for this moment)
Actions : You can drink whole bottle at once
Animations: Clapping now possible while crouching
Animations: Binoculars transitions added for crouch and prone.
Content: Garage office building loot spawns added
Content: Doors on vehicle wrecks now show name in scroll menu so users are able to know which door or boot they are opening/closing.
Crafting : You can craft improvised fishing rod using long ashwood stick and rope
Crafting : You craft and break down leather courier bag
Crafting : You craft and break down leather backpack
Crafting: Splitting long ashwood stick into thirds
Crafting: Breaking Courier bag down into materials
Crafting: Breaking Improvised backpack down into materials
Crafting: Breaking Splint down into materials
Gathering : You can collect wood from bushes and trees and also search for kindling in woods
Gathering : You can mine stones from some smaller boulders
Gathering : You can dig up worms from ground
Gathering : You can search for apples
Gathering : You can skin and quarter animals
Gear: Road flare configuration
Gear: Road flare animation
Gear: Configuration of fireplace items and crafting recipes for them
Gear: Crafting recipes for combine/split firewood and stones
Gear: Added flare particle effects synchronization on server
Item: AKM attachments (folding buttstock, rail handguard, plastic magazine), AK rail handguard allows the attachment of a flashlight and a bipod
Item: Animal pelts added (Wildboar, Rabbit, Cow, Pig, Deer)
Item: Improvised Backpack and Courier bag made of fur, recipes added.
Items: Road Flare, Fishing hook, High Capacity vest, Longhorn pistol, AKM butt stocks, AKM magazines added to loot spawns
Items: Chernarus Police uniform (pants, jacket, cap) added to loot spawns
Items: OREL special Police unit uniform added to loot spawns
Items: Gorka Military Pants added to loot spawns
Items: Various meats configs
Item : Improvised fishing rod config
Item: Fishing hook config
Item: Fishing bait config
Item: Worm config
Localisation: Door names added to string table.
Server: Animals spawning
Server: Initial implementation of dynamic server events


Fixed:
Actions: Added conditions to crafting recipes
Actions: Wooden sticks are stackable, crafting recipes with sticks modified to take stacks into account
Actions: Catching some rain action, doesn't add water to a stomach
Actions: Removed 'isUsingSomething' variable from player's stored variables
Actions: Deconstructing improvised backpack produce wooden sticks in actual quantity required to craft it
Actions: Fireplace sound effects fixed
Actions: Fixed addressee of the messages in ignite fireplace action
Action: Changed frying time to 30s
Action: Higher probability to light fire in the wind
Actions: Splitting ruined ammo won't create a pristine stack
Actions: Bow loading action fixed
Actions: Firewood splitting action fixed
Animations: Fixed an issue where some animations were not interrupted with a death animation, when the player died
Animations: Eating, drinking, crafting animations states are now correctly connected to death states
Animations: More animations are now able to be cancelled(crafting, pills, injection)
Animations: Some basic movement with binoculars is now possible in raised pose
Config: Binoculars ability to be placed into holster
Crafting: Splint recipe fix
Gear: Changed firewood model
Gear: Road flares to last 15 minutes
Gear: Adding parameter to geometry lod to resolve alpha sorting
Gear: Road flare cannot be lit after it's has already been used
Gear: Road flare quantity is not showing in inventory for now (removed till they able to be stacked)
Gear: Added cooking subclass to other meat configs
Gear: Model filename changed for burned fillet
Items: Shoes become damaged after falling from height
Item : Long ashwood stick inventory size increased, can be placed on back
Item: Improvised short bow inventory size
Item: Binocular inventory size changed
Item: Closed tuna can, lack of inventory image fixed
Item: Closed sardines can, lack of inventory image fixed
SFX: Fixed configuration for fireplace flame sound effect
Spawns : Bugged crossbow bolt
VFX: Helicopter crash site smoke particle effect initialization
Actions: Bow loading action fixed
Actions: Firewood splitting action fixed

TheTacticsGuy

Guys, can ye recommend any servers in particular?

Varik

Anyone planning on playing this weekend.

MagicIRL

This is part of the Steam Sale, currently -15%, at E20.39

Varik

MagicIRL wrote: »

This is part of the Steam Sale, currently -15%, at E20.39

It's part of yesterdays daily deal so it's going to expire soon, not likely to get any cheaper for the rest of the sale. If anyone does miss it it'll likely show up again during the sale.

PMC83

Anyone else noticed a serious amount of crashes since the last update?

Squaredude

Yeah new update is pretty glitchy, broken legs for no reason and crashes when running into buildings.

CatInABox

Found the new update introduced a massive amount of rubber banding for me, like a good 30 seconds or so. Will put it back in the oven so.

Timmyctc

CatInABox wrote: »

Found the new update introduced a massive amount of rubber banding for me, like a good 30 seconds or so. Will put it back in the oven so.

Was reading that on reddit. Apparently the .46 on Exp branch eliminates that. But as all good programming goes, it threw up a bug making no loot spawn in tents anymore.

Also they de militarised the NEAF in .46 so to get proper Military loot you'll need to start going to NWAF

SherlockWatson

Timmyctc wrote: »

Was reading that on reddit. Apparently the .46 on Exp branch eliminates that. But as all good programming goes, it threw up a bug making no loot spawn in tents anymore.

Also they de militarised the NEAF in .46 so to get proper Military loot you'll need to start going to NWAF

Good programming? :pac:

Timmyctc

SherlockWatson wrote: »

Good programming? :pac:

Squaredude

The new AKM is a beast up close but the weapon sway they've introduced is crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSNugHOOaU

ktulu123

I made this, more encounters & funny ****e:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8okynCNW9PU

Enjoy!
Cheers

PMC83

Right, so I'm a bush and BOOM a guy runs by my screaming how hes just robbed all my gear, I'm stripped down to my boxers in the blink of an eye, yet he is also naked. What happened to all my gear? Hacker? Can someone rob you by just being next to you? He was glitching all over the map

Squaredude

PMC83 wrote: »

Right, so I'm a bush and BOOM a guy runs by my screaming how hes just robbed all my gear, I'm stripped down to my boxers in the blink of an eye, yet he is also naked. What happened to all my gear? Hacker? Can someone rob you by just being next to you? He was glitching all over the map

Its a hacker, they can just steel gear from anyone, from anywhere