DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2 (v2)

05-08-2013 01:03AM

The new update for Overwatch is out.

Changelog for anyone that cares:

Changelog 0.2.2

Changed – Moved to DayZ code 1.7.7.1 Due to issues with 1.7.6 – This should help on stability & Dsync

Changed – Blackhawk Ammo lowered to 400 pr minigun

Changed – 4 Extra 240 ammo on UH-1H

Changed – zombie_agent.fsm and animal_agent.fsm should no longer spam the client rpt with error.

Removed – Some vehicles due to damage bug – Couldn’t break them:

Mercedes 240GD,Plymouth 440 Cuda, Plymouth Barracuda, Plymouth Hemicuda, Dodge Challenger, Honda Civic, Cooter’s Tow Truck, Plymouth AAR Cuda, Plymouth Fury, Jail Bus, Mack R Model, Dodge Monaco 500, Vintage Farm Truck, GMC Fleetside Pickup, Ford F-250, Plymouth Road Runner, Sheriff Squad Car, Plymouth Fury Police Cruiser, School Bus

Added – All the old buildings. Most of the buildings now load in with the clutter aka client side. This

takes pressure off server fps. We will provide files to run it server side, for those who are using AI. More info about this, can be found on our website within a few days.

Added – New cars: Nissan 350z in black, blue, green, white, yellow, pink and kiwi. Some of them also have custom art. Holden Monaro Civilian in different color schemes and as a police car.

You be wiping the database for this one Lav?

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Server was full of action tonight anyway's, sooooo many people up at Stary. Long may it last!!

Mister Man · 05-08-2013 03:32AM

MakaDonVeli wrote: »

Server was full of action tonight anyway's, sooooo many people up at Stary. Long may it last!!

Damn! Normally we only find one or two lads for the whole night! Raging I missed it

Laviski · 05-08-2013 02:19PM

MakaDonVeli wrote: »

The new update for Overwatch is out.

Changelog for anyone that cares:

You be wiping the database for this one Lav?

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Server was full of action tonight anyway's, sooooo many people up at Stary. Long may it last!!

more than likely if peeps want the new vehicles. but site is down so it will be proberly 2moro before i can update the server as i will try to get some testing done 2nite (providing i get the server files) on a test server to make sure it does what it says on the tin.

05-08-2013 04:53PM

Laviski wrote: »

more than likely if peeps want the new vehicles. but site is down so it will be proberly 2moro before i can update the server as i will try to get some testing done 2nite (providing i get the server files) on a test server to make sure it does what it says on the tin.

Personally I think the 0.2.1 update made the mod more laggie and its the only time I have experienced dysync on Overwatch.

Up to the community though, if it means making the server better optimized then I'm all for a clean wipe.

RoyalMarine · 06-08-2013 08:37AM

I've been playing this game for a long time now, and I've never been in a heli, nor have I ever looted a crashed one

Sound of Silence · 06-08-2013 02:13PM

RoyalMarine wrote: »

I've been playing this game for a long time now, and I've never been in a heli, nor have I ever looted a crashed one

You need to squad up.

It's pretty hard to get a chopper up and running by yourself. Well, unless you steal one, that is.

ElChe32 · 06-08-2013 04:48PM

What's the story with the server wipe is it going to happen today?

Laviski · 06-08-2013 07:12PM

ElChe32 wrote: »

What's the story with the server wipe is it going to happen today?

done updated to 0.2.2 with all the new vehicles but there was a database wipe.

still a few kinks with battle eye kicking ppl

06-08-2013 08:08PM

Laviski wrote: »

done updated to 0.2.2 with all the new vehicles but there was a database wipe.

still a few kinks with battle eye kicking ppl

Excellent work good sir.

Laviski · 06-08-2013 08:32PM

pic of new vehicle

Sound of Silence · 06-08-2013 08:46PM

Chernarus has become just a little bit classier!

Kiith · 07-08-2013 01:41AM

Sound of Silence wrote: »

Chernarus has become just a little less classier!

FTFY :pac:

Cravez · 07-08-2013 08:13AM

Anyone at the NEAF last night? I got killed but I think managed to take someone down with me

There was about 6 or 7 people with 3 driving about in a military offroad. I saw that black nissan (not sure if it was the same one Lav) and took a shot at someone admiring its beauty :P

Laviski · 07-08-2013 10:20AM

well all i can say i am impressed with the amount of ppl made their way north after the wipe.

FlyingIrishMan · 07-08-2013 10:45AM

Michael Cravez wrote: »

Anyone at the NEAF last night? I got killed but I think managed to take someone down with me

There was about 6 or 7 people with 3 driving about in a military offroad. I saw that black nissan (not sure if it was the same one Lav) and took a shot at someone admiring its beauty :P

That was me in the black Nissan, after you took shots at us I just jumped in and drove off, and Variety was there in his car and he managed to take two of you down I think.

Cravez · 07-08-2013 11:37AM

Laviski wrote: »

well all i can say i am impressed with the amount of ppl made their way north after the wipe.

As soon as the wipe happened, nearly anyone had a vehicle or chopper!

FlyingIrishMan wrote:

That was me in the black Nissan, after you took shots at us I just jumped in and drove off, and Variety was there in his car and he managed to take two of you down I think.

Ah ok, I thought I took one person out (aka 8=====D). There was some amount of zombies running around the place too. Could just see you guys mowing them all down in the Offroader.

simon360 · 07-08-2013 12:36PM

Who was in the armoured SUV in Vybor yesterday at around 10 o'clock, we saw you blew something up at NW and then you made us sh*t ourselves by driving right beside us, luckily you didn't see us :pac:

MadYaker · 07-08-2013 12:38PM

I wonder how much the mod developers paid Nissan for permission to use their vehicle and logo :pac:

07-08-2013 04:47PM

Third and final part

DDC1990 · 07-08-2013 10:21PM

Im an ARMA noob and i'm finding it really difficult to do really basic things.

Can't operate any vehicles without killing myself. Can't parachute (tried the f-ing bootcamp level for an hour!!!) Also can't see anything thats shooting at me! :P
I find the Spacebar button is really annoying. I find it natural to hit it when I want to jump over something in front of me, or do an action (like open the parachute) but it just opens some chat/communication bar.

Any advice for me to help ease me into it?

DL'ed DayZ so going to try that out, just avoid vehicles!

MadYaker · 07-08-2013 10:34PM

Id say go play wasteland for a while. Its good practice for vehicles, they are everywhere, and combat and the consequences of dieing are greatly diminished. Just launch arma 2 combined operations and put wasteland into the filter. Other than that i guess the single player tutorials would be useful?

Mister Man · 07-08-2013 10:36PM

DDC1990 wrote: »

Im an ARMA noob and i'm finding it really difficult to do really basic things.

Can't operate any vehicles without killing myself. Can't parachute (tried the f-ing bootcamp level for an hour!!!) Also can't see anything thats shooting at me! :P
I find the Spacebar button is really annoying. I find it natural to hit it when I want to jump over something in front of me, or do an action (like open the parachute) but it just opens some chat/communication bar.

Any advice for me to help ease me into it?

DL'ed DayZ so going to try that out, just avoid vehicles!

How are you killing yourself with a vehicle..? That doesn't make sense to me.!
My advice would be to play some wastelands before jumping into Dayz. Better to get use to some basic combat/driving/survival before getting balls deep into it.
The zombies in more recent patches have gotten a stronger, and harder to lose, to that'll probably be your biggest challenge starting off. Best thing to do is sneak past them, and avoid agroing them if possible. If you do get zombies following you, run through buildings. They walk in buildings, letting you run away normally.
Google DayZ map, and find the normally map. When you spawn in, you'll see a message in the corner, telling you where you are. Find it on the map, and make your way to somewhere like Cherno, or elektro to pick up basic gear. Keep in mind, everyone spawns near enough to theses cities, so lots of players are normally around. After gearing up, head up north towards places like Stary, North-West Airfield, and North-East Airfield.
Map is pretty big, so except to be running through lots of boring fields trying to reach places up north. You might get lucky and find a car somewhere, but most of the time, all the cars are parked up.
The parachute opens by itself I think, as long as you're high enough up. Just scroll wheel, and hit eject. Wouldn't worry too much about that, it's hard enough to get a heli up and running by yourself in DayZ.
You can re-bind the keys in the options menu to have space be climb, if it's annoying you that much, although, it's not really the same thing as jump. Only takes a few minutes of playing to get use to the basic controls.

hawkeye_bmr · 07-08-2013 10:38PM

Have you got your Graphics set to 100% resolution?

Also, you can rebind keys in the option menu to suit your needs.

Played on the Gaellords server lastnite, with an average ping of 350ms. Game would freeze up now and then, zeds would be always going to where I was a few seconds ago.
Got hit by some and was running around with 0 blood for a few mins before I resync'd and the server realised I was dead.

DDC1990 · 07-08-2013 10:38PM

MadYaker wrote: »

Id say go play wasteland for a while. Its good practice for vehicles, they are everywhere, and combat and the consequences of dieing are greatly diminished. Just launch arma 2 combined operations and put wasteland into the filter. Other than that i guess the single player tutorials would be useful?

You'd think they would be, but the tutorials tend to be: "here's the waypoint get there try not to die and shur just figure out the controls yourself" :P

DDC1990 · 07-08-2013 10:44PM

Mister Man wrote: »

How are you killing yourself with a vehicle..? That doesn't make sense to me.!
My advice would be to play some wastelands before jumping into Dayz. Better to get use to some basic combat/driving/survival before getting balls deep into it.
The zombies in more recent patches have gotten a stronger, and harder to lose, to that'll probably be your biggest challenge starting off. Best thing to do is sneak past them, and avoid agroing them if possible. If you do get zombies following you, run through buildings. They walk in buildings, letting you run away normally.
Google DayZ map, and find the normally map. When you spawn in, you'll see a message in the corner, telling you where you are. Find it on the map, and make your way to somewhere like Cherno, or elektro to pick up basic gear. Keep in mind, everyone spawns near enough to theses cities, so lots of players are normally around. After gearing up, head up north towards places like Stary, North-West Airfield, and North-East Airfield.
Map is pretty big, so except to be running through lots of boring fields trying to reach places up north. You might get lucky and find a car somewhere, but most of the time, all the cars are parked up.
The parachute opens by itself I think, as long as you're high enough up. Just scroll wheel, and hit eject. Wouldn't worry too much about that, it's hard enough to get a heli up and running by yourself in DayZ.
You can re-bind the keys in the options menu to have space be climb, if it's annoying you that much, although, it's not really the same thing as jump. Only takes a few minutes of playing to get use to the basic controls.

Just on the killing myself, that tends to be with the Helicopter tbh, not being able to slow down (its mapped for the Z button but for some reason it takes ages to react).

I've gotton used to the Space button, but it took quite a while. I spent a few hours doing the Basic tutorials. Some I completed, but the Parachute, Tank and Helicopter ones I found impossible.

Still, I love the game and i'm really giving it a good go. Its a really realistic in places, and thats why its understandably difficult. The idea of using Map CoOrds to locate Enemies is kinda cool in the Campaign

Mister Man · 07-08-2013 10:54PM

DDC1990 wrote: »

Just on the killing myself, that tends to be with the Helicopter tbh, not being able to slow down (its mapped for the Z button but for some reason it takes ages to react).

I've gotton used to the Space button, but it took quite a while. I spent a few hours doing the Basic tutorials. Some I completed, but the Parachute, Tank and Helicopter ones I found impossible.

Still, I love the game and i'm really giving it a good go. Its a really realistic in places, and thats why its understandably difficult. The idea of using Map CoOrds to locate Enemies is kinda cool in the Campaign

Heli's are tough enough to pilot. Again, wouldn't worry too much. Rare enough to find a working one for yourself on most DayZ servers.
Not sure what the story is with Parachutes. They've just worked for me when I've ejected...
Don't think tanks spawn in, on the DayZ mod. Could be wrong, but I've never seen one. They're in Wastelands alright. Pretty hard to get though.
Only time CoOrds are used in DayZ, is to find friends/bases/cars - Most people don't even attempt to give CoOrds to enemy players, so I wouldn't bother getting to use to it. Plus, on the server we're all playing on currently, I've only found one GPS's that spawned naturally in the world. Rare enough.

Cravez · 08-08-2013 08:20AM

I echo the sentiment of playing Wasteland, I was sh!te at flying helecopters at first but now I would be half decent (landing can still be a bit tricky at times, especially uneven surfaces). Also wasteland will help in regards handling the different types of rifles and using in firefights.

Scody94 · 08-08-2013 09:24PM

Hi there , i was playig on the gaellords server maybe about 3 weeks ago and got banned for what said was 24hrs for combat logging. Even tho i genuinely didnt combat log (i was trying to fix a 500 ping) i took the ban because i didnt think 24 hrs would be too bad considerin i think it was 1am at the time :P but when i try and join now it still says im banned ? i was just wondering is this permanent ? because its not something id do nor would i do and ive played with a few people here before and im sure they could back me up to say im a fair player.:o

Laviski · 08-08-2013 09:28PM

Scody94 wrote: »

Hi there , i was playig on the gaellords server maybe about 3 weeks ago and got banned for what said was 24hrs for combat logging. Even tho i genuinely didnt combat log (i was trying to fix a 500 ping) i took the ban because i didnt think 24 hrs would be too bad considerin i think it was 1am at the time :P but when i try and join now it still says im banned ? i was just wondering is this permanent ? because its not something id do nor would i do and ive played with a few people here before and im sure they could back me up to say im a fair player.:o

wot was the name chubawubbit summut?

Scody94 · 08-08-2013 09:29PM

Laviski wrote: »

wot was the name chubawubbit summut?

chubwubbin yea

my previous name which it was banned under isnt forum frindly :P

DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2 (v2)

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