DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:02pm #1

Just wanna put the word out on this in case u aint heard, I was gonna stick this in tac shooter/sim section but its not either really.

DayZ : http://dayzmod.com/

- Persistent Character/RPG Zombie Mod for Arma 2. It is the best zombie experience you will ever have without actually having to wipe the brain goo of you real life clothes.

I'm an Arma nut, stumbled across this new mod (2 weeks old?) the other day and I cannot stop playing it.

It is amazing. Dont let the fact its 'Arma' put u off, its not Arma really.

I could describe it all night but you'd best just watch these vids, BTW bad language in vids:

You start of on your own in the middle of nowhere, 1 pistol, 8 shots, no map, no torch. If its dark in real life where the server is then its dark in game. The only goal is to scavenge and survive. Be good or evil, up to you. you have to eat and drink, full medical system. I've managed to live for 5 hours so far and thats pretty good!

The best thing about it is the other human players, they can be good or evil, you don't know. they can buddy up with you or shoot you straight off. Its like a live psychology experiment in the Arma engine.
Ive never played anything like it. Really captures the end of world, trust no one feel. And then there are Zombies, thousands of em.

I could blubber on all night but if you like Stalker etc then this is for you. Arma 2 is gone back into the top sellers on steam cause of this mod in last few days, it was dead pretty much.
It is about to go nuclear I reckon.

The bad- Its in alpha so a bit rough. Its got so popular its bloody hard to get into a server and the master server cannot handle all the folks trying to play. the dude who made this did not expect it to explode the way it did. but when you finally do get in, oh my god....

Just check it out if you like survival/ Zombie/horror/RPG/ Apocalypse games.

Advice- head north and keep your head down, be quite at night and dont use a light unless you have to.....

degrassinoel · 08-05-2012 11:05pm

I know of one particular forum that would be really delighted to see that post

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:10pm

I was gonna put in the usual Arma type forum but this aint Arma, its Zombie terror gaming

BlitzKrieg · 08-05-2012 11:14pm

do you need just arma 2 or do you need the addon pack too?

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:17pm

You need the Arma 2 only , not Arrowhead. If you have Private Military Company Add on you get hi res models but not required.

Kiith · 08-05-2012 11:17pm

Holy crap that's amazing. We need to get a boards.ie group going to see how long we can survive :P

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:19pm

Please join me, Im on my own out there, damn bandits hunting me....

Need and Irish server soooo bad!

dreamers75 · 08-05-2012 11:23pm

Sad i know where they are at the start of that video and could find my way to the radio tower easily

BlitzKrieg · 08-05-2012 11:23pm

man the website must be swamped with visitors I cant get it to download

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:27pm

Yeah, Webby is borked but the DL is only 100MB.

If you played Arma before then that will be a big help just as you will know the 'feel' of the game.

I think this mod is a bit of gaming history in the making. The dude that made this mod had this idea turned down a bunch of times by studios they said it would never work, and he works for BI, so he just modded arma and its exploded in the last week. It really not about Zombies but about how the players react to eachother. and you can kill and eat goats for food.

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:30pm

Sad i know where they are at the start of that video and could find my way to the radio tower easily

You will do well in the new Arma Zombie World man!

BlitzKrieg · 08-05-2012 11:30pm

it's an odd download process Do I extract all the rar's into their own folders and put them in /@dayz/addons or do I keep them all in the same folder?

Jelly 292 · 08-05-2012 11:32pm

you can use the @DayZ folder method or I just have them all straight into my Arma 2 /Addons at the mo and it works fine. Extract ALL files into Add ons folder or your @DayZ folder .Thats it.

After about midnight you should be able to get into a EU server, Peak times is pretty much impossible at the moment.

Hande hoche! · 08-05-2012 11:38pm

Looks fairly cool. Must pick up a copy of Arma 2, loved the original Flashpoint.

Genghiz Cohen · 08-05-2012 11:40pm

I am all kinds of up for a Boards server.

Gandalph · 08-05-2012 11:42pm

That looks so good

dreamers75 · 08-05-2012 11:47pm

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

it's an odd download process Do I extract all the rar's into their own folders and put them in /@dayz/addons or do I keep them all in the same folder?

use this to manage your mods

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?89731-ArmA-2-Game-Launcher

handy launcher.

BlitzKrieg · 09-05-2012 12:00am

quick warning. You need Arma 2 Combined Arms for this to work. Not just vanilla arma 2

Jelly 292 · 09-05-2012 12:01am

One more thing, apart from dreamer75 you absolutly will need this map:

http://ttp2.dslyecxi.com/images/chernarus_big_hq.jpg

get to a town, look for road signs, alt tab to this map and that will give you a start, happy Zed hunting

Jelly 292 · 09-05-2012 12:03am

quick warning. You need Arma 2 Combined Arms for this to work. Not just vanilla arma 2

Ahh, fek ,sorry man, I thought u just needed vanilla

If you have Arrowhead and Arma 2 bought separately you can run it as Combined Ops if that helps anyone

BlitzKrieg · 09-05-2012 12:04am

I didnt have arrowhead, but it's only 15 quid and I've been meaning to pick it up for a while anyway.

Jelly 292 · 09-05-2012 12:06am

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

I didnt have arrowhead, but it's only 15 quid and I've been meaning to pick it up for a while anyway.

Its full of Zombie goodness now, not just politically dodgy desert destruction!

Hawke · 09-05-2012 1:17am

Combined Operations has topped Skyrim on steam top sellers, most of the games above it are discounted or new releases, not bad for a sales drive from a mod.

The mod itself its pretty fun if not a bit CPU taxing.

Gandalph · 09-05-2012 1:27am

I have never heard of this arma, I really need to scrape together enough dosh to become a PC gamer

damn those expensive rigs!

BlitzKrieg · 09-05-2012 4:52am

Finally got it working.

Wow, very slick for an alpha. Pain in the ass to get working but once you are in it feels like someone made a walking dead version of elder scrolls. Sort of screwed as I ran into quite a few zombies already and got almost no ammo left. Found shotgun shells but no shotgun. Got a 2nd water bottle but its empty and I got a toolkit but no car. It all looks rather hopeless...

Kiith · 09-05-2012 8:51am

I was sure i bought Arma back when it was released, but i can't seem to find it

Might buy the combined pack, as this looks fantastic and i love a good zombie game. Would love to see this get developed more, as it's a fantastic idea.

Chairman Meow · 09-05-2012 10:29am

This really is a brilliant game. Its like how i imagine S.T.AL.K.E.R multiplayer should be. I found a pair of binoculars yesterday and almost wept for joy. Over binoculars. In any other game youd be like "**** that ****, give me gold, or a gatling gun, or a magic wand" or some ****. In DayZ looting a bottle of water and a binoculars is like all your christmases came at once.

I was playing it voer the weekend and had this 3 way encounter with me, zombie, and a bandit in a barn. At night.

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

dreamers75 · 09-05-2012 11:06am

Anyone installing use the @ method, droppping files into the main Addons can cause issues if the game is patched or the mod is patched.

Duggy747 · 09-05-2012 12:54pm

I'd almost buy the game just for this. Watching those videos in the OP are hilarious.

Hawke · 09-05-2012 1:01pm

The only enemy worse than the zombies and other humans are the horrific ladders which do their best to kill you every time you use them.

You may also get indefinitely stuck in them and not be able to do anything.

Genghiz Cohen · 09-05-2012 1:59pm

Cheapest I've found Combined Ops is on the Bohemia store itself.

Cherry_Cola · 09-05-2012 2:07pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Cheapest I've found Combined Ops is on the Bohemia store itself.

I think it's the same price on Steam. I've been meaning to pick this up for a while but will definitely pick it up for the mod, looks great!

Genghiz Cohen · 09-05-2012 2:12pm

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

I think it's the same price on Steam. I've been meaning to pick this up for a while but will definitely pick it up for the mod, looks great!

€29.99 on Steam. Amazon is like $40.

Duggy747 · 09-05-2012 2:22pm

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4639/

€24.99 on Steam

Cherry_Cola · 09-05-2012 2:23pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

€29.99 on Steam. Amazon is like $40.

It says €24.99 here: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4639/

Genghiz Cohen · 09-05-2012 2:54pm

Still coming up as $29.99
I'm running off an American IP though.

Shiminay · 09-05-2012 3:38pm

*very* tempted to buy the Arma Combined Forces just to play this!

Genghiz Cohen · 09-05-2012 3:58pm

Shiminay wrote: »

*very* tempted to buy the Arma Combined Forces just to play this!

Of course Arma would be a great game to fall back on when you cant get a server...

so tempted...

Shiminay · 09-05-2012 3:59pm

I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo many other games though...

cherryghost · 09-05-2012 4:20pm

Arma II's modding community is fecking amazing, one of the best communities out there. Arma II vanilla servers are pretty empty, but not only this mod, but a heap of others are extremely busy and popular.

SeantheMan · 09-05-2012 5:30pm

I'm suprised groups of people haven't set up and charged people ammo etc for entering a zone.....and if they don't then they kill them :P ...it's the first thing I'd do

It sounds like a heaven for Trolls.
I don't think I have the expansion though to play it, also I never liked the ARMA original, the controls were crazy

Jelly 292 · 09-05-2012 5:55pm

yeah, ARMA engine has its flaws - ladders and indoors mainly plus the control and feel takes some getting used to compared to standard FPS but imo its a price worth paying for the possibilities offered by this game.
You kinda just accept the inherent issues and play around them.
The open world, vehicles ,mods, attention to detail, realism, I can go from world war 2 to zombie killing in 2 minutes then fly a chopper in Nam. Nothing else comes close.
This mod takes the biscuit. My kingdom for a map and a can of beans at the moment, freeking starving in the middle of no where.
I found the Winchester rifle is great, lots of ammo and 1 shot , 1 kill for zeds and its very stealthy. Unlike Lee Enfield...

grizzly · 09-05-2012 6:06pm

Would be great to have barricadable buildings. Is this possible? Or the ability to farm land for food.

Jelly 292 · 09-05-2012 6:13pm

In ARMA you can deffinatly build bases etc so hopefully they will implement that here.

Farm for food - why not, you can program anything in this game I reckon, if you can kill a rabbit, collect wood and matches, make a fire, gut rabbit with teh knife you found, cook it and get your health back...

Big Knox · 09-05-2012 8:07pm

I need to try this although I don't know if I can justify paying for Arma for the sake of a mod that is in Alpha!!

What's the player limit per server and is there vehicles in it like cars etc?

ScumLord · 09-05-2012 8:19pm

Shiminay wrote: »

I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo many other games though...

ARMA will suck up all your time.

ARMA 3 is also out soon enough.

dreamers75 · 09-05-2012 8:31pm

Big Knox wrote: »

I need to try this although I don't know if I can justify paying for Arma for the sake of a mod that is in Alpha!!

What's the player limit per server and is there vehicles in it like cars etc?

Player limit is between 2 and whatever your server can handle, seen a few servers over 200 players for Warfare (an MMO type mission / mod).

We used to have a server that was mainly small coop missions but other game modes need 30 to 40 players to work.

The vehicles in Arma 2 are military vehicles......all of them......yeah pretty sure every one of them ever is in it

Big Knox · 09-05-2012 8:36pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Player limit is between 2 and whatever your server can handle, seen a few servers over 200 players for Warfare (an MMO type mission / mod).

We used to have a server that was mainly small coop missions but other game modes need 30 to 40 players to work.

The vehicles in Arma 2 are military vehicles......all of them......yeah pretty sure every one of them ever is in it

Wait so this mod has military vehicles? As in you can find a tank and go ape **** killing everyone and mowing down zombies if you're lucky enough???

Jelly 292 · 09-05-2012 9:10pm

ARMA itself has every civilian and military vehicle imaginable, and if it has not then mods cover the rest. Seriously from a Mountain bike to an M1 tank, Sopwith camel to f18 Hornet.

DayZ has vehicles but these are broken down, you scavenge parts to fix vehicles. I have heard people talk theat there are helicopters out there somewhere but in this game you have to find them and any parts / fuel they need. Then you can fly around, sit on the skids with a machine guns and cap zombies:cool:

dreamers75 · 09-05-2012 9:43pm

Big Knox wrote: »

Wait so this mod has military vehicles? As in you can find a tank and go ape **** killing everyone and mowing down zombies if you're lucky enough???

In this mod see above.

But in normal Arma yeah murdercate everything in your path with an awesome array of weapons.

Like for instance, your on the ground attacking a town and 2 of your "mates" decide to teamkill you with an Apache AH64 and think its hilarious..... Well you get out your laser designator and call in Jigsaw....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVw6d1y7kI

pixelburp · 09-05-2012 9:48pm

Wow, first zombie game/mod I've seen that seems to 'get' what a zombie game should involve.

DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

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