DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

on fr4 and i spawned as a bandit???

anyway cant decide between a lee enfield or a compact crossbow. I like the silence of the crossbow, but the enfield is easier to aim and has range+power

*sigh* stupid ladder bug, I fell of a ladder twice, ended up using all my medicine and food to keep myself alive.

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

*sigh* stupid ladder bug, I fell of a ladder twice, ended up using all my medicine and food to keep myself alive.

Should have taken that ladders class at community college:

On US5 there good fun.

our mumble server

http://homepage.eircom.net/~kdjac/mumble.jpg

password shooter

name has to be exactly like that for some reason.

1.5.7 is downright a ten fold improvement over 1.5.6


First time on it I spawned in just west of the southern airfield, there's a trainyard there where sometimes I can find goodies so I make my way there.

Now the zombies AI has been changed, they are no longer in buildings, instead they wander around outside them in big arcing circles and you got to sneak past them, it's been tweaked that if you are quiet and get too close they grunt and change direction towards you but they dont sprint. They only sprint when you make too much noise.

So I sneak very carefully past 2 walkers, a hopper and a crawling zombie to get inside, I start picking up loot when I hear distant gunfire. Not a problem me thinks, let the zombies outside be drawn to that poor sod and I'll slip out with my goodies.

Suddenly this survivor sprints into the building pass me and starts climbing the stairs. Behind him, in droves, an approaching black mob of zombies, at least 10 of them, I quickly follow the other guy up the stairs and climb to the highest point in the building, it didnt matter. We were surronded and trapped and this dumb f*ck beside was still shooting so more zombies were coming. Like a Jewish mother hiding from the nazis who smothered her newborn baby so it wouldnt cry...I put a bullet into the head of my fellow survivor and hid.

It helped a small bit. They were no longer sprinting up stairs and climbing ladders after me, but the building was infested, there was no way out without at least firing once. So I took what remaining ammo my friend had, his food and water bottle of course and fought my way down the stairs until I had a clear path to escape and I sprinted.

I didnt get 20 feet when I felt the pressure of 2 sprinters on my back, i had to stop and shoot them only to see six hoppers behind them coming for me so I went back to running.


And I didnt stop until I reached the warehouse by the dock in the next town over. I ate and drank and tried to see if there were any goodies inside. A wheel and a windshield, last patch I would have ignored them, this time though...A car is damn tempting.

Gunshots! I walk outside the warehouse to see two more survivors sprinting around the corner...behind them THE HORDE!!! I run after them swearing to all heaven as the three of us ran down the dock. Told one of them

Me: **** YOU! WHY'D YOU LEAD THEM TO ME???

Him: Hey man it's not my fault! I'm killing them aint I?

Me: How much ammo do you have?

Him: Enough for 4 days!

He was out of ammo within minutes. I was down to 3 bullets and our third teammate was completely out.

Finally a break in the onslaught allowed us to sprint our seperate ways. The runners opting to go after the guy with the rifle, he got as far as the edge of cherno until I heard he died. His name was Jeff.

Andy the poor bastard didnt get a 100 feet, he ran into the town only to get cornered and eaten.

I got as far as the next gas station, I needed ammo or a gun. The crossbow a gun I was not fond of in the last patch was looking incredibly tempting. Success there was one there and I had already found 3 bolts for it. Now I could hold my ground.

I stepped out of the gas station and my throat got slit, a hopper had come around the corner and jumped me. I hadnt loaded the crossbow yet and my pistol only had 3 rounds. The hopped went down but it was too late the gunfire attracted sprinters and me loosing blood collapsed as three of them surronded me and beat my corpse to pulp.

1.5.7 does have a bug that seems to crash the server I think?

Shane.C wrote: »

How do you go about downloading this? Would love to play!

You need to have bought Arma 2 combined operations (or arma 2 free and Operation arrowhead) then look on youtube for a tutorial. You cannot pirate it doesn't work just heads up.

Oh heads up just reading (too much time/ no sleep for me) on the day forum that the new patch has created a clusterf*ck of zombies so apparently it's nearly impossible to get into large cities.... great...

Also very happy about to hear there is an update . Will check it out later

Pretty much most of us so far are playing on the US5 server. Would be hard to get quite alot of us together playing it though since most servers are Jammers with people

longwhitecross+ wrote: »

Would it make it easier if we set a time and all spawned into the server at roughly the same time? Probably won't be enough free places I guess.

Thing is some of the servers are usually about 90% (most of them are at full capacity) capacity before joining, getting about 3+ people to join at once might be difficult. 1 or 2 might get in but anyone else who wants to join might have to be left pressing the Enter key for a while until a slot is free. It depends really!

We'd almost be better off trying to get our own server, maybe somehow whitelisting boards folk but still allowing joe public to come in and game. Would make it more interesting as I can't imagine all the boardsies being bandits and bandits make the game dynamic more tense and in a way more fun (also frustrating as well at times )

the_syco wrote: »

Spawned on the shore. Walked along the beach. Got bored. Threw a flare, and shot once. Nothing, no zombies. Walked towards a village, again, tossed a flare, and shot once. Nothing. Kept walking. Heard something, and two player/zombies that were crouched hopped along nearby me. Shot both of them.

Hope to go on later when it's during the day so that I can see wtf I'm doing or going.

The day /night cycle follows that of the server, if its a US server it's still night over there eu = day etc... i need to get some sleep....

Also if anyone is on hit me up on steam: Fawkon, gonna play for a few hours more

Kiith wrote: »

It's almost impossible to do anything at night. Balkie and i were in Starry Sober looking for a hospital, and we literally couldn't see 5 feet in front of us. Was total darkness. I'm all for realism, but this was kind of crazy. Ended up switching server, as we literally couldn't do anything. Kind of cheating, but screw that.

If you want to be risky, throw a flare and pick it up to carry it around with you.

It's better to do it with a chemlight as you can't be seen as easily in the distance.

Are there zombies out in woods now? We've moved inland and while it is tense when you see more players in distance, there isn't much to do along the way.

Michael Cravez wrote: »

The guy I killed was called 'Captain Backstabber', was probably for the best anyway!

Captain Backstabber is a friend, although you were probably right to shoot him

1.5.7 has changed everything. Towns are now death traps and a single shot will set a mob of 30 or do ****ers on you

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

1.5.7 has changed everything. Towns are now death traps and a single shot will set a mob of 30 or do ****ers on you

Excellent, as I was getting a bit to confident of running around on servers with low zombie counts.

Knowing now that they're more spaced out adds better tension, especially at night when your creeping about and next thing you hear a zombie groan right beside you.