[DZ] Ultra Realistic Zombie Survival Sim: DAY-Z Announced. (VIDEO) (DOWNLOAD LINK) - Page 22

Been playing this the last two days with some guild frandz. It's seriously one of the most unique experiences I've ever had.

For new people, play in a group but not too large a group. You're going to want to be in a group small enough that it's easy to find supplies for everyone. Avoid other players as much as possible unless you outnumber them and even then be careful. Also think about playing this more as a stealth game then a run and shoot. Zombies are best avoided if you can.

Edit: NVM saw requirement was Arma
Edited by EmL - 5/11/12 at 5:43am

If I go killing players and become a Bandit. When I do get killed, will I spawn as a Bandit?? Or will I reset back being to a survivor

It is based on your humanity score. + score = survivor. - score = bandit.
Your score carries over with you I believe.
Shooting zombies gives you humanity.
Edited by Aparition - 5/11/12 at 6:33am

I added you but havent gotten a reply yet

That's a hell of a story/experience. It's scenarios like this that would make me not mind being killed by a bandit; the experience is worth the death. I've seen plenty of comments about the game being clunky and animations and hit registration being funny, so I think I am definitely going to pass on buying Arma 2 CO for now. Maybe with the next big Day-Z update I'll reconsider.

I expect it to be pretty good once it hits a proper Beta. Regular Arma CO servers don't suffer from the hit registration unless you have very high ping 200+. DayZ requires a central server system ie: client - server - central server, and I think when this gets over loaded (which it does) servers tend to lag slightly. I think the bigger problem right now is that there are not enough servers, so the few available are constantly hammered with client requests, people in the game and people trying to get into the server. Arma is notorious for issues with lots of connect / disconnects and keeping a constant sync with all the clients. Bohemia keeps improving server performance though

Yes!
So awesome. I had a very tense moment with my buddy last night. Our characters had been alive for maybe 10 hours and our humanity was 2500. We had looted a bunch of towns at night and had found a flash light, sniper rifle, compass and a bunch of weapons. We were making our way up North and came across a huge air field with hangars. We found the watch tower inside the base and made our way up it to have a look around. My buddy noticed a guy in the grass about a quarter to half a mile away. He looked benign an didn't seem to want to cause us any harm. He just stood in place for a while holding his handgun (he also had a survivor skin). After watching us for 5 or so minutes, he went prone and switched to a rifle. It concerned us a little so we made our way down the tower and slowly started making our way around the base when we noticed 2 guys running to the tower where we just had been from the opposite direction. We think the first guy in the field may have been spotting for these guys as they looted.

We stopped for a second, both of them seeing my buddy but not me. They didn't have rebel suits so there was a 10 second pause and us contemplating talking to them and all of a sudden a gun shot went off. I had broken a bone earlier and was shaking so I couldn't aim at all and was a little crippled so I whipped out my pistol and rang off 3 random warning shots just to try and scare them. Another shot went off from the strangers and it was over, we were running through the woods. I heard the sound of a rifle and a bullet whiz by my head and shortly after a nade went off close to us. At that point I started yelling at the strangers over local in game voice, lol. "Don't do it ect ect.". It was a very heart stopping experience.

It can turn into a very tense game especially when you've taken all of that time finding weapons and other things, you don't want to loose it or your progression (or have to respawn and walk for another hour to find your buddy). Because of what happened last night we are going to be more proactive in the future by either talking to them or negotiating with them or just flat out killing them if they don't respond.
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) Yeah, Novy Sobor and Stary Sobor are always active. I've crawled past those towns so many times after hearing gun shots. I think it may be because one of the major spawn towns is Elektro on the water which leads straight into Novy and Story if you take the main road inland. Kamenka also seems to be the other spawn town on the ocean and the towns leading north like Zelenogorsk seem to be quite active also. Night play is even more sensitive. You will often see flairs in the middle of towns and you have to make the choice between confronting someone or avoiding the town completely but there are some friendly people. We've also met a few passer bys that gave us some tips and info and went on their way.
Edited by pengs - 5/11/12 at 9:59am

i think most of the issues people have with animations and/or hit registration, stems more from the glitches inherent with Arma 2, rather than the mod.

I wish this game had been built on a different platform but i cannot deny how challenging and entertaining it is... don't play by yourself, it is not very forgiving lol.

Guys, just wait for the memorial weekend. There might be a discount on all military games that week. Im hoping 20$ for arma 2 and the expansion.