Day Z alpha: How the zombie apocalypse should be

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PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
21,741
569
126
Yeah, 1.7.2.3 appears to have been released and there's still a lot of servers that aren't updated. The ones that are are getting slammed and are full. If you have the latest version set the filter for 1.7.2.3 (title) to avoid getting all the way in before being booted for incorrect version.
 

Rinaun

Golden Member
Dec 30, 2005
1,195
1
81
Yeah, 1.7.2.3 appears to have been released and there's still a lot of servers that aren't updated. The ones that are are getting slammed and are full. If you have the latest version set the filter for 1.7.2.3 (title) to avoid getting all the way in before being booted for incorrect version.

My NoN-HIVE server works amazing so many people joined as I started it. We have 80 slots and no lag/desync at ALL.
 

Rinaun

Golden Member
Dec 30, 2005
1,195
1
81
not seeing rinaun's server again.

say it yesterday but always showed a 2500 ping.

We were busy updating to 1.7.2.3. Every time they patch we update to keep current. We want players to not feel locked to one character. This server promotes less kill and dc than other servers.
 

Childs

Lifer
Jul 9, 2000
11,313
7
81
hmmm...looks like ARMA2 CO is $20 on Amazon. Buy now or press my luck and hope Steam matches or beats that price next week....
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
43,804
46
91
played on Rinaun's server last night. the server works great when i can see it, haha

i hate the new patch though. zombie sight is crazy now. pretty much have to crawl every where.
 

MrPickins

Diamond Member
May 24, 2003
9,056
673
126
Played 4 or 5 hours last night on Rinaun's server, no lag, disconnects, timeouts or other weird behavior.

Just a bunch more bandits around town than there have been in the past week. ( ._.)
 

PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
21,741
569
126
I've been playing on the server and enjoy it. Got to what appeared to be a mostly raided heli crash site up north, wasn't have much luck finding anything but barn weapons. Got out with a FAL but I'm pretty sure some one was taking way out of range pot shots at me as I took off, LOL.

However, I'm wondering about some of the settings chosen. Personally I like no crosshairs since it evens the weapons out with regards to their strengths and weaknesses. I don't even like 3rd person since I feel like you can kind of cheat-see over walls with it. But what I'm really not sure about are name badges. What are other people's feeling on these? I don't like them since they make camo and hiding pointless.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
43,804
46
91
hmm....i installed the beta 94945 patch and it seem to have messed up my resolution or something. everything looks huge but the resolution is set properly.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
43,804
46
91
Interface resolution setting?

everything is the same as before, however i see that its set to 4:3 when it should be 16:9. i changed this and reboot and it goes back to the same 4:3 setting.

can't connect to rinaun's server now either. looks like it will work but then just sits at waiting for host. seems to be doing this for all 1.7.3.2 servers

server filter keeps resetting back to default too. used to keep my filter settings even after shutting down the game. audio settings did not save either,

can i go back to a previous patch by just installing it or would i have to uninstall the game and reinstall the patch i want?
 
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sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
70,173
5,734
126
Played 4 or 5 hours last night on Rinaun's server, no lag, disconnects, timeouts or other weird behavior.

Just a bunch more bandits around town than there have been in the past week. ( ._.)

Played the same or more hours, but the last 1.5 hours(approx) I was having serious issues. Mentioned these issue in game, I'll describe them more here:

It started at the Warehouses/Civilian Hangars at the end of Balota airfield. I arrived there with Z in tow, killed 1 in a hangar, then after looting proceeded on. Left the hangar and there were 3 Z doing their standard walkabout. I only had a Hatchet so a choose 1 that was alone enough that I could attack, then escape from the other 2 if need be. I Ran up to attack, it dies, the other 2 do nothing. I run up to the next, repeat results, then went and killed last one. All 3 times, even the victim didn't even aggro, they just carried on shuffling.

After that I head east then north, looting here and there, rarely seeing a Z, although I should have seen many as I went through a few small towns and even the outskirts of Cherno, Sprinting the whole time.

Part way through I then noticed my Debug monitor was gone. Seemed strange, thought maynbe I hit a key by mistake or something, but am sure there isn't one.

Finally, the biggest thing to happen, and the one I mentioned the most ingame(I mentioned something else earlier ingame, the Z not Aggroing situation IIRC), I was nearing a Barn between Kozlovka and Drozhino when all of a sudden the screen flickered and I was back in the Warehouse/Civilian Hangar at Balota airfield again. That was the better part of an hour travel erased, as far as I know all loot acquired was still in my Inventory.

Other observations:

1) Chat worked fine, no delays
2) Whenever someone used VOIP, usually incorrectly in Sidechat, their names never appeared. Perhaps this is a Server setting?
3) When I first TP'd back to Balota, the floor of the Warehouse/Hangar had no texture. Probably just a delay on loading texture on my end.

Not sure if I was Desynced or Hacked(vaguely recall talk at DayZ forums about a Hack that takes over other Players, not really what happened to me). Maybe there's a glitch in that building and I fell through the world or something...but now I'm really reaching.

Perhaps the server Logs have some data related to it? Anyways, I am enjoying the Server a lot and will certainly be back. Hopefully this was a 1 time event.
 

Rinaun

Golden Member
Dec 30, 2005
1,195
1
81
Played the same or more hours, but the last 1.5 hours(approx) I was having serious issues. Mentioned these issue in game, I'll describe them more here:

It started at the Warehouses/Civilian Hangars at the end of Balota airfield. I arrived there with Z in tow, killed 1 in a hangar, then after looting proceeded on. Left the hangar and there were 3 Z doing their standard walkabout. I only had a Hatchet so a choose 1 that was alone enough that I could attack, then escape from the other 2 if need be. I Ran up to attack, it dies, the other 2 do nothing. I run up to the next, repeat results, then went and killed last one. All 3 times, even the victim didn't even aggro, they just carried on shuffling.

After that I head east then north, looting here and there, rarely seeing a Z, although I should have seen many as I went through a few small towns and even the outskirts of Cherno, Sprinting the whole time.

Part way through I then noticed my Debug monitor was gone. Seemed strange, thought maynbe I hit a key by mistake or something, but am sure there isn't one.

Finally, the biggest thing to happen, and the one I mentioned the most ingame(I mentioned something else earlier ingame, the Z not Aggroing situation IIRC), I was nearing a Barn between Kozlovka and Drozhino when all of a sudden the screen flickered and I was back in the Warehouse/Civilian Hangar at Balota airfield again. That was the better part of an hour travel erased, as far as I know all loot acquired was still in my Inventory.

Other observations:

1) Chat worked fine, no delays
2) Whenever someone used VOIP, usually incorrectly in Sidechat, their names never appeared. Perhaps this is a Server setting?
3) When I first TP'd back to Balota, the floor of the Warehouse/Hangar had no texture. Probably just a delay on loading texture on my end.

Not sure if I was Desynced or Hacked(vaguely recall talk at DayZ forums about a Hack that takes over other Players, not really what happened to me). Maybe there's a glitch in that building and I fell through the world or something...but now I'm really reaching.

Perhaps the server Logs have some data related to it? Anyways, I am enjoying the Server a lot and will certainly be back. Hopefully this was a 1 time event.


We have fixed VOIP entirely. The servers are also 100% stable and functional at this point. We'll be rebooting them every 12 hours to refresh and keep things running smoothly. If you experienced any desync it was from us finishing setting up our second server and getting ready to open more servers. The HIVE system we run on is becoming pretty popular so if you want a slot during primetime you had better be on your game and ready to join. I couldn't even join as the owner today!

Aside from this, it makes me sad you experienced some issues with gameplay. I'll take this feedback and work hard to make sure that the servers are running optimal for everyone's needs.
 

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
70,173
5,734
126
We have fixed VOIP entirely. The servers are also 100% stable and functional at this point. We'll be rebooting them every 12 hours to refresh and keep things running smoothly. If you experienced any desync it was from us finishing setting up our second server and getting ready to open more servers. The HIVE system we run on is becoming pretty popular so if you want a slot during primetime you had better be on your game and ready to join. I couldn't even join as the owner today!

Aside from this, it makes me sad you experienced some issues with gameplay. I'll take this feedback and work hard to make sure that the servers are running optimal for everyone's needs.

I got over it in a couple minutes. Just thought I'd give you the info if it would help or something.
 

M0oG0oGaiPan

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2000
7,858
2
0
digitalgamedeals.com
Hmm apparently if you got a free copy of arma 2 from GMG you just need operation arrowhead to play DayZ. Do these games autopatch or do I have to manually patch? Thinking about picking up arrowhead from Steam/GMG ($16) or gamerocket ($12) so I can play. Anyone else running a similar setup?
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
43,804
46
91
dayz servers are completely f-ed for me. too many different versions, too many different beta patches screwing up stuff.

i can;t connect to any servers now. rinauns server just hangs at wait for host.
 

Sidekicknichola

Senior member
Feb 7, 2012
425
0
0
dayz servers are completely f-ed for me. too many different versions, too many different beta patches screwing up stuff.
Get Six Launcher for this game... it updates, syncs, and launches servers for you.... makes it very easy to keep up with the patches/updates.
 

Sidekicknichola

Senior member
Feb 7, 2012
425
0
0
Hmm apparently if you got a free copy of arma 2 from GMG you just need operation arrowhead to play DayZ.
The mod constantly says "ILLEGAL COPIES WILL DEGRADE" .... I have a legit copy so I cannot speak to if this is true, might be worth searching so you don't have to deal with poor performance (although I don't know how they're actually doing this)
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
43,804
46
91
Get Six Launcher for this game... it updates, syncs, and launches servers for you.... makes it very easy to keep up with the patches/updates.

i tried to install it but it fails to install on 2 separate PCs with the same error.

sometihng about not being able to find a file.


I do have worrom's updater tool and that works for getting the dayz updates, not the arma 2 updates and has no server browser thing.

i have a feeling that even with six update, i would still have the same issues.

I don't think it's me, its the servers out there. last time i tried (few days ago) 90% of the servers were still using 1.7.1.5 or something like that that. I was at 1.7.2.3
 

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
70,173
5,734
126
The mod constantly says "ILLEGAL COPIES WILL DEGRADE" .... I have a legit copy so I cannot speak to if this is true, might be worth searching so you don't have to deal with poor performance (although I don't know how they're actually doing this)

That's just a generic message.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
43,804
46
91
i did get six launcher to install. had to move the file it extracts to another directory and run it from there.

did all the updates on it and still can't get into a server to play.
 

Sidekicknichola

Senior member
Feb 7, 2012
425
0
0
did all the updates on it and still can't get into a server to play.
Try the Dayz commander - it seems to work pretty well.

After this last update I had to manually update my battleye ... that was preventing me from entering servers. .... and even fully updated and ready about 2 of every 5 servers wouldn't load for me.... I would just try another.
 

Sidekicknichola

Senior member
Feb 7, 2012
425
0
0
Little story from last night -
*Friend and I are on a Vent server*

Friend (M - from here out) and I were headed to NWAF to try and get a few guns for others in our group. The plan was for me to sit back and watch over him while he looted. I was in my usual "watch over Starry" stop with a DMR and a whole lot of ammo.

M crawls to the camp and is about two tents in when he says he hears something over the in game VOIP, someone in the next tent says, "Hey, I'm in the next tent - don't shoot, I don't have anything and could really use food - please help!" (we'll call this guy Helpless). So M being the good guy he is says if he is going to help, he has to crawl out of the tent backwards and let M search the bag to be sure he doesn't have a gun.... Helpless does what M asks and the M starts donating some cooked meat, bandages, and other random survival supplies we have extra of.... while this is going down I see a guy start to move from a covered location near the port-o-potty area of the military base there.... Over vent I ask what this guy's name is and if he has a clan tag, M responds that he does and sure enough, it matches this guy who was hiding off just a bit.

I tell M that Helpless was baiting him into helping while this other guy was going to sneak around and shoot him in the back (my guess based off his crawling path), then I told M to keep him busy and say something that will get the other guy to stop for a minute or two....
M says over VOIP - "Hey I think I heard someone, Shhhhh"... this works perfectly and the crawling guy stops, just enough time for me to put a shot right into his chest (doesn't kill him though - be he is down and out).
M - yells over VOIP that he heard shots, get in the tent, Helpless follows.

At this point we can only assume Helpless and his shot buddy are chatting about his unfortunate luck of getting shot and that he needs help ASAP....
- Helpless says over VOIP - "I'm going to loot that body, BRB" .... we both assume he is going to heal him and they'll try and jump M.

M says, no wait, I'll go take all the good stuff off of YOUR FRIEND and then and only then I'll bring him back to life..."

Helpless knows that M knows now and just starts cussing him out for "HACKING" because thats the only way he could have known.....

M goes and loots the other guy, bandages him, and after a short talk on VOIP he give him some morphine so they'll leave.

During this I come from my hiding spot and we tell them they have to run EAST and we'll watch to make sure they've left.

They take off with zero gear (we took it all just so they couldn't have it) and as they were like 200m out I popped one of them in the leg....

I was surprised how sneaky/resourceful people are getting in the game.... these two consciously lured my buddy into trying to help and be a good guy only to jump and murder him.

Anyways, they got what they deserved and I got a good story out of the deal.... their loot was trash.
 
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