Day Z alpha: How the zombie apocalypse should be

[imaheadcase]

I will be trying this soon, few questions:

Can zombies open doors(or can you even close doors to keep them out?)
Is there melee weapons so you dont always have to use ammo?
can zombies climb ladders?
can you run faster than zombies?

1. You can close doors, but zombies walk through them, not sure if bug or suppose to. But at least they walk and don't run out in open.
2. No melee that i know of right now..
3. yes they can climb ladders.
4. Yes you can run faster than them, important to note that zombies hate hills, you can make zig zag motions running up a hill and will outrun zombies. In fact hills make for excellent zombie traps. Run up a ways till you stop hearing them groaning behind you, turn around and kill them. Nice and safe.

 

[imaheadcase]

Ok...I think my problem was that I installed version 1.57 & there was an update yesterday to 1.582.

I am downloading new update now.

http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2434

That is a autoupdater, makes it easier for some so don't have to copy stuff around.

 

[Harrod]

I was playing this last night and found myself in a server with no zombie's, I should have taken advantage of that and found a better gun.

Anyways, I joined another server and spawned in exactly where I quit playing the other game surrounded by zombies. I didn't last too long. This game has a 28 days/weeks vibe to it.

 

[imaheadcase]

I don't know what is wrong. Ever since last update i have to many graphic errors to play.

I tried 3 different driver versions, disabled SLI, different rez, low/med/high settings. disable AA i still can't play more than 5min without bugging out, like screen tearing with vsync on or off does not matter, colors are all wonky, flashing textures, sky goes fuzzy, etc. Normally it gets worse over time and monitor just goes blank even though game is running.

Anyone else getting this since last update?

I know arma 2 engine is crap, but not that crappy i hope.

EDIT: Well im done with game, sigh. Can't play more than 5min without graphics going nuts and monitor goes black. have yet to figure out why after 3 hours of trying to fix it.

 

[Harrod]

I've found that 1 or 2 shots will take down the zombies, and that emptying a clip into one of them is just a waste of ammo. Looks like the eventually bleed out after being shot.

 

[Nemesis13]

this looks fantastic, thanks for the post, might see some of you on a server

 

[Whirlwind]

The newset version fixed my problems....game is great....lots of atmosphere for sure.

 

[Dankk]

The game is slowly getting better but I still don't think people should drop the money on arma II just for this mod. It's realllly buggy.

Which is reasonable. The mod is in early alpha, and it shows.

I don't know what is wrong. Ever since last update i have to many graphic errors to play.

I tried 3 different driver versions, disabled SLI, different rez, low/med/high settings. disable AA i still can't play more than 5min without bugging out, like screen tearing with vsync on or off does not matter, colors are all wonky, flashing textures, sky goes fuzzy, etc. Normally it gets worse over time and monitor just goes blank even though game is running.

Anyone else getting this since last update?

I know arma 2 engine is crap, but not that crappy i hope.

EDIT: Well im done with game, sigh. Can't play more than 5min without graphics going nuts and monitor goes black. have yet to figure out why after 3 hours of trying to fix it.

Are you sure it's not your video card? Have you ever ran any stress tests on your video card to see if there's any corruption? Maybe re-install your video drivers?

That's weird that you would only be getting the problems after the latest DayZ update, and not before. Can't see how the mod itself would be causing such major issues. Did you update the mod correctly? Maybe re-install the mod anyway just to be sure?

If you own Arma II on Steam, do a "Verify integrity of game cache" to make sure there aren't any missing or corrupt game files.

I've found that 1 or 2 shots will take down the zombies, and that emptying a clip into one of them is just a waste of ammo. Looks like the eventually bleed out after being shot.

This is probably what annoys me most. Zombies never drop instantly after you kill them; there's always a delay between when you shoot them and when they actually fall over dead, and I hate it. I've unloaded entire clips into zombies because even though I've shot them multiple times, they still charge after me, and I'm never sure if I actually shot them enough or not.

 

[imaheadcase]

Which is reasonable. The mod is in early alpha, and it shows.



Are you sure it's not your video card? Have you ever ran any stress tests on your video card to see if there's any corruption? Maybe re-install your video drivers?

That's weird that you would only be getting the problems after the latest DayZ update, and not before. Can't see how the mod itself would be causing such major issues. Did you update the mod correctly? Maybe re-install the mod anyway just to be sure?

If you own Arma II on Steam, do a "Verify integrity of game cache" to make sure there aren't any missing or corrupt game files.

I did to the verify game cache, it said was missing one file and downloaded it. However, it does it every time i do it so not sure what its downloading.
I play other games fine, serious sam 2, tribes ascend, even arma 2 single player is fine. Just when i play the mod. All mod files match up fine. Heaven benchmark is fine to.


No idea what is going on. :/

 

[Dankk]

I did to the verify game cache, it said was missing one file and downloaded it. However, it does it every time i do it so not sure what its downloading.
I play other games fine, serious sam 2, tribes ascend, even arma 2 single player is fine. Just when i play the mod. All mod files match up fine. Heaven benchmark is fine to.


No idea what is going on. :/

Interesting. Yeah, it always downloads 1 file for me too, so I think that's normal.

I did find a thread where people are saying they're performance is going down the toilet with the newest version (not sure about glitches and corruption though). You can see it here: http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5010

 

[Nemesis13]

just got arma2 and the expansion on amazon, the controls of this game are unreal

 

[pontifex]

amazon download for the ARMA games is extremly slow for me.

I started it last night around 9:30 PM or so and it didn't finish until like 4:00 PM today.

Now I have to wait for OA to finish installing.

 

[Dankk]

amazon download for the ARMA games is extremly slow for me.

I started it last night around 9:30 PM or so and it didn't finish until like 4:00 PM today.

Now I have to wait for OA to finish installing.

You'll have to update your versions of Arma II to 1.60 as well, I think. I read somewhere that the Amazon copy of the game is at 1.59 for some reason and not 1.60. Shouldn't be hard to update though.

 

[CrackRabbit]

amazon download for the ARMA games is extremly slow for me.

I started it last night around 9:30 PM or so and it didn't finish until like 4:00 PM today.

Now I have to wait for OA to finish installing.

Right now ArmA II: Combined Ops is the second highest selling game on Amazon right now. Beaten only by Diablo III.

I've updated the OP with a newer map that has Google Maps style controls and locations of some of the lootable buildings.

 

[Dankk]

I've updated the OP with a newer map that has Google Maps style controls and locations of some of the lootable buildings.

It's an OK map, my only real problem with it is that the text is way too small, where it labels most of the towns. Doesn't show all of the loot either (I've found some amazing loot in plain old houses, rather than barns or deerstands).

I personally use the map at http://avidblur.com/arma2/. It doesn't point out anything with large icons, but the basics are there, the map is very high-quality, and the text is big.

Maybe we could post some tips for newbies in the OP as well. There's a list of helpful links here: http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/trdzs/collection_of_dayz_tips_threads_for_your/ (the Day Z subreddit is a nice community/resource in general, I recommend checking there everyday).

 

[McLovin]

So I am *this* close to buying OA just so I can play this mod. My god I think the last time I was this interested in a mod was when CS was in Alpha!

I've seen people say that buying the Private Military Company DLC gives you higher rez models. Does the other DLC do anything to help out this game? Does anyone here actually have PMC and notice a difference?

Thanks for bringing this mod to light!

 

[JumBie]

I don't know if its just me, but normal Arma 2 games and OA games wont work for me. I cant seem to join any normal server as it brings up error messages pertaining to the DayZ mod files. This sucks.

 

[Whirlwind]

So I am *this* close to buying OA just so I can play this mod. My god I think the last time I was this interested in a mod was when CS was in Alpha!

I've seen people say that buying the Private Military Company DLC gives you higher rez models. Does the other DLC do anything to help out this game? Does anyone here actually have PMC and notice a difference?

Thanks for bringing this mod to light!

PMC makes for higher rez models...the other dlc helps, just not as much if I understand correctly.

I posted a few pics in the screenshot thread.

The mod is alot of fun, even in its alpha stage.

 

[ussfletcher]

I'm seriously considering picking this up, it sounds awesome.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Finally got in a game, now I'm lost. I need a noob guide.

 

[pontifex]

still downloading OA...

 

[Gorthan]

Finally got in a game, now I'm lost. I need a noob guide.

Start here: http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=58

You'll get a good idea of where to start with that, it's also worth reading a bunch of other posts in that forum, I've linked the Newbie guide, but one step up takes you to the New Player forum. Well worth reading.


Just out of curiosity, where do other AT members play? I'm in Australia but I often join US servers, so it would be great fun if we can get something going on a server somewhere. Knowing I can trust fellow ATers would be a huge bonus, I tend to solo 99% of the time right now. Part of it is not trusting other players not to kill me, the other is not trusting them to not get me killed through stupidity.

 

[Whirlwind]

night time is almost unplayable it is so dark

 

[power_hour]

Love the concept. This is my next shooter for sure.

 

[pontifex]

night time is almost unplayable it is so dark

yep, loaded up last night at like 11:30 finally. dark as hell. started crawling and found a house. threw a flare and walked around a bit, tried to get in the house but couldn't. several zombies started coming to the light so i moved away and laid down and quit. I had no idea what I was doing.


did the tutorial in ARMA2 this morning to get some idea of what does what. loaded up again and i was still in the same place so tried to go back and apparently some doors you can't open.

realized i was in a small town. found a house i could get in but it was empty. started crawling to another building and saw a zombie and crawled past him. kept going and saw one hopping towards me. i stopped and waited but he saw me so i popped him 2 times and ran away and then dropped down. waited a bit and nothing happened so i saw a gas station and started crawling to that.

saw some zombies off a little way. found a tire and some garbage, nothing else. started to head out and saw 2 zombies coming towards me. went back in and closed the door. one opened the door (he was crawling) and i shot him in the head and he died. waited for the other one but he never showed up. i logged out there.

its really immersive and i'm afraid to really move around. lol

i think i would be less scared to move around if I didn't have to worry about other players too or had more silent options for taking out zombies.