DayZ
With the DayZ standalone playable alpha release looming, I thought I would check out the mod version of the game. http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/
If you dont know, DayZ is an open world survival zombie game modification based off of the military sim ArmA 2 games. www.dayzmod.com Basically its hardcore mode survival against zombies and even more dangerous, other players. I have been watching vids for months and took advantage of a steam sale today to pick up ArmA 2. Anyone playing DayZ right now? Servers? Thoughts? I have a teamspeak we can use! |
Played it for a short while.
It's cool and fun at first but after awhile it gets boring. There's nothing to do in the game. It's like a MMO where you do nothing but grind mobs, except when you die you lose it all. |
Played it heavily over the summer. Was playing with about 8 other guys on a daily basis.. Some great times.
My buddy just got it loaded up (it's available on steam now - the DayZ mod) Tonight we actually jumped on a vanilla server -- good times. Got to Elektro and raided a bit before admin had to bounce servers. |
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I really figured this thread would get a little more action -
That being said you can find me playing thelaughingman private hive server #2, i have already figured out the game fairly well. Seems like it could be ALOT more fun with a crew. |
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I'm watching this streamed on Twitch and damn I want to buy it right now. Who has it?
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I do.
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I gave it a test drive today.
No weapons, no zombies. It has a long way to go. |
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As for zombies, the servers cant handle more right now, but there are some. |
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i looked at this game here and there, but what kinda computer do you need? Ever since i quit MMO's i havent had the need to build a computer, so mines pretty damned old now.
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I still have purchase a graphics card. The mod ran decent on my laptop and new desktop, but the stand alone is obviously a step up in graphics power. Yikes. |
is this piece free yet?
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It's a stand alone game. |
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Still, you need at least a modern mid range graphics card/processor.. think i5-2500k and 560ti or equivalent to be able to run it with any sort of fidelity. |
I'm glad you posted that, my CPU needs an upgrade.
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Cross posting from another thread... Didn't see this one yet.
I'd be interested in playing the standalone with some CPers if anyone wants to get something together.. |
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****ING LOLED. This is Dayz IN a nutshell.
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Added you- I'm CastastropheWagon.
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Ill hit you up when I get home tonight, unfortunately DayZ in alpha form is still buggy. I was fully equipped at green mountain barracks, and when I logged back in I was on the shore with nothing so ill be starting out fresh.
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Do you know where you are on the coast? I'm pretty well geared up right now and I can make my way to your location with some stuff.
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PS that's so ****ing frustrating.. It's happened to me once or twice too.
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Ya know I cant remember, I heard the ocean, it faded in, I was on the coast, I said **** it and closed the game.
I will likely head either to the military building the apartment area above Cherno, or Balota airfield and server hop until I am geared. |
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I've found that joining nighttime servers with very few people is great for gearing up.. Turn your brightness/gamma all the way up and you can see pretty well. I'm at the airstrip in the middle of the map but I may hole up at Devils Castle. |
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new patch today, including work on SPAWNING.
As mr nickels and I found out, prior to this patch you could just as easily end up on shore with nothing as you could to log back in where you left off. Hopefully they have fixed it. |
This is a survival game and people shoot to kill way too much. I hope they add in bots and if you do shoot a bot it means instant death. This would keep people from shooting right whne they see someone.
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Your post reminds me of the SciFi show "Caprica" in which there is a virtual world called "New Cap City". It's just like real life, and if you die in the game you are NEVER allowed back on. |
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hometeam, do you ever stream yourself playing or does anyone in your group? I want to see how it goes with you.
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as soon as my DAMN FIBER CONNECTION gets installed I will literally stream 90% of all gameplay I do, in any game. Until then check out some guys on twitch; Lirik Sacriel Ngotie PsiSyndicate Stanley Nickels and I have been getting down on some DayZ and in general, doing pretty well. I don't think we have been shot in the face yet, so that says a lot. |
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Even though I haven insanely powerful rig I still only get around 30-35 in cities on maximum graphical settings, right now everyone's performance is taking a hit because the server side does not use multi-thread or have any optimization. Alpha-game is Alpha. Optimization coming soon~ |
I have a 660ti, but I have an AMD Phenom II X4. It's not very good.
I've been wanting to just get a i5-3570K so I will have a decent system, but I can never pull the trigger on it. Sucks I have to change my mobo too. I should have just gone intel when I built my rig. |
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If you think so. I'll pick it up Jan 9th for my next paycheck.
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Man this is janky lol...I know it's Alpha so I'm cool with it.
Pretty fun so far, been a while if ever that a game has installed this amount of paranoia and nervous feelings in me. |
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I'll be on again tonight or tomorrow. |
Will do...
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Contemplating buying ArmA II and OA off Steam for $5 and installing the DZ mod...seems to be fleshed out greatly more than the standalone at this point.
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The mod still takes you 2 minutes to get connected to a server, IF you get connected at all. Is far more buggy than even this alpha release, etc. Then again for 5 bucks meh, maybe its worth it. You can get some time out of it. |
DayZ is just so ripe for cinematic vids
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The first review about breaking your legs and crawling for ten miles. I literally did this Sunday. I tried to commit suicide off of a cliff, and broke my legs instead, couldn't finish the job so crawled for miles until a kind soul found me and accepted my request that I be beaten to death.
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Can't you just leave the server and log back in?
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Lol awesome. If I buy the game now will anyone play tonight? Edit: I bought it, downloading now. |
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Another great thing about DayZ SA is that your in game friends list, where you can see your friends and where they are playing etc, is directly derived from your steam friends list. Makes it way easy. edit: nvm just accept my friend request |
Do you wanna play now or after the Pats/Colts game?
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Not only did I kill a fully equipped, gun wielding dude with my axe,
I also got shot in my face for running around a corner. It was a good DayZ~ |
I got a Magnum. That was a lot of fun for miles of running.
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Holler if you guys wanna play again tonight or else some time tomorrow maybe.
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Well im gonna hop on now and hope I don't get killed. I'm going to gingerly explore the airfield some more on low activity servers. I'm on teamspeak in case one of you hops on. (have push to talk on so i wont annoy anyone else)
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Okay so I spawned in the airfield, sweet. Only 2 people on the server sweet.
I loot the first building I left off in and go run to the hangar and all the sudden I hear a gate swing and I'm shot a bunch and die and hear a guy say, "GO HOP SOME MORE BITCH." Mother****er. I had so much food and a bunch of stuff for weapons but when the guy loots me he'll realize I had nothing worth taking...I really want to get back into that server and go kill him, but now I can't connect to any servers...ugh. My first DayZ rage :( |
And for the quintuple post, I'm logging off now and waiting for one of you to get on later...it's pointless for me to run around naked w/out someone to help me gear up.
I logged out at the gas station about 250m north of Solnichniy. For some reason the map looks like shit on my browser today, I can't tell if I ****ed up a setting or is this happening for everyone? http://i.imgur.com/47EkJ7T.png |
Do you have the font zoomed? That's happened to me before..
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How does 1:30 PT/3:30 CT sound? |
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Funny, I don't have anything scheduled. Maybe I will see if a game is on. LMAO |
Steam is best for game invites~
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K, I'm ready to play now.
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I played with some guy that hometeam met tonight and he saved my life and got killed in the process. RIP guy.
Also I'm in Electro for the next time I start the game. |
I read before you need a pretty beefy system to run this right?
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Arma 3 engine is basically one of the most CPU intensive graphical engines out there, because of the sheer numbers of stuff that is drawn and the distance it is drawn at. Even gen 2 I-5s should be able to handle it though. |
DayZ
I have a 660ti and an AMD Phenom ii X4 B955 oc'd to 3.7 MHz and it auto set to high settings and seems to run fine but I haven't really been in any intense battles yet so I'm not sure.
Let me know how I can see my FPS and I'll report back on that tonight. |
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What does is being in the larger cities. When your in the middle of cherno or elektro my GPU literally runs at like 30%, because it offloads so much to the CPU. It will get better, in fact just a little bit ago Rocket announced that they had new tools ready to help improve performance . You can see your FPS with an overlay program, like MSI afterburner or EVGA preciiosn X, then turn on the game overlay, choose FPS and watch it in game. I typically have my FPS, GPU temp, GPU utilization all up when playing |
Cool. I did notice my frame rate drop a little in Elektro yesterday but I was bleeding and starving and dying of thirst so I thought that was why.
Even though the game is so buggy I'm obsessed with it after 2 days. I'm gonna watch some streams at work today. |
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My friend just bought the game. Is it ok if I invite him to the teamspeak when we play together?
When it's just he and I, we'll use our own. |
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