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.

Yea thats the reason i picked it up today, as it can be ran easily from steam. I have been watching the mod, and especially the standalone release for quite some time. I need people to play with!

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.

Well... DayZ takes more than your typical WoW computer to run it.

I guess thats true.. im running maxed even with fraps going, I have a pretty stout rig. Even so, a decent mid range i5 2500k based machine should be able to run it fairly well.

I'm watching this streamed on Twitch and damn I want to buy it right now. Who has it?

I do.

I gave it a test drive today.


No weapons, no zombies. It has a long way to go.

There are plenty of weapons. Way easier in fact, than the mod to get geared up.

As for zombies, the servers cant handle more right now, but there are some.

Must have been a dry server.

The way the spawning system works right now, each loot spot spawns once when the server is reset. Dynamic server spawning will come in the next update.

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.

Cool to know.


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?

Never will be.


It's a stand alone game.

You need a pretty good PC. DayZ standalone is based off of Arma 3, but I find it actually runs better than Arma3. It is because they have artificially deflated the view distance and some other graphics settings.

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.

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..

Add me on steam - search Falx and add the one with the ball bearing that has green goo on it. You will see it. I have a teamspeak and a bandit crew if you want to jump right in and start ****in shit up.

****ING LOLED. This is Dayz IN a nutshell.


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Added you- I'm CastastropheWagon.

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.

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.

PS that's so ****ing frustrating.. It's happened to me once or twice too.

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.

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.

Yea Ill have to get up that way. We can either hop in TS or Skype and meet up.

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.

Would there be instadeath for you IRL if the a zombie apocalypse was to happen and you shot another survivor?

Sure, but this isn't IRL. IRL, survival would mean killing zombies. People in this game simply run past zombies or hack them silently, since the main point seems to be killing/robbing other people. That's not an IRL representaiton of a zombie apocalypse, IMO. Plus, with camping, if you miss and someone picks you off because your gunshot gave away your location, you just respawn. On the other hand, if you're running for god knows how long to gear up (because you spawn in some remote location) and you're picked off by a sniper who cares less about zombies than waiting for people to kill, it's pretty frustrating.

Umm a zombie apocalypse and surviving zombies has never been the problem of surviving the zombies, it is always other humans. Seems to me the game is running perfectly..

The game isn't even as hardcore as the devs really wanted to make~

LMAO

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.

Exactly my point. :)

hometeam, do you ever stream yourself playing or does anyone in your group? I want to see how it goes with you.

I cant because I only have 1.5mb upload. The group I roll with has one guy that sometimes does, but he is inconsistent at best

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.

I want to get it, but I need to upgrade my CPU first. As soon as I do I will be on a lot I think.

If you have an i5-2500k or better and 560ti or better you will be fine on low/medium settings.

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.

Meh, youll be fine.

If you think so. I'll pick it up Jan 9th for my next paycheck.

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.

Add me on Steam if you want -- CatastropheWagon

I'll be on again tonight or tomorrow.

Will do...

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.

Not only have huge swaths of the community switched to the standalone, but the actual FUNCTIONING of the game works much better in SA.

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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and the developer team getting ambushed on a live server

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Some of these are pretty funny...

http://kotaku.com/dayz-as-told-by-st...ium=Socialflow

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.

Can't you just leave the server and log back in?

.. you could, and you would be in the exact same spot, with your legs broken. All of the servers share a common DB.

Lol awesome. If I buy the game now will anyone play tonight?

Edit: I bought it, downloading now.

Ill play with you. You nee dto add me on Steam - Falx with the green goo ball~

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?

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.

Holler if you guys wanna play again tonight or else some time tomorrow maybe.

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)

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..

Sure.

How does 1:30 PT/3:30 CT sound?

LOL

I've got important business around that time.

Yep that was it, thanks.

Ahhhhhhhh.


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.

Take out your frustration on that **** at the airport.

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?

Yes fairly. Buck can has a quite a bit less than beefy system, im not sure how its running but he kept up with us just fine.

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.

Battles really don't increase the performance demands a lot.

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.

Compared to the mod its light years ahead. And remember, this is an alpha game. We are lucky it works~

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.

Yea not a problem. Its not my TS but the guy who runs it doesn't care afaik