Day Z: Persistant world zombie survival mod - Page 193

On July 24 2012 22:19 Scootaloo wrote:
Managed to get a Lee Enfield, which was a lot of fun for the 5 minutes before some asshole told me he was friendly and shot me.
It seems a lot of effort for incredibly little gain, the battling zombies, even with an axe, which needs it's own seperate manual.
The map helps to figure out where you should go for every item but I find it somewhat rediculous I needed to know about no less then 2 online maps to make sense of an ingame situation, and having to alt tab in a game like this, especially when you see the name of a town you just entered can often turn into suicide.

And as far as the makarov being removed, as you said yourself, agro'ing zombies is a massive problem with them, combine that with their low power and the rather low 8 bullets only really makes it viable for getting into one or two drop locations.
Do you honestly believe starting you off with very low ammo isn't survival enough? The low ammo crappy makarov IS what you would put into a survival focussed game, removing it seems just completely pointless and just another barrier to get into the game without reading a godamn manual.

Also sneaking systems are all fun and such but the extremely shitty controls and the bad programming just make it either a extremely slow ride of boredom or playing it more loose which makes it impossible to shake the aggro before you can grab your items.

This just feels like one of those bad patches that makes a game stupidly difficult after fans have been complaining it was too easy, I think I'll wait till future updates fix this shit and focus on the many better games I have.

Edit: And yeah, I am kind of pissed off, from what I've seen from the numerous Destiny material this seemed like an incredibly enjoyable game, to only find out now that to reach that point you have to spend 15 min to an hour depending on luck and spawn position to even get a basic weapon, from where you can actually start playing this game, if this was a one or couple of times thing I would'nt mind but at this point I spent so much time on that bullshit, it's just frustrating.

I get the idea of having no weapons to fight and being chased, in Amnesia or Penumbra for instance it works incredibly well, however there it works because it's actually scary due to the game's atmosphere, story and enemy design, in this case it's like you're being chased by a bunch of annoying parasites that sound like dogs and wear idiotic french berets, it takes me out of the game and wastes a lot of my time on tedious busywork.

On July 24 2012 22:51 tofucake wrote:
sooooo.........what happened last night? I remember almost being murdered by zombies at NWAF but that's about it.

On July 24 2012 23:50 nanospartan wrote:
What auto installer should i use?

On July 24 2012 23:19 Mysticus wrote:
This game is rough.

However I'd like to thank whomever died in the Army Medic base east of some airfield (I have no idea which one or how to navigate) for gifting me the 4 blood bag, morphine, scoped m4, ammunition, bandages, flares, water bottle, and food that your corpse held for me.

It looks like you got killed by zombies (there were a lot there) perhaps after breaking your legs falling from the watchpost?

In any case, thank you.

On July 24 2012 22:19 Scootaloo wrote:
Managed to get a Lee Enfield, which was a lot of fun for the 5 minutes before some asshole told me he was friendly and shot me.
It seems a lot of effort for incredibly little gain, the battling zombies, even with an axe, which needs it's own seperate manual.
The map helps to figure out where you should go for every item but I find it somewhat rediculous I needed to know about no less then 2 online maps to make sense of an ingame situation, and having to alt tab in a game like this, especially when you see the name of a town you just entered can often turn into suicide.

And as far as the makarov being removed, as you said yourself, agro'ing zombies is a massive problem with them, combine that with their low power and the rather low 8 bullets only really makes it viable for getting into one or two drop locations.
Do you honestly believe starting you off with very low ammo isn't survival enough? The low ammo crappy makarov IS what you would put into a survival focussed game, removing it seems just completely pointless and just another barrier to get into the game without reading a godamn manual.

Also sneaking systems are all fun and such but the extremely shitty controls and the bad programming just make it either a extremely slow ride of boredom or playing it more loose which makes it impossible to shake the aggro before you can grab your items.

This just feels like one of those bad patches that makes a game stupidly difficult after fans have been complaining it was too easy, I think I'll wait till future updates fix this shit and focus on the many better games I have.

Edit: And yeah, I am kind of pissed off, from what I've seen from the numerous Destiny material this seemed like an incredibly enjoyable game, to only find out now that to reach that point you have to spend 15 min to an hour depending on luck and spawn position to even get a basic weapon, from where you can actually start playing this game, if this was a one or couple of times thing I would'nt mind but at this point I spent so much time on that bullshit, it's just frustrating.

I get the idea of having no weapons to fight and being chased, in Amnesia or Penumbra for instance it works incredibly well, however there it works because it's actually scary due to the game's atmosphere, story and enemy design, in this case it's like you're being chased by a bunch of annoying parasites that sound like dogs and wear idiotic french berets, it takes me out of the game and wastes a lot of my time on tedious busywork.

On July 25 2012 00:00 tofucake wrote:

I didn't go to Stary.

Also I have no tents.

On July 25 2012 00:25 PietjeP89 wrote:
Any people from europe playing on the server? My ping is around 150, a little to high i'm afraid

On July 25 2012 00:57 Goken wrote:
IMPORTANT:

No more beta patches (for a while, hopefully). v1.62 stable is here.

http://www.arma2.com/index.php?Itemid=20&option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&lang=en

On July 25 2012 01:02 TSBspartacus wrote:

Does that mean they actually finished the game?

On July 24 2012 22:19 Scootaloo wrote:
Managed to get a Lee Enfield, which was a lot of fun for the 5 minutes before some asshole told me he was friendly and shot me.
It seems a lot of effort for incredibly little gain, the battling zombies, even with an axe, which needs it's own seperate manual.
The map helps to figure out where you should go for every item but I find it somewhat rediculous I needed to know about no less then 2 online maps to make sense of an ingame situation, and having to alt tab in a game like this, especially when you see the name of a town you just entered can often turn into suicide.

And as far as the makarov being removed, as you said yourself, agro'ing zombies is a massive problem with them, combine that with their low power and the rather low 8 bullets only really makes it viable for getting into one or two drop locations.
Do you honestly believe starting you off with very low ammo isn't survival enough? The low ammo crappy makarov IS what you would put into a survival focussed game, removing it seems just completely pointless and just another barrier to get into the game without reading a godamn manual.

Also sneaking systems are all fun and such but the extremely shitty controls and the bad programming just make it either a extremely slow ride of boredom or playing it more loose which makes it impossible to shake the aggro before you can grab your items.

This just feels like one of those bad patches that makes a game stupidly difficult after fans have been complaining it was too easy, I think I'll wait till future updates fix this shit and focus on the many better games I have.

Edit: And yeah, I am kind of pissed off, from what I've seen from the numerous Destiny material this seemed like an incredibly enjoyable game, to only find out now that to reach that point you have to spend 15 min to an hour depending on luck and spawn position to even get a basic weapon, from where you can actually start playing this game, if this was a one or couple of times thing I would'nt mind but at this point I spent so much time on that bullshit, it's just frustrating.

I get the idea of having no weapons to fight and being chased, in Amnesia or Penumbra for instance it works incredibly well, however there it works because it's actually scary due to the game's atmosphere, story and enemy design, in this case it's like you're being chased by a bunch of annoying parasites that sound like dogs and wear idiotic french berets, it takes me out of the game and wastes a lot of my time on tedious busywork.

On July 25 2012 02:28 Tiegrr wrote:
My friends and I (total of 7) spent 4 hours last night (12-4 AM) in a Mexican standoff on some random French server (fr111). Was fun, but tiring.

We originally logged into a high pop. server with some slightly mediocre guns (1 MP5SD6, 1 M16 w/ M203, 1 M16, 1 CZ550, 1 AS50, 1 M1014 [the CZ550 guy had the M1014]) inside the church in Elektro. Our AS50 sniper was outside in his usual sniping spot (that he won't tell anyone the location of) where he could pretty much see the main streets of Elektro. Some poor unarmed sap with an [FBI] clan tag wandered in unarmed and immediately starting screaming "friendly." Originally we weren't going to kill him, until one of our guys pops him in the back (we were all kinda frustrated at him, he's our idiot of the group). About 15 minutes later, the same [FBI] guy comes back with 4 or 5 of his clan friends. We spent about 15 minutes yelling in voice chat at each other through the wall, with them trying to get us to come out (and kill, obviously) and us just yelling insults back. We double fenced the doorway so they couldn't storm the place, and we started waiting. They just keep opening and closing the doors while we crouched and lay prone in different positions inside the church. Our idiot then accidentally misthrows his grenade and it lands near the middle of the church, which kills two of our own guys. Hours of crossfire and sniping ensues (they eventually figured out we had an outside sniper) until we grew enough balls to remove the wire and storm out after they our sniper picked off 2 of them when they got a little greedy. We catch one running away and the other gets sprayed down while trying to snipe us from the school/town hall building (in the city square). I looted an M24, along with a pair of NVG and a rangefinder, while another one of our guys found a Mk.48 Mod 0. We lost the MP5 and the M16 w/ M203 though. I'd take the trade any day though.

On July 25 2012 03:19 MaestroSC wrote:



hahaha u ever seen Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia? sounds like you have your own wild card of the group lolol

had me laughin pretty hard when you said he dropped a grenade on ur own group