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On June 12 2012 23:44 Zorkmid wrote:
Is there a way to loot directly from the ground to your backpack?
I haven't figured out how yet.
Also about this 1.7.1. needing a beta patch, what is rocket talking about?
AO has beta patches that can be installed.
Also, to loot to your backpack, I believe you open the loot pile (The way you normally would to place items in your gear) then doubleclick your backpack. This opens it, and when you click the right arrow to pick it up, it goes directly to the pack. The only way to put handgun ammo in there as far as I know.
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I use that sixupdater program to launch my game, will that be sufficient to get all of my patches up to date, or will I need to do something else?
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More details on the upcoming patch 1.7.1 (still no ETA):
+ Show Spoiler +Current Changelog
Developer's Note:
* Requires ArmA2 Beta.
Changelog:
* [FIXED] Wire Spools, Toolboxes, hedgehog (tank trap) kits not spawning
* [FIXED] Bodies still being deleted too quickly sometimes
* [FIXED] No backpacks or medical boxes spawning
* [FIXED] "No Speaker..." debug report spam
* [FIXED] Infected spawning too close to players (minimum 30m now)
* [FIXED] Infected not spawning inside buildings any more
* [NEW] Infected can't attack through walls
* [NEW] Infected can't see through objects any more
* [NEW] Infected visibility increased (but limited by LOS)
* [NEW] Infected attack range increased (but limited by LOS)
* [NEW] Infected can cause greater damage when they hit you
* [NEW] Optimized server cleanup routine
Source
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So, heres my first attempt at a "dayz story" its basically noob stuff, but it brought a real thrill to me.
+ Show Spoiler +So, i logged in today and remembered i'd lost my makarov + 5 starting clips when i found a 1911 and tried to take both, i ended up with the 1911 and 1 clip, i headed to a settlement and started looking around, I found several dead zombies and thought nothing of it (stupid i know) I headed into a building and heard the sound of flies, figured there would be a corpse around somewhere with some loot. I climbed to the top of the building and scouted about, thats when i saw it outside next to a burnt out armored vehicle. I crept down the building and out to the corpse. thinking it was safe as i saw nothing from the rooftop. As i began looting i heard footsteps, i immediately spun to see someone aiming at my head, and let my full 1911 clip into his stomach, he got off a shot to my head and we both died. I should have been more careful and quiet.
So i respawn (on a new server because of reconnect issues) and find its night, i see road flares off in the distance, a couple of em and head towards them quietly. as i reach the edge i hear a gunshot behind me, i dash to a bush and go prone, after about 30 seconds i see someone creeping down the hill and searching for me, he walks straight past the bush im in and i put 3 bullets in his head to drop him. As i start looting the body, i hear more shots from the shore - a friend? i run over a hill and crawl about 50 meters across it, then come back over to search (its night, very low visibility) as i crouch-walk up the shore line, i see him. Prone in a bush, rolling to get a decent view of the hill, I let rip, one clip, two clips. X has died. Good! I quickly retreat over the hill and into a bush and wait to see if any more are around, after 3 minutes or so, i proceed to loot them both - noob gear, like me. Well, i take some extra painkillers, beans, ammo and a waterbottle and run towards the port.
As i reach the port, i spot a shadow moving on the otherside, a zed? I go prone and examine, no. A player, and he's seen me too. He crouch walks a little, stops and turns, moves a little more and then goes prone, he soon gets up and continues - but he's heading towards me now, i crawl into a defensive position and watch him, he's looking for me in the darkness. As he gets closer i decide his stance is hostile, no message in chat, no communication, just frantic searching for his prey. But i have the upper hand. I let off a shot, he goes prone and fires back, i unload my clip into him but ive missed, i reload and take a few shots - dropping to 7k blood, i quickly re-aim at his prone body and fire, X has died, whew. What action for having respawned so soon.(More then ive had in my 8 hours on the mod.) I take the ammo ive used and head into the port.
By now ive realised the server is bugged - 50 people and less then 200 zeds, none around. I decide to enjoy the night server before logging to find another. As i turn the corner of a large building i see more flares, 1, 2, 3, 4? 4 flares? Looks like bait, someone must have a defensive position and waiting for someone to show. As i move closer i hear a shot off to my left, i quickly dash off the port and onto a shrubbery shore, i then start to prone towards a flare - but theres building cover from where i heard the shot, perhaps i can bait him closer, i fire a shot at the flare edge and dash for the building - nothing. I wait 5 minutes and still nothing, theres a hill just across the flare perimeter, the dash is still covered by the building im behind, i have to risk it. I run for the hill, strafing up it as fast as i can and make off into the bushes, and wait. After 10 minutes i decide he either headed off into another direction and didnt see me or hear my baiting shot, or he's backed off altogether.
I log off and go to find a zed-populated server. 3 kills, hehehe.
What a night!
Apologies for grammar / organisation.
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On June 13 2012 04:49 Capped wrote:So, heres my first attempt at a "dayz story" its basically noob stuff, but it brought a real thrill to me. + Show Spoiler +So, i logged in today and remembered i'd lost my makarov + 5 starting clips when i found a 1911 and tried to take both, i ended up with the 1911 and 1 clip, i headed to a settlement and started looking around, I found several dead zombies and thought nothing of it (stupid i know) I headed into a building and heard the sound of flies, figured there would be a corpse around somewhere with some loot. I climbed to the top of the building and scouted about, thats when i saw it outside next to a burnt out armored vehicle. I crept down the building and out to the corpse. thinking it was safe as i saw nothing from the rooftop. As i began looting i heard footsteps, i immediately spun to see someone aiming at my head, and let my full 1911 clip into his stomach, he got off a shot to my head and we both died. I should have been more careful and quiet.
So i respawn (on a new server because of reconnect issues) and find its night, i see road flares off in the distance, a couple of em and head towards them quietly. as i reach the edge i hear a gunshot behind me, i dash to a bush and go prone, after about 30 seconds i see someone creeping down the hill and searching for me, he walks straight past the bush im in and i put 3 bullets in his head to drop him. As i start looting the body, i hear more shots from the shore - a friend? i run over a hill and crawl about 50 meters across it, then come back over to search (its night, very low visibility) as i crouch-walk up the shore line, i see him. Prone in a bush, rolling to get a decent view of the hill, I let rip, one clip, two clips. X has died. Good! I quickly retreat over the hill and into a bush and wait to see if any more are around, after 3 minutes or so, i proceed to loot them both - noob gear, like me. Well, i take some extra painkillers, beans, ammo and a waterbottle and run towards the port.
As i reach the port, i spot a shadow moving on the otherside, a zed? I go prone and examine, no. A player, and he's seen me too. He crouch walks a little, stops and turns, moves a little more and then goes prone, he soon gets up and continues - but he's heading towards me now, i crawl into a defensive position and watch him, he's looking for me in the darkness. As he gets closer i decide his stance is hostile, no message in chat, no communication, just frantic searching for his prey. But i have the upper hand. I let off a shot, he goes prone and fires back, i unload my clip into him but ive missed, i reload and take a few shots - dropping to 7k blood, i quickly re-aim at his prone body and fire, X has died, whew. What action for having respawned so soon.(More then ive had in my 8 hours on the mod.) I take the ammo ive used and head into the port.
By now ive realised the server is bugged - 50 people and less then 200 zeds, none around. I decide to enjoy the night server before logging to find another. As i turn the corner of a large building i see more flares, 1, 2, 3, 4? 4 flares? Looks like bait, someone must have a defensive position and waiting for someone to show. As i move closer i hear a shot off to my left, i quickly dash off the port and onto a shrubbery shore, i then start to prone towards a flare - but theres building cover from where i heard the shot, perhaps i can bait him closer, i fire a shot at the flare edge and dash for the building - nothing. I wait 5 minutes and still nothing, theres a hill just across the flare perimeter, the dash is still covered by the building im behind, i have to risk it. I run for the hill, strafing up it as fast as i can and make off into the bushes, and wait. After 10 minutes i decide he either headed off into another direction and didnt see me or hear my baiting shot, or he's backed off altogether.
I log off and go to find a zed-populated server. 3 kills, hehehe.
What a night! Apologies for grammar / organisation.
Haha that is a lot of action! its a shame its so hard to find friendlies these days 
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Entire LA.. 2 (? maybe 2..i dont remember the number just remember it was a LA server) server just got all-killed... well almost all-killed.
Luckily the server had like 70 people... and so it was doing it in stages. I managed to log off before I was killed...i think. Just saw a wall of text with like 30 X has Died. so people started frantically logging out of the server which also slowed down the hack so i think i managed to get off with my gear in tact.... ir eally hope so... i have an alice pack FULL of stuff... tho i only have a 1911 and 2 mags and a lee enfield (><!!!) with like 4 mags. (I hate lee enfields... they are so damn loud... one shot = COME KILL ME IM OVER HERE ZOMBIES/BANDITS!)...
+ Show Spoiler +but did have an interesting experience while in elektro... managed to sneak through all of elektro and fill up an alice pack with food/water/ammo for guns i dont have... decided that since i got my alice pack ima roll through the medical tents cause i had been there earlier and found like... 5-10 blood bags that i couldnt fit in my inventory... with the alice pack i figured id go get em and the revive pens/pain killers etc.... ANYWAYS... on my way to the tents i run by the hospital. I debate going in, but its dark and I cant fully see if the glass is in tact or if any1 is camping it. AS im sitting there checking it out, a player runs through the town with 4-5 zombies. He stops at the entrance and kills off the zombies. I am a usually friendly character..but learning from experience, that usually means im a solitary player. Anyways i have my gun pointed at him, and am in the doorway of the capital building. As he finishes off the zombies, another player runs up and kills him. So i killed the player who killed him... but I hit him once, and apparently he bled out. Cause i saw him run into the hospital, and then after staring for 30 seconds i realized i had a player kill. (so he must have been bleeding and didnt catch it in time, or he logged off, cause i stared at the door for 5-10 mins). Anyways i lob a flare into the store so that I can see all of inside of it and he cant see me. Didnt see anything, so i go prone and crawl away into the bistro. I hear a lee enfiled firing in the distance and hit the deck. start asking in chat whoever has the lee enfield if they are killing Zed or people. I get 3 "killin Zeds" responses and 1 "no he isnt, he just killed me" so i decide to prone my way out.
On the way out is when people started getting killed by the all-kill hack. So i dc'ed.... kinda sad as i was kinda on an adrenaline high when it happened and took me out of it really fast.
my story is noob tho. My only other real pvp experience in DayZ so far (again i like to play friendly.. cause im new and would rather make friends than enemies in a survival game....and also maybe because i met a REALLY awsome guy on my first night who gave me a m16 and a 1911 and enough ammo to kill forever in one of my past lives.) was when I killed a player who was sneaking up to kill me as I was raining death on zombies on a low-pop server.
Was perched on the tall ass power plant tower killin zombies at a hundred yards or so with my Winchester (love that gun...idk i think its because i LOVE shooting one in real life.. love the lever action...idk). And i see a guy with an enfield running up the stairs of the nearby fire dpt. I tell him im friendly, but I need him to identify himself or Ill assume he is hostile... Told him i have sight and crosshairs on him. he runs down the stairs. (no id is fine as long as you leave) but then a minute later i see him climbing up the ladder to get onto the roof from a diff angle. Warn him again...still no id. So i killed him..... DUDE HAD EVERYTHING. Map, Compass, Hatchet, Knife, Watch, Lee Enfield rifle, and a CZ(?) pistol that i ended up dropping on accident -.-. So i took his shit and headed into the wilderness... where i eventually died because i fell off the stairs of a barn.. banaged myself but was stuck at 3k hp and fading in/out and was NOWHERE near a town.... just closed my eyes and ran for a couple minutes... got to a small town got inside and killed zombies until i had no ammo... then i told the world where i was and to come finish me.
the end.... wow those are some boring stories.
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Well that sucks....
The server I've been on shut down and restarted.... So I didn't just lost my tractor. I was also in the NE airfield in the Control tower and There was no joke an MP5SD, a M4A1CCO and a Ak47... No ammo for any of them in the tower but there was about 4-5 mags for the MP5 in the hangers....
Oh well thats life in an alpha.
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Gentlemen, today is a day which will live in infamy. Today, at approximately 11:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, NwO destroyed our tent city on NY25. I can only speculate, but I assume that this all began with my accidental discovery of a NwO tent city. I wandered onto this tent city about two kilometers west of Vybor, in the middle of the forest. I was traveling north to our tents after some looting, but I found a tent city, and was killed by a sniper who was in the hills surrounding it; however, using the green hand I was able to see that he was in NwO.
A little while later, Slow Motion returned to the scene of the crime, and found the tent city and a jeep. The sniper who killed me was gone, and he looted most everything noteworthy and stole the jeep, and took it to our tents. A little later on, abstract and myself finished looting the tent city, and as we were leaving saw someone going to the city whom we did not engage. abstract and myself returned back to camp, and I set up a couple tents. However, a sniper was lurking the woods around our tents. He first struck by killing me, whom he killed with one shot to the head. He then continued with his rampage by killing everyone else at the tents: Slow Motion, fontong, and abstract.
However, by the time everyone else had been killed I had ran to the tents from kamenka; however, a server restart prevented me from reaching the tents and saving what I could. I then logged to a different server and logged off in the trees near where the jeep was parked, hoping to use it to save what gear I could. When I logged back on to NY25, there were three guys in the camp, two running around looting and one guy in the jeep running over all the tents. I quickly logged out, and logged back in about five minutes later to see what I could save. That effort would be for naught, as NwO had destroyed everything they couldn't take. After I logged in, a NwO member told me that there was nothing left of the camp, and he took credit for the spectacular sniping which killed everyone in the camp. He turned out to be right, as there were no tents left standing.
Using the information off the top of my head, our losses look something like this:
4? x M4A1 SDs: I lost one, two were lost sitting in tents, and I assume fontong lost his either to the sniper or when the tents were looted.
2 x M14 AIMs
1 x DMR
2 x AK 74s
1 x AK 74 Kobra
1 x M16
1 x M16 with M203 Grenade Launcher
2 x M24s
1 x CZ550
1 x MP5 SD
20 x Blood bags
miscellaneous food and medical supplies
tons of ammo and tents
tons of car parts
At this point, how NwO found our city is up for some speculation. It may be possible that the man we saw followed us back to the tents; however, this is somewhat unlikely because I was watching our backs the whole way back, and I didn't see anyone following. It is possible that the sniper who started their assault stumbled onto the camp site on accident. I don't particularly think this is likely, as our site was in the middle of nowhere, and is rarely traveled. The method that seems most likely to me is that they used the radar on a chopper to find the jeep which was parked at our camp site. Since someone, unknown to them at the time, stole their jeep, it is likely that they would use a chopper to try to find it.
Regardless, we are now left without many of the assets we once had. We now must start from scratch, as many of us were also killed in the attack. We have been laid low by the NwO; however, we will rise from the ashes and start anew. We will rebuild what we have lost, many times over. We will repay NwO for their vicious attack on our tents, just as they destroyed our home, we shall destroy theirs.
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Fuck! I thought we all agreed to tell the Europeans that we were killed by an army of tanks, jets, and robot soldiers.
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Had my first dayz experience yesterday. After 3-4 hours of downloading and installing ArmA/dayz i finally got it working.
Spawned by the lighthouse and started heading towards some sort of factory complex with lots of z inside. Managed to sneak past all z and tried to climb a ladder. Ladder bugs out and drops me to the ground and I break my legs and lose the majority of my blood. Wakes up with a zombie chewing on my face.
Will play more today when i get home. Zombies don't kill people, ladders do.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck lol thats pretty rough. I've been attempting to find the fabled NWO base. I've checked Devils Castle, all there was was a tractor stuck in a wall and a ton of empty tents. I then discovered a base was apparently located in Pobeda Dam to the north east. After a huge trek over there I found nothing, but I will continue to observe the area when NWO are on and find signs of activity. We will find them, and we will kill them. VENGEANCE SHALL BE OURS.
TL HWAITING
also we should totally all put [TL] tags in front of our names so we can recognise friendlies and be super cool and shit.
*cough* paqman team-killer *cough*
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On June 13 2012 17:10 mawno wrote:
Had my first dayz experience yesterday. After 3-4 hours of downloading and installing ArmA/dayz i finally got it working.
Spawned by the lighthouse and started heading towards some sort of factory complex with lots of z inside. Managed to sneak past all z and tried to climb a ladder. Ladder bugs out and drops me to the ground and I break my legs and lose the majority of my blood. Wakes up with a zombie chewing on my face.
Will play more today when i get home. Zombies don't kill people, ladders do.
It is possible that a Zombie hit you while on the ladder and knocked you out, since they fixed ladders glitching. But its also pretty likely its still bugged anyway.
Hopefully the next patch will sort a lot of bugs out, instead of adding things in like they have been doing recently. Although I like all the new features they need to fix problems before creating more.
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i might be getting the game this weekend. (pending uni exams and shit).
though before i fork out money could anyone inform me of what ping id be getting?
on most other games id sit around 200-250 when connecting to us servers, would i expect the same in dayz?
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I usually play with ~50ms on EU servers and ~150-200 on US servers.
But I'm pretty sure there's at least one AUS server too which should help your ping alot.
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Man this game is so much fun, just played for about 2hrs, my 1st time, and it was great. My first 2 tries, died preety quick, mainly from being new to the mechanics and game systems, but 3rd spawn, lasted about an hour or so, was amazing, 1 murder, 22 zombie kills, was a good run. Also, did way better once i turned off Post-Processing to Disabled, as well as changing the 3d resolution to the same as my natural resolution, and the game looks and plays way better. Dont know why, but the 3d Res was set to like 87% or something, so the whole game looked out of focus, but all is well, except i feel like i should be getting better FPS with my rig, heard theres some server side issues hurting FPS, either way, amazing Experience so far. GG GL all.
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If you take the time to find a van or any other vehicle (and then find the time and supplies to fix it up), I have one piece of advice for you:
Do not let ChrispySC drive it.
After finding a random abandoned vehicle out in the middle of nowhere, and a subsequent 3 hour trip to meet up and find supplies (car wheels, gas) for the van, Chrispy manages to drive us into an invisible wall at the Pobeda Damm ("Ooh I wonder what's over the dam.."), killing two of us almost instantly while Chrispy somehow miraculously survives.
We lost a bunch of different guns + ammo, basically all tools, all medical supplies (many blood bags), a bunch of cooked meat and food supplies and about 4 jerry cans worth of gas for the van.
Goddamn it Chrispy. (How could you possibly think driving it at 60 mph over a goddamn bridge/dam was a good idea?)
Edit: By far the most depressing (and funny) death and simultaneously the most epic fail of all time suffered in my Day-Z playing career.
Edit 2: http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=S1203_van <-- this was the van we died in.
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On June 13 2012 15:21 Shootemup. wrote:
Gentlemen, today is a day which will live in infamy. Today, at approximately 11:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, NwO destroyed our tent city on NY25. I can only speculate, but I assume that this all began with my accidental discovery of a NwO tent city. I wandered onto this tent city about two kilometers west of Vybor, in the middle of the forest. I was traveling north to our tents after some looting, but I found a tent city, and was killed by a sniper who was in the hills surrounding it; however, using the green hand I was able to see that he was in NwO.
A little while later, Slow Motion returned to the scene of the crime, and found the tent city and a jeep. The sniper who killed me was gone, and he looted most everything noteworthy and stole the jeep, and took it to our tents. A little later on, abstract and myself finished looting the tent city, and as we were leaving saw someone going to the city whom we did not engage. abstract and myself returned back to camp, and I set up a couple tents. However, a sniper was lurking the woods around our tents. He first struck by killing me, whom he killed with one shot to the head. He then continued with his rampage by killing everyone else at the tents: Slow Motion, fontong, and abstract.
However, by the time everyone else had been killed I had ran to the tents from kamenka; however, a server restart prevented me from reaching the tents and saving what I could. I then logged to a different server and logged off in the trees near where the jeep was parked, hoping to use it to save what gear I could. When I logged back on to NY25, there were three guys in the camp, two running around looting and one guy in the jeep running over all the tents. I quickly logged out, and logged back in about five minutes later to see what I could save. That effort would be for naught, as NwO had destroyed everything they couldn't take. After I logged in, a NwO member told me that there was nothing left of the camp, and he took credit for the spectacular sniping which killed everyone in the camp. He turned out to be right, as there were no tents left standing.
Using the information off the top of my head, our losses look something like this:
4? x M4A1 SDs: I lost one, two were lost sitting in tents, and I assume fontong lost his either to the sniper or when the tents were looted.
2 x M14 AIMs
1 x DMR
2 x AK 74s
1 x AK 74 Kobra
1 x M16
1 x M16 with M203 Grenade Launcher
2 x M24s
1 x CZ550
1 x MP5 SD
20 x Blood bags
miscellaneous food and medical supplies
tons of ammo and tents
tons of car parts
At this point, how NwO found our city is up for some speculation. It may be possible that the man we saw followed us back to the tents; however, this is somewhat unlikely because I was watching our backs the whole way back, and I didn't see anyone following. It is possible that the sniper who started their assault stumbled onto the camp site on accident. I don't particularly think this is likely, as our site was in the middle of nowhere, and is rarely traveled. The method that seems most likely to me is that they used the radar on a chopper to find the jeep which was parked at our camp site. Since someone, unknown to them at the time, stole their jeep, it is likely that they would use a chopper to try to find it.
Regardless, we are now left without many of the assets we once had. We now must start from scratch, as many of us were also killed in the attack. We have been laid low by the NwO; however, we will rise from the ashes and start anew. We will rebuild what we have lost, many times over. We will repay NwO for their vicious attack on our tents, just as they destroyed our home, we shall destroy theirs.
Vengeance time...
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