you can use arma 2 free over steam to get base textures and play
So you need to buy OA, but then you could turn around and not use it to play? Why would anyone do that?
Huh? Why are you making this more complex than it needs to be?
DayZ requires ARMA II, the base game, as well as Operation Arrowhead, the expansion pack, to play. OA can be played as a standalone game, but DayZ still requires the BASE data from ARMA II.
That's it. That's all there is to it, it's not complex
you can use arma 2 free over steam to get base textures and play
So you need to buy OA, but then you could turn around and not use it to play? Why would anyone do that?
Huh? Why are you making this more complex than it needs to be?
DayZ requires ARMA II, the base game, as well as Operation Arrowhead, the expansion pack, to play. OA can be played as a standalone game, but DayZ still requires the BASE data from ARMA II.
That's it. That's all there is to it, it's not complex
well. I got OA installed, downloaded the latest six updater version and all I get is "requesting character info" forever.. there are 4 servers here in Korea.
Yeah, I'm trying a different launching method. Apparently the steam fix for six launcher isn't good, so the ARMA2 dev wrote a launcher. Now instead I just get "loading" been on it for about 3-4 minutes. I assume it's not supposed to take this long?
unfortunately I can't seem to do anything else while this is going on..
like abort..
I was having trouble with dayz commander updating to 1.7.2.5 as well.
Six launcher hadn't been updated to 1.7.2.5 yet
so I just went to the dayzmod download page and used the torrent. (The direct download was waaaay to slow)
files from inside the torrent go into:
Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\@DayZ\addons
be sure to backup the files that are already in there in case you screw up.
I got it working. I just unchecked the steam box. Game loads up now and I can join a server. For a game based on another engine, this is rough in places it shouldn't be...like zombie movement. Really bad pathfinding, and jerky movement.
Got to Day 9 before I died to a hacker. Was moving far far northeast in the woods and huddled down to eat a bit. Suddenly someone appears out of thin air behind me (I was in 3rd person view) and attacks me with an axe, breaks my bone and then kills me.
Yeah, good luck finding that corpse if the hacker didn't already loot it all.
So fucking frustrating, but ... here I go again :S
well first time i got rolled by a cheater/cheaters
i was with a friend at the north east airfield, on the downhill slope right next to the control tower when i got kicked by battle eye for reason #87 ( of course i never cheated or scripted in my life ) i keep tring to re enter to no avail when my friend tells me around 5-7 people got kicked for reason #87 at the same time.
Knowing there were alot of weird stuff going on with battle eye lately i alt tabbed and started dxtory ( video capture software like fraps ) to record the error has it happens so i could prove when needed that i didnt do anything wrong.
I log into a different server to see if that one would let me in , success! All seems good and i tell my friend to join me on that server so we could continue.
Thats when suddenly around me 10-15 players were teleported, i knew imediately that a cheater did it and logged out to prevent getting killed in the skirmish ( i had a nice M4A3 CCO and ALICE + NVG and what not )
thats when i started recording the video.
You will see multiple guys around me (btw my voice isnt recorded ) so i am off to find again a different server.
I log in and i see i am not at the airfield anymore , either i was teleported or somehow the server didnt save my last location right.
I cant seem to make out where i am at, i see a dam so i check my map to figure out where i could be. I keep alt tabbing to use a more detailed map i have stored as PNG file.
If you dont wanna watch the whole video, at 9:20 i alt tab out of the game to check again after i looked around to make out any buildings like the hangar, you can tell i alt tab cause the screen seems to freeze. then at 9:33 i tab back in and a guy is suddenly standing in front of me without a name, the british weapon with thermal scope equipped....
I shoot him multiple times from up close but it takes only one shot to kill me....the end.
I started up dayz yesterday, for the first time in a month or so. I die by zombie after a few minutes, guess I wasn't really up for it. Nevertheless, I restart the game and spawn in Elektra, where I find a lot of nice things, including a ghillie suit (never had that before), which I put on only to lose my brand new Alice pack.
All the time there I hear the sound of a chopper, but I never see it. I was just dismissing it as .
But as I come out from a cafe, I actually see the thing, so I hit the grass (well hidden in my new suit, by the way) and track it around. It keeps hovering around the area, so I just crawl from green cover to green cover. It was exciting I have to say, but I was really wondering what they were doing, as it was all it was doing, hovering around.
Then suddenly! BOOM! They hit a building, and I am wondering why, no attacks, no nothing happened during this period, so why did they hit a building.
I decide, even if it's crawling with zombies, to head over there. I find some nice overpasses, like elevated boardwalks, that take me to a place overlooking the crash site. There I see it, including a bleeding ghillie suited corpse. How strange.
As I go for a closer inspection, I hear a new chopper, so I head away when suddenly, I put my gun on the back and... my character starts dancing...
Since zombies are coming for me at this moment, I decide to abort. I was assuming it probably wasn't my dancing, they were interested in.
Is this what Dayz has become, in such a short period of time?
Eh, regular ARMA with ACE is a whole lot better if you just want good firefights.
I disagree completely.
In regular ARMA you haven't spent a lot of time surviving and picking up gear, you can just respawn and pick whatever gear and be along. In DayZ dying means a lot more, which amps up the adrenaline by A LOT.
This night I connected to a new server and was killed before I spawned (edit: was safe spot and I was in prone mode), there were 3 people on that server including me. I cheated death by quickly disconnecting (esc - abort - disconnect, no Alt+F4). I respawned on another server at some starting point, with absolutely no gear (no starter bandage, painkillers and backpack), but I kept the camouflage clothing. Was fun to partially gear up again in Elektro. Must say though, loot spawn is borged. I found watches all over the place but no map, compass or knife. In whole Elektro best backpack I found was a Czech Vest Pouch.
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Hey guys. We had some drop-outs in our DayZ-NL group you might've seen a few times on ur TS server. Think i've talked to a few of ya in there. Would love to tag along in the upcoming week and see how things are when playing with a larger group if that's alight. Cya.
In regular ARMA you haven't spent a lot of time surviving and picking up gear, you can just respawn and pick whatever gear and be along. In DayZ dying means a lot more, which amps up the adrenaline by A LOT.
You my good sir is correct ! +1
The amount of feelings, good or bad this games bring is insane ! and i have never experienced anything like this kind ever before !!!!
This is in my opinion one of the most important games in years !
I just got killed by an invis guy. at first he tried to kill me with a rocket launcher, missed 3 times. and then he came closer and shot 2 mags from his cco sd until he finaly got me ... I ran like a chicken in circles, that's why he couldn't get me, oh and because his aiming sucks . ... but yea, I could see the smoke coming out of the gun right beside me but I couldn't see him ... fucking asshole.
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Was fun to partially gear up again in Elektro. Must say though, loot spawn is borged. I found watches all over the place but no map, compass or knife. In whole Elektro best backpack I found was a Czech Vest Pouch.
. ... but yea, I could see the smoke coming out of the gun right beside me but I couldn't see him 
