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Well after the DayZ update, all our characters were wiped as the private hive was replaced. I guess we better start playing another map and at least have some fun on those before standalone. I think there is a ZA Lingor (ZA74) but I don't know of any others? Would really like to play Panthera. Any ideas guys?
I can't seem to find any of the other maps through DayZ Commander, but I agree, lets try find another map before standalone.. IF its busy enough.
Else, we make a lollery out of it and play Coastal Bandit Hunters United Styles Incorporated!!! RAWR.
We're playing on a Taviana server, if you want to join you need to download the taviana.com version (not the taviana.eu) - around 1GB. Filter your server list for "SMK" and join that. It is a foreign server but we get pretty good performance and it always has like 20 or so guys on it.
Dry and I had geared up well, had a Red Golf car and eventually fuelled up a Huey. We got it flying and did some sightseeing but after a seriously random spawn glitch I was on the mountain and Dry had to fly to meet me. At the pickup, someone flew into Dry with a C130 cargo plane.
Crazy stuff seriously, so awesome! The map is great albeit a bit glitchy but its typical Dayz stuff. This said, the map is way better than Chernarus, there are so many sights to see and plenty good pvp chances. Would be cool to get you guys involved, join us!
So hear me out. DayZ standalone is delayed indefinitely and has turned it something of a poison chalice. Although including as many features as people could mention gave the game a lot of support and makes it's awesomeness more awesome, it seems to me Rocket over committed a bit in terms of his deadlines given so far. I think it will be another 6 months before we see a functioning DayZ AT BEST! I know they will try release a stable platform then incrementally update, but that's not going to be any time soon. That being the case, I seriously recommend everyone play some DayZ before it does!
My basic assessment of the game is that it's tons of fun and ridiculously good, albeit very buggy. With some experience and basic knowledge, you can do or overcome pretty much anything in the game. However, it does get stale if you have no real mission apart from killing other people trying to do the same - it also peters out a bit when you hit ideal gear and finally have no reason to do anything except shoot others for luls. I may have something for you that solves those problems! Ok maybe not the glitches but I believe you will really enjoy the gameplay dynamics and ultimate theme of my idea.
There is a mod of DayZ called DayZ Origins. It's on Taviana, in my opinion the best map of them all. However, it's not the standard Taviana as it includes an area called "Sector B" (inhabited by rich people paying to escape the infection) and also includes some cool design tweaks. Sector B is a veritable security island with NPC guards and NPC civilians. It features the rarest and best guns in the game (via killing guards) and they are not easy to get since the NPC's effectively have an aimbot. They might not be as intelligent as players but there are a lot of them and they sure can kill you.
Origins also features super zombies which obviously and stronger and tougher than the regular and are quite viscous indeed. So gearing up to get to the island is a real challenge too. You need to travel by boat, heli or plane to the island and once there vehicles are spawned but you will need to find fuel etc. to get them going. From the videos I have seen loot like food and drink does not spawn in the buildings on Sector B and there is no point looting them. This means we have to take a good amount of food and ammo with us to make sure we survive.
My suggestion is that we establish a team to go in and find Patient Zero - the source of the infection and solve the DayZ story. We all get assigned a role and loot up in our own time to get as much of the best gear we can for our role and meet up to go to the island and fight it out. While gearing up we can all play asyncronously in our own time before a given cut-off date then all spawn in on an agreed day for an epic session of Sector B as a squad! Players are a threat while gearing up and while on the island, so don't think the PvP aspect is gone!
The plan is to secure a helicopter for the trip and land on the roof of the hotel in the centre of the island, air insertion and extraction for the win! I will do my best to help people with their checklists, but I can't get all the gear alone. My idea is to have two teams of 3, but hey we will take as many guys as we can get and go with that. I think it will give us a great casual and social game to play in the interim while we work towards the goal event. You could gear up with mates once a week or something or just loot up alone when you have a few spare minutes. The below is basically the outline of what we need:
x2 Support: Mk 48 LMG or similar, ammunition.
x2 Medic =: M16A3 or similar, medical supplies.
x2 Sniper: DMR or similar, food & water.
1 x Huey with fuel to transport us to and from the island.
1x Emergency boat to transport re-spawners back to the island.
All basic inventory items, personal first aid and camo clothing / ghillies.
All Alice or Cayote backpacks stacked full of assigned supplies - one main gun each.
Although a temporary tent/car base will exist for logistical purposes, players must focus on building their characters.
Be aware! Death while looting up your character or while on Sector B is final! Unless you can re-gear and get to the island again via boat.
Going to sector B has to be an event and we have to commit to play 4 or more hours in one sitting. This is simply because once on the island, you have around 6 hours before the server restart (if you timed it perfectly) which will respawn all the NPCs who will no doubt kill you. You can log in and out on the island but all your progress in terms of clearing the island is lost after that time period. I think it's really cool and gives us something amazeballs fun to try and overcome! Questing in a PvP MMO ARMA ZOMBIES RAAAAAWWR! DO YOU EVEN LIFT BRO?????////??
If anyone is really biting to get DayZ but doesn't want to or can't buy Arma Operation Arrowhead, I am thinking about giving out two or three games (R~500) via Steam. To get a game you will obviously have to commit to taking part in the event. For now I'm going to say the loot phase will start from mid-March to 1 May or so and then we go for the event sometime in June or July on a Saturday or Sunday during the day. Whatever, I'm not sticky on the timeframe, lets just make it happen!
It's a long term time investment, but its on your terms and will be so worth it.
I would really like to hear your thoughts on the idea and in terms of how to make it work. I have found what I think is a suitable server and will help people with downloading and connecting to it if they need it. For now all you need to do is commit, download DayZ commander, download your ARMA files from Steam, download the mod files and get some experience in the field soldier! It is a lot to download and you need to be prepared for that, but I suppose we could find ways and means to get files to people if it's impossible to download. So who's with me?? Caman!
- Hubris (Medic)
- (Sniper) - Phats maybe?
- (Support)
- (Medic)
- (Sniper) - Dry maybe?
- (Support) - Nom maybe?
If anyone is planning on playing DayZ ever, I suggest you start before standalone.
Some people thought there's no point playing DayZ since ARMA 3 is out and they're wrong - the standalone is not based on ARMA 3. It's based on Take on Helicopters which is an ARMA 2 based game - with some revisions. Confirmed by Rocket himself and DayZ is officially a product so I'm sure some IP restriction does apply.
Since NOONE RESPONDED - fuck you guys - I went along and started. I found an SUV, a Heli and a great spot to loot farm. So basically I have top gear and vehicles to hit the island and some to spare for Dry. I seriously can't recommend this more, all you have to do is download the mod (1GB), choose your spawn point, get into the loot farm position and farm that place literally 5 times (2 hours max) and you are good to go.
Obviously if people were interested I would loot for them to help but since no one is I havn't. I could give up to 6 guys a lift to the island as planned, but I won't. I'll send you guys a postcard from Salvation with a drawing of a dick on it. Because you like it like that. FUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!11
It's fine, seriously, it's just fine. People miss out on epic quests all the time and I save a lot of dollar.
I just trashed my budget on Arma III :( not to fear only 18 days till I can get Arma II bought. I like the Arma series from OFP so willing to splash out if you see any specials let me know and I'll jump on the bad wagon.
Stef, you are correct that ArmAIII is not DayZ and that playing DayZ now, will give you good practice for SA (StandAlone).
Sorry I haven't had time to get Origins installed and to get jamming. Its just the A3 bug at the moment and there is only so much to do until they fix the niggly issues that an Alpha always has. The game needs optimization.
I will get the mod installed this evening and get cracking ASAP. I know the excitement of DayZ and it is well epic and still has its merit.
I just got a bit sick of the mod because before you even started playing, I was in the exact same position. Playing solo is not fun and you need a group. Will make it happen.
Cool we have a party of 4 which is plenty. We're planning to get going around 10 or 11 AM tomorrow (Saturday) on the UK003 server: 88.208.219.169:2402. You will be able to choose where to spawn and both of you should choose Metrovice. 038/072.
It's on the small island and I'm not far away with the SUV to pick you up. I have three tents to run you past so you can gear up a bit and then we start looting for the remaining windscreen glass for the chopper and basic supplies for our trip.
We may even get the chopper repped up and moved to a safer location lets see how our day goes! We can't go to Salvation just yet cos Dry is at Ramfest but we can still have some fun. I am keeping a Cayote, a M4A3 ACOG GL, a VSS and some equipments for Dry so don't steal those ;)
Stubags I'm thinking of giving away copies of ARMA2 CombinedOps if you can't get one, but I think they're around $13 or ~R100. Half price now, so really cheap actually it's no big deal. Origins is also coming out with another update soon with extended end game so gonna be interesting.