Arma 2 Mod DayZ

[Liam Porter]

Now got some pretty good gear; L85 AWS, M107 and M9 SD.

Obtained these legitimately, L85 was from crashed chopper and M107 from the barracks.

Found a few hacker camp sites, with a lot of rare weapons etc. and a lot of weapons that aren't even in DayZ. I know they'll just get hacked back in, but as an inconvenience, I destroyed everything .

Went on a populated (35/40 players) server and thought I'd protect a few new players in Elektro.

Went to the hills to the NW of Elektro, where the power lines run, and spotted a squad of 5 shooting into Elektro.

Took out two of them with AS50s with the M107, the other 3 then moved out of my sight.

I ran around, up the hill and came down behind them. By the time I got there, they had looted their friends' bodies and continued shooting into Elektro, must have forgotten about me..

Took out two of them with the L85, but the 3rd started shooting me. Ran back up the hill, around the base and came up behind him (from the direction of Elektro).

Then headed west (on my way up north to the airfields), heard some AS50 shots from the small island near Elektro (Drakon or something).

Scout it with the L85 thermal, two snipers. Hit one with the M107. Then took shot at the second one as he turned to look at me, hit him straight in the face :L.

Further west, started getting shot by an M4 of some sorts. Run around a few buildings and into the woods.

Double back on myself and come up behind the guy, as I was feeling nice, shot him point blank with the M107 in the back of the head.

Ended up with 5 bandit kills and 4 murders, -8990 humanity though.

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

as I was feeling nice, shot him point blank with the M107 in the back of the head.

Rofl.

Still not played this game myself, but I've been watching a couple of game series' on YouTube and it's starting to feel more like a war involving nothing but stealthy snipers. The zombies are more of an inconvenience now, as opposed to being the core element of the game, as was initially intended.

I think I preferred the idea of it all back when it was new and people who encountered one another generally helped each other out, instead of just blowing each other's heads off for the sake of better guns. Most of the people I see play it are out specifically to kill other players, to the point where they don't even realise their character is on the brink of death because they haven't collected any food or drink.

As social experiments go, it's pretty interesting though, how it's just become a hunting game where people are the game. I wonder if that's what would happen if there was a zombie apocalypse in real life and there were people living in a similar environment... I'd like to think that in real life most people wouldn't be capable of, or have the capacity to, pull the trigger on someone that was going through the same things as them, both fighting for survival, both scavenging for food and drink, as well as guns and ammo to fight off the undead.

Watching well executed sniper ambushes is a particularly awesome spectacle though.

 

[Liam Porter]

I never play to specifically kill other players, I actually prefer to just watch other players going about their business, while sitting there thinking "I could so easily blow your brains out now".

Only killed these guys today because they were shooting into Elektro (a large town on the coast, where new players tend to head for basic supplies and gear) and were well geared.

If they were in Elektro with basic supplies, or if they were running through open fields and I was in cover, I wouldn't shoot.

If I come across another player, the first thing I do is ask if they're friendly (unless they're shooting). If I don't get a response, or get a negative response, then I don't have much choice but to kill them.

Also fed up with hackers, spawning in over-powered weapons etc.

Found a camp earlier that had G36C SDs, SVD with night vision scope, AS50 with thermal scope, a lot of AK variants that aren't in DayZ, but are in ArmA II.

There were a few satchel charges, so I took them and blew the entire area up, destroying the hacked in weapons .

On a side note, I should start recording my gameplay..

 

[SooGoo]

Yo iAcorn i was just watching a vid on youtube i think this is you who gets slotted from 700+ mtrs

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

Yo iAcorn i was just watching a vid on youtube i think this is you who gets slotted from 700+ mtrs

It is lol, I PM'd him about the same thing about a month ago.

He was filming at the time as well, Frankie actually combat logged, logged back in further up the hill and counter sniped him. So in short, Frankie cheats like a bitch. Or at least he did in this instance.

 

[iAcorn]

Yo iAcorn i was just watching a vid on youtube i think this is you who gets slotted from 700+ mtrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2KzsANsbQ

Short story is I had a bad day. I don't play this game anymore. Partly because he's a giant moron (even stopped talking to my friend because I got pissed and uploaded this video). And partly because the game was beyond broken. It takes up way too much of my time too.

EDIT: Oh also, for the brief time we talked in my Teamspeak he told us that he has two characters. One main, and one that constantly ghosts wherever he goes. He also cuts out a few deaths if he can save it with his second character (who has the same name)... Overall he's a pretty low player in terms of gaming ethics. But as an entertainer I guess he's okay... Still pisses me off though ahah! I like playing by the rules.

 

[SooGoo]

I used to play ARMA 2 with a few american MILSIM units/clans and had great fun on the game but had to sell my gaming rig but i was hearing

alot about this mod and took a look at it and was trawling thru vids on yt when i came across his little series of vids and it amazed me sometimes

when he would randomly go "oh my dxtory wasnt recording etc etc" and to me something seemed a little suss about him.

IM looking into a new rig hopefully powerful enough to get into ARMA as i loved the game especially just the general pub games flying the peeps

round in helos all day long i loved it

 

[iAcorn]

You know I've never played just ARMA II on its own. Well I have but not a proper operation. I might have a go one day but it saps up a lot of time... I would rather play airsoft all day ARMA III looks pretty good so I'm probably going to wait for that.

 

[SooGoo]

Right so trying to see if my rig will play arma still. So obviously a complete fresh install and also updatin the games i only have ARMA2 n OA can i still update to 1.60 or do i need the Reinforcement pack i wanna play dayz

 

[iAcorn]

Some handy info from the website

Minimum:


OS: Windows XP or Windows Vista

Processor: Intel Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz

Memory: 1GB

Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 8600GT or ATI Radeon 3650 or faster with Shader Model 3 and 512 MB VRAM

DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c

Hard Drive: 10 GB free space


Recommended:


OS: Windows 7

Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon Phenom X4 or faster

Memory: 2GB

Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 5770 or faster with Shader Model 3 and 896 MB VRAM

DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c

Hard Drive: 20 GB free space

As DayZ is a modification for an existing game it is a requirement that both ArmA 2 (A2) and ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead (OA) are installed on your system prior to installing or running DayZ.

When installed and launched together A2 and OA are known as Combined Operations (CO). A2 and OA can either be purchased separately and launched together or purchased as the CO pack. DayZ is compatible with all legitimate known retail and digital distribution methods (including Steam).