DayZ: An open-world, perma-death zombie survival game

[deadly_habit]

heh yea i had some of the lovely game breaking bugs happen being an alpha and all, running nice and smooth now and defragging my steam drive to hopefully squeeze out a few more fps
me and wobbles did some quality exploring though
we just need to get all together again and head north faster

[Trichome]

so when are we next playing?
im still waiting at that castle haha

and deadly did you manage to get your guy out of the loading area?

[deadly_habit]

i just restarted, been pking a lil, no serious runs yet, just played for 15 mins testing my new graphic configs and capturing with bandicam and it worked nicely, took out one guy then got flank while i had my headphones off

[Trichome]

UPDATE : 27 MAY 2012

Affected addons:
* dayz_code 1.6
* dayz_equip 1.2.5
* dayz_weapons 1.1.2
* dayz 1.2.6
* dayz_sfx 1.1.2

Developer's Note:
* To collect firewood, you can either find it in loot piles, or go into a forest and use the hatchet (gear > Right Click). I will expand this mechanic but its enough for now.
* You get a ONE TIME OFFER to change your player gender!
* Only two types of new skins are available in this update, "Camo" and "Ghillie Suit" in addition to normal survivor
* Skins a player is wearing are NOT lootable.
* When you change skin (right click on clothing package in inventory) your old skin will appear in inventory
* If you want a players skin, you will need to make them take it off first

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 15 minutes)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Loosing gear when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Wrong M107 is spawning on occasion (Correct one spawns)
* [FIXED] Crashed heli uber-loot not spawning (does now thanks to GhostBear!)
* [FIXED] Wire Fencing Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Tank Trap Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Invisible character models occuring (No longer invisible models)
* [FIXED] Panic not being activated (Your character will sometimes panic)
* [FIXED] Blood washout sometimes not being displayed (now will always wash out color depending on blood level)
* [NEW] Hatchet for chopping wood in forests
* [NEW] Wire Fencing kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Tank Trap kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Construction options moved to items in gear menu (right click wire fencing kit to use etc...)
* [NEW] Hospital Loot Spawn probabilities changed
* [NEW] Players can choose to be a female survivor (once only per CD-Key)
* [NEW] Heat packs for increasing temperature in an emergency
* [NEW] Bandit Skin transition for low humanity is removed
* [NEW] Players will receive an error message if the server they are on is running an incorrect HIVE version

[deadly_habit]

ghillie suits? oh it's on like donkey kong now!

[district]

My computer isnt good enough to run this. screwing!

[idontreallygiveashit]

overview of what went down last night:

Half an hour finding a server suitable for us all
Half an hour of deadly troubleshooting
An hour for me to actually get to the place where we were meeting only for me to fall about 3 metres and die.
Deadly and Wobbles went exploring while I made it back to the castle (another hour)
By the time I made it back again, we'd been playing for 4 hours and only managed to actually see each other once.
Me and deadly attempted to play for a bit longer but something went wrong when he installed the beta update, so he said screw it and I went to sleep.

Time well spent.

Come on though, before that me and you had a good 35 mins or so doing cool shit. Looks like i didn't miss much when i dipped though.

[Trichome]

yeah everything was good until the server we were in took a dive. was fun though.
you up for playing now?

[idontreallygiveashit]

Yeah, i'm up for it. I'll just load up Skype.

[grillis]

got this downloading will be online tomorrow night. steam won't let me search by user name so if anyone wants to add me try searching grillis

[wobbles]

I got stck in the void yesterday

[Trichome]

I got stck in the void yesterday

get on skype and play with me and idontreallygiveashit

[wobbles]

ok lemme eat breakfast im hungover as shiut

[Trichome]

me and idontreallygiveashit (depricode) just had a really good night session!
deadly you were right - night is really good when you get used to it, we rinsed balota airfield and the military base next to it, then made our way to cherno hospital to get blood bags
we both had transfusions, but afterwards our blood started going down really slowly. is this normal? im guessing once you have 1 transfusion you have to keep taking them.

[Alty]

Alty, google Systems Requirement Lab and see if your machine can handle Arma 2.

Thanks, that's a cool website! In the end someone gave me the idea of downloading the Arma II Free version, and trying that. It ran... tolerably. So I went ahead and downloaded it to see what the fuss was about. As it turned out it looked like there was server problems all day so I kinda gave up after a while.

[handbanana]

got this downloading will be online tomorrow night. steam won't let me search by user name so if anyone wants to add me try searching grillis

I've been keen to play with these guys for a while, but the ping on uk servers for Aussies is always 300 minimum I've found.
Any of the brits frequent the US servers? I'm afraid of the dark, so I usually hit up Dallas or Virginia servers at night over here.

[Trichome]

yeah, we dont actually play on uk servers at all because they're always full.
we pretty much all look for servers that aren't full and decent ping for everyone.

grillis, banana,alty - add us all on skype, (mine is Trainrek.Trichome) and we should all be good for a massive group session, its alot more fun.

[Trichome]

oh and I was thinking, it would probably be handy if we all chipped in to hire a vps if anyone is down, we could run our own server.
im not sure if anyone would do it though, becausing helping to pay for a server that you get 150 ping on is a pretty hard decision.
I guess it depends on the price.

[the wiggle baron]

My computer isnt good enough to run this. screwing!

You sure? Mines a piece of shit and it handles it alright. A 4 year old dell inspiron with a graphics card i bought at the time for 30-40 quid off ebay. 2.7ghz I think dual core processor, and an nvidia geforce 8800gts graphics card. Im pretty sure you could pick up a better graphics card than that for like 20 quid off ebay these days! And any laptop/PC less than a few years old should handle it alright! Download the demo, and have a crack (trust, its so much fun. Ive not played a game in years but this has blown my mind)

[Alty]

My computer isnt good enough to run this. screwing!

You sure? Mines a piece of shit and it handles it alright. A 4 year old dell inspiron with a graphics card i bought at the time for 30-40 quid off ebay. 2.7ghz I think dual core processor, and an nvidia geforce 8800gts graphics card. Im pretty sure you could pick up a better graphics card than that for like 20 quid off ebay these days! And any laptop/PC less than a few years old should handle it alright! Download the demo, and have a crack (trust, its so much fun. Ive not played a game in years but this has blown my mind)

I'm guessing that will run pretty choppy though?

So will people be playing tonight? I think I still need to get to grips with controls and general game mechanics before bothering to group with people.