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Karot!
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PostPosted: 05-14-2012 09:02 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Any of you lot heard of this? It's a zombie mod for Arma 2 and it sounds stunningly awesome from all the stories people post about it. This mod has singlehandedly pushed Arma 2 in the topsellers list on steam for the past two weeks now, and it just keeps rising on that list. It must be really good.

I will buy Arma 2 and the Arrowhead expansion and proceed to play the fuck out of this game - but only if i find someone here to play with me. Because frankly it sounds too brutal to go at it alone :)

More here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05 ... part-zero/



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PostPosted: 05-14-2012 09:37 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yep, I've been playing, and it's fucking ace. It gets a little wearing because there's no vicinity based chat and it's incredibly hard to tell who's bad and who's good, but it's otherwise spectacular.
Just don't log in at night.
My first game has also been my longest. I eventually died of dehydration on an airstrip somewhere in the north.
My other two games, I've been killed unceremoniously and without warning by other players.
I think the best tactic may be just to high-tail it into the wilderness as soon as possible and learn how to live off the land.
Once they get vicinity based voice chat worked out, and zombies that aren't quite as buggy or badly animated, this will be epic. Hell, it already is really.

And Memph, this mod really is worth the price of entry. I never intend to seriously play vanilla ARMA 2, but Day Z? Fuck yeah.
It helps that the mod is made by one of the Bohemia Interactive guys, the devs who made ARMA in the first place.




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PostPosted: 05-14-2012 09:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


But Diablo 3 comes out tonight :(.



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PostPosted: 05-14-2012 10:48 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm disappointed. I thought this was a rap mod featuring Jay-Z :(




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PostPosted: 05-14-2012 11:25 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yay Matt!
I'll be getting this soon then :D

phantasmagoria wrote:
But Diablo 3 comes out tonight :(.


Homosexual :mad:



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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 04:20 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Says the guy with the bloody girlfriend



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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 04:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


You know i still love you <3



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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 06:26 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Oh, by the way, the biggest problem with Day Z is that thanks to Reddit / RPS / Goons, it's impossible to find a slot on a server with a reasonable ping now >:E




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 06:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I read about that... also, i was trying to fetch the files from the DayZ server and it refused to load entirely for me last night, which i took as a bad sign. So i might wait a bit until they managed to deal with the influx of new players, put up some new servers and such. Sounds like they have their hands full atm.



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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 06:51 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If you need the files Ryoki, just buzz me on Steam. They're not huge at 101MB on disk so I can probably get them to you.




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 06:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ah aces, we'll figure something out with dropbox or what have you. :up:



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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 07:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Oh yeah, and cop a load of this. Everything seems normal until Dr. Kimble starts talking. From then on, you treasure every word he says :D




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 07:35 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Turns out it DOES have vicinity voice chat; it's under "Direct Comms" in options apparently. Range is 50m.




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 10:06 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So my latest sojourn into zombie land I joined the first server I could. Unfortunately it was Stateside, meaning lag made it impossible to kill zombies by any other method than emptying a clip into them. I got trapped in a shed, with my view being shaken by pain. Fortunately a couple of friendly guys found me, and once they'd established I wasn't a bandit, they escorted me away from that town, notifying me that bandits were probably on the way.
Having only just spawned, I only had a tin of beans, some flares, a water bottle and my Makarov, so I followed them in the hopes of picking up some better kit; after all, one of them had an AK.
Unfortunately, one of them drew the attention of some zombies which killed them both, and when I went to loot them, their weapons had gone.
So I high-tailed it to a near-by barn, inside which I found a crossbow, so I promptly logged off.
Everyone swears that the crossbow is a really bad weapon, but it's silent and the ammo's recoverable. I'm thinking I can find a hunting knife and some matches, wander off in to the wilderness and live off of game.
If I can find another server to log on to.




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 10:24 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Looks.....not my cup of tea

Dr Kimble rocks though




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 10:35 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm not touching that until they fix the shitty zombie animations.




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 10:47 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Don Carlos wrote:
Dr Kimble rocks though


He really does, doesn't he?
I mean, at first I thought "That has to be a soundboard", but nope, the guy really does sound like Arnie, and he's definitely not putting the accent on :D




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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 11:27 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's brilliant mate - some of the shit he says you can imagine being said in an Arnie movie!

"Quit your whining or I will leave you. Which do you choose?"

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PostPosted: 05-15-2012 11:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


lol that's hilarious.




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Don Carlos wrote:
It's brilliant mate - some of the shit he says you can imagine being said in an Arnie movie!

"Quit your whining or I will leave you. Which do you choose?"

:D


"if you shoot me, i will crush you.
you think i am joking that i will crush you.
you and i get along - if you kill me, we will not get along." :olo:

mod looks excellent, wish i had time for it.




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PostPosted: 05-16-2012 12:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr. Kimble is a legend :olo:

Memphis wrote:
edit: if the servers settle down and we could get a full on Q3W band of survivors going it could be fucking amazing.


This.
I'll probably have time to waste on this tomorrow :ninja:



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PostPosted: 05-16-2012 06:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'll think about getting this. Looks brutal.



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PostPosted: 05-16-2012 08:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Arma 3 :up:




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PostPosted: 05-16-2012 10:30 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


looks awesome




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Ok it took some doing but i got it working - too bad i don't have time to play it right now. Logged into a server at nightime for like 5 minutes and walked around for a bit and ye gods it's fucking terrifying. Also because the controls are still a mystery to me.

Anyway, i'll be spending a lot of time in zombieland tomorrow i think :D



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PostPosted: 05-16-2012 04:40 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


downloading




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Puff will play it for about 3 hours, that's the longest time he can commit to a single game before moving on like a spastic chicken with speed up its ass.




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PostPosted: 05-16-2012 07:37 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


yeah?




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PostPosted: 05-17-2012 03:41 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So um, this is a mod for the game Arma 2? What does that cost on steam now? And is the mod free?




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I may get this, but will need enough North American Q3W buddies to accompany me around in this scary game. You shall be known as my posse.

Shouldn't this game have some kind of melee weapon system? Seems typical that you would start off killing zombies with baseball bats, metal pipes, etc. before finding guns. Would also be useful if you want to sneak up and silently kill a single zombie.



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PostPosted: 05-17-2012 07:24 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yes a knife or bat would be very handy. I'm eager to try this game with a friend although you still need to meet up once you join a server...




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You get a hunting knife from scavenging, but it's not a weapon; it's used to butcher meat from dead animals. I was a bit annoyed at the lack of melee weapons to start with too; after all, any good zombie killer knows that in the long run, a good melee weapon is more valuable than a firearm: no ammo and no noise.
But that's part of the tension in Day Z; chancing that shot and potentially announcing yourself to everything dead or alive in the vicinity. Having to raid zombie-infested towns in search of precious ammo. It all adds to the emergent gameplay.
In my current life, I'm now up to 107 dead zeds, and I've finally found somewhere familiar. Unfortunately, the server disconnected me smack in the middle of Zedsville. I suspect I'll be doing some running when I next connect.




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PostPosted: 05-17-2012 10:42 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This game is rad. Who wants to hit up a server as a team?




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no me




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