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Can an [H]'er give me a quick summary of what exactly this game is, and what's so amazing about it?
 
officer921 said:
Can an [H]'er give me a quick summary of what exactly this game is, and what's so amazing about it?
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It's a hard core survival game where you spawn with nothing. Zombies spawn near buildings and if they hear or see you, they will fuck you up if you do not have a weapon to defend yourself. You use stealth and tactics to evade them and find gear and supplies.

Then throw in 60 other people in the same server as you, with guns, who might shoot you to steal your stuff, and it gets interesting fast. You can find increasingly powerful weapons and equipment to help you along the way, but remember that one mistake or being caught out of position once can mean instant death.

Firefights are extremely tense, as you can spend a week looking for gear and surviving and then get caught trying to save all of your progress by not dying in a hail of lead.

The game environment is ~25km by ~25km, so it's a huge environment. Your character's location and equipment is saved on a central database server, so no matter what server you join you will spawn in the same place as you last disconnected.

Basically it's a survival sandbox and can be both extremely challenging and extremely rewarding.
 
saedrin said:
It's a hard core survival game where you spawn with nothing. Zombies spawn near buildings and if they hear or see you, they will fuck you up if you do not have a weapon to defend yourself. You use stealth and tactics to evade them and find gear and supplies.

Then throw in 60 other people in the same server as you, with guns, who might shoot you to steal your stuff, and it gets interesting fast. You can find increasingly powerful weapons and equipment to help you along the way, but remember that one mistake or being caught out of position once can mean instant death.

The game environment is ~25km by ~25km, so it's a huge environment. Your character's location and equipment is saved on a central database server, so no matter what server you join you will spawn in the same place as you last disconnected.

Basically it's a survival sandbox and can be both extremely challenging and extremely rewarding.
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Thank you. I'm sold. Wondering if I should wait and see if ARMA II:CO get's any cheaper and if I should just bite now....
 
If you like games that punish incompetence and require you to use tactics and thinking to succeed you'll really like it.
 
saedrin said:
Then throw in 60 other people in the same server as you, with guns, who will shoot you to steal your stuff
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FTFY. :p

officer921 said:
Thank you. I'm sold. Wondering if I should wait and see if ARMA II:CO get's any cheaper and if I should just bite now....
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I would wait. At worst, you can buy it at the current price on the 23rd.

saedrin said:
If you like games that punish incompetence and require you to use tactics and thinking to succeed you'll really like it.
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You also need to be REALLY tolerant of potentially game-breaking bugs that can destroy your progress.
 
Maverick is using math, I don't like it.

Though you can run off the map to narnia...
 
I was thinking of kilometers square instead square kilometers. There's a reason I'm not a cartographer...
 
So is it really better to buy Arma II Co from someplace besides steam? Saw that mentioned a few times.
 
officer921 said:
So is it really better to buy Arma II Co from someplace besides steam? Saw that mentioned a few times.
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Steam version works fine for me with Six Launcher. Don't even need to have Steam running after installing ARMA 2.
 
The nice thing about the Steam version is automatic patching. Other than that, it's not a Steamworks game so you don't really use Steam for anything else.
 
officer921 said:
Nice. So is the game playable right now. I saw some rumbling of bad bugs from last patch...
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Yes, it is definitely playable. At some point in time, you'll likely die due to a bug (most likely, several times) but that doesn't mean you won't have plenty of fun prior and after the death. Plus, the devs are very active with patching the game and do pay attention to their community.

Patch 1.7.2.3 was just released so it is hard to know if it is good or not. Going by the release thread, it seems fine after the PlayerID stuff got updated.
 
dj_2004 said:
Yes, it is definitely playable. At some point in time, you'll likely die due to a bug (most likely, several times) but that doesn't mean you won't have plenty of fun prior and after the death. Plus, the devs are very active with patching the game and do pay attention to their community.

Patch 1.7.2.3 was just released so it is hard to know if it is good or not. Going by the release thread, it seems fine after the PlayerID stuff got updated.
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Are there any [H] groups or anything? Seems like a fun game to play with a group.
 
Thinking about checking this out but not sure if my rig can handle it. Will I have to turn view distances and stuff way down to play? Rig in Signature
 
You'll be pushing it pretty hard with a C2D. I have a friend who plays it alright on a Q6600 at stock on a GTX260 though so who knows..
 
Cousin Patty said:
Thinking about checking this out but not sure if my rig can handle it. Will I have to turn view distances and stuff way down to play? Rig in Signature
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you should be good.. view distance might not be optimal though
 
I think the view distance is locked to something like 1 km max in clear weather. May be possible to lower it for better performance, but then you're at a disadvantage against other players because you can't see as far.
 
Yeah I think they just changed that view distance limit since now I can't see shit past 1km with my AS50. :(
 
Have you guys ran into any hackers or some type of glitch/hack ruin your own exp in this? Only reason I'm asking is because I seen a video of a hack that people use to spawn with gear and weapons. Who knows what other type of hacks there are
 
So I read ARMA 3 is due out by the end of this year?

I'm sure DayZ will be running on that, and be much much more optimized and smooth. Question is what kind of time frame would you guess before DayZ is up and running on ARMA 3 platform?

I have a huge backlog of games and while DayZ looks amazing, I'm not going to spend another 20ish dollars on a game thats buggy and going to be obsolete in just a few months.
 
officer921 said:
Can an [H]'er give me a quick summary of what exactly this game is, and what's so amazing about it?
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rockpapershotgun has a nice 3 part review that's piqued my interest in the game, but I can't afford the timesink right now.
 
What is the difference between an expert server and a veteran server that has crosshair, chat, and 3rd person off?
 
dj_2004 said:
What is the difference between an expert server and a veteran server that has crosshair, chat, and 3rd person off?
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Expert also removes all HUD markers, like for the squad leader and waypoints, and it removes VoN ID and the scoreboard.

For DayZ not much of that is probably important, though.
 
Careful sticking weapons in your backpack. I tried to put my AKM in there so I could have a weapon ready for my buddy, and it vanished.

That left me with a G17 and a crossbow I found in a barn. Not exactly a good trade!

I also picked up the PMC and British DLC so I could have the hi-res player models. Combined with me not being a moron (I finally noticed the advanced tab under graphics), the game is looking a lot better!
 
MavericK96 said:
Expert also removes all HUD markers, like for the squad leader and waypoints, and it removes VoN ID and the scoreboard.

For DayZ not much of that is probably important, though.
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Thanks.

jolli said:
Careful sticking weapons in your backpack. I tried to put my AKM in there so I could have a weapon ready for my buddy, and it vanished.

That left me with a G17 and a crossbow I found in a barn. Not exactly a good trade!

I also picked up the PMC and British DLC so I could have the hi-res player models. Combined with me not being a moron (I finally noticed the advanced tab under graphics), the game is looking a lot better!
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Always make sure you have enough room in your pack (and tent) before sticking an item in it. I think the stuff that doesn't fit is supposed to be plopped onto the ground but instead it just disappears.
 
I honestly think if they allowed private servers and possibly localized persistent databases, it would be a LOT easier to get into this game.
 
So much fun. LOTC servers are pretty ok. Seem stable and mostly retard free.
 
My latest adventure... Elektro is nerve racking when you are not armed

Also, border photoshop fail...

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