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Wasteland (Arma 2 mod)... DayZ minus zombies....

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Anyone playing this sandbox mod?

More info:
Details...

What is required:
  • Arma 2
  • Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead (lite aka free works also)
  • Latest Arma 2 Beta Patch found HERE

How to play:
Update game completely with the newest beta patch, launch ARMA 2 OA and click expansions. Make sure all expansions besides the basic ARMA 2 are de selected.

Launch the multiplayer, and filter server for "wasteland", join!

Personally I found the "Battleground" servers to be the most populated with full status or near (75 players). They have 2 servers that stay populated.


If you are currently playing, let us know on what server!
 
It seems there are some AI NPCs as well, though. Sounds interesting, I'd like to see some gameplay videos first.

TBH, zombies in DayZ are more obnoxious than anything, so this is kind of cool.
 
MavericK96 said:
It seems there are some AI NPCs as well, though. Sounds interesting, I'd like to see some gameplay videos first.

TBH, zombies in DayZ are more obnoxious than anything, so this is kind of cool.
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Which is exactly why I tried it out. And it was much easier to install... well there is no installation besides the beta patch. Everything is run server side.

I am looking for a few people to play with. The servers I listed above have a free TS3 server...
 
I have been pushing this mod since Tonic released it.

Thing about DayZ is it turns into PvP once your armed. The zombies in DayZ suck....they run like Kenyans, climb ladders, open doors and clip through objects.
I like zombies as much as the next guy, but after a point you realize DayZ is better without them.

Wasteland excels at PvP and kicks ass with its awesome base building.

Tonic, the guy who made wasteland is a dick and his original servers suck. My guys play on the Smatra russian servers...They ping worse for NA players, but his servers at top notch and very smooth...Smatra modified the wasteland mod so its much better.

Whats great is you dont need anything but ARMA2 AO. no mods to download...if you have ARMA2 on steam, just join the server and it downloads the mission file and your in and rockin!

My buddy did a write up on it back when it first came out, including pics.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/444556.page

My friends and I play every single night. Its fun because you can join up and just fight from a small camp in the woods, or you and your team gather base building supplies and can make huge bases. You can just ambush at a road, or you can go for missions(the game spawns missions ranging from a disabled helicopter that is guarded by AI and needs fuel to a small AI base with supplies).

Personally I find wasteland is the best gaming experience in years.

My steam name is Droc. We play every evening. We use Skype for coms.
 
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Just started playing thanks to you guys. Great fun. Got into an insane firefight while playing as an independent, killed 8 BLUFOR in Elecktro before they got me, found some sort of MK17 and ran through the buildings in that city like a runaway convict trying to escape the law. :)
 
I just spent 5 epic hours flying in copters and coordinating attacks against a moving enemy force.

I play on the wasteland 2 server (UBG filter). They also have ts3, it was loads of fun.

Think pvp team based, open world.
 
Droc said:
Thing about DayZ is it turns into PvP once your armed. The zombies in DayZ suck....they run like Kenyans, climb ladders, open doors and clip through objects.
I like zombies as much as the next guy, but after a point you realize DayZ is better without them.
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This is a big problem with DayZ and WarZ. The zombies.. They are more annoying then a threat.. They seriously need l4d zombies imo.. And lots of them.
 
I went on the UBG server for a bit last night, we were on 15min before a hacker took everyone down.

I like the Smatra mission file better, its vehicle spawn system is great.

I think they call the Smatra servers the ARMU or something, we played for hours last night running missions and kicking ass before we ran into reds base defended in the forest by Myshinko with TWS saws...

AT one point we were regrouping near Cherono as our northern base was wiped out when we got notified from one of our forward spotters that a supply train was moving towards the town from the east gunstore. I think we had 7 of us in town and we cut the down with snipers and I went in close with the PKP and tore them apart....The supply train had 2 caches, 2 of the giant depot buildings, piles of base building supplies....and the proxy radar(basically when deployed gives you 200m where it notifies you if an enemy player enters the area...costs huge dollars)....They must have been so mad.
 
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Dion said:
This is a big problem with DayZ and WarZ. The zombies.. They are more annoying then a threat.. They seriously need l4d zombies imo.. And lots of them.
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I would say they are already like L4D zombies, and given the mechanics of ArmA 2 (can't speak for WarZ though) it would be even worse to add more "fast" zombies.

IMO they should have rare "fast" zombies with the majority being the slower shambling ones. But have a LOT more of them, to the point where you can run away if you're on your own but also get overrun at a base or in a group.
 
MavericK96 said:
I would say they are already like L4D zombies, and given the mechanics of ArmA 2 (can't speak for WarZ though) it would be even worse to add more "fast" zombies.

IMO they should have rare "fast" zombies with the majority being the slower shambling ones. But have a LOT more of them, to the point where you can run away if you're on your own but also get overrun at a base or in a group.
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Slow zombies with massive numbers would be great, but the DayZ zombies clip through user defences and such...climbing ladders and opening doors kills it. One of the best things about wasteland is the base building, its fucking awesome.
Objects spawn in towns around the map, like vehicles/weapons. You can pickup, rotate, carry, and place these objects aswell as load into vehicles for transport.

There was a mod called Dynamic Zombie Mod, that had the base building of wasteland, but the zombies from dayZ. the problem was zombies spawned, and would continue to spawn...You would join the game and have to move as fast as you could to a vehicle and you literally couldnt stop. Was mad fun...great mod, but I dont think it progressed any further.

Winwolf said:
so this is basically like the warfare game type?
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I dont know what type warfare you mean, but its similar to DayZ, but without the zombies and a bigger emphasis on bases and teamwork. The link I posted earlier has a decent description.


I dont take many screenshots but Ill toss up a few
A base we built that used a bus for the gate like in the roadwarrior movie.


Same base, multi-level towers and shielded sniper perch.



We built a base at the Zeleno farm complex so we decided to blow it before we logged off for the night


I take base building seriously, this is a single supply train







I found some screens from that old dynamic zombie mod



 
Droc said:
I have been pushing this mod since Tonic released it.

Thing about DayZ is it turns into PvP once your armed. The zombies in DayZ suck....they run like Kenyans, climb ladders, open doors and clip through objects.
I like zombies as much as the next guy, but after a point you realize DayZ is better without them.

Wasteland excels at PvP and kicks ass with its awesome base building.

Tonic, the guy who made wasteland is a dick and his original servers suck. My guys play on the Smatra russian servers...They ping worse for NA players, but his servers at top notch and very smooth...Smatra modified the wasteland mod so its much better.

Whats great is you dont need anything but ARMA2 AO. no mods to download...if you have ARMA2 on steam, just join the server and it downloads the mission file and your in and rockin!

My buddy did a write up on it back when it first came out, including pics.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/444556.page

My friends and I play every single night. Its fun because you can join up and just fight from a small camp in the woods, or you and your team gather base building supplies and can make huge bases. You can just ambush at a road, or you can go for missions(the game spawns missions ranging from a disabled helicopter that is guarded by AI and needs fuel to a small AI base with supplies).

Personally I find wasteland is the best gaming experience in years.

My steam name is Droc. We play every evening. We use Skype for coms.
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I'm going to add you to steam and check it out!
 
Droc said:
I went on the UBG server for a bit last night, we were on 15min before a hacker took everyone down.

I like the Smatra mission file better, its vehicle spawn system is great.

I think they call the Smatra servers the ARMU or something, we played for hours last night running missions and kicking ass before we ran into reds base defended in the forest by Myshinko with TWS saws...

AT one point we were regrouping near Cherono as our northern base was wiped out when we got notified from one of our forward spotters that a supply train was moving towards the town from the east gunstore. I think we had 7 of us in town and we cut the down with snipers and I went in close with the PKP and tore them apart....The supply train had 2 caches, 2 of the giant depot buildings, piles of base building supplies....and the proxy radar(basically when deployed gives you 200m where it notifies you if an enemy player enters the area...costs huge dollars)....They must have been so mad.
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Thats odd I was on the #2 UBG server for 6+ hours last night with no issues. I also play tons of the #1 UBG server also without having hacking issues. Maybe it was a fluke. If anything I see people complaining of being kicked for random reasons that were not warranted.
 
jmilcher said:
Thats odd I was on the #2 UBG server for 6+ hours last night with no issues. I also play tons of the #1 UBG server also without having hacking issues. Maybe it was a fluke. If anything I see people complaining of being kicked for random reasons that were not warranted.
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My guys and I joined, and shortly after everyone on the server was killed at the same time, and then people started spawning in the sky and falling to their death. We all left right away for the ARMAU server.
I like the UBG 75 player cap, but Smatra's mission code for the ARMAU is better(pretty sure UBG uses an older, modified version of Smatra's code). An example is everytime a player spawns in a town, a vehicle and an item spawn so no matter what, a town is never fully empty and your never stranded up in fucking Olsha with a 2h run back to the nearest vehicle. The UBG servers seem to spawn more weapons...I spawned in Staroye and found two mounted M2 guns with 300 rounds each and a fully loaded mounted MK19 grenade launcher....thats a little overkill for my liking. Smatra spawns mostly low end guns and makes missions the only real way to get higher end gear, and even then, not much...I like the struggle. Same time, the UBG can have some intense action with so much more firepower running around.

Tonic hasnt done anything to the original....For a guy who made a cool mod, pays to run a server and yet claims he doesnt care about the game....I spent months playing on his server, and at times it was excellent, but then he would change it to just suck balls. You still need food, but he removed food tables and water barrels...like WTF dude?
I cant count the number of times people would suggest changes and he would just loose his shit on them...guy is a real dick. We spent months on his server as it struggled with a dozen player and then Smatra made a modification of Tonics and BAM! Smatra was running 4 servers with 220 players a night and now we have 6 ARMAU servers and a bunch of UBG servers. Your probably looking at 200 to 600 players down with wasteland now up from a dozen.
 
Blue had this base in a town, they had 2 fuel trucks, ammo trucks, the expensive base radar, 3 helicopters etc. My guys mined the roads out of the base, did ambushes for an hour or so and then we started to snipe attack the base. Eventually they crashed a helicopter in the base during takeoff so we ran in, dropped a bunch, tossed nades everywhere and I set the bomb at their vehicle parking spot. Below is the resulting explosion....should note I was not far enough and got myself blowed dead :)


The night before we were scavanging in cherno after we did a mission and my buddy put the bomb in the hotel for kicks...this is it 1/2 way through falling down....And again, Im not far enough back. The second after this screenshot the tires dissapeared on the supply train(that was loaded with weapons and even another teammate, and then exploded.
Good times
 
since i stopped playing dayz because i got hacked on a server with a fully loaded char , im gonna try this!

any fun in solo?
 
I just started playing and it kicks ass! Kind of like a melding of Grand theft auto and Command and conquer.
 
I tried to load up last night but got 'Connection Failed' on every damn server. I can play DayZ no problem. Any thoughts?
 
Are you running the same patch version as the server you are connecting to?
 
I have never had to download anything....When I connect to a server it downloads the mission file and thats it.
if your a dayz player, you want dayz disabled in the mods options
 
1.62 required and it matches what I have.

Yeah I went into Add Ons and disabled DayZ. Do I need to disable anything else?
 
What kind of fps are you guys getting with this mod? Having issues 20-30fps and occasional hiccup.

Specs in sig

I have tried everything to try to tweak this game to get better fps. I think my system is starting to show it's age. DayZ doesn't run this bad and I am guessing it's the mod.
 
QKSILVR73 said:
What kind of fps are you guys getting with this mod? Having issues 20-30fps and occasional hiccup.

Specs in sig

I have tried everything to try to tweak this game to get better fps. I think my system is starting to show it's age. DayZ doesn't run this bad and I am guessing it's the mod.
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Try different servers. I have this problem on certain servers, in both DayZ (until a patch fixed it), and Wasteland. I think its a mix of inadequate server hardware, and poor optimization.
 
I have some pretty high end hardware and the game can chug for me. On fresh server restarts I get 60+ fps until an area gets clogged with players and then it can get jumpy/laggy. Being in the gunner position if vehicles can get nauseous at times.
 
I don't mind the low fps sometimes it's the times you are tracking someone waiting to shoot and it lags the instant you try to fire and you miss and they get you cause of that split second choppyiness.
 
What servers you guys on? Im on the smatra US 8 and 9 servers. C4G hosted.
 
Steam has been disconnecting on me during game for a few weeks so I havent gotten many screenshots.

I never deal with Cherno, but the other week I was goofin around and built a rooftop base with a skybridge. There was only 4 of us, but we managed to rip apart a pile of people who tried to make it through town.

Was just night so my gamma and brightness are up.


 
RPC66 said:
I'll check those out. Nice that there are now some NA based servers cuz his versions of the mod run better.
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Yah, Smatra has turned wasteland into an amazing mod, one that Tonic, in his arrogance, could never have hoped to achieve. The US c4G servers are the best.
 
I have played WL a few times but the only thing i do is get enough money to buy a vss and hunt people. since no one seems to be playing in groups, and the people that said they were i didn't trust.
 
Droc said:
Yah, Smatra has turned wasteland into an amazing mod, one that Tonic, in his arrogance, could never have hoped to achieve. The US c4G servers are the best.
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The orange filter that (last I checked) the Smatra admins have insisted on keeping, nullifies everything "amazing" about their mod. Other servers have already been removing that idiotic "feature." Have they finally done it yet?
 
HardwareSearcher said:
The orange filter that (last I checked) the Smatra admins have insisted on keeping, nullifies everything "amazing" about their mod. Other servers have already been removing that idiotic "feature." Have they finally done it yet?
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What feature is that? I play and I am guess I am not so well informed..
 
The original version of Wasteland mission included a universal orange filter on the graphics, giving all the graphics in the game an orangish tint and decreasing the diversity of color. I find it really irritating (I do not even like a yellow sky in real life), and apparently a lot of other people dislike it as well. Some Wasteland admins/modifiers have gone in and removed the orange filter from the versions running on their servers, and as a result, their servers have the same diversity of color as regular Arma2. However, other lazy admins have stated "it is too much work" or "it is too hard to do." I understand the ones that legitimately like it and are keeping it for that reason, but the others...

The UBG Battleguns servers are one such example that have removed the orange tint.
 
HardwareSearcher said:
The UBG Battleguns servers are one such example that have removed the orange tint.
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I played on them once and I found there to be waaay to much high end weapons. Thermals everywhere. I spawned in a town, Olsha, and in that town 6h since the restart, I found 2 caches both loaded to the tits with epic guns, two M2 machineguns and a SPG9.
I was on for an hour and saw a Hind fly past and an Abrams rip through Barizeno.

The C4G US servers dont have any thermals except the CROWS hummer. Lots of guns, but the majority are basic guns. More challenging, more incentive for teamwork to get better stuff.

As for the color filter. I dont know. I know most use an unmodified version of Smatra's code for simplicity as he updates it regularly. I know tonics had it on and we would often get Whisky to turn it off.


shifty68 said:
I have played WL a few times but the only thing i do is get enough money to buy a vss and hunt people. since no one seems to be playing in groups, and the people that said they were i didn't trust.
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I have been playing wasteland for 11 months and I can count on both hands the number of times I have gone to the gunstore to buy guns. I seem to do just fine scavenging vehicles for weapons.

Opfor and Bluefor are a pain. If you get on with a good group with a solid bunch of leaders its a blast, but if its just a collection of tards, its worse then Indy because everyone just steals your stuff and runs off.

We usually go indy and Smatra has a subgroup option and do our own thing. IF we do play on opfor or bluefor, its not as bad as before with people stealing our stuff as one of my mates is a server admin. I dont mind if you want to ask if you can take an AK from my vehicle, but if you think your going to come into my base, grab my MK17 and drive off in my armored vehicle, you get 1 warning on comms and then banhammer.

Lots of the servers have their own teamspeak, and its much better to link up with team players that way.

You can hit me up on steam, "Droc" and if we play Ill be happy to let ya join in on skpye.
 
I might have to try this, though ArmA 3 Alpha is so close...TOO MANY GAMES, TOO LITTLE TIME. :D
 
Anyone else on the latest beta patch for arma 2, but unable to use voice direct chat in game? I suspect its because I am on the newer beta patch. If I talk in game, no one can hear me, but if I reinstall without the beta patch, people can.
 
Droc said:
I played on them once and I found there to be waaay to much high end weapons.
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Did you play on the UBG servers a while back or somewhat recently? I am not really sure how the "normal" versions of wasteland servers compare with each other - you may be right about UBG normal server having a lot more high-end weapons than others. But if you played them recently, you may have played on one of their "Warfare" servers that is exactly that, pure warfare with tons of high-end vehicles and weapons and short four-hour rounds (due to rapid increase of lag from all the extra vehicles). As a result, no one pays attention to base-building or missions at all on those servers. I haven't played Wasteland in a little while, but I was playing on UBG's normal server. The warfare servers were fun for a bit, but they quickly lost their appeal for me.

When I play it again, I will check out the C4G server.
 
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