***Dayz: Stand Alone Thread***

I haven't spent anything in the sale, I'm just waiting for H1Z1...

As far as I'm concerned I'm done with DayZ SA, a complete joke of an early access that keep adding junk and not fixing the essentials
 
MrMarvelous said:
Yep, I figured the same. I honestly hope H1Z1 lives up to the hype. I think we're at the point now where the ArmA 2 engine is so bad and clunky that we'll never see any performance increases, they'll just keep adding more useless stuff in hopes that people will just 'forget' or get over it. Thank God I didn't buy this game.
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In case you missed it, the engine is slowly being replaced.
 
Without me reading all 166 pages, is this game create a long term char? Sort of like an MMO or do you just login and play like a CS:GO game?
 
JBod said:
Without me reading all 166 pages, is this game create a long term char? Sort of like an MMO or do you just login and play like a CS:GO game?
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You create a persistent character, which will repeatedly bug out, desync and lose all your gear.

When you die you reset, and its VERY easy to die.
 
I had a play with this yesterday. I don't like the random spawns as much as always at the coast before, and it told you where you were. I have no idea now. And I know I can run around a bit and check dayzdb SA map if I find a small town, but it's still not the same.

And I'm not whining that it's HARD... just that it seems there's a whole bunch of stuff you need to survive that I just can't find. My first character found only a tin opener before being eaten by a zombie. I kept punching it in the lady bits but she just wouldn't stay down... must have hit her about 100 times.

Next few were pretty crap. One time I dehydrated to death because I just couldn't find a drink.

One time I ended up somewhere and found a gun, then didn't realise you had to unbox the ammo before putting it in the weapon, and some gayer with a crowbar beat me to death. I wasn't even going to shoot him.

Now I think I've just died again, having given myself galloping knob rot from eating rotten food. Or maybe I have some food. And a baseball bat.

I have cans of bacon and spaghetti but not one house/shop out of dozens seems to have a can opener.

How the hell are you meant to play this game nowadays? I kinda miss the old days when you could run around cherno for some basic supplies and then be on your merry way.
 
Jono said:
I had a play with this yesterday. I don't like the random spawns as much as always at the coast before, and it told you where you were. I have no idea now. And I know I can run around a bit and check dayzdb SA map if I find a small town, but it's still not the same.

And I'm not whining that it's HARD... just that it seems there's a whole bunch of stuff you need to survive that I just can't find. My first character found only a tin opener before being eaten by a zombie. I kept punching it in the lady bits but she just wouldn't stay down... must have hit her about 100 times.

Next few were pretty crap. One time I dehydrated to death because I just couldn't find a drink.

One time I ended up somewhere and found a gun, then didn't realise you had to unbox the ammo before putting it in the weapon, and some gayer with a crowbar beat me to death. I wasn't even going to shoot him.

Now I think I've just died again, having given myself galloping knob rot from eating rotten food. Or maybe I have some food. And a baseball bat.

I have cans of bacon and spaghetti but not one house/shop out of dozens seems to have a can opener.

How the hell are you meant to play this game nowadays? I kinda miss the old days when you could run around cherno for some basic supplies and then be on your merry way.
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Wait till they add shoelaces will be a nightmare trying to tie them up.
 
dlknight said:
Really? Open a tin with your bare hands?? How?

Waits for the hilarious and bloody YT link of someone attempting to open a tin with their bare hands.....
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Rub the top of the tin against concrete/tarmac will open a tin easily without wasting any of the contents. It's not strictly bare handed, but there's always some sort of road around.
 
Jono said:
I had a play with this yesterday. I don't like the random spawns as much as always at the coast before, and it told you where you were. I have no idea now. And I know I can run around a bit and check dayzdb SA map if I find a small town, but it's still not the same.

And I'm not whining that it's HARD... just that it seems there's a whole bunch of stuff you need to survive that I just can't find. My first character found only a tin opener before being eaten by a zombie. I kept punching it in the lady bits but she just wouldn't stay down... must have hit her about 100 times.

Next few were pretty crap. One time I dehydrated to death because I just couldn't find a drink.

One time I ended up somewhere and found a gun, then didn't realise you had to unbox the ammo before putting it in the weapon, and some gayer with a crowbar beat me to death. I wasn't even going to shoot him.

Now I think I've just died again, having given myself galloping knob rot from eating rotten food. Or maybe I have some food. And a baseball bat.

I have cans of bacon and spaghetti but not one house/shop out of dozens seems to have a can opener.

How the hell are you meant to play this game nowadays? I kinda miss the old days when you could run around cherno for some basic supplies and then be on your merry way.
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Hit them in the head and they go down quick
 
Jono said:
I had a play with this yesterday. I don't like the random spawns as much as always at the coast before, and it told you where you were. I have no idea now. And I know I can run around a bit and check dayzdb SA map if I find a small town, but it's still not the same.

And I'm not whining that it's HARD... just that it seems there's a whole bunch of stuff you need to survive that I just can't find. My first character found only a tin opener before being eaten by a zombie. I kept punching it in the lady bits but she just wouldn't stay down... must have hit her about 100 times.

Next few were pretty crap. One time I dehydrated to death because I just couldn't find a drink.

One time I ended up somewhere and found a gun, then didn't realise you had to unbox the ammo before putting it in the weapon, and some gayer with a crowbar beat me to death. I wasn't even going to shoot him.

Now I think I've just died again, having given myself galloping knob rot from eating rotten food. Or maybe I have some food. And a baseball bat.

I have cans of bacon and spaghetti but not one house/shop out of dozens seems to have a can opener.

How the hell are you meant to play this game nowadays? I kinda miss the old days when you could run around cherno for some basic supplies and then be on your merry way.
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I've not once died from starvation or thirst - there are always things to drink, whether it be hidden cans, water pumps, ponds etc. Just look and you will find.

Food is a different matter, but it is incredibly unusual for even looted places to be left totally bare. Cans can be opened with tin openers, knives, machetes and axes. You can also hunt animals now and scavenge for apples, thus food is not so much of an issue, but you do need certain kit to skin animals etc.
 
Anyone else unable to play this game lately? i either get a BSOD on the splash screen after starting the game or if i do get into the game(VERY RARELY) it usually crashes within a few minutes.
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
Anyone else unable to play this game lately? i either get a BSOD on the splash screen after starting the game or if i do get into the game(VERY RARELY) it usually crashes within a few minutes.
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A fellow OcUKer has just downloaded DayZ and it repeatedly crashes on start-up. When he gets into a game, it then comes up with an error code, and the connection is lost.

Apparently the error code is new and has only surfaced with the latest update. Perhaps yours is also related?
 
Jono said:
I had a play with this yesterday. I don't like the random spawns as much as always at the coast before, and it told you where you were. I have no idea now. And I know I can run around a bit and check dayzdb SA map if I find a small town, but it's still not the same.

And I'm not whining that it's HARD... just that it seems there's a whole bunch of stuff you need to survive that I just can't find. My first character found only a tin opener before being eaten by a zombie. I kept punching it in the lady bits but she just wouldn't stay down... must have hit her about 100 times.

Next few were pretty crap. One time I dehydrated to death because I just couldn't find a drink.

One time I ended up somewhere and found a gun, then didn't realise you had to unbox the ammo before putting it in the weapon, and some gayer with a crowbar beat me to death. I wasn't even going to shoot him.

Now I think I've just died again, having given myself galloping knob rot from eating rotten food. Or maybe I have some food. And a baseball bat.

I have cans of bacon and spaghetti but not one house/shop out of dozens seems to have a can opener.

How the hell are you meant to play this game nowadays? I kinda miss the old days when you could run around cherno for some basic supplies and then be on your merry way.
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Yeah you are just bad at the game for now but after few more days you will get the hang of it.You got to hit zombies in the head to kill them/knock them out as for the canned food you can use a number of items to open them like the screwdriver,axe ect.

Game is easy too easy really.
 
Even if you are a fresh spawn with nothing in your inventory... dying of thirst or starvation is just lack of common sense ;)

Thirst -

Either drink from a fresh lake, or find one of the water pumps... you dont need loot for either of those.

Hunger -

Scavenge for Apples and even Berries. Again easy enough to find in the land.

As for tins, many things open them from knifes to axes to screw drivers... so dont get caught up chasing a tin opener, granted you lose some to spillage, but 70-80% of beans will do you a world of good.
 
I hadn't played in months but installed it a couple of nights ago in the hope that some decent fixes had been released but its basically as it always been except now I can stack some sticks. Thanks!

It's amazing how patches keep being released for this utter dross and amazingly nothing actually useful actually gets released. With everything that is wrong with this game what halfwit decided that a fireplace sound effect should be a priority?
 
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