DayZ standalone

[FullMetal]

That night time bullsh*t needs to be fixed. I refuse to believe the game is meant to be effected by daylight savings times, it would be f*cking moronic that the only time you could ever play this game in the daytime on a UK server is while I would be at work. Night time is fine, but for like 4 hours real time, it should brighten up after that as there is no need for it any longer. There is a reason why people are awake in the daytime.

 

Anyway if anyone finds a 74 mag, keep it for me.

Found one yesterday . But if I find myself and AKSu before that I'll keep it for sure.

[SausageInACan]

Could I roll with anyone here who still plays DayZ SA? I bought it a while ago and never got to it. I need someone to show me the ropes.

[Kirsty]

Remind me never to play this without you guys again, lol.

 

Thought I'd pop on, spawned in the base shed with two zombies, one inside one outside. Frantically found some rags in one of the bags and was about to stitch myself up and then I died lol. At least if anything is still there, it's in the base. Good job getting the second truck also.

 

No idea where I am now, but I've spawned by some houses and there's a factory opposite with a railway in the middle, and tons of loot.

[FullMetal]

Ah sh*t forgot, said character with AK74 mag and ammo is 1ST person/hardcore.

 

On regular I'm in Elektro. Totally beaten up by zeds on my last legs hoping to find enough food/weaponry to effectively defend myself.

 

edit:

So Oyster, your server has its own proper character? Started out as a Bambi. Now at NW tho with some decent gear.

Edited February 13, 2015 by FullMetal

[Daz]

Btw, I found 3 military tents, put one up and placed the other two inside the warehouse on the NW airbase.

 

Don't nick anything.

 

Desperately searching for either an AK-47 rifle or an AK-74 magazine.

[OysterBarron]

@Fullmetal yeah it's a private hive so you will start a new character for it

 

@Daz we have moved into the hanger next to you as our last place didn't have enough room for 3 trucks a tent and our other gear so next door seemed perfect. we also left a truck in yours aswell feel free to move it back into ours if it's in the way!

 

After I died today by jumping out of a moving truck i re spawned and found this gem it didn't take long to kit up again

 

[Daz]

Do you happen to have a good map or a list of all the military loot spawn locations? All the maps I find suck worse than the in-game map.

 

All I know of these days is the NW airfield, military base just south of that, and a building around some giant f*ck off tower. The other airstrips are civvy now and dont seem to hold loot.

 

Where else can I go? I need to find rifles and magazines, bad.

[OysterBarron]

Me and Andrew have been using Dayzdb.com on our tablets it has a nifty search feature and you can also filter for rare or high grade loot. I beleive also that military helicopter crash sites can also offer decent loot but finding one is the hard part.

Not all the airports are now civvy ones the one oposite balota I think down south is still a military one. There's also a couple of military bases not listed as them now but they are there. I also came across a military building tucked away in housing complexs just west of Cherno in chapavesk. Seems like an odd place for one surrounded by multi Story apartments but nevermind.

Edited February 15, 2015 by OysterBarron

[Kirsty]

Using that site, I think I'm near Solnichniy on the east coast, where it says factory. I was exploring a bit last night and recognise a little bridge over some water which is there on the map. Could be completely wrong though. I really need to find you lot as in desperate need of a bigger bag.

[OysterBarron]

We had to reset persistence yesterday evening so we're all scraping along trying to get back to the top. lost pretty much everything but our pants and the shirt on our back.

[Kirsty]

What's that.. does it mean the items disappear?

 

What town is best to head for too? Going to try and get on with Matty later (or maybe in a bit if I can, if you are still on).

[OysterBarron]

Well yeah basically anything we had placed on the ground was classed as persistent with a persistence wipe that all gets removed and returned to orginal spawns apart from what your character had on him/her.

 

Good game last night shame matty didn't join us getting a nice lttle Base built up now

[jelly]

http://dayz.com/blog/status-report-17-feb-15

 

New status report. New variants of the V3S with room for more players and possibly storage will be nice.

[OysterBarron]

Anything getting pushed to stable today?

[FullMetal]

So me and a buddy were at NW checkin' things out when we found the 'hangar of sh*ttin' bricks awesome'. We were so f*cking amazed... don't vehicles reset???

 

Anyways we put some extra ammo and weaponry in there. Still at NW and will help put some more gear there... always a good spot to have. But it's impossible to drive the V3S' out of the hangar, so I don't get the point of that.

[OysterBarron]

Yeah that's our Base of operations. The trucks are persistent and you should be able to get them out. Just don't lose them took quite a while to find and don't run out of fuel. There's a backpack with a fuel can in somewhere and we normally fill them up at vybor witch is just off the end of the runway in a town.

 

We are currently after tents of any sort. If you do take a truck stick to the roads off road is to hazerdous

 

Just a heads up make sure the truck is completely stopped before you get out. It can end in install death and your body dissappear.

Edited February 18, 2015 by OysterBarron

[FullMetal]

Yeah I know that. Died on a hardcore server earlier this week. My friend was starving in heading for Novy when he heard a truck roll past when he entered said town. I was heading to Kabanino Military base.

 

He was sure the dude was 'truckin' for NW/Kabanino Mil base. So I headed there. Just as I reach it I hear the zooming of the truck. I am carefully scanning the buildings while keeping my eye/ears out for the truck.

 

I loot for a while and see suddenly, when approaching the two parallel barracks, I see the truck at the broken down wall. Run for it, check the surroundings and get it (only to notice this idiot got it stuck in the wall).

 

Got back out, check the area when I suddenly get surprised by the dude. Didn't have a superior gun (this guy was rocking an AKM, me a recently found Mosin). Dead

 

 

 

Sidenote: how the f*ck do you get the truck out? It just stops when you try to pass the gate. Like there is an invisible wall.

[OysterBarron]

Well all I know is if you are looking at the hangar from outside the righthand doors shutters should both open and you can drive in and out with ease.

[Matty256]

So it was my first time playing Dayz standalone properly today, I've played the mod version ages ago so everything seems new to me now.

The first thing that I encountered on the server was that the menu with "map and players" kept popping up, which got me killed. Then the Alt look around got stuck on me (might have been a bug on my end, Stopped after the first game crash)
also the zombies are the worst zombies ever in a zombie game ever. they clipped through a closed door and sh*t, such BS!

I'm not saying it's the servers fault, I know that the mechanics for this game is poorly done.

All I was trying to do was to meet up with Kirsty what felt like she was on the other side of the planet.

I guess I need my hand holding while I get used to it more but I did have fun today even though I died around 10 times

And I want to know if in game chat works? Kirsty couldn't see any of my messages, Do you have to be close to someone for it to work like voice?

[Tampa]

I've tried it, felt fun. Sadly, I can't play it as I don't have a gaming pc. Can't wait until it comes to consoles.

[OysterBarron]

@matty

 

The players thing sounds like a bug, I've heard of alt look getting stuck on but I think you've to double tap alt to sort it out. The map isn't as big as you would think it's daunting for sure at first but once you get used to navigating nothing is more than an hour and a half away by foot.

 

And yes zombies are still just as bugged as ever allthough they cannot get into greenhouses lol

 

Text chat and voice is limited to a certain radius around your player witch can be boosted with a walkie talkie.

 

I use the sun, sea, and road signs to work out where I am normally but an external map on a tablet like dayzdb.com can help alot.

Edited February 19, 2015 by OysterBarron

[Matty256]

Yea that website is very useful, I have two monitors so It made it miles easier and "r9ad signs", numbers in the town names actually helped me find where I was faster. lol

I think the reason I died a lot was, trying to rush it and meet up with Kirsty(who needs OP powers so she can TP me ), If I took my time and stocked up well, I would of made it to your base.

[OysterBarron]

Lol forgive my text these next few days I'm ill.

 

Lol even with op powers you can't teleport anyone all you can do is kick and ban lol. Water and food is the main thing if you're trawling across the map some bushes can be searched to give you berry's that can tide you over on the way up.

[Daz]

F*CK YUS!

 

Found not only a 1911 magazine, but two of them, I thought I lost one as I detached it but it somehow was hidden under my shotgun in the inventory after I had moved it into a different space, it then appeared where the shotgun was, which makes no sense, but anyway that is good I got it back. My engraved 1911 seems like a 1 hit kill on zeds. I also found a CZ75 and magazine, this is a 2 shot kill, I am so f*cking happy now you couldn't believe, I can make use of all this 9mm and 45 ammo. They both sound f*cking amazing.

 

Also found ANOTHER AK-74 which I dumped in the base. Filled up the backpack with the netting in it with some gear for you guys. Another engraved 1911, ammo, stripper clips, magazines etc. Found a longhorn and shoved it in there and a pink derringer for Oyster . Even found a hi cap vest which is great.

 

It seems the game refuses to load assault rifles and magazines anywhere other than the bunkbed barracks rooms. I don't think I am ever likely to find an AK-47 or a AK-74 magazine. The game wants to just be a complete bitch and not let me have them.

 

At least now I can own sh*t with my pistols which are really damn fun btw. I found some painkillers and used them but it didn't heal my leg, but I got a prompt at the medic tent to "treat at field hospital" which might have done it.

 

I loaded that pump shotty with some ammo for you as well. Also found some .357 and .380 which is rare around this area, first time I have seen that out of civvy areas.

 

Anyway I have ran out of places to hunt for mags and guns, I might have to trek to green mountain. The problem is I am "hot" and I can't f*cking get rid of it. I cant be arsed to find a river and go swimming.

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: So I spawned in dying of thirst and hunger, which is odd as I was overly fully healed and energized as I left, the game defo glitched the hell out. I also lost my god damn AKS-74u from my backpack which pissed me off. And then I managed to find a god damn AK-74 mag, typical. So I grabbed a full size AK-74 that I stored before, now I am good. Found a folding stock for it too. Also found another pump shotty. So now I am good for the reset.

Edited February 22, 2015 by Daz

[Kirsty]

Where'd the base go Or did we lose everything?

 

E: f*ck it anyway! Fell of a small wooden watch tower and f*cking DIED. Matty is going to check if my body is still there to redeem some things. f*ck knows where I am now, there are a lot of red trees and what looks like a town though.

[OysterBarron]

There's a chance that on the extended maintenance yesterday they have done a wipe on the server but I haven't been informed. As far as I was aware they hadn't pushed out the new stable 0.54 update yet so I don't see why they would.

 

EDIT:

 

Turns out they've released 0.54 to stable now.

 

New items:

- Improvised suppressor.

- Water Pouch.

- Bone Hook.

- Bone Arrow.

- Pile of bones.

- Carrier plate with attachable holster and pouches.

- Blood bag now gives and takes twice as much blood.

- FN Trombone.

- New animals.

- V3S Cargo version.

 

New mechanics:

- You can craft improvised suppressor using water bottle and duct tape.

- You can craft bone hook out of pile of bones.

- You can craft bone arrow out of pile of bones and improvised arrow.

- Weight added to all items and clothes.

- Caliber of ammo affect suppressor degradation.

- Horticulture - Potato plant and its growing process.

- You can dismantle the FN Trombone.

- Continuous consumption and item use prototype.

- Items now shows only rough estimates about its weight and volume of containment.

- Cooking mechanics changes.

- Fireplace mechanics changes.

- Fluid mechanic tweaks.

- Blood mechanic tweaks.

- Weapon degradation.

- Suppressor degradation.

 

New animations + audio:

- Placeholder SFX for improvised suppressor (standard suppressor SFX).

 

Reworked locations:

- Devil's castle.

- Pik Kozlova.

- Black & Willow Lakes.

- Bor village.

- Quarry near Solnichny.

 

Map:

- All old rocks models have been removed and replaced with new ones.

 

Programming:

- New spawn tags added to all buildings.

- Degradation values set for pistols, rifles and silencers.

- Blood regeneration nerfed.

 

Fixed:

- Pouches for vest is now displayed properly in hands.

- Suppressor position on Longhorn while reloading.

- Message when loading ruined ammo.

- Spliting stone using pickaxe will give you smaller stone with correct damage state.

- You can no longer use mace for cutting raincoats into armbands.

- Mace can no longer be used for skinning.

- Force feeding guts text.

- Thermal mechanic fixes.

- Server stability fixes.

- Performance fixes (server).

- Bullet penetration fix.

 

Known issues:

- Animals spin in one place.

- Animals die randomly.

- Animal navigation.

- Animal animations are playing at a wrong resolution.

- You can drive v3s while knocked out.

- Only 1 person can get on back cargo of v3s.

- Random desync.

- Random client crashes.

- Random server crashes.

Edited February 26, 2015 by OysterBarron

[Sugar Free Nos]

So, you guys seem to be somewhat enjoying this game, so I thought I would ask how.

 

A friend of mine bought standalone for me (against my wishes, and at full price) and I just can't get into it at all. I have been playing a ton of Arma 2 OA DayZ Overpoch here lately, and I really enjoy it, but I just can't think of a single reason to play standalone over it. Epoch/Overpoch has trading, tons of vehicles, more weapons that you can count, better/cooler weapons, and even construction so you can build your own base. Arma 2 also runs a bit better on my system, believe it or not.

 

I'm really just looking for tips on how to make this game fun, because I feel bad for my friend spending all that money on me only for me to think it's a pile of crap compared to the "old" version.

[Tanto]

even construction so you can build your own base

 

This is exactly why I'm not playing it right now, I'm going to give it another year before I go back to this game and they have a lot more features.

 

Do they even have persistent storage yet ? (I lost interest months ago so I haven't been checking the patch notes).

 

Edit: One thing I am sure of without even checking is there will most likely be loads of new coats and hats lol .....

Edited February 26, 2015 by Tanto

[Sugar Free Nos]

 

even construction so you can build your own base

 

This is exactly why I'm not playing it right now, I'm going to give it another year before I go back to this game and they have a lot more features.

 

Do they even have persistent storage yet ? (I lost interest months ago so I haven't been checking the patch notes).

 

Edit: One thing I am sure of without even checking is there will most likely be loads of new coats and hats lol .....

 

I have no clue, but I got both standalone and Arma 2 within a day of eachother about a week ago, and I only have about 2 hours on standalone and over 100 already on Arma 2.

 

The lack of vehicles is my biggest problem. Cherno is large and walking is frustrating.

[Tanto]

I have no clue, but I got both standalone and Arma 2 within a day of eachother about a week ago, and I only have about 2 hours on standalone and over 100 already on Arma 2.

The lack of vehicles is my biggest problem. Cherno is large and walking is frustrating.

 

 

lol agreed, I'm pretty sure 80-90% of the time I spent on that game was walking/running around.

 

A friend told me they have recently added vehicles to the standalone version so I guess that helps but it's still not enough to draw me back in.

Edited February 26, 2015 by Tanto