Don't they use AI that was originally used by enemy soldiers in ARMA?
Yeah, I heard someone somewhere say that the reason they do zigzags so much is because it's some kind of AI that is supposed to flank, but it ends up being all silly on zombies.
WHOOO. Story time, okay here we go.
[I]When bandits band[/I]
168174 town for logging --NO LONGER SAFE--SEE BELOW--
okay, we signed on a taviana map, myself and Dormamu were paired up, trying to meet up with Ripper.
Dormamu and I raided some places, getting stuff. I found GPS, a Kobra, G17, but that was about it. We found Dormamu an M16, and decided to raid some military camps. We figured it'd be a good idea for him to drop everything at a safe distance, and go in hatchet-mode. Well, drop the rifle, food, and then he drops his patrol pack full of goods. Disappears. No more pack. So after some swearing and raiding, he found an assault pack Ripper broke his legs, crawled around sabino, finally found a hospital, hatchet, matches, and a knife. After fixing his legs he went south to the safe house.
While he was doing that, Dormamu and I were in the THICK of it all. We were were going north, and we heard shooting. Lots of it. I look to the right and see a jeep and 3 dudes. 1 dude is kneeling, another dead, and the third gets in the car and runs over the kneeling dude. carman gets out, caps neelix, and proceeds to start siphoning their crap into the car. Meanwhile Dormamu and I are getting closer, and I decide to pop some shots at him. I sight in, and after he drives in circles for a second, he gets out, and I fire once. Hits him in the gut, he spazzes, runs around, gets in the car, and books it into the nearby town to the southeast. We give mild chase, kill a zed that came to say hi, and then looked at the bodies. Nothing interesting, he had taken it all. So we start again moving north. meanwhile, he SHOOTS out of the town in the car and just screams northbound past us. We knew he was gone at that point so we just kept trekking through the woods.
We get closer to Byelov, and see someone else running northbound getting chased by nasties. He runs into town, and we don't see him again. What happens then is its own bucket of fun on its own.
We never saw carman or the sprinter, but we did catch sight of 4 dudes dancing around with guns in town. 2 bandits, one dude with camo, and a guy with NVGs and a czech pack. They became thing1, thing2, camoguy, and czech dude. We didn't know what was up with them, but suddenly they all started shooting each other. Camoguy died first, with the things chasing czech dude. Czech dude died in a nearby alley way, and the things ran off somewhere. We resolved to take the pack, because we needed to get a better pack for one of us. It was my turn to hatchet-mode, so we got ready to get underway when more shooting from behind us. Two other dudes were duking it out in the hills behind us. Someone died, shooting stopped, and then thing 1 and 2 returned to camodude's body. A new challenger appeared, and was hiding behind a tree in front of us, he never saw us We'll call him billy. This entire time, Ripper is trekking south, BTW. Well the things kill some zeds, scope the area, and as soon as they leave, billy makes a break for the town. Dormamu and I are just watching this entire time, knowing we need to GO and fucking book it but we can't stop watching.
We finally get underway, and I sneak in, manage to get the pack, and get out. Found billy's body on the way in, dunno what got him. I got out of town as more shooting started. We balanced our inventory and headed north, putting that massacre behind us.
During this time, Ripper found a GPS in a car, and was heading south to meet us. We communicated coords, and found that we were actually very close to each other AND the safe house. We stayed at a distance, and Ripper entered the safe house. The house was a 2 story little squat barn house. Had a main room, and a side room with a ladder that went upstairs to a single room with small windows on either side. Stay prone and pointed at the ladder and you are perfectly concealed and just about perfectly safe.
just about.
He entered fine, Dormamu and I started our way in from the opposite direction when a heli of some kind decided to hover above us for an eternity. There was almost CONSTANT dinner bell fire from the nearby town, it seemed like the chopper was spotting or some shit, but just not at us. in any case we decided to go past the safe house and into the woods on the off chance he was watching us. We waited some few minutes, chopper pivoted away from us, and we headed back into town. On a whim we topped off our water at the nearby water fountain, I finished first and headed to the house. When I got just inside, the door, I heard the bell shots again, much closer. Dormamu says he's being shot at, and I book it up the ladder and he comes towards the safe house.
What happened immediately afterwards will forever be remembered. Dormamu gets upstairs, and we all lay prone and point at the ladder. an Kobra sighted AK74, an M16A2 on burst fire, and a dude with an axe were all camping the top of those rungs. We heard footsteps, and ripper and I saw a head appear for a split second in the ladderwell. He immediately dived down and I KNOW he saw us because next thing we know, him and his bud are shooting the house trying to get us or at least prevent us from logging. Our red-lights are flashing now, we can't log without getting fucked. They're yelling all sorts of shit at us. "WE KNOW YOU'RE UP THERE, COME ON OUT YOU PANSY ASSES" and the like. They're shooting for a good 15 seconds, it was scary as fuck.
Suddenly, we hear a car engine, a horn, and lots MORE shooting, pain, and screaming. Several people die, but the original 2 are still there. Then ANOTHER dude shows up, and they start talking near the house.
"Hey man I can-" 'you wanna be friendly for now?' "I can't hear you" 'I'll fucking kill you man don-' "Well I gotta tab for a second and turn this music down, if you're gonna do it do it" -pause- -I scootch to the window to try and see- 'DUde we're on a fucking mission right now man, we gotta kill those guys in their fucking attic!' We three turn pale at this, and since our flashy things weren't flashing, we decided we needed to log, IMMEDIATELY. As I was waiting for the other 2 to log, the dudes are still talking "Really? How do you know they're up there?" 'I SAW em man! I SAW em!'
I logged immediately afterwards.
It was fucking insane, heart pounding, Dormamu and I almost had 6 million heart attacks, but it was the best fun I had had in that game in a LONG time.
Need to test a couple things tomorrow, but I'm fucking done for the night, shit gave me a turbo headache.
I've been relatively calm about the DayZ standalone but those text snippets that the Reddit thread linked to are sounding very positive. VAC, rewritten engine, new inventory system. All good things.
I hope rocket comes out alive from everest.
[QUOTE=Garik;39142042]I hope rocket comes out alive from everest.[/QUOTE]
Well he will come out alive since that trip costs him 65k$
[QUOTE=halflife_123;39141865]I've been relatively calm about the DayZ standalone but those text snippets that the Reddit thread linked to are sounding very positive. VAC, rewritten engine, new inventory system. All good things.[/QUOTE]
The engine's still a problem though.
I don't care what Rocket says, he ain't gunna make this game any prettier without the ARMA 3 engine :v:
[QUOTE=Darkslicer;39142081]Well he will come out alive since that trip costs him 65k$[/QUOTE]
He's gonna spend all that sweet arma money on the most expensive suicide ever
[QUOTE=latin_geek;39142235]He's gonna spend all that sweet arma money on the most expensive suicide ever[/QUOTE]
And give us a better product in the end you know.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;39142235]He's gonna spend all that sweet arma money on the most expensive suicide ever[/QUOTE]
if rocket suicides im gonna be very sad. :(
I think he should do it.
Why are there so many cheaters?
After dying several times since my first experience with DayZ yesterday, I finally managed to survive over an hour in the game, spawned with nothing but a flashlight, entered a city found an AKM in some kind of factory, had to waste all the ammo running away from zombies then exchanged it for an axe, killed a couple of zombies with the axe and a guy starts shooting at me near a church, sprinted towards him and hit him a few times, got his stuff but he was out of ammo, when I go inside the church there was some kind of hunting rifle in there, can't recall the name, it had quite a lot of ammo around for it as well, so I took it and just as I get it I hear shots outside, somehow I made it past the guy shooting and found myself in a farm, then some russian pricks started spamming the global voice chat and the admin teleported everyone to some kind of arena and I got disconnected.
I hope the standalone won't have a serverlist filled with bullshit servers with 24/7 daylight and starting gear and such.
[QUOTE=Jericho_Rus;39142992]Why are there so many cheaters?[/QUOTE]
Because it's an online game on the PC
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[QUOTE=Garik;39143233]I hope the standalone won't have a serverlist filled with bullshit servers with 24/7 daylight and starting gear and such.[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna be honest, I like permaday servers, because hunting through the lists for servers where it was day and one could actually see shit was one of my huge gripes with the game
Although if there was some way to see the ingame time on the server list, that would be awesome for that.
Also there are way too many private hive servers, for whatever reason my preferred non-hive server is down and I can't seem to find one where I can play my guy on.
[QUOTE=BigBoom;39142138]
I don't care what Rocket says, he ain't gunna make this game any prettier without the ARMA 3 engine :v:[/QUOTE]
Its using a heavily modified engine of the game "take on helicopters" its also taken code and models from Arma 3, as development goes on they'll probably take more and more code from the arma 3 engine.
Although not all of arma 3 will be needed, for example the soldier ai unless they put friendly npcs in the game.
Ah fuck it I'll buy DayZ just for the high-res models.
[QUOTE=Garik;39143233]I hope the standalone won't have a serverlist filled with bullshit servers with 24/7 daylight and starting gear and such.[/QUOTE]
If there's 24/7 day servers rocket should understand that [I]that's because currently night time isn't enjoyable to players.[/I] Same with starting gear.
I seriously seriously hope they'll do something about that in Chernarus+, either making everything a bit brigther, making lighting more accessible and less risky to use (TAPE FLASHLIGHT TO HAT/WEAPON OPTION) or putting lights along roads and in towns or something like that.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/lzQUI.png[/IMG]
uhm
[QUOTE=latin_geek;39143983]If there's 24/7 day servers rocket should understand that [I]that's because currently night time isn't enjoyable to players.[/I] Same with starting gear.
I seriously seriously hope they'll do something about that in Chernarus+, either making everything a bit brigther, making lighting more accessible and less risky to use (TAPE FLASHLIGHT TO HAT/WEAPON OPTION) or putting lights along roads and in towns or something like that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I get that flashlight part.
Truly a kick in the balls.
[editline]8th January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=recolour;39144048][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/lzQUI.png[/IMG]
uhm[/QUOTE]
As long as it doesn't affect the PC version in any way.
And it won't, considering he's saying "If we sell".
[QUOTE=recolour;39144048][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/lzQUI.png[/IMG]
uhm[/QUOTE]
i can see it now
0 friendlies and mic spamming children crying because some 40 year old has farmed all the best weapons in the game and has a glitch spot where no one can get to him
People still complain about night-time? It was literally a black screen on launch, like pitch black. Even looking up. This is very playable in, and flares are plentiful.
[QUOTE=Fkpuz Version 1;39144161]People still complain about night-time? It was literally a black screen on launch, like pitch black. Even looking up. This is very playable in, and flares are plentiful.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. If anything, I find night-time more enjoyable than daytime.
[QUOTE=Garik;39144383]Yeah. If anything, I find night-time more enjoyable than daytime.[/QUOTE]
i would always play at night because it was so much easier to avoid all the zombies and if players came along, chances are they wouldnt be able to see you
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;39144395]i would always play at night because it was so much easier to avoid all the zombies and if players came along, chances are they wouldnt be able to see you[/QUOTE]
Yeah, and stalking was easier.
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So I was just playing on some server, and I was looting a market, suddenly, some guy says something and does the dance of friendship in front of me, I do it back at him, and we group up without saying anything to eachother.
A few mins later, we're running around in a town and he says something in the mic.
He's a russian.
I instantly freaked the fuck out and ran into a building and got shot by some guy saying to not come near.
I've never been so relieved.
Can't you just turn up the contrast or some other setting to let you see more easily at night anyway?
another summer will be spent well! cant wait for this shit.
So the new xbox releases this year and it might come to that then. They simply get another company to port it and then we have it. It's weird to think of it since the arma engine is so not suited for controllers.
Flashlights should work more they do in the source engine.
Zombies should be about 1/2 player speed and not zig zag like crazy, but they should track you for a bit longer, and when they lose you, they should sort of wander in the general direction where they last saw you until they despawn, or find another target. Also it would be cool if they targeted animals.
Everyone who got arma for dayz should download the jsrs 1.5 soundmod and ace + acex and play some armex or editor missions. JSRS 1.5 just got released fyi
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsvUOUglpGU[/media]
Jizzworthy sounds.
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