ARMA II Mod - Day Z

**Konev** · 2012-04-22

been playing this over the last 24 hours, heaps of fun, requires ARMA II and Operation Arrowhead or Combined operations.

its a zombie survival mod, currently in alpha (so a fair few bugs but playable) based on the arma II map, start off with a .45 pistol and need to find everything to survive, imcluding the bigger guns. vehicles can be salvaged with parts found sitting around and you team up with other survivors that you come across or go lonewolf, its 100% sandbox and open.

its being developed by a BIS dev and being updated daily.

really recommend giving it a go if your a ARMA II, STALKER or zombie general fan

main website: http://www.dayzmod.com/

BIS thread, dev keeps a good track of this: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...ial-Mod)-Alpha

map of the area (it helps if you have second screen) http://ttp2.dslyecxi.com/images/chernarus_big_hq.jpg

HOW TO INSTALL ON STEAM WITH BOTH ARMA II AND OPERATION ARROWHEAD

make sure both games are downloaded, if they have been a while ago, verify the game cache (right click game, preferences/settings)

run both games to do initial setup.

goto the operation arrowhead folder in your steam games folder (X:\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead)

find the file called _runA2CO and run it, close the game

after this...

Download the files from http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/ (Check for updates daily as well)

Created a folder in your ArmA II AND operation arrowhead folder and call it @dayz

Inside that folder create another called folder called Addons

Use a program such as 7zip (or winrar) to unzip the rar files you downloaded.

Copy the unzipped files in your @dayz/Addons folder

open steam, start operation arrowhead, it will come up with 4 options, the 2 primary ones being start operation arrowhead and start combined operations. start operation arrowhead.

goto the expansion menu, enable ARMA II and DAYZ, let game restart.

find server. survive.

**Centra** · 2012-04-25

I heard about this while I was on the Broski TS playing Tera and I convinced a bunch of nerds in PL to play:

https://www.pandemic-legion.com/foru...a-Zombies-DayZ

We'll be on our games mumble and I'll probably update that thread with times we're gonna play since rolling in groups owns.

**Stronke** · 2012-04-25

I love me a good zombie game, will see about getting Arma II plus the needed expensions.

**Malcore** · 2012-04-25

Bunch of PL have been playing this over the last couple days. Literally the most fun ever.

**Konev** · 2012-04-26

hardly started eve and WoT since getting this. avoiding the big cities and airfields and staying in the middle trying to live. so much fun and so much paranoia about other players.

**Malcore** · 2012-04-26

The best part is finding another player and both having that first second or two of confusion where each person evaluates the likelihood of the other one shooting them before either slowly backing away or bullets beginning to fly.

Also I have a bandit outfit now.

**Stronke** · 2012-04-26

Wooah you can shoot other players to? I thought you were fighting the zombies as a team.

I likes

**Konev** · 2012-04-26

yes its a complete sandbox. if you want to avoid being shot, avoid the bigger cities and the airfields, the northwest airfield, chernogorsk and elektro to be exact.

few helpful tips for new starters.

essentials for general survival are a compass, a torch (gun mounted or not) a knife, matches (few packets are good) map is ok but you can find good detailed maps on the net easy enough, like the one in my OP.

if you have a zombie or a horde chasing you, run into a building, they can only walk in them, this slows them down and makes them easy pickings, especially if you have 20 chasing you. or run at another player with a horde in tow and hope they start shooting, it seems to break them off you and get them killed, easy bandit free loot

in terms of sneaking past them, going prone pretty much makes you invisible to zombies, crouch slow walk gets you damn close. noise attracts them, lee einfield seems to bring them in from all directions its that fucking loud to fire wisely, the 1896 shotgun and the starter 45 are pretty much the quietest guns unless you get the rare suppressed MP5 or M9 beretta, but be careful, these take 2 rounds to drop a zombie, not one.

killing, gutting (knife needed) and cooking (matches for fire) animals is the best form of getting your blood back, something like 800 to 900 per stake compared to 200 for a can of beans or pasta.

road flares light up a lot of area for aprox 5m, they can be picked up and carried after you have lit them but they give away your position like nothing else in game so be careful when and where you use them. glowsitcks (chemlights) glow all night but give off fuck all light, the best form of nighttime nav is NVGs if you can survive a raid on an airfield to get them, or a torch. once in the country you can run with it off untill you get near buildings or hear zombies.

**jeffraider** · 2012-04-27

i literally LOVE THIS GAME

holy shit

**Konev** · 2012-04-27

think canaris spotted you in a server.

one of my eve accounts has expired now, this game iss far too addictive.

enjoy it while it lasts

AEF (aussie clan) had to pull down their server as it was cranking 168gb of data daily, US servers are chewing through 1tb ever 6 days with ease really dont think it will be sustainable with that kind of data use.

**Centra** · 2012-04-27

Originally Posted by Konev

think canaris spotted you in a server.

one of my eve accounts has expired now, this game iss far too addictive.

enjoy it while it lasts

AEF (aussie clan) had to pull down their server as it was cranking 168gb of data daily, US servers are chewing through 1tb ever 6 days with ease really dont think it will be sustainable with that kind of data use.

The PL.com server dude is talking with them about hosting a server, but with that usage we'll see if he actually does it.

In other news I found an M14 DMR with 100 rounds. I fell of a guard tower 3 times to get it though.

**Konev** · 2012-04-27

1.5 is out, number of files need updating not just the code file this time.

New update for DayZ Alpha! BIG update!

Visit:

http://www.mediafire.com/dayz

for download details. Or visit

http://www.dayzmod.com/downloads.php

to skip that.

UPDATE : 27 APR 2012

Affected addons:
* dayz_code 1.5
* dayz_equip 1.1
* dayz_weapons 1.1

Database:
* [NOTICE] Everyone's Medical, Bandit Status, and Humanity has BEEN RESET (As long as you weren't logged in!)

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Bandit morphing occuring at really bad times (although can occur at bad times)
* [FIXED] Can be killed while waiting to turn into a bandit
* [FIXED] Cans of mountain dew spawn causes an error and do not spawn
* [FIXED] Satchal charge spawn causes an error and do not spawn
* [FIXED] Humanity doesn't increase passively (increase: 150 every 5 minutes)
* [FIXED] Antibiotics not spawning
* [FIXED] Bug in spawning propabilities not recognizing higher probabilities
* [FIXED] Players sometimes start with broken legs
* [FIXED] Too many chemlights in a pack (Changed from 10 to 5)
* [FIXED] Morphing to a bandit removes all stuff in backpack
* [NEW] Rebalancing of spawn probabilities for Many building types
* [NEW] M107 TWS removed from spawning (will be achievement/side mission item)
* [NEW] Sandbags activated as loot (built sandbag walls are NOT persistent. well... not yet anyway)
* [NEW] Entrenching tool activated as loot (sandbag + etool = ?)
* [NEW] Thrown Grenades, Empty Soda Cans, and Empty Whiskey bottles distract zombies (briefly)
* [NEW] Walkers may investigate thrown items depending on day/night
* [NEW] Walkers may investigate noises (any noise)
* [NEW] Minor optimization of Local Zombie Management while loitering (client-side)
* [NEW] Start weapon changed to Makarov
* [NEW] More buildings added to loot/zombie spawning

**Mr Coloredshirt** · 2012-04-28

i want to rain liquefied hellfire death from an apache miles away is this an option in this game mode?

edit or a zombie-killing blimp that i can throw rocks from or something

**Konev** · 2012-04-28

i have heard that there is at least one fixable chopper on the map. probably a UH1 but close enough

**Centra** · 2012-04-28

Some things that have happened in PL since we started playing:

-4 people have been shot in friendly fire incidents, 3 of which were probably unintentional, 1 of which was most definitely intentional.
-3 of our town raids have been spoiled by someone popping off a rifle round early.
-3 people died to one dude with an AK who was as quick on his trigger as he was on his disconnect to relocate/heal on other servers.
-7 people have been left to die when someone pulls too many zombies and runs like a chicken dropping zombie aggro on everyone.
-8 people have been surprised to read chat and realize that this guy asking if we are friendly is prone in the water 5m away from us, not off in the hills with a rifle.
-9 non-PL/Mumble crew dudes have been dropped by accurate sniper fire by our DMRs/M24s.
-1 non-PL/Mumble crew dude had his life saved after I was stalking him for 45 minutes, because some REALLY BAD SNIGG MEMBER broadcasted our Mumble over global voice until we yelled at him. He then proceeded to broadcast our EVE op (which most of us were skipping) globally until we deleted his services access.
-The night really is dark and full of terrors.
-Euros are really, really bad at: navigating, following instructions, being brave and holding fire.

This is the best game ever. Konev, if you want to make a games mumble account and play with us, feel free. You can be on our IRC and we usually ping before we start playing.

**Finiks** · 2012-04-28

Originally Posted by Konev

caution, getting installation to work on steam with seperate ARMA II and AO installs will cause rage if your a ARMA noob like me

In this case, care to write a short guide on HOW TO ?

**Centra** · 2012-04-28

There really isn't a prescribed method of making Arma work, it's more of a mix of voodoo magic and dumb luck. If you just bought Arma for this mod, run it on STEAM before you try modding anything to set up all the file paths and what not.

Essentially you need to get all your mods to the Arma II: OA folder, for Day Z, it would be something like:

\Steam\SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\@DayZ\addons\

You download: http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/ those files and unpack the .rars into the above folder. You should end up with 14 files in there.

They patch daily if not a few times daily, you only need to update the files that change version, which can be confusing sometimes, but its usually only the code file, just look at the version number of each .rar

Once you have that set up you should download Arma 2 Launcher: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8241

It will look for all the addons you have and launch Arma for you with the mods you select. The left column is available addons, the right is the ones you wish to use, you just drag them into a group and checkbox the one you want.

For DayZ you'll want to use just DayZ and launch with game version: Arma 2: CO

**Konev** · 2012-04-28

updated my OP with the guide i wrote for the S2N forums.

**Centra** · 2012-04-28

Nulli vs. PL zombie survival - let's DO IT

**Finiks** · 2012-04-28

Originally Posted by Centra

Nulli vs. PL zombie survival - let's DO IT

Only if you promise there will be no supercaps! :>

24 Euros for Arma II CO... it better be worth it.

**Konev** · 2012-04-28

centra are you EU or US server? im in kiwiland so cant play on EU servers, usually on US1/2

**Finiks** · 2012-04-28

WAT?! You wanna tell me that i'm stuck with EU server? FU that. :<

**Centra** · 2012-04-28

We're usually on NY1 and whenever Ander gets his server running we'll be on that one.

Finiks: You can play on any server, ping isn't a huge issue since 90% of the time you won't be shooting anything.

**Finiks** · 2012-04-29

Stupid ass EU servers! When i try to log on them i always stuck at like 90% receiving data.
I can join US/NY servers without problems... but it's dark there now and i'm too scared to play during night. :<

**Centra** · 2012-04-29

We just ownzoned some goonNOOBS at DayZ, about 6 goons came into the town we were camping at the same time as a pubbie group of 6. They spotted each other, but not us. They said they were "friendly" and both groups came in to start looting. From our hilltop with two DMRs and a spotter we took out 7 before they knew what was happening. Our skirmishers went in to flush them out with AKs/M4s and we lost one dude to massive zombie aggro. Then as two more of our people came in as reinforcements, two goons attempted to flank us and managed to kill one of our guys before both were dropped. Final KDR: 12 hostiles killed, 2 friendlies lost.

Shot of the day was an 800m headshot on a guy leaning out from a rock. And now I'm at -12,500 humanity with 7 murders.

**Max B** · 2012-04-29

Originally Posted by Centra

Shot of the day was an 800m headshot on a guy leaning out from a rock

best firefight we had so far, funny thing thoses two groups came at the same time from north and south !
and that 800m shot is pretty much my record right there (on a actual human player), my previous one was headshotting a dude through that tiny door with a even more tiny shot window at 400m http://i.imgur.com/XuMoC.jpg

DMR's are the supercaps of ArmA

**Propagandas** · 2012-04-29

You cannot play/edit this mission, it depends on downloadable content that has been deleted: hurf blurf durf

**Iseeyouseemeseeyou** · 2012-04-30

nvm

**Iseeyouseemeseeyou** · 2012-04-30

Fun: Played, immediately killed two guys and got a winchester and bunch of other stuff, found a house, guy tried to kill me, I escaped, he ran around w/ a green chemlight, I taunted him in chat and he started dropping flares, then I disco'd and am now off to bed.

Will definitely be back tomorrow.

**Stronke** · 2012-04-30

Is Arma II and assorted mods available trough steam? I can not seem to find it at any gaming store around here.

**Konev** · 2012-04-30

here ya go, all you need

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/46..._7_suggest__13

also of interesting note...

**Internet Spaceships** · 2012-05-11

Goddamn this game is fantastic, I lose track of time when playing it. Wanting to post to this thread is the main reason I missed Kugu, I'll update later today with the shenanigans me and a few friends have been up to.

I play on US1/US2 as kb, if you see me give me a shout.

**Don Peyote** · 2012-05-11

I might buy Arma II and install this when I'm done with school. I've never fancied it before, but this mod looks pretty good, even if I've read testimonials about how frustrating it is when you die to a zombie horde because you accidentally fired your Lee Enfield, or when some pubbie shoots you for no reason. I guess I'm just masochistic like that

Is the PL group reasonably organised/open to OG people hanging out?

EDIT : Mod is apparently compatible with Arma III. Guess I'll wait for that!

**Propagandas** · 2012-05-11

PLs best FC is now ranked #10 in THE WORLD of dayz

**Centra** · 2012-05-12

We had a Huey up and we're buzzing towns lighting nerds up with the 240 LMG.

This game is great.

**Don Peyote** · 2012-05-12

At least two Goons in that top 10

Damn goons ruining the game everywhere they go

**Stronke** · 2012-05-12

Can EU and US people play on the same server or are they separate like in most games?

**Internet Spaceships** · 2012-05-12

Originally Posted by Centra

We had a Huey up and we're buzzing towns lighting nerds up with the 240 LMG.

This game is great.

You never came back to pick me up

**bobbechk** · 2012-05-12

So I've recently spent my time in this game infiltrating a group of ELITE PLAYERS and thus know the location of some 4 Hueys (along with a bunch of cars etc.) distributed across the different EU-servers
If anyone would like to buy a huey for ISK let me know (I wont bother with cars)

**Centra** · 2012-05-12

Originally Posted by Stronke

Can EU and US people play on the same server or are they separate like in most games?

Anyone can join any server, there is a database that stores your character, then you get loaded onto whatever server you want to join. Ping isn't a ~huge~ issue, which makes for Euro/US brosquads.

Originally Posted by Internet Spaceships

You never came back to pick me up

Yeah, we were leaking fuel.

***Andski*** · 2012-05-12

Originally Posted by Konev

Download the files from http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/ (Check for updates daily as well)

Or: http://www.six-updater.net/

**Iseeyouseemeseeyou** · 2012-05-13

I killed ~15 Goons yo. I was allowed to drive our latest bus (few days ago) and stopped because some guys said they were checking for a car (in Gorka) and then we got attacked and I between the "Wait for guys" and "GO" screams I decided to wait. Zombies hit the engine and we blew up.

I had literally every piece of survival kit except for NVG's + Coyote Pack, M4A3 CCO, M9SD

**Konev** · 2012-05-13

wow what a difference. over a week ago was the last time i played, been on a holiday, come back, load up day-z and think my server filter is fucked as there is a screen filled with servers, not just 10.

check the filters, all still the same settings. then i take a closer look at the server list, they are all day-z servers and all are populated, holy fucking shit this has exploded!

**jeffraider** · 2012-05-13

I have NVGs, Matches, a Hunting Knife, Compass, Map, MAX AMMO and lots of food and water. I am a rich man in this game.

EDIT: AND BINOCS SUP

**Internet Spaceships** · 2012-05-13

Roamed with two friends tonight for a few hours, nabbed 10 kills between us with zero deaths. I need to talk to Ice Cube about his song lyrics, today was a good day and I had to use my AK(M).

Currently sitting at -35k humanity.

**Stronke** · 2012-05-13

Could some one c/d the steam store is down? Trying to buy the game but it won't let me.

e; never mind my steam client was out of date, updating it fixed the problem
e2; nop fucker won't let me go beyond selecting a game grrrrr

**Propagandas** · 2012-05-13

A couple of tryhards had logged of on top of casterly rock, while battling them i fell to their blades, no more high ranking for me

**Stronke** · 2012-05-13

Bought it, and downloading it now.

Hopefully I can get it all downloaded and installed today so I can run a game before a new work week of terribleness starts

e; who's coms can I join for random bs and the sharing of my great paki accent. Gimme details in PM.