DayZ. Zombie survival mod for Arma2: CO

[Matty]

And it should stop zombies.

[Disco LT]

They need to just make it so you can roll your mouse wheel to a "cross barbed wire" option which takes 6 seconds or so, that way it still has a purpose but you can't just stupidly grief with it.

That's actually a pretty good solution, I like it.

EDIT:

Spent a few hours tonight, took some screenies, just for fun - managed to work my way North and got completely and utterly lost, suddenly came across a Castle!



Did some research, figured out that I was East of the NW Airfield and that I might head there and try to find a better weapon, on my way came across:



Mega excited! Completely stripped. Bummer. Moved on.

And saw this at NW Airfield:



Mega Excited! Completely stripped. God Damnit!

Continued my search for weaponry around the NW Airfield..found nothing, heard gunshots, a lot of gunshots and suddenly felt that my luck had run out for the night, ran into the woods and logged

[Nemesis_22]

I was doing awesomely well with a mate - good guns, raided a hospital, totally kitted out, except for a map and a compass.

Logged out, made dinner, spawned back in.

Debug zone.

Currently trying to navigate by the sun to find my way back. Dont have much, if any, hope of success.

[Clontarf[X]]

Put the sun over your right shoulder (run south-east).

Run for 10 minutes.

Got me back to roughly Pavlovo.

My night tonight has consisted of creeping people out in Cherno over direct voice comms and luring zombies off cliffs.

[Nemesis_22]

Been running (and running) for god knows how long now. No change.

I love this game, but it does **** like this which makes me want to SCREAM.

Edit - running southeast for an hour and a half, I can safely say I'm never escaping this limbo hell. Sorry, but its not southeast. It appears to be random with every character. Suicided to restart, that is **** ****.

[Nekosan]

Mega Excited! Completely stripped. God Damnit!

You're not trying to open the gear window on the chopper like you would on other vehicles are you? The loot is scattered around, I'll circle what's probably a FAL in your picture:




When choppers spawn on anything but flat ground the gear can be VERY hard to see, it can spawn spread all around as well as under the horizontal tail flaps and under the chopper in the position slightly forward of the miniguns on both sides (aim low into the interior and roll your wheel). Best bet is to stop 100m'ish away and use a scope or binocs to check it out, makes finding the gear much easier (and sometimes empty spawns will show empty cans at range which cant be selected).

Always triple check that shizzle, sometimes it will be empty until you stand there for 20 seconds, I found an "empty" crash today (3 of them within 300m actually) and left said empty crash with an L85 -AWS.

edit: disclaimer, that could also just have been trash btw, i didnt look at the background of the photo rofl, it's not unknown for birds on the NW airfield to be still stocked though.

Edit - running southeast for an hour and a half, I can safely say I'm never escaping this limbo hell. Sorry, but its not southeast. It appears to be random with every character. Suicided to restart, that is **** ****.

I've mentioned it multiple times in the threads already, when y ou get stuck in the desert just join "Canada 2" or "ANZ 8", either of those will respawn you in the debug forest at 006,106ish and you can just waltz 1km back into the map rather than running for 6 hours with a brick on your E key.

[Scarecrow]

What Neko said about chopper crashes: We always have 2 people on them, and each person circles it twice scrolling constantly for a context menu. **** gets hidden there real well. Check under the tail and where the tail joins the body too.

As for Debug, I spawned there the other day and had a little diamond off to the side that said 31654m, so I'm guessing it's a fair way from the map

[Matt 'El_Funko' Long]

I jumped into this for the first time last night. Things didn't go well.

Was there a recent change to remove the Makarov from your starting items? All the video guides I watched seem to start with a Makaorv, but I never start with one. It makes things incredibly difficult.

I assume the coastal spawn point near Kamenka is standard for everyone? My choices seem to be limited to:

Plan A: Crawl on my belly towards Kamenka and hope one of the houses I go into (assuming I make it that far) has a weapon in it
Plan B: Run miles through forest without any food or water to try and find an isolated barn and hope it has a weapon in it

Neither of these seem like a great idea.

[Brunius]

I jumped into this for the first time last night. Things didn't go well.

Was there a recent change to remove the Makarov from your starting items? All the video guides I watched seem to start with a Makaorv, but I never start with one. It makes things incredibly difficult.

I assume the coastal spawn point near Kamenka is standard for everyone? My choices seem to be limited to:

Plan A: Crawl on my belly towards Kamenka and hope one of the houses I go into (assuming I make it that far) has a weapon in it
Plan B: Run miles through forest without any food or water to try and find an isolated barn and hope it has a weapon in it

Neither of these seem like a great idea.

There's three deer stands you can hit nearly directly north of Kamenka. Alternatively, you can run along the shore (keep the shore to your right) until you see tents on your left. At those tents, there's 4 (!!!!) deer stands that you can loot. Just north of there is Balota airfield, which usually has decent loot. From there, you can run into cherno (not recommended for a while) or go north.

ball0fire edit: just a note deerstands are those lookout type stands with a ladder (otherwise also known as high hides)
inside are usualy good stuff
brunius edit: spam Z when you get to the top - it can push you off sometimes.

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these are deerstands or the millitary smaller ones

[Disco LT]

You're not trying to open the gear window on the chopper like you would on other vehicles are you? The loot is scattered around, I'll circle what's probably a FAL in your picture:

When choppers spawn on anything but flat ground the gear can be VERY hard to see, it can spawn spread all around as well as under the horizontal tail flaps and under the chopper in the position slightly forward of the miniguns on both sides (aim low into the interior and roll your wheel). Best bet is to stop 100m'ish away and use a scope or binocs to check it out, makes finding the gear much easier (and sometimes empty spawns will show empty cans at range which cant be selected).

Always triple check that shizzle, sometimes it will be empty until you stand there for 20 seconds, I found an "empty" crash today (3 of them within 300m actually) and left said empty crash with an L85 -AWS.

edit: disclaimer, that could also just have been trash btw, i didnt look at the background of the photo rofl, it's not unknown for birds on the NW airfield to be still stocked though.

Ah ****.. I was going straight up to the chopper and tried the gear menu expecthing thats how it would work, I did have a quick look around the first chopper (on one side) but there only appeared to be a bit of junk. In hindsight I should have conducted a much better search I didn't want to hang around long either as I kept seeing groups of 3-4 dudes running around. Damnit! Being at the NW airfield with nothing but a shotgun and 2 rounds is not a good place to be!

[Scarecrow]

Here's a map of Cherno:

Yellow is industrial spawns. Red is military. Blue is residential. Green is rural.

Small dots = low value spawn, large = medium val. spawn, diamond with a ! = high val. spawn.

So, if you're approaching Cherno from the west, as I suggested, you will find: food (28% chance),
map, matches, binoculars (5%),
Alice pack (3%),
Makarov, M1911, hunting knife (2%),
and Lee Enfield, Winchester, Revolver, Tent (1%).

The chances of any of these spawning at the church is significantly lower, excepting the Enfield which is slightly higher at 2%.

So, you make your way North to the fire station, which on this map is the large red dot(Medium level military spawn). As you will notice, it's extremely close to the Supermarket, and therefore provides a minimal travel distance into Cherno, as well as a high reward. You can also pass the Mansion on the way which is marked by the large blue dot(Medium level residential spawn), but it has the same % of loot as the Church, so you're effectively relocating the Church and the extra time to go there.

Once you hit the Firestation, you have 2 sides to enter from, so it's not a bottle neck until you're up the tower, by which point you have the advantage anyway, so long as there are no snipers.

Once in, there are 10 loot spawns and you now can find:
AKM (4%),
AK-74 (3%),
M1014, Glock, hunting knife, medical loot (all 2%),
AKS-74 Kobra, Remington 870 (1.5%),
M9, M16A2, AKS-74u, AKM, PDW, Map (1%),
M9SD, M4A1, MP5SD, Coyote Backpack (0.4%),
M16A2 M203, M4A1 CCO, M24, DMR, M14, M4A3 CCO, GPS (0.2%).

So now, you have a roughly 24% chance of finding a primary weapon better than a Winchester or a Lee Enfield(which you only had a 2% chance of finding anyway in the Supermarket), and you're only going one block further into town.

As well as that, you have a 3.4% chance of finding something better than a Makarov for your secondary weapon, including a PDW which will use any 9mm ammo.

After this part of your journey is done, head North to the Hospital and the five blue circles(Medium Residential again). They have the same probability as the church, there are five of them, and no one ever seems to go there. They also have good acoustics so you can hear any footsteps, and the stairwells are great cover.

Once you've looted them, you can hit the Hospital if you want to. Inside there's 4-5 Medical boxes all containing(guaranteed): 10 Bandages, 5 Blood Bags, 5 Epi-Pens, 5 Painkillers, 5 Morphine. You might also find Antibiotics which are worth any trip into Cherno.

Source for map and loot chances.

Here you go Funko. How to get through Cherno with the best loot possible.

EDIT: Once you get to that hospital at the North, run directly into the woods and keep going to get out of [immediate]danger.

[Matt 'El_Funko' Long]

Isn't the place going to be crawling with zombies though?

The first town I encountered, Kamenka, had at least one zombie near every house, road and even inside the houses too. Even crawling around, I still seem to get spotted. One time I actually made it into a house without being spotted, only to find the one gear pack on the ground was full of tin cans and a zombie spotted me when I went to loot it anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I love steep learning curves, but Day Z seems mental.

[Disco LT]

Isn't the place going to be crawling with zombies though?

The first town I encountered, Kamenka, had at least one zombie near every house, road and even inside the houses too. Even crawling around, I still seem to get spotted. One time I actually made it into a house without being spotted, only to find the one gear pack on the ground was full of tin cans and a zombie spotted me when I went to loot it anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I love steep learning curves, but Day Z seems mental.

Welcome to the game Matt! Shoot me your Steam ID.. might be able to hook up if we're close.

Cities can vary, sometimes they'll be crawling with Zed's and it's very hard to get through them, and sometimes they're practically empty - though if thats the case get in and out quickly because it sucks to get stuck by respawning Zeds..

The learning curve is pretty steep, but pretty soon you'll get used to getting around Zeds. Playing with someone who had an idea what they were doing helped me out a lot and helped me get the hang of how close I could get to them without alerting them.

It is an epic fun game

[Matt 'El_Funko' Long]

Thanks for the offer, but I want to learn to survive by myself first.

So when you're starting and you don't have any weapons, is it better to sprint through towns trying to trap zombies on world geometry while you desperately try to loot a weapon, than it is to crawl around trying not to be spotted?

[Disco LT]

Thanks for the offer, but I want to learn to survive by myself first.

So when you're starting and you don't have any weapons, is it better to sprint through towns trying to trap zombies on world geometry while you desperately try to loot a weapon, than it is to crawl around trying not to be spotted?

I think there is a time and place for both, though generally I prefer to avoid over engaging. In my experience it can get out of control really quick and the slow/methodical process works well for me. Whenever I try to rush something in DayZ I die a horrible, horrible death. Even when you have a weapon, it's better to take the long way around then get yourself up the creek without a paddle once you run out of ammo xD