Day Z

[DexterPunk]

Anyone still messing with this?

I am.


Can't seem to stay away. . . I did enjoy reading "choose your own adventure" books when I was young (the ones where too continue the story, you choose between page X or page Y), I guess this is my childhood adventurer respawning, 30 years later!

Just wish I had friends that play it. . .

We still play Q man. I was on the other night and fell off a roof and lost my stuff. Managed to get a lot of it back while the guys guarded it for me. We went to the NE airfield and some guy shot at me... I stood there and just took it... I knew I wasn't going to be able to shoot him so close with my scoped rifle. I kinda just hoped he'd stop when he realised I wasn't shooting back. I think he was low on ammo because he stopped shooting. Then started to move towards me with his axe. About half a second before he finished me off, Jeremy runs into the room and blasts him away with an M4. It was so heroic haha. I couldn't believe how fast he was on the trigger. I'd have hesitated for at least a second to make sure I was shooting the right person. He saved my arse big time. The guy had so much gear too, he must have been so pissed off. A bit of a shame almost everything he had was ruined by the time Jez was done with him lol.


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[Quincy]

Many changes for this latest update. Has somewhat changed my style of play. Instead of looking for weapons, I find myself seeking items to survive in the wild, ie knives to skin animals, pots to cook with, matches etc. These items seem more abundant in smaller towns, which is good to get away from the previous hotspots.


For those interested, I have copied the log below.

CHANGELOG: 0.45.124426 - Live now


Known Issues:
Crash caused by burned meat duplication
Camera can clip through walls
Occaisionally zombies are spawning at the same spot they died
Extremely rare crash when a player throws item
Player's next character will not be saved into database if he disconnects after death


New:
Actions: Added cancel current player action on self and on target back to gear configuration
Actions: Added cancel current player action on self and on target back to data and character configuration
Actions: Added cancel current player action on self, on target and on items back to actions themselves
Actions: Added new animations for drinking from pond and well actions
Actions: Igniting fireplace depends on wind strength and rain
Actions: Salmonellosis is curable with antibiotics
Actions: Emptying large magazine will split ammo in adequate amount of smaller piles
Actions: You can sharpen a bit badly damaged blades using stone
Actions : You can tear few blank pages out of a book
Actions : You can go fishing (ponds and lakes for this moment)
Actions : You can drink whole bottle at once
Animations: Clapping now possible while crouching
Animations: Binoculars transitions added for crouch and prone.
Content: Garage office building loot spawns added
Content: Doors on vehicle wrecks now show name in scroll menu so users are able to know which door or boot they are opening/closing.
Crafting : You can craft improvised fishing rod using long ashwood stick and rope
Crafting : You craft and break down leather courier bag
Crafting : You craft and break down leather backpack
Crafting: Splitting long ashwood stick into thirds
Crafting: Breaking Courier bag down into materials
Crafting: Breaking Improvised backpack down into materials
Crafting: Breaking Splint down into materials
Gathering : You can collect wood from bushes and trees and also search for kindling in woods
Gathering : You can mine stones from some smaller boulders
Gathering : You can dig up worms from ground
Gathering : You can search for apples
Gathering : You can skin and quarter animals
Gear: Road flare configuration
Gear: Road flare animation
Gear: Configuration of fireplace items and crafting recipes for them
Gear: Crafting recipes for combine/split firewood and stones
Gear: Added flare particle effects synchronization on server
Item: AKM attachments (folding buttstock, rail handguard, plastic magazine), AK rail handguard allows the attachment of a flashlight and a bipod
Item: Animal pelts added (Wildboar, Rabbit, Cow, Pig, Deer)
Item: Improvised Backpack and Courier bag made of fur, recipes added.
Items: Road Flare, Fishing hook, High Capacity vest, Longhorn pistol, AKM butt stocks, AKM magazines added to loot spawns
Items: Chernarus Police uniform (pants, jacket, cap) added to loot spawns
Items: OREL special Police unit uniform added to loot spawns
Items: Gorka Military Pants added to loot spawns
Items: Various meats configs
Item : Improvised fishing rod config
Item: Fishing hook config
Item: Fishing bait config
Item: Worm config
Localisation: Door names added to string table.
Server: Animals spawning
Server: Initial implementation of dynamic server events


Fixed:
Actions: Added conditions to crafting recipes
Actions: Wooden sticks are stackable, crafting recipes with sticks modified to take stacks into account
Actions: Catching some rain action, doesn't add water to a stomach
Actions: Removed 'isUsingSomething' variable from player's stored variables
Actions: Deconstructing improvised backpack produce wooden sticks in actual quantity required to craft it
Actions: Fireplace sound effects fixed
Actions: Fixed addressee of the messages in ignite fireplace action
Action: Changed frying time to 30s
Action: Higher probability to light fire in the wind
Actions: Splitting ruined ammo won't create a pristine stack
Actions: Bow loading action fixed
Actions: Firewood splitting action fixed
Animations: Fixed an issue where some animations were not interrupted with a death animation, when the player died
Animations: Eating, drinking, crafting animations states are now correctly connected to death states
Animations: More animations are now able to be cancelled(crafting, pills, injection)
Animations: Some basic movement with binoculars is now possible in raised pose
Config: Binoculars ability to be placed into holster
Crafting: Splint recipe fix
Gear: Changed firewood model
Gear: Road flares to last 15 minutes
Gear: Adding parameter to geometry lod to resolve alpha sorting
Gear: Road flare cannot be lit after it's has already been used
Gear: Road flare quantity is not showing in inventory for now (removed till they able to be stacked)
Gear: Added cooking subclass to other meat configs
Gear: Model filename changed for burned fillet
Items: Shoes become damaged after falling from height
Item : Long ashwood stick inventory size increased, can be placed on back
Item: Improvised short bow inventory size
Item: Binocular inventory size changed
Item: Closed tuna can, lack of inventory image fixed
Item: Closed sardines can, lack of inventory image fixed
SFX: Fixed configuration for fireplace flame sound effect
Spawns : Bugged crossbow bolt
VFX: Helicopter crash site smoke particle effect initialization
Actions: Bow loading action fixed
Actions: Firewood splitting action fixed

[kwijibo]

Wow, lots of changes there. I might have to give it a go again.

[DexterPunk]

Fuck!!


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[Durrie]

Installed new update.
Lost my guy and all his gear.
New spawn. OK, not unexpected.
Got beaten up by a Z while still waiting at the black screen. Think to myself that that's not really fair.
Spent a couple of hours collecting new gear.
Figure out where I am.
Form a new plan. Commit to memory.
Exit.
Log in a few days later.
Old guy brought back to life with all the old gear and in the old place on the map.
Disappointed not to have some of the recent gear.
Get confused about which plan I'm now following.
Log out to consider just what the hell I'm doing and have my alzheimer's checked.

[DexterPunk]

Hahaha!

Have you tried hunting yet??


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[Quincy]

Durrie, that's life! Dayz style, i'm hearing you.

Dex, I wacked a cow with an axe, just to see the outcome, surprise, surprise, I killed it!! I gingerly looked around to see if any one witnessed my brutal outburst, then slinked away from the carcass, as I had no implement to carve it up. . . woops.
My guy now, is ready for a fire and cook off. Just need to find me a deer or cow, or pig. It's been a few days since I played, i'm hoping I still have what I need.

Will be having a crack tonight, and definitely Thursday. Keep your eye out for Ned Kelly.

[DexterPunk]

I'll try and get people together soonish.


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[Quincy]

I've been running around the forests, crossbow, knife, pistol, fire kit, drinking from ponds, camo outfit, eating steak, keeping my health strong and hydrated.
Recently I discovered that the M4 scopes fit my crossbow, so I figured a trip to the camps of NWAF would net me a high powered scope, which in turn, will increase my stealth ability.

Last nights adventure started on a full server, my senses were on full alert. I decided to make the long journey to the NWAF. I came within 2kms of the fields, when I noticed 2 geared survivors up ahead amongst the same section of forest I was in. I crouched among the grasses and held tight. Within a few minutes, one of them headed out of the forest and up the hill off to my left, 1 minute later, his mate followed. What were they up too?
I layed in the grass, keeping my eyes in their general direction. Had they seen me? Was I being flanked? It wasn't long before I got my answer.
I spotted one of them, crouched, a long way off, my crossbow was of no good at that distance. Could he see me? It was a good 2 minutes, with no movement from either of us, suddenly a shot rang out, hitting the ground to my left. I was sprung!
3 shots later, one which hit me, but due to my excellent health, I didn't bleed, just blurred my vision. I needed to move or die where I lay. With a roll to the left, I jumped to my feet and ran as fast as I could, all the time thinking I will be shot in the back. weaving my way through the trees, I burst out into an open field, with little to no cover. Surely I will be shot down like a rabbit in the headlights.
Nothing, no shots. I kept running.
Was I let free because they realized I only had a crossbow?
I wasn't a threat too them?
They opened fire first, they wanted me dead, I wasn't finished. I wanted more action, I was going back. I hid in a pond among the reeds for many minutes. I hadn't been followed. I crawled my way back through the forest towards the danger zone, many minutes later, I arrived close to where I was attacked, but my attackers had left the scene.

I'm lucky to be alive.

My next adventure will see me deep among the camps, searching. . .

[DexterPunk]

Awesome! Last time I went on we walked around in a huge circle then had to log off haha. Good times. It was because my mate Scott got killed when we were on our way towards him. We are near the NEAF. Should meet up again soon.


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[Quincy]

I'll be on tonight and tomorrow (Thurs Fri) once i'm done with the NWAF i'll head back towards the new NEAF. Hopefully with last nights update to 0.46, my character hasn't been reset.

[DexterPunk]

Was it a big update??

I've been playing lots of Word of Tanks recently, so haven't been on for a bit. I'll see if any of the guys are interested in jumping in. One of them is o/s for a bit.

[Quincy]

CHANGELOG: Stable - 0.46.124490

Known Issues:
Crash caused by Fireplace kit in players Inventory
Character cloning
Player can look through walls
Zombies are spawning on spot of their death
Player is stuck in building after reconnect
Player cannot respawn properly when he has drowned
Shadow related client FPS drops
When restrained in unconscious player stays in restrained state till he reconnects



New:
Actions: You can sort out good ammunition from a ruined stack
Animations: New reload animations for Longhorn and a second reload for the Crossbow.
Animations: New reload for B95 double rifle.
Animations: MP5K reload Animations
Animations: Added aimed pose for sitting with rifle.
Animations: Drinking from pond and well.
Loot: Added MP5 with magazines
Loot: Added military Pilotka side cap
Map: Karmanovka has returned
Map: Novodmitrovsk has been added
Map: Industrial area of Novodmitrovsk has been added.
Map: Tenement area near Novodmitrovsk has been added.
Map: Dobroe village is added.
Map: New administrative buildings has been added in Novo.
Item: Flashbang grenade
Item: Hand grenade
Item: Added green and black color variants of the ZSh3 helmet. Can be crafted.
Sound: Play sound when using the bow.
Server: Security Improvement Hotfix

Fixed:
Actions: Painting 75 akm drum magazine
Actions: Crafting fur backpack
Actions: AKM buttstock painting
Actions: Breaking apart backpacks, down into parts
Actions: Leather backpack crafting
Actions: Raised chance to ignite fire in wind
Actions: Fixed crash with meat duplication in fireplace/inventory
Actions: Can't eat meat directly from the fireplace
Animations: Fixed hand movement at the end of SKS reloading.
Animations: Hand clipping in unarmed run.
Animations: Crouch walks and runs replaced with new animations.
Animations: Crouch idle pose adjusted to better show items in player's hand.
Animations: Sprint with gun replaced with new animation.
Animations: Jump and vualt animations updated
Animations: Hand poses added for granades, pelts, alcohol tincture, fishing rod, magazines, woods.
Animations: Zombie attack animations polished.
Animations: Gestures poses fixed.
Animations: Two handed arming animations fixed.
Animations: Fixed an issue where surrender kept getting cancelled when used with one handed melee weapons
Animations: Fixed an issue where vomiting was not working properly with 2 handed melee weapons
Animations: Fixed an issue where drinking animation was not playing when the player was in prone
Animations: Throwing items reconfigured, staying wound up should not prevent the player from getting knocked down or cuffed
Animations: Leaning tweaked in transitional states, should now allow for smoother transitions while leaning
Animations: Fixed an issue where the character would not roll left/right with binocs in raised prone state
Gear: Alpha sorting in alcohol tincture model
Item: Hacksaw hand placement
Sound: Arrow loading
Sound: Arrow ejecting
Sound: Fishing bait check

[DexterPunk]

Another decent update there.

[r8response]

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[Quincy]

Another riotous rendezous with Dex and his mates last night!

Within minutes of everyone meeting at a hunting platform, on the edge of a small forest, things happened rather quickly. . .


As we stood around, saying g'day, and general banter, 2 players, within 20 meters, sprinted past us, seemingly unaware of our presence!?
As we considered what to do, Dex, like a shark who has smelt blood on the current, opened fire. . . Game on! (well for some at least, I was a fresh spawn, so only had an empty magnum, i'll just sit this one out boys!)
Like cockroaches when the lights come on, everyone scattered.
Little did we know, the 2 players weren't alone and within seconds, we all were gunned down from behind.
The rest of the night we all spent mostly seperated, looting and gearing up.
Before the night was up, Dex (his mate, sorry can't remember his name) and I, decided on a campfire with a side of deer steaks, however, we had to wait for Jeremy to arrive, as we all had pickaxes, therefor couldn't cut down a tree for the much needed logs. . . and, then the server reset, our fire didn't get lit, the end.

Here's hoping our next outing wont start as roughly as our first 2.

Much fun!

[DexterPunk]

Yeah my bad haha.

I'm sure I hit one of them. They were probably sprinting out of town because of the other blokes.

Oh well... It's all well and good having all the gear that we did, but if you never try and use it, what's the point I reckon. It was actually a good night in the end. My goal this time is to get myself a decent assault rifle.


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[Quincy]

Oh well... It's all well and good having all the gear that we did, but if you never try and use it, what's the point I reckon. It was actually a good night in the end. My goal this time is to get myself a decent assault rifle.

I'm with you on that Dex. If I had a rifle I would have opened fire with you!!

[DexterPunk]

You be around at all tomorrow night Q-man?


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[Durrie]

I have an M4 that I'm having to carry around in my hands.

Its got about 20 rounds left.

If you tell me where you'll be and when, I'll let you have it

[DexterPunk]

Actually not able to make it tonight. I forgot I was working lol


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[Quincy]

Hey guys, sorry I've been in Bathurst for 3 days. Will definitely be up for a run anytime this week. If you see me online just steam msg me. Maybe try for Thursday night again if nothing sooner.

[Quincy]

I have found an AKM !! and I have two 30 rd clips !! and a kick arse scope !!

now I just want to hide in the bushes. Just me and my weapon.

[DexterPunk]

Awesome. Go snipe at one of the air fields

We've been playing Wold of Tanks a lot again... I'm sure we'll get back into DayZ soon though.

[r8response]

Ambushed an ambush on the Berry Police Station last night.

Picked up an M4 with everything but a scope. 300 odd rounds should last a while.