Anyone playing this mod http://dayzmod.com/

 

A buddy of mine mentioned his son was playing then I happened across an article that mentioned the MOD as well.

 

Looked pretty good so I'm going to grab the Arma 2 bundle on steam and see how it is. Best description I have seen is an FPS MMO based in a Walking Dead type world. You have to find scavenge all your goods and avoid other looters and zombies. If anyone is interested in playing let me know we can arrange a time to get in game and work as a team or squad.

I watched all the videos i could find on it it looks like a ton of fun, even more if you get a group of people you know!

And coordinate on a voip prog such as ts...

Played for the first time last night and was lucky enough to run across a fellow that helped me out immensely. Gave me a couple guns, some food and water and showed me where to find supplies. Fist impressions were great! Its not the prettiest FPS out but didn't look bad. The zombies are quite odd ranging from crawlers hoppers and runners. Having a team would be better as I am now out of ammo and having to stealthily work my way towards a store in the center of town infested with zombies. The in game VOIP works pretty good and is positional as if your right there chatting but if you move away from a team mate you lose direct voice after 40 meters or so. I lost track of my team mate and was thinking crap now what. fortunately for me he saw the direction I was running and tracked me down. It was a good thing too as I had been mauled and needed blood. The game had me seeing black and white with blurred vision even passing out without the ability to talk until I gained consciousnesses. A quick transfusion from a bag of blood he had and I was right as rain. Equipment is persistent across the servers as well as location. Some pointers that he gave me were to look for low populated servers and head north to the airfield to find good military gear. The reason for low population servers is that you find more loot and dont have to worry so much about bandits, So if your in game and you see a player named Zombie make sure you salute using your back slash key to signal your a friendly and say hi.

awesome sounds like fun!

only problem with the game atm is that ur stuff isnt saving like it should so with the next update i'm hopping thats fixed then i'll play.

OK so with all the extra Huricane time I honed my skills in Dayz. The friendly player I met seems to be the exception to the rule here. While being frustrated to gather some good gear only to loose it by being sniped its made me a smarter player. I did have the opportunity to play with a group which was better as they showed me a few tricks in the game like using an axe to beat my zombies instead of the loud bang of a shotgun. Here are some tips Army zombies can climb, as well as a few others. Some zombies have apparition like skills and can walk through closed doors. the best gear is really the simplest, an axe, matches, hunting knife will allow you to kill forest animals and eat them. A canteen is refillable and bandages a re a must. And for those broken limbs a morphine auto injector keeps ya going.

 

By the way you can crawl from balota airstrip to the store in cherno, only to get whacked by a bandit while waiting for your buddy to return with meds. There is Karma however because the same bandit was killed by a zombie right after shooting me, and my buddy recovered all my gear and the bandits.

 

A great resource is http://dayzdb.com it has a great map which I have open on a second screen, only problem is sometimes getting disoriented and going the wrong direction.

 

I'll keep ya updated as I travel!

I know this post is more then 2 years old, but the people that made the mod of this game have started to create a standalone version of this game and is now in alpha after a very successful crowdfunded launch. It is now in alpha staet and they are working on the game but we can be part of the development of this game.

 

I paid my pre-release access and I am enjoying this game a lot. I think this could be a fun game for us. It is, at the same time, more soft pace but also more intense then BF4.

 

Hope you try it.