What Else Is Going On?: Arma II - Day Z

@GeneralBison said:

@Hero_Swe said:

Oh dear, my failure to keep Vinny alive is now archived for all to see. :P

It was his own fault, he wasn't reading anything you typed. SO INFURIATING TO WATCH!

it was however pretty funny seing him just standing there after hearing pops and cracks and everyone else hitting the deck.

This was such a wreck. I loved it.

enjoyed this a lot. Vinny and Drew content is great. Really enjoyed the Load Our Last Save feature from before and this reminds me of that.

That was pretty cool, really hope you guys come back to Day Z later. Would love to see you guys play that game maybe just kill any player you see next time.

I gotta ask again... does 720p work for everyone else? Is it only broken for me?

EDIT: Checked, it's only broken on firefox, works perfectly on chrome.

@dr_mantas: Thanks for the heads up.

Hopefully we'll see them give DayZ another try in the future. And hopefully then they won't say which server they're playing on, so they can avoid the "LOL I KILLED THE STREAMER LOLOLOL" people.

Dat Rorie impression.

This looks pretty damn cool, or at least it will once some of its issues get worked out.

@Sharpless said:

This is an absolutely fantastic video. This mod looks amazing. I don't normally go for things like these, but the idea of a realistic post-apocalyptic zombie shooter sounds great. It's a pity I can't justify spending $40 on Arma II and Arma II: OA right now.

Wait, I generally see Arma II and it's expansions sold for like $4 each, even if you grab all of them (there are 4 aren't there?) it would be less than $20.

I just bought Arma II: CO ......Drew and Vinny need to get into selling games.

This was a beautiful trainwreck.

@Asseroth said:

Why are they not looking at the ping when choosing servers???

Because all the servers were either full or empty pretty much. There weren't many options when you are looking for one that was mostly full but could fit a few dudes in it too.

PC gaming!

I really enjoyed this video. There seems to be something oddly compelling about the game. Hopefully you guys do end up taking a look again further in development.

Shame to read that the deaths were mostly caused by e-stalkers.

@Flacracker said:

It was me who killed them the first time.

Thanks for that. The 30+ minutes of aimless running along the coast after that was really enjoyable.

Meanwhile on the forgotten platform of PC.

Gotta love PC gaming.

@Hero_Swe: Are you the same guy credited in this Criken vid? *link edited*

server crashes aside, when vinny gets a couple of players to help him go and look for drew and along the way they meet another dude who betrays and kills them, that seemed like the most accurate, emergent zombie-movie senario a game has pulled off.

Am I the only one who thought this game looks like a complete shit show? I love STALKER but this looks like a busted even more Eastern European version of STALKER excluding the extra layer of connection issues.

@jbrady: This is very true... Initially I was kind of hopeful about the people who turned up to HELP Vinny, and the quest to find Drew seemed perfect as a kind of plausible zombe trope reason to band together.

Bandits seem to be necessary to keep the game compelling, and apparently there's potential use in killing... it's just a shame that trolling in another forum becomes a meta justification.

You killed Zombie Jamie!

He was a zombie?

@dr_mantas said:

I gotta ask again... does 720p work for everyone else? Is it only broken for me?

EDIT: Checked, it's only broken on firefox, works perfectly on chrome.

Firefox is busted for me, as well. Boo.

@csl316 said:

@dr_mantas said:

I gotta ask again... does 720p work for everyone else? Is it only broken for me?

EDIT: Checked, it's only broken on firefox, works perfectly on chrome.

Firefox is busted for me, as well. Boo.

I'm using Chrome and it's busted for me too.

First Jamie took down Tested, now he's coming for you Vinny!

Call me Whine-y McWhinerton, but not being able to hit the spacebar to pause on this new video player is the worst.

Need more Arma 2 day z!

This is all I've been playing this week and its absolutey stupendous at times. Throw in TrackIR and some good headphones and you have a terribly immersive and absolutely terrifying game.

Playing through the night in the middle of a rain storm, creeping through woods running low on water and knowing the only place to replenish it is in a town where the zombies are, or going to the dark side and ambushing or betraying a fellow human for their supply...well, its not many games that ask you to make choices like that while scaring the pants of you.

Really hope they improve the zombie AI a bit as it progresses, as at the moment there is not a lot you can do to throw them off once you're being chased. A bit more fallibility would be nice. Also some random encounters away from towns and settlements would make things more.... interesting when out in the sticks...

Even some of the bugs are a bit crazy. Was lost deep in the woods, far from the coast at night. I had given up a bit of caution and was carrying a flare to see, which is a dangerous thing to do for obvious reasons shown in this video.

Suddenly right on the periphery of my vision a stationary figure came into the light. It was a survivor, standing motionless in the middle of nowhere. And then as I edged past him, sure he was going to move and shoot me, I finally turned and ran straight into another. Nearly crapped myself :D

Guess both were just glitched or something as they never moved a muscle, but in the dark, with the music and ambient woods noise, and red sputtering light of the flare....very creepy stuff!

They really need better titling/icon for video features. Just by looking at the icon and title I assume this was just a trailer for the game and completely ignored it til now, I've gotten so bored I would watch anything.

I been staring at the site the past 2 days hoping for some video feature and though there was nothing. : (

The GB community continue to do their best to crap up GB content.

this makes me want to play STALKER shoc again

@mak_wikus said:

720p won't start.

Same here. I'm only getting 360p to work on this for some reason.

EDIT: Oh, wow. Watching it in 720p over on YouTube really brings home how blocky the new video player is.

This new video player SUCKS!

Played this tonight, friend asked me where I was in the game I told him "lighthouse near the shore" 50 minutes later he said he was there and I should meet him at the lighthouse. I had already been running for 40 minutes in a completely different direction.

Everything was dark, killed 23 zombies, barely had enough ammo, survived off of stolen pepsi and beans. The mod is fucked up and crazy, but I love it.

Mod needs to use some arma vehicles, or have a party system. I felt so alone wandering for a good hour and almost dying of starvation and dehydration before I found a zombie that had pepsi on him.

I was playing with a few friends online, but never saw them or anyone else.

Gonna try playing during daylight. Night was brutal and lonely

Hero_Swe...awkward stalker is awkwardly stalking.

Worst original Giant Bomb video content ever?

I'm surprised that I find this mod so intriguing. I'm actually looking for more game play / commentary videos of it on YouTube. The blend of realistic and the sometimes movie like quality of it can be intense. I was watching a video on YouTube where a helicopter flew over and the guy playing immediately hit the dirt. Then watched as it flew away. In that instance I thought to myself "I've got to play this."

Maybe ArmA 2 will go on sale sometime soon. I'm not so sure if I would like the main game of ArmA.

enjoyed the video. Watching Vinny and Drew struggle with a game in alpha was actually quite entertaining. The banter made a frustrating time fun.

This new player seems to behave in progressive only, not streaming. So for example, if I try skip an hour ahead, it has to wait for it to download, before it can jump to that part.

Bits of this game seem amazing, other bits seem terrible. But it seems to manage the atmosphere I Am Alive was trying to get very well.

Wow, this live stream was rough. Way to show off the joys of PC gaming.

The entire time I was watching this, all I could think was: Why hasn't someone made a zombie apocalypse MMO yet? It seems obvious; meet up with other survivors, create a party and go out into instanced zombie infested zones for supplies (NPC: I need 10 bottles of water from the old Super Market. Other NPC: I need 20 bandages from the old abandoned Hospital. The quests write themselves). I mean, with the creatively bankrupt big budget developers of today, it REALLY seems like it would've been done by now. And with the fucking morons out there who love zombies - the most boring of all monsters - and religiously, blindly buy anything with a zombie in it, it's instant money. How has Bobby Kotick not rushed this game into production yet!?! It's baffling.

This video was boring. Zombies still suck, but man - Vinny and Dave should've planned this thing out better. Or edited it, or something. You have to scrub through a good portion of it to get to anything good. No wonder this was not a Quick Look.

Oh well, thanks for putting this out today anyway. The first half of the week sucks on Giantbomb now. You guys don't post anything interesting until the week is almost over now. But then we get a few good Quick Looks. It's a really weird schedule y'all are running there nowadays.

The mod still needs some work, but it looks like it could be fun when they finish it. Did laugh when Vinny said he was being chased by jamie hyneman from mythbusters. Wonder could this work better server wise on a console.

@HBK619 said:

Hero_Swe...awkward stalker is awkwardly stalking.

I think they did a good job trying to protect them. But you can't plan ahead with server problems and griefers. This video is very representative of my first hour in this mod.

@HBK619 said:

Hero_Swe...awkward stalker is awkwardly stalking.

I think they did a good job trying to protect them. But you can't plan ahead with server problems and griefers. This video is very representative of my first hour in this mod.

@vinsanityv22: There are zombie MMOs. I'm not playing any of them and can't remember their names but they are out there.

The guys helping Vinny out were cool.

I learned today that Vinny doesn't know how to play minesweeper

If I had a lot of free time I'd play this over an MMO. I look forward to more from Vinny, Drew, and possibly young Dave.

@Stonyman65: Yeah it really does.. i used to jump in and out of videos when i had free time, now i cant jump to say 20 minutes in because it wants to buffer first... poor video player overall, also an option to automatically start the videos in 720p would be nice.

Nice effort here Vinny and Drew, even if the game is a bit busted it was still rather funny seeing Vinny sprint away from the guy from Mythbusters and Drew get mowed down by the mysterious bandit.