DayZ - New Map project.

I am not playing DayZ as much as I decided to make a HTML based aid called "Where the F*%# am I?"

It will in short ask you a series of questions until it will give you a 80% accurate location, depending if the user did it correctly.

So i have been spending most my day looking for key points.

White Barns.
Gray Barns.
Big gray barns
Big white Barns (AKA cattle sheds)
Statues
Cranes
Gas Stations
White Churches
Yellow Churches

Your guide will be Victor, A drunken cilivian who seems to be drunk and well forgetful. He will ask you questions for him to remember where you might be, comrade.

Most the questions be visual pictures, like looking outside buildings or buildings next door.

Once the mapping portion is completed. victor will give town stats, What it contains, how many buildings are accessible and  

DayZ - Kind of Failed Ideas (part 1)

In DayZ, Every one wants to improve the Mod or add something that they think is a cool idea. A few threads have appeared about the concept of tagging or leaving Graffiti like in  the Left 4 Dead series (L4d 3 is coming). Some have suggested on using spray paint or a magic marker where you draw on objects like paint shop pro







Fictional: So let say that the developers were able to script in the ability (with no server memory drain) to use magic markers to write in the game.

What the mods would expect is advice giving to players or even comments or a way to track if you been here. Which is a commendable but as most players know this is DayZ, where a player would kill a new player just for their bandage, not because they need it, just because they can take it.

What would end up is a bunch of smucks insulting players or drawing body organs on dead corpses or (I cringe at this thought) draw every inch of the town black.

Reality: Of course this is in pure theory and most likely if this was possible to add this feature, it would have huge restrictions, Like a player has a very limited amount of tagging or drawing before the old tags/spray would cause it despawn just to not slow down the server memory.

If they do implement it, it would most likely it be similar to Left 4 dead but again comes down the memory of the server and things like, Will tags spawn when players about to enter towns? Will they vanish when server resets? Will there be script issues? What if some one drawn something offensive on the wall? etc etc

Maybe if they made their stand alone game they can script it but for Arma 2 it is just not possible.

DayZ - Understanding the Red Broken Chain Link

As I excited the forest after an hour of  running through the wilderness, only having grass, trees and sky as company. “Behold, A town!” I cheered to no one in particular. I then jived as I then had spotted a grocery store near by. I mildly noticed a red icon broken chain link and also Zombie population is 6/6 but I didn't really think much about it.

As I crouch-ran to the grocery store, A zed spotted me. It then charged, so in response I fired my rifle, Another came around the corner and I noticed the zombie count had raised from 6 to 310 in my debug menu. As I downed the second zed, Zombies came poured from the grocery store, Behind buildings, from the fields all at me.

As I flee back into the mountains, I had realized that my red broken chain icon was gone.
What had happened was that my latency with the server was severed for a certain amount of time. Since I had ran into the town while I had the wonderful Red Chain of Death, the server didn't know my location, so it didn't populate the area with Zeds and loot but when the latency was re-established (or was strong enough connection) the server instantly spawned zeds and items around me.

My advice is to watch for yellow or red broken chain, So be careful when in probable zombie infested towns.

On public servers you will see this more than private servers. Although I have had where I went through 5 towns and was zed free.

DayZ - Maps = Free Loot and transport

Having a Map in DayZ is like eating a blue berry pie fresh from the oven with home made ice cream dobbed on the side.

"What am I rambling about? It's just a map for [Insert Figure head of religion that was murdered] sake?" You may ask. Yes it's a map but it has another purpose.

A lot of players in DayZ are well, to be honest, are more stupid than the zeds hocked up on bath salts. When you get map, you can leave notes you want (On the picture on the right side i wrote "Homeless Joe" on one server). There is a small problem when you do this, Every one who owns the in-game map can read all notes on that server. So many times I had found that people had left notes that said "Camp" or "ATV" or my favorite one "My back up gear".

When I had found these treasures on the map, I mosey on over to the locations and help myself or just go for a joy ride. Tonight, I had found a hacker's ATV that had 3 golden guns, 5 gillies, tons of other crap that was unattainable in DayZ. I decided to help ease the hacker's guilty conscious by taking that evil ATV for a ride and so I had rode off with it into the sunset, a few minutes later, I had found the ATV's new home, A pond. And so I parked the ATV at the bottom of the lake. Most likely the hacker will just make another ATV but hopefully battleye might catch them.

My advice for you DayZ'ers is only use the in-game map's notes if you want to share information to other people like, Broken Truck. So when people who looking for vehicles can find it easier to repair it they can read it on the ingame map. If you want hide your stash or vehicles from the world, then use coordinates and write them down on a piece of paper.

DayZ- Finally my account is reinstated

Finally My blog is live once again,

Long story short, since it's not DayZ relevant, there seems to be this traffic program and increases bloggers counts (not sure why but it has to do with money). Well google blocked my account but finally they said "Yes, You are human" and gave it back.

So coming up, Explanation of the chains and how to be a non-zombie survivor and my DayZ doodles.

oh, here's a creepy Gif. 

DayZ - Most Clever or Common hacks used on players in DayZ.

If you are one of my regular blog readers, You may of noticed that I had stop writing my adventures in DayZ for a few reasons.

1. Hackers (aka kiddy scriptors) are a pain in the backside and are kill joys.
2. The fact that my character gets spawned back at the coast (even though I am logging in the same server with the updated files) and I have to head back into the mountains.
3. My character dies from random bugs.

What most players do not realized DayZ is in it's Alpha/Beta and it will have bugs and hackers and exploits.

So today I will talk about what hackers/Kiddy scriptors do in DayZ.

1. Welcome to the ThunderDome!
In the mid 1980's there was a movie called "Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome".The plot was about the whole economy collapsed when Gas was tapped out. In the movie, people where thrown in a pit with a giant metal dome cage and would fight to the death.


The normal location of where it is held is the major airfield. They also put a tents down with weapon and ammo creates.

Players were then instantly transported to the airfield, where all their gear gets  stripped except their clothes & backpack with the message...

"WELCOME TO THE THUNDER DOME, GUNS ARE IN THE AMMO CRATES, FIGHT TO THE DEATH! UH1H WILL SPAWN IN 5 MINUTES!". 

UH1H is a helicopter that allows you to leave the dome but i heard stories that it never happen.

People from all over the server are now scrambling to get weapons to kill each other, DayZ is a dog eat dog world. Of course if  they all realized that if no one kills each other, their chances are better at escaping. If you get killed or win you do not get Teleported back and get your gear back, nope. You will have to restart from scratch.If you abort and come back later you be back in the airfield with no gear.

2. The Axe Murders

Even though I detest scripters, this is one of the most creative and horrific hacks in DayZ.

Imagine this, you and your buddies are on your own running through the wilderness heading to some location. Smoke appears near you. You all ask each other "Who did that?" Then you hear a little girl singing "It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring" continuously. You scratch your heads of the events that are unfolding. Then suddenly Jason Voorhees holding an axe appears from the smoke.  

Your face wrinkles with confusion as Jason comes running at you. One of your buddies decides to unload an entire clip into jason with  m16, The bullets doesn't even phase him. You wised up and fired your bullets at  Jason but find out as well that it is fruitless.

As one, you flee while axe murderer is hot on your heels, while still playing that creepy music.

There are variations, Jason would go invisible and just play the creepy child song over and over, or teleport in front of you.

From what i vaguely grasp it is a combination of scripts of teleportation, invisibility, creating items (Axe and smoke grenade), invulnerability and changing the skins. Arma 2 actually has a very large selection of skins but we only see a few skins in DayZ.

3. Teleportation of Death
One of the most common and unoriginal way of hacking in DayZ. So you are doing your own thing and next thing you are teleported to a various location and the following would happen.
A: You are in the sky and you fall to your death like lemmings.
B: You just die instantly with every one near you.
C: You get shot.
D: You get nuked.

E: Run you over with a vehicle like a Bus or a helicopter.

*The only way is to Abort instantly when you get teleported.

4. Server Nuke or Town Nukes.
Server nuke is they instantly kill every one alive or a nuke blew up the entire server in one go. Difference of the two is the first one just kills all living things. Second destroys buildings also.

Town Nukes is when some one blows up a building or a town.


5. Loot bait.
Another common hacker trick is to leave creates of loot lying around the game. Where a player would find it, loot it and then find out that they got banned entirely by battleye.  My advice, do not take loot from suspicious crates.

DayZ the Stupidity of Scriptors.

Today I wanted to talk about a post on the DayZ forum. I normally just read up on the forum's questions, debates, bugs and people needing help with. I never posted there or I have an account to the forum for most people with the same frame of mind like myself would respond.

I found a thread that kind of amused me.









So, Let's guess what he got banned for?

A) Banned from a certain server for Spawn killing?
B) Banned from a certain server for Camping Loot by logging back in hourly?
C) Banned from a certain server for Talking in Global Voice Chat?
D) Banned from a certain server for Killing the admin?
E) Banned from for hacking (I prefer the term kiddy scripting)?
F) Banned from a certain server for no real reason, that the player was a ware of?
G) Banned from a certain server for heckling the owners youtube videos?

The answer is:

If you picked F, Then you are totally incorrect, The answer is E.

So lets compare the title of the post to the story. So he got banned for no reason, yet he openly admits to scripting on a private server.

The members of DayZ Forums explain to the banned player that what he had done is a global ban and well, he screwed himself. One member just tells the person to stop hacking, He replies.

Well, Yes, Yes you are stupid. You got busted for Scripting. The banned player openly wonders why people of DayZ Forums are not being helpful so he had tried to defend himself.

 Let's say you got arrested for stealing in a store, Now you have a criminal record, it is stuck to you for rest of your life, Now if  you went back to the same store two weeks later and bought the same product that you failed to steal, doesn't mean every thing is even now. You did the crime and you do the time.

Don't get me wrong, there are ways to get unbanned in DayZ/Arma 2.

Why did I even post about this? It's to show the people how pathetic these hackers/scriptors are when they get caught and act like what they did was a minor offense. 

IMO.