Thursday, July 26, 2012

Day Z

This is actually an online zombie survival mod created for Arma II. To install it, you must download Arma II and Arma II:Operation Arrowhead. Then you have to start up both games at least once (just get to the main menu screen in each game is fine. After that, you download a program called "Six Launcher". This lets you run the mods. After everything is downloaded/installed, you start up Six Launcher and find the Day Z mod. You have to install that and download all of the updates, it does not take very long, unless you have poor internet connection, the download time might be longer if you do. Once all that is done, just click a server and hit "launch". The game should start up with the mod on it.

You spawn at a random spot with not much on you, just a flashlight, some painkillers, and a few other items in your back pack. There are weapons and all kinds of supplies all throughout the map that you want to go and find to stay alive. There is no punching in this game or slugging someone with your flashlight, so at first, you are pretty much helpless until you find some weapons. Weapons and supplies can be found mainly in buildings. You have to be careful though because buildings mean villages which means a lot of zombies. In the game you also have needs, you have to eat and drink to stay alive. Animals can be found and killed for their meat, and there are soda cans and water bottles you can find for a drink (I suggest finding a water bottle, as far as I know, those are the only things able to be refilled). Not only that, if you get hurt and are bleeding, you can actually bleed to death so bandages, pain killers, and blood packs from hospitals come in handy. If you are not the type to handle deaths too well, I don't suggest you download this because you are going to die. A LOT. If not from a zombie, then from starvation, dehydration, blood loss, or even a fellow human. Yes, will most likely be other people playing on the server and a lot of them kill other humans. The game sort of went from zombie survival to just plain kill or be killed. They then loot the dead bodies (yours or a dead zombies) and go off in search of something else to kill and loot. So, unless you are on with friends, I suggest you don't try to make other friends because most will end up shooting you down. Not only is there equipment, there are also cars and buses you might come upon and can actually drive so with a group of friends, this can be really fun, just make sure you have some spare gas for the car.

So, your basic zombie survival, this one has a bigger touch on reality than others though. If you can handle the deaths and enjoy just playing, I highly suggest playing this. It is loads of fun when you are playing with friends and run around in groups, protecting each other or sometimes backstabbing each other.

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