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Running Epoch/overpoch, or Dayz 1.9 mod Installing Antihack located on the panel. When installing the antihack purchased from survival servers. Make sure to click the (i) info icon next to the antihack checkbox and download the latest file set. Head to your arma 2 server panel and locate the Antihack box on the right side 2.
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We like legitimate play here.- Vanilla DayZMod Info:.Release 1.9.0 /.- Epoch Mod Info:.Release 1.0.6.2 /.- Tools, Tips & Guides:. This guide is set up in three parts. First part aims at explaining concepts and functions more indepth and with some context. Second part has the same information presented in a way which is faster to digest and third part is a collection of tricks, tips and suggestions.NB! Currently, part one is read, probably needs some editing, but with the release of 1.8.9 I thought releasing it was more important. Working on part 2, which will be released shortly.
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At the very end of this wall of text youll find the initial guide, which was a semi-organized list of tips and tricks, if you feel you have little time or can't read the first part for other reasons. Initial setupBefore you start playing the game, familiarize yourself with the keybindings, edit them accordingly and make sure your graphics are set up properly.The amount of keybindings in Armed Assault 2 is overwhelming at first, but getting used to that complexity can be immensely rewarding. It might be helpful to set them up in a familiar way, based on the layout you’re used to from other games. Also note that each key can potentially have up to 5 functions.
A single tap, a double tap, combined with SHIFT, combined with ALT and combined with CTRL can all be used to have differentiate between different tasks and functions under a single key.DayZ graphics settings impact performance, so familiarize yourself with what they do and find settings which are comfortable to you. Advanced users can find various performance improving tweaks and apply them at their discretion.Some servers have a dynamic day/night cycle, in night time, your “HDR Quality” should be set to at least High, gamma and brightness adjusted according to your comfort and “-skipintro” should be added to command line at Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead and Arma 2: DayZ Mod launch options (right click on game in Steam games list, select “Properties”, open “Set Launch Options”)Basic navigation.Pay close attention to the location you spawn at. It is shown only once after you spawn or log in into the server, at the bottom right of the screen. This will help you in figuring out where you are and help you plan your route afterwards.Whether you are a “fresh spawn” (newly spawned on the shores) or logging in inland (resuming your previous session), there are different methods to use for navigation, depending on what you want to do next, but in both cases your location is provided to you as explained above.If you spawn at the shore, initial navigation is simple. There are plenty of small towns and 3 major cities along the coastline.
If you know your current location and you need to find some gear, food, weapons, finding a town or a city just requires you to stay close to the coastline.If you happen to spawn inland, resuming your previous session and if you lack navigation tools ( compass, map, GPS), there are several methods you can use.Open a DayZ Mod map on your secondary screen, smartphone, tablet or Steam overlay browser. You can find a DayZ Mod Chernarus map on Google. Finding your location (provided to you when you log in initially) on the map should be simple.Some general guidelines:.Clouds always move from West to East, this will work a simple compass.Roads are the easiest to use for navigation and they keep you from getting lost.Terrain features such as lakes, hills, open areas with distinctive features is also something you should keep track of.If you’re navigating using immediate surroundings, the easiest way to get lost is to follow the terrain features without paying attention to which direction those features are leading you. One way to avoid that is by using more distant elements to stay on course.
It is not uncommon for people to circle around a hillside and end up where they started.More advanced navigation techniques involve position of the sun and moon at specific day/night time, aswell as direction of the shadows and constellations. Arma 2 simulates those features rather well, so real-life knowledge in those areas can be applied to the gameLooting.Survival in DayZ is not just about cooperating with, avoiding or killing other players. Infected, zombie-like creatures, starvation, thirst and sickness pose a threat aswell.
The game is full of items, tools and weapons to help you in dealing with those dangers and threats. The fastest way to get properly geared up in order to tackle various challenges in the game is to find the nearest city. Beware, though- abundance of loot attracts other, competing players aswell.Generally, most manmade objects and buildings have something useful: food, drinks, tools, weapons (both melee and firearms). As you move further inland, you may come across crashed helicopters, which, depending on how lucky you are, may have the best weapons and tactical items in the game.There is also a certain principle to how loot spawns on the map. Various tools and building resources tends to spawn at industrial areas and buildings, civilian weapons at residential houses and farms and so fourth. With experience, some practice and research you will be able to intuitively gravitate towards areas which fulfil your specific needs.However, in order to obtain the basic tools necessary for survival, it is usually best to head for the nearest town, or strip the gear from your victims, players you kill or who have met their demise in other ways.As you travel further up North, you will find airfields, which usually have an abundance of military grade weapons and gear. From assault rifles to night vision googles.Every once in a while you may come across infected camps or supply drops.
These are randomly placed on the map with each restart and they are a source of food, medical items and tools.The best weapons and items in the game spawn at helicopter crash sites, indicated by thick black smoke, or a bright plume of fire at night.Alternatively, you may come across stashes and tents which hold other people’s valuables.HealthcareStarvation, thirst, sickness and cold- these are constant challenges you need to overcome, regardless of where you travel. Canned food and drinks can be consumed without any preparation, however hunting and cooking wild animals requires tools. A knife for skinning and gutting animals you hunt, a hatchet to cut down trees and prepare firewood and matches to light a fire are essential for any self-sufficient survivor.
You can find already prepared firewood in the form of wood piles in most urban locations, and there are barrels already set alight which can provide you with fire to cook your raw meat incase you are missing some of the essential items needed to cook meat.Every once in a while, you may be desperate enough to eat raw meat, but beware, uncooked meat carries the risk of infection, so you might trade the risk of death from starvation for another- sickness. Along with sodas, beer and water bottles, you can quench your thirst by drinking from water pumps, which are the safest water sources. Wells carry a risk of infection and when you are about to drink from a natural source like lakes or ponds, make sure to look around- dead bodies near the water body means drinking there will infect you and make you sick.Hypothermia (low body temperature), raw food, infected water and occasional unlucky infected wounds, all of these may or will make you sick. There are several ways to treat yourself in those situations.If you’re sick, your blood level icon changes accordingly and your character starts coughing periodically. There are three ways to treat yourself- pitch up a tent of your own or find one already set up and use the “rest” function. It might take you a while, but you’ll be cured eventually. Antibiotics offer a quick remedy, these are often found in hospitals, at supply drops or in infected camps.
They may even be found on dead infected.Sometimes, after being hit by a zombie, a message might pop up, warning you of your wounds being infected. You then have 15 minutes to clean your wounds, otherwise the wound will fester and you become sick.
You’ll need wipes or septic bandages to treat those wounds. Septic bandages can be crafted by combining regular bandages with comfrey leaves.Hypothermia can be avoided by keeping your body temperature at a healthy level. Heatpacks, campfires and other sources of heat offer the fastest way to get your body heat back up. Running helps you with maintaining your body temperature and staying indoors does the same. On the other hand- nighttime, wind, open fields and elevated terrain lower your body heat.As you encounter threats in the game, your health, indicated by the icon which looks like a blood drop, may take a toll. Eating food, resting at tents and applying self blood bags (empty bloodbags which you can fill with your own blood) are the things you can do on your own, however in order to get fully healed in the fastest possible way, you need someone else to perform a blood transfusion on you. Beware though, only 0- blood type is universal.
If you or your partner don’t have those, you may need to find a bloodbag of appropriate type and a blood testing kit to find out which type of blood you have.Broken bones (as indicated by a corresponding icon), an injury often occurring after being injured in a firefight, a fall or by an infected can only be cured by using morphine autoinjector, which can be found or a splint, which you can craft yourself.After sustaining injuries, you might notice your gun shaking or swaying in a way which doesn’t look like its caused by low blood, sickness or fatigue. It is likely due to pain, which is what painkillers are for.An item often found useful when you’re playing with someone else- epinephrine autoinjector. This can be used on an unconscious player to wake them up.Tackling various threatsHypothermia, starvation, thirst and infections are just some of the threats you have to deal with. The Infected pose the most common challenge in DayZ. They prohibit you from looting, may infect you or break your legs, reveal your location to other players and are a nuisance overall.
While difficult to deal with at first, there are several methods you can use when meeting them.Get a melee weapon, as these are stealthy and using them will not attract the attention from other players or nearby infected. Baseball bats, crowbars, hatchets or machetes are all fairly common, on your hierarchy of priorities, this should be near the very top.If you happen to be unarmed, running away from them is equally effective.Hiding in spruces or thick bushes makes you invisible to the infected.The infected can’t run indoors.Once an infected is agitated, as indicated by the aggressive sound they make when they start running, the infected can be lured away from you by throwing a flare or a chemlight. However, this requires the infected to first lose interest in you and hiding in a bush or a spruce is the easiest way to accomplish this.The most dangerous foe in DayZ is another player, though, so finding a firearm to defend yourself is just as important as finding survival equipment.VehiclesDayZ offers a variety of means of mechanised transportation, from simple pushbikes to armed troop transport helicopters like the UH1 “Huey”. When they spawn, most of them require some repairs, some, however, are already usable.
In order to figure out which part requires maintenance, you first need to have a toolbox. Repair vehicle option shows various parts and their condition in percentage values. As a rule of thumb, damage above 90% means that particular part is inoperable. Repairing some of them is straightforward: wheels require wheels, glasses require glasses and so on. Others are less obvious. There is a specific set of rules on how you lose humanity. It´s a little more complex than it looks, but the basic idea is still the same- shoot at heroes/survivors, receive minus humanity points.
Shoot at bandits/people in camouflage- receive no points.You get positive humanity by giving any type of medical aid to any player in any camouflage/skin.And now theres a thing called 'open target'. If you hit a player who is not a bandit, you are an 'open target', which means that irregardless of the skin you wear, you can be shot at and killed with no humanity penalties.ie. If youre a hero and you shoot a survivor and hit/kill him, while he is not an 'open target', you lose humanity points and are an 'open target' for 30 minutes, which means that despite your hero skin, you can be shot at/killed during those 30 minutes with no penalties. If that survivor/hero was wearing soldier camouflage/ghillie suit, you still become an open target.