Some more vids. These Aussie guys treat it like a real-life military operation:

Anyone else wanna try and get a group together to play this later?

Yeah, what time are you on? We'll organize chat via steam then. Might need to use skype or something if there are more than a couple of us.

Start around 7.30-8 then? Anyone else game?

Id love to join but cant make it tonight, however in future if anyone wants a ventrillo server i can host on my pc with no trouble as its always on

Yeah that would probably be useful if we ever get a few of us on this.

Played this for a few hours last night with vicinity_of_pie.  It is fucking hard to coordinate at night time in this game.  When we eventually found each other through the use of a flare it attracted some bandit guy who shot me in the back (I'm not 100% convinced that it wasn't pie tbh).

Switched to a day time server and things went better until Pie attracted a whole city worth of zombies to the building that I was in...

I'm up for another game at some point today if anyone is around.

Elmlea wrote:

Nexx wrote:

It is fucking hard to coordinate at night time in this game.  When we eventually found each other through the use of a flare it attracted some bandit guy who shot me in the back

This is pretty much what I'm worried about.  All these opportunities for emergent gameplay and setting up a little township, surviving etc, but in fact 90% of players will kill other players on sight. Game needs a method of punishing those who just kill other humans willy nilly.  Surely in this situation for real, humans would be a valuable commodity?  If they nail a way to do that it'd be awesome.

After a certain amount of player kills a human will be given a bandit skin which easily identifies them.
I've played this quite a  lot over the last few dayz and have generally found most people helpful.  Or maybe I've just been lucky.

If you're cynical you could say murdering people and stealing their stuff is somewhat realistic, in that situation (end of the world, 'the dead have risen' type affair). Although it's a situation that's inherently unrealistic, but still. I'm sure if you were mobbed up and came across someone who was obviously a sitting duck you'd be more likely to take advantage of your numerical supremacy. It's vaguely justified if you think of the stuff you can get to aid your own survival, more so than many games.

Obviously in real life actually killing someone would bring up a lot more guilt and not be taken as lightly as it is in a videogame. Crazy Norwegian loners aside.

And you'd be pretty gutted if you killed someone, rifled through their possessions for the tin of beans you saw them holding and found their ID identifying them as a doctor.

"Hey look guys, another florist..." *BLAM* "Anyone for beans?"

Joking apart, it's a great idea.

Edit: And you could be sporting the apropriate skin based on your occupation so that potential allies could assess your "value". And it would mean that some people would be running around in chef whites.

Or you'd find a cluster of lawyers huddled in the corner of a barn somewhere.

All the more reason to get in early I think.  That element will swarm over it once it really hits the headlines.

I did stumble upon a group of 3 people watching the only entrance to a garage.  There was a bandit in there and they were administering a bit of vigilante justice.
The game does foster a cooperative feeling.  I spent about an hour escorting a player to a town because he kept fainting every 2 minutes due to lack of blood and I was providing an overwatch while he came round.  There was a great feeling of satisfaction when we got to the town and he was able to get blood, even though I got nothing out of it.

Nexx wrote:

Switched to a day time server and things went better until Pie attracted a whole city worth of zombies to the building that I was in... I'm up for another game at some point today if anyone is around.

Hey, wasn't I the one who sacrificed my life when about 15 zombies were chasing us (i.e. I tried to confuse them by running around buildings and Nexx legged it so I would take the fall).

At least we learned never to shoot in Chernogorsk when we tried to meet up there.

I'll probably be up for playing more of this again later as well.

Some pals are hoping to gang up and take the game super seriously when they're done with D3, i havent been so enthused by the idea of pretending im someone else in ages, i really should pull my finger out and have a game with you folks