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Since people tend to steal faction names upon map restart, I figured I'd give the current faction members the opportunity to claim their faction name. You can only claim the name of the faction you're currently owner or mod for, and only one faction per user. If upon map restart someone else claims your faction name, report it to me and I'll check this topic if you claimed the name. If that's the case, the stolen faction will be disbanded. You can claim the faction name by replying in this topic with your Minecraft name and the faction name.

Day Z is a zombie mod for Arma 2 (that military simulation game). Rock Paper Shotgun does a way better job about what makes Day Z so amazing so go read their articles. It's like the Minecraft of zombie games: it allows you to experience your own stories in a large world that you can explore. Since it's build upon Arma 2 it has a huge map. HOW TO GET AND INSTALL DAYZ (now stop asking) And now time for my own story. This is actually my second character (first one spawned during the night and that SUCKS. Got raped by the horde). Took me long enough to log in (since the mod is still in alpha and Arma 2 isn't a beacon of stability either). Time for some images: The town where near I started. Didn't have any activity or loot, so I made my way to the forest inland. Found myself a CZ 550 rifle. Not much ammo but the scope is very handy for scouting areas. After a long hike in the woods I finally found a town. Of course zombies started appearing once I got near. Stealth mode engaged... Got myself surrounded while in a barn. If you're sneaky enough it's not hard to go around zombs, just don't let them pop up behind you. You'll find yourself in this position a LOT. Here is where shit started to get real. I wanted to get to the red building (it appeared to be enterable) but I never got near it. Got chased out of town by a horde of zombies. PROTIP: to shake of a horde of zombies, run up steep hills under such an angle that you're still running, but since zombs are zig-zagging they'll get slowed down by the steeper part and you can outrun them. You really can't outrun zombs anywhere else it seems. That cursed barn... now this is a story you'll have to sit down for. The first time I got near this barn I sneaked in quite easily and found some nice loot. There was even a Winchester rifle, but I didn't want to trade my CZ 550 for it. When I sneaked out, there was a water pump so I refilled my canteen. At that moment using the magic of fuckingh4cks a zombie somehow noticed me from behind a fence and charged at me. And so I ended up running up a hill again with 4 zombies behind me and wasting the last bit of pistol ammo I had. They were too close to shoot with my CZ 550. Took me almost 10 minutes but I managed to shake them off after running in a very large circle, and ending up back at the barn with the Winchester rifle. I immediately switched it for my CZ 550, since I prefer having a gun with ammo than a nicer gun with just 4 bullets. Again, I sneaked away from the barn. But just as I got past a nearby cow which was still happily eating grass between the zombies, I heard shots behind me. Someone else. Note that up till this point in the game, I had not encountered another player yet. I circled back around the barn a bit to see what the guy was doing. He was in the barn, where I left my CZ 550. I was anxious to say the least. Then I spotted him, and he spotted me. He had a bandit skin. I should've shot him but I didn't. I stood up, and ran. And he started shooting at me with MY GUN. 2 missed shots. I was zig-zagging like a motherfucker over the field but then it hit me. The bullet that is. I started bleeding everywhere and by the time I managed to dive behind a tree and bandage myself up my blood level was at 2500. Yeah, 9000+ is normal. My screen started seeing white (as shown in the screen shot) with the occasional blur. Also I passed out. When my character got back up on his feet I had two choices: either keep running or go back. I decided for the latter. I circled further around the barn so I ended up coming from the direction I originally came from. I still heard a few shots but then it got quiet. I tried to peek inside the barn and right at that moment I passed out AGAIN. When I came back to the world of the living a few seconds later, I finally saw the guy. He was making a dash for the field. Here I was, with a blurry uncooperative screen, and a target over 50m away. I fired. It was a Winchester alright. The guy was in blind panic and once he went prone in an attempt to get cover, I finished him off. Paypack motherfucker! I looted his body but he didn't have much on him. Some pistol ammo but that was it. I was low on blood and starving too. And thus my great journey started in an attempt to survive. My screen was blurry, had no colour, and I passed out every few minutes. The problem with the screen is that I ran into zombies a few times because I could barely see anything at all. Luckily my Winchester proved to be a faithful companion. I must've traveled around for over half an hour. And by around I mean round because I ended up back at that fucking barn. Que headdesk. And then, I again, heard firing. Shit, deja vu. But I didn't have much choice. I didn't want to be in this state forever so I once again, entered the barn. It was full of dead zombies. Maybe they were killed by that bandit I offed earlier but then again, the new guy I was staring at had an AK-47. He didn't notice me. I was literally 5m away from him and he was just staring at the ground like a dog sniffing a trail of loot. He wasn't a bandit so that was comforting at least. He went outside and ran in the direction of the forest. I decided to follow him. Luckily he seemed to be in crouch-sprint so I managed to overtake him and get his attention. I offered to trade him some stuff (mostly bandages and some ammo) for food. He could only provide me with a bag of cheetos but at least it was better than nothing. I was no longer starving and my faith in the playerbase of this game was restored. However my blood level was still barely enough to keep a hamster alive. And thus, after saying goodbye to my trading partner, my journey through the forest continued. I decided to run in a straight line in the hopes of ending up somewhere (I still have no idea where I am). Eventually I ended up at a few houses at the top of a hill, where I managed to attract a lot of unwanted undead attention. End of the line I thought. My Winchester disagreed. With my last pellets I offed about 8 zombs. The 9th zombie tasted the pistol ammo I took from the bandit's body. I crawled into one of the houses. Tired. And there it was, a big czech backpack. With nothing in it. Oh well. And so my story for today ends. I'm in the middle of nowhere. With a screen that looks like someone's rubbing yoghurt over it all the time. I've passed out about 14 times by now, with my bloodlevel being around 1300. One clip of pistol ammo. No food. Last canteen of water. But very much alive.

Date might still shift if there's news of the Minecraft 1.3 release date, since it'd be nice to coincide map resets with that update.

New map 1st of June. Proper announcement on minecraft.nl within 30 minutes or so.

Slow post day.

Got my beta key months ago by asking Garry on Steam.

Spamming f home triggers SpamGuard. Can't do much about that right now. I'll unban you.

He should be unbanned now. Just don't advertise other servers.

You're doing it wrong.

Client mods are prohibited yeah. Minimap would give you an advantage. Now way we can know if someone's using one unless they post a picture though :/

I don't really think randomness suits IW that well. People tend to get really mad when random things happen to them, even just by being chosen as a zombie. Well mad = emotion = interesting game, so I'm all for it

How about make the 'chance to ignore suit armor' an actual attribute of the meatcannon. There's a reason I never really bothered looking into it.

I don't have a problem with dominating as Behemoth at all. You're not supposed to be a one-man army, you're supposed to draw players in, surprise them, drive them away from each other. I think the swing speed of the crowbar could be increased a bit (so getting near a Behemoth is even less recommended) but that's about it.

We really don't need these.

Read the first chapter. Nice writing and great story

Also there's a Max Payne 3 comic so you can catch up with the story a bit: http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/comics

Rage-quitted after spending 5 minutes in the laser redirection room. Wasn't very fun. I did finish that other room, but it wasn't very intuitive. It took me some while to discover I first had to find that orange gel somewhere. The bigger you make your map, the clearer you have to present it.

I made a Crew thingie for the Mr. Green folk on the Rockstar Social Club: http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/mr_green Let's see if it goes anywhere.

Xray bans are permanent. Your account is your responsibility.

Raaaaaaaage 4th revision tonight. This teaches me a lot about both testing and level design. People WILL NOT solve your puzzle the right way unless it's the ONLY WAY.

Made a 3rd revision which should be idiot-proof. Of course I'm going to be proven wrong somehow but let's assume it is for now

Fixed my chamber after Shock exploited the fun out of it Your video no longer counts Shock, beat the fixed chamber.

Post your own created Portal 2 test chambers and record videos of you playing someone elses! Here's my first creation, a remake of the first Portal 2 map I made in Hammer: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=68478646

How optimistic. You guys were the ones that wanted it back