Day Z standalone

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Anyone else have this yet? It's still in Alpha stages but you ca get early access on steam. I picked it up last night and ran around for hours searching homes. ended up with a firemans axe, lots of soda and canned food, a rain jacket, a med kit, tons of rags to bandage myself and some sweet sunglasses B) Ended up getting killed by a zombie but not before I was accused of being an axe murderer and gave up some supplies to appease some fellow survivors.

here's some funny DayZ videos

More of the best DayZ videos so far: a DayZ dance-off, gas station roulette and trouserless cultists | PC Gamer

some rules to live by:
You will most likely die within 15 minutes (based off of actual server statistics)

* Until you know what you're doing, you will struggle to find weapons, medicine, food and drink.

* Nearly everyone you meet will be outfitted like a Spetsnaz death squad with silenced automatic weapons. If this were the mod, they would probably also have a helicopter gunship.

* Back in the day there was always a sniper with a thermal scoped .50 cal rifle at Cherno, Elektro and NWAF. Stary, Balota and the corridor between Kamenka and NWAF were no picnic either.

* If someone offered you a ride, it was probably to drop you off in the middle of nowhere and kill you. They would also probably rape you if that was a feature in the game.

* Your biggest threats are other players, opening doors, ladders, rocks, zombies, thirst, hunger

* Back in the day, you had a fair chance of dying from simply being instakilled or dropped into a Thunderdome by a hacker.

* Even someone who is friendly will likely turn on you when the opportunity presents itself.

* You go to known military weapon spawns and are surprised someone KoS you? What were YOU doing there? Dropping of donations to UNICEF?

* I can see you. Seriously. It freaks me out because I figure if you have no idea I'm watching you, who the smurf might be watching me right now!?

* If loot wasn't sort of rare, it wouldn't be a survival game. It'd be a picking trout up off the ground game.

* This is a game of long hours of lonely tedium, interspersed with moments of profound terror followed by either elation or bitter rage.

Specs
Minimum:
OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1
Processor: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MB VRAM
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX®-compatible

Recommended:
OS: Windows 7 SP1
Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II X4 940 or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 with 1 GB VRAM or better
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 14 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX®-compatible