It's such a patience game too - playing in a group, being careful, having people to cover each other's backs apparently makes it so much better (and more enjoyable). I'm really fucking mad right now though; made an account on the forum like an hour ago and still no activation email, even resent it like 10 times
Was playing today. Lone wolfing it near one of the two major towns. First thing I do as I run into town is run into another survivor. We see eachother and I go prone but he starts shooting. I'm shitting myself because I should have done a Han and shot first, but thankfully every zombie in town heard him and he got rolled. It was hilarious. Crawled up to the church and heard some guys on voice chat (It's proximity based, so you can hear people in game when you're in range). They're inside. Turns out they're friendly and actually good blokes and we team up. After discussing where we're going to head to they figure they need supplies. I have a Lee Enfield rifle and about 10 mags to I volunteer to hit up the school and hospital for food and meds. Huge mistake. I start with the school and there are Zs everywhere. I creep to the top floor where I find the bodies of two other survivors. They made their stand there, and going by the flies their bodies were still fresh. Then it happens. A motherfucking zombie comes out of a random classroom and I have to put him down. Every zombie within 200 metres hears my fire and make a beeline for the third floor of the school. I'm putting down zombies left, right and centre but I'm running low on ammo. 50-something zeds down and they just kept coming. I hear a "RUN DUDE!" on the mic, so I pull out my sidearm and sprint through all of them. I take a few hits but I didn't start bleeding. I gap it back to the church, where the guys opened the door to let me in. I didn't enter though, I still had about 15 of the cunts on my tail. I eventually lost them and crawled VERY slowly back to the church, followed by a successful and uneventful hospital trip that gave me lots of goodies. That was only about 30% of my play time today too, which included meeting another survivor who joined us, and me accidentally shooting his mate because he didn't say he was friendly. Thankfully I had plenty of supplies to fix him up. Was a damn good shot too. haha.
There is a lot of down time though. Crawling, walking, running a long fucking way. Planning and scavenging for food. The gameplay is generally pretty slow with short bursts of frantic activity. Don't expect Left 4 Dead.
You should wait for the Steam sales, bro. You'll be able to pick up Arma 2 and the expansion for $15. Probably cheaper.
You can use the Arma 2: Free - just need to buy Operation Arrowhead. The summer sales should start by the end of the month right?
I still remember getting the game a few weeks after you guys and when we played online I had only unlocked a donkey and you guys all had stallions and shit. I could never keep up
*Bedsey, Ryan, Peaches & Snake meet up in Armadillo and decide to go hunting cougars* 1 minute later Ryan arrives at McFarlanes Ranch after being left for dead Me: Where are you guys at? Bedsey: Tanners Reach Me: Where's that? *looks on map and sees i'm not even halfway* Me: WHAT!?
