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Field Manual Update: New mission type – Care Package Dead Drops

Posted on January 6, 2016 at 23:27 by digitalstimulus

I would like to kick off 2016 in an awesome way and have created a new mission type that will spread the word, grow our community, and help the public at the same time!

I’ve noticed we have tons of protector cases laying around our bases and now we have a use for them besides adding to base clutter.

Care Package Dead Drops

During the month of January, I would like to see how many of these dead drops we can crank out as a community.  We can keep track of this new mission type on HERO Legends by simply adding a screenshot of each dead drop you do!

Make sure that your dead drops meet the mission criteria before posting the screenshot.  Happy New Year HEROs!

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DayZ Solar Eclipse!

Posted on December 24, 2015 at 13:14 by digitalstimulus
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Tactics Training and Drills 2015

Posted on December 21, 2015 at 08:19 by digitalstimulus

I think we all really enjoyed these tactics training and drills.  I am going to be making them a required part of Basic Combat Training.  Hopefully we have enough time dedicated to training or maybe some volunteers to run this type of training once every 3 months or maybe even once a month.

I have included the video in the field manual so that people can watch the lecture at their leisure, then be prepared for the drills when we run them.

The third video was interrupted by actual gunfire from a hostile force.  I slowed down the video and I think I shot 17x .22 Sporter rounds in 3 seconds at our attacker.  I was clicking like mad on that semi-auto fire.  I was pretty pissed that someone would shoot at our squad like that.

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DayZ Standalone HEROs – Training Day Just Got Real – YouTube

Posted on December 20, 2015 at 11:08 by digitalstimulus

We were recording a training day for our community where we were going over tactics and performing several tactical drills when suddenly we were interrupted. During the training session, most of our group was using empty magazines and using dry fire clicks to simulate gun battles.

At 15:00 into the video, we are debriefing the training scenario and setting up for a new scenario when we are interrupted by a KOS bandit. I am impressed how quickly we reacted given the circumstances!

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Now taking donations for a HERO server!

Posted on December 19, 2015 at 18:15 by digitalstimulus

Our community has grown enough that we can probably sustain a server again!

Ideally, as we grow large enough, we will have multiple servers and maybe even our own private hive.  However, being that we need to be able to assist the general public, our first returning server will be a 3rd Person Public server.

This will allow us to host our base and be prepared to handle any requests for help and run missions on the most populated part of DayZ, 3rd Person.

Once we have 3 months of reserve funds in our pool, I will start up the server again with Vilayer.  You can see how much we have in our fundraising pool on the right hand side of the web page, also you can click on the donation link to add to our funds.

HERO Fundraising Page

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3 HERO Positions Available!

Posted on December 13, 2015 at 20:46 by digitalstimulus

I briefly mentioned this on Mumble that I would like to open up a HERO position, but looking over all of the membership, I decided I would like to open up 3 HERO positions.

Please let me know publicly or privately if you would like to be considered for HERO*.  If you are selected, you will be trained in how to do this stuff.

HERO duties:

  • Set an example for the community
  • Admin/Moderate the website, Mumble, and game server when available
  • Talk to new community members in unregistered and recruit them
  • Make sure that current community members are conforming to our rules and philosophy
  • Maintain 10 hrs / 2 weeks of participation in the HERO community
  • Be one of the first to lead the squad should a squad leader be incapacitated, according to LMAR.

HEROs WILL NOT be selected based on seniority or time spent in the organization but rather the ability to admin, moderate, and lead this community in its intended direction.  We will be watching for potential HEROs to fill these 3 positions.

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Status Report – 10 Dec 2015 | DayZ | Official website

Posted on December 10, 2015 at 11:25 by digitalstimulus

0.59 just hit stable branch.  Zombies here we come!  Also check out this video teaser of upcoming predatory animals:

In this week’s Status Report, our Lead Producer Brian will inform us of the current state of development as well as give us a peek at a couple of the incoming vehicles/transportation devices. DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, in which players follow a single goal: to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic landscape as long as they can. Players can live through powerful events and emotions arising from the ever-evolving emergent gameplay.

Source: Status Report – 10 Dec 2015 | DayZ | Official website

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Field Manual and Map updates

Posted on December 7, 2015 at 14:32 by digitalstimulus

Field Manual now has the following highlighted changes:

  • Basic Combat Training is now in the field manual for a standardized HERO weapons training using the DayZ game engine
  • Basic Combat Training is now required to hold a squad position
  • Improved the standard recommended equipment for each position
  • HERO Politics is now called HERO Chain of Command with appropriate hierarchy of field promotion to squad leader when the leader becomes incapacitated

Our custom map has been moved to the main menu, Map link.  You must be logged in and have permission to view the map, otherwise you will only see the iZurvive map.

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DAYZ | Trello

Posted on December 1, 2015 at 19:16 by digitalstimulus

So, I stumbled across this website that the DayZ developers are using to show what they are currently working on.  Worth a browse from time to time if you are into the development cycle progress and want to see what is coming up!

Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.

Source: DAYZ | Trello

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Status Report – 26 Nov 15 | DayZ | Official website

Posted on November 27, 2015 at 22:24 by digitalstimulus

We’re going to mostly cover Status Updates on the critical engine work this Status Report – as well, we’ll talk a bit about infected spawning changes, and our current goals for .59 experimental builds. DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, in which players follow a single goal: to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic landscape as long as they can. Players can live through powerful events and emotions arising from the ever-evolving emergent gameplay.

Source: Status Report – 26 Nov 15 | DayZ | Official website

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