DatToast

I remember the simple days; I'd start near Cherno and start making my way around the city looking. Perhaps meet another survivor for better or worse (it would make the game exciting, at least) and I'm near my end of my run so I progress out of the city only to be taken down without warning by a cowardly sniper on the hill. This, my friends and foes, is one of the major things wrong with the community; those who snipe in the hills to those who are defenseless. Not only is this merely a completely dick move, but what joy do you get out of doing such an act? Perhaps you enjoy the feeling of those who's life you've ended in a second when they were no threat to you or could of even defended themselves against such high caliber rifles? I've felt the pain of others that lost their hard gear; the devastation when your screen lights up and the crack of a sniper enters your chest. To know that I have to wash, rinse, and repeat the same thing I've just done for the last 20 minutes in another, or perhaps same, city. I've felt it over, and over, and over. To the point I have to change to.. low population servers... Whatever it is that drives such an insane habit, it needs to stop. We need someone to purge the sinned from this earth. I can't deal with it anymore. I send a message out to all of those snipers in the trees, bushes, and hills that look over main cities to snipe the innocent; I am that savior of the pure, I help those who cannot help themselves, I kill those who desire to kill, I am the light at the end of the tunnel. I am Toast, Protector of the Innocent Fresh-Spawns. I recommend you grow some eyes in the back of your head, snipers. - Toast

Hello my fellow Survivors, Recently I've gotten a bit bored with the normal Chernarus so I decided to try out Utes for it's smaller map and higher player per square mile. So far so good, having fun, finding good, decent gear, when all of a sudden my screen freezes. All I can hear is ambient noise from the game but it's frozen solid. Bit strange since it's never happened but whatever, I Alt+Ctrl+Del and reboot onto the same server. Log in, find DMR, awesome. Crash. Okay, this is starting to get annoying. Never has it crashed like this on the normal Chernarus map, neither Lingor. I try once more to find my DMR gone which sucked but I digress. 5 minutes pass before I freeze once again. All three times have been the same; screen freezes, can only hear ambient noise, I think it has something related to the inventory when I close it. Any help would be great. Think you have an idea or a fix or perhaps have the same problem? Post here! Thanks again, -Toast

I didn't mean to cause a civil war between bandits, but I do love watching them cry.

>Cry Some more >Stop crying That's a nice insult you have there. Oh don't worry. I've already ruined 6 snipers' day within about 2 hours.

A friend, as well as the entire server, was teleported to the debug wilderness and he has no idea where abouts. (I was connecting at the time so I avoided this pandemic). Being the noob he is, he left, and so his position was saved to the hive as in the debug wilderness. How can he escape/die in the fastest time possible? Please reply to this ASAP, he's not very happy. Thanks, -Toast

Crisis avertied. He's dying of thirst. Thanks for your support anyway!

Joining a Canadian server hasn't worked. And he's not too keen on the idea of watching a movie just yet. Anymore suggestions!? Really need some help here! His name is: "Paranoid" and his ID is 77510278. A teleport to the coast would be great! Thanks a bunch to any DayZ Staff who could make this possible! -Toast

Sup guys, Whenever I'm on Survivor HQ section of the forum, I will happen to come across a couple threads about others wanting to team up with people. I see no problem with this whatsoever. But every one of these threads I go into, there's always one of those clan recruiters trying to recruit onto their squad. At first, this wasn't a problem. But lately it's gotten very repetitive; see a "looking for players" thread and yep, sure enough, there's a clan recruiter in there trying to pull them into the group. So instead of having these recruiters spam the same "join our amazing clan!" message I suggest the idea of a dedicated section in the Survivor HQ for Clans and organised groups alike. Not only would this make it much easier for those looking ideally for a clan, it would give said person a selection where they can pick a clan to their delight and specific demands. Furthermore, it would give recruitment officers and those in charge of recruiting a lot less work to do since they'd only have to make one thread in this dedicated area and stop them getting needless post counts from going thread to thread telling the OP to join them. I don't see any downsides to this other than perhaps investing the time to code such a string of section. But that's why I've posted it here, to see if you guys can give perhaps some positive encouragement for such a development or any constructive criticism. Thanks for reading, - Toast

If you're wondering why it says "Hello Ladies" then imagine it in the Old Spice voice. See, it makes sense now. If you got past that part of the title then you saw I'm looking for members for our group. First off I'd like to point out I'M NOT GOING TO JOIN A CLAN. I hate clans with a passion. I believe you need to have a strong friendship with your team mates and clans just ruin it with new members joining every week and it being more "official" rather than for fun. Currently there's myself and a friend. We're pretty geared out but I feel that we need perhaps TWO MORE PEOPLE MAXIMUM to ensure a secure group. We're experienced, from the UK, prefer high population servers, use our mics whenever possible, and like to be as precise and organised as possible. If you enjoy running about with no cares in the world then this application isn't for you. Furthermore this group isn't limited by anything that may be discrimination. For example, we allow anyone from any country, any gender, any interests, any WHATEVER. As long as you follow the same rules and goals to strive for then we should get along just fine. But before you start asking to join there's just a couple of things that are required. 1. You have to be experienced. If you start getting shot and start running about shouting "I'M BEING SHOT HELP ME!" then you obviously have no idea how to handle yourself in such a situation. Therefore, get a little more practice with another group before you apply again in the future perhaps to expand this group. 2. You have to be in the UK/available to play around the GMT timezone. Pretty self explanatory. Not only does this make it easier to see when each of us can play with each other but it also helps you the closer you live to the UK. We'll be joining EU servers and if you are from the US, you'll have a stupid high ping and not be able to hit anything. Your choice if you want to put up with that. 3. You're confident enough to use a microphone and get on with new people. Obviously, this game requires a lot of communication and teamwork. Therefore a microphone is a MUST. Furthermore, I recommend you download Skype and make an account if you haven't already because this is what we use to communicate. 4. You're over the age of 16. This one probably gives the most controversy because most people under 16 will go "I may be younger, but I'm mature!". Everyone who's said this so far has turned out to be annoying as fuck. If you're under 16 then don't bother applying. You won't be taken into consideration. Besides, the game is rated mature and you shouldn't even be playing. If you're 16-17 then count yourself lucky. So if you still think that this would be a good opportunity for you, and you pass the qualifications, here's what you gotta do. Just fill out this application below with your details and leave your Skype account. Posting first into this or last doesn't mean squat. The application process will close at 8pm GMT 6/9/12. After that all further applications will be disregarded, unless there are certain circumstances which didn't allow you to post before 8pm. So let's get started. First Name: Age: Skype: How long have you been playing DayZ/Arma 2 for: Do you have a mic: What country do you live in: Equipment so far: Knowledge of loot spawns (1 [None] -10 [Like the back of my hand]): If you're wondering why I'm interested in your equipment it's to see if you will be able to handle yourself right from when we meet you. While we do work as a team and watch eachother's backs, you have to be helping others too. You don't have to put much, just a rough guide. For example: water bottle, basic equipment (which would cover hunting knife, matches, ect...), NVGs (so we know if you can do night servers), a primary weapon, ect... So that's pretty much everything. Hope to see some replies soon. Remember, the closing time for applications is 8pm GMT 6/9/12. In case you're wondering, that's day/month/year. Happy camping, - Toast

Due to the low reply rate so far I've decided to up the ending time to MIDNIGHT 6/9/12/.

As cheesy as this may sound, I like to see this as a group of friends playing. While it follows the same schema for a clan application, clans themselves are much larger and as a result I've found you can't bond as well if there's so many people. I still want to have the organised and precise aspect of a clan while at the same time being driven by fun. I've found clans start through friends that enjoying to play together so if it happens it happens. But until then, joining a large clan isn't what we're looking for.

Sup guys, So I've been playing for about 3 weeks now. Managed to build up some nice gear. Got myself a guillie, all tools I need for basic survival, AS50, M9SD, and an L85. So yeah, not bad. But it's got to the point where I really, REALLY, don't want to die. I mean sure, it's part of the game, but I feel I'm inexperienced enough to know how to use the gear effectively and all the precautions I can take to try and stay alive for longer. So basically the question is this; What are some advanced tips and tricks to stay alive and avoid dying as much as possible? Obviously you can say "Go on low populated servers" but that's boring. I like the thrill of being 50ft away from a guillie sniper and we lock eyes and panic. I like the idea of seeing someone 600m away, ranging them, and carefully choosing my moment to shoot to make the perfect kill. High pop servers are fun! But the fear of dying when I don't know how to take care of myself isn't so fun! Help me, and others thinking the same thing, out. - Toast

Hello, DayZ Forums. I have once posted before about looking for a team mate but unfortunately haven't been so successful. So here I am, posting again, to see if anyone else would be interested. I'd love to play with another fellow survivor. Add me on Skype so we can chat a bit: tehtoast1 Useful information: I play seriously and love to play in squads/pairs with a lot of team work and communication, I have about 1 week's experience but consider myself above average, I have a microphone and use it often, I live in the UK, I don't mind playing on night servers but I prefer day servers. Add me on Skype for a faster response! Please note: I've tried playing with US team mates before and unfortunately it hasn't gone too well because of latency issues and time differences so the closer to the UK the better. Hope to see you on the field.

Hello, I'd love to play with another fellow survivor. Add me on Skype so we can chat a bit: tehtoast1 This goes for anyone reading this post, add me if you're interested in playing. Useful information: I play seriously and love to play in squads, I have about 1 week's experience but consider myself above average, I have a microphone and use it often, I live in the UK, I don't mind playing on night servers but I prefer day servers.

So, let me give you a background of what happened. Be prepared to read a wall of text because of the amount of action that had happened. If you don't want that, then just read from the text indicating below where the good bit is. Yesterday morning I played alone and was getting sick of it. So I posted on the forums for anyone willing to play to add me on Skype. Moments later, a man by the name Shea added me, along with 5 others. Shea seemed pretty cool and we got on really well even before we started playing. You always have to have some kind of mutual friendship with your teammates if you want to cooperate effectively, so I knew this would turn out great. So enough talk, we decide to start playing. Eventually we meet at the SW Airfield and attempt to grab him a weapon. (I tried to give him an AKM from my backpack before we went there, but when I dropped it, it kind of evaporated so he never got it :huh: ). Unfortunately I had 8800 blood, and the first hit from a zombie knocked me out cold as he ate me alive while Shea had to watch. Nasty... But this wasn't the exciting bit of our mishaps, and I hope by the end of you reading this you can learn two things (like the morals of a story). So fast forward hours later. It's around 10pm GMT, and we've joined a server at night with no night vision gear. Already it was extremely risky all the time while holding a chemlight the entire journey. This time however we had another buddy found off the forums the same day called Matt, however Matt had to go shortly after. This is the first time we had played with Matt, so him already being moderately close to where I logged off at was pretty convenient. So naturally, Shea killed himself to hope he could spawn closer (he wasn't losing any gear, dont worry). Unfortunately after meeting Matt in Electro, we were killed by a bandit. Seeing as going back to Electro would be the worst idea since we now have NO means to defend ourselves, we decide to meet Shea in Cherno (just before he killed himself). So I've just ran all the way from Electro to Cherno to meet Chea with Matt. At this point, Matt informs us he must leave and hands his double barrel shotty to me so we have a means of defend ourselves (thanks, mate B)). Now, I dont know why, but me AND Shea were getting these crazy artifacts WHILE at night, so visibility was almost nothing. We finally made our way towards the medical huts, grabbed some supplies, healed up, and got moving back to Electro to hopefully get our revenge, if not then just stock up. Already me and Shea were having a great time. The entire night so far had been crazy fun and we we're on edge the entire night. But oh, it gets better. THIS IS THE FUN BIT SO READ FROM HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT A BACKGROUND TO THE STORY (Keep in mind this server didn't have thirdperson enabled) On our way to electro, Shea suggests we should hit up a couple barns on the way there just to hopefully find some self defense (boy, thank god we did that). Thankfully, we came across a couple barns and managed to salvage some shells for the shotgun we already had, a Lee Enfield and a crossbow. Firstly we found the Enfield. This personally is my favorate weapon but the sound it emits is crazy... (We came to a small house and I got the great idea to shoot the zombies following us with the enfield. This only resulted in 25 more which we almost barely finished with almost no ammo). Not wanting to experience that again, I switched for the crossbow when I had the chance (first time I'd ever used it). So to sum up, after hitting a couple farm drops, me and Shea were equip with a Shotgun (with barely any ammo left), a M1911 and a crossbow. While traveling through the thick of the North Tree line, I notice we're passing under the pylons that carry the electrical current to Electro. For the entire time we had been traveling, I had a chemlight on me so that we wouldn't lose each other in the treeline or anywhere else for that matter. But since we were approaching Electro fast, I knew we had to ditch the light. After extinguishing the chemlight, we start heading for electro, flashing our torches at eachother just to know where eachother are every 2-3 minutes (we were also on Skype). So we're about a 2 minute crouch-run from Electro's shopping center now while we're still on the down slope from the hill. And then Shea notices something in the distance; a road flare in the city as well as tons of zombies. At this point I'm shouting at Shea to crouch and not move just so we can scout out to see any players nearby. Seeing as they only last 5 minutes, we knew we weren't too far from danger. After scouting for about 2 minutes, I hear an agro'd zed. It sounded too far away for it to be us that had caused it. I was right. Seconds later, I can hear someone sprinting to the right of us, getting closer, but we can't see them. I kept telling Shea that as soon as they passed, I will point them out, and he would shoot them (since he had a M1911 he couldnt use the torch). After it sounded like they were past, I got up and shone my torch and sure enough, theres a survivor running towards to firestation. Shea, being confused and shocked about the situation, forgets to shoot the survivor so now we have to move in and hunt them down. I throw another chemlight to make sure there's no confusion about which person Shea shoots, as well as to provide a bit of light. Him still wielding the bute power of a double barreled shotgun, and me as his spotter, we rush our way in through the wall. At this point, zombies are going crazy so we had to lose them first with some quick turning round the walls. It wasn't long until I spot one of the survivors creep into one of the huge doors on the fire station. Shea opens fire and so does the survivor, BUT ON ME WITH THE TORCH. This was a smart move since without a light source pointing towards the survivor, we couldn't shoot him, but he could see the silhouette of Shea and me from the chemlight. I go back to shining my torch on the survivor to see there's now two of them! At this point, I have to try and defend myself... with a crossbow. I felt like giving up hope seeing as I had a "miss and you're f**ked" weapon), but it was so intense at this point I had to keep going. The second survivor shows up at the small doorway on the opposite side of the building and breaks my legs and brings me to 4400 blood. I take a shot towards the doorway hoping to hit him, and then start crawling to the stairs to bandage myself, hoping he wouldn't see me. And then I heard the sound that every man want's to hear during a firefight; flies. One of them had died. I had shot and killed one of the survivors at the doorway. Me and Shea both with broken legs had managed to kill one of them. Now with only one remaining, and our legs fixed we try to look for the second survivor. As soon as I was done healing and such, he appears at the doorway, firing blindly at me, missing every shot. I take a shot with the crossbow and unfortunately miss. Panicking, I find a Winchester on the floor and try to pick it thinking it'll give me a better chance. Unfortunately theres no ammo, and I have to change weapons AGAIN. However we soon realized he had either fled or disconnected after that last encounter. After the smoke of gunshots had settled, Shea throws a road flare (just remembering that he had some) to give eachother blood transfusions and recover. This, so far, has been the most exciting and enthralling part of my DayZ experience and it has Shea's too. This is what DayZ is about; fighting for your life in a simulator with zombies all around you knowing that only one of the two fighting will survive. It was awesome. From that little encounter we managed to get an AKM off the guy we killed (who had no ammo for it), a side arm, binoculars, an ALICE pack, as well as other goodies. Then checking the upstairs tower I found an AK74 with a few rounds which would of come in handy a few minutes ago... Morals of the story? Playing with friends makes this game come alive. If you think you're having fun playing alone, then seriously try it with someone else. Even if it's not a friend. Just make a forum post for people in your area (maybe even not), call them on Skype and go to town. Its fucking awesome. The second moral. night and fixed first person is the real way to play this game. This bit isn't as important as the entire story, but it's still something extra I thought I'd throw in So Shea, still without a functioning primary weapon, wasn't fully satisfied. He wanted to get a primary just before we came off for good. He decides we should sever jump to another (preferably in daylight), loot the station for a primary, and head out. That was the plan. After about 5 attempts to join an empty server, we settled for this one server with only one person on it. JUST. ONE. PERSON. I was first to spawn and as soon as I did, I heard zeds. I saw zeds. In Electro. Out of my spawn range. No, theres no way he could be here. In the ENTIRE map, he's HERE?! I told Shea to hurry. I'd scout the building with my Binocs and he would go in, just in case that one guy happened to be there. Thankfully he wasn't, we looted it, and got the hell out of there. We ran NE up the hill and into the tree line. Before we came off I just wanted to use the Binocs as if I was really spotting. I still saw a shit load of zombies. But it didnt make sense. We werent there. The ones in Electro were gone, so the one guy had moved... unless... I checked the player list to see two more people had joined. I scanned over the fire station to see two bandits in the tower I had just seen Shea in looting in. We were literally 2 minutes apart from being shot to pieces by two bandits, losing everything we had. But as soon as they'd joined, they left. Their plan was exactly like ours, but I imagine on a larger scale; join a low pop server, loot building, log off, repeat. Twice within 1 hour we had barely escaped death. Man, I love this game.

As much as I dislike bronies, I see this as a great idea. They can all get together and muck about on their own private server without us in the way. That way there will be a less chance of seeing them on a normal server. (Although I have to say, the thought of shooting "Rainbow Dash", or any other pony name, in the back of the head purely because of their name is quite hilarious in my opinion ^_^ )

Hello there! I've been playing DayZ for about a week now, but only on and off (due to graphical glitches putting me off <_<) but it's getting pretty lonely by myself. I'm looking for someone in Europre, that speaks english, is mature, and has Skype. If you're interested just add me on Skype: tehtoast1 I want to point out that I'm not what you class as a 'hero'. Usually I will end up killing other survivors if they have something that can benifit me; otherwise they're just adding my murder count which I don't need. Don't think this means I'll end up shooting YOU. I see friendship and teamwork ESSENTIAL in survival, but I can never trust a random survivor I meet on the street. I guess you could argue the same since I'm just inviting random people off the forum, but hey, it's not a perfect system. So in summery: Looking for a Europian, English Speaking, Skype owner who's mature with ANY LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE to team up with and work together. Also, a microphone would be very handy! Thanks for reading, - Toast

I'm in the EU too. I have a mic, I'm 18 but not too experienced (maybe 6 hours gameplay time) but watched a hell of a lot of videos. If you want to party up then hit me on Skype: tehtoast1 Cya around. - Toast