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Everything posted by ProvokeMe
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Better to be lucky than good :)
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Which is why I wouldn't turn bandit without at least a bat or crowbar. But I'd prefer a fire axe.
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It only takes a melee weapon to be a bandit... to start.
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Looks like the random number generator god smiled on you... nice :)
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Rule number 1... NEVER get attached to your gear. Rule number 2... see rule 1
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What is, or will be, the point of this game?
ProvokeMe replied to Alex Leonhart's topic in New Player Discussion
Go out... find every piece of high end gear, rob who you need to get it, kill who you need to get it. When you get that all and look just like the guys in the youtube videos... give it all away, or let someone kill you and loot you. Then... start again... find every piece of high end gear and NEVER kill a soul. Hide, sneak... stealth but get all the gear. When you look like the guys in the youtube videos... give it all away, or let someone kill and loot you. Then... play the Hero style... group with others... help each other to survive and thrive. Share with others... guard newspawns while the try and loot... take out the zombies that are harassing the newspawns. Make sure that others are better fed than yourself.. you'll find more. Then you'll know what style you like best. I'm betting you'll enjoy playing and helping more than the first two... or at least I hope you would. By then... maybe... they'll add more content or end game content and you can move on to that stuff. Just sayin... -
I have a theory, and it could be completely horseshit... but I think stuffed is too much water first THEN food, where healing is filling up on food FIRST and then filling up with water. When I first started on my current life I found ponds and wells long before I found any food... in fact almost died of starvation. So I am full with water before I started eating beans and sardines and such. I'm trying to swap that and eating when I can till I'm stuffed... trying to get the scales to tip the other direction. But I could be completely wrong. :)
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How often do you die from glitches?
ProvokeMe replied to infiltrator's topic in New Player Discussion
I have never died from a ladder. But I'm OCD-like careful. I make sure I'm not being chased and head for a ladder. That is a recipe for death. When I walk up to a ladder I make sure that the white arrow head up or down is clearly on my screen, remove my hands from my mouse and keyboard, make sure the arrow head is still there.. and THEN hit the F key. I've yet to have a problem on a ladder using this method. -
No matter how you try to play... bandit or hero... I would never approach another player without my weapon drawn and ready. As much as I don't want to play the bandit KOS route its about survival... MINE. Take a jab at me and you'll get an axe between the eyes. Then I'll pick up the food and water I was going to gift to you and offer it to someone else.
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How often do you die from glitches?
ProvokeMe replied to infiltrator's topic in New Player Discussion
Only once for me so far... but I haven't been playing very long. As a previous posted stated I got too close to the handrail in a warehouse... got game dizzy looking over the side and then next thing I remember "You are dead". Might have been desync or just me being an idiot, but either way I was dead. -
How often do you die from glitches?
ProvokeMe replied to infiltrator's topic in New Player Discussion
There is a good way and a bad way to remind people that they're in an alpha product. Telling them to come back in 2015 if they don't like it... isn't the good way. -
The way I have heard it explained eat until it says your full, and then drink till it says the same. Keep yourself well nourished and you'll slowly start to regen your blood. You'll see a "healing" or "healthy" status when you look at your character sheet. The grey screen denotes blood loss and a blurry screen denotes low health. They aren't the same thing. I believe that infections will cause you to lose blood and/or health over time if you don't take care of them. Some can cause death if they are too This youtube.com video explains a LOT about your health and healing... http://youtu.be/GwNgTnj9hBE
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Nice story... and probably pretty similar to most others. Some folks are helpful by nature and will be that way in game. Some people take advantage of others in life and do so in game. I prefer to be helpful. Unfortunately on my current and most successful run in a long time, any newspawn I've come across was at a time when I had nothing to share or help with and was "starving". Never crossed my mind to kill someone for food though. Kept thinking to myself that I'd find something in the next few houses I'd ransack. I was right. I'm now in a position to share or help out someone I meet.
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Great Game, So Far Encountered In-Game Players Not So Great...
ProvokeMe replied to Macovzki's topic in New Player Discussion
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It would make sense for AK's to be in the area where DayZ is set. It's common weapon across that area. Otherwise you have to look at where you loot this stuff. The M4 drops in military areas... makes perfect sense. Anywhere else... you're talking local government buildings... homes... industrial areas... it would make sense to have "hunting rifles" and not combat weapons. You get kind of tired reminding folks that this isn't a military simulation... or a FPS. It's horror survival... where a lot of the "horror" comes from KOS players and the zombies are obstacles to your survival. It should be evident from the first time you spawn what this is. "You wake up, remember nothing, you're on a beach... GO!" Remember this and you'll never ask another "How come..." question again.
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This has been my experience as well. For the past couple of days I've been keeping myself well fed and well hydrated. I've seen at least twice where I have done from black and white to well colored... never seeing a "healing" or Healthy status. I took to heart the advice of storing the food in YOU rather than in my pack. I eat a LOT and drink at every well I see until I can drink no more. It's been working for me.
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The simplest way to think of it is eat and drink all you can when you can. Food takes up inventory. Better to store it in your body than to store it in your limited inventory. Once you have eaten all you can and drink as much as you can you will slowly start to regain both health and blood. If your sight is blurry... your health is low. If your seeing the world in black and white, or close to it, you're low on blood. Being well nourished fixes both, but slowly. Great if you're a loner... not so great if you like playing fast in the cities.
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Video Tutorials For New Players (Most recent episode - Improving PvP Defense - 1st Feb)
ProvokeMe replied to ep_metheus's topic in New Player Discussion
Well done. Concise and informative. Some of the stuff I had figure out on my own, dying a lot tends to do that. But a lot of really good advice here. -
You found the rare and valuable "Gimp Zombie" ... redeemable for an ATV and Helicopter at release. :D
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Dayz New Version 0.33 Can't Get In On Any Server
ProvokeMe replied to SpiraxSarco's topic in New Player Discussion
If the servers are lagging behind in loading the new revisions I don't think there is much you can do. Server code must match local client code. -
I would have just said turn down your speakers :lol:
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Try to remember though we're still in the alpha phase. Should the devs find it advantageous to wipe the server for whatever reason... testing... new code... they'll wipe it. I would expect this to continue on into beta as well. Rule number one of DayZ... don't get attached to your gear.
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No global chat makes perfect sense. You're surviving in a zombie apocalypse... why would you be able to speak to players miles and miles away? "Don't engage in fist fights at spawn points" - Probably the funniest and most honest bit of advice I have EVER seen. Bravo... you have my beans.
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Extremely Non-Fun Game. But Fun, Strangely.
ProvokeMe replied to Cullis's topic in New Player Discussion
Does it mean anything? No... it unenforceable. I'm hoping that whoever joins takes that playstyle to heart. I know for a fact that if its NOT in the server description I have no hope of it being the known policy on the server. Call it a false sense of security. I don't believe there is a server setting for it... I'm just hoping that people of like mindedness will populate the server. Even if I just get reasonably geared and then head back to the Wild Wild West servers where I have to watch my 6 at all times and trust no one. It's rather frustrating to be an inexperienced player... struggle to find a back pack... lucky enough to find a fire axe... a can of beans or two and then step out of a building carefully to be picked off by a sniper 500m away because some douchebag thought it was fun to kill the newspawns. -
I have always had trouble losing zombies in the standalone. The mod used to be if you could break line of sight you could lose them. Weaving through the bushes would be a good way. I found out the hard way that doesn't work. I didn't know there was a distance component. I'll have to try that... Thanks...