SurvivorAndy

Thanks for the tips guys, I think I'm gonna start heading inland more when I spawn. And I know characters got wiped for .50 but I meant almost every time I logged off, my character was deleted and reset.

Hi guys, I was playing DayZ for the first time in awhile today and while I recognised none of the places I spawned in, it was kind of difficult discerning which buildings had the valuable supplies in. What buildings are worth looting for supplies now? Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug but if it isn't then I don't understand the point in playing - why are my characters whiped every time I log off? I lost my fully geared character when I logged off earlier and because I haven't played in so long I'm not sure if this is caused by anything in specific. Is there something to avoid this? Thanks, Andy

Everyone's a cynic huh? If I wanted to make a story up they'd less mundane.

It's survival mentality coupled with the fact that a lot of people that play DayZ aren't that smart.

You should be able to use a knife to cut a hole in the top of GM backpack so you can fit a gun in there (for lots of slots) and the barrel would go through the hole so the gun would fit.

No.

Do you have this video? Sounds cool lol

So, this is the first time I ever log on to the DayZ mod. Only one of my friends is still up - I've heard all the stuff they've done while I've been in calls, and I know he's loaded up really well. I spawn and end up appearing right by Elektro, with my friend up on the hill by me. He scares the shit out of me making me think I'm being attacked, until he owns up and says it's him coming towards me. It's pitch black, and there's one other person on the server. We head into Elektro, while he teaches me about zombie aggro ranges, stealth and looting. I get an M4A1 with a load of ammo in the fire station, which I'm told is really good. We loot afew more places and eventually I'm sporting some amazing gear. We get to the shop, and I stay low. I'm terrified still, those nerves you always got beginning DayZ. He tells me I can stand up - there's only one other person on the server and he promises me he'll be anywhere but here, "probably up north somewhere". I'm looking around the shop, and we find some more food. He tells me we need to go, and walks towards the door. He has some sweet gear; a military sniper, ghillie, nvg, another gun in his pack and he's stocked with food. He gets one more step with all that loot when a shot rings out, and blood fountains from his face and I'm sprayed in my friends blood. I stand there in shock as blood spews from his corpse onto me, until another shot goes right past me. I've absoloutly shat myself, I'm terrified. I run back into the store as he verbally grimaces in the Skype call. I sit there considering getting his gear for ten minutes until he tells me it's not worth it, so I log off. My first twenty minutes in the game and I see my endgame friend die without so much as a warning, on a server with one other person. I have way more stories if you guys want to hear it, including a standalone habit of euthanasia.

Yeah kidnapping isn't really viable right now because you can't really take people, but they're getting there. You can cover people's heads with Burlap sacks now (or might still be experimental) and of course there's cuffs. I'm the same though, I think it's a much better experience for gameplay if there's alternatives to just being shot.

That's awesome man, unlucky about the ending though. I'd say never accept a survivor you pick up from another group, because chances are they're friends outside the game and they'll wait for a moment to get revenge.

They are really underrated, I think people underestimate the intelligence of the average player lol.

Thanks, and is your name a reference to The Stand?

So I've only just managed to get a good life together on DayZ, and I've noticed that the majority of people I play around in servers seem not to be very creative; and a lot of experiences in the game can rely on calling bluffs or making them.I figured a lot of new players can benefit from using their ingenuity (What are you risking?) and I thought I'd share my experience with them. The first time I noticed how stupid some players can be, I was with a friend when we hear a man shouting us down. He's 20-30 metres away and we only have axes. He's in casual clothing and he tells us to drop our gear, but he doesn't look very well armed. I tell him I'm gonna call his bluff and he can shoot me, then figure I lose nothing by taking out my axe and running him head on. I'm aware I might be popped on the way, but he puts his gun away and he tries to run. /NOMERCY. The reverse happens in a fire station. A man with an axe runs in laughing, telling me unless I drop my gear he's going to cut me up with his axe. I take out my bone dry magnum and point it at his head. The laughing stops and I turn him against the wall; where his laughing turns to begging. He wasn't really going to mug me, he promises. He drops his axe as I say. I come collect it, and promptly kill him with his own axe. I've had a lot of incidents where I've bluffed or called them involving an empty gun, but only one where I put two people on the floor. I'm fresh spawn at three valley when two fairly well armed people approach me (they have axes and nice clothing but no visible guns). They're trying to shout me down, but they sound maybe eleven. They're telling me to stay still so they can handcuff me, but I figure I have nothing to lose. I tell them they've picked the wrong guy, and my friend Chris up on that hill is about to shoot both of them before they can move up to me. Somehow their voices continue increasing in pitch as they tell me it was a joke and they wouldn't have killed me (sounds familiar) and once again I send them both to the floor and collect their weapons. Pissed that these are the sorts of kids that I often hear about (sadism simulator for new spawns) I figure they should know how it feels. I make him drop his cuffs and take them. I then handcuff the second guy and hold my axe to the first man's head. I tell him that if he wants to live, he has to kill the one I handcuffed. They aren't on skype and seem to have been people who found eachother on the game. The first only has minor qualms but the second begs him not to do this, it's stupid, I'll kill him anyway. Eventually he kills him with his fists, and I tell him to back off and not take an inch or he gets his head blown off. I search the body and there's three pieces of rotten fruit and another pair of cuffs. I cuff the second guy, and tell him I'm going to let him go. His thanks me until I take out the fruit. Que angry COD kid screaming. I give him all three and point him to the hospital at Berezino. I uncuff him and watch him run, wondering if he'll make it. TL;DR if you have nothing to lose or you calculate something as a bluff, take the chance because if you think it's a bluff it probably is. If you THINK it's a bluff. Don't try fisticuffs with a guy pointing an M4 at you. Have you ever had a funny experience with bluffing on this game? Post it! PS: Don't do what I did with the whole sadist thing. The game needs some friendlier guys.

Thanks everyone, I wasn't expecting it to be a topic that was that heavily debated. Last question though, how often will the gun parts take damage and how difficult is it to replace them? So far it seems the SKS will be easier to keep around.

Not going to lie, I clicked this expecting a philosophical speculation on how life without other people isn't living and KOS shouldn't happen I prefer what you've posted, it would add a lot more depth and things like heat wasn't best used in the DayZ mod.