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I've only killed a bandit, and it was my first and only kill. Everyone else I've come across I've let pass by or put my gun down. And every single time I've been shot. Like 4-5 player deaths now. The one time I saw another survivor and they didnt shoot at me was because it was a noobie without a gun. I heard him coming and posted up in cover. I gave a split second a saw he didn't have a gun. But he did have a zed following him. So I shot the zed and he realized I was there. I got up to give him my hatchet and he hauled ass. And was promptly killed by aggro zeds. Tried to help haha. Then next day I got really lucky and noticed a sniper in the door way of a barn scoping me up. I rolled and brought up my Enfield and he ran off. 95% of people are gonna shoot you on sight. Odds are always against you.

This is off topic of the game itself but I thought you guys would be a good judge and have good input. I've been looking at some gaming mice/keyboards and if you read the reviews on sites like newegg, all of them are apparently horrible. My Alienware setup came with just the basic keyboard/mouse and I wanted to get a keyboard that lit up since I play mostly at night on my tv and a mouse with some extra buttons but I read a lot of horror stories. So I wanted to get some advice from hardcore gamers.

Oh yeah, every once and awhile there's awesome glitches, my 3rd night I spawned on the map at night and there were no other survivors, OR ZOMBIES, on the entire map. I just ran around the entire map as much as I wanted, getting all the loot I could carry. I wish I knew the layout of the map better, I could've cleaned up. I didn't wanna shut my comp off because I knew it was too good to last. The next day I logged in and promptly got shot for all my cool new loot. Part of the fun :)

My 2nd day I played on a server where we were all teleported in a group way above the ground, off the normal parts of the map and dropped to our deaths. 3 times within an hour. Luckily the admin was on the ball and did a rewind and it was ok the first 2 times but the 3rd time I was out of luck kept spawning unconscious on that server. Since then I've been on a nice quiet little server and have only died from my own stupidity so far. Quite often. The only part that still drives me nuts is zombies running through walls and fences to beat the hell out of me. Just never get used to it. But so far it's part of the package, which overall is pretty badass. All that loot stops mattering until you know you're in a tight spot and are about to lose it and that's the exciting part of it.

See I really wanted the naga but I saw soooo many bad reviews on it. But I didn't know if its something that's be addressed by razer since its release. But if you look on newegg there's literally 2 solid pages or more of reviews stating that the side buttons don't work out of the box or after drivers are installed. It was too many to ignore. Then I looked at the g9x and it was the center button that seemed to be a problem there. I've been looking at the Tt esports Theron and I've seen a lot of positive reviews so far. I'd like one with that "sniper" button but I don't know of too many that offer it. As for a keyboard I've been looking at the Logitech g510. It's got so many bells and whistles, I feel like a dummy looking at something shiny haha.

I've been looking at the steel series stuff as well. The r.a.t.s are cool but it seems like the higher the series the lower the ratings. I guess if you want all the bells and whistles it comes at the cost of quality in some aspects.

I was looking at the razer naga but every razer mouse I look at has 2 pages worth of bad reviews saying they have problems with buttons going out, just never working and always customer service. I can definitely understand there being some problems with thousands of products sold but them not standing behind their product scares me off. I like the r.a.t., was doing some more checking up on them. I also looked heavily at the Logitech g9x but see a ton of posts about its buttons failing as well.

Being shot sucks. Losing your gear sucks. But there's not a bigger rush in the game than those shoot outs. Not a bigger kick in the ass than getting blown away, nothing more rewarding than finding good gear and winning a couple of those fights. The game shines when you're in conflict. Get beat up a little and just start again when you have to.

I've managed to be alive for 3 solid days. 3! Haven't seen a player and I'd like to keep it that way since I'd gotten killed 4 times in 2 hours on my 3rd day playing. By the way I'd like to suggest that we be required to put our names and addresses on here so I can go and strangle the little douchebag kid that told me "I was just gonna break your legs dude but you turned around" after he shot me to death while I was staking out a building....without a gun! Anyways, I've managed to stay alive, get way north to a town I didn't really wanna end up at, one of the military bases, and get some food, like 4 water bottles, an Alice pack and a sniper rifle, which I keep in the pack because I've heard that people will automatically blast you or having one. I don't wanna confront anyone, I'd like to team up but I don't have the desire to shoot a player. But I know if you're that far north, you mean business and you didn't get there by being nice more than likely. What do you guys do? I'm doing what the games about, surviving. Ill drop down into a town, grab some food and drinks an hit the road. I haven't taken a shot at a player this life (I've seen a couple in my scope driving and looting choppers) and I just wanna keep it moving. How do you approach people about teaming up or trading? Every single player I've come across has killed me and the o my one I took a shot at had a bandit skin. But he was probably just better at not being a victim haha.

Had my first player run-in finally. I had seen someone getting chased by zombies heading into a town, went to try and track him to see if I could help. Saw a name pop up saying player killed about halfway there so I figured maybe I could loot the body. Went into a house looking for food and heard pistol fire so I tucked in behind an open door and tried to sit tight hoping it'd pass. Next thing I know someone comes blazing through the door with a skin I didn't recognize, it was a bandit. I thought they did away with that. He was holding a revolver and had an ak on his back. I'd finally gotten a weapon and some food and water, with that skin I couldn't take a risk. He went into the next room infront of the door way, I was gonna see if I could sneak out but he turned around. Went to pick something up and with one quick headshot from my Enfield I had some much needed gear. I'm not sure if I feel bad. If he's rocking that skin I don't think he was a boyscout. Not how I wanted my first player interaction to go, I don't know if he even saw me after I blasted him. Not something I'm planning on making a habit. Haven't figured out how to work chat with my headset and I wasn't gonna be his next victim. Sorry DayZ community.

I've been running the map for about 2 hours now. Got off the coast and started headed north. I can't believe how much spaces I've covered and not seen too many settlements. I may die for it, I've only got like 3 cans of food and no wood or matches to cook meat. Pretty crazy though, it's awesome to see the real scale of this game.

Very cool. I had to come back down some and try and look around for some food. Luckily I'd found an Alice pack and could stash away a little more. It's a nice change of pace from getting shot by every single survivor I came across. It was getting to the point where I thought everything was gonna have to be KOS or avoid everyone. This has been a refreshing little break.

Does there get to be a point to the north where there's just nothing as far as towns, etc? I'm guessing not a lot of people who've been this far without transportation

Don't wanna kill anyone, just see what's out there. Stocked up some and found the rest in the way. It's been about 30 min since I've come across even a house haha.

Been crawling on my belly since I started. No idea how to use anything, no idea the detection radius for zeds, passed up a military base because I was pretty sure I'd be done in my first 5 min if I tried looting it, almost got caught by a monkey but managed to close a door on him, finally found my first weapon (m16a2), no idea what in the hell I'm doing. This is awesome. I'm gonn shit when I run across my first player and have to decide what's the best thing to do.

I tried to switch, messed it all up and lost half my stuff. Them while I was trying to figure it out I got jacked by a pack of zed. I got a ak, map, watch, food and water off of killing a bandit and lost it all because I wanted that damn backpack. Haha I never thought I'd feel horrible about dying in a video game haha.

Are you still able to see your stats? I've seen screen shots where it showed bandit kills, murders, etc but I dove right into the play and am just kinda learning buttons as I go.

Haha dude I've been so paranoid of snipers. I've been in a low populated server all day and someone got killed by an as50. As soon as I saw it I was like "oh shit" haha. I was gonna go looking like him, then I remembered how big the world was supposed to be. So I just kept my head down and stayed prone while moving for a while. Now you've got me all paranoid again! Haha

Argh! I'm staring at this big new backpack and can't pick it up. I'm surrounded by zeds and inventory makes me stand up. I got really lucky when one saw me, ran up to me and somehow walked infront of this little wall between us and just walked away, not alerting anymore of them. I was basically wide open with more than 10 around. Now I'm trying to figure out how to swap my stuff and get the hell out of here. Would it be a really bad idea to try and throw a road flare away from me?

Funny thing was after I popped him I heard him talking and he had an English accent. That made me feel worse because the Brits on here have been the coolest so far haha. Sorry guys.

I need some food too and really don't wanna blast zombies and put myself in a tight spot and haven't found any outhouses. Any suggestions?

See a huge plant or factory off in the distance. A little apprehensive to approach it. I've seen 4 player deaths since I logged back in, 3 withing the last 10 minutes.

Ok, I logged out incorrectly my first time and lost all my stuff, don't want to make the same mistake this time. What do I do to logout?

Apparently I didn't log off correctly last night and started from scratch today. Then managed to find some water and misc supplies and was banned for having a hacked weapon. Unless you can kill with empty cans I definitely didn't have a weapon haha. Just paying my dues I guess.

I creeped out to the woods avoiding a bunch of zombies by an airfield and logged out haha. I'm still trying to figure out the icons on the HUD to figure out what I've gotta scavenge for. I'm not planning on going hunting for players or anything. I'd definitely rather do the friendly thing. I think I'm gonna hang back if I see someone though. The whole never knowing who's going to take a shot at you is part of the excitement I saw on the vids of the game. I'm just going to be low key for a while. Besides the mouse thing is killing me so I doubt I could hit someone if I shot at them haha.