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Mhm... usefull. Thank guys. (:

Well, it is being a LITTLE bit a hard to play since I don't know how much blood I have, or my humanity. Something should be made, like a icon for the humanity, like: survivors could be the normal green, bandit red and hero could be a dark green or another color, like blue or something. Or use the old icon (a skull), before the patch 1.7.2.6.

Nice vid. (:

When I started to play DayZ, my average time alive was 15 ~ 30 minutes. Yes, I was really bad. With this thread i'll try to give a tip for you guys who are starting and increse your average time alive. It's all about practice, experience, know the engine, the mechanic of the game. Well, if you've played ArmA2 (which is unlikely) before, you will learn faster. First: zombies. When I started here, I thought they were like 'invencible', or they could see me very easily, and escape from then was something almost impossible. With the time, I started to see how easy it is to kill, stay 'unseen' and escape. 1: killing. They can get killed VERY EASILY. If you hit them with a hatchet, they will die. If you have a simple weapon, like a Makarov, 1 headshot or 2 ~ 3 shot will kill it. Well, always keep a hatchet with you, they are very usefull. You may use it to kill zombies easily and don't make any noise. Note: avoid to shoot. You can attract a lot of zombies, or even a bandit, which is something you don't to attract! 2: stay unseen. If you are out of town you may stay stand, or even run, without any problem. You will find a zombie out there rarely. If you are in any city, stay always crouched. If you see a zombie nearby (50 - 100 meters) use the SHIFT key to slow your movements. If a zombie is REALLY next to you, lay down, and stop moving (if they're really really next to you); If it is moving towards you, use the 'E' and the 'Q' key to roll, and try to stay away. If that is happening, be ready to run, anytime he can see you and start to run towards you. Note: prioritize the grass/sand to walk in! The asphalt can make a lot of noise! 3: escape. Escape is something REALLY easy. The hole thing is: run, forest, run! You can double-click at the 'W' key, and be able run faster. If you are in a city, turn at every corner you see, and always check if they are still running towards you. If they are not, crouch/lay down, and keep checking if they are nearby. If you are running for more then 5 minutes, and didn't escape, do this: if you have a weapon (a hatchet will help a lot), run to a house or anything enterable, and wait for the zombies. There they will walk very slowly, and you'll be able to kill it easily. If you don't have any weapon... well, keep doing what I said. If you are a douchbag, abort. Second: bandits. When I started here, I really thought the bandits weren't a big deal. I thought they were a 'part' of the game. But they are NOT, man. They're your worst dream, they are THE problem here. I hate to say this, but the PvP in DayZ is something I really didn't expect to see this often. 1: Don't being a target. So, when I didn't know that those bandits were that bad, I didn't take any precautions. How? At big cities like Cherno or Elektro, there are a lot of SNIPERs, and they can kill you like ninjas. You die, and you are like: WTF?! To avoid it, don't be a target: NEVER say where you are in the global chat; Preferably, stay around the city as much as you can; If you are in a city, stay the much as you can closer to a wall, building, to make you 'camouflaged' or something. 2: "FRIENDLY?". Well, as I told you, avoid any contact any time. A lot of survivors kill because they don't trust you, but they are, actually, right. From now, it will depend about you: want to be a hero or a bandit? If you want to be a bandit, the tip ends here: just kill everybody you see. If you want to be hero, or a normal survivor, here's my tip: if you are walking around and notice someone that DIDNT SEE you, don't shoot: keep checking it, where he's going, if he's a bandit or a hero, etc. If he is a normal survivor (normal skin), just don't go there. If he's a bandit, keep looking but carefully. Try to get where he is, but unseen. Only shoot if you have a good visual or you are sure you'll kill him. If he's a hero, you should try out ask for some help or something. :). If you enter in a building, or something like this, and you see a person there, here's what you can do: 1 - kill it (except if it has hero skin) fast. 2 - if the person is unarmed, don't shoot. 3 - If you are a good guy enough to say: "friendly?", go ahead. But I"ll tell you: this is a dangerous option. I got killed many times for it. 3: I repeat, avoid any contact. Well, a lot of bandits make fake announcements, like: "There's a body in Cherno, near the firestation with a lot of weapons!", "Need some blood bag, low blood.", "Need morphine fast, broken legs!", and many others. The thing is: the most of them are fake, they're just waiting for you to kill you. Well guys, I think this will help you, a newbie, to start play DayZ very well. Tell me if I wrote something wrong, or something I shoudn't have wrote, or anything. Also, sorry if I have a bad english, I am brazillian.

Thanks. ((:

D FUCK DID I JUST READ MAN, SERIOUSLY, YOU NEED SOME BLESSING. WHAT A BAD LUCKY...

A: Your in-game name: [Knight] B: Your condition/ailments (ex. Low on blood, sick, broken legs, in pain, passed out): Low on blood, need blood tranfusation. C: Your location - be specific (include nearest town and coordinates, if possible): I am inside a building, at Cherno, on the last floor, lying down on the ground. Cordinates: 065 - 128. D: A general description of your character (wearing a ghillie suit, hero skin, bandit skin, normal skin, etc.): Normal Skin, holding a Lee Enfield.

When I started to play DayZ I never thought the bandits could be that dangerous. 1 day after... Actually, playing DayZ these days is like playing in a bandit apocalypse.

Mm... handsome.

IGN: Knight. Steam name: [Knight] (iansinhoramos). Combat skills: Well, I know the ArmA 2 engine very well, I am a good tactical player and very good shooter. Do you have a mic: Yes, I do. Age: 16. Notes: Well, I am brazillian (speak portuguese), and I learned to speak english playing games. I'm playing games for 7 years and I usually didnt have to SPEAK, only write and sometimes listen. Skills to write: 95%. Skills to listen: 80%. Skills to speak: 60%. If you still accept me, let me know it. (PM)

Yeah, I was like "wtf" when I clicked at "hide body" for the first time.

Yeah. ArmA is a war simulator buddy. Do you think you will have to find your weapons to go to a war? Well, in the other hand, you'll have to kill A LOT, A LOT, of enemys. Not a single survivor. What I wanted to say is just this: if you want to kill others players for fun, why are you playing DayZ? Why not buy/download a deathmatch game?

Well, I aprreciate you. That's the kind of banditry I accept in my point of view: kill who deserves it, kill who you dont really trust. This is a zombie apocalypse game, why the hell are there guys with the purpose to kill players for fun? I don't see the logic: buy armA2 and armA2 OA to play DayZ (most of us), a zombie mod; Download it, install; Work hard to get a sniper; Climb up to a building; Kill players for fun. Hey random player, if you do this, open your Arma2 (not OA), hit Multiplayer, and welcome, kill for fun! And I repeat, the only kind of banditry I accept is the one you kill when you must, for survive, or if you dont trust the guy, or if he is your enemy, or anything like that. But if you are on the top of a building to kill others players, I dont respect you.

DayZ is an apocalypse game where you should survive MAINLY from zombies. First you should find basic survival things like a simple weapon and food, medical stuff, etc. Then you should look for vehicles or a base, or better weapons, things like that. A bandit, actually, SHOULD be a "part" of the game, an "optional" side for the game, where you could kill another survivors when REALLY needed, not to stay on a 'high' building, with a sniper, waiting for another players to... **-hahaha-** kill them. It doesnt make any sense if you play in a zombie apocalyspe game to ENJOY killing another players! Well, I must agree: killing players is really nice, but dude, if you want to kill players for nothing, play deathmatch games man, there are MANY of them. I am not saying the banditry should be extinct, I am saying there's no logic if you play a zombie game to kill survivors purposely. What do you mean with 'purposely'? Well, sometimes you are in a building, looking for some stuff, then you find a player that you really dont trust and shit. Go ahead, kill him, it's a consequence. But playing here with the MAIN objective to kill players is not logical. As I said, killing players is really nice and shit, but do you know why? Because there's NOTHING better to do here. I hope this get fixed at the standalone :)

I'll type down a list of suggestions that could be very usefull for the Dayz Standalone, or if possible, the mod. (And I think they are not posted yet.) Fight hand-to-hand. Simple like that. Well, because of the ArmA2 engine, we cannot do some things to make a zombie apocalypse more realistic. But we are going to have a standalone, so... I think we could attack zombies (and players) with another ways - MANY WAYS - throwing punchs and kicks. Or even use general items, like flashlights, stones/rocks, or even your... computer! I mean, if you are in a zombie apocalypse, you dont care about anything, you want to survive! Why not attack a zombie with your keyboard? (Not a keyboard, I'm just making an example....) Well, attacking a zombie with those items would not kill them (except if you are using a hatchet or a crowbar, or another item that we dont know yet, like a MOTHERFU**ING CHAINSAW > :D), it would "push" the zombie away. To players, depending the item, the player that got hit would get unconscious (like a head-hit) and the other player could get his items without a murder (except if the player hit him more times). Also it should actually hit, because right now, when you use a melee weapon to kill a zombie, it doesnt even hit the zombie (I understand the ArmA2 engine, but dev should fix this at the standalone). Hard-to-kill zombies. Mhm... Kill zombies theses days are being very - VERY - easy. If you shoot it, at the stomach or somewhere else, it dies. The zombies should be harder to die, and make it more realistic. So, the zombies should be harder to die. Instead, the zombie could get down, get slower, etc. How? There should be a "power" option, to each weapon. A shotgun would be very high at this option, so when a zombie get shot with a shotgun it could "fly out" or any shit, but dont die. A makarov, on the other hand, would be very low at this option. So a shot would make the zombie a little bit slower. Bloodthirsty!! Well, I would like to say that I understand that DayZ is not an 'action game', like Left 4 Dead 2, etc. But I was just wondering... The zombies at DayZ are too common, too "pretty" haha. I think we could have fucking ugly zombies, throwing up blood and shit! Mhm... I mean, if you shoot a zombie at the stomach, for example, guts/organs could "fly off" the body, blood everywhere ha-ha. No. I was kidding, not EXACTLY like that, but I think I need a little bit action... I want to survive, but killing zombies are being really boring. Well, I'm a little bit tired. I have a lot of suggestions. I'll type them down later.

Mhm... Yeah, you are right. But exactly how Lights Out said, I really also would like to see some reactions from zombies and I understand this will not work at the mod, but maybe at the standalone, eh?

Sounds very nice! Interesting... I'll take a look at it.

Plays in a zombie apocalypse game Wants to kill players for fun FUCK LOGIC

I think you didnt understand. When I say "power option", its not like something that you can increase up to your weapon and make it more powerfull and shit. I agree, thats ridiculous. I mean.. have you seen a video or a movie, that someone getting shot with a shotgun? And a pistol? Shotguns are more powerfull, and can push you like 2 meters away. A pistol will make you injured, but wont "push" you. Got it? Thanks for all. :D

@Lights Out. Well... I agree with you, lets wait for the release and expect for the best! That's what I'm talking about, and yes, use a bat would make the zombie stumble, and that would help A LOT in a zombie apocalyspe. About the blood thirsty thing, I also agree, was just making a random suggestion. @Skrewy. In the other hand, I dont agree with you. Yes, it should be used to escape or just knock down the zombie. What I want to say is: right now, shoot is the only way to kill a zombie/player, and I think that's not correct, etc. There are a lot of noob-spawn's, that's not a reason. Also it would reduce the player-killing in a point of view. As I can see, you are that kind of PVP guy (your sign explains everything)... -- Also, adding new melee weapons and possibility of punching and kicking, would make fire-weapons more rare.

Well, that's it. I have been playing DayZ for a month. Now, randomly, when I click at 'Multiplayer' my game/computer freezes and there's no way to close the game or anything, so I have to restart the computer.

A-W-E-S-O-M-E. (:

Yeah. Actually would be nice if: a zombie kills you (or if at the standalone will have an infection system, like: randomly, if a zombie hits you, you can get infected), you die, and on the same spot, a zombie with the same skin as you had, but with some scratchs and another zombies' characteristics, would spawn there. That would be very nice. Also if you had a backpack, the zombie would keep it. And if you find a zombie with that backpack, you could take it. That would be more realistic because sometimes, when you die, you can go back there and get your items again (if no-one else see it). EDIT: Well, I realized that if a zombie kills you, he wants to EAT you, so evermind. But it could still happen if, in the standalone, we have a infection system.

Well, that's it. I was walking around at Elektro and another Survivor started to shoot at me. I shot him and killed him. Now I am a bandit. What do I do know? I cant survive for more then 10 minutes. I get killed instantly.

Thanks everyone.