chaoseffect

I don't like to kill people. Like, I've held off firing on someone in Stary because I couldn't tell if they were a Bandit or a Survivor (Fun Fact: was a bandit, and my hesitation meant he gunned me down with an AKM before being put down by my friends). Sometimes I get screwed over, but all the times I don't makes it worth it. Like earlier today a bunch of people in Cherno were using the side chat to say exactly where they were and how they were all friendly; seems like a terrible idea right? But it actually worked out. We had like 8 people not murdering each other, and then 4 of us from that pickup group raided Stary and the NW airfield, all without a single backstabbing. Sometimes you just need to give a little bit of trust and heartwarming things happen. Or you get gunned down for your troubles... but it's Dayz and that always happens eventually anyway no matter what you do.

It always makes me happy when people go through the trouble of getting themselves banned just to give me good gear :D. Finding hacker tents with enough gear to last 5 characters or managing to kill a hacker who didn't have his god mode on is like an early Christmas.

Based on videos on youtube from people who don't really know what they are doing, I have a few things to add: 1. Lee Ensfield. Don't take it over a hatchet unless you have good reason to think you'll be running into hostile players (which it can almost 1 shot). It's one of the loudest weapons in the game and will bring every zombie for miles your way. The AKM is almost as bad, but is great against players. 2. Flares, chemlights, heat packs, empty bottles/cans, and wood piles are generally not things you should be picking up just because you come across them. Flares/chems are only necessary for night play (which as a new player I'd avoid, especially alone), the temperature mechanic only really works if you're running around in the rain at night (so heatpacks are generally a waste), empty bottles/cans... just no, and if you need to cook food you can get wood from any tree in a forest as long as you have a hatchet. 3. Watch your inventory. If you are full, you will auto drop things to pick up new things. 4. Get a bigger pack asap. When you find a pack, sometimes you can't pick it up until you pick up everything around it. An easy way to get your stuff transferred is to open the pack on the ground and then scroll down to your pack and open it; from there you are moving things directly pack to pack and when you are done just pick up the new pack. 5. Zombies can't run in most buildings, so if you have a horde on you run into a building with two exits, let them file in, then run out the back. Or go for headshots with your pistol. 6. Another zombie losing tip; see the big pine trees with boughs all the way to the bottom? If you run up to one of those and crouch, zombies lose you. They might run up and do one attack (which doesn't hit) but then they turn and walk away, leaving you clear.

Yeah those people aren't your friends. It's shocking to think that would happen from people you know in real life.