KEY (DayZ)

@ OP: just start the game and go for it! Don't you think it's all part of the fun to find out on your own where to go best, where to loot where to better not stick your nose in at the beginning? Sorry, but asking questions like "where is it best/safest to go and loot" in a game is like playing games only with a guide. Takes away all the tension and the fun that DayZ has to offer if you would just jump in. Only my honest opinion though :) (only advice: be prepaired to die and lose your equipment... A LOT! And don't get frustrated over it, cause dying and losing stuff is a big part of DayZ)

As long as their movement style is fucked up like it is (we all know that hyperspeed zig-zagging) I'd say it's legitimate when things get rough and you're chased down by a horde. I'd prefer to waste them for good... but it's quite hard to drop a horde when they all use their lightspeed moveset. So yeah, when it seems hopeless: pinetrees and bushes. Whereas the Alt + F4 / disconnect method? Meh, that's more like exploiting/cheating to me.

I am trying hard to stay the lone wolf out there... so I avoid other players as good as I can (being cautious to the sidechat, to gunshot sounds, footsteps, avoid the bigger cities when the server gets populated more and more). Yeah, sounds paranoid, but I like that playstyle and it keeps me quite safe from people with an itchy trigger finger. If you get too frustrated being killed over and over again on public servers, why don't you try a private hive? (which in most cases also keeps you safe from hacker attacks) My opinion about game apocalypse, real life apocalypse and comparing both: In a game, decisions like murdering someone are so easily made, because you won't be blamed (apart from getting flamed in chat or the forums) or having to deal with any serious consequences, you dont have to take on the responsibility to have actually taken somebody's life. Comparing that to a real life situation is kind of difficult, at least when it comes to carelessness. BUT: extreme situations sure will force us to extreme actions. I wouldn't say some of us wouldn't be able to murder in such an extreme environment... the question is WHEN we tread over this line and become that reckless and kill someone (for food? being afraid the other guy would kill us, so be quick or be dead? for fun?) and if we do, how we manage to live with the burden of being a murderer. After all... it's a game (or an anti-game, right rocket? ;) ), it sure might bring up thoughts and questions to the minds of some of us (which means rocket did a great job with DayZ), but to others DayZ will just stay a game, a shooter, a sandbox to run wild and act like we would never ever dare to in real life (which sure is also ok). Or would we? ;)

That's exactly how my games go... whenever I feel like I have everything I would need to survive on my own (hatchet, matches, hunting knife, any kind of gun and a map and/or compass) I fall prey to one of the countless buggy bags of silly. Wall-hacking Zeds that not only attack through walls but also instantly break your leg and inflict a deluxe bleeding, or a fine drop from a ladder that results in quite the same, or some sweet clipping that makes you drop through the tower windows of the fire station. YAY... Still it's funny that eventhough I often hatehatehate (and HATE!) DayZ, I still also really love to play it. Yin and Yang, I guess :)

Ooookay... ich muss mal Werbung für die Intense-Jungs machen: Spiele nun seit ein paar Tagen auf den Intense-DayZ Servern und bin absolut begeistert! Freundliche und hilfsbereite Mitspieler (wenn auch etwas misstrauisch, aber das macht wohl das Spiel ;) ), und ein Admin- und Supportteam das ich so auch noch nicht erlebt habe (weder bei DayZ, noch bei einem Triple-A Spiel: mir wurde sogar die weibliche Skin freigeschaltet, und das in Nullkommanix. (DANKE Kampfkarnickel dafür) Besser geht nicht! Sag ich zumindest ;) To keep it short for you english speaking guys: Intense-DayZ Servers will rock your socks off! Hell yeah :)

I'd find the idea of a single life game (maybe like some of you said with a player lockout for a period of time after you died) quite interesting IF: - the game engine had no glitches where you could die coz of a bag of silly (breaking your leg by climbing latters, running over rocks, stupid teleporter zombies and a melee/animation system that honestly just sucks, you name the rest of those bugs) - you had a real shipload of options to make your avatar look quite unique (so you can identify already made friends) - the overall reception of your surrounding environment was better (like hearing better where gunshots/noises/footsteps come from, having a more natural view on your environment and not the 90° of the first person view) - (and this is my very personla taste) Romero style zombies, let there be masses, but don't put in those 28 days/weeks later guys that even can zig-zag you in a speed that you rather die coz of vertigo than of the attackers themselves But honestly: even without the fear of losing your one and only life, the game (mod) as is pretty scary to me sometimes... way more scary than (e.g.) the deadspace series on hardcore mode. So I'm fine with how the gameplay is (apart from the glitches). I'd still give a 1 life game a shot... if it wouldn't cost as much as a full title...

*is not a steam user* :) Got myself a third party screenshot tool, so it kinda works now for me... any volunteer models? ;)

I once talked to a finnish guy and he kept calling me "Kielo". I kinda liked that name so I sticked with it after finding out that it's "lily of the valley" in english. When I started playing online most people found it hard to spell it right (key-el-oh), so I ended up cutting it down to "Key" (which obviously has nothing to do with flowers anymore *lol*). As being "Key" and while playing DayZ I wished I could open more doors though ;) Err... yeah, boring blah :)

Uhm... yeah, and you need to reload your hatchet before you can swing it at enemies, and even I am able to repair and fly a helicopter. Wow... I have no clue what your post has to do with my opening questions, but well... whatever :) Oh and btw. I am not born after the 90s either, so what? :P

Ooookay, just as I thought... at least that means I am NOT blind :) Thanks for that faster-than-light answer! *loads up a catapult with beanz and fires it at your coords*

Hey fellow survivors, i'm playing for around a week now and still couldn't figure out two things that trouble my mind (I tried the search funtction, but didnt find anything) - do the binoculars (normal or military) have an option to zoom in and out? In the control options there's keys for zoom in/out, but those don't do anything with the binoculars (so I guess you simply can't zoom) - I can't find a way to take screenshots ingame, is there a key that I did not see in the control options? Are you guys probably using a third party software to take screenshots? Any help is greatly appreciated and might net you some beans ;) , and sorry if this questions were asked earlier (like I said, I didn't find anything via search).

I would love to have that Rocker outfit (just in female version) or the girl's leather miniskirt set like they have it in ArmA II OA (I think, don't play ArmA, but saw that in the unlockables section). Well, whatever outfit options the standalone will offer, it sure will add to the RP (yeah, I admit, I'd like to see a little bit more RP rather be killed on sight <- is still not a whine ;) )

I bought ArmA II OA just to be able to play DayZ... and I damn sure will get the stand-alone version, too. No matter what the price will be. And after reading the DEV report I am really, really glad that I stumbled across the mod (watching sidestrafe videos is good for you ;) ) AND that Rocket and his crew get that wonderful opportunity to make his/their visions come true and not being bound like it sure was the case with the mod. All the best to you guys, you rock big time! And.... F**K I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE (pre-) RELEASE :D (yeah yeah, I guess I'm a fangirl now *lol*)

*prefers to be friendly and helpful BUT can turn into the upmost despicable bitch ever seen* Or so the rumors go ;)

Backpack / Inventory management was quite easy to learn... but the thing about switching your actual backpack to another, bigger one was quite a mess on my first try (as you eventually know after reading my opening post :) ). I think I got it handled now, thanks to all of you who were really sweet in answering to my questions! When I died under that lovely twin tree I honestly already was laughing about my fate... and my dumbness... AND the awkward (glitchy?) handling of the backpack switching which surely was leading me to my demise (due to losing all my bandages). Though I have to admit that I spit out quite some names at the Zed that made me bleed in one hit, I am usually quite cool tempered when it comes to dying in games (love the Ps3 Demons Souls and Dark Souls games... and you die a lot there on your first attempts to beat the game). I am much into games that offer you some chalenge, so for me DayZ is a game to love, even when it's still glitchy and there's things Rocket sure will look into in the future (like those lunatic kind of teleporting Zeds). So I'm taking games serious to a certain point, but I'm always cautious to not let a game frustrate me. Funny thing, I just tried a different server than the one I end up playing on mostly... and the server got hacked and I saw a big red glowing nametag saying "MONKEY", when all of a sudden I start dancing like a lunachick, getting an onscreen message "do it gang nam style" (god I despise that shitty song, sorry to the fans ;) ) and after being released off that dance animation I find myself being equipped with a sniper rifle, bandages, morphine, blood bags, food, water, all tools and stuff. Well... I don't play a game like DayZ to be in an overpowered godmode, so I dropped all the stuff that I wouldn't have as a starter... cause honestly: that would ruin my gameplay and my fun. Maybe someone else found that pile of stuff and has a good time with it. Woah, I'm going offtopic big time here :) So again: THANK YOU ALL for your help and information! It's greatly appreciated and I hope I bombed y'all with them beans :)