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...

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).

*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*

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*)

So I survived my whole first day in DayZ (not my first attempt though ;) ), got some sweet equipment including a hatchet, binoculars, a toolbox, a map & compass, a box of matches (lucky me), a M9 pistol and a Enfield rifle with quite a few rounds, several beans & pastas, some cans of soda and quite some bandages and even 2 morphine injectors. Yeah, life was good to me, indeed. On my travels I learned how to avoid the Zeds, or to shake them off whenever I was hunted by some. So far so good... so today I came across an old shed, and looky what I got there: a czech backpack. YAY, I'm going to have more room now. But wait! I remembered hearing about you need to empty your actual backpack first before being able to pick up a new one. Ok for me, so I emptied my backpack and -here my demise kinda starts- all of my other belongings! As the last item I dropped my old coyote backpack and gripped the czech pack. Searching for the stuff I just had dropped to the ground I found myself only being able to see and get what I had in my smaller backpack: 2 cans of beans & pasta and 2 cans of soda. Where the heck did my other stuff go? My beloved map, my hatchet, them guns, my bandages and all the other med supplies? Gone... But I am here to find adventure and thrill... so f**k it and off I go to find the stuff I need, just elsewhere. And man, I did well until I -totally lost in thoughts where to go next, and running blind- stumbled across one of those rotten piles of puss and that slowf**k really managed to inflict a bleeding on me with his first hit. After doing the "RUN FORREST, RUN!" tactics I end up managing to get rid of "ol' deadhead"... but the bleeding won't stop... and my vision starts to get blurry, colours fading quickly... I find a huge twin tree, rest there in the sweet shadows and make my peace while watching as the world turns grey. In the distance I hear a familiar voice, softly calling my name... and as everything turns black I figure that the voice is my boyfriend telling me we wanted to go out for lunch today. :D I always wanted a bigger backpack... I once said to myself "I'd give my life for a large backpack"... and I guess that I managed to achieve that. :) Ok, my questions would be (sorry, still a newbie) : - when finding a bigger backpack, I only need to drop the contents of my actual backpack in order to get the new, bigger one? So I keep all the other stuff on me? - is there a way to use the hatchet as a weapon easier and quicker than dropping your rifle, open your inventory, right click the hatchet in the toolbelt and "remove hatchet from toolbelt"? (I mean, is there something like switching from pistol to rifle to hatchet? no?) - does my character grow more hungry and thirsty even when I am logged out of a server? - is there a difference on how some servers let you use the map? On one I can see myself on the map as a blue dot, on other servers I can't see my actual position on the map (and no, I dont have that GPS thing on any of the servers I play, and both servers are "regular difficulty") Hope you enjoyed my little death-time story and thank you all for helping me with my questions :)

*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 :)

Mousewheel... ok, gonna try that as soon as I am lucky enough to stumble across another czech pack :) Ok, so no workaround about needing to drop the rifle before you can equip the hatchet as a weapon. Will be a pain in the ass, maybe I'll leave them rifles alone. So the map thingie definately is a question of server setup, check! :) Thanks for all the info and I am glad my character wont starve to death while I am having lunch or dinner in the real world *lol* EDIT: ok, so the Alice backpack is the thing to find :) thanks'n'beans for your response, too, Jamz

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing... now go have fun with my beans ;)

I'm pretty new to DayZ (hmm, around three days now). I'm what would be called a lone wolf, but I totally enjoy being that. And I enjoy the game for the sandbox aspect and the thrill that you have in every single second of playing. In my eyes it's fantastic to have all these decisions to make: do I go investigate that village/town/airfield? If there's not many zombies around, does that mean a player might have cleared the area and still is around, meaning I even have to be more cautious as if there were a bunch of undead guys lurking around. Or if you run into a "new" gun: do I switch it out for my old one? Is it any better than what I have? And honestly: even me being not a big PvP fan: it ADDS to the game, big time! Eventhough sometimes you run into kinda "unfair" situations... those mistakes (if you don't survive them, and I so far don't survive player attacks that often) make you learn and be more cautious about what you do, and what you better don't do next time you run into a similar situation. All that plus the food/water and vital stats management really make DayZ unique (in my opinion). But I do understand that there's people that are not into that kind of games, and that's ok. No one if forced to play anything they don't like, right? I think this is a love it or hate it thingie, and there won't be much in between :) I'm not (yet) a fangirl of DayZ, but I'm pretty much enjoying it, eventhough it has a few really hilarious glitches. Then again: it's in alpha state, so it might become even better and better with every patch/update. For me it's refreshing to see such an intense survival aspect which I kind of miss in most (or every?) other "survival" game. Oh, I have to run, I hear some weird noises ;)