I am always Friendly

So I just got an idea to start helping some beginners in DayZ and this is what happened: I spawned in Three Valleys, which is personally like as a spawn point, and waited for my new friend to appear. It took few times of killing himself and respawning before he spawned in the same place. He ran to me and we climbed up a hill away from the coast. We could still see the Three Valleys train station downhill a bit right of us. We got on top of the hill and checked the view. There was a wooden warehouse just ahead of us downhill, and it had maybe 3 to 4 zombies around it. We creeped down the hill and went prone across a small asphalt road. Suddenly we heard moaning, and a zombie walked from behind a fence straight towards us. I told my friend to retreat back to the sparse treeline at the bottom of the hill. He did so, and I slowly crawled to the grass where I would not make so much noise. It didn't help, the zombie still saw me, and made a hungry roar while rushing towards me. I stood up and ran inside the warehouse telling my friend to stand up and run as well. We got in the barn without injuries and turned around to see the zombie slowly walking in from the doorway. I spotted a Double-Barreled Shotgun at the corner, and told my friend to grab it. He ran there and took it as fast as he could. Then he turned around and took a shot at the incoming walker. I could see the blood bursting out from the 8 Pellet holes that the shotgun did to the zombie, and it fell to the ground heavily. After that we quickly took what we could and ran away before the rest of the zombies could understand what had happened. We went crouching to a large barn that had white walls and a red roof. One of the best loot spots there is. We went slowly in while trying to avoid the 8-10 zombies walking around it. We succeeded. I got a crossbow with 2 arrows from the floor, and my friend found 2 cans of soda. While we were busy looting a lone zombie walked in the barn and started climbing up the stairs to the hayloft where we were. I heard it's footsteps and turned around. I quickly aimed to it's chest, and shot and arrow strait through it's hearth. On it's body was a can of baked beans, which I put in my pocket before we left the barn. We jogged back to the wooden warehouse, and went south by a road next to a steep hill. The road went slightly uphill, and we could see the walkers wondering around in the valley. After a moment of running the road started to make sharp turns as it went more steeply uphill. We could see a small pond directly right to us and decided to go swimming. I showed him how he could go prone and then look around underwater, which we both thought was cool. After a moment of swimming I remembered there was a treestand nearby, and we started climbing up a hill next to the lake to get to it. When we got to it, there was not a single walker to be seen. It was a bad sign because that meant they were probably wondered off to the woods around us. We quickly crouch-ran to the treestand and I told my friend to climb up while I covered him. When he got up he told me there was MP5 in there. He dropped his Double-Barreled and picked the MP5 up. Then he climbed down and we continued on. The sun was starting to set when we ran by the road towards a village called Tulga. It was known to have a car-spawn in there, so with a bit of luck we could find a transportation. In the town was a horde of zombies, more than usually. We went prone between buildings looting whatever we could, hoping that the zombies couldn't spot us. I found 1 extra arrow from a shed while my friend got 2 more cans of food. After we had gotten out of the shed we heard a zombie moaning right next to us. We quickly tried to get prone but it was too late. It saw us and ran to me. My friend shot it from the run and it's body smashed to the ground right next to me. Unfortunately that shot was heard in the hole town and quickly we were attacked by dozens of walkers. My friend shot 2 of his magazines empty and I wasted my last arrow while escaping. We survived by running between trees long enough for the zombies to lose us, but my friend had lost a lot of blood. I bandaged him and we walked up to a small urban camping area before we logged out. That was one of the best adventures I'v had in DayZ so far. If interested check out my tribute to the DayZ map Chernarus:

This answer comes a bit late but probably I wound have told him to stay low and wait covered till they had left the area, If they would have spotted us and said friendly, I would have probably told the ''newbie'' to back away and explain the situation to the high geared guys. If they would have understood and agreed to leave us alone then that's it, but if they get hostile Id tell my friend to open up from his cover. I would have most likely shot my last arrow to the either guys face then run the fuck away. LOL

I AM TERRIBLY SORRY BUT THIS TOPIC HAS BECOME OBSOLETE! :( I NO LONGER PLAY DAYZ MOD. WHEN THE STANDALONE COMES UP I WILL MOST LIKELY START HELPING PEOPLE AGAIN. :D At the moment I am playing WarZ (I know everyone hates it and the company is extremely suspicious but the game is fun as long as you stay away from high pop-servers.) I have played the game with ''StreetRidaz'', check out his channel first team-play video pops up next Wednesday! :D If there are any ''noobs'' still out there that need help in this game, or if know basics just needs a partner. I know how frustrating this game can be, so I do what I can to help others. I used to run around on the spawn points in Chenarus and team up with new-spawns, and many times they were very thankful. I once had a guy that thought me some pro stuff in DayZ when I didn't know shit, and now I wan't to do that to others. I have been playing this game for 3,5 months so I believe I am at least semi-talented so that I can teach something. Add me on Skype: Markus-1997 Or on Steam: Markus-1997 EDIT: My Steam is at the moment unusable and will stay that way for I don't know how long. Please add me on Skype, if you can't find me give me your Skype name. PS: I am from Finland if there are many hits for my Skype-name. EDIT: MY STEAM IS BACK TO NORMAL AND NOW YOU CAN ALSO ADD ME ON STEAM. Took 9 hours straight to fix it. XD LOL This is not some pathetic DayZ trap by a bandit, this is a legit offer and I do this cause I kinda miss the first weeks of playing DayZ. When everything was still challenging and creepy... My best ever DayZ adventure: I spawned in Cherno and looted what I could. Then I left and went north to a farm that had a well, a outdoors-toilet and a small barn. When I entered the barn I saw that there were 3 zombies in it. One of them turned and looked straight at me. I got scared and shot him with a revolver. The others heard it, and turn towards me. I shot them quickly and went to loot the bodies. One of them had Winchester ammo and there was an empty Winchester on the floor so I took it. Then I left and went north. There was a small ''electric-station'' looking place that was surrounded with a wall. I went past and continued north. I walked along a road until I got to a small town, which I looted quickly. Then when I went downhill I saw an airfield. I AM AT NW-Airfield! That's what I thought, and I looted it happily finding a Remington in the two hangars and an AK in the control-tower. Only after like a month I realized that I was actually at BALOTA and I had just kinda lost my sense of direction... XD PS: If interested please check out my video as a tribute to the DayZ map Chernarus:

Yes

You could play with me, I teach newbies the tips and tricks of DayZ, and at the moment if I squeeze everyone to play there are maybe 6 of us, so If you are interested then add me on Steam: Markus-1997 PS: When I play with my friends I am mostly on servers with max 15 players. More realistic, a decent chance of bandits.

Exactly, I personally played first on low-pop servers until I got the hang of everything, only then jumped on tot the bigger ones.

If you are trying to find a server where people are mostly friendly, then you have millions to choose from. The problem is that they rarely have more than max 5 other people in them. After it goes higher than that it's slaughter-time. I train beginners mostly on low-populated servers because otherwise we couldn't get a mile of the coast. :I But DayZ is fun even if there are less people. I am going to make a story-topic about what you just might get when you team up with me...

That's okay, I mostly use Steam myself too. If I understood right you have a problem with avoiding ''roamers'' am I right? Try moving prone, that reduces your visibility gigantically, as well as the sound of your movement. If a zombie gets close and you think that he is gonna see you then DON'T PANIC AND RUN! Stay prone and don't move, you are almost invisible when laying down on the grass + roamers are as smart as a pile of rocks so you should be fine. :D

We all have 12000 ''health'' and every pistol except Revolver and M1911 take 900 damage. The Rev. and M1911 take 1400, so the best damage you made if you hit to the body was maybe half of his health. Try to hit the head next time, good luck! :)

Okay. :)

Lol, if you ever need a friend or a partner let me know! ;D

Now this is a mod, and it is complicated to download, but here is the easiest way: 1. Buy and download Arma 2 Combined Operations pack from Steam which gives you both Arma 2 and Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead. IMPORTANT= Before moving on start the games at the same time and wait till they are both in the main menu, then you can quit them both and continue. (This sounds weird but it creates few extra files that you will need for DayZ.) 2. Download ''Dayz Commander'' (Because it is the easiest to use.) And install both Arma 2 Beta patch and the DayZ mod from the right-hand corner options. 3. Profit AKA Play the game, unless you are someone who plays the game just to kill other players, then turn around and understand this is not CoD. It's a survival game. Hope this helped. :D

Now have you registered your Arma 2 on Steam? If you go to your games, does it show ''install'' instead of the normal ''play''? If so, just download it and you will be fine. But ill assume that you don't have it in your Steam collection and therefore do not ''own'' the game because you don't have the CD-Key. Why you need Arma 2 base-game is because DayZ uses the Chernarus map from Arma 2 and the Operation Arrowhead doesn't have it. You can survive without paying extra by doing this: Go to Arma 2's webpage and download Arma 2 Free. It is a semi-mod but has all the things needed for DayZ. Download it. Now assuming you have both Arma 2 Free and Operation Arrowhead installed, follow the steps on this page: http://kodabar.blogs...rma-2-free.html This is completely legal but a bit complicated. I personally run DayZ with Arma 2 Free and OA because I was short on money when I bought it, so I assure you it works just as well, and you can use all the installers the same way as when using base-Arma 2. So how is this possible? The part 4. in the link tells you to move the ''Addons'' files from Arma 2 folder to OA, but that is done automatically if you use the full-Arma 2. So that is the difference, have fun! PS: You can add me on Steam if you have further questions or need a partner. :)

Now that ''trust no-one'' thing is total bullshit. You can trust people, but 1st of all trust no one in a ghillie-suit or a bandit skin. I never Shoot on Sight, except for bandits... always.

I raise my hat to you sir, I am one of the few left in my breed. A man with only 2 murders, and 4 months of playing.

No it is not. It is just what people do for fun. The game wasn't meant to be anything like it, but people got bored and started killing each other.

Really? How long you have played?

You can change quickly between your flashlight and gun if you only have primary weapon. You cannot use the flashlight if you have a secondary weapon because the flashlight takes it's slot.

First of all, thank you Dean Hall for creating such an awesome game, I have never played a game as great as DayZ and it is by far the greatest multiplayer game on the planet. Now to the point, here are my suggestions: 1. Make the shopping area of the market spawn food on the shelves and empty cans on the floor. Make tools spawn at the ''loading docks'' at the back of the store. No gun spawns at the supermarket. 2. Make police cars that would spawn M1014 Shotguns, Remington Shotguns, M1911's, M9's, Glock 17's and Revolvers. Also smoke grenades and M67 Frag-Grenades could spawn there. 3. Make deer-stands spawn CZ550's and backpacks. Also binoculars spawning there would make a lot of sense, as well as hunting knives or hatchets. 4. Stop industrial buildings from spawning military ammo, because that makes no sense. Instead increase stuff like wheels, tools and car-parts. 5. Make loot only respawn when server restarts, that would make and interesting scenario because the large southern coastal-cities would quickly run out of loot, and people would be forced to move north to towns like: Stary Sobor, Vybor, Krasnostav, Polana and Berezino. This would also make loot farming almost impossible because you would always have to wait for the server to restart... 6. Make cars common but gas rare. Increase the spawn of jerrycans at gas-stations and industrial buildings, and make the gas-tanks used for refilling extremely rare. They should only be at Gas-Stations and airfields and they should be able to go empty. 7. These are few suggestions about the infected: 1. Make them run as fast as a player when on full sprint after resting. 2. Make them to do more damage, they should take like 2000-3000 blood from single hit. If you stand still while having 8 zombies hit you simultaneously, it takes 15 seconds for them to kill you, which makes them almost no threat at all. 3. They should be able to hit you when they get close enough when chasing. 8. Double-Barreled Shotgun must have faster rate of fire. It has an unrealistically long time between barrels, and that is what makes it the worst weapon in the game. The strength of D-B Shotgun is that you can fire 2 shots quickly towards an incoming target. 9. The CZ550 spawn rate must be increased because hunting rifles are common weapons in farms. 10. Ammo must be a lot more rare, there should be a larger chance to find a weapon than ammo. 11. You can get the hero-skin easily these days by simply giving your friends a certain amount of blood-transfusions. That makes the skin easy to use as a trap by bandits. You should only gain the skin by being without murders for a certain amount of time. That makes it almost impossible for bandits to get. 12. Cars on streets should have loot in them and there should be a ''traffic-jam'' with lot of cars on the same road that you could check for loot. 13. The ''Guard towers'' that you see around Zelegonorsk and NW-Airfield should spawn Military weapons like M16's and AK-74's. 14. The amount of wildlife should be reduced, and there should be no wildlife near the ''debug plains''. People should not be able to just live forever on the debug forests and plains eating wild animals. Water bottles should be mostly empty, only rarely full. 15. The infected should spawn also in forests, so that even the wilderness would not be a safe place. I can imagine the feeling of running in the middle of the forest while hearing the zombies growl around you in the woods... 16. There should be more barricading-tools so that you could make a fortress against zombies and players. Doors should also be able to be locked by players. The lock could be opened from outside by a toolbox just like wire-fences. EDIT: 17. What guns should the game have? My suggestions for weapons: Handguns: -Makarov (Pistol) -Python (Revolver) -Anaconda (Revolver) -M1911 (Pistol) -Glock 17 (Pistol) -M9 (Pistol) Hunting Rifles: -Remington 700 (Bolt-action) -Winchester 70 (Bolt-action) Shotguns: -Double-Barreled Shotgun -Mossberg 500 (Pump-action) -Mossberg 590 + Pistol grip (Pump-action) -AA-12 (Fully-automatic) Sniper Rifles: -M107 -M24 -DMR -Barrett 50. -L96 Assault Rifles: -M16 -M4 -AK-74 -AK-47 -M14 -FN FAL -L85A2 Melee Weapons: -Hatchet -Crowbar -Knife -Baseball Bat Explosives: -M67 Frag-Grenade Please comment or give your beans. Thanks for reading! PS: If interested please check out a video I made as a tribute to the DayZ map Chernarus:

Please send request via Skype because my Steam does not work.

I can play with you, but please give me your Skype-name so that I can add you on Skype. My Steam is ''broken'' at the moment, can't use it at all. :I

Well maybe not 2000, but at least 500-1000 beacause the infected are not a threat at the moment. Maybe they should then knock you out more easily? But at least I think we can agree that the zombies ARE too easy in DayZ. By making zombies harder it encourages grouping up with other against a common enemy.