Ok so I have a few observations about DayZ game play (I've watched videos and observed, because I'm a poor person saving up money to buy it) 1.DON'T FOLLOW ROADS! As in don't run on the roads, its dangerous because bandits use traps(oooh free car! SPLAT!) and people might run you over.Also you are easy to see. 2.HIDE IN THE TREE LINE! If you want to go to a town but don't have a map, you could follow roads if you stay a decent distance from the road while croaching/going pron if you here a lot of noise(gun shots, cars going by, etc.) 3.GET A WEAPON! Your most important task is to find a weapon, even if it is a crappy pistol, so what take it, you can't sneak everywhere. 4.GET FOOD,DRINK AND MEDICINE! You will need this, after all you wouldn't want to run around on a broken leg bleeding out while starving?(I think not!) 5.GET ORGANIZED! You will need a base of operations HIDEN somewhere to store excess food/gear. 6.YOU PROBILY DON'T WANT TO PLAY AT NIGHT! At least untill you get some night-vision gogles or heat-seeking-gogles.This is becasue a bandit group can easily target you if you use flares, flashlights, and chem-lights. 7.DON'T GO TO MILITARY BASES! Not right away because you will get killed unless you are going in with a team of another 10 plp who have more experience.(This is if you just started playing remember?) 8.BE PATIENT! If you aren't patinet you will die.almost always. 9.YOU MIGHT WANA HELP! If you see a person requesting help,sit there untill they pass out, or break there legs before you help, always keeping an eye on them(You don't have to help, but don't kill them for there stuff if you have a assault rifle and he has a flashlight.)Who knows, you might make a very good ally? 10.NUMBERS DON'T ALWAYS EQUAL GOOD! If you see a group of people running around an area observe them, look at what they do.If that aren't talking they are using skype or something, witch means they are organized, mabye even a bandit group. 11.PLAY WITH FRIENDS! You are gona want some help gathering supplies and killing zombies, backup to protect your stuff when you die. You are also probaly gona get lonely all alone, mabey even trying to join a group of people you just see (probaly getting yourself killed) 12.STEALTH IS YOUR FRIEND! I don't care what anyone says stealth is the best way to go on a supply run by yourself. because you don't have backup to transfuse blood to you if you charge in head first, and you will use less reasorces, makeing your gain higher. 13.SHOOT ON SIGHT, I THINK NOT! Don't shoot on sight, you want to be carefully and be aware of your surrondings if you have an advantige over the other player use it,help them out by killing some zeds, but if you don't have the advantige you might wana watch what they do.Shooting on sight seems to be the worst advise i see on the forums, because the person might be freindly. 14.IF YOU HAVE A BASE PROTECT IT! As in don't go straight to your base from a supply run, BANDITS SOMETIMES FOLLOW YOU TO YOUR BASE! You should take alternate routes eveytime and make sure they are long, complicated,and mixed up! These are my observations on the game from listening and watching videos of DayZ on YouTube. I haven't played the game but these are things that seem like they would help some plp.
