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Nothing personal.. but I really was only congratulating you man. I think, from reading your posts in the past that you will do great. I am a little confused as to why you would think I have an ulterior motive? (unless you're completely joking in which case disregard my mental handicap, I was born this way ;) ) If you are somewhat serious, just know that I could care less to make friends with the staff here.. I mean if it happens, great. But I am a grown man that has a family and a job to be concerned with, not brown-nosing the staff of the forum of a game I love to play. ;) Anyhow, congrats again!

I fully understand what you mean, but its like you might as well be speaking gibberish to me.. I have no clue what that game is :D

I would like to know how much I can eat, when I should stop eating, and when I should start again? Is it like until it says you are full, and then wait 5 minutes.. rinse and repeat or what is the pattern I can follow? I have been doing really well so far, but if I can extend my time between eating that would be even better :)

Hey, Kichilron.. Congrats on being added to the Forum Team! Its great to see some fresh blood being added, and I think you will be a great addition to helping make this place great!

3 exp servers are up.. all accelerated time tests [DE]

This whole new relationship you have with Zeds is really making me chuckle :D

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/181907-a-survivors-guide-to-defeating-zombies/

^ This + math = profit :)

Friendlies far out number the bandits and kosers.. Its the nervous players that make it feel skewed.

So after reading many peoples concerns and complaints about the Zombies being faster, and respawning, more dangerous, etc.. I thought I would make a thread where others can give their advice on how to DEFEAT zombies in a better manner. Helping those who are struggling to survive against them and maybe learning a thing or two while we are at it. Below I will give my tips on what I do to win each Zed battle, and I encourage others to do the same.. Being spotted: Zeds have vision, and this is what makes them aggro on top of certain sounds made by you. If you can spot the Zombie before he spots you, there is a good chance you can avoid him altogether. The key though is their head, not their body, is what dictates if they can see you. And the distance is often around 150+meters that they can spot you from. Sticking behind cover is your best bet, as they do not seem to care if you are crouching or moving slowly. The sounds you make, including simply walking can also alert them to your presence. Walking up behind a Zed within 1-3 feet will typically alert them but not always.. if you move slow, you can sneak right behind them or up close enough to deal a death blow to the back of their head. DO NOT SHOOT YOUR WEAPONS. Unless you want wave after wave of Zombies to come after you, and to track you from several hundred meters away in some cases. The waves will eventually stop, but it will take some serious patience and effort to fight Zombies using your unsilenced weapons. Aggro: When a Zombie aggros on you, he will also cause other Zombies nearby to potentially aggro, compounding your problem. You can outrun a Zombie, even if you have something in your hands slowing you down.. BUT you must weave back and forth zig zagging so that they cannot hit you from behind, never stop moving forward or slow down by going uphill, and eventually that Zombie that seems like he will always be 3 feet behind you, will after some time and great distance, slow down and come to a stop. This works 100% of the time, and obviously works much better if you can run full speed without anything in your hands slowing you down. The Fight for your life moment: So you have been spotted. Maybe you heard and saw the Zed coming first, maybe you just now heard him as he is sprinting to you and is now 5 meters away. Either way, its time to move.. and fast. Your best bet to killing a Zed is to get out in an open area of at least 3m or 10ft. You DO NOT want to fight them inside a building.. at all. So now you are out in an open area, with room to move around a little. The Zombie is quite stupid and will only attack head on.. so all you have to do is move to the side or walk in slow methodical circles until you have the chance to take an accurate swing with a melee weapon or your fists. It may take forever, it may take seconds. But if you keep moving slightly to the side each time they come in for the attack, or you just keep moving in small circles you will not get hit. For the melee to work effectively you must aim towards the head. Body shots do work, but they take much much longer to kill with unless its a OHK weapon. So aim high, put that aim dot right above their head ever so slightly.. it seems to work better if you aim slightly left also. Swing away, and don't stop moving and swinging until they stay down for good. A fireaxe is your friend here as they are a OHK or one hit kill for Zombies. Respawning: Zombies do respawn now, that is for certain. If you have shot him to death, his new spawn will have the knowledge of where that shot came from and will proceed to track you down. Some have reported Zombies chasing them for great distances over long periods of time but I cannot confirm this myself. It does appear that you will need to either get up high, far far away or melee kill that respawned Zombie at some point if you originally shot him to death, so plan on that possibility. If you are fighting Zombies on the edge of the woods, beware. They spawn there. And each one you kill, may spawn very close to you, making you feel like its a never ending wave of Zombies. Get to town, and it will slow down. Or run away from that town further.. either or. If you ever see Zombies collected on the first floor of a building in a little group, you can in most cases be confident that someone ran upstairs away from them at one point and probably logged out directly upstairs above them or is still there.. If you see a Zombie attacking the air endlessly, someone probably lagged out, c-logged or crashed out in that spot. edit: Kawa_ says: You should include how to fistfight zombies. Something like: 1. hit its head while strafing to make it fall unconscious for a brief period of time 2. keep hitting while its on the ground 3. when it gets up again, go to step 1 You can tell whether its unconscious or dead based on its position on the ground: face down – unconscious, face up – dead. Actually its not that hard to kill ONE zombie with your fists, just takes some practice. You can manage without taking one hit.

Aaaannnnnnnnnnnd they merge it.. LOL

Underslung chainsaws.. gimme.

So he purposefully left the FL servers untouched.. smart move. Means we still have servers up, while they can go through the data on the ones that were tested and I would presume that tomorrow it will go live if all went well.. :D

Thats odd man.. I dunno. I totally trust you, but last night for a good 3-4 hours I logged out and in so many times checking the servers and it was always a "test" server only.. nothing else. I even do the alt-tab out alt-tab in to force all the servers to show up and nothing. But around 12:45am or so the FL servers, 4 in total, started showing up for me.. empty at first and then I saw 1 guy enter one of them. I hope your right, and that is the reason they are all down.. they are just trying to iron out all of the servers and the FL ones are causing them problems :)

Everytime I fall it's one of two things it seems: 1. My leg breaks. Normal reaction.. 2. My leg breaks, shattering into my throat as my body collapses from the force of the massive 6ft. fall, slicing my head clean off...

LOL.. yes, it is quite true your assumption ;) Ok, well now that Ive gotten over the cup of jizz thing... :D I really think that having Knife sheaths and gun holsters, leg holsters is something the game really needs to add in. It makes perfect sense that they should be there.. and having it show to other players how you are armed is a nice addition. Your knife on your hip, your pistol on a tactical leg holster, rifle slung over your back, melee in hand.. it brings everything together and gives a little bit more "end game" loot (as in, at first you probably will only find a backpack.. you put your pistol in that. But you may really want to eventually find a holster as you like that "look".) Having the chest holster is a great start, but I would like to see more options. And I would guess it would be very easy as they already did the chest holster, so just use that code and make a new skin? In fact I would l really like to see the option of choosing what is on your back as well. So you can choose if you want to go with 2 firearms, or 1 and a melee. Combos like Melee and Bow and arrows, M4 and Mosin, Fireaxe and Machete, etc.. I think it would be really good to not limit the player on options, just on how much they can carry. Keep the same slots, just allow flexibility.

I mean I want to read this post and add in my thoughts, because the title had me thinking, "what a great idea!" But then your name, OP.. and avatar.. broke meh head a bit :huh:

Huh? I dont think so.. Did this happen or you're just asking?

Nice addition! Thanks :)

FL was down for me for quite a while, then late last night they popped up?.. I havent checked this morning, but last night it was only the FL servers starting at around 1am ish

NOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :(

Desync and lag, and its alpha.. otherwise they would aggro on you. I tested the hell out of all of this before posting :)

On experimental.. anybody else notice this? I played until I was almost dead from starvation. Then I went into HC exp.. did the same there, played for hours until I was almost dead of starvation.. Logged back into regular exp, as I had logged out in a piano house.. low and behold server has been restarted. No damn food... pants everywhere I look. Pants and gas stoves. WTH? Is this just me or are others experiencing this too?

The FL experimental servers are showing up for me, and are working as of now.. I really want to join and see what new places are lootable But its late. Sleepy time.