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I find it hard in that water/food is tough now lol and easy because Z's are useless and easily avoided/lost. the sounds seem to be dumbed down for me, i can barely hear them anymore.

I didnt know you could loot cars until recently, so whenever i found one i ignored it, cars attract too much attention. Tents i would raid, but i wouldnt take blood bags.

Game is easy. Get of the shore fast, you can do this relatively easy just head up the mountain and keep going. Use a map, just google "DayZ Map" and you get an awesome map you can use, using this work out where you are (it tells you when you login anyway bottom right) then follow a road north. You can make it to the most north-east point of the game without food, water, or anything. I put tents far north, unlikely to get looted and so all i need is to put on some music and headout there if I die. Finding a tent should be priority once north, then you can stash stuff and travel light weight meaning a death results in only the loss of that particular scavenge run. Also less people and more dumb zombies, just crawl around, you can pretty much like the shoes of zombies if you're on the ground and they're not crawlers or monkies. If you get aggro on shore just run into a building to loose aggro. Also if your new, play on a low player server, there be a lot less zombies.

i think a lot of issues might be servers. i have ati 7950, i5 2500 3.2ghz, and i can get a solid 50-60 fps on very high.

Yes you need wood, but the fireplace comes under you, then you must step back and light it, using mouse wheel on it. Then throw some wood on it or you can just cook ur meet in like 1second lol.

Tent is server only, it wont follow you. So pick a good server or have your own because when an update is released its very hard to get back. Also stash your tent someone good, and not obvious. OP, you go explore now, get more stuff, and stock up and then survive, at the moment there is no real goal, when the web developer finally adds in leaderboard i guess that it something. Or you can try fix car and quads and stuff.

I trust no one, and even if you come in with no weapon, doesnt mean you have nothing. You can put your weapon into backpack, making it seem like you're unarmed but be filled with goodies. I kill anyone I see, i dont take any risks XD maybe the guy is the same.

Your data doesnt save every single second. So when you DC, you reload to data from about 5 seconds ago. I think this was recent tho.

Some servers have it disabled, sometimes it just doesnt load if the server hasnt updated (because the monitor has been updated). Make sure your on a 1.7.1.1 server, also make sure its not veteran.

Use Six Updater.

I get tent duplicate whenever i throw one up, but i can throw my tent as an item onto ground or put a tent in a tent (lol) toget rid of it. Tho sometimes it says i have 1 tent in my inventory then when i go to throw it into another tent it still in my inventory so i click again and again and its like i've stock piled on about 50 tents for every "failure" i had when i tried pitching.

It can happen if you kill them a lot and join empty servers. Zombie population is based on player population.

Ya'll making it way to hard for yourself.. Probably not in 1.7.1.1 but in 1.7.1 it was EASY all you do is run around carelessly and you can loose aggro so easy It is only "hard" for those using old tactics still... And being scared...

I am iffy, i dont mind the dark, but when it gets pitch black i cant see anything its just pointless i find. On the other hand being empty = less zombies which is ok, but then thats like well its ez theres nothing around... I prefer day time and will likely hop servers to find it. I also like playing with people, and most dont go on night time servers.

Why? It did nothing. It infact was worse, let you duplicate yourself. If you managed to not die by zombie your body often would duplicate as server would load you a few seconds before but your old logged out body be still there. More often than not tho you die and your body would be "depopping". back to how it was prevents duplicate exploit.

Ummm i dont get it? Why do people think this is hard? You run around carelessly, ignoring zombies even if aggro, then when you want to loose them just run into a building or around a corner and boom you're as free as the sun. There isnt anything difficult, there isnt anything hard...

The 2 major things right now is the stupid spawning system, and the insane range of vision. I could understand it if running around like a lunatic but when crounching/crawling around there are some very weird times when you get spotted from soooo far. The other is the constant spawning zombies on your location, you think your safe sneaking away from 2-3 zombies and boom 4 more pop infront of you.

This patch hasnt helped in my opinion, with higher risk of death and no way to kill zombies at start i see people just being careless. I would sneak around a city before, being super careful, and have achance, but people cant do that now with these super zombies so people just run in like chickens and once they in a building they loose aggro, so theres no stealth involved anymore, and once u get a gun if u see anyone with a gun u pretty much kill them cuse if u die u lost ur gun and back to being useless lol. Its just a big rush to finding guns and stuff and zombies are just an obstacle I am seeing. Just a nuisance being there, where as before they were a big threat as you cant get away from them. The game is NOT HARD anymore, its EASY AS PIE, run around, ignore zombies cuse you loose them moment you go indoors, and just sneak outside back door, or loot then run out aggro them and go into next building and so on.

Spawning on Zombies sucks. Zombies with telescope vision sucks. Crawling etc kinda pointless now due to the above. LOS is weird, can run into building just to loose aggro, but often times they hit u at the door. Tents are still very much broken. I also dont get why you cant spawn them near trees, in real life you would put your tent near a tree for support...

How do you know which way is East without compass?

The 5 second thing doesnt fix this, can just spawn back in and see ur old dead body lol. Also when you spawn me already pre fucking aggroed, i have to do this, but then i go back in and boom spawned with zombies on me again! lol. Just a cycle..

Happened to me but i got sniped the moment i spawned there, fucking great.

Just happened to me and got fucking sniped soon as i spawned there. FUCKING GREAT

If you dont like the community, please leave lols OP is full of wizard juice...

Too easy to loot, LOS in building makes it easy. I kill anyone I see now, dont risk teamwork as people find it hard. Zombies have super powers. Its not "Scary" anymore cuse you're spotted from 50 miles away. Its like stampede.