puk

Well I died. Went out in a blaze of glory in a barn after I fell and broke my leg. Ran out of clips but had a mound of Zs to show for it :) I tried finding the Snap server but it doesn't show up in my server listing. Do I need the IP & port to be able to connect? Where abouts are you on the map and I'll head that sort of way if I can get on tomorrow night. Oh and changed my in game name to Puk now too.

Oh I'm having so much fun with this game :D Started last night outside Electro and decided to head up towards Rog and then Msta just to see what it was like away from the main towns. Didn't find any loot on the way and when i went into Msta I got agroed big time and ended up losing almost all my blood. The screen was full on white and I was passing out every 5 mins. Headed across to Staroye to try and find food/animals for blood but it was tough as I couldn't see where I was going really. Took me 40mins to get there and I went through most of the buildings with zero loot, when in the last one I crawled in and spot a player looting. I backed out and text chatted friendly but then go agroed again! I was running round in circles when i spot the player and begged him to help me, I had blood but needed the transfusion. I ran inside and dropped the blood in the corner and he came in and started helping me. He was giving me the transfusion while I was dropping Z's with my lee Enfield (good shooting practice). Dropped about 15 of them before my blood was done and we both legged it up the hill out of town! Was so chuffed! :) The guy had a mic, I didn't (am getting one today) so we swapped supplies then headed toward Electro to find is mate. I had to logout in the end just outside Prigorodsky but had such a blast! Geneva - Once my character dies I'll jump on the Snap server and meet up.

Cool man. Whats your in game name? Mine is just andy at the moment. Oh and skype, yeah I have it but dont use it much, username is andyr8939, but I don't have a headset yet so will probably just have to stick with in game text chat for a bit. Haven't really been into PC gaming in the past but this is starting to get me into it :) Cool, I'm just outside Elektro cowering behind a tree. Once this guy dies I'll jump on the snap servers and had north.

Yeah I'm finding that out actually. Was trying to loot a body I found when I guy showed up and by the time I had backed away and started typed "frien..." he'd too me down LOL. Saw a good deal on a Turtle Beach PX21 round here which I might pickup as can use on my 360 as well then, plus I'm running it from bootcamp on a MacBook Pro so have limited USB slots :( Cool man, I will have a look for the snap.co.nz server tonight. I take it they are private, so if I move to them from the Orcon ones will I lose my character from the Orcon ones? If so I might just wait till I die on the current one (shouldn't take long LOL) and then jump over to that.

Well that was a bust! Spawned in to where I left myself, prone on the roof of the hostpital in Elktro and got instant killed! Side chat someone was like WTF(!) as looks like I spawned right in front of someone LOL! Gutted a little bit as reswanned then in a total flat land, and asked in sidechat and told it was a glitch so I respawned in Kamenka again. Made my back to Elektro and go back on the hospital and found my body and all my kit! YEY! Then found my first Lee Enfield and was in the supermarket when I get aggroed and had to make a runner. As I was legging it the side chat was like "the snipper is on the hill, take him out" and I'm like "whow hold on!' I went prone in a bush and then just to my right a bandit appears and someone snipes him!! So i backed out slowly and then did a runner over some hills before signin out. Love this game but think I have to get myself a headset now. That'll be awesome man! I don't get much time to play at the mo as have a little girl so have only been getting on an hour at about 730pm to 830/9pm but can meet then. Yeah I go on the Orcon ones at the moment, my character name is just andy atm and I'm in the hills outside Elektro atm.

Ah no its all good fun. I was so chuffed to spot my first player that I was happy to go along and see how it played out. Wish I found this game sooner actually. Have always liked Open World but with most of them you are still limited to missions/fake boundries etc. DayZ seems exactly what I have been looking for.

Thanks guys. Over the weekend Steam says I played DayZ for 6.5hrs so me for thats recouped the cost already! Am loving it so far though I have say, and found a couple of servers run locally by one of our biggest ISPs in New Zealand which have low pings and around 12 players on so going for me. Died a lot of times yesterday, mainly at the start before being able to find a weapon. Couple of times I found a weapon like a G17 or Lee Enfield, only to pick it up and lose my hatchet, then have no ammo so back to square one. LOL. Came across 2 guys waiting at a train station and from the side chat they were waiting for a ural(?) pickup. Asked if I could grab a lift and they said no but there guy in the truck had spare gun so I could wait for that. I sat down like they did then I died! Got a chat message saying LOL the guy in the Ural(?) didn't see me and ran me over HAHA! Last playthru is going better, spawned at Electro and now have some decent kit and a gun and am saved on the roof of the hospital ready to hit the supermarket tomorrow. Your right about the tutorials though, need to give them a try as I can't shoot for crap at the moment. Am much better with the hatchet :)