In this video I explain some of the methods I use, mostly from the lone wolf perspective. I'll eventually do one for players in groups as well. It's really about finding the safest way to get in, loot and get out. I recommend spending as much time observing and the minimum actually looting as possible. Once you're done, leave FAST.

Thanks. Would have been making a lot more videos if life wasn't getting in the way :) I've made some more discussion videos over the last few months if you haven't seen them.

First mention made of this event on /r/dayz was downvoted and the only comments were people saying that it'd just get ruined by hackers. Well, that didn't happen and the event was a success. It has taken 2 weeks for me to find the time to finish editing, but finally, here are the videos: Here's how it worked: I had a piece of paper with a code written on it. Whoever could take this paper from me and tag me on twitter with that code would win $50 in Steam games. If you could capture me, take the note and release me alive, you'd win $100. It all happened on a first person server. In fact, the whole idea was to promote and encourage more activity on 1PP servers.

Probably the most common thing I've seen people complaining about since I began playing the mod in 2012 was KOS. I've made a couple of videos addressing this recently. My position is that the best way to address it is by adapting your behaviour in several ways. I expect a better discussion here than reddit.

You're totally correct that have a little gear to start made all the difference. I think it would be fair to start character with a few basic items, perhaps randomly selected with very low loot. I have a theory that players have been strongly conditioned to kill on sight up to this point. With extremely low loot it would be in their best interest to cooperate a little more, trade, even beg to passerby. I've shown that people are willing to do this in previous videos. I think it would probably take weeks for players to de-habituate and start to realise that more often that not, working together will increase their chances of survival. It wouldn't eliminate PVP, and I would NEVER want that, it's the most exciting part of the game. But it's so much more exciting when you have more at stake than a 1 hour old character with an assault rifle.

Believe me, my favourite part of the game is player interaction and combat. It's so damn exciting. Extreme detail isn't necessary in a survival simulator - it's not a cooking simulator. In a game you have to take a kind of shorthand. It just needs to simulate the stress of finding food and preparing it with the possibility of failure at every step... failure meaning that you might starve.

Cheers :) I use DxTory.

Hi. It's been a while.

Playing solo on hardcore servers, dealing with other players as I meet them whether friendly or not, getting sick and fighting my way back to full health.

I made the request for hardcore but the majority of people wanted regular. That's a 1 vs 30 battle I can't win! There would have been a few people happy either way, but I was the only one keen on it.

Here we go! I'll be posting up the entire series in this thread, I'm thinking there will be around 4 episodes total.

HAHA... very funny ad. Never seen it before. Looks like freshwater where sharks usually don't swim... also looks like it was filmed in a southern part of Australia where there are no crocodiles. But still very funny.

No, the alpha ENDS at a feature freeze. Beta is "feature complete".