Bottlerocket

Yeah - hack. Try and get a note of who did it, if they give themselves away by yelling something dumb like, oh, "fly like an eagle". Then put a report detailing which server and the names responsible in the cheat report section of the forums.

It depends on how long you hold down the mouse button. About three seconds is good enough for a medium throw - any longer and you're winning gold at the Olympic shot putt.

It's not - we created this whole thing just to lure you in and watch you run about an empty close. Thanks guys - wrap it up now. Great success, he fell for it.

So, I had newly spawned near Cherno. I usually avoid the place, but I thought I’d take a quick trip to the apartments and the hospital to get basic supplies before getting the hell out. On the way there I found a barn, so got myself a hatchet, aggroed a zombie, did battle, lost blood and had to bandage myself. The only other thing inside was three piles of shotgun ammo, which I took in case I found one. I made my way to the apartments and crept inside the first one. But I only got a couple of steps before I noticed someone’s leg glitching through the stairs. I was not alone. Now, tbh, I wasn’t really that bothered if I got shot or not – I had nothing to lose. I was also playing a female character, and occasionally roleplay a bit, saying stuff like “I’m so scared”, “please don’t hurt me, I need help” etc. Basically, lost-and-desperate-female-survivor-stuff etc.... nothing sexual - not that sort of desperate, you mucky people  Anyway, I decided to go for it and seek help, and despite being ultra-suspicious, the two guys agreed not to kill me on sight and came down the stairs. Perhaps they were softened by my little-girl-lost routine, who knows? One demanded that I turn to the wall when they got close, saying he was afraid of me hitting him with the axe. So I did, and then I remembered I could put it in my toolbelt, so I put it away and turned back to him. Now completely unarmed, I was at their mercy and frankly expected a head shot. But they still didn’t kill me. We decided to raid the hospital, and because I had a hatchet, they told me to go break the glass so they didn’t have to fire off a shot and alert the zeds. This worked out fine, and we all got medicine – and still they didn’t shoot me, even though my usefulness was past. After that, we went our separate ways. So why are they my favourite bandits? Well, because when the guy asked me to turn to the wall HE LOOTED MY BACKPACK!!! and stole all the shells I’d gathered along with my starter pack of painkillers. And I just love that. Instead of descending to the usual ‘meh meh kill-on-sight’ stuff which plagues the game, these two guys used their ingenuity to rob a helpless female without her even knowing! I hope they had a good laugh to themselves when we split, because I sure did. Sometimes you just have to say, well played, good sirs.

I think if you watch the latest video with Rocket - it's on this forum somewhere- he says they've moved away from direct control of the servers, so we're going to see more of this sort of thing appearing. I've ceratinly noticed a few unofficial servers popping up. Sounds interesting, OP. There's no reason that the original rules are the best. As long as PvP is allowed, I think servers should be allowed to experiment, within reason, and your's sounds good.

Cool interview. It shows how far we are along with testing dayZ we are - and how far we have to go. Love how he refers to it as 'the DayZ project'. Puts it in perspective. You're part of a project, people!! Edit - And I thought your questions were good. But you should have pushed him on a release timescale!!! Months, years or decades???

Berezino has 2 - a north and a south one. The north (I think) is close to 3 apartments - also good places for loot and packs. Also, there's a hospital here that's close to the treeline.

Sheep are known to be scouts for zombie hordes. Turn your back on them and they report back to their undead masters, giving away your position, gear status and general discription. In coded bleats. IT'S IN REVELATIONS, PEOPLE!!!!!

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=29034&pid=256167#pid256167 Check the vid in this thread out at about 12.30 onwards - it's just up your street.

I think that if you get a train of more than four zombies it should start playing banjo 'getaway' music through direct chat as you run along gathering more zombie followers.

Wish I had recorded this! I was at the bottom of a hill with a zombie at the top, some distance away, when another came shambling out of the woods beside me. I shot the one nearest me, looked up at the one on the hill, and sure enough, it was aggroed! It started running down towards me, tripped, flew up in the air, broke its neck when it fell, slid a few feet and lay there, quite still. Thanks for the lulz, clumsy clot :)

There used to be a bug where you spawned as a crow. Happened to me a couple of times. You could peck people, but it was insta-kill and therefore a bit op.* *pecking bit actually made up.

Woah! - I'm Bottlerocket - no relation to the great man, I just use that quote to remind people of what they're getting into with DayZ! Have fun in there.

Zombies do currently aggro through walls, yes, but it's been toned down since patch 1.7.1. Should be fixed even more in 1.7.2, coming soon. Proning will always let you get past a zombie - but they have Line of Sight depending on which way their body is facing (not head), so if you prone in front of them they will see you. But if you get too close, even proning is no use. Keep your distance, go slow, if you can hear them, go prone. Don't be afraid to stop dead and just observe. Use your roll (q and e keys) to shift position silently. Remember you can use cans and bottles (bottles are best) to throw and distract them - they will head towards the noise if it lands close enough to them. Takes practice, tho - throwing depends on how long you hold down your mouse button. Usually about three slow seconds is long enough. Never run in zombie-infested territory, and always, always, always have a line of retreat in your mind in case you do aggro one.

I'm not Andy, but I'll say it on his behalf - Fuck Off, you server-hopping Fuck.

178 at the moment, highest was over 200 until I respawned to try out starting without a weapon. My current char just keeps killing zombies! I can't even fill up a water bottle without aggroing a few. On another note, I love it how they are always a danger, even when you are fully geared. You can have 900 kills, as someone on here says, but one slip up and you're zombie food. Like the other night - I was doing fine, sneaking through a town when I aggroed one. Ran into a house to get a better shooting position and every Z in the area started attacking! By the time it was over I had about 40 kills and 3/4 of my ammo was gone. Intense.

I've raided a few - and got the Bizon SD, 2 Fals (one with nightscope) and a super-duper sniper rifle that was so loud I threw it away in disgust. Loved my Bizon. I had the suppressed version, 64 round per mag. You could waltz through a town wiping zombies off the map without causing a horde to chase you. Lost that to carelessness... sigh.

Unlickiest was spending an hour sneaking into Berezino hositla to get morphine, shredding my nerves in the process as I dodged Z and Pkrs. 20 mins later I come across a deerstand, shot the zombies, and one drops morphine. Gah.

Is that to the south or north? it's wierd this - I've been everywhere on the map, but I have never been able to find these damn tents!

I do think that the KoS mentality is something we need to move away from. Hopefully, when DayZ gets to a point that the unlimited ammo bug is gone, server hopping is eliminated and DCing gone too then people will be a bit more open to helping each other survive. When all you have is the loot of one server, with constantly diminishing ammo, you'll maybe think twice about gunning someone down for no reason. It won't eliminate it altogether, but I do think that gameplay will evolve as the mod does. I trust the devs to get it right. PS - It's 'Kill on SIGHT', not 'SITE'. ...... Sight, dammit.

Good story, old trout :) Did you get the bandits, or was it the zombies who got you?

"game" "engame content" "high tier loot" All of these terms are from MMOs like WoW and Swtor, and they don;t apply at all to DayZ. It isn't sort of game. It's also not a "game" at all - it's a mod that's still being developed (Alpha). Maybe one day it will have more variety of things to do, but at the moment it's in it's very early stages, so you may want to come back in a year or so's time, or possibly wait until a retail or completed version is available.

Which military base?

Also apartments.

NO, it will not. You've got a long crawl to the hospital ahead of you.