That is how I die in a lot of instances. Look and there is no one there, turn and get shot in the side of the head a few seconds later.

This, I was with a buddy who got nailed through one of those windows. He didn't die, and when the guy came in to get the loot the guy got shot in the face, but my buddy was lucky.

A lot of people KOS no matter what you're wearing.

My point is still valid, it doesn't matter if there is 1 building or 4, that place/compound/newstand/shoe shine hut might be different, but the lay out is the same. The concrete slab that is under the 1 building that was originally there or 4 buildings is the same. The wall around the place is the same. The guard tower is the same. That area was always there.

Eh, doesn't matter, my point is still valid. That place was there, just a different building setup than it has now.

LOL, that is great. Got to love this game, just wish that the flashlights didn't shine through the walls like they do. That and the gamma/brightness levels can be changed so much in game.

That compound has been there since release, if not, then the first patch. It just had different buildings there ones you couldn't enter

It may be working like that. I had a hardcore character who got killed, I respawned played for a while on that server then decided to take a break maybe half hour to an hour later. I logged back in where I logged out, then the game killed me, so I respawn again, die by fall then switch servers. I played on the next server until I got the no message recieved message and went to a new server, where I had a fresh spawn. I jumped to 2 other servers to see if it bugged out for a minute, which sometimes characters do, and now my hardcore character and normal character are one and the same. All the servers up to this point were hardcore servers. So I play my normal character who is now on a hardcore server for a while, and log out in a random place I never log out in, then log onto my normal character and they log in right where I logged out on the hardcore server. I tried again today and my hardcore character is still the normal character I play for a while use some cans of food and move around the inventory, grab a new gun, and log out. I log in on the normal character again and he's in the spot I logged out with the hardcore character with the same gear as I had on the hardcore server. So the moral of the story is... don't die!

Is that the wiggle guy?

I've seen something similar where there was something like 9 guns laying on the ground. 1 M4 and the rest SKS's... probably duped. EDIT: This was a few months back when SKS's were first put into the game.

If a server restarts and you're in a high traffic area, either start back up on that server when it starts back up, or go to a low pop server and if you die take your medicine. If he logged in under the staircase though, then he probably logged out there.

After a while you end up knowing where you're going. You learn that certain roads can be seen from certain treelines, or certain buildings are in a specific city/town, or maybe a certain cluster of buildings set up in a certain way is a specific area. I do most of my travelling across country (most of the time with a compass but sometimes without) and you eventually know where you're heading. Every once in a while I do have to go down to a town to find a road sign, but that's not often now. Just keep playing and exploring and you will eventually come to know the map.

LOL

Pain killers, find some and eat some. I think pain killers are still in game... I can't remember now. I know vitamins are, but I haven't been paying attention to the medical supplies all that much since I have a full medbag. I'm going to need to check that next time I log in. If your arm is broken morphine will fix it or make a splint with bandages and sticks. You should be able to tell if it's broken if you can't use a rifle or a two handed weapon, I think, haven't had a broken arm yet.

Being stealthy doesn't do much unfortunately. I've tried to be stealthy since the patch to test it out and I'd get zombies running at me from all over no matter what I did. I don't mind the extra zombies, but if we could actually avoid them by being stealthy I'd like it more. In the mod being stealthy did pay off when trying to avoid zombies, but you did have clowns running around at full speed looting towns, which would usually get some agro on you when they passed. Unless they decided to run by and shoot you/hatchet you.