Johnny_Walker

I was at NWAF. First time playing after the patch. I proceed to go down a ladder while prone, my character stands up, proceeds to jump off the f*cking building, and then teleports back to the ladder. This still happened before the patch and I didn't get hurt, but this time I died...

After a good 15-20 hours of surviving, I was finally powerful. I had some military gear, [ A U.K. assault vest and a ballistic helmet] a fully ''pimped'' mosin [ Pu scope, bayonet, bipod] with another 75 bullets in my inventory and a revolver with some ammo. Everything was perfet. I hit the North East Air Field and killed a couple guys, one of them being a bandit. Logging back a couple hours later, I go to the airfield again, in hope for a long range scope, but then I spotted a couple bandits that shot down a guy. I aim down my scope and hit one of them. They immiadetely head in the prison building. After I wait, I decide to head in. Both had combat logged. After a bit of looting I head down, and one of the bandits had logged in again, and was camping the stairs. '' Pew pew'' and the black screen pops out, giving me the message we all hate: You are dead. Fucking Combat Loggers >:/ So have you guys ever been killed by a combat logger/server hopper?

There's kind of an issue with spray cans generally, I tried to spray my mosin, and it dissapeared (no, it did not just pop up after a minute and I just missed it)

So, if you actually came here for a guide instead of YouTube, that's great! Keep reading. This little guide has all the basics and is adressed to players new to the Standalone, or DayZ entirely. So, let's begin! (If you used to play the mod scroll down) For the players new to DayZ Prologue DayZ is not a game about killing zombies, or more generraly shooting and killing everything. It is a realistic survival simulator where you can die from hunger or dehydration as easily as from a zombie punch to the face, or a bandit's bullet. In this game you need to be on alert, and always take precautions. Your biggest enemy is not the zombies in DayZ. It is other survivors. Spawning When you first join a server, you only start with a flashlight and a battery. In order to use it, you need to drag the battery on the flashlight. Then right click on the flashlight, and select ''turn on'' (remember this procedure as it is used for many other things). Remember to drag the flashlight from your inverntory to your hotbar below, so you can equip it. If you have equiped it, the light should be to your left. In order to flash the light in front of you, you need to ''raise'' the flashlight. The default key for raising weapons is space ( if you're playing in a daytime-only server or you can only play when it's day in server it's recommended to drop both items since they take some of your inventory space). Ok, so you've sorted out your flashlight and you're probably wondering: where the hell am I? Well. When you spawn, you are somewhere in that blue area (here's the picture http://johnny-walker-comics.tumblr.com/image/73752308994 ). Unless you are playing on a low populated server it is not recommended to loot Electro or Berezino as there is a high chance of encountering a player, who is likely to kill you. The best tactic is to loot small towns until you find a melee weapon and then run inland A.S.A.P. You can find melee weapons on small tool sheds. They are very common and spawn a melee weapon almost always. The best melee weapon in the current version of the game is the firefighter's axe. Finding a gun Your trusty axe may be good against a zombie, but if an armed bandit spots you, it's not gonna help. Unless you take a risk and make your way to balota's airfield ( which is on the left of cherno, close to the shore) and find an m4, you should loot big towns and small cities with low risk in hope of finding a mosin nagant with some ammo. Mosins are found in areas with residential weaponry loot (other items in such areas are : 7.62 mm ammo, m91 bayonet, PU scope and the ATLAS bipod). Once you've found a working gun it's time to move on. Looting hotspots Looting small towns will give you enough to help you stay alive, but there won't be any action. No players, no cool guns and modifications, no action. It's time you loot something bigger. ''Hotspots'' are places with high chances of seeing a player, since many people are attracted to that place, mostly because of it's loot. Some hotspots are : Balota, North-East, North-West Airfield, Chernogorsk, Elektrozavodsk, Berezino and Stary Sobor. North West airfield is the most dangerous of all, since it has the best military loot in the entire map. Looting these places is risky (unless you're playing in a server with 10 people) and must be done with speed, stealth and caution. Here are the three steps of looting a hotspot. 1. Know what you're looking for. You're not in a shopping mall. If you're going to loot balota and all you need is an M4A1 don't search every single room and tent for 30 seconds looking at all the items. Just glance inside to find out whether there is the M4 you're looking for. If you see one take it and leave. If you don't, keep searching. 2. Scout the area. Make sure you're hidden then start searching for players. If you see one you can choose to engage in combat with him, wait until he leaves, or try to make contact with him. If you don't see anyone, proceed to step 3. 3. Stay hidden. Don't just run through the airstrip being more visible than a giant flashing sign! You will be noticed, and if the guy who saw you is a bandit, you're dead. Go around the back of the place you're intersted in. If there's a forest run through behind the cover of trees until you're behind the place. Then quickly go to it's entrance and proceed inside. Repeat when exiting. 4. Be cautious. Even if you're inside a building you're not safe. Someone might be there, or someone might come while you are in there. Make sure you check around corners and remember to always have your gun out. 5. Stay quiet. Avoid using guns to kill a zombie that aggroed on you. If the other guy didn't hear the zombie, then you better not give away your position with a gunshot. Also, avoid running if you see someone or you think someone's there. Try crouching or walking. 6. Be quick. Like mentioned above in step 1 don't take hours to loot the place. Every minute the chance of player coming increases. Be as quick as possible both when approaching, looting and leaving the area. If you're at least 300 meters away from the area, still got all your limbs on and no one on your tail, congratulations! Operation : L00ting was succesful. Approaching a player Are you sure that's a player? You sure it's not a zombie or a bot? You are? Ok then, continue reading. There are numerous ways on making contact with players, from the annoying Kill On Sight to the Are you friendly question. Everything depends on how you like to play. If you want the guy dead, I suggest waiting for the perfect moment where you have a good shot and he has no where to get cover from you. Dont just pop up and start shooting. Now, if you're friendly, you still need to show power. I suggest you make that dialogue if you see someone : (If he does not know where you are) Are you friendly? If you get no answer he is probably not friendly. Fill his body with bullets. Are you friendly? Yes. Then put your hands up (F2) If he refuses warn him that you will shoot him. If he still refuses engage in combat. If he raised his hands you're good to go. Explain that you're not a bandit your self, and there you go. Succesful apporoach. (If he saw you) This situation is harder. If he does what I said above just listen to him and raise your hands. If he hasn't start shooting you he does not want you dead.If he hasn't said anything but starts to shoot, either fight back, or run (or combat log if you're a p*ssy). If he starts shouting FRIENDLY FRIENDLY FRIENDLY he's friendly. If he does not say anything do as I said above. Well. You've pretty much learnt most about how the game is played. Now I'l be going over important things that must be known about the Standalone. Standalone If you have been playing the Mod, don't think you're ready for standalone yet. There are a lot of things you know, some of them being not that important, some of them being a matter of life and death (literally). Blood, health, food and water. The whole system of health and eating is very different from the mod and much more complex. Explaining it here would take a lot of time and space, so I suggest you go and watch these 2 videos which will help you understand how the new system works. Blood and health - Food and water - Bloodbags and saline bags If you watched the video you probably saw that you can regenerate blood and health by having eaten and drunk alot. But ain't nobody got time for that. You just want a bloodbag to get it over with don't you? Well there are bad news for you. Even blood bagging has gotten realistic. Fisrt of all, there are blood types. If you take blood from a blood type which is incompatible with yours, you will die in 10 seconds. Plus, there aren't any full bloodbags lying around. You can only take blood from other players. One thing you can do is to achieve health regeneration, take some blood of yourself and keep it until you get into a firefight and need it. Note that you need another person to actually tranfer the blood. Now saline bags are indeed found full. They need another person to be administrated. If your blood level is low and you can't see colours, a saline bag will allow to see colours and raise your blood level a little, not as much as a bloodbag though. At least you can't die from these. Rotten Food It's lying everywhere. Rotten Kiwis, Rotten Apples, Rotten Oranges and Rotten Bananas. It's prety obvious that you should not eat them. Not only they only restore very few hunger and thirst, but have a 50% chance of food poisoning you. Even if it is pristine, NEVER EVER ever ever eat a rotten fruit unless you have charcoal tablets which are prety damn rare. Viewing a map and a compass Unlike in the mod, you can't open your map or your compass by pressing a hotkey and it will magicaly appear on your screen. You have to equip them (by dragging them onto the hotbar and then chosing them) and go in 1st person mode (map doesn't need 1st person to open, just equip it). Oh and by the way, the books you keep finding everywhere aren't useless. You can actually read them by doing this procedure. Alright guys that's all I can think of, If you think something should be added PM me or write in the comments and I might add it. Hope it helped you newcomers!

I do want a singleplayer. But not so I don't meet people. That is a part of the game. I mostly want a single player so I would be able to play at those times when I don't have internet.

Well, you can carry a fireaxe because it is stored vertically and can fit into the backpack. I'm not 100% sure since I have never tried to put my guns in my backpack but I think the m4 does not fit horizontally. If you could kind of ''rotate'' items in the fututre maybe you would be able to hide guns in your back pack.

So, the story starts when I respawned on a small island close to elektro, after being killed by some guy who seemed to be hacking (i'm not 100% if he was though). Just as I spawn I hear someone saying ''friendly friendly''. It was another fresh spawn that had just spawned on the exact same place with me. We teamed up, and stuck together for a while. After looting elektro he had some basic gear. We both had fireaxes, clothes, backpacks. He/she (his/her mic quality wasn't great so I didn't understand what gender he/she was) had a gun with no ammo and I had a compass. We decide to make our way to balota in order to gear up and head north. I tought him/her a little about how the game is played properly and we chatted a little, while heading to cherno. On our way there we met a guy who was (at least seemed to be) completely unarmed. -Stop! Are you friendly? -Yes I am. -Are you heading back from cherno? -Yeah... -Any nasty bandits there? - No, it's completely empty. -Alright. *i proceed to move off, but then I decide to be a good samaritan and go back to him* Would you like anything? Like do you want a drink or a bandage maybe? *He pulls out a revolver* -I want your backpack. -*sigh* alright. *i proceed to drop my backpack on the ground, and then he/her just charged on him and hit him with the axe, killing him* Unfortunately, she got shot as well. I, in panic try to use my epi-pen on him/her, but it was too late. He/she had bled out. He/she sacrificed her/himself to save me from that douche. Now I don't care if that was bravery or stupidity. It was awsome. Now in case she/he is reading this, I wanna say a big thank you. Dayz has now a bandit less. :thumbsup:

Well, searching this forum a little bit I found out that only I rarely encouter K.O.S.ers :D I guess I'm a little lucky, I'm not playing dayZ right now, but when I go and play I'll send you the IP if you still want. ~peace

Well sir, you have a point right there :) I mostly called him a douche, because he decided to ''mug'' us, right after I offered him some help, also he was not in the inventory system when my friend attacked him. I guess it was his first mug, since he didn't do it just as he saw us, you know he kind of hesitated. Well. At least he deserved what happened to him though :)

I have played the mod enough to know that shooting pretty much any gun in a city/airfield/military base will get you fucked from both zombies and players :)

What do you mean where ppl can talk? If you mean on global chat, there's not any yet. Maybe they will add it in the future, maybe they won't. As for the server I'm playing, it's just a Daylight-only server. I'll edit the link in later.

I know, I just hope that he won't play as a bandit anymore :p

XD nice! That summs up dayz's population : Weirdos, bandits (a.k.a douchebags) and those guys that just fucking run to save their lives

I never shoot on sight, and if I ever do, it's gonna be because I will either be protecting something/someone important, where I can't risk getting attacked by a bandit, or if my heart is pounding so fast, that someone just pops up and my reflexes make me immediatly shoot him. I always make sure people are friendly, and if they are, I tend to help them. Wether that means giving them stuff or teaming up with them. So I put hero. I'm definetely not the best hero around, but I at least try my best to be a good one :)

Dude. More difficult zombies and enviroment are just gonna make it worse. I believe the reason standalone has a bit less bandits is because the zombies and enviroment are not a real threat. In the mod where zombies were a big pain in the ass you were more likely to be killed/raided, since survival was harder, and people would do anything to survive.

The fact that you get killed so often has to do with the server's population. If you're in a server with 40 f**king people it's pretty obvious that there will be spawn campers dude... Just avoid the coast. But it is true that they need to fix stuff. I wish they just did some small regural updates with some bug fixes every week or something.

As everyone said there's probably not gonna be a single player, but it would be nice, so you could play without internet.

While I'm playing, every 0.5 - 2 minutes my screen freezes for a couple seconds, but my character keeps moving or generally keeps doing what he was doing before the screen froze. It is very annoying because I actually died from that (:-/). I don't think it has to do with my pc's specs, because it happens no matter how good/bad the quality is set. Any suggestions? [edit] Still having the issue, even after disabling clouds, shadows, pretty much everything I could. The graphics are now set to the lowest setting possible. I'm starting to think it's not about the graphics. My pc is not that bad.

Alright thanks everyone, I'll see if that fixes it :thumbsup:

Hell yeah it can! You can run it fluently on normal quality, and maybe even high!