Arciere

The FireAxe is the best axe you can find it kills Zombs in one hit, the woodsplitting one takes two unless you get a hit to the head and then it a one shot kill. Then the baseball bat and shovel. I don't know if it is true or not, but I believe the kitchen knife doesn't do any damage to zombies or players same with the screwdriver, hammer, or pipe wrench... To be completely honest, I don't attack zombies with anything less than a splitting axe.

I've been on 6 different servers today and every server that I was on, the bandits were guarding any weapons worth getting or a group of 5 or more of them were roaming the shore. I haven't been able to find any decent loot to help me survive and when I finally do, a bandit comes out of nowhere and kills me. I know thats about half the point of the game. But nearly everyone is a bandit because well, lets be honest there aren't very many zombies to kill so after searching and finding good gear it gets boring. But it seems that every server I go on is full of bandits. If there is 20 people there are multiple groups who have an agreement. If there are 10 people, 6 or 7 are in one bandit group. The ratio between zombies in any given place is comparable to the ratio of bandits. Can anybody point me to an area that I could find decent loot without running into groups and groups of bandits? I know the game is an an alpha stage, but it isn't the bugs or lag in nearly every server thats ruining the game for me. It is how many bandits there are.

I know that, but even a lot of the small population servers have groups of bandits fully geared roaming the shores. I guess the solution I'm going to try is find a good ping low population server and go inland.

That was actually one of my plans, I just haven't had too much luck finding guns at all and the one time I did, for some reason my legs caved in. Lol

I do have a few friends with me, but every time I've ran into a bandit they've been fully outfitted. 4 of us with mediocre gear stand no chance against an assault rifle. I'm really not trying to complain, or talk smack about the game. I'm just trying to learn the game and not having too much luck because of it. Military bases aren't the only place bandits go. I rarely go to military bases unless I stumble upon them. MOST of the bandits I've seen were along the shore. Also, I'm aware that the fireaxe is super effective against zombies. But not so much against a bandit, also I don't mind Bandits. They are part of the game, but I'd like to be able to find a fire arm that could atleast up my survival chances. Thanks that's the best advice I've gotten so far. I don't know too many people who play DayZ besides the guys I play with and they are as clueless as me.

I don't know where else to find firearms. I got lucky and spawned by a military base in Elektro and found 3 pistols at once, but that is all. I've yet to run into another one and I've played 10+ hours and looked in all the place that I could, but not that it matters I don't usually have time to leave my spawn before getting shot down and having to relog on the server just to respawn. I've found plenty of axe's but those aren't exactly useful when someone is firing an assault rifle at you, just killing zombies, but most of the time I don't even see zombies because bandits roam those coastal towns so frequently that there are rarely any zombies on the east coast road.

I got some good laughs from my buddies about these so I figured I'd post them and try to come up a new one every day until of course I get bored of DayZ(if ever) Jan 3 - When in doubt, just log out. Jan 4 - When trying to give a zomb the slip, don't forget about noclip More to come? Possibly unless you all hate me for posting these. If that's the case I'll just act like I don't exist anymore.

Hahaha, the only reason I say that was because the first time I played this game was at night and I tried to learn it in the dark just to be chased around a town by superpowered zombies. I should have logged out and waited til the next day. I don't use it to avoid bandits or dying from zombies, but me and my buddy who started the same time both got a good laugh out of it. and if anyone was wondering. Noclip is a hack or mode in some games that lets players move through objects exactly like the zombies do.