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best thing to do IMO is stop the game if you newspawn - dont even log out ingame or touch anything, drop out to Windows and stop DayZ, then start up again and try some other server.. this gives you a chance to get your state back. If you freshspawn, and start doing things (even log out) and the server saves your position, you're doomed.

the voice that sounds like hot melted caramel inside you headphones ? ....

GameServer servers in Europe not working at pres.. 17:40 CET - op is correct dunno why ... new central looting economy updates make them crazy maybe ? ( or someboy batched something wrong or they dint pay their rent, heh )

this is Issue 0023367 in the feedback tracker vote it up

I keep the smell setting on Low.. else at 2am the zombie smell wakes up my girlfriend (and it messes up the FPS too)

If you set the max ping to 2000 you should get nearly all of the servers on the planet listed so you know the list and the connection are working - then you can sort out which servers you can actually play on

; How about a series called "Eating Well-Known DayZ Players" might run for a long time on youtube ?

But to be famous you should have eaten him, right? (just out of respect)

I keep the settings at around medium on my 'small' screen, except for distance (number of objects) - I like to be able to see as far as possible The reason I put medium, is the game is just too good looking for me. it looks great. If I put the settings to 'high' I start to wander around in this beautiful landscape of leaves and shadows and sky and grass and rippling water and I loose concentration - and I die. xx

The standard thing to do is 1 ) set your pc graphics to the standard resolution of your screen "the native resolution". If you do this, then icons, photos, images, videos, on your pc will show up their natural proportions; not stretched or elongated etc.. 2 ) for the user interface resolution, set it as it suits you - the standard thing is to set it so that it exactly fills your screen when you are playing in full screen, not in a window. then your DayZ graphics will not be stretched or elongated etc.. but plenty of people choose other resolutions for their pc screen, it depends what suits you.. ( you sure got a big screen there ) start out with standard settings, then experiment.. What kind of card do you have to run that screen? If you play around you can probably find other game resolutions that suit you and fill most of the screen, and are not much distorted Im playing on 1920 x 1080 ..that is the standard resolution of my screen - in windows 7 this is noted by having "recommended" written after it in the < Control Panel/Display/Adjust Resolution/ > options list of resolutions. xx [edit: ok.. I see players have answered this already]

Hi Exiled I hope you stay with the game ..seems to me that once players decide they like it, they stay with DayZ a long time. I think something like Gannaf's idea is the answer to your question .. IMO the best thing is to arrange the key settings to suit your play (you know this already, right?). This is a good way to learn the keys too, there are some interesting options, and some things to look out for. e.g. If you press the key for "free look" you can turn your head without moving your body. But this means your body can not turn until you come out of free look.. In 3d person this has a strange effect that will totally throw you, because suddenly you can only run in a straight line, whichever direction you try to take.. . If a new player presses that key by mistake in an action situation, it can be extremely bewildering (like 100% panic!). This mistake scared the sheet out of me the first time I did it, I ran straight out of cover and could not go back, running the wrong way...very hairy. If you slide items from your inventory into the line of boxes at the bottom of the screen, then you can bring them into your hands using your top-row number keys, with your inventory shut. You really need to do this, for instance to bring out your gun in an action situation (is no good opening your inventory to get your gun out). Or, with your inventory shut, you can take a bandage right out of you backpack into your hand with one key-press. you get the habit of always keeping the same kit in the same quick-draw slots - for me key "0" is always bandages or rags, key "1" is melee weapon, key "2" is gun... it saves a lot of 'stress'. - play again, you'll love it. Then it gets worse.. (don't say I didn't warn you). This game is unique. [Edit: I see you been playing a week already, so I guess you're hooked.] hey, one key change that is very helpful - put your "interact" keypress on to your mouse-wheel press button, so you can move and change direction and also pick up loot, or open and shut doors, all with one hand... Enjoy.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." Ernest Hemingway - but I don't think Ernest said anything about 'gumbo'

So it comes down to - Were these two guys wearing ghillies ? I think I had a 'hot' once about two patches ago (when it came in) but it lasted 1 warning and then it rained for 5 days

Dont worry - a month from now you'll be happy, dry, well fed, well equipped, squatting alone in a derelict building in front of a fire, talking to yourself, gnawing the bones of a friend, and wondering how to meet some new people. xx

liked the <click click> ok you can stop shooting him now - he's dead beanz

bad diet, for sure the McRonald's in Electro [now closed]

^ Hes been running? Different stress? Different blood/food/hydration level? Maybe the sun was out? He was 'stuffed' ? The effect of these things linked together is really quite complex and not obvious.. I saw a youtube video showing (claiming) that if you run you bleed out slower than if you stand still (or was it - if you've been running a lot, you suffer less damage from a hit than if you've been standing still?) whatever.. My idea is that these things work together to give you a feeling for what's happening, instead of having the usual game list of percentages in the corner of the screen. once you have five or six variables going on together, no one is ever going to be exactly the same as the next guy, however similar they dress. I looked at the Mod yesterday, after a long while away, and I was surprised because I'd forgotten the icons in the lower right screen to show hydration, blood etc.. There has been a lot of design planning right back from the start to get those player-state icons out of the game, so you feel "how you are" as much as possible instead of having a numbered list.

Friend - a lot of the people you're talking to would not be proud of you .. this game includes cannibals and mass killers and bambi-hunters, as well as easy-going friendly folk who like to chat on the beach. You will meet them all. Next time you meet another player in DayZ, ask them to show you the military bases ... and how to make stone knives. Or check on Youtube where there are many guides - or get together with PlasticAssasin8 or thewire as they suggest. or look in the Database here for lots of info - it's pretty up to date except on the most recent stuff added to the game. There are beginners guides on the forums here. Are you sure you have a broken arm? Do you know how to make a splint for it? [edit: ok yes I see you do.. so keep on doing it..] Stuff works unless it is "ruined" - then it does not work any more. Good luck with the military bases! xx

Nice seeing all these young clean faces with nice short haircuts, but ..here's a dumb idea: How about having your face like any other piece of equipment? So faces are - - pristine - worn - damaged - badly damaged hu? then you'd need sticking plaster or a razor to get your face back up a level just for variety xx

yep, from habit i always pick up an SKS clip if I find one and keep it...true, they are not common. But I like better the Mosin because you can saw it off or add a scope as you feel, but mainly because it shares ammo with the Longhorn, which is a neat little one-shot gun with a scope that works good, and you can keep in your backpack. That's real useful for ALL kinds of stuff from hunting to sniping. For face to face the sawed off shotgun set to 50 with both barrels on is the biggest laugh = door opens and a dude military-geared to the teeth dives in - he's gota be crazy - you don't even have to aim (heh).

well, I logged in and found an SKS on a building site ..also found a good canteen, an ice pick, and a pink derringer (heh) and a pristine cord .. moved on, found ammo for SKS in school building (how much do you need, really ?), also 2 bags of rice, picked up 1 box shotgun shells, on my way out to the woods found a pump gun in a shed.. I had just dropped in DayZ for 15 mins before work, there were 5 or 6 people on the server, more when I left.. This is not in a new area or any special area. I was looking for a shotgun (I got a hacksaw, good for opening cans too), but this stuff will do till I find what I want. There were clothes and boots in good condition around that area, but I have a green raincoat, military carry-vest, matches, fishook, meat knife. spade, pumpkin seeds, don't really need the SKS so I'll probably put it in some place where I can find it later, or where no one else will get it. My problem with DayZ is I have all the stuff I need, I look for stuff I want, or just to check out new equipment.. When I log in I'm well fed, hydrated energized, dry, armed, camouflaged, i've got what I require and extras I can pick up anytime.. so after a while traveling and hunting and eating and exploring and going through villages and checking out players .. I have to go get in a shooting match so I can get killed and start over.. I go hang around a barracks and see who turns up (that is funny sometimes).. or take a walk in a big town see who doesn't expect to meet a hill-billy with a sawed off shotgun in a small space (heh) then sooner or later I get wasted (usually unexpectedly) and start over. The "barracks players" are mainly totally disorganized and have a life expectancy of from 1 day down to 10 minutes.. maybe 2 days if their lucky (I mean 100% complete lucky-by-chance) they are fun to see. If you want to find guns and ammo, and stay alive to use them, don't go to those places. Go to the places most other players don't go. It's that simple. Every barracks area or airfield building has one or two ways of holding off attackers or placing yourself at an advantage - teams who play those areas know them - apart from that, its quickest reactions, chance, or who gets the drop on the other.. being cunning can help, but inside a known barracks area there are only so many moves you can make, so the game in there is like a little CoD map. But mainly IMO 'barracks players' are not-very-skilled players and hoppers who are just running in and out hoping for the best.. this means if 2 other players turn up while you're going through a barracks area you have a 33.3% chance of living. Hop 3 or 6 times and you should be geared up (even if you get killed once or twice).. but then why bother to play like that? Sure its fun and exciting but there's a lot more on the map than two or three "key" places. IMO stay on the same ONE map and try to survive. And hey - surviving includes NOT going to places where people shoot you on sight. But - OK - If you want to go into a police station (and you're a loner) hide out where you can see the street and watch for a while, see if there are zombies around, or players.. then decide yes/no to make your move and don't dawdle. Go straight to what you want, get it and get out.. on the way in you can already see if stuff has been looted, don't search at random .. have your escape route planned.. (etc, etc, etc, ya know?) be ready to meet someone coming in as you're going out. Whack him. Then expect his friend is 3p-ing round the corner waiting for you. Anyway - SKS and SKS ammo - you find them anywhere.. specially you find them in places where there are not so many players. Go find a quiet building-site and go up to the second floor and look on the wooden work bench, always a gun there unless someone else took it, go on the roof, turn right and look at the "sniper point" see if there's ammo or a sight or a silencer or a gun.. its called a "sniper" location on all the loot maps. Not difficult to find. And players who reach these quieter places often already have the gear they want and tend to leave more loot around. Check the block of stone on the ground floor in the long room close to one of the corner stairs - guns?.. check the pile of bricks on the ground floor open veranda between the 2 stairwells, sometimes a gun half hidden under there too..(hey, this is just half of 1 building I'm mentioning..) But if you really NEED a military auto, I guess you know where to find those (see the loot maps) .. you don't have MORE chance of finding those, you just have more chance of being killed doing it. [hey survivor people - sorry if I'm giving away some of yo' reliable loot locations, but no one reads this stuff anyway]

i just came back to say - more I think about it, more the things you mention in this thread make sense, Beav i guess I have this idea that there are trees good for "hiding in", and trees good for "cutting down".. so I never tried cutting down a tree that is good for hiding in, if I want to cut down a tree I just go where they are tall and have no low branches. I guess this is an irrational habit. - I'm slow, but I'm seeing the advantages of what you're saying.

'scuse please - what is " DayZ PvP KD ".?.. sorry, I've never heard of it - is this the wrong place to ask?

You can tear up t-shirts to make rags. With a rag you can bind a wound so it stops bleeding. you can tear up your own t-shirt also, in an emergency (= 2 rags) Never have less than 6 rags.. or 6 rags and a bandage (or 2 bandages) .. amazing how fast you can use them up. Any time you find a shirt you don't want, tear it up and keep the rags. If you are attacked by zombies, get well away from them first before you bandage, otherwise they will jump you while you are bandaging and you are very vulnerable If you are bleeding you can go quite a way before you get low on blood and the screen starts to go black and white, so don't 'panic-bandage', get to a safe place first if you can. A stick (from the woods) and a bandage or rag will combine to make a splint for a broken leg. I've crawled/rolled across whole fields and detoured round the edges of villages to reach woods so I could collect a stick, heh. Keep some rags or a bandage in your backpack, or in different clothes. the zombies will firstly ruin your pants (usually) or jacket.. if all your rags/bandages are in those pockets they will be ruined and you cant use them, so keep them in 2 different places, backpack is safest from zombie attack.