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Buying DayZ Will Only be a Single Purchase Thread - Harrison Johnstone Recently I was researching DayZ and the possibilities of having to purchase it again for the Beta and the Final Edition. I stumbled across a thread that everyone who has purchased or is thinking about purchasing the Alpha will find interesting. The following is a quote from DayZ Developer Dean "Rocket2Guns" after being asked if there will be an extra charge after purchasing the Beta or final version. "No, one payment gets the full game at the end. But I would recommend a very careful and critical review of whether purchasing now is such a good idea. There are many problems which can ruin your gameplay experience. These are being actively fixed - but if you delayed your purchase by a month you would pay the same price but it would be a better experience. Something to consider." So if this information may swing your vote for becoming an Alpha owner then I'm glad I've gotten your attention. Source - http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1uj2kk/question_if_i_buy_dayz_standalone_alpha_will_i/

It was the first time I'd ever played, I had no idea what I was doing :)

Glad you care enough to do this. Here, get some of these :beans: into you. :thumbsup:

Crazy good guide dude! I wish I had read this before I made an idiot out of myself haha!

DayZ Standalone - First Thoughts and Feelings Thread - Harrison Johnstone (Steam - Peacemaker) So today I finally got around to purchasing DayZ after watching many "frankieonpcin1080p" videos showing his heroic badassery traversing the wastelands and cities of Chernarus in what is to be my favourite mod and possibly favorite game ever, DayZ. To begin my story I'll start from the very start of my journey after I fiddled with the controls. Originally I spawned in the southeast corner of the map, I'd seen it before in many YouTube videos previously but I'd never experienced it like this. Bare and desolate, I'd never thought it would be so real. Scavenging was the first thing I got around to after learning how to run and asking myself why my character was so damn thirsty all the time. I looted a couple of buildings, found a shirt and pants and a soft drink and moved on. Later I came across a building with a Saline drip so I picked that up too. In my infinite noobish wisdom I then decided to climb up the nearest mountain thinking that I might be able to get a vantage point to have a look around but all of a sudden I see I'm being tailed by three zombies! I hadn't even seen one at that point and suddenly there was three! I realised that you can't run up hills at this point, especially when I was carrying a fire extinguisher which I had recently acquired. So I dropped that and sprinted away finally losing them. All I had on me was the Saline drip, 2 tins of tuna and a wrench (absolutely useless). I continued on up the hill until I came across a town. Like a young gazelle with a seriously underdeveloped brain, I stupidly sprint into the nearest shed in search of something valuable and I came across a pristine apple! A piece of fruit! I'm not even a big fan of apples but I was pretty excited. Then I heard a distinct groan and turn to see a zombie flailing like a diseased baboon that had swallowed a live kangaroo roughly two steps away. So I ran, I ran so far away (80's reference) and went into a house to hide. Then the zombie glitched through a wall and slapped me so hard I magically appeared back outside. I pull out my wrench and wail on the zombie with every click I could muster but only to realise that the blood spilling everywhere was mine and in fact I had done no damage at all to the zombie who had just killed the hour I spent sprinting across the country side with a couple of swipes. Unconscious. Dead. Quit. I enter a new server almost immediately with around 18 players in it and begin from the same spot. This time I run north up the coast to see if there was anything good around there and at this point I came across my first player. He was lying on the highway bleeding tremendously. I ask him if he needs help over voice chat, really trying to be a hero in this situation. I tear off my shirt and make rags out of it to bandage him. After he's all wrapped up I suggest to him (me and my vast experience) that he should probably get off the road and then I move on. I super sprint up the road looting a couple of houses along the way. At this point my character was getting pretty thirsty so I stop in a smallish town to find water. Here I ran into my 5th zombie. The Zed wouldn't leave me alone until I had run ages away. But whilst I was running I found a well, but I had to abandon it. ​I continue up the road, thirst meter in the brown zone, running with the occasional white flicker across the screen. The longer I ran the more intense it became. I passed a gas station but couldn't loot it due to the presence of 2 zombies so I moved on again. I pass a small shack near a creek but at this point I wasn't aware I could drink creek water so I moved on. Later on I came to a large town with a factory type building centrally located. Firstly I went to the shore to the large sheds which I had noticed usually seem to hold decent gear in and I found a yellow wet weather coat (life saver later on) and a wood splitting axe. I moved back into town on my way to the factory. I was looting building after building along the way when I came across my second player interaction but this time they weren't AFK. He had recently spawned and had essentially nothing on him and I had stumbled upon him with axe in hand. My first words to him were "please don't kill me". He laughed, said he was friendly and asked if I wanted to team up. I said alright as the I shook the fear of death off of myself. He said we should go to Elektro to find some decent loot and backpacks so we headed off sprinting down the road I had come from. On the way I found a dead player with a backpack so I took that and we were on our way. We sprinted past the creek eventually and this time I had a drink thanks to some friendly "pro tips". Then we kept on sprinting. Later on we found the player I had bandaged earlier, still lying there, not bleeding but peaceful and still alive. We kept on going down to Elektro. I asked if his friends were in the same server and he told me they were just outside of Elektro. We came upon the the town I had spawned in as we ran down the highway. I spotted another player running towards us in the distance so I kept watch as my new friend looted buildings for supplies and weapons. I lost the other player jumping over a fence so we kept on running down the road. Suddenly another player sprung upon us with an M4 and we realised we were monumentally screwed. After a couple of moments silence as we prayed to the Chernarus Gods for protection he said he was "friendly" in a pleasant English accent and stood with us on the road. Out of nowhere another player with an M4 came up behind us but he turned out to be a friend of our new gun toting acquaintance. The original friendly had taken quite a shine to my yellow wet weather jacket and asked if he could have it. I stood there for a second realising that the jacket was the only valuable thing my friend or I actually had but I decided the jacket was a small price to pay and he probably would have killed us and taken it anyway. So I dropped the jacket and to my surprise he compensated me with a new shirt. We stood and chatted for a bit before parting ways as my friend and I moved on towards Elektro, towards safety in numbers. We continued to run towards Elektro until the connection dropped and I had to rejoin, but I finally added my new friend on Steam. I joined a group Skype call with him and his two friends as we increasingly found that in game chat was much too difficult. On the run to Elektro whilst keeping in contact with his friends, my new mate told me that in his last life he had a full arsenal of weapons and ammo to boot but he was killed by a glitchy player with a bad connection. I replied that he had had a tough break and we continued on. We passed the "burnt out hippie van" and the lighthouse as Elektro came into view. We were told to meet his friends at a construction site near a crane on the outskirts of Elektro. We continued our run looting a medical kit on the way until we finally reached his friends at the yellow crane. I looked at them and indeed they could have destroyed me in a second and taken all I had gathered very easily. But they didn't and I'm glad because they turned out to be great guys. We looted the construction site, I upgraded to a larger backpack and they gave my friend a pistol to defend himself with but we decided this wasn't enough loot so we combat logged and joined a new server. We all met each other outside and then began looting again. For some reason I headed to the second story and found myself an M4 with two pristine parts. One of my new friends gave me a sixty round clip as well! We looted the rest of the building and then continued through Elektro, producing witty banter and keeping an eye out for bandits and bambis alike. We looted too but didn't find too much of use as we were heading towards the military base and the air strip. At this stage we were armed with a Mosin, two M4s and a revolver. We continued up to the airstrip warily, occasionally killing the zombies that moved a little faster than the rest. We ran along the fenceline of the airstrip trying to avoid the possibility of sniper fire that would end a good session of looting. We got lucky and managed to have the entire airstrip to ourselves. We looted the place not finding too much and then continued down to the army barracks across the highway. This time we found a few assault vests, some Magnums and weapon attachments and various bits of ammo. After these two spots had been looted I was advised that I should quit and then join on them in a new server so we could find more loot. We combat logged and joined a new server again but this time whilst looting the tower on the air strip we found another player who could have been a potential bandit but to our surprise he immediately combat logged, never to be seen again. So we ended up doing this a couple of times until we were all kitted out everyone with a decent primary, food, ammo and clothing. Then we stood on the road for a bit chatting about what we had come across and our plans for when we left and I was told that if I hadn't had any gear on me my first friend would probably have killed me and the others would have too but I turned out to be a surprising noobish ally who helped guide their friend to them and most likely saved his life with a yellow wet weather jacket. So that was my first journey into DayZ. I hoped you enjoyed the read, feel free to post your own awesome experiences below.