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Way TL:DR. I'll read it when I have some more time. From the look of this, I actually read some, it looks good. -Dovis

Yeah, well it's DayZ. "Get used to it" people say. But just a tip here : Always be ready for the worst when you kill someone with good gear, you can never know if he has buddies or not. (( I got betrayed by a guy that I helped, he just called his buddies and killed me with my friend. DayZ in it's flesh )) Be ready for the worst all of the time actually, especially when you meet a guy that is friendly and has an axe. And about the ghosting thing - It is really stupid, but it has a weak spot. ..."Funny thing is I heard them all log in and reload.." So when you hear this, right near you, and two people, either spray them with anti-life bullet's or get the hell out of there. Good luck next time man. -Dovis

Here's some tips for finding weapons and ammo. Always check the hospital's 3rd floor room, behind the door aswell. (( Elektro )) Check the hopsital's roof. Check all of the houses, the big ones, not the ones with one floor. Check both of the firestation roof's. (( Elektro )) Check the office/school building near the industrial area. (( Elektro )) Supermarkets have gun's but not ammo. The big houses and shops have 7.62MM 20 round cartriges. (( Shops are the small versions of supermarket's with small rusty red doors )) Check every airstrip's military camp if it has one. If the camp has barracks, check under the beds when you are searching them. And if you followed all of those tips and still couldn't find a single weapon with ammo, just join a low population server and loot around, just don't server hop, only do it when you are really desperate in gear. Good luck on your journey. -Dovis

So as you've read the title of this topic, you probably know what this is going to be about. The story : I spawned in Berezino and went to loot around. Played for an hour and then logged out. Came back to the server about 3 hours later and started running straight to Elektro. I ran so Solnichy first, where surprisingly, there wasn't anybody. Even at a 40/40 server. So, as I'm running down the road to Kamyshovo I saw a player. A newspawn. He was just standing on the road AFK I guessed. I ran up to him and he started running away. And I was surprised he wasn't trying to knock me out or punch me. I admit it, I did it 2 times on people who aimed at me and told me to put my hand's up just when I spawned. And I killed both of those. But back to the story Me and this guy , the new spawn went in kamyshovo, found some dead bodies, a guy with an M4 that said he was "protecting" the newspawns. I guess he was, he didn't shoot at us or try to threat us or something. My DayZ crashed. I recconected, found the protector is dead. All gear ruined and another body with an axe nearby. I took the guy's M4 and went on. As I'm nearing Elektro I see two people running towards me. I stop and say "Hello, friendly?". As I'm finishing my words, 4 people come out of the bushes, and another 5 out of the woods. They surround me, I put my hands up. Then a guy with an axe comes and kills two of them, axed one, then got behind one of em, hit him, and got shot, they shot the guy he was behind aswell. I got rubberbanded after running away. Running into Elektro, this time trough the coast. Ambushed by 1 guy again. Tells me to follow him or else. I comply. They all form something like a bow formation around me. Starts talking some gibberish, and one of them plays some sort of a boot-camp music or something, like Medal of Honor Pacific assault , I don't know. 8 second's later, they all open fire at me. I spawned in Kamyshovo, then ran straight to my body, nothing was taken. At all. Everything just ruined. And the clan was gone. Well, I know this story wasn't supposed to be about my whole life from spawn to death and spawn again, but those guys were really good at ambushes. I didn't manage to get any screenshots because I have steam in game disabled and Print Screen just pastes absolutely black pictures into photoshop or paint, or just the desktop not the game. I hope you guys actually ever encounter something like this, even though you die in the end, it was awesome. -Dovis

Alright, I'll try that out. Thanks. By the way, me and my new friend that I met in DayZ encountered another clan, this story is much shorter however. I met him on my way to Elektro once again, we both got there whilst talking and once we passed the white Elektro sign. we both got rubberbanded to the same location at the same time. I recconected and re-launched DayZ, I dind't find him once I logged in to the server so I just ran for Elektro. And then I see it. 6 people. All fully armed. And theres my friend running with an axe trying to kill them all. Oh you. "Hey man! Don't do that they will shoot you!" "Dude It's me, get away from them!!" "Guys please don't kill me or him" "COME ON! What are you DOING? Jesus Christ are you stupid?" "No! Run dude! WHY?!" "Well, excuse my friend for beeing stupid I guess.." He didn't kill one of them. But, he make one bleed down. They didn't try to communicate with me. I talked a bit with them but got only two responses which seemed like they are talking trough some distorded radio device and you just couldn't understand anything. I wanted to loot the body the bled down, and kill them all, but it seemed like a suicide idea, and it would be stupid aswell killing them just for self defence. Once I stopped to type something, 2 of them shot me. With FNX's. "You are dead?!" "Why , dudes, the hell??" "Alright, well thanks for the cooperation" RESPAWN Loading... Loading.. EXIT And I joined the server again so I could properly respawn. I'll update this once I encounter more groups or clans. -Dovis

A very good guide indeed, Didn't know a couple of things even though I have almost 100 playing hours and read alot of tips, watched videos ETC. I'll definitely be joined the S.T.A.L.K.E.R army , because I play exactly like that :)

The construction site in Berezino or fire stations in Elektro.

It's strange nobody thought about this one

Yeah, happens to me alot too.