Azreal Dragon

Hey I'm also in the same boat as you guys, new player been playing for 2 days now and im starting to get lonely and paranoid I need some human interaction, steam name is D500Elite

DAYZ Standalone. I only got the game a little while ago and so far everything these guys have said has been helpful, I have died around 4 or 5 times now (I wasn't counting so unsure) and that was in the first 3 hours of playing and they were all by Zombies cause I didn't know what I was doing or how to avoid them or was pretty much unarmed. My advice for Bambi's as I am one myself is to start on a server with at least 0 to 2 players on it, cause with so few or no players the % of actually meeting a player is very low to nothing giving the size of the map and you can get to grips with the controls. Within all that time the most amount of players that joined the server I was on was around 6 or 7 people and it gave me plenty of time to loot houses and learn the ropes. I did meet one player when I was at the North west Military Airfield, (I somehow just stumbled across the place while I was aimlessly searching around for a map and water) witch I have heard from YouTube videos and Various Forum posts that it is a dangerous place for apocalypse survivors, as it is where most the good stuff spawns and where most bandits like to camp and snipe the unfortunate people that go looking for decant loot. (However I am playing the Standalone so the danger level might not be so high. As there is no vehicles currently in the standalone.) I was lucky cause only 2 mins before my meeting with said player I found an assault rifle, I called out. "Are you friendly?" over my mic but got no answer, as I type this am now thinking it was a silly thing to do for a lone wolf player like myself cause I don't think the guy saw me and even now that I was armed, had no real experience at shooting or any time trying out the shooting mechanics. The other silly thing I did was to call out to the player, as I said I don't think he saw me and I could have just kept quite and he would not have been any the wiser to my location. The guy looked to be unarmed from the distance I was crouching at.(Close enough to see he had a blue backpack, but not close enough to see if he had a melee weapon or pistol.) So decided to move from cover to cover and make my way from what could have been bad situation. I had no problems ducking into a nearby forest that was close by to me and was pretty sure I wasn't followed, so decided to keep on moving and find another place to loot. (But keeping myself at the ready and constantly checking the skyline for signs of being followed.) This worked out great and I found myself a Blood type test kit in a nearby house. "YAY!" (I am O+ By the way) and so decided to log off and check the blood type compatible list. Then I saw that if I ever need blood I can only get blood from other O types. (This concludes my first fear experience in DAYZ Standalone and wow did it get me heart pumping.) So Servers with no players would be your best bet if you are a new survivor to the game and just want to learn first without jumping strait into the deep end. Hope this was helpful for someone and informative of what kind of situations you might come to expect. Maybe I will post another response about meeting players with guns... If I survive that long!