Master_Catfish

What an interesting experience playing on this server has been! Last night I played for about 2 hours, during which time I had way more player interaction than ever before (and more dying also). First, I saw 3 dead players in a town and a guy who was decked out in military gear and looting them. I hit him in the back with a crowbar, and he shot me with his M4. After re-spawning, I tagged along with a couple of new players and eventually we ran into 'bob the builder' who shot us all with a revolver. Then on my third spawn I came across what seemed to be two Russian speakers who handcuffed me and then beat me to death.

This can be two birds with one stone. A lot of people want a reward for staying alive longer. The longer you live, the longer your beard can get. Amazing!

To the OP, if you don't want to get killed much, your bestbet is to play on low population servers until you become better at the game. There's a lot of controls to master, and after 10+ hours of gameplay, I still sometimes have to stop and think which button to push.

I think I'll try playing on your server. Hardcore just means first first person view only, right? Also... Is there actually a book exchange? The name gave me a good laugh, since I can't really imagine a book exchange in Day Z amounting to anything but a bunch of assassinations.

Strange, I've never had this problem at all. I frequently drink or eat until stuffed, immediately go for a sprint, and never vomit. The only time I vomited was when I was dying of dehydration and drank until long after I was stuffed.

Including 'standalone' in your searches will help you a ton. This is most often called DayZ Standalone, and the mod is sometimes just called DayZ.

Sorry to have not done a search before. I saw that the wiki didn't mention it, so I figured it might be unknown. I used a cleaning kit on my pristine gun because I fired it a few times to test it, and figured that the realism in this game might extend to keeping your gun clean after use.

I used a 'damaged' gun cleaning kit on my 'pristine' revolver, and it dropped the revolver to 'worn' quality. I don't know if this is intended, but I expect not. Hard to imagine that someone can mess up a gun cleaning that bad! I presume weapon quality has an effect on the weapon's performance?

I think getting robbed by you might actually improve my game experience. For me, the KOS thing is a little disappointing, because it doesn't involve much player interaction. I like that it's there because it makes interactions way more tense and paranoid, I'm just not excited for when this inevitably happens to me. I'm going to try friendly interactions for as long as it seems fun, but I really can't imagine ever giving a stranger a gun.

I don't know where I should be posting this, but today I was playing on a WA based server, and came across a very kindly fellow. He could hear that I was hurt, and called out asking if I needed help. We approached each other, and he claimed to be a "Green Beret" who wanders the land looking for people who need help. I refused healing, but we ended up trading - I gave him some food and he gave me a revolver. Really not a fair trade at all, but he seemed not to mind. He also politely asked me not to shoot him in the back when he left. Thanks again - it's always nice to run into a genuinely friendly player.

Awesome. Thank you! The cursor was pretty hard for me to see initially.

For some reason it's defaulted to my real name, and that kinda bugs me. Can't find anything on the wiki or on the search function of these forums. Sorry if this has been asked many times before.

Laptop, 1366 X 768 resolution Windows 7 64 bit Intel Core i73610QM CPU @ 2.30 GHz (My cpu usage meter shows that there's 8 cores) Nvidia GeForce GT 630M 1 GB 8 GB ram 7200 RPM (or something like that) Will I be able to play on low settings? Medium? Help is much appreciated. Please let me know if I left anything out!