Death By Crowbar

FTW! :beans:

Sometimes I try to weigh the dangers between stairs (firestation/ATC), vehicles, and zombies. I'm not sure which is more dangerous...

Oh yeah, they came in maybe 2 weeks ago. Also bear traps (break your legs and ruin your pants). Watch where you're walking... I found a fresh landmine in the apartments in Elektro the other day and set it right in the middle of a hallway.

Thus the gaming term "kiting". Kiting Zeds into a big building and shutting the door is a nice way to deal with them while leaving a nice present for the next unsuspecting victim who enters.

Greetings and welcome to DayZ! My condolences on your many upcoming untimely deaths, I hope I'm not responsible for any of them. :) Some tips: Use street signs outside cities to know where you are, try to learn the major locations on the map (Cherno, Balota, Elektro, Kamyshovo, Berezino, Svetlo, Novo, NWAF, etc). You can catch rain in a bottle/canteen as a source of water in a pinch. Search for apples & berries as a source of food in a pinch. Almost any edged weapon can open cans (I think the sledge hammer even does still)? However, with varying degrees of loss, only the coveted can opener opens them cleanly with no spillage. Zombies and dealing with them - tou can easily kill zombies with your fists, search YouTube for some recent tutorials on it. You can also lock them in houses (run in, have them chase you, then run out and shut the door on the way out). You don't have to die senseless deaths to the infected! I can't even recall the last time a zombie killed me. Kill someone, then use a knife to carve them up and eat them raw. Enjoy the crying and screaming as your character goes mad! Try to lean the key buildings that spawn important things, such as Fire Stations, Police Stations, and Hospitals (guns, ammo, axes, food). There's several types of houses that are more like store houses (lots of shelves) and also the super markets, where there's a greater chance of finding food and drink. In general almost any building can have something useful, but the "best" stuff is targeted to certain types of buildings. If you want to live and you're on a high pop server, avoid Elektro, it'll sound like a war with guns going off constantly. In general the coast from Cherno around up to Berezino is like the PVP playground, be careful and trust noone. If you find people who are friendly in those areas you've found a rare and wonderful thing.

Pray for rain brother... pray for rain.

It's hit or miss. You can fist fight them and get hit a dozen times and barely be bleeding - or you can get the 1 unlucky shot and it's lights out.

Let the deforestation continue!

I play at night and I have this same problem because my computer is right next to where my wife sleeps and if I talk on a mic she'll cut my scrote off. My rule of thumb is: Act non-threatening (weapons put away). Don't stop and stair all odd, as if you're thinking how to kill the person. Don't juke back and forth as if you're ready to kill the person. Walk (don't run) when approaching, then stop and wave at a distance of at least 3 meters / 10 feet. The "E" and "Q" thing to silly lean back and forth helps cut the tension. Try typing, they may or may not see it. I find "Hello" or "Friendly" don't get as much mileage as something like "no mic" or "no mic, hello" (can be typed quick enough). If they don't immediately respond or seem like they want to interact, just move on in a non-threatening direction around them. If they "really" are friendly and want to interact they'll likely stick around and approach you so long as you don't run off too far.That's all that really works for me when I can't use my mic. It actually typically works better than saying "friendly", because almost every time someone says, "friendly" they shoot at me seconds later. The key is to not act weird and make it clear that you're not interested in combat. If you're tired of dying and want a lower risk lower effort method, you can also simply pretend like you're ignoring or avoiding them all together and stop and wave from a distance then go about your business. It's like saying, "I've acknowledged you're there, I see you, you see me, I waved, approach if you want". That works well too, because at no point are you trying to approach them or threaten them in any way.

Let me know when you find one. I'll get mine off your fresh warm corpse. Mwuaaa ha ha ha... ... no but seriously I typically find them in the houses with the resturant and bar or certain houses with the bookcase and green couches.

Elektro is where the most action is, if that's what you're looking for. It's a never ending surge of bambis and snipers.

Scanned and not sure anyone suggested it but someone could have come across your dead corpse, looted it, and then hid it.

They should let you eat it off the ground. I mean, heck, that tactical bacon is all wrapped up and most of it would still be absolutely fine. Also, could this have technically been a death by crowbar? If so, I fully support it.

Is it on one of the islands near Kamyshovo? Snipers routinely live there, then take gear off their prey and bring it back to the island to stock up. You may be finding some of that...

Name sounds like it was taken from Full Metal Jacket.

I'm not sure whether to put in the effort to try to sing along with this and see if it's any good or envision myself head shotting you while you sing it. Maybe I'll run through Elektro singing it and see what sort of feedback I get. :)

Well - this isn't the mod, it's the stand alone. It's still in early access alpha, so there's that - there's a lot of systems that are still being implemented, tweaked, broken, fixed, rolled back, etc. It's the nature of early access alpha, but it's totally playable and still lots of fun. I won't mention anything about hackers specifically, as that's sorta a taboo subject but what I will say is it's gotten much better, especially now that there's a lot more private servers to choose from along side BattleEye updates and a few other things that were put into place... it's definitely improved and they're still working on it - avoiding the largest population public servers also helps. A quick list: Vehicles - the V3S is in game now, there's a couple of variants, but they add to it. A lot more gun options are available. Zombies are a lot more interesting now - they got several updates, the latest maybe 2 weeks ago changed how they behave and attack (they're easier to avoid, but harder to predict, but just as easy to kill and seem to hit less hard?) Bear traps and land mines were just added. You can hunt, fish, cannibalize others, and cook & eat it all.StandAlone is way more complete now then it was a year and a half ago, but they've still got a ways to go. A few things that have been issues recently including having to roll the new loot system back to a version that sometimes creates a "Lootsplotion" in one area (say, the firestation may be so full of loot you won't be able to walk through it) causing other nearby areas to be completely void of loot. However those situations have a chance to change every Wednesday during patch day. It's hit or miss... but still totally playable and worth checking out again.

Keep in mind they reverted back to the old loot system temporarily. You could be in an area where all of the loot is in a Christmas style pile all in one place and there's absolutely nothing anywhere else for a large area. That's likely what you're seeing.

Oh, you mean surviving in the zombie apocalypse, searching frantically for anything to help you survive while trying not to starve to death? Kill or be killed? Looking out for your friend and trying to stay alive together while not trusting anyone? I don't think that has much to do with DayZ either, it sounds like a completely different game.

Found my first landmine last night in an apartment building in Elektro. I set it in a hallway and tried to bait someone to run over it... until the server restarted. Going to try again some other time.

If you shoot an activated one does it blow up?

It's not like you can control your fans, it's not like he told his fans to do anything. My point is that the streamers with large fan bases are good for the game and the Survivor Gamez, however, I agree with everyone else it would be nice to see it note *quite* so stacked that way.

Hicks mentioned 2 things to help deal with that (which are needed anyway) - a) switching from 2 to 5 backup servers and b) the custom version they run making it go back to a different screen than the server select so the IP can't be compromised.

Never heard of him? There's over 30,000 people watching Lirik right now play Arma III, he's got 111,000 Twitter followers, he's one of the biggest names in gaming. Not inviting him to the Survivor Gamez probably cuts the viewer base in half.

There were lots of zombies, many many times zombies gave problems and players had to choose whether to shoot them and give away their position or kill them melee and risk being wide open.