Demonica

Ugh... how long can that last? Anywhere from 20 minutes to 2-3 hours? Grr.

Ja, das ist gut Irish ^^ Well, I guess I'll just hang and wait, cause seriously I am NOT switching to stable right now. Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!

So a Zambie on experimental just managed to break my arm - first time that ever happened. Am I now unable to use certain things / items? Can I splint / morphine it just like anything else? Anyone has any experience with this situation? Thanks and happy trails!

Does anyone know where the closest medical buildings are near Kamenka? My arm is still broken, and it actually doesn't really seem to impact anything, but I'd still like to try and find a cure for this. (I want Morphine, I've given up on the splint since my bandages got ruined) And of course: "The Pain!!! Oh the Pain, I can't stand it, arrrgghh" This is just to substitute the non-impactness of my injury, I can still wield an axe with both hands, swinging like a fairy ^^

I was about to add the hand gesture commands and keybinding the "Taunting" Option but I think you're doing fine. Thanks for writing down your experiences, many of us appreciate the day-to-day warstories, and some even write dayz journals :-) But yeah, have fun, and (trust me on this one) keep your pants on. For the simple reason that at some point the game will make you die of hypothermia or somesuch if you don't wear proper clothing. I cross my fingers that you find many more exciting adventures and experience the entire scale from hero over bandit to KOS players, and try playing as one of those at least once, just to say you did it :-) Good luck and happy trails :-)

I'm pretty sure you're right about that, it's just that I have neither sticks nor stones that heal my bones ^^ Waiting for the medics to get back to me. I think I'll just read for awhile. If anyone found the "Robinson Crusoe" Book, I'll gladly take it off you in exchange for a can of Tuna or Beans :D

Yep! Whooopieee! *lootlootloot* :thumbsup: warriortyr: Bamberg - Capital of beer? Ich dachte das ist Bitburg? Or Warstein? ^^

Well, you might be right about the medical buildings. If there's one close to me I might have to take the chance. Most of my gear is ruined anyway so I ain't got nothing to lose really. Are the medical buildings on the dayzdb map updated / included?

I'll probably have to hit up the Medics in a while. Grrr.. It defintitely doesn't heal it self. Oh well...

And of course I have fiddlesticks for luck and have no wooden sticks readily available. Can I chop down a tree and collect some wooden sticks from there? Or is that not possible yet? I really don't wanna go anywhere near any large cities to get killed for some morphine because of this...

Best would be to le yourself just get killed by zombies. Let'em come and feast on your broken body. You can respawn as a new character as soon as you are unconscious. The message "If you decide to respawn it will kill your current charcter." is exactly what you want. If you are actually killed by the zombies, all the better, you should respawn via a timer in about 30 seconds. Once the "You are dead message" shows up, wait for a few seconds until\ the respawning message shows up

Okay, so as to actually say something helpful related to OP's post: In DayZ, at first, DO NOT TRUST ANYONE. Fresh Spawns might be very experienced players that re-spawned and decided to mess with you. That, I have to say, is a part of Day Z as it is now. Mostly (again, only for the time being) it is a lot of PvP. In 2-3 months, other elements will be stable enough to hit the actual survivor aspect as to what was envisioned by the creator of DayZ (mod) and then also the Standalone. Give it some time, get to know the mechanics of the game, read a LOT in this forum, watch YouTube videos, do everything you can to get a feel for the game and for what the very first things are you need for survival. Also, there's the "Alpha" thing everyone talks about. There will be improvements to these glitches, especially the "ladder of death". This is common and will happen until it is fixed. As I say this, I also ask you to please be patient. Updates are coming, and there's the experimental server you can try if you want to experience what the dev's are working on. But the actual updates released to stable will take time. Don't get mad but look at this as a very special process that you can be part of and help develop by bugtracking etc. Trolls will troll, so don't be de-railed by posts that don't help you. Learn, grow and eventually, find your own style for this game, because there's a lot between "Bandits", "KOS'ers" and "Heroes". Now go on, son, and strive towards the path that calls you... Damn, that was purdy good ^^

I kill dragons in RL all the time. Oh, wait... that's drag-ons, like time dragging on and on with infinte boredom filling the space ^^ I'm not gonna go into the second part since both killing people or blowing off steam may have a negative impact on the crowd :D But in all seriousness, the default character I start over every time I die...it somewhat truly has become an extension of myself ingame. When folks approach me, I'm way bolder (or cautious) than I would be in RL. Just another draw factor for dai-sy :)

Well, I'm a girl. So, logically, I made my very first default character a dude. Because I didn't know that a female char existed. These days though I am playing mostly as a female, and since they introduced female voices in the experimental, I'm happy. Just the choice of faces via skintones doesn't make me happy. I'm a tanned caucasian. That, translated into the characters, makes me an asian or a mexican. I know I should care less but WTF? I hate to say this, but that bugs me. Character Customization in the Beta would be nice. Now, on the other hand, I have had a few male characters. Other folks would run up to me with the usual spiel "Hey, what's up, friendlyfriendlyfriendly!!!!111" , and once they figured that not only am I female but also have a (german) accent, it can go anywhere: It ranges from an instant headshot over "Hey let's team up!" to "Areyouonsteamwhatsyoursteamaccount/phonenumberandwhydoyouplayaboysgame???". I enjoy the variety of trying either male or female and the different reactions when meeting other folks of different nations and ages, even if / when I decide not to communicate vocally but only by Direct Chat. If / when they put in more char-customization, definitely female. ...oh, and is there actually a visible difference between the male and female butt? I never even thought of that...

Well, to my defense, after I figured out that the damned can opener isn't the Alpha and Omega, once I found an Axe I was good to go, but since I never had found a can opener I didn't know their size. So I might have overlooked a lot of them by simply not knowing any better. A screwdriver, since it has some yellow in the handle, is somewhat more easy to detect. So yes, there is a good chance that I have overseen quite a few in my many searches, simply due to the fact that I already had something to open cans with and with that in the back of my mind, looking hard became way less essential. And no, I do not hang out in the forest very much. I feel if I stick around too long, I become a fairy and kill you all with bloodlust... uhm... I mean pixiedust... PIXIEDUST, ME TELLS YA!!!!! :P

Man, you wouldn't believe how sad it is, starting to play as a newbie, and starving several times because (not knowing this bountiful source of infinite knowledge and trollination which is embodied in this forum) I was convinced that only an axe or the can opener would do. Oh, and of course all I had as far as food went, was tuna. Yeah, I was looking for something I didn't need, which I didn't find and hence starved several times, never even realizing they have a pull - open... uhm.. thingydingywhatchamacallit. Noob Level: :emptycan:

In over 420 hrs. of DayZ, this is my nemesis. Not once, not a SINGLE time have I ever encountered one of these darn things! First things I look for instead are bayonets and my trusty fire axe. Bayonets seem to get ruined fairly easy when opening cans, but no worries, even in that state they are doing a fabulous job :-)

So... in the past four weeks, I somehow kept getting killed surpisingly often at wells or fountains or whatever they're called. Tulga, Balota, Kamenka. (Elektro and Cherno wasn't that surprising.) And a couple of other small towns as well. Most of the times I was able to hear at least a gunshot, other times it just goes all black and 'you are dead'. But seriously - is there someone sniping at popular "gathering spots" like fountains instead of stalking rooftops now? Seems like a nice strategy to KOS, you don't even have to be that far away in most cases. But it just has picked up so much in recent weeks that I am starting to wonder... Anybody else had this happen? Or did anyone actually try to snipe folks who are looking for a drink of water?

Not bad for Starters. Try to use Paragraphs in order to make it easier to read. When you have a real long text, most people won't read it, unless it looks somewhat organized. I like how we are getting a bit of Background Story. This could be interesting. Will you end the journal if your character dies and start a new one once you spawn again?

Dang it, Irish, I didn't even think of that. Then again, the general idea already exists, so I hope this wasn't oil into the fire. I also think it's a total butthead move, cause in the Kamyshovo area I was nothing but a fresh spawn, with a checked shirt and a hard hat. I have weened myself off gear-hoarding so I didn't lose much and wasn't butthurt about losing what I had. I just got a little aggroed that I had been alive for maybe about 20 minutes and having to start over already again.

Yes, that's what I think too. If you are filling up bottles / drinking from a pump, it should be at least somewhat safer than drinking from a mucky pond (still water - more bacteria, flowing river, if ever implemented, less bacteria etc.)

Well, as of now, whenever I drink from a pump, the game says I drank from a pond... I have no idea how they're gonna eventually solve this but it doesn't seem quite safe...

Yeah, Tulga was what most surprised me. And hey, yeah, ponds and lakes and swamps are fine now, but what is safer once the update hits, when you need Water Purification Tablets? Fountains may not be safe either but might be safer than Ponds. I try to train myself to stay out of the rain already in anticipation of that one update where rain will lower your health, and also try to only drink from collected rain filled canteens... ^^ I will defintitely strive to pick up the habit of moving / strafing when at those pumps, but as I said before it's happened often. So I got shot in Tulga. Seriously, like what? And I'm like TULGA??? Really? Just when I thought I had a nice place to lay my head down at night. Grrrr... That just aggravated me. Meh, you die, you spawn, you loot, you fight, you run, you die - and a constant repeat. I'm so looking forward to the more survivor-ish updates!

My favorite route is hitting up Kamenka, then heading to the military base / hospital, then over to Pavlovo. Kamenka has barely ever let me down. The Piano House there normally has decent stuff. But I agree, coastal Towns, besides being obvious High Kill Zones, get looted very fast. So unless you happen to be there on a server restart, I'd stay away from then or speed raid (hit 2-3 high payoff houses, then GTFO.) Kamyshovo seems to have it out for me these days. No loot, and 90% of the time there's people there who either KOS you or, if you try to communicate don't even answer but just keep running on / away. I'm gonna hit up Zeleno tomorrow and see what she's got for me :-)

Yeah, I mean High Kill Zones are a given, I just used them because I was really dehydrated (after getting killed by the fountain in... Kamenka and respawing in Kamyshovo, I think.) But in Tulga? There barely ever is anyone there and maybe I had just bad luck that day, but it's just really happened a bit too often for comfort. Someone hiding in a nearby house? Probably. I mean, who is such a fountain hogger? I'm not really annoyed by it, I die all the time anyway, but it just seemed to increase a LOT lately. Fountain Police? Water Security?