amiasfree

Only attack them if you have a splitting axe/fireaxe and run from them if you don't, don't fight in buildings if they've glitched into walls, they may just stay stuck there unable to follow you unless you stick around right in front of them. (Use this to get away! Cheap, but meh, its still in alpha and you wanna play without dying stupidly, right?) If you're on experimental those two axes and the not in stable yet garden hoe are the only things that can kill them efficiently in my short experience. (two shots for hoe and spitting axe, one shot for fireaxe just like in stable) Circle strafe around them, keep your aiming recticle on their head and swing away. If one is charging you , start your swing before they reach you so you'll connect just as they reach you, its very easy to take out multiple ones charging you from across the map this way. Always aim for the head. Personally I like what they're doing with experimental zombies, they just need more of them and buff shovels, wrenches, machetes etc in terms of damage. Indeed, sweet, sweet tears. Can't wait, should change the attitudes of some of the bored KoS guys.

I have a feeling it wont really be the point when one unsilenced gun shot brings a hoard of zeds you could never beat alone. Been playing on experimental, seems like that's what's gonna happen eventually. (actually hope they add a scent feature where they can smell the corpse of the person you just shot, or blood if you're bleeding) 55 hours played, 0 kills. 2 deaths by KoS scum I don't know if I'm just unobservant or my draw distance sucks. Seems the only way to be 'safe' around a person is if they're a fresh spawn with no gun. I tell ya what, I will watch barracks from now on instead of charging right in with no weapon up.

Heck yeah! If only we could see the face of the ganker the moment of getting ganked herself!

And towns around that, and towns around that. Its almost impossible to get by on a full server unless you happen to log in at the perrrrfect time to get fully kitted out and headed inland on your own. @OP ... sad as it is to say, if you want an easy starting time try servers with 10 or less. 20 or less if you want it a little bit harder, should be able to find stuff in the nooks and crannies though. More than that and every little thing will be gone in all but the most remote towns, and I guarentee someone is headed for those while you're still looking for a proper T-shirt and fire axe. Source: Three deaths in the past few days on full servers all from starvation while running frantically from town to town trying to find something to stuff in my gob. (Not counting deaths from having to use wrenches or fists as zombie killing weapons...)

And here I am just trying to log before my pizza burns and come back to a dead character. I think 30 seconds is enough punishment for legit loggers. I mean, I logged out in what I thought was a safe place at the edge of a town in the bushes, logged back in later to find my arm is 'PainAche'-ing and my char bleeding, and a zombie chowing down on me. Actually, I'd say 30 secs is overkill. If you're engaged in a fire fight and can't kill your opponent within 15 seconds, you don't deserve the kill. 30 secs I can understand if we could see what was happening like in MMOs and had the ability to cancel it out, 30 seconds of having 0 control over your char in a perma death game though? Its craycray. Hoping they either go the mmo route or have 'safe log zone' like an indestructable personal tent/base eventually. I just don't think adding on extra time would help so much as hurt. Perhaps they could implement an extra addition to log time if there has been any shots fired in the past X seconds.

Amias here. Heard so much about the mod over the past couple years, and finally the SA I had to cave and buy it a few days ago. Really loving it, other than being KoS on a char I'd spent a ton of hours on. *This* is the game I've been waiting for all my life, brutal as it is. Can't wait for it to be finished, though I imagine I'll be hanging around to see the changes :P amyasleigh on Steam, add me if you want (actually please, I'd love to have some buddies to roam with, no mic as of yet though :( ). I try to play the pure hearted survivalist, either avoiding contact with others or holding a hand up in peace upon suprise contact. Playing experimental atm, zombies be scary there!