So I got DayZ and I've been playing for about 3 hours, but haven't been able to find or communicate with another player besides one incident where I was walking on top of a building and my screen randomly went black and informed me I had just been shot and died. All of my playing time has been on well-populated servers of 25-40 people. I tried to find noob-friendly servers, but those don't seem to exist excluding a couple that had no players in them. For some reason, I can't change my chat channel to go to global chat even by pressing "." and "," so I'm stuck in direct communication, which is useless since I've yet to see another player. I briefly heard a couple other players once when entering a server and a list of names appeared to the right, then quickly disappeared upon connecting, so I'd assume there is some sort of global/server chat that I am unable to connect to. Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible for new players to communicate with others? So far it just seems I'm playing a laggy, single-player game that I keep dying at before I can start to have fun.
