cameron_mac

First off let me start by saying that not only is this my first day playing DayZ...it's my first computer game EVER. Yea, I know...crazy right? Well we do exist. lol I've been a console gamer for the past 15+ years and with recent boredom and months of watching this game being played on Youtube I decided to take a crack at it. I've played for about 6 hours(split-up) today and I've died like 20 times..no lie. Four of those 20 times I got lucky and found a backpack. What kills me so much, you ask? Well I'm sure that ya'll have figured it out by now...that's right, zombies. I've tried everything that I know to do to avoid them. When avoiding them fails, I proceed to do everything that I know to do to get away from them. Nothing works(for me). I have literally went prone and crawled my happy ass through entire towns and villages trying to find stuff to kill these bastards. Still die. I've watched ton's of tutorials on youtube showing what their behavior is, how to avoid them etc. and nothing works. Now, I'm not naïve. I do know that I'm a complete Noob when it comes to computer gaming and trying to figure out Keyboard controls has been difficult as you can imagine. I'm getting the controls down but the staying alive long enough to see another living person...well that's another story. Getting sniped would be a breath of fresh air by this point. Any suggestions or words of wisdom or maybe some hero's that could get me started. I desperately want to play this game but I can't keep going at this frustrating rate.

Thanks a bunch Pilgrim! A lot of great advice! I will say that everybody has been very helpful to me thus far, well besides the one bandit I ran into. :) Since my first post on here I have managed to survive pretty well so far. Ya'll have been a great help. I truly do enjoy this game and I look forward to exploring the map. I have many hours of play time in my future, I can see that already. Thanks guys!

Thanks Jukaga! With all this good advice I have managed to get myself a dry bag, I have plenty of food in it(Thanks for the tidbit about wells also, because I did not know that). I also have a firefighters axe, a Blaze 95 Rifle with about twenty rounds(haven't had the need to shoot it yet), and also a .380 pistol with no ammo yet. I figured the military bases were where most of the killing went down and I was sure that I would more than likely get killed but that's where I was going to head today. Try and snag me one of those M4's if possible. If I get killed I now know what I need to do. Also, What's up with that Dayz DB Map? I was checking it out last night and I noticed that there's a way that you can set markers. How does that work? Do you see the marker when you roam around Chernarous(spelling?) much like you would in other open world games when you set waypoints?

Thanks dude. I'm kinda new to that too.

Wow. Seriously? With my KB skills and the fact that I seem to be prone to die in this game(just died twice more since my last comment)...that wouldn't turn out well for me. lol

Thanks NuckFuts! You pointed out something that I was definitely doing wrong. I was joining servers with only like ten people because I thought that getting a feel for it first would be best. What you said about the zombie thing makes perfect sense though. I'll try and join a new full one. Thanks again!