Excanto

See now I thought PVE meant player vs everything :-) I never really understood why some server owners label their servers with all sorts of silly stuff like "no eating people server" "No fishing server" "No driving too fast server" "No leaving garbage at the campground server" When you have a couple tents hidden away in the mountains full of gear and food, you can play anyway you want as you sneak through the trees and have bonfires at night on the top of the mountain and sing old zombie songs. Of course when you go down to town you have to follow the city folk rules and try not to upset others with your axe. If this were a zombie apocalypse, how would we really act I wonder? I would act the same way. I would sneak around undetected as much as I could, horde everything into some cave way in the mountains where there was fresh water. Hide the entrance to the cave and lay booby traps everywhere and eat anything that fell into them :-P~~~~ avoid contact with others, unless it was a lost hungry woman being chased by zombies. You meet a couple guys with fur coats that seem nice, they say the right things and help and offer food and show you a nice place to hunt and you feel a sharp pain in your back and you feel dizzy.................you dream you are being dragged through the forest by two strangers with fur coats.

So lots of good advice, one thing that is commonly known that you may not know is that ammo is hard to see and especially in military bases in tents, it may be beneath the floor out of sight and you should do a ground search and walk while that is open so you can see things pop up on the floor search. If I spawn on the coast, search for a rock on the rocky looking beach and make it into a knife to open cans, find can food and a canteen and a water pump. Search every house carefully, sheds, cars, trunks etc. By the time I get through one big town, I will be stuffed with food and water, getting healthy and have some kind of weapon with ammo to fire and an axe. Hit a couple military bases, especially tent city way out west and I will have an AKM with a couple mags and decent military clothes etc. Once you get the hang of where to do the ground search in buildings etc you will find more useful equipment.

Basically if I have crap gear and I really need to go the direction of someone, I say "Hiya survivor". If I have great gear and see someone, I slip into cover. Sadly it seems clear that some players talk to get you to stop so they can get a head shot from close range. So if I have good gear and hear someone talk it's instant full speed run away from the direction the sound came from with lots of jinking and I break line of site and then change directions 30 degrees and get into cover.

So many rude people. Quite simply, out in the main portion of the forum, you see an experimental patch area discussion and when .60 hits experimental, there will be a new forum called Exp Update:0.60 There will also be a pile of new messages in there of all of us going crazy like a shark feeding frenzy. Once that new forum thread is up, there should be the ability to download and enjoy the new .60 experimental patch and once again, we will be able to get beaten up and eaten on the beach while getting a flake knife.

.60!!!!!!! I just ripped my keyboard in half!!!

Well a Flake Knife is pretty wicked. You make a mistake with a flake knife and you will see lots of red stuff. A flake knife is extremely sharp but yes, brittle.. I don't recall ever finding flint or obsidian on any California beach. The part that is really wrong is opening a can with a flake knife, lol uh..nope.

Sounds exciting! If something is stuck in the branches or bushes, you have to chop it down to get at it. Tough call on other players, I have had people say "Don't shoot me please, I'm friendly", walk up and shoot me. I've had people who were taking pot shots at me from a hill, say "Don't shoot me I'm friendly" after I found them. At this point, unless it is one other person I know on the server or someone I have on teamspeak, I do one of two things, sneak off and don't let them see me, watch them until they head off, or sneak up on them and then run the last 30 feet and machine gun them from close range. In either case, I never speak over the mic before or after, because I think that just sucks.

I found 3 pieces on my 1st person guy so I brought in my 3rd person guy and I found 3 pieces and then 4 pieces two boats later. Emuthreat is correct, Rify and go south, I'm not sure where 3 valley's is, but I walk to the area across from skalisty island and check those boats and get my feet wet and make a fire after I get out of there and dry off and then have a picnic. Yes I am pretty sick of seeing a rain coat a pair of boots and a pair of pants %^) I have to go find more burlap now.

Ages ago I threw a grenade and ran the opposite way and it destroyed my boots and I was bleeding. Lately when I throw smoke grenades, it looks like it goes about 3 feet and lands, which would be bad if it was an explosive type. I just gave up on grenades completely.

Log out completely, close down the game, close down steam, the icon by the clock to make sure steam is completely down and then relog back into the same server and it will be there on the ground. One reason why I make sure I know which server I am on when I log in for some play, so I can get back in case of disaster. VSS is in my opinion, the best weapon in the game.

How about a nice gun range with some different sized targets that maybe knock down and then reset after a bit. It would be great to have clear ground with no plants etc so we could go prone, 50 100 200 300 yards or the equivalent in meters. At the 300 yard section, there could be 3 sizes of targets. I suppose there is no way to make it a safe zone somehow. Once you get wild about the idea, you could have some "PULL" zombies that run out of a cattle shoot :-D

Really? I haven't played with them since I always find them when I am well geared and don't want the screen to go black. Someone said when they set a landmine in the dirt and bushes that it went underground? Can you still see the top of it in heavy foliage? Outside the wall of that military base is pretty thick ground cover, so I just decided to skip that tent. The barracks were all very full of gear though and I hope people having trouble finding gear heard that and slipped in there and had a nice Christmas. They can wait till they are alone on the server and not worry about getting jumped. Yes, I know lootsplosions are bad and they ruin the game and all, but sometimes it's nice to be able to get a bunch of stuff easy so you can test things. I remember once I did apples and water pumps and then broke cover and ran all the way to that base and found a splosion and dove in and swam around in the loot. Then went to a big town and played scarface.

Is it just me or are the stable severs all high ping? Did a switch go out in California and screw up the fun? Bleh, nevermind, something jammed my router down to 4mps :-) Ok back to 15

Umm are you doing the double click w? Check key commands, w is jog and two hits on w is run fast. I use arrow keys so I had to manually set my arrow keys for double click up arrow. I actually don't know what w and shift is.

Hmm the bottle of alcohol is used to clean rags. FYI. I was told people could use disinfectant on fruit, open cans of food, bottles of water to poison players, never tried it cause it seems counter productive to survival. I empty all the bottles and canteens I find and fill them from water pumps.