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I just started a character on private server. I spawned on the south coast and limped west with just enough food/water and clothes to stay alive until I went for a swim across to Prison Island. Tons of food, pigged out, bottles and canteens and all sorts of stuff and better clothes and found a sub machine gun to go with the 30 round magazine I had found on the way there. Found a AK74 and some cartridges and then had to decide what to hold onto because swimming drops what is in your hands. Ditched the sub machine gun, cause I don't like it. Ran northwest to the tents camp and found a sks next to a tank. Found that .22 cal Trumpet rifle in a tent and that went well with the two boxes that have 50 cartridges each. Shooting a zombie in the head with that trumpet works, but sometimes when they move right as I am firing, I can get into trouble. Seems to me that the current zombies that look geared like soldiers, might be wearing the bullet proof vest that is currently in game, cause I shot one about 4 times in the chest with the sks before it dropped,but that could have been lag. :-) Ran south of the NW airfield to the small base and found an ak74su, ak74 and akm and no magazines grrr. Hope that helps.

Ya, when the .55 patch hit, I was all about water purification tablets, ponds and pumpkin seeds. Which reminds me, I should be able to farm with my hands. I did when I was a kid, I didn't need a shovel to grow my tomatoes, seeds and water and hands. Ya right now you can go house to house and eat your fill and drink soda's till you puke. .55 patch was more like a real apocalypse and my fully geared character was not prepared for it. :-) He had no shovel, no seeds, no purification tabs and way to few rifle cartridges. I suppose I might try walking instead of jogging when I login this morning and see if I can get from the same point a to point b without getting thirsty. Is it a time thing or a exertion thing. What a target I will be for a sniper!

I have never been sure about the login procedure, but it seems to me, your character appears and stands there helpless, until you get control and can move or defend yourself. I go way out into the woods and get between a couple close trees in a zombie free (hopefully) area, so when I am a sitting duck, standing straight up, I will be mostly camo'd in the trees. Now if that is not the case on the login procedure, I'd like to know about it. :-D It would be very difficult to find the two trees I am camping out in and I might not be coming back for hours and also not even the same server when I do. Isn't the normal procedure with Bambi's to shoot at there feet and make them dance? Not blow them up and make them fly. J/K

Hmm, when they installed .55 as far as I have seen, the drought began. They did some kind of update soon after because of issues with .55 patch as far as I can tell and it is some sort of a blend of things from .54 state of things and the .55 patch, but still a drought as far as I have seen. Since I started playing about 6 months ago, I have seen tons of rain, I have seen rain for 15 minutes real time, stopped for 1 minute and then rain for 15 more minutes. Usually rain is like 5-10 minutes. Fill up those canteens, get soaked, build a fire, warm up and back to damp, move on. It is very important right now to have bottles which hold more then canteens currently, and know where a water pump is that is fairly hidden from snipers and hordes of zombies. I really like to camp within a couple miles of a water pump. Go here and there and come back to camp stopping at the water pump to fill back up, getting full stomach of water before I leave it.

A few steps out the door of my tent, next to the bear traps.

LoL! Wow, I have seen some splosions, but that Shinjuru picture is splosionzilla!

I find trucks everywhere, but they are not operational, missing tires. I have never seen any tires, I carried a tire iron for awhile till I made it to a truck and that did nothing. So far I have only found 6 or 7 trucks in as many months and half of those were out of gas. I never found any gas cans once I found an out of gas truck. I found lots of gas cans and never found a truck. Now I mostly carry 2 rifles and can never climb or get into a truck. I can't even get into the back of a truck and catch a ride cause I drop my in hands rifle. Grrrr. As for run speed, I never sprint unless I am being shot at :-D I jog because I lose water so fast and how am I supposed to get anywhere even with 6 bottles with no rain and I really don't have a fantastic knowledge of where the water pumps are and I am usually about to die from dehydration when I am fighting a horde of zombies right in front of a water pump. So close and yet so far.

LOL! Maybe they want you to take them to your friends camp so they can have dinner. That last truck I drove was on a time sped up server and it had a full tank and I started driving and only made it about 5 miles before the tank was empty and I coasted over to the shoulder. I was always worried about getting out of the truck, that a zombie might we standing there, hungry. I don't think I would even get out of the truck if there was two hitching a ride. Probably try tearing under a low hanging tree. :-O

Ya, I used to do that. But somehow I have decided that I would always stand and fight, even newly spawned, I fist fight them. I think I got tired of using their failing AI against them. Maybe if I lose a ton more great gear and get really frustrated, I might try that instead of getting hammered. I am mostly back on my feet now. I was circling a town up on the ridges and sniping the zombies from a safe distance, until I had what looked like all of them. But they respawn in what seems like a random manner. One town was a ghost town afterwards and I built a fire in middle and walked around with my microphone on singing. Another town had a respawn so fast that I couldn't keep them down. I snuck down and hit a few houses but I'm still bruised from the beating so I didn't push it. I found a truck parked at the helicopter south of the military base which is south of NW airfield, I found the helicopter east of that one, but I can't find the third one anywhere. I'm also getting very nervous when approaching anything now, cause of bear traps and land mines.Watch out where you step, careful what you drink. gasp.

I noticed with a bottle drinking all, you can cancel action if you see someone or a zombie coming. If your drinking from a water pump, there is no cancel action and your stuck there till you finish or your finished.

I setup one of those tents north of the hill from the NW airfield and went inside, closed all the windows and left the door open and sat there with my rifle pointing out the door giggling. I ran off way north and looped around and came back about 3 hours later and it was already gone and there had been no resets. I would like to have one of those somewhere that it could be hidden. It's very nice dark green but it is as big as a shed. So far I have not put anything important in any tent, just overflow easily replaced stuff like food, bandages, repair kits. I found a great place to put a player tent and it stayed there for 6 days and just before the wednesday patch I was going to empty it and carry it and that dern server was offline all day and night..argh!

LOL! Ah The great outdoors! Lemme go outside and cut a slice of smog pie for dessert. mmm good. Your missing this pie.

Gasp! What a story. I made it back to my body with the backpack I dropped next to me with all the stuff I had found in it and there was 3 zombies that had killed me hanging around and I imagined a few flies buzzing around me as well. Bang Bang I shot them down and a few more spawned and I succumbed to freezing when I was reloading..oops.

I added the holster to the carrier and pouches and a couple bottles and magazines etc vanished. After I cried, I noticed that the storage spaces were not working properly. I drop a can of food in 1 spot and it lands in another spot and the 1st spot is red out to drop another can there. etc... I took the holster off and watched the test cans etc vanish. Tossed the holster and moved on.

Anytime I here someone say my internet drops all the time I always say, get an intel nic card and get a nice netgear router )

I got the server has not responded for 20 21 22 message while I was driving a truck and the throttle stuck wide open, I could steer but I couldn't brake, faster and faster and blam into a tree went on it's side, stood back up and started speeding up again so I turned it into a house and it was stuck and I was laughing so hard when it finally let go of me. When I logged back in, I figured I would be all screwed up,but I was teleported back to the spot I left the ground from when I first stepped into the truck. I had to run a long way to the accident site and found the truck in the middle of the u-turn I was making when it crashed. I thought I was going to have to go way off into the woods and try to find that tree I bounced off of and then the house I ended up at, but there was my truck safe and sound. Now that was very different from the time I accidentally went off the map and dropped through the ground and got stuck, logged and died. I carry a second rifle,so I don't climb or ride much :-D

I didn't like the fact that the helicopters were in the same spot on almost all servers. I choked on my coffee when I found the second tent within five minutes. I really wanted to spend the time to collect every single book and bring it to my campsite, because that would have been weird. :-D I was forced to learn to farm and I was proud of my little hideout/farm/pond/bookclub/campground. It was halloween at my hideout with all them pumpkins. I ran out of bullets finally and decided to stay out of big towns, because no matter how well I was sneaking past the zombies, I came around a corner right into one and broke and ran. My badly damaged axe didn't last long and I haven't been able to sharpen anything since a few patches. I found a pickaxe a few patches ago, got a big 4 spot rock and it sharpened stuff. But that ended it seems. When I get home I will get some gear and maybe next patch be a little better prepared for possible difficult times before the next patch.

I think I will start playing experimental, so I can help progress the game, pointing out the problems and testing out the mechanics. I wonder if some players bleeding out on stable will miss me? Nah, they will be ok. You others will take "burp" care of them right?

I was running out of bullets searching towns that looked like they had been vacuumed clean, I saw nothing but books. I didn't get to every house in the next town cause so many zombies wandering and I found 1 can of food. I got water from a pond and risked it and filled my belly, I am healthy so I hear that I have high resist while healthy to cholera, maybe so, I'm not sick yet. Searching and searching and it's like everywhere has been vacuumed and only books left. On the 3 different servers public that I run on, they all seem almost completely empty of loot. Tonight I will try some completely different servers, even though ping is higher and see what I can find. I can take a lot of hits now before my gear is ruined. I am running out of bandages. It's a drought in California and the same in DayZ. I had a dream I had an ammo box full of 7.62. Maybe I was just tired last night while I was playing, but I think a zombie knocked my rifle out of my hands. I climb up in every tower now and I even climbed up on a construction building roof and found stuff scattered around on the roof. I'll have to check more roofs. I right click on my compass and hit inspect to see my heading now, instead of putting it in my hand etc. I love my rock knife. I found 96 matches and have walked away from several boxes of matches, since I don't need anymore. Remember, if you pick it up and then put it down it will vanish soon. If you leave it there, it will stay until someone finds it and picks it up. So don't pick something up if you are not going to take it :-)

I never know if the stuff I am finding now is spawned or dropped. If it was on a shelf I would say it was spawned. The only place I have seen a spawned for sure rifle is behind or next to a tank. I have seen sks, blaze, trumpet, ak74 and akm. I found a mosin sitting in a military tent at the far west tents, but it had 1 round in it so I'm fairly certain it was player dropped. Who would drop a mosin :-)

You could find a tent and put all your gear in it and suicide and run back with a battery :-D That would be a bit extreme. But, no, now that I think if it, I have not seen a single battery since .55. As stated before by someone else, I haven't seen a banana either. Is someone hoarding banana's and battery's? What fresh hell is this?

If I get attacked by a zombie and he bites me, don't I turn into a zombie? Don't I run around and crave brains? I could have a really good sense of brain smell and pick up brain tracks and follow them until I suddenly come upon a player afk while farming some pumpkins, then it's crunch time! Then my hungry for brains meter turns bright green :-O

I was getting the unsafe to light a fire here and was freezing from a prison swim and back. So I went into a shed behind a house and set my ak101 with 30 round clip down cause I have a mosin on my back and in the other side I set down sticks and made a fireplace with rags and lit it with my matches and ahh nice fire and dried off some and warmed up. Picked up my ak101 and sat until it went out. Walked outside and started heading for the bushes and got the Server not responding for 22 23 24 25. When I get back on I am having the crap beat outta me by the zombies at that house and I am cold again and soaked again and my ak101 is gone, my sticks are gone and the rags are gone. I write down the server name I am on and logged off and back to see if maybe I logged into the wrong one. Nope it was the right server and my gear is gone. I haven't lost anything like this in a long time. As difficult as it is right now to find stuff, this is a big loss. I thought persistence meant it stayed there at least for a little while.