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This is probably the most true when it comes to reasons for not interacting with people in DayZ. With well over 90% of DayZ content being about PVP its only natural that people will gravitate towards that instead of banditry. It's the easier route rather then having to make an effort to rob someone. As DayZ comes along I am excited to see more and more things implemented to bring back interactions where its not like pulling teeth to get someone to interact, but more so something that should be done to create a better experience for the survival game.

Random hunting stands, on sporters in random houses, sometimes inside hunting jackets in houses, sheds or hunting stands.

Lots of good tips already here. But, what I think you're missing is you're focusing on ammo way too early after spawning. It is in fact possible to find ammo on the coast you just have to look in the right places for it, which it doesn't sound like you are. And you might be passing up tons of ammo because you may not be looking for it in the right way. Like Excanto suggested above, open your inventory and walk in the area suspected to have the ammo. Many times, as you may have already seen, ammo doesn't always come in the form of a box. Often you will find a loose pile of it laying randomly on a floor to first glance you cannot see. I find more loose piles of ammo over boxes. Ammo can be found in the following places (IME): - Vehicles (vehicles with doors and trunks that open) *best place IMO* - On the metal and wooden shelves in houses - On stoves (ranges) in houses *next best place* - On smaller tables and night stands in houses - On and near the stone and metal fireplaces in some houses - Sometimes randomly in the middle of the floor in houses (not often but it happens) Mind you that when I say 'best place and next best' above it is apart from the obvious places; i.e. police stations, military areas, etc. I'm purely thinking of finding ammo on the coast to help answer your question. For me, this is how a typical run after spawning goes. Find knife/axe/or make improvised knife, find can of food to hold me over, find backpack or make improvised, then look for guns and ammo. You're only starving because your priorities are a little mixed up. Hope this helped. Have fun!

To be honest, that happens anyway regardless. IMO, the K/D counter should be left out. Leave that with the other FPS games.

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Lol, this makes me think of being at the NWAF and having the ability to track people purely based on smell and fly buzzing sounds. I can see it now...a guy making his best attempt to hide in a tree as you make your way up the airfield and you suddenly get the message "something smells like crap" then you come in the area and your character clenches their nose and you let the flies lead you to them! Brilliant! On the other hand, Dayz logic: - picking up your gun can make you slide around on an invisible hover board. - you can eat over 10 apples and be fine. - searching for a stone when they are clearly all right there leads to you spending 10mins looking for a stone in a bunch of stones with no luck.

How did you not get that guy point blank! Gotta love DayZ. Funny ending! :D

I was having Battleye issues with DayZ not starting all of a sudden as well and this worked for me. Try to go to the Battleye website and re-download the approporiate download for your system (32-bit or 64-bit) here (http://www.battleye.com/downloads/). Then navigate to your Battleye folder where you have your games installed. For most people it will be the following: c:\program files (x86)\steam\SteamApps\common\DayZ\Battleye. Once in your Battleye folder, replace the old BEService_x64.exe with the new one you just downloaded. Try to start the game and see if that helps.

This may be a obvious question, but are you allowing DayZ to re-download from stable to experimental? Depending on your internet connection it can take a few moments. If you are, then try going into the Properties and verifying the game and trying to start DayZ again.

Lol. Too funny! I think everyone should at least do this once in their lifetime.

Could of been a hacker. You could see if you could get in touch with the admins of the server and they can look into it for you. There are glitches where you suddenly die, but those are usually in buildings or coming down stairs, etc. I've not seen any yet where you suddenly die in the open. And your bodies might have disappeared because there are different time limits on items when not interacted with by players.

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I've yet to find saline anything since the update. It's not just you. But if you'd like your blood tested or would like to walk around looking like a dr in scrubs, you're set.

It's aliveeeeeeeeeeee! Kill it!!! :D

Wth! lol. I can't believe you were able to grab a gun while he basically watches you do it. Lmao. And I love how once you get him, you just say a simple comment and not go on and on. Priceless.

I'm the same way. And really, most times I run into the only other player on an empty server be it in the middle of nowhere or in a semi-popular area. It's crazy!

There is a noticiable difference for me too since zombies were temporarily removed. Like you, I think many used them as a heads up for other players, though that sometimes was still never a sure way to say of an area was safe. But zombies will be back once more! I think everyone is hoping for the .60 update from what I understand.

Nice! That was fun to watch.

^ this. Making the current clothing options anymore more waterproof would make rain/getting wet/coldness effects in-game irrelevant. Yes, there are articles of clothing in the game that *should* have more realistic features to be waterproof or keep you warm that don't, but would make this virtual survival easier if they were. If anything, if they would make a way for us to create an improvised raincoat to use over non-waterproof clothing, but didn't keep you as warm, i'd go for that.

LOL nice. Only if you could have gotten him to drop it on the ground so you could see. I'm loving all the responses to this post! Keep'em coming!

haha how did you restrain yourself to not go over and loot?

Surely you've all done it. You know, you have that one game that you're really into lately like DayZ and it starts to work its way into real life. You're standing there doing something in real life and a slight moment goes by that catches you off guard where you apply something from DayZ to real life. It just happened to me. I was standing there looking at a t-shirt that had holes in it and said to myself, "I'll never wear this it has holes in it, let me throw it away". There was then a split moment where DayZ survival instinct kicked in and I said to myself, "wait, no I can't I need to cut this up and make rags." The only thing that kind of woke me up was that the t-shirt was pink and there was no way in hell I was going to get a white rag from that. :lol: So fess up! What was the last thing you've almost done that you would in DayZ [or any game I suppose] in real life.

Haha nice! How did he not see you coming when you literally *just* ran past him. lol

I get this as well, but only when i exit out the game (and sometimes on crashes). I have yet to find a solution, but I have found that there are tons of Google results regarding this and it is even a known issue on feedback.dayz.com. There have been so many different solutions from, deleting files, system restore, disabling anti-virus programs, reinstalling dayz, verifying dayz in steam, but I've yet to find an answer as well. If I come upon something I will let you know. But basically, I wanted to let you know this is a well-known issue.

Perhaps your ping is too high? I'm wondering a few things: Are you running other programs while you're trying to play DayZ?Are you streaming at the same time?Are you joining already high-ping servers?What is your internet speed?