damnfreshspawn

I began playing this game with the plan to try to interact with other players. After being killed countless times by KOS types, my policy now is to shoot first, and ask questions later.

A Google or whatever search for beginners' information on DayZ will return a lot of stuff. Every noob/bambi that shows up here with questions about how to play DayZ gets referred to the stickied Beginner's Guide here, or the DayZ SA Wiki. Trouble is that most of this stuff was written for version .63 and the discussions about it date back to about 2013 or so. A LOT of this stuff has changed in the newer versions, and now the information in these places is often just plain wrong. I try to keep notes on correct information I've learned by trial and error (and getting killed a lot) but it is getting kinda old. Anybody here think that some of these reference sites need to be updated?.

Thanks for the response. The first thing I encountered when I started playing DayZ were control keys that, according to the documentation, were supposed to work, but didn't. I finally created my own cheat sheet based on my user preset file and some trial and error. There are still a few mysteries about that. I'll be glad to contribute what I have if anyone wants it or is interested on expanding on it. Specifically, the most recent frustration I have has been trying to figure out how to fully load a BK133 shotgun (or perhaps a Mosin). Discussion in previous threads talked about placing weapon and ammo in hotkeys, and with weapon in hand, hit (or hold) the ammo hotkey. Doesn't work for me. I get the idea that this apparently only worked in the older versions. So I'm stuck having to open inventory and drag and drop single rounds to the weapon. Not good in the middle of a firefight. These are just examples. There are lots of other unanswered questions.