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Keep at it @Uncle Skippy, the more you play the more you learn. Just remember what @supernick said... nothing is more dangerous than another player so stay sneaky, move quietly and trust no-one... wear good boots and cook the chicken! Also, try not to carry unnecessary stuff as it slows you down if you have to make a hasty exit. Nearly forgot... there are lots of pills for lots of things. I'm not sure how they all work myself but I'm sure someone here will know or failing that, Mr U Tube often helps.

With regards to loot, if you stash it in a room or building and lock the door to the room, will it stay in the locked room until somebody unlocks it or you return to collect it? ...and just one other thing that really P's me off, why is it that you never find out how you died? Several times now I have been in 100% health, well fed, well armed, alert, check outside the isolated building to make sure all is safe - there is only a zombie wandering close by but nothing to worry about - I step outside, look around, nobody in view for miles, switch to the axe and move to deal with the zombie and suddenly, in the process bingo, the 'sorry mate, you're dead' screen appears. Now I accept that I may have been sniped from a long long way off by the best sniper in the game (or perhaps he/she was hiding and I didn't see them when I checked) but why can't the game inform you of that? Why does it always seem like a game crash? The least Bohemia could do is give you a 'bang' noise... anyway, sorry, rant over... but it's just another thing to put off new players not knowing how/why you died.

In my (short) experience you generally spawn back in the same place that you quit the game and with the same equipment and food that you had. When I get to the point where I have to stop playing, I usually find a building with a roof and quit from there. So far I have always re-spawned in the same place. Even when the game has crashed it has returned me to the same place. The only things that seem to change while you're away is the weather, time of day and loot in the area. I'm not sure if you keep your equipment/supplies when you change server on the same map. Sometimes I have retained the stuff but occasionally it's been back to zero and start again. I think it depends on whether you choose a map with 'persistence'. I'm still not sure of the mechanism there, which is probably why I tend to stay on the same server on the Livonia map. When I die and get reset is normally the time I change maps. When there is a scheduled server shut-down a countdown message appears in the bottom left hand corner giving you from 30 to 10 minutes to quit the map - it's easy to miss if you're busy...

@paulzx1 It's definitely niggling and frustrating to lose all of your equipment just because you can't find food or you contracted a virus that you can't get rid of but it's even worse to suddenly die when you didn't see the assassin lurking behind a door or you go to a water pump which has been staked out by an unseen killer... not to mention the feral gangs roaming the highly populated servers... but don't give up, pick a low populated server and keep plugging away. The game is deep and the learning curve is steep but the more you play the better you get. Every now and then there are situations and surprises that make it all worthwhile... at least that's what I keep telling myself, LOL, and I'm still a noob at this too.

This is a bit of a strange game and nothing seems particularly easy. I tend to play Livonia at the moment and while there isn't any fruit to be found there are occasionally mushrooms in the woods. I always assumed that the water in canteens was safe to drink because it hadn't affected me before. Yesterday however I got sick after drinking from a 'found' canteen and now I'm struggling to cure myself. I used chlorine tablets in the next drink of water but that didn't help. Now I'm heading to a town hospital to try to find some kind of cure before I die of virus. Having spent lots of time dodging other players, wolves and zombies it seems a pathetic way to end my current game... maybe I should stash the stuff I'm carrying but I don't know whether it will remain on the server to be found another time? @paulzx1 I always found Cherno to be reasonably well stocked with fruit but I do find that a map showing the orchards is pretty much essential. Having said that, after a while you get used to knowing which gardens to check. Some people have said that the zombies have less to offer but just recently some Zs have gone out of their way to chase me and these are the ones that have tins in their pockets. The wet weather is a pain as is the fact that you can find a good weapon but no magazine or ammo... then you have to decide whether to cart it round hoping to get it working or leave it. My problem is that I carry too much stuff! Keep plugging away, it gets better... sometimes...

TBH I just picked what I thought was the closest server to the UK on the public list although I think there is probably one in London now? not sure. I did rent a private Nitrado server for a month and initially it was ok. Only having the zombies and animals to worry about was fine to begin with but there wasn't that element of fear that you get knowing other players are out to get you and your stuff. When I first started playing it seemed that other players could make or break the game but once I got my head round the 'take no prisoners' bit then things have been ok. I only ever seem to play alone which suits me fine so far. On the Nitrado server it was easy to change the day/night pattern but I can't remember if the weather was changeable. Having recently moved from Gwynedd to Norfolk it's nice to see some drier weather - that would be nice in-game too 😉 Just typing this post in a short break, just like in cricket - 'rain stopped play'

Surely these 'Bohemians' must realise that as soon as the rain starts (again and again and again) a lot of players (myself included) will just piss off, eject the disc and go play some other game... As for the rotten fruit, it does seem a bit pointless including it in the game. A nice joke to begin with when you first become sick but after that you just don't bother picking it up. Same with the water, I just don't bother drinking anything apart from cans, bottled or straight from the pump - anything else without purification will kill you...

For the last couple of weeks or so I have been wandering through the public - Dayz Livonia EU -DE 2116 (Persistence ON) server - and things have been great. Weather has been wet on and off but not game wrecking bad... or when it was I went elsewhere. Today I was right down in the bottom right hand corner (south east corner) in a little place called Dolnik. All was quiet and I was well armed and sneaking. I went into each building prepared for trouble but none came my way. Out of the blue a group of figures came charging down the hill towards me and I nearly crapped myself before I realised it was five Zombies chasing a pig! They all raced past whilst I hid but one strangely peeled off towards me. I let him come and dispatched him quietly with an axe and lo and behold he had brought me beans! how weird. Anyway I went to the watering point in town, checked it out and all seemed safe. Took plenty of water on board and moved off then suddenly pop pop pop machine gun fire, took cover behind the wrong side of a log pile and was dead... sad face. Didn't even see my killer. Guess he was camping the most obvious place and I failed to spot him/her... never mind, shit happens. Needless to say I'll be going back that way again as it's a nice area and someone there has my loot. If you happen to go that way then I may see you there! BTW I stashed a shotgun and ammo in a car there... So, back on topic, which is your favourite server? and why?

Completely agree with you @Berndog We all play this game for some sort of enjoyment and when it pisses down with rain all the time it can ruin it very quickly. I can't see the need for it. I know the settings can be varied on private servers but I don't know what the score is on the public ones. Maybe they are all set the same in relation to the amount of rain. It would be nice to know if there are any public servers which are warm, sunny and dry with more daylight than darkness...

Similar problem here on Livonia - rain rain rain... most times I just shut it down and move on. I understand the need for a challenging environment but the game still has to be enjoyable... and the excess rain just kills it.

I've only ever found three or four heli crash sites on public servers but they did have some good guns there. I have the map showing location sites but is there any particular area where I am more likely to find one or is it just random? Not yet seen a bear but wolves seem to be everywhere in the lower half of Livonia.

@Kean__1 Yes, you're right, thanks. The 10 slots cost me £8.82 for 30 days but 4 slots would have been more suitable - strange it is available for PC but not PS4. I'll see how it goes in relation to frame rate etc. but a brief first 'test' seemed ok...

Thanks for posting this question @IceKing74 and for replying @Kean__1. I've now been looking at Nitrado and the costs seem reasonable if I've read it right. The lowest number of player slots is 4 and the cost for this on a standard game server appears to be £3.53 for 30 days and £9.70 for 90 days - in UK money that is 😉 That doesn't seem too bad. The more players obviously the more it costs but if you want to play alone (or with three trustworthy friends) then I guess this would be the only way. I may give it a go myself - at least that way I get all the loot/weapons/food etc and can build stuff without needing eyes in the back of my head. Guess it may get boring after a while but I reckon I might give a try...

Yes could be... I'm back on Livonia and there's not really any problem there just the very occasional stutter. Cherno however is just playing weirdly. It's difficult to describe. Inside buildings it's fine but outside anywhere it's just like a constant background flicker which I can only best describe as the frame rate being just too low. Don't know if it's a server thing but I haven't tried Cherno on public servers yet.

This is a strange problem. My frame rate issues all occurred on a private server playing the Cherno map. It was so bad that I quit the game but before I actually turned off I went to a public EU Livonia server. Bizarrely there was no problem there at all. I think I need to play some more to try to track down where the problem exists and where it doesn't...