CommodoreRock604

There is a secure method to keep items safe. Create another character in the same server. Find your main, have him drop items on ground. log in with "Storage character" Pick it up. Log off. Now you have a Safe you can visit whenever you need your items. Boom problem solved. I have 12 characters on the server I play. At least 4-5 are Storage Characters located in key areas I frequent with my playable characters. Makes for quick easy re gear up if you die, just ae your way to a storage character to have him drop you whatever you need.

I mange to hide the medium tents and rarely are they ever found. My trick is to just find a landmark on a trail I use between locations I pace my groups of characters at, nothing obvious like a building, more like a tree or the 5th fencepost or 8th bush, whatever. Go 50meters or so left or right from that landmark. Find a big bush, cut it down. Place my tent on that spot where the bush was with camo net, then next server reset the bush come back leaving it nearly invisible. I also seek out only low pop servers and use multi accounts to store good stuff on. Tents only hold random crap gear and food items. All good stuff gets stored on " storage characters" Another thing to note I play on Xbox so there's no hackers, the load in trick does work on xbox for sure since its a crap CPU system, but I never place tents in areas where people are likely to be logging out.

Thanks for the tips. I have been doing much better since back when I started. I made some progress, died a few times and was bummed for a bit, but now Its all just in the experience. I kind of like starting out new again and finding an early game rifle, then a rifle scope eventually. That can be just as exciting if not more exciting than finding an AK to me at least! Just knowing I have long range sight to scope out places before I enter an area. I tend to just stick to towns and villages till I'm geared up okay, pistol, rifle with scope, either the 7.62 5 round mag fed one or a Mosin, which ever I find a scope for first, then I dump the other one for less weight. Once I get a scoped rifle, a pistol, a few cans of food, some form of water carrying ability, and a few cooked chicken breasts in my pants and jacket pockets for warmth mostly or emergency food if needed bad enough, I start scrounging smaller 2nd and even 3rd tier military areas for better gear. depending on how long I survive for. Sometimes I get quite well geared up and have a good little run before getting shot in a fire fight or taken out by a random wolf pack, bear or something outside of my control, or there was that one time I even stepped on my own landmine I had set up on one approach to my tent in the woods like an idiot,lol, but it's all good, it's just a game. I learn more from each experience, and each time I start out new again, I feel more and more confident than the time before and try to apply and learn form any mistakes form past characters.

Bunk, just found out today that my public server MI4134 has been deleted, thanks guys, all those hours spent gathering stuff only to have 80% of it dissapear. Not like even if I knew it was on the axe list I would have been able to move over my barells and wooden crates with me when I logged off? If I had known I would have at least picked up one empty barell to take with me! Luckily I keep my very best stuff on me when I log off to prevent theft, but next time I do log in I'll be weighted down with nowhere to stash my stuff? Ill be in some random field with 200 pounds of gear on me wondering where the hell I am and where I can stash some stuff so I can move again. What a bunk deal. There's not many servers to begin with that have low populations. Why get rid of low pop servers, those are the only ones I want to play on! I hate being around a bunch of people who pretty much all shoot on sight, not to mention there's absolutely no good loot on high pop servers? The community is toxic as hell in this game between hording and shooting everything that is alive. I usually play at weird hours just to avoid people and get things done without having to watch my ass around every corner. I guess its back to private servers forever, public life is way to unstable and not enjoyable at all. Spend 3 days playing to find a measly ak74 and a few mags, try to set yourself up a little place to call home and they wipe it out from under you?

Thanks for the help. With that attitude against new players joining the game it seems that you would enjoy playing in a server by yourself and be the bored as hell king of loot. All the loot and nothing to shoot but animals and infected. Perhaps a private server of your very own would be a good fit? They have that option now for xbox. Just so you know I figured out a lot in the past few weeks and am now thriving in game. I learned by joining a private server with helpful people to teach me the ropes. I have started playing in public again for the past week and am doing pretty good. Fully military kitted, Ballistic vest with pouches, an okay AK74 rifle with plenty of spare full mags, NVG's on my helmet for night time looting, and several cans of canned bacon to keep me fueled. This game does have a learning curve, no doubt about it. Guessing from your level of forum posting on here, I'm assuming that you have been playing for quite some time. Not everyone had the benefit of playing for months/years to figure this game out through the many changes and adapt to them. I started out on 1.06, a glitch filled mess of a game with very little food to be found as a new spawn who was afraid of infected in the beginning. I didn't know that they had food and other useful items like sewing kits and such on them and that killing them was actually beneficial to a fresh spawn. I see that you apologized for your comment after others called you out for it, so I won't be overly negative towards you in return. I just ask that you consider the fact that people sometimes try new things and aren't always expert from the get go. That is why I posted in the first place, asking for help and or advice on how to get better. That's what intelligent people do when they don't know something, they ask those who do know more about the subject. Happy hunting.

Thanks for replying. I do have the map from iZurvive and use it often. Now a few weeks later I have finally figured out how to survive and even thrive a bit. I decided to get my own private server where I was able to figure things out without constant threat of death from over zealous players who shoot on sight. I have taken the things learned form my private server experience and started playing public server again and I'm doing pretty good. Its not the plentiful experience of a private server( I have multiple bases, freaking 9x M4's there, and 3 working cars, one of which is a mint Olga 100% complete and matching color black) but I like the public experience better for the most part as everything I find is actually exciting now, even my best gun in public, an AK74, is pretty nice since its the only assault type rifle I have yet to come across not counting the Viaga shotguns, seem to find plenty of those but only 5 round mags for them so far, pretty useless until I find a drum mag. I even found NVG's in public, in fact 3 pairs so far, ( only kept one backup set for trade or replacement if needed,) mostly due to limited carry weight, no established public base yet, and not wanting to ruin the loot pool for others looking for them. The best part is in public I'm only about 1/3-1/2 of the way inland so far. I haven't even made it to the airfield yet, almost all of my finds so far has been from looting the base in Zelengorsk a few times a day for the past 2 days since I got there. To anyone out there having a hard time starting out, don't loose faith, it gets better to be sure. If you can afford to rent a private server for a month or more, or find a private server of someone else to join which is not Kill on Sight and has players who don't horde and are smart about looting, you can learn a lot about the game and have fun playing.

I can assure you that tents do in fact exist on xbox. I have half dozen large tents, about 4 meduim tents set up along the coast with good gear and food in them in case i die and have to start over near the shores, and even one car tent on my private server! I have found one large tent on a public server account so far. Admittedly they are much harder to come by in public servers as people horde way too much in this game as a rule, but they do exist.

So I just got this game the day before yesterday. I spent some time watching youtube tutorials and reading advice before playing. I even finally figured out where I was on maps a few times. My biggest problem is that I have never once found any apples in trees or water pumps located where they say they are on the maps, so I constantly die as there is literally almost never any food stuff to be found in game. I tried running the coast as suggested, nothing but dissapointment, a net, even found a fishing pole once, but had no clue how to use it, water was the issue that game more so than food. I get that some of you people have been playing for years and had it easier before and it got slowly harder and harder but for a person entering now, its just insane and pointless. I have to sever hop till I find someplace where I'm not in the dark or being rained on so I can at least have the benefit of being able to see and not freeze to death from being soaking wet, but even then I always die in like 40-60 mins tops. I don't sprint nearly ever, unless juking an infected. I try to avoid fighting them entirely by staying stealth when in vicinity. But there's just nothing to be found. I even choose low population servers that I assume haven't been looted yet, closed doors, some loot in some places, but the loot is all garbage, track suits and the same pair of hiking shoes over an over. When I did manage to find a water bottle, I still have yet to find a water pump. When I found a stream, I had no water bottle and was way the F out in the woods. Its just not fun at all for beginners. The controls are wonky as heck, constantly having to drop things to pick up new things and re arranging inventory. Does anyone know of any people who can coach new players, like for real walk along witht hem and show them what the heck they can do to last more than a day? I get that food water and dry clothes are priorites. But I can never find one or the other in any real supply??? If the water pumps and apple trees actually beared fruit and existed, I would have no problem at all I think surviving to some degree, but those just dont exist it seems on xbox????