-MadTommy

5 murders i believe = bandit.

Bandit Campfire I think a bandit with standards is a good calling. Stay up north and hunt the hunters and well armed survivors alike! I have no interest in hunting players will bbguns & hatchets. Goodbye Survivor HQ hello Bandit Campfire! :bandit:

Nah.. no interest in clans.. I don't feel Dayz is suited to clans, make it too easy.. and can't stand high pitched voices :P This is quite tempting!

I know how the OP feels.. i play solo, have everything i could want, a stream of different top grade weapons.. Since i've had my L85A2 AWS I feel a pahse of thegame has passed, now i need another challenge. Not quite sure what to do with my character.. think i'll become a solo bandit hunter.

lol just had a look to watch you get freaked out by a fly by of 5 or so harrier jets.. gotta love the hackers!

You can use a hatchet as a weapon.. a very good one in fact. If it is not in your hand after picking it up you need to right click it in the gear menu and select 'remove from belt', you will also need to reload it before you can 1st use it. Use r button to reload. Using a loot map link this one really help when you 1st start.. http://dayzdb.com/map Large barns are the best place to find starter weapons... and the pistol was removed a few patches ago as a starting weapon. Good luck

As a lone survivor the game has amazing amount of tension causing me to become a paranoid nervous wreck. I think i like it :rolleyes: I've become a good survivor.. I can get well geared up pretty easily and am a force to be reckoned with. Right now i have an M14 & M249 both with plenty of ammo, NVGs and everything else a survivor needs... but i'm still so bloody scared. I'm not scared of loosing my gear.. i'm just scared.. thinking i'm gonna be ambushed constantly.. creeping around snarling infected gives me goose bumps & the hairs on the back of neck stand up...I'm turning into a complete nervous wreck. The game has become a roller coater of an anxiety trip for me. I have never been so affected by a game before, ever. Hats of to Rocket.. its bloody epic.

Can you play regular Arma? Sounds like the problem is not Dayz related....

I was all geared up, full blood.. and killed myself with a toilet door.. doesn't come much worse than that :)

Pretty sure they do. They do in Arma.. and i doubt that has been modified for Dayz.

Its delete. Nothing like marking your base for everyone :)

You can press & hold Caps lock to talk or you can double tap Cap lock to have your mic always on.. and you will see a little mic icon on the left of your screen. I'd suggest just using press and hold.. otherwise its easy to forget and have an open mic. Welcome.

How about some of use just prefer 1st person view and find it easier. You seem to have an attitude problem.. you seem to think anyone who does not agree with you is a dick. Both options are available, so what is the problem? Anyone with half a brain would know that both system are a compromise, and neither are perfect. One allows you to look around corners without exposing yourself and see your own back while giving you better peripheral vision, not exactly realistic. The other restricts your peripheral vision while but stops you seeing yourself and being able to look around objects etc. Both have pros & cons. Hence why both options are available. Your view that one is more realistic to the other is an opinion.. not a fact, get off your high horse.

As the tile says.. pretty please with sugar on top can server admins give us more servers with realistic settings enabled. I hate 3rd person view and really hate cross hairs on... and would love to see more servers with these things disabled. I know it is entirely up the server owners what settings to run.. but with 99% of servers having these things enabled it would be nice to see more variety! If you know of such servers i'd love to see them listed here, the 2 i know of are. UK 7 by Kelly's Heroes & UK 111... Thanks

With Unmodified Arma server settings, veteran mode disables 3rd person view.. that is all i meant by veteran settings.

Its just personal preference.. i'm not judging either option. People have different tastes. Its the cross hairs that really bug me.. if 3rd person view is enabled.. i simply don't use it. And regarding tunnel vision, i use TrackIr and i don't see lack of peripheral vision an issue. I don't like the idea of people looking around corners in 3rd person view.. but such is life. TBH everyone has their preference.. I'm just finding it very difficult to find servers with setting i like. If you like cross hairs and 3rd person view you have no such issues, as 99% of servers run these settings. Well i find very few of them.

Sorry what? Having servers to suit both beginners & veterans is not fair on beginners? ^_^ I'm only asking for some more veteran serves.. not to disallow servers with these features enabled.

Red rage to a bull.. off to youtube i go to down vote this. :P

So many seem to not realise Dayz is simply a mod for a hardcore military simulator called Arma! Arma is and never has been for the main stream gamer... its complicated, has a ton of keyboard commands, has unique features & interfaces and is designed to be realistic. If you come here as a console gamer.. be aware you have a shit load of adjusting and learning to do. So many come here and complain about elements of Dayz that are simply features of Arma.. I personally would never buy a game for a mod without playing the core game 1st. Arma has a demo & free to play version.. play these 1st. Its engine and game dynamics are like no other game. Read the fing Arma manual.. watch the very helpful Dayz Guide videos on youtube.. and take responsibility to learn the game yourself.. Arma is NOT a game you can simply load, and jump on without familiarising yourself with its commands and interface. Play the Arma tutorials... This community is very helpful...and will try and help new players. But do the above 1st before complaining about Dayz/Arma. That is all.

As an old arma fella myself i loved it from the get go too... i actually love starting with nothing. Where you have no chance of surviving without obtaining the gear needed. Welcome to the Dayz madness, heart pumping tense roller coaster!

You are right.. but i felt better after getting off my chest! :rolleyes:

Yeah i understand.. hence why i think this post or one like it should be a sticky/pinned! I come from from playing Arma 1 & 2 for years.. so for me it was just another free mod for my much loved Arma series. Didn't hear or know about any hype.. i'm oldish and don't exactly have my finger on the social pulse! I was wanting to warn new players as much as tell them to get their fingers out of their arses :)

I logged in recently in a thicket about 800m from Stary Sobor... it was dark, i turned on my NVGs... I knew i was in a dangerous area, the server was full, so i sat there and listened and watched out for any bandits/survivors close to me.. i kept on hearing those little cracks and russel of branches.. I was crippled with paranoia, convinced there others only feet from me in the bushes.. i spent about an hour travelling about 200m and achieving nothing, I actually enjoyed it.. but all i did was crawl from bush to bush stopping and listening & watching for others. I was not waiting in ambush.. All i wanted to do was get to a safe area..but nowhere felt safe.. :)

Changes every time.. but i like the west side for all the deer stands & i tend to hit Zelenogorsk for its market for things i may have missed on the coast... but all depends where i sapwn

Now now children. The official site works for me right now. Should work for you.. if not, maybe try another browser.