Mastiff (DayZ)

Open your mouth wide and close your eyes

I find a lot of hatchets at industrial and farm buildings. I've only ever found 3 guns, I found a 104 and a 870 with flash light at the south west airfield, unfortunately when I tried to pick those guns up the server was lagging and I lost my hatchet and got DC'd, I managed to log in the next day after waiting and found someone had put barbed wire around the stairs at the bottom, the only way for me to possibly go up the stairs without getting cut on the wire was to "vault" attempted to vault onto the stairs and magically both my legs broke and I died there and then... The 3rd and final gun... Mak which took a long time was from the Supermarket at Polana along with a map, watch and binoculars so which was a great haul, unfortunately as I was leaving I saw a group of people coming into the town so I creeped towards them with my heart racing knowing I could never take them on and its taken me 6 hours to get to where I was (I went a long way)... I saw my opportunity to strike and I threw a smoke grenade right at their feet... zombies are like flies to shit to smoke grenades... was hilarious. So yeh, I've died a lot in the past 2 days and only ever found 3 guns, loads of hatchets andu nfortunately the hunting knife can't be used as a weapon.

As a new player I have to admit that it is more difficult than I imagined. Not difficult in a good way though, difficult because the Zombies somehow have a detection range that varies from almost point blank to 400m. I've tried to get into small buildings and houses without being detected, I might die 4/5 times in the process but sometimes I'll get onto the roof, I'll look around and I see Zombies from like 200m in the middle of a field charging right at me and when I go down the stairs there are 7/8 zombies at the bottom... without a weapon I can't do anything. My only weapon against these zombies is to log out and come back later that night. I remember reading a thread that the zombie detection isn't working properly so I guess that is a bonus, if that improves then I don't think there is a need for a weapon.

I think the main problem is that the zombies are unbelievably alert. I watched a DayZ review the other day before I decided to download it and for the majority of the time the guy was able to creep around the zombies. I found a totally different story, when I spawn I usually can move within 200m and suddenly every zombie within a small area flies at me. To the extent the server before had 38 people on and yes even though I was a noob I wanted it to be a bit more immersive in the starting areas... anyway there were 230 spawned zombies. I was at the factory above solnichniy and I counted 27 zombies... that was more than 10% of the zombie population hunting just me. What was even more odd is I climbed up onto one of the roofs and within the space of about 3 minutes every single one of those zombies were for some reason heading right towards me... I logged out and and back in and they all had despawned, so I assume they were meant for me. So basically I don't think that this game is too hard, its just that this game is in an Alpha stage so there are bound to be balance issues (xray vision zombies)

I found a motorbike partly submerged next to the factory in solnichiny, everything seemed to be in worked order when I got on it apart from the lack of fuel. I'm pretty new to this game but that is an odd place to run out of fuel... unless they left the engine running? If that is possible... Anyway after about 20 minutes I found a jerry can with fuel start the long journey back and I could hear "brumm brummmm burmmmm" and someone rides past me on it...

I think it would of been better if he said, I had to log off to take the dog for a walk.

I've basically been playing this game since last night, amidst the DDoSing I thought I would give it a go. Clearly there were connection issues and on my first game... I was jittering a bit through lag, some zombies were teleporting I bend down to pick something up and pick up a hatchet. I begin to explore and suddenly a human player jumps out and fires a bullets at me... I'm aware people like to farm noobs for a kill count. So I run... I run and run and it just as laggy as it was before... then it times out. I was probably only on the game for about 3 minutes. So do I need to be punished because on a few instances someone logs off when you try and kill them? I was playing this afternoon, I was on the airfield waiting for a friend sitting inside the control tower. I go down the stairs... no problem, I try to go back up the stairs and nothing. Being new to DayZ I thought I would attempt to pole vault the stairs what happened was my legs went through the stairs and broke. My friend told me to log off because he had morphine and could save me. Should I get punished for that? Furthermore I must have gone through about 30 lives already, usually because I spawn... I crouch and I'm spotted by 2 or 3 zombies and starting without a weapon I just have to run.... I run and I run, 2 zombies will stop chasing but that final 3rd... I ran from Kamyshovo through Elektro in the hope my friend can run from the other direction and help me, its that same zombie that is chasing me though. I'm not kidding I was running for 10 minutes, I had nothing to do. I had a phone call and I had to leave the computer so I logged off... inadvertently this was the point I realised you could 'exploit' log off to despawn zombies. Though should I be punished because I have something immediate in real life? I'm all for survival games and to be honest this has the potential to be huge, though in the last 24 hours I've been killed more by players who are after noob kills than I have zombies and that is saying something. I can't help but think most of this rage is because people are upset they didn't get a kill. Since someone gets upset and cries everyone who either has archaic internet, a real life or needs to be somewhere will be punished by a 30 seconds log off timer... but what will stop that? Will it be 30 seconds from when you press it or 30 seconds from when you last made an action? I mean realistically I could run and hide and 30 seconds the attacker would have to be pretty overenthusiastic to chase me if we're at a distance. I don't think shafting the innocent is worth sponging up the tears of the 'experienced'