Salomonese

well if you shoot someone and there is no message in chat that he has dies. Chances are he survived ;)

I would not consider choosing a sparsely populated server "at the edge of cheating" its common sense if you want to avoid other players. Also the hatchet is probably the better choice. Try to pick up at least two water bottles and remember to drink and refill them when you have a chance, even when it is not really necessary. Also high on your priority list should be getting a hunting knife and matches. The best equipment does not help when you starve to death ;) Also try and keep at least two morphine injectors in your inventory. Crawling around can be really annoying. If you get too close to a Zed try rolling away. It does not make any noise if I remember correctly "q and e" keys if you are crawling.

If you aggro Zombies inside of town it is probably smartest to run away. If running away is not an option; you could try and kill em with a silent weapon. Any silenced gun, hatchet, crowbar...this will not attract more of em. They do respawn. and if you are shooting them inside town there are probably enough of them in hearing range so they will just keep coming. Not related to respawn due to firearm, just a huge aggro range. But yes they also respawn, but this is not related to the weapon you are using.

This looks like one of my map notes. It sometimes happens to me when I have lag that i nervously klick and add a marker to the map. I have not figured out how to remove them. I have also found maps with notes already on them. Kinda neat as I think it adds to the game. some of the preexisting notes are nonesens though ;)

Well you could always drop the rifle when you need the hatchet and pick it up afterwards. I do this when I have time to plan ahead. For harvesting wood you dont need the hatchet equipped. Just right click on it next to a tree and select harvest wood.

So there I was wandering through the wastelands in search for gear and food. After a few hours I had managed to get some nice weapons (at least I think they are nice), namely an ak cobra and a trusty colt as a sidearm. Things were going smoothly but I was still lacking survivability as I had not found any matches. So I decided to head for the nearest supermarket to get me some as I had nothing to light my cigarettes with. After crawling for a bit I came to the back entrance and saw two Zombies inside. As none of my guns were came with a silencer I decided to go berserk on them and split some skulls with my hatchet. I dropped the ak and removed my hatched from the toolbelt. This is where I messed up. Of course removing it from the toolbelt is not the same as equipping it. Instead of silently hacking at them I was surprised to hear my colt go off :dodgy: One of them went down quickly but the other one managed to bite me so I had to bandage myself. The gunshots had attracted some more undead that I managed to take down. After clearing them I was at about 8 k blood after eating all the canned goodies I managed to find in the supermarket. No matches there of course. So I crawled back out only to trigger another Zombie...and he broke my leg. Of course I had no morphine on me. I hate crawling. I could have been worse though as I was in Stary Sobor (think that is the name) where I had spotted an army campsite earlier with 2 medical tents. So I crawled there only to find the tents empty (well not completely, but no morphine). Frustrated I logged out and went to get some running done. A few hours later I wanted to log back in but could not find the server I had been on so I just picked one randomly. When my char was done loading I noticed it was nighttime, the moon was out however. I saw a silhuette running towards the tent i was in and panicked. My first instinct was shoot shoot shoot so I clicked. For some reason no shot went off. Shortly after there was a loud bang and I was unconcious, bleeding and still had a broken leg. Also someone was killed that instant according to chat, but wasnt me. That poor guy had died of my frag grenade :angel: After regaining conciousness I quickly bandaged myself. I was below 1k blood now. I crawled to the other players dead body and examined it. He had 2 morphine injectors on him :D and some canned food. I managed to sneak to safety fainting very often. As this was another server I decided to take my chances with the supermarket again in hope of finding matches there. What do you know, I found some. Happy with myself I lit up and smoked:rolleyes: I also managed to find a cow and had myself 8 nice steaks. Next I will make a run for devils castle to see whats going on there.

Yup, I wasnt thinking much either, just adrenaline rush and off went the grenade. I didnt even know I had thrown it at first. Even after the bang I wasnt really sure what had happened. I figured it out though when I saw it was missing from my inventory and the fact that I had lost consciousness. Also the other guy was dead.

i have only today figured out how to use the chat. It had been bothering me for some time but instead of researching it I was busy playing DayZ :s

I would never respawn because the situation seems desperate. If you make it out of it it feels really good and thats a huge part of the game for me. Beating the odds and somtimes lucking out finding a cow for exaple after crawling towards every blob on the field for half an hour because your vision is heavily impaired. Dont ever give up ;)