Numinak

I'll offer $100 Billion 'Special Agro Cheque' Zimbabwe dollars to verified bandit kills!

I find the issue comes up when playing other video games. Hell, I was playing Skyrim the other day, walked across some debrie that knocked about, and it sounded like a couple of gunshots. I instantly went to look around for the source before realizing I wasn't playing DayZ. It gets into your head!

It's taken me some time to realize this, but I don't like killing other players, even if they are being dicks and killing people for the lulz. I've only killed another player three times since I've started playing. Once because I was still new and didn't want to take any chances. The second when a lone person decided to try and take on my whole group at once. And the last, when some fool tried to run me over with a car, as it was the only way I could survive. But an event a few days ago made me realize I'm not a fighter. Pretty much any enounter, even when I've had a ton of ammo, I've always always chosen to run away rather than stick around and fight. So two days ago I started eschewing the used of a primary weapon (with the exception of an axe, for zombie defense), and a pistol. I'm thinking of dropping the pistol as well, and I'm gonna try running as a medic type for a bit. I fully expect to get shot lots, but hopefully not too much if I don't have a weapon out and visable. Time to see how well this'll work out for me, and hopefully I'll start meeting other friendlies out there. I'm ready to change the pace of my game.

Mt. Dew is doom! I found one last night, decided to pick it up.....Today, come back and the server did a complete wipe! DOOOOOM!

I've found Direct chat, both voice and text, haven't been working for me (proven by having friends nearby to check). Makes it much harder to not kill people when they approach!

Press 'F' and you'll see the top right of your screen change from your weapon to the flare. Mouse click and it'll throw. Make sure to press F again to go back to your weapon!

Another good way to learn, is make sure you are on a recruit server. It'll pop up white circles on your screen to tell you where the zombies. It helps quite a lot while you learn how to move around the zombies and explore the map. After you've gotten a handle on how to play, you can move up to the regular or veteran servers, and test your mettle against all comers.

Enigo Montoya might need to talk to that man!

Been playing for a few weeks now, and beyond my friends, I don't think I've met a single 'friendly' on the game. Every last one has shot at/killed me soon as they saw me, even when I was fresh spawn in the world. Everyone is a bandit now.

Same here. My buddy and I were holed up in a baracks up near the NW airfield. I saw the same exact zombie spawn in the building 6 times in a row. It'd appear, we'd shoot it and it'd die, to be instantly replaced by a new zombie. We couldn't believe our eyes. And that on top of the zeds continuing to rush the main entrance everytime we'd shoot one down. That, combined with the sudden hard nerfing of the .45's made it a rather interesting time for us to escape from.

Last night I finally stumbled on my first crashed helicopter! Didn't even realize it at first. Was in the town south east of Stary Sobor, and noticed there were military infected in the area. As I was running around the small town trying to lose the growing number of military that were following me and I ran past the chopper, hidden on the other side of a small set of trees. Sadly, after finaly getting free of my pursuers, all I managed to find was an FN FAL and 2 magazines for it. Still excited! It's been a quest of mine to see all the various things in the game. All that's really left is most of the larger cars (except the bus and van, of course!) Still some smaller items as well, like NV goggles, the rangefinder and the more rare weapons. Now if I can just live long enough to have them all at the same time!

With that many tents and rare items, they were likely just using the duping bug to get as many as they could without having to hunt up more. I'll bet you won't see this too often after they finaly fix that issue.

The only way to survive an encounter with another player is to not have an encounter at all. EVERY SINGLE one I've had so far, running away or not, has had them shooting me. Even when I was unarmed and off the coast for less than 3 minutes. I don't play for the social aspect, so I avoid it completely whenever possible.

The only way this could ever work as a PvE is if they really ramped up the zeds, either in numbers or deadlieness, or both. You can already see in videos that groups as small as 3 can easily handle the infected at their current levels. The bandits in the game are the only thing right now that make the game a challenge once you've gotten even a little experiance and gear.

I always recomend avoiding the cities whenever possible. The ONLY thing you can get (easily) there that you cant get anywhere else with less douche around is the medical supplies such as morphine and epipens. Hit up a few of the small outlying villages and head inwards soon as you have a soda, can of beans, and at least a hatchet. The rest you can find as you head up north.