http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oySeP3LMMk hey guys, this is a new series I have been working on for a while, discussing different topics about dayz and trying to get different opinions on a certain topics that will then lead into different topics for videos... let me know what you think!

My exit is usually different to my entry just due to the fact that I run with a large squad, so I can turn up on my own and raid the tents and have a few people come and escort me safely or have them lock stary down or better still miss out stary completely and gear up as a group. really glad you like it! more on the way, I wasnt expecting so many replies so soon! I shall have another episode up Tuesday/Wednesday ! it seems a lot of people have the same plan of action when it comes to approaching the tents, its interesting to see the differences in what people carry and look out for though! cool beans!

you bring up a lot of good points, the thing about dayz is that your judgement has to be fluid, you cant run by a set of rules 100% of the time, you have to be dynamic in judgement... if you were to loot the near side first and it came up fruitless you have an issue on your hands because you dont want to leave the tents unarmed! if it is possible to see what is on the other side of the tents, it would be useful to take note before weighing up the risk on going for it... smokes are a great way to block off the line of site of a sniper, they are also great and getting zombies attention and they are also great at telling everyone that you are around - smokes play an extremely big role in dayz that a lot of people dont seem to think about, I personally have used smokes in stary tents to get away from a sniper but it was my last (and i mean last) resort! this is only because your never the only one in stary, there always seems like there is multiple groups all doing there own thing. as for exit strategies... that is something very circumstantial, if you believe your the only one to trigger zombies in then I would exit the way I came, I never like to come in from the west. having said that, sometimes things dont go your way and you just have to sprint and wish for the best lol.

when I come in from the coast I just smash into them as my life doesn't have much value but even then I dont really want to die so thats why I looked into it the way I have lol... now the NWAF is a very very very interesting topic for a few different reasons, barrack raiding is really fun solo and in a group - I think approaching both barracks are two separate topics just because of how you have to approach them and the level of play up north is so much more intensive and costly. I have footage from an interesting night fight up there that I might discuss but it is definitely something I want to discuss. on a side note, how often would you like to see this type of content being rolled out? just out of interest.

cheers man, I am loving the arma II editor atm lol - there is a similar bit on the outro too

my friend decided to get a weekly community game of DayZ together, so every sunday we meet up at a location and see what happens, we both document our outing and make little videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0PfbgWdaY&list=UUmIMMHeI6yCt5olCfhdPV8Q&index=2&feature=plcp I have another video up but it wont seem to embed on here for some reason... anyway, thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!

just a suggestion, dont start a thread if your not willing to accept other peoples point of view... I understand your point but disagree... most people will shoot yes... and thats why its scary to come across players more so than zombies... watch ANY zombie movie and you will find the characters doing the same thing, when they first come across other characters they shit there pants because they dont know if they are good or bad... look at the walking dead (comics and live action), its more about the scenario the characters are placed in to and the issues with other humans that is heightened due to the zombies... you do come across friendlies and they tend to be more friendly than in other games, they add you on steam and slowly over time you build friendships with them and they let you into their base or visa versa ... some times I play on my own but mostly with at least 1-3 other people i know... in that time on the server we regularly play on we have come to know the other people and if they are friendly or not, I will shoot someone with a reputation or someone that has crossed me in the past (jackgunn) you can choose to play as a survivor or a bandit or even as a militant group... me and a few friends yesterday liberated the poor bastards at electro from a group of bandits with mid/high range gear (with only a makerov/shotgun) and then used there own gear against them... I have fixed cars/trucks/atvs/bikes with people... had people give me blood transfusions and given them blood bags for not killing me... I gave a well known bandit on the server I am usually on- morphine as he asked me on direct chat before I knew where he was and he thanked me instead of killing me... friendlies are out there but you need to look... most are like animals but some arnt and that makes it more special - I actually respect the friendlies I know in this game, not like in other games where they seem faceless.

So I went to NWAF with a cz550 and came across a sniper with a lovely rifle I wanted... I waited for my shot and took it, hitting him from 400m he went down and said ky-ky was killed by reale (friendly fire) in the bottom left where it says people died... I was supprised it said this at it is usually just player was killed... as I then approached the tower he was at, he sprung up and shot me in the face and turns out I hadnt killed him?! and he was still on the top of the server list (uk_22)... how is this possible that I got the shot, the message but not the kill?

NVGs are great for that reason... Night time PVP, its not like everyone has them- I have only come across 1 pair in almost 200 hours of play, plus the three other people I play with who have never had a pair and have played for the same amount of time. I was punched to the ground recently and was laughing when it happened and was screaming at my friend to get me up... maybe its not about the zombies being over powered but maybe you should think about making yourself less vulnerable to this things happening by running with someone else... lonewolf is dangerous for that reason alone, if shit goes bad - it goes very bad. actually your wrong' date=' there is a very very early black and white movie where a zombie is raised from the dead at a mansion and he goes round killing people (he is a zombie brought back to life via voodoo*) cant remember the name but i used to watch that and Night of the living dead a lot. [EDIT'] its called White Zombie... I think it was called something different on the UK release I had but its about 1 zombie going nuts... *early interpretations of zombies are the classic Romero zombies and then there was the Voodoo zombies... even in the Night of the living dead, the first zombie (cemetery zombie) kills Johnny and almost kills barbra... Then on top of that, these are considered INFECTED so you can then go down that path of 28 days later/ l4d route (and Rocket even said this on a recent video that they are alive and infected, you should check it out as its on the dayz news tweet thing) [Another edit] Just realised how much of a zombie geek I am :S [ANOTHER EDIT!!!!] I just remembered a recent movie with a CRAZY zombie fight... 1v1 too and its AMAZING (best fight with a zombie in any movie yet) the movie is called HORDE (or La HORDE) and its basically L4D the movie... a knife fighter goes crazy with his blade on two zombies... its amazing. there is a 1v1 with a chick too but I dont want to spoil the movie lol. <-------------------- WATCH THIS NOW! it is amazing... you should all buy the movie

zombies/infected should be powerful and dangerous, they should be feared... the last thing I want is to be knocked down but i think its part of the game.. once you get to the higher end its easy to stay over 10k blood without pvp... zombies to me shouldnt be trivial like they seem to be in other games, I actually go out of my way to avoid them and not even kill them... just an unlucky incident

I am running with a m4a3 cco and its a good gun but not the daddy of guns to feel bad about lossing... I just got an m14 aim and I dont want to lose that but one day it will happen... at the moment I am on day 13? and 40+ hours in game... I have NVGs too and I felt like that when I first got them but now I am not bothered about losing them as I had them since day 3? my friend found a SVD but with no ammo and he had to leave it as it was soooo impractical and he didnt come across any ammo for days - that was horrible to let go of.

found a chopper yesterday and one the day before, the first had a L85A2 and the one we found yesterday had 3 FN FALS and a Bizon SD but no mags... only have a few more items to check of my want list, I want an M9SD as one of my friends is running with an m4sd and its great for clearing zombies silently and I just got my hands on a m14 ep1 and had an m24 in my backpack... managed to get my NVG's and GPS off of a russian that attacked me for wondering too close to a car he was trying to repair (didnt know at the time as it was pitch black and I was wondering around) Was scared of dying as NVGs are considered so rare and important but I hardly use them - I am actually starting to enjoy the GPS and really want to use this m14 ep1 (I also want a DMR as it uses the same ammo type and then I can get rid of my M4a3 cco) love finding a heli but I never see the black smoke (someone else always points it out but its not visible on my screen) nice find :)

the term is correct... people assume this game is like other fps's and play it like other fps's... and a lot of people that are complaining are playing it as such... people dont like to adapt but complain.

I dont agree, its playable and enjoyable... this isnt run and gun and when your at the start with no weapon you have to be like sam fisher...

on a side note, has bandit kills been taken out? everyone I have killed lately has been a murder even if I have seen them kill a friend :S it must be annouying if your running with a group of people that do kill players ect...

I play with 3 people I know and the game is great, we make rivalries with people that come across as dicks... but you do come across good/nice people... I get hated on for telling off new players after 8 hours of the same questions - "HOW DO I USE A BANDAGE?!" - "WHY DO I HAVE NO GUN?" - "WAS THERE A PATCH? WHATS NEW?!" - "WHOS SHOOTING IN CHERNO?!" you can only answer them nicely for so long ... I LOVE playing on DE4 server! no side chat and no kills listed, you cant even see a players name when looking at him... so the other day I was in a shoot out and killed two guys, they dont know who I was to get revenge or who to watch out for and its more intense than - "HEY WHY HAVE I LOST ALL MY STUFF SWIMMING?!"

YES I would like to try it as a test at least. (under 20 words!)

it wouldnt serve a purpose to wipe everyone, only muddy the information given back until players get back the balance of players with loot (that can hold on to it) and players who cant... also alpha testing IS about playing the game, we are not robots here and you are supposed to play the game as a game... not as a robot.

whilst having a shoot-out with a man called RAINBOWCAT over a bike - I knew where he was and I had the drop on him, I went prone and wanted to lean out to shoot him in the face... pressed Q and rolled out in front of him and his little .45 ... ... ...

Can I has you gear?

when you say noob/mainstream you mean successful ... you dont want them to make a successful mod/game ... what happens when the indie/mod developers pave the way for games? they become the mainstream and successful and you'll complain again... I hope dayz does become successful and popular, I want to share it with as many of my friends as possible, even if they are shit at the game ... but that doesnt mean I want the game to be watered down from what it is. Dont be one of those "I WAS HERE FIRST SO I AM COOL, YOU CAME TO THE PARTY LATE AND YOUR RUINING THE GAME!" types ... you sound like one of those people at a dinner party that looks down at any movie that isnt obscure or doesnt have subtitles...

persistent characters can still test the game ... loot or not, I dont want to have to spawn at the same time as everyone else on patch day without a weapon and everyone running around and being shot by the guy that found a gun first... I play with friends and are in a good spot a distance away from the shore... if there was something specific to test then yes, why not.. but not just for the sake of it... data will still be mined from the people that die/spawn over the course of the patch so no need to mass kill everyone.

I had a bandit do this to me today at NW airfield barracks... I looked inside and saw the player down the end of the hall, I moved so he couldn't shoot me - looked back in and he was gone?! me and a friend checked the loot and after a few minutes decided to move out... as we started to leave I passed out (due to 2800 blood) and as my character stood up, the guy had spawned back in and shot me and then disconnected again so my friend couldn't kill him... still it was a good life.

this is looking a lot more professional :) keep up the good work!