MonkeyFiend

it's often easier to befriend people in the newspawns and help them get weapons. Some people shoot you in the back as soon as they get tooled up, but many are grateful for the help and prefer to team up.

More often than for providing light (chemlights if you really have to), I use flares for attracting players to easily ambushable areas :P

name in game is: Monkey Try to be friendly, currently around 40% killed on sight, 40% killed by accident/misunderstanding and find other friendlies about 20%, usually unarmed newspawns :P Generally hanging around cherno/elektro or stary sobor as prefer the action and can usually be found on UK25

typically the only people who aren't murderers are new spawns who don't have anything to murder you with... they're usually friendly and keen to group up. I've yet to come across anyone in the northern airfields who was friendly

... spawn locations are pretty fixed, although the spawned items do vary. Weapons: town hall, hotel, churches, firestations in cherno or elektro. Although there's plenty of loot to be had, these places also tend to be filled with bandits. Look around for barns and large buildings - these often have shotguns/enfield. Better weapons in crashsites/airstrips/baracks but these are incredibly dangerous places. My personal opinion: the only real danger on servers is bandits. Run around, zombies will follow at the same speed. Run indoors and zombies will follow you in and move slowly. So learn where the larger buildings are, run around for a bit then go into one of these building and run out the other side, the zombies that followed you in will be slow and by the time they make it out you'll be long gone and they will have lost interest Learning am afraid. The housing models are reused, so eventually you'll be able to recognise buildings that you can enter just from sight