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Based on this, I'd say quitting the server was the best choice. The only legit thing he could have said was "Hey I see you at XYZ." But my question is how were you talking to him? To my knowledge all chat is disabled unless within 90m or so.

I can't imagine what happened. Just skip that server. Better yet, tell us which one it was so we can skip it too.

Good luck OP. (And that other dude was riffing on the trend you sometimes see for a new player to come on here and start suggesting what to add to the game while stopping just shy of complaining. It's not funny when you have to explain it. :P )

You may find also that you need to double-tap your shift key if your walking and tiptoeing gets reversed. And to the dude that typed you'r... what the heck are you contracting?

Are you playing on servers with the crappy map that doesn't show you where you are? That makes it a lot harder especially when you are still pretty new to it all.

There is a paucity of details here. How did you get killed? How many players on the server? What did you see the minute you joined? How long did it take to join?

Look at the parent menu to this forum - there is something stickied called "Index of helpful threads". Do all those.

Not too sure what this means but I think I answered the hide-body question in your other post. Also, take note: Some people are bored as hell and are just leaving tents with meds and odds and ends near coastal areas.

HE LIED It sucks. Lying is the lowest form of banditry.

Oh yeah, since it looks like you are looking to stay in the daylight, I forgot to mention - you can leave a server and look for another one with more favorable conditions. Night can be pitch black and impossible, but... if you get a server that has a clear night (luck of the draw), you will get plenty of starlight and possibly moonlight to see by. That will help immensely, since the zombies can not see you in the dark but you can see them. If you want to stick to the daytime servers, you can. Your character persistence will continue. It's not like you travel back in time or anything... you are just continuing with the same character on a potentially-impossibly-perpetual state of daylight.

Unless you are dealing with "private hives" (outside the scope of my reply), then you can join as many servers in a row as you want. When I first started, I would keep trying new ones until I found one that worked well and that I liked. Any stuff you stashed on server A will NOT follow you to server B, unless you mean you had it on your person. But, when you go back to server A, it will still be there. Even if you go to 100 other servers in the meanwhile. That is, it will still be there if server A has not restarted. Now, if you are talking about a tent, then yes that will persist past server restarts, if you save the tent... but it will not follow you to server B, C, D. The mousewheel is your friend: Save a tent by looking at it, then turning the mousewheel. Sometimes you have to look around a bit to get the correct choice to show up in the mousewheel menu. Hiding bodies: When you hide a body, you bury it and it's gone forever. It sounds great, but you can't get anything back from it once you hide it. So... if you die, and are lucky enough to respawn and get back to your body (on the same server ONLY), then you can look at yourself and inspect the pack, and also use the mousewheel (your new friend) to get to the GEAR menu. That will allow you to get stuff off your person that was not in your pack. Since you are new I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that you are not using your pack correctly - look for the dayz wiki article on that. :) If it's night time, you can get right next to a zombie and they will usually be none-the-wiser. If it's day time, you can do it kind of the same way, but you must be prone. Not sure what you saw with non-moving zombies. Bug. Good luck.

Run the Arma2 infantry tutorial to get comfortable with the game. You're not looking for a gun yet. Find food and water and DON'T BE SEEN OR HEARD. If you are spotted, make sure you are standing all the way up (not crouched), and run. Put things between you and the zombies. If you are in a town, run through a house. Don't bother stopping to pick up anything while being chased. You will take 30 minutes picking up an item and will die. As for hives: use DayZ Commander to search for and join servers. If the name of the server you are looking at has a little cloud in the description, it is not on the "public" hive. Therefore, your persistence will only be saved on that one server. Stick with plain-jane public servers until you know what is going on. That way, you can join another server when the 3 you tried previously are lagging out due to never having been restarted. Forget guns. You will find yourself in far more trouble because you fired a weapon. Trust me, but you probably won't, so you'll learn anyhow. Zombies can hear very well. Forget building stuff. Get an axe. Only the ones you find on the ground - not the ones that are wedged into a tree stump - those are scenery only. Axe goes on your belt. To use it, you have to right click it from inventory and choose "remove from toolbelt". You can't do that if you have a rifle, unless you put the rifle in your pack, which you won't be able to do because the standard pack won't fit in it. Once you figure out how to equip the axe, you will have to reload it before swinging it. Careful with that axe, Eugene. 1-swing kill. Good luck. Check out the tutorials in the sticky at the top of this forum.

You said "jelly". I hit "stop".

Don't OD on too many videos. Just jump in (after running the Arma 2 infantry boot camp) and absorb it. Shooting will get you out of the frying pan but into the fire. If you find a hatchet: you need to 1) remove it from tool belt, 2) mouse wheel to select it as the active weapon (if you already have a pistol), and 3) reload it.

Maybe I have a different understanding of the words "let's" and "play".

Don't feel bad Dr_Gore You'd really only have known if you had been playing prior to the last update, and happened to read the full text of the release notes specific to the update. I don't believe there is any mention from scratch about it, and nobody expects you to read every post about all the different release notes. See you in Chernarus! btw, still handy to see that debug especially as a new player. It is helpful to know how many zombies are currently spawned (tells you more about other players, really) and it's good to know how far below 12000 your blood is before going into panic mode.

You did the right thing. He was either a teleporting cheater, or it was an extremely unfortunate bit of timing for you, and you were not a threat or a valued target of any kind. Either way, you denied him a cheap, worthless, needless kill. Take all the beans I have. I'm afraid what you may have heard was "Here, take a lot of beans". What I said was: Take. All. The Beans. I Have.

Bizon all the way here. Silenced with 64 shots, at least I don't have to keep swapping my axe in and out of inventory.

MHP dudes, Since you are locking it all the time, why not just run a private hive? I mean, why even bother to go through the process of getting your server approved? Unless... hey wait a minute! You aren't locking that server down for several hours after restarting it to loot choppers and stuff are you? And then take all those items and use them someplace else?? For christ sake, at least let me in to get my tent and get out.

OP: Yes, that is how it is done. Only do it with people you know, or if - like me - you couldn't care less if you are axed in the back. I showed up with 24 slots packed full of sweet gear. Don't run another program (overhead) to communicate. Just use Steam friends. It's already probably running, and way easier than the other programs mentioned. Though Skype is straightforward too, it's still another program to run and have to alt-tab to once in a while.

And +1 for klesh. Good DayZ player and trader!

Not reading it all. Agree.

To answer the question: You can save it wherever you want. Calling it "hiding" may not be appropriate, because it may well be in plain view, but you can save it there, though you wouldn't want to. And there is no "outside the play area". If you can get there, you are playing there, and your gear is fair game because someone else can get there too.

I am a server hoper, in that I hope the server I am joining is not going to completely suck. If it does - which normally is the case at first - then I HOP over to another one. There is no general rule. Some people play by the golden rule, and some don't care. To answer your last question: When I encounter a player I try to be friendly. It's not for me to say how they got there.

My suggestion is to play more and then you'll know what to do. Stop watching the videos for a while because they are not always indicative of reality.