jurrasstoil (DayZ)

I'd have to +1 the Lingor suggestion. It is a bit easier, because you can gear up a lot easier, there is more military loot and the distances between cities are smaller. Losing zombies is also a lot easier because there are more buildings you can run through. This should help you speed up the learning process and shorten the amount of seemingly endless running that beginners might find extremely frustrating on chernarus. You can also get lucky and run into guys like me on the coast. I frequently drop my entire stuff to a fresh spawn on the coast when I'm geared up and bored and don't really know what to do with the stuff :)

That tiny speck in the middle of the iron sights is a target at 600m. After firing a full mag in semi and lying prone taking about 4s for every shot I hit the target exactly once out of 30 shots. At 400m I hit exactly 15 out of 30 shots. I still prefer the M16A2 at 400m with 26 out of 30 shots. The Iron sights and accuracy are just superior. I'm more than willing to sacrifice the damage for that.

After fiddling around with it quite a bit in the shooting range, i have to agree that the ironsights are pretty terrible. At 400m you basically aim for a tiny spot on your screen and hope to hit anywhere, anything above 400m is a lot of hoping and a lot of luck. I mean, you can probably try to use it to countersniper, but even for that... I mean, you pretty much have to find an AKM first and then decide "let's hunt some snipers" for that situation to occur.

The lower your blood the less color you'll see. At some point it will even become blurry as well.

If you don't have connection issues with other online games, you might just be joining not so great servers. Try to join servers that have mostly stable ping and one that is below 100. The lower the better of course.

welcome to dayz.

Do you need everything, ie. a monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound as well? A PC you have build your own or with your own components at least will net you a lot more power than buying an imac for the same money.

Not sure what you mean exactly. The choppers (and their loot I think) spawn with the server starting, it stays there till the server restarts or someone takes it. If no one takes it, it disappears with the chopper when the server restarts. Then new choppers with new loot spawn. Other loot spawns use loot cycles, ie. new loot spawns every 15 minutes or so if the loot has been taken and no one is closer than 200m to it. This doesn't work with crashed choppers. Once the loot has been taken, it's gone and new loot won't spawn.

The servertime is important as well, because choppers spawn after a server restart and don't generate new loot after being looted. For example: If they restart every 6 hours and the next restart is scheduled for 5pm and it's currently 4:30pm, you can be almost 100% sure that all the chopper sites have been looted at least once. If it's 5:10pm, it's unlikely the choppers were looted already (unless there is a very greedy and efficient clan with multiple vehicles on the server of course).

I was server hopping yesterday near the old fields, not because I was looking for loot, but because I was looking for servers that don't limit my fps to 15fps or less and to build a favorites list with good ones. I join the 3rd server and it's night, I look around (no NVG) to see how the fps are and see an unusual bright spots through a tree. A downed chopper. 1 Medical box, a small loot pile with a bandage and painkillers, 2 Bizons + 4 mags, 2 M14 AIMs + 5 mags. You most likely got either really unlucky or found choppers that were already looted. Usually they spawn at least one weapon, but depending on how you set your details and screen resolution it can be hard to see the loot. So make sure to check them from a distance first (so grass won't render, but loot will). Sometimes loot also lies a little bit under the body of the chopper, so check that as well.

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Wrong servertime is a bug and the admins can't do anything about it other than restarting the server frequently.

You can actually run into a pine tree and stay in there. The Zombie will run into the pine tree as well, but he won't attack you, instead he goes back into his walking animation and strolls about.

"Look, a Bambi with a crowbar is running into an industrial building and is being chased by a horde of zombies. Better help him out by putting a bullet in his head"See my post above. Most of the people who do that are already on the very low end of the moral scale, so, yeah. Some might say they are doing it for "fun", but their fun is ruining other people's fun, so i'd question their idea of "fun" greatly. If you want to find some decent gear without getting sniped a lot, check out deerstands. They can hold very decent military gear. They are usually very safe and very easy to loot (only 3 zombies spawn, and they usually walk away from the side with the ladder). Plus the side with the ladder faces towards the forest in most cases.

Also try servers with less players on them. <10 I'd say and stick to safer areas if you want to survive and see a bit of chernarus. Make sure to get a feel for distances and how zombies spawn and behave after spawning. This way you can tell if someone has been or is in the city/town/whatever you are trying to enter. Check out the map at dayzdb to figure out where you spawned and what kind of route would be safe and best in terms of loot spots and their quality. For the most part you should stay away from Cherno and Elektro unless you want to PVP it up vs. hackers, scripters, server hoppers and griefers. Those cities are shooting galleries and not ideal for less experienced players to gear up. If you want to find a group you might want to check out the /r/DayZLFG (DayZ Looking For Group) subreddit. I'm not sure if this forum has a section for this.

From experience I'd have to disagree.The last 5 days i've played on servers with <7 players on them and have been killed like 8 times and only one of those times was while stocking up in cherno and once in NWAF. On one server with 6 players, people died constantly and not always the same guys (ie. they were not suiciding most likely). My 12 day character got shot in the woods near Tulga by a guy in a ghillie and with an M4 SD on that server. Today on a 5 player server I ran through the woods southeast of devil's castle and just died instantly (still 12k blood in the you are dead screen), didn't even hear a shot, just dropped dead while running. Not sure if you don't hear shots if you get hit in the head and die instantly (logically the bullet reaches you before the sound does obv). You are probably more safe on low pop servers, but still very far from safe.

From what I understand servers get out of sync with the timecycle sometimes and need to be restarted to be correct again. eg. if it says UTC+1 in the description, it doesn't necessarily have to be true all the time. So, for now it's a trial and error mostly.

I have the same problem, but it just appeared like a week ago. All of the sudden *poof* 15-20 fps max. I can look at the sky and get up to 40, but that seems like an ineffecient way to play... X3 445 3.2ghz GTX 460 768 @ 830/2050 8gb ram win7 x64 latest arma beta and latest dayz

I tried 10-15 servers yesterday. Same problem. I even joined some servers with <5 players on them. The thing is that it just changed. Everything was working fine, then everything went to ****. I mean, the only logical thing is that is has to do with one of the beta patches i guess, because that's the only thing that changed on my end as far as I can tell.

I have the same problem and it makes the game almost impossible to play. Newest drivers, killed every stuff in the bg to see if that helps and turned down the quality to absolute garbage. X3 3.2ghz GTX 460 8gb ram w7 x64 latest arma and dayz ofc.

I think I have about 120 hours logged in DayZ and I have yet to die to a hacker. I got teleported in the air once, but managed to abort in time to live on. I don't know if someone hacked in weapons or teleported himself around the map to kill me, might have happened, but most of the time I died because i wasn't careful enough or because I was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm playing on servers with low to med pop. Everything between 10-30 players basically. 20 or 30 of the hours i played were spent on Lingor. I had a hacker encounter there, but the dude was just teleporting people around and flying them to the prison and giving them a little tour. He didn't kill anyone.

Get DayZ Commander. From there on out it's smooth sailing.

welcome to Arma ;) It's very picky. You have to aim at the right spot at the right angle from the right distance for almost everything. Stuff like gutting animals and picking up meat, looting/opening/picking up backpacks and looting/helping players are probably the most fiddly.

For a more "in-depth" look at which weapons are good, you might want to check out .I think you can delete notes on the map by hovering over them with your mouse and then hitting delete on your keyboard. You can also place waypoints on your map that will show up ingame by holding shift and then leftclicking on the spot of the map you want to go to. As for identifying as friendly: announce you are friendly, that's all you can do really. It's probably best to stalk whoever you are dealing with first, then try to give out their exact position (preferably an exposed one) via direct comm to let them know you are friendly and add "if I wanted to shoot you, you'd be dead already". If you cross someone's way by accident and he is armed, chances are pretty high that a firefight will ensue. One of you will freak out and people who don't shoot in these situations are extremely rare.

iirc till the server restarts.

Learn the game mechanics of zombies. What attracts them, how their line of sight works and especially how you can lose them. Once you figured that out you'll kill zombies out of convinience and not because you have to. Zombie between you and precious loot and it takes him ages to move out of the way? Pop one in his head or give him a good old hatchet face-treatment. Barns offer enough space and exits to make you not care about the zombies that are after you, run in, grab what you need, run out. You'll usually find a hatchet or even a gun/rifle after one or two barns and a ton of other useful stuff in the process. Almost the same goes for industrial buildings. That should get you decently geared up to loot residential buildings for stuff like handguns, better backpacks, food/drinks and toolbelt items. Then you can move on to deerstands and maybe even stary. Probably the safest and quickest way to get okay gear.