Alkador

Had a solid trade with : Citizen X took some time but smooth sailings after that.

I actually watched these when I started out a bit back, good stuff.

Mr Fleshy, Pm is sent.

Fresh from a helicopter crash, my buddies and I recovered a Bizon and 5 mags. Willing to trade it off, open for offers. Serious offers only please.

Hah, I've played with British folk before! You could try and get in contact with Oldy1Kenobi, see if he will accept you in his group? I myself am really looking for an established group, not a single person, but of course thanks for your reply.

Hi there, after playing for about a month I'm now looking for a group of steady DayZ players to hook up with. Solo play has lost its charm so to speak. Usually I roam with a RL mate of mine but he doesn't play that often. I'm an easy going player, 25 years old. I always give out a warning when I meet other players. Got some reasonably good gear, played the Operation Flashpoint series back in the day so I'm comfortable with the game mechanics. My timezone is GMT+1 and I'm usually around at after dinner hours (19:00 - 23:00). I have a microphone/Team speak, access to a TS server so communication is not a problem. I'm a proficient English speaker, native Dutch and a bit of German as well. I don't care about the nationality of the group's members or their age. Any questions; feel free to ask.

**Update** Okay, so instead of starting a new post, I decided I'd just update my original: After using the posted tips and tactics I got myself an AK 74 from a deer stand and later some food and two canteens! I wandered for a while until running into another player. He didn't see me, was like 10 meters distance max, I shouted 'friendly' twice, the second time he noticed me and opened fire. I managed to kill him and looted his gear (Vowing I would never shout friendly twice ;) He had an alice pack, an akm, ammo, meds and a knife and matches. I struggled on (being severely wounded, no blood pack cause I had no buddies) and hunted in the woods for meat. Alas, the bunnies eluded me and the big game was nowhere to be found! Desperate for food (I was starving now) I snuck into a town and found a small parcel, turned out to be a ghillie suit. Still, no food. After several hours (two seperate sessions) getting myself together I joined up with two friends, chatting for a bit. Suddenly we were approached by two guys with some sort of military uniforms, military weapons sitting on a motorcycle of sorts. They didn't kill us, invited us in a bloody helicopter and dropped us near a fenced of camp of five tents, told us that we were free to take what we wanted. I swapped my Akm for an ak-cobra something, nifty scope. I had loaned my .45 pistol to a friend, so I decided to take a colt 1911. I stacked up on ammo, meds and food, thanked the German military men and headed off with my buddies. Now, quite some time later, I feel a bit lost! I have a ghillie suit, a scoped ak and eight magazines, a colt with 4 magazines, meds, food, canteens and all the tools. Now I have kinda lost my goal.. its actually gotten so bad I'm halfway hoping to meet someone. I found a Quad yesterday in full working order, raced pretty much from east to west over the road, dodging Zeds and shouting wildly. No players though. I felt kinda lucky to have survived that, but a part of me wishes I had been shot, so I'd be forced to gather gear again ;) I thought about perhaps helping out stragglers, but I have no way of locating them (Is there perhaps some sort of Radio function I missed?) Or perhaps go to military loot spots, try for the even bigger guns? Or go bandit, relieve my survivor trauma on hapless travelers. >=) So, after my little tale, perhaps someone has some good suggestions?

Thanks for the replies, some useful insights there! Here's hoping the next encounter wil be less violent ;)

A friend of mine told me about DayZ, I watched him play it a few times and being no small fan of Zombie Post Apocalpyse stuff I found the whole concept quite interesting. (On top of that I used to play Operation Flashpoint back in the day, so it felt familiar as well.) I'll describe my first try, hoping for some feedback and tips from the more veteran players out there! (perhaps you?) So after reading up on all the new player tutorials and guides I started my first try. Spawned near Elektrosomesuch, sneaked into a random house and nearly got murdered by a Zed after grabbing a pepsi. Decided to follow the hints and went to the barn a bit north to find a weapon. After some clumsy sneaking I found myself a Winchester shotgun, a hatchet and a scoped rifle (Cz something). Not being able (or wanting) to choose I tried to stuff the Cz into my backpack but it ended up dissapearing on me. Anyway, my buddy told me I was lucky finding two rifles in one barn so I decided to suck it up and head further north, to the next barn near Topolka dam. On the way there I aggro'd a bunch of zeds and ended up killing nine of them, cursing at the waste of ammo. The second barn held some bandages and ammo, but not much else. Having read and heard warnings about 'The North' being pvp frenzy I decided to avoid the north-west. But I had to go somewhere, so I checked the map and headed to the deer stand north-east, near Msta. Halfway sprinting through the woods I was baffled to run into another player, I reckon he was as well as we stood there for a good few seconds just staring at each other, rifles up. Then he shot and hit me, I shot back and hit him but alas, after a brief firefight my first attempt at DayZ ended in a bloody mess. I was actually quite shocked, a good two and a half hours ended in an inglorious death. So after a bit of sulking I decided to give it another try, spawned pretty much on the same spot, went to the same barn north of Elektro finding a hatchet.. then went to the barn north of there, finding another.. four hachets. And now I'm somewhat lost.. checking the map shows me there's mostly towns around me, which I'm not equipped nor skilled enough to handle. So, should I head to the east and hope for a crashed helicopter, or retry my failed plan and head North-east to the deer stand? Or.. What would be a good course of action here?