DazTroyer

No you did the wrong thing imo, i would of just stayed low until they moved off. No one hangs about in Cherno for long. I have yet to kill anyone, I would in self defence and have had the opportunity to murder folk who have run past me in the woods, unaware I was even there. It still feels like a big deal to me, to kill in a video game that has guns. It's very odd and so refreshing. Games have been trying to add story and graphics to get your emotion going and Rocket gave us a mod that beats EVERYTHING hands down. I will kill one day, for sure and I'm not looking forward to it one bit.

Be a hermit and live in the woods. Trust no one, the cake is a lie...

I found one last night and before I was killed I searched every house and there was nothing in any of them, not even a rusty tin can?

It wasn't just no loot except empty cans though, it was nothing at all. I just thought maybe it was a hack as I got done in the back in an empty room while I was looking at the only door. Maybe the game just bugged out after all.

I had a mare getting it to work also, followed countless YouTube vids and I'm still not 100% sure why DayZcommander worked in the end, when it hadn't before. Your right about it being lonely but then I guess that is more "realistic", most folk shoot on sight so I hit the deck when I see them. It's about 50-50 on those I've met, killed or helped. Those that helped never stayed around for long, can't say I blamed them. Got done by a hacker that wasn't even in the room with me last night which pissed me off no end. It is fun, it is hard work for various reasons that shouldn't be even there but it's a mod after all. As for the rest, life is cheap....

About three miles east of Cherno and got sniper off the hospital roof, or one near it, as I entered town. Just suicide fella, I'd help but lost my kit last night.

Now i've not had this game long but i've already heard folk mention that the scares and tension i have felt now wont last as i get used to the game. So this is where i thought up the island, a reason to survive, team up and prepare for the toughest challenge yet. Now the Island, cliche i know, is far enough off the coast so as a normal boat can't get there and is only reach via a special forces combat boat. To find the boat you first have to find the man, randomly generated after you've been alive for say 25 days. He is a Nato troop (insert your prefered army here) with a blue cap, you may never find him but this would give folk a reason to keep alive and keep searching. On his person is a map and a key, once you find the key you have aprox 1 hr to find the boat marked on the map. This boat will take you and three buddies to the island, maybe some kind of sat nav on the boat would take you to the right place? On the Island, in the middle of the deep forest is a Nato base, there to try and contain the zed problem. There are the best medic and soldiers Nato has but all now zedz. Hopefully, because of the small team you have and the size of the island, the base the size of cherno there could be many more zeds than usual. They are wearing Hazmat suits or full combat armour etc, you will not be able to shoot your way out of this one so stealth or a gazzillion bullets is your only solution. Not only are they harder to drop, they are harder to lose and are more tenacious in there efforts to kill you. You have a set time on the island, boat is gonna blow up or something, i don't know just a reason to keep you hunting for loot as quick as possibly and get off alive. Thats the reson for the risk/reward trip, the loot. Off the top of my head, 50cal sniper rilfles, army rations that heal 500 blood or self heal serums that heal you completely etc. You name it, its there but very very rare, any super gun limited by very low ammo etc. Feel free to add to this idea, i've no idea how technically possible it is but then thats why im not game dev i guess. lol...

Folk just aren't very friendly, although I have met two that helped me out in a week or so of playing. It's best to team up I suppose but who do you trust? I avoid everyone like the plague but still got killed last night while looking for supplies.

Like folk have said, there are no friendly servers. The ones that say they are, well that's like shit to a fly.

If I haven't connected in a couple Mins, max I end the game and look for a new server.

Just when i was doing well, i had it made. I had food, been hunting for meat and cooked it, I had guns, drink and a bigger pack. I just need ammo for my shotty so went looking in a town, somewhere east of Vyshnoye i think. It had a church that i couldn't get in. Although i can't be sure. I'd been rumbled a few times by zeds but dealt with them with my axe, the odd thing about the town is there wasn't ANYTHING in the first five or six buildings, not a bean, not even an empty tin can. Nothing in any building what so ever in a whole town, Is that weird or what? Whilst in one building i heard a zed who shuffled in the door, so i backed my self up into a room and covered the door, there was only one way in and i was looking at it! Thats when i think i saw someone outside and got that sixth sense spider tingle. Just a glimps of someone moving around the building through the window. As i axed the zed i got hit from behind, three hits and that was it, out for the count from 11000 blood. I was a good few feet from the window so i can't see how he got me from there legit, there was no gun shot so im thinking an axe but i've no way of knowing. So that was it, two nights up in smoke.... GAME OVER!!!!..... :huh: :( >:(

After falling off the deer stand, yep that's me, I spawned in Cherno and scouted around for loot. I got chased by a prosession of zeds, more than once even having to hide in a small out house praying then never gltched through the doors. I was amazed that this time I found drink, food and a pistol/rifle. Then I went off in search of the hospital and on root got rumbled by yet more zeds that got me cornered down a dead end. Having to shoot my way out I made one hell of a racket but escaped with just a little health lost. I heard gun shots just as I spied the hospital, I wasn't alone! Of course without an axe or crowbar I had no option but to shoot out the hospital Widows then ran off to hide. A moment or two later, maybe I should of left it longer, I went in search of morphine and blood packs for the journey north. This is when the shit hit the fan, I walked out right into a zed, panicked and shot off a few rounds. Now was a good time to get out of Dodge. Now whoever was in town obviously heard me and the commotion and as I ran for the hills I could hear gun shots behind me. They weren't to close but as I left the zeds struggling up the hill I looked back but saw nothing. Running for the woods I heard yet more gun shots, this time real close, so I did my perfect Forest Gump impression and ran for my life. By the time I heard the last two shots he must of been within a hundred feet as I hit the deck and literally shit my pants. Please god not when I was so close to getting away with all I wanted... And that's where I bottled it and left the server. Never have I felt so nervous playing a blinking video game. Thank you Mr Hall, that was truly amazing. :)

This almost certainly saved my bacon, laying down to fiddle with the settings whilst in the woods i saw two guys run past me, followed by a third going from cover to cover behind them. If they weren't bandits, he probably was lol.

Brilliant read, very useful for someone like me coming over from the 360.

The tents are very close to the shore line, i spawned there once and could see them from the beach. There wasn't much there to be honest, lots of guns in a rack you couldn't pick up and no loot at all. I died not long after, nowt unusual there, lol.

Your getting a bit caught up in details, the boat could just have a bigger fuel tank after all. It could be a base on land, Rocket stated the other day at a Q&A that the Arma engine could do 500 square km. Have the area in a deep forest, it can be anything or anywhere in all reality. At the end of the day you can dress it up however you want but the idea of a base with special forces zeds in body armour means you don't have to go down the Left for Dead route to create tougher zeds. Then it gives players a reason to live longer, get better tooled up and find a good team to tackle getting in and out. Once you've survived past a certain point, where's the challenge to keep going?

Yeah that does worry me, some of my chases by zeds are in danger of becoming Benny Hill comedy moments. I wonder what Dean will do to keep it fresh?

lol. The DC was nooby but the previous time i'd died from falling off a deer stand, before that never lasted more than a few hours. Having done so well getting looted up i didn't want to die again. Thats where the nerves come in and make this game soooo cool.

I've been wanting to do this for so long I've got used to keyboard and mouse now. Not sure I'd want to change back but thanks for posting. It's such a MASSIVE jump from controller to keyboard I'm sure it will be useful to someone. :)

I will NEVER snipe someone unless they are shooting me and at that distance I'd be in the woods so it's easier to run. As for dc, i left and played Red Orchestra 2 as I was to nervous to play again. Lol

No definitely not, there are good guys out there. I've been helped twice and killed once and shot at once as I ran for the hills. Act how you would in real life, just trust no one and rob the odd corpse you come across. Lol

146 views and not one reply, well it was a special moment to me. Lol

Nice idea but once the bandits find out which server your on i don't fancy your chances. :)

I followed the video then used DayZcommander which worked fine for me. :)

i I had a mare getting it installed, ended up following some YouTube vids in the end and still it wouldn't work. DayZcommander got it running in the end but it's different for a Steam version to shop bought copy of Arma 2 combined ops. Try this....