Hysterics

So you could theoretically find a private server that you could have your Tent setup on, or a Vehicle simply for it's backpack slots? Log in there to store things, and then go to other servers to play/loot? Also you say Tents are glitchy, how are Vehicles? I saw that certain vehicles have storage space in them, so if they're less glitchy, could they be used to store things more securely? If that works I'd love to find a private server to join and just use a vehicle as a storage facility, a lot less of a chance of having it broken into on a smaller private server right? Any help or opinions on this type of thing is really appreciated.

Please do new players a favor and never say "Loot is random" Loot is very very very far from being random in this game. It's actually incredibly specific. :\ I understand you're trying to help, but when I was told loot was random, the first thing that popped into my head was "Ok so avoid big cities and populated area's, I'll have just as good a chance finding stuff in area's with less chances to die." which isn't really the case. I've gone into a couple of the big cities since figuring that out and gathered a lot of gear.. Last time before I died I had a 24slot backpack, gps, a sniper rifle and a great assault rifle, a bunch of food, drinks, and morphine/bloodbags etc.. Sure you can find that stuff all over, but not in decent quantities.. Also screw maps/GPS haha.. I got killed while checking them. :( Trying to encourage some friends to play, would be awesome to run around as a group

Is there a way to stash items somewhere outside of my inventory? I have an Alice Pack and recently raided one of the big towns, got a lot of survival stuff like blood packs and food, water bottles etc, but my packs are completely full. I've heard people making Camps before, but how does that work with the servers, leaving and joining etc, and I don't know how often servers restart, any of those mechanics... Do I pretty much keep what I have on me and that's it, and is the Alice pack the biggest?

But just for the record, I am having fun with it now, although I really think that Arma is a terrible platform for this kind of mod. I hate using the scroll wheel to interact with the world, that's a really poor system, and the way you pick items up is very sloppy and hard to manage if you have stuff chasing you.. I'm more disappointed with how badly Arma implements things than I am with DayZ, for a mod it's pretty awesome. I wish some things were more tweaked, but meh.

Ok even after reading the forums a bit, and a new player guide, I had no clue you could use a hatchet as a weapon, I would assume that if you picked up a hatchet while not holding a gun, it would equip it as a weapon. I am pretty damn sure I even tried going into my inventory and clicking to get it as a weapon... Might be wrong there. I think the first time I found one I was stil confused about there being no natural melee attacks, can't use your fists or even shove a zombie close range when you're in a narrow hallway or going down stairs ( Which is honestly one of my biggest beefs, I've died three times now simply because a single zombie blocked me in a dead end corridor. There's no skill or lack of skill or noobiness there, you take a wrong turn not knowing every inch of every building, and end up getting blocked in, if you have no weapons you're dead plain and simple. There's on building that I've seen a few times, like a low value industrial shed I think, has stairways to a second level, but no floor on the second level just a walkway along the inside edge of the building raised up a floor, If you walk up those stairs with zombies following you, you're dead. They're too narrow to backtrack, with zombies behind you, as their bodies simply block you from moving past them. It's super lame, and although I've learned to avoid that building/stairs there are other similar area's all over the place. Also you guys, call me a noob all you want, but it makes zero sense for zombies to get confused when you walk inside of buildings. Sure it's easy to get away from them, but if you haven't been told that the AI is super glitchy and rather dumb then you would just assume that they would continue after you.... Same deal with jumping into small bushes. It doesn't make any sense but you guys all act like anyone who doesn't know that, or rather, any new player who doesn't RISK THEIR LIVES JUMPING ON TO THE GROUND FOR NO GIVEN REASON is a complete tard. Just wait one damned second, as a new player, with no clue how the game mechanics work, think about it, when being chased by rather fast zombies, going into the fetal position on the ground seems more like a suicide notion than anything else. Even after I was told on these forums, I didn't try it right away because I had a weapon at that point, I waited until I died again and then started practicing it, and it seems like 50% of the time I can evade zombies by simply pressing Z as you run through a bush. The other half of the time you get nailed at least two or three times before you can start running again. Pretty lame considering you can start to bleed or have bones broken this way. Maybe I just need to practice more, but yeahhh.. Also, when it comes down to respawning, and taking all that time to reload the game, why can't you people consider that dying sucks, and that as a new player you don't feel like toying around with game mechanics when there's a good chance it will kill you and waste a lot of your time... You try and find something solid that you can rely on, rather than something flakey that -might- work. Oh and as far as looking in the wrong places go, when you're new, and unaware of how items spawn, you try and avoid zombies, you look in the easier spots to loot, these easier spots have significantly less loot... That's just how it works. So yeah, this game is very unfriendly for new players, and when a new player has been bashing their had against the brick wall that is the learning curve of this game, and they make frustrated obviously angry posts, they just get uninformative dipshits like you guys calling them noobs and morons. Which I find hilarious considering how terrible most of the game mechanics are, imo you would have to be a half baked moron to try most of the things that I've been told to do without any prior knowledge... As I've said before, it makes no sense that falling into the fetal position in a bush, when a half dozen zombies are chasing you, saves your life. :P To me that's suicide, but in DayZ it's the difference between living and dying. Cool story bro.

First of all, I did watch a tutorial video, linked from the main website, where the guy said "all loot is random" he didn't explain that certain buildings always have a higher percentage of loot, which, in my opinion, ISN'T FUCKING RANDOM. I've never played a game of this style that doesn't have some form of Melee. When I first started up I thought my keybinds were broken, I didn't even know whether I'd be able to shoot if I DID find a weapon. I actually did read a couple tutorials, nothing of this is mentioned because after you've played for awhile it's just a given. Thanks though. I also didn't realize how fucking retarded zombies were, sorry for having high fucking expectations. I thought maybe ya know, they wouldn't be ridiculously stupid, and ya know, might figure out that things just don't disappear into a separate dimension when they jump through a fucking bush. Sorry. I guess I should have realized how fucking stupid and low quality that scripting was. My bad. Also, I find it fucking ridiculously hilarious how a single zombie can block staircases. As if I'd just stand there and let the thing smash on me rather than pushing through it to get by. Awesome game mechanics, again, you're all right, I'm a complete fucking noob because I didn't realize how terrible the coding of the -original- game was, on top of how poorly implemented the tutorials are for this mod. Honestly, I'm having a bit of fun now, I've figured most things out, using the cheat maps... Abusing the poor game mechanics... Yeah... Well I spent 30$ on Arma I'm going to at least get something out of it. But seriously, you're all dicks. Edit: Except Zap.