sostronk

Im new. I play with a number of new players as well (kind of). What I see from new players is they head for electro or cherno "because its the only way to get good loot". Players who have been playing for a while sit outside cherno and electro and kill said players. I learnt this fairly quickly. I don't go near cherno or electro, I head north and pick up what I need along the way. If you hit up the first 3 towns north of the coastal towns you have almost everything you need. Barns will give you moderate weapons like shotties and CZ550s and once you find a water bottle, hunting knife, matches and a hatchet you should never go hungry or thirsty. Once your done there you can hit up deer stands for an AK, map, compass and GPS and then onto airfields and military barracks for the higher end weapons. It seems like people come into and stick in this game that the only way to get reasonable loot is by running suicide missions through Cherno and Electro. I don't get it. Not much point in having this loot if you die 5 minutes later. This is a survival game and your playing it in the biggest killing zones in the game.

Make sure you find Morphine asap. Broken leg is the worst experience in this game imo. You have a chance to survive, but you might just bleed out without ever being able to find morphine. Remember not to prone through doorways, there is a bug that will break your legs this way. Always walk through doorways!

Dont know if its hacked. But if it is it doesn't matter. Rocket has said you will not be banned for picking up and using a hacked weapon. Only the people who hacked the weapon originally can be banned.

Id like to point out that Im new to this game. I fell in love with it instantly and only play this game now. But what I am seeing are some really massive problems that are going to be quite time consuming and difficult to deal with in order to get this game to the stage of being a stand alone game like Rocket has envisaged. The game is great and appeals to a large audience. but put aside your love for the game for a moment and try to ask yourself this question honestly, do you really think this game will ever be a standalone game and achieve what Rocket wants it to become?

There is an issue I have with this. If a bandit runs in a pack (2 or more), they can easily neutralise their "humanity" by healing/bandaging/bloodbagging etc each other. In fact I think bandits would gain more if it was a simple kill = bandage scenario. Perhaps it could be resolved by balancing the points scale. I like the idea though.

I think it would be devestating to the game. Not being able to use this bug means that snipers can pretty much lock down some cities.

Its difficult to learn to play whilst being spawn camped by experienced players. I hear that hacks are rampant in this game and it has made the learning curve easier for some people. Also this thunderdome seems to lose all that gear for some of those snipers camping spawns.

TBH I think tents are way too easy to find. Not necessarily because of placement either. What is the go? Is this intended? Is this going to be the end aim that tents can be raided constantly and looted? Ill admit though, I had a really hard time with snipers in this game spawn camping me. When I see a tent that is full of gear, I raid the carp out of it because its usually one of those snipers that has had a good time spawn camping me or killing me and not even bothering to loot my body for the hatchet. It feels like justice, but unclear justice.

So I started over. My plan is to gtfo of Cherno and head for the hills. Ive picked up all I need to hunt. Im out of my most hated city. But the box of matches are limitless right? They seem to have a tough spawn % chance. Im not going to cook some meat and find out it is only good for one use? I don't think I can survive north if I have to get a box of matches everytime I need to eat.

Thanks. Yeah I had a look at the wiki, but it doesn't seem to specify that its limitless... at least not on the box of matches information page... http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/Box_of_Matches

I have a hatchet. If I die I lose a hatchet. If I get you, you lose a dmr.

How does this vary from regular DayZ?

Long story short. Im a noob in a noob clan that never played ARMA2 and we have come across to play this game. Would like to rent a server and have it passworded whilst we learn, eventually open it up to a community of clans by announcing the password and then eventually making it a public server. Im told it has to be "hive connected", Ive no idea what this means but I get the idea. Are rented servers that are password protected connected to the hive or do they have to be open to anyone to save progress etc?

I did the same. Unfortunately I was teleported on a low blinking food icon and no food. Looks like I might die at this stage from starvation but I kept all my gear. If I manage to get some food it will be worth it.

Ive found quite a few legit ones (not bait tents). Don't try too hard, half of them have had very little in them. But one or two of them are full of military grade weapons, nvgs, maps, blood packs, gps....pretty much everything you need. The best ones ive found have actually been in water, which i thought strange. But apparently you dont lose items in water now.

Ive never come across a game with so many hackers before. Last night im getting teleported across the map to places with everyone else on the map so a couple of guys can rape the entire server with machine guns. Im see people spawn tanks, weapons and choppers instantly. Im seeing people sprint at speeds much faster then I can move. Its hard enough with the disparity in weapons. I intended on playing this game legitimitely but it appears the only way I can actually survive in this game for a reasonable period of time is by hacking myself. Should I?

Wrong. I have been doing some research. BE recently had a wave of bans (about 1 week ago). Now those same hacks have a new bypass and are up and running in servers.

I am about to die to this. I was spawned in the middle of nowhere. I disconnected when the firing started. I am low on food and I think Im going to starve to death. Should have just let them kill me.

I would prefer retail game purchase, but honestly, I think a well structured FTP model would be much more profitable. But if its not well structured it wouldn't be worth it.

I just did and I caught on very quickly.

If PvP is the only thing worth doing in this game, why aren't people just playing ARMA 2 instead of DayZ.

I disagree that this game is failing. But I do believe it is making alot of new players turn away because it is rediculously hard to start out in this game with no weapon whilst players who have been playing for some time are sitting waiting to spawn camp you with 50 cals. Alot of people don't care, they are happy to do this to new players, just be aware though, its going to turn alot of new players away and create a bad mentality within the game.

Random broken bones in doorways have to be the most frustrating bug Ive encountered in this game thus far. I was in a similar situation. I had no morphine. Crawled for kms and randomly stumbled across a tent. They had morphine. I took it and a host of other things. Next I get a message saying server will reset in 1 minute. I walk away after resorting to theft to stay away. Server disconnects me. Back to broken bones crawling around in the middle of nowhere. Spent about two hours dieing. I tried to get Zombies to kill me but for some reason they don't like me and keep giving up attacking me. I spend over two hours dieing and eventually managed to stand up with G key so I could get an aggro zombie to kill me. Glad its alpha.

Thanks for the replies. Sucks to live in Australia right now, servers for AUS/NZ are always 45+/50. Its difficult just to get off the coast with 50cal barret whielding ghillie suits sit along there waiting for some noob with nothing but a hatchet. Nightime is pretty much impossible because then those ghillie suits have night vision goggles on. :/ Guess Ill have to get used to playing this solo until my clan can get better.