TheSalamander

Yesterday I had the pleasure of playing with someone who was pretty new to the game. We ran around for a while and it was great fun sneaking around in the big cities on high pop and avoiding being murdered, and it got me thinking about the first few times I played and how frustrated I was, so here are some of the things that I wish someone had told me to make lone wolfing more fun. 1) When you spawn, you will be given a flashlight and a battery. Open your inventory and put that shit on the ground, because that is where it belongs. Light is death. If it's really too dark to see, turn your gamma up or change server. Same goes for other light sources. The only thing that paints a bigger target on your ass than firing a gun is turning on a light in a dark environment. Imagine the beam as a neon sign pointing directly to your position that reads: "Dear Bandits, please rape me." 2) If you are in a high pop server, crab-walk should be your fastest speed when anywhere near a building or place where there could be zombies, and a good deal of the time besides that. This means that inside a town or city you should never stand up. Not once. Not only will your character develop wicked thighs and glutes that would put Arnold to shame, you will avoid a lot of unnecessary zombie aggro. 3) Get strapped. It sounds like obvious advice, but I mean it. Right after you get a backpack and enough food and water to prevent you from keeling over in the next 15-20 minutes, you should go find a weapon, and I mean a gun. Pick up all the ammo you see and then ditch the extraneous calibers once you locate a weapon. Certain types are better than others to pick up right off the bat. The SKS and the Mosin have integral magazines, meaning you don't have to locate mags as well as ammo. 4) Once you have a gun on your back, it is a 99% certainty that you will be shot on sight, regardless of your intentions or protestations. The good news is, this is only a minor increase from the percentage certainty of being killed while unarmed. Yeah, I know. You wanted to make friends, but if you want to live your best chance is to either turn around and go the opposite way or ambush them. 5) At some point you are going to shoot someone. That's why you picked up the gun. When at range, always resist the urge to blaze away the moment you see exposed flesh. He might have friends that you haven't spotted yet. Wait. Breathe. He hasn't seen you yet. Take your time to collect yourself, tamp down some of that excess adrenaline, and make a plan. Make sure your mags are topped off. Pop some painkillers if your aim is unsteady. Allow your character time to catch his breath. Wait for them to stop moving. THEN shoot. 6) You can either track down every shard of the map and piece it together with crazy glue, or you can use the map at DayZDB. I would recommend doing the latter, because very few people have the luxury of living long enough to discover all the maps. Just make sure you're in a safe place when you alt+tab. 7) Don't try to gear up on high-pop servers. A lone wolf can only watch one sector at a time. It will end in tears. 8) Knives, machetes, hammers, wrenches, and pretty much anything besides the good old splitting axe is useless as a melee weapon. You might as well use your fists. 9) When in high pop servers, always assume there is a sniper in every treeline and in every window. Hugging the walls will keep you out of open spaces which and potential kill-zones, provided you have the good sense and luck to pick the right walls to hug. 10) The serpentine is not a joke. It works. Bob and weave. Zig and zag. Many would-be bandits cannot shoot worth half a good god damn. At ranges beyond two hundred meters it can make you extremely difficult to hit. Conversely, standing still will get you killed every time. 11) Ate bad food? Charcoal tablets. Need health? Blood bags. Need to wake somebody up? Epi-pen or saline drip. Broken bones? Splints and morphine. Took two swigs of disinfectant? Sorry old bean, you're fucked. 12) Unless you are desperate, avoid most of the residential houses. They have shit loot, lots of windows to get shot or seen through, and few exits.. Red buildings and anything with two stories is good luck, even if you can't actually go upstairs. 13) Realize that in the end, unless you have a large amount of patience, you will probably end up looking for a group. The life of the lone wolf is highly unforgiving. Without someone to call your name and ring their hands over your unconscious body, you are always one mistake away from death.

I don't hoard all ammo, just certain types. Mostly stanags and large caliber rifle cartridges. There's nothing better than running across an M4 and realizing you have over 200 rounds for it.

My friend had his Teamspeak PTT button on middle mouse button if you can believe it. He happened to be walking around, disinfecting weapons and dead bodies like a post-apocalyptic Mr. Clean or something, and he accidentally took not one but two swigs. Apparently it compounds in severity similar to food poisoning, although the symptoms are still the same. His whole vision went blurry and he was dead inside of fifteen minutes.

Every time I open DayZ Commander, it causes a crash after less than a minute. It is one of those blue screens that say "Windows has stopped working, dumping physical memory to disk", and displays an error message with a (0x000000000e1) address. I'm wondering if anyone has had the same problem. I will write down the full error message if it happens again.

Come and enjoy our mixed nuts, fruits and berries. All types, all sizes, all sorts. A dollar a pound, and we give out a free tub of with every sixth handfull. (limited time only)

And I'm sure that stinging moral indictment will keep us awake long into the night... (not)

Your admin should have told you this server provides customized loadouts to donators when you came in. He knew about it, ask him. Just because you weren't told and were too dumb to either look at the admin ticker in sidechat or check the forums does not mean that "admin abuse" took place (a highly subjective term anyway). Only a poor marksman blames his failures on his gear. You had every chance to get out of that castle, but you stayed there and let an 8 man squad hand you your ass on a silver platter. I don't know why you're even bitching, "bro", you're not on the whitelist anymore so it's not like you're going to have to worry about a D/S fireteam reearranging your shit anytime soon.

Don't let my dick hit you on the nose on the way out.

Just because we are ten thousand times more high speed than your "Kill3r Kr3w", doesn't mean you have to get all butthurt. Nobody is teleporting, Ninja does not spawn gear for people in TS except when we are having a weekend event and are blowing the shit out of each other. If you want a loadout, donate. If you don't like how we do business, leave. It's that simple.

Found it on the ingame browser, but it just flashes "Waiting for Host" and boots me back in about a second. Gives me the "you cannot play/edit this mission" error.

Cant find you on DayZ Commnader

Hey Zerero. Zerero. Hey. Hey Zerero. Hey. Heeeeeeeey. (You're a penis.)

Great server. When I came on they were staging an event where they geared out some of their clan as "bandits", picked up the rest of the server in hueys and dropped them into the killzone to fend for themselves. The person who got the kill, got the gear. Mostly we blundered around in the dark and shot each other, but all round it was good fun. I will be back in the future.

Friends, countrymen, bandits. Take a good look gentlemen: She's seen you through many long nights, and many mornings long in coming. When the darkness closed in around you like a velvet blanket, her thermal white sight kept you safe and slew the jealous enemy trying to raid your campsite. I don't ask for a lot of things in life, but I do ask for this: I want my beans. I want my Huey. I. Want. My. Fitty. Cal. So if you think as I think, if you feel as I feel, then I ask you to join me in rejecting the Redditors and the casuals who say that if we just de-militarized the game, it would be easier. If only we took out NVGs and military weapons, and equipped everyone with double barrels and Winchesters, then the game would be perfect. Since when has DayZ been about what's "fair" or whats "easy"? I'm all for balance. That's what the standalone is going to address in the short term: item spawns, zombie spawns, hacking. Those are the things that are screwing with your playing experience, not high-grade military gear. If Rocket removes that (which I don't for a moment believe he will), the motivation to go inland will largely evaporate. If a piece of enemy equipment causes you trouble, your first instinct should not be to remove it, it should be to alter your strategy. As the game goes standalone, Rocket is going to come under a lot of pressure to do things like this. He should resist that pressure.

Drop me a PM if you're interested. Dayz Name: Matthew How long have you played Dayz: Several months Time Zone: Pacific Daylight Time (California) Age: 18 PvP experience: I'm not a stone cold killer, but if you just assume you can get the drop on me you won't be walking away alive. Favorite Gun/Combo: I don't play favorites. Something chambered in 5.56 in my hands plus a really big scoped rifle in my backpack. That's how I roll. Team Experience: Well versed in team movement, radio communication, contact identification, range and direction. I also play well with others. Go figure. How familiar with the map are you?: Very familiar with Chernarus, moderately well aquainted with Takistan and Lingor. Do you know how to use grid coords/ Compass bearings?: Yes and yes.

I would be willing to trade a rangefinder and NVGs for the launcher and ammo. Is this Takistan or Lingor?

The good people of Chernarus would be able to call in reinforcments and kinetic strikes from orbit. Hackers would become a thing of the past. Who cares about spawinging in a G36c if you can level Cherno in one salvo? Oh, and Corp Infiltration. *evil grin*

What map do you play most?

I can't join one of my favorite servers anymore, the US Have Fun private hive. I get stuck on loading, even when I can do Lingor and Takistan just fine. They recently got whitelisting, I don't know whether that would affect it or not.

The dev's haven't brought me milk and cookies OR a bedtime story! You guys are sooo incompetent wharblegarblegarble *foaming at mouth*

Rule of thumb for rigs: Buy the parts seperately, buy them from someone who will put them together for you (they're all over the web). You will spend 1000 dollars and get 5000 or more in value. Alienwares are for suckers, and Dell is counting on you to be a sucker. Please dissapoint them. It would make my day. I know computer parts might not make you scream with excitement, but you are making a big purchase. Might as well do some research on exactley what goes into delivering those delicious framerates we all love so much.

Tonight was pretty cool. Really opened my eyes to how great this game can be if you've got friends and perserverance. There's was a sort of critical ratio when my DayZ buddies (none of whom I know IRL) start inviting their buddies, and pretty soon there's only two people on the whole server we're NOT skyping with. We start out intending to betray one of our own for his NVGs and shit, but that never really happens. We get picked up in a GAZ just south of the airfield and head up the main access road, only to be anally fucked by two dickheads named Landon and Dylan, who then proceeded to taunt us the rest of the game in sidechat. We exchanged some delicious verbal abuse over mics. I experienced having to run across the entire map, which was an experience in discipline, to be sure. I realized I have gotten really fucking good at navigating without an ingame map to supply a location. This time we got picked up in a heli, which was an amazing experience. In Arma 2 riding helicopters was like riding the bus, no big deal, but now that it can all be taken away at a moment's notice, it imbues it with a special quality. I logged out much wealthier than when I logged in, which I did not expect at all. You really have to make your stashspots in this game and hide 'em good so you have something to fall back on when you die. Lastly, let me relate the story of my second death ever to you. I was still alone at this time, trying to hack it by myself. I had found a tent, a lee enflield and a ton of food and water, and my intent was to go up into the hills above cherno and hide out. I'm in the top floor of a barn when I log in, it's pitch black. I'm still new at this point, and stupidly I don't turn up gamma, I pop a chemlight. Bang. Right through the fucking head. Looks like someone else was in my hiding spot. At least I scared the shit out of him.

I'm Matthew ingame, and this is server is where I hang my hatchet. Kinda surprised to see an admin kerfufle happening. It seemed amiable enough when I was on, I even gave out a few free chopper rides with no incidents, which is fucking unheard of. I honestly hope neither of these allegations is true, because nothing ruins a server faster than hackers and/or butthurt admins. (Sup Bandito)

Yeah, NOW you do, because Valve sells most of those copies via Steam where they are bundled at discount prices. Not the case when the standalone was released.

Uh, no...? You don't? They are seperate games.