ZePlague

Well I have a mic at home, just not at work when I play on my lunch break (like now) I really wish they'd let you have two characters so I could have a serious one and one to goof off with when I'm at work. I'll check out the website tonight when I have time.

It's rather tempting to hook up with you guys but I don't really have the time to dedicate a lot of it to this game. How are you guys with casuals? I have a 60 hour/week job and a girlfriend that takes up most of my time when I'm not working. I do get a couple days a week though I can zone out on video games for a few hours and enjoy this one (as frustrating as it can get) and when I'm at work on my lunch break playing I don't have a microphone. So just not sure how I would fit in.

It seems that I'm usually dead within the first hour of playing. At first it was because of zombies but I quickly learned how to completely avoid them. The last dozen or so deaths have been directly from players. When I spawn, I can get into one of the coastal towns, get the essentials to survive, and get off the coast. But it never fails, someone who has spent a ton of time in the game finds me, mows me down, and laughs in my face about it. Most of the time while I'm in one of the coastal cities trying to find supplies, I get sniped from a mile away as a non-threat with nothing of value on my corpse. It seems people have nothing in the game to do except kill newbies. They realize that when all the newbies rage they won't have anyone easy to pick off anymore right? So how do you survive long enough to do anything in this game? I understand there is no "end game" and these players who have everything have nothing better to do but I'd really like to explore more of the game and find some of the better items. I even tried to join an empty server but I guess that attracts even bigger d-bags as someone joined on the empty server I was on and somehow slayed me. Does anyone have any advice?

I'll follow this advice, thanks.

Ok another silly question. Didn't want to start a new thread. How do you know who killed you so you can hope to get revenge in the future? And what's the point of multiple profiles if you can't have multiple characters? Just so you can change your name and avoid the revenge after killing someone for no reason? I was hoping to play on a character by myself on breaks at work and have a separate one to play with my friend who just got the game too but I don't want to split up from his location when we log out together.

Thanks guys I'll try to be stealthier

I see where people say "My character was XXX days old" How do you get this information?

Never noticed that, thanks :)