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You get a murder mark against you, if you kill some one else with out them hitting you (may have to be first). I've killed three people this playthrough and I can assure you all three were actively trying to kill me. One shot at me first and missed, which gave me time to fire back and kill him. Another tried to hunt me down with an assault rifle, but luckly I suckered him into a passageway where I could gernade him. And the last hit me in the back with an axe and I manage to shoot him point blank with a shotgun. I only have 2 counted murders because the axe guy was the only one who actually hit me. I'm a little bit disapointed with the system because many of the weapons (even the axe) can easily kill in their first hit, and your a murderer if you don't allow them to at least hit you once.

Best tips I can give: * biggest hint: get used to using the numpad for camera control while stealthing. It gives a great deal of awareness and allows you to track zombies without changing which way your character is moving. * Prone is much more effective then crouch-walking. * There is a major noise difference between walking and running. * The surface you are moving on makes a big difference, only crouch-run on grass safely. * Zombies' eye-sight is a lot better then it use to be, so line of sight is more important. * Zombies seem to be attracted to movement and sound, I've stood still before and had one walk a foot away from me with out aggroing. * Zombies can be distracted with flares, lights, and smoke gernades. Throw them if you want to quickly get past a lot of them. * Lots of people like stealthing in prone because its more effective, but if you stealth in crouch-walk and you pull aggro, you can instantly switch to a full run to loose the zombies, while if you're prone you have to come to a complete stop in order to switch to a run, which many times will cause you to get hit. * Like many others have said, many times it is better to just run past zombies and enter buildings (with two exits) to loose them. My philosophy in early game is to "enter towns fast and leave slow". Gear wise you have little to lose early game, and if you know what you are doing you can quickly get into towns, loose zombies, raid gear, and then slowly work your way out to avoid getting tailed by zombies or other players.

Would never kill an unarmed player unless they were harassing or threatening me in some way. Wouldn't even kill an armed player most of the time unless they see me and are advancing in my direction, or I happen to trip over a sniper in a bush ... in which case I would put a bullet in his brain ASAP and maybe even corpse camp him. People act like gearing a character is hard, but I can get fully geared with food, water, tools, and a primary & secondary weapon in about an hour.