S1ippery Jim

I actually don't find DayZ any more 'hardcore' than survival on Minecraft. In fact, in many ways the two games are very similar.

Cool one star for this thread! That's generous considering how bad my cycling skills are hahahaha!

You need to install and use the beta

Actually no, I would like to spawn with a single hand grenade. The coastal Bean Wars just got fun XD

A single can of Mountain Dew... If you get thirsty, do you drink it, or keep it mint? These are the questions that define us.

AKMs are everywhere. I prefer them over the M16

Erm no, but your way sounds smart. My character was on Day 15, after a lot of stealth ninja gameplay and when I found a working bus I was so deliriously happy that I drove into Berezino honking the horn, crashed into a burnt out truck in the town square and got shot by a bandit for my troubles.

I find it hard to believe you looted a hospital and never found bandages, yet you found a GPS. But yeah. thats pretty F'ing unusual.

I find if you flash your flashlight really really fast on and off in the face of a hostile you have a 1 in 4000 chance that they will have a seizure and you will be able to escape to safety. Not sure if this works on Zombies though.

Because if you don't you have a 1 in 6 chance of getting shot on sight by whoever you meet next. To put it another way, would you take an unloaded revolver, put a single bullet in it, spin the barrel, point it at your head and pull the trigger? Because thems the odds if you try to be friendly with strangers in DayZ. To survive the longest you need to avoid others or shoot on sight.

A lot has been made of starting with no gun, but personally I find guns and ammo all over the place now (maybe too many guns). Within literally 10 mins of my first game (I went straight to Cherno supermarket and then firestation) I found a double barrelled shotgun, makarov and then a Kobra AK. What I miss most is Morphine, followed closely by my precious beans and water bottle. Especially if I spawn at Kamenka. I suspect a lot more people who spawn a long way from Cherno or Elektro are going to suicide now. As a side point, occasionally when I have spawned in the sea and had to swim to shore (near Kamenka) it has been easy to find suicided bodies with beans and drink to restore my health but now if I ever end up in the sea again its probably game over. And yes I do have the beta patch installed and working...

That unarmed man could find a weapon and kill you with it later...plus he has a nice shiny flashlight in his backpack. I like shiny things

Well I fell off the roof of the hospital in Cherno yesterday and IRL I would have died but only broke my leg in DayZ...

Flashlights are the new beans

Yeah I spawned in the sea once with the beta patch after putting on the Cammo outfit, swam to shore still had my pack and everything in it but nothing in inventory...after that one time it didn't happen again, its somewhat unpredictable. I have never experienced any difficulties with changing player appearance though.

I logged back in after the update in the same spot with the same weapons. I would imagine your issue is server related

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You should start losing blood akin to flashing thirst if you go out of bounds

That is all

"DayZ Xtreme Camping simulator" hahaha! This is why they (read: Rocket) need to introduce roaming bands of Zombies and hostile beasts (wolves are my preference) in the woods.