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Negative, Red Leader. I said it right here:

I have had best luck avoiding bandits by using Private Hive servers, with veteran skill level and 3DP and CH off. I still get shot, but it is at a more realistic (imho) level. Not just EVERY TIME SOMEONE SEES ME FIRST. I think not having any of the crutches really keeps the talentless assholes out. On private hive, they can't server-hop. On veteran skill level they can't scan the bushes until your name lights up. 3dp off, they can't see you around corners without exposing themselves. CH off, they can't pull off crazy hip-shots if you happen to stumble into each other in close-quarters somewhere. I still get shot time to time, but it is not the same frustration. It's still wrong-place wrong-time, but not constant.

I'm prepared. I'm prepared to be delicious.

Redemption is a hard road. Good luck, but don't expect much help or sympathy along the way.

I haven't found a hacker-crate, but I did find one that had several dozen magazines for the G36. I haven't seen a G36 in the game yet. I was a new spawn, so I filled my pockets and patrol pack with them and carried them. I left them in a huge pile in one of the Balota hangars.

I do not have issue with the location of the spawns, I like that nubs are on the south and (at least mostly) the experienced folk are up north. However I agree that the spawn needs a story. There needs to be a reason you're where you are. Not just "I suddenly appeared on a beach...mysteriously I'm packing a bottle of ibuprofen and a band-aid, but I don't have any weapon and I can't use my fists." Maybe you wake up in the hospital. Maybe you wake up in a house, that you can assume is yours. Maybe you're on a train. Who knows, there's lots of potential ideas in a sandbox this big. But a little story lead-in for each spawn would be pretty cool. Maybe randomly, you could spawn as a police officer who barricaded himself in a station. This would allow the option of spawning with a weapon, because it would make sense for you to have one.

I like this idea. Edible vegetation, including some poisonous. No indication as to which are safe, unless you already know. Naturally there'd be some obvious "easy picks" of recognizable vegetation, bell peppers or tomatoes or whatever. But there could also be berries and whatnot that are poisonous. The health benefit of eating vegetation would have to be small, though. Maybe 10 or 20 blood restored for eating a piece of fruit. To survive on eating plants, you have to be a grazer. That's just real, bruh.

I don't think we should start with a gun. I do wish you could punch zombies in the face, though. Being absolutely defenseless just because you don't have a weapon is quite unrealistic.

Sniped. In Solnichniy of all places. My best friend was low on blood and got swiped by a zombie, knocked unconscious. I was standing over him getting an epi-pen out of my bag to wake him up, and I got sniped by what sounded like an M-16 at a hundred meters or so. He finished off my friend, too. My wife was with us, she ducked inside the building we were near and ran out the back door and got away.

This comparative is an insult to the honest, hardworking cock-chugging marksman in the world.

OMG THERE ARE DOGS?

You guys burn a lot of ammo. on zombies even. One shot one kill bruh.

Matches spawn quite often, in the supermarket in Cherno. I always look for them there, and am rarely disappointed.

Found a crash site on a server last week, was anti-climactic for me and my buddy. There was no loot, probably it was already looted. it was exciting, though, in that we'd never seen one before. The chopper had taken out some trees on the way down, the detail in the modeling of the crash was impressive.

Best thing to do here is to note where you spawn (it will say in lower right of screen for a second or two when you load in). Then, use one of the numerous online maps to plot a course to something, say a town. Eventually landmarks will be clear and you'll know where you are exactly, and where stuff is. Every major town has road signs. It's not rocket-science, but it does take work.

You may very well have killed me. That may have been you last night! Sniped, trying to revive my traveling companion with an epi-pen. But there have never been tears. Sorry to disappoint. It's just stuff, bruh. Short of NVG and GPS that I got through sheer luck to begin with, I have never lost anything through death that hasn't been replaced in an hour or less. Very often less. I die a lot, because I do all those things you are trying to "teach" me not to. I run around Cherno, riling up zombies. That gets MY adrenaline going. I shoot at them, announcing my position, because they're zombies and I shoot zombies. I take a minute to announce that I'm friendly when I meet someone, which about half the time ends in my death. Hitting that caps-lock key is an adrenaline rush too, for me. You are the manhunter. I am a cat :3 You and those like you will never change how I play. The only thing I've "learned" from being shot at by bandits is that there are people who don't have enough sex, and many of them play fiercely competitive PvP. Death is just an opportunity to improve my headshot to kill ratio on the zed. A new life, a new story. I applaud your unapologetic hunter identity. We can, at least, share the love of this game as common ground.

Agree with previous posts. It's ur internet connection, bruh. Are you gaming on wireless? High latency? Something? I've noticed the jittery "crappy netcode" kind of behavior you speak of, when connected to servers with high ping or when I forget to shut off bandwidth-hogging things on my network. But when my network is stable, this game is stable.

"After coming up empty at the church I decided to risk the super market and with a few zombies on my trail proceeded to brazenly barrel in though the front steps." For me, this method is called "going to the market in Cherno" I don't think I've ever snuck into that store. I usually run balls-out toward it and then deal with zombies inside. But I die a lot.

Night time offers its own challenges. You can "cheat" and crank up the Gamma in your Video Options to see better. Or, you can bust out your flashlight, or throw chemlights. It may seem dull, but that can be said about so much of this game. It is what you make of it. The other night my best friend and I decided to stay on a night time server, and we were wandering through the forest with flashlights. It was like that Blair Witch movie. except it didn't suck. Just tense and frightening. But if it's not your cup of tea, find servers that are daylight when you play. Most servers have their timezone listed in the server hostname in the server list (example, GMT-8). You can filter the list by timezone. Beware the occasional server that lies about its timezone.

If you ever get stuck, this video shows how to get out. This happened to me too, and the video was quite helpful.

So far I'm finding this game is what you make of it. It is possible to survive almost indefinitely once you acquire basic survival tools: A hatchet for firewood, matches, a hunting knife, and a canteen or three. You can live out in the trees forever, never encountering a single zombie or other player. Just hunt livestock for food and find a pond (online maps help) for water. But that would be hella-boring, so I wind up going into town to find toys, and getting shot at. I'm not down to join the QQ Patrol regarding bandits, but they do frustrate me. The virtual nature of things makes their blind aggression unrealistic, imho. It's a whole lot easier to shoot an anonymous avatar on the internet than it is to kill a human being in cold blood, and I do not think there would be quite as much aggression in a real survival situation. But, when they kill me I usually have the basics (axe, knife, water, matches) within a matter of an hour anyway, so whatev :D Don't get attached to your stuff, right? :3

Wife and I were hunting in the woods just north of NW Chernogorsk, by that power substation. Up comes a man, in a ghillie and using voicechat. He's clearly American, but speaking fake broken-english in a fake asian accent. He announces that he's unarmed, asks if he can follow us. I smell a rat, and I don't trust anyone in a ghillie, so I tell him to back off and we'll go our own way. He followed us for a couple minutes, making me nervous. Finally he leaned over my wife and looked like he was going through her pack - so I shot him in the head. He had NVG, binoculars, GPS, the ghillie, and NOTHING ELSE. So, yay, free NVG and GPS. I grab those and we decide to count our blessings and get the hell out of there. Less than ten minutes later, a little east of the previous spot, the SAME dude shows up. in a ghillie. This time carrying a revolver. Hollering in his poorly-crafted fake accent about can we bandage him please, he's bleeding. He wasn't bleeding. He had a revolver, and was pointing it at my wife, so I shot him in the head again. Same deal - he had NVG, GPS, ghillie, binocs. This time a revolver but no ammo. I honestly think he was suiciding to give away duped items. Troll Christmas! Whoever you are, if you read these forums, thank you for the stuff and I'm sorry I shot you - but you were being shady ;)

Last week or so I was creeping around the hospital/medical tents in either Cherno or Elektro (I can't remember). The tents are between the hospital and another roughly four-story building. I usually play on low-population servers and go days without seeing another survivor, even in cities. I was prone and crawling from tent to tent looking for blood bags. I'm still a new player, and this was before I figured out hunting. So my travelling companion and I were stocking up on bloodbags to bail each other out of scrapes - but this day I was rolling alone. Being a new player, when I hear gunshots I run. I heard the sound of a rifle I wasn't familiar with, I'd just gotten my hands on Lee Enfield and I knew it wasn't one of those. I lay there, holding my breath IRL and scanning the perimeter with panic. After a moment or two I calmed down and decided to get the heck out of there, and decided to get up into a crouch. That's when I saw him - A survivor crouched beside another survivor's dead body. He finished looting and moved to the opposite side of the tall building there, out of line of sight. So I stood up, and bolted for the ladder leading to the roof, firing off an entire magazine of pistol rounds on the way. I ran my butt up the ladder and waited with my Enfield out to extract anonymous justice for his prey. Sure enough, Mr. Peoplehunter there swept around the building to the side I had been on, looking for me.... ...and ran smack into the roughly 12 zombies I must have woken up with my pistol rounds. I watched him get knocked out and eaten. Then I went down there and grabbed his rifle, it turned out to be an M16. It was all I could grab, I had to loot him quickly as I was surrounded and taking heavy damage. I hope his victim returned and got a better look at his stuff. I wound up down to like 6K blood from 12K, but it was worth it to take that jerk's gun off him.

In most games I play as a female, though I am male. Mostly because I'd rather look at a female if third-person. The rest because I tend to ramp up to a decent skill level and it is fun when you beat a misogynist at something as a bad-ass chick. In Left 4 Dead, I like to play as Zoey. For Day Z, I play as male because the "you cannot change this EVER" warning on character-create made me not want to make a choice I might regret later. Too bad they don't have a "cat" option to play as. Good for hiding in brush or climbing trees...