Elias (DayZ)

I hope you'll find him again and find out what has happened, if he made it or not. Did you allready look in the Survivor HQ? http://dayzmod.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=12 That's the place where people post when they are looking for friends and lost ones, maybe you can get some info's there. Good luck.

Here's another Mountain Dew thread: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=18046&highlight=mountain+dew I haven't found one in a long time. Some people carry it around, they say it brings them good luck... If that is so; than you, Tox2401, must be a very lucky man :-)

Day X is the number of days your character has been alive. Be advised that these are 'gamedays'. Even if you just log in for a minute, it counts as one 'gameday'. There is no other gametimer ingame.

Good tips, thanks for sharing! I've been living off the land for some time now, and one of my favorite places to visit for supplies are dear stands. They are relatively safe, because they are often located in the treeline and away from other structures.

Yes, it is helpfull to point out that you can open up your controls and check it out for yourself. Adding to this, we *are* willing to help you, as you may have noticed. Back on topic: be advised that there is no 'global' or 'side' chat in the game, only 'direct' chat as Drewmanc pointed out. I advise you to go into your controls and setup a key to 'speak on direct channel'. It isn't binded by default. That way you'll always have the correct key to speak on your direct channel. I wish you the best.

Some more info about tents, maybe usefull: http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tent

No, there is not (yet). Perhaps in the future Rocket will implement something to stop dc'ing.

Hi, and welcome! Too bad you got shot in the face; but luckily it doesn't seem to take away your positive attitude! And the crowbar is indeed a powerfull weapon. Maybe next time you'll use it to crush their wookie skulls ;-)

You'll get better, just keep trying. And you'll meet friendly survivors, I'm sure. Dayz is a nice mod, you're right; you're not retarded. It can be demoralizing to be killed so often. Good luck to you.

A M-16 without ammo will do you no good. An AK with ammo can save your life :-) What if you change it, and then you find no ammo for it? But then maybe you will... Choices, choices...this inventory management is one of the fun parts of this mod IMO. Once I put an extra pistol in my bag (no ammo for it) and carried it around for ages. Taking up *5* slots in my inventory. I'm not going to do something like that again. Now I only change guns if I have ammo for it.

Never had this experience. I always log off in the forest, under a tree. You shouldn't log off in a dangerous area, like Cyric said. But even in the forest you're never *really* safe, of course. But it's highly unlikely you'll get shot there.

After I get some basic survival gear? I try to get even better gear :-) I'm still looking for a ghilly suit, so that's my main goal ATM. In the meantime I'm having all kind of adventures and I'm making all kind of discovery's. When I'm tired of exploring I build a campfire, cook some meat and look at the stars.

NO It makes me so happy when I find my first gun. And it requires a whole different playstyle, you're much more vulnerable. As a matter of fact; I think that, in the event that Rocket would *ever* place it back, I would now just toss it in the ocean upon spawn.

I hate to see you leave, you seem like a decent person. Why don't you give it another try, and this time change your tactics? Be even more carefull? There should be more people like you in this game, who want to team up and coöperate. That's a good thing. See you in the field.

I really do not recognize all what you are saying. Zed seem very easy to me; once I got to know them. It's no problem to loot a town during the daytime. I crouch-walk, go slow, keep situational awareness by looking around and I stick to the buildings. Sticking close to the structures reduces your visibility to almost zero. I try to always keep +/- 10 mtrs between myself and the Zed. It's true that they hit much harder now. I keep some extra bandages in my backpack so I can deal with that. I haven't been hit so hard that my legs broke or something, so I wouldn't know about that. Up to now the damage has been manageable... *knocks on wood*. I hope you'll have better luck soon, wish you the best.

AllYoYens made a dangerzone map, could be usefull: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=28995&pid=256154

You shouldn't jack off behind trees, better to save all that proteïne for your survival :-)

It would be nice to be able to turn these empty cans into IED's by filling them with ammo and stones or something. And turning the empty whiskeybottles into molotovcoctails by filling them with gasoline.

There is no thing as a zombie apocalypse in real life. But for the sake of this argument: Probably you would be in a corner, fetal position, crying because your family has been eaten by the infected. I do hope it will never happen.

You can play the bootcamp-missions from Arma 2. There are some training missions where you can shoot targets. Or, you can fire up the editor; place some units + weaponcrates and use them for target practice. I think all the ballistics are the same, but I'm not sure. Maybe somebody else can confirm this?

Because where all on the same team in Dayz it is registering as 'friendly fire'. So don't worry about it, it's normal.

There is no automatic regaining of lost blood. What you've experienced was a 'bug', it happened to me once too. A very helpfull bug in this case. All what Amentes told you is correct, these are the 3 ways to regain lost blood. Oh, and next time maybe you can give a more meaningfull title to your thread; like 'does lost blood restore over time?' or something. Thanks in advance. Good luck to you!

Yeah, just check your controls and assign keys that are suitable for you. Oh, and remember you'll have to be standing up to be able to salute.