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-Hit the main cities (Cherno and Elektro) because they spawn the most loot, and get out of there as fast as you can once you get a good amount of supplies. Those cities are the main pvp hub in the game. -Don't bother going for vehicle parts until you have a decent hold of the game, vehicles are the number one way of getting yourself killed. They are loud, make you defenseless, and force you to go on roads. - Hang in groups, people love to quickly pop one in your head and get away with your gear. Hanging in groups makes it much more intimidating, and may make them just avoid you entirely -Avoid conflict with people: I bet half the people here will tell you trust no one. But there are many good people out there, only fire upon people that seem to threaten you. The best experiences of this game is coming out of a random encounter with a new friend. Steam Profile: http://steamcommunit...d/darknight558/ Steam Group: http://steamcommunit...groups/TAB-DayZ

oh, so it was never your intention to hack, but you hacked on purpose? oh i get it now wait, so you just spawned vehicles, and not weapons? well why didn't you say so! you hacked to spawn vehicles? it's all good, as long as you're not hacking to spawn weapons hacking is fine

So i normally don't even bother because most people aren't flagrant with their hacking/cheating... This guy and his buddy not so much... I go to check on my server and am away from home. Friend is logged on and informs me the two heli's we were near were gone... he'd already ran across one burning and then hit the airfield where lots of vehicles had been teleported... I log in and there's a guy right near where our heli's were and he's going through some tents, I empty an entire dmr mag into him and he just looks at me at which point I abort and ban him from the admin panel... got to check logs and sure enough he spawned sooo much crap I can't even explain it... here are some snippets of him and his buddy... 24.12.2012 12:52:18: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 12:52:18: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 12:52:18: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.18347, 20094.3]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 12:52:18: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.18347, 20094.3]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 12:52:18: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.18347, 20094.3,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 12:52:18: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.18347, 20094.3,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:10:34: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:10:34: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:10:36: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.30293, 21180]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:10:36: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.30293, 21180]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:10:42: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.30293, 21180,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:10:42: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.30293, 21180,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:23:51: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:23:51: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:23:51: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 9.49906, 21952.8]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:23:51: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 9.49906, 21952.8]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:23:55: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 9.49906, 21952.8,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:23:55: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 9.49906, 21952.8,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:28:23: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:28:23: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:28:28: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this, 8.01475, 21828.6]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:28:28: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this, 8.01475, 21828.6]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:28:38: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this, 8.01475, 21828.6,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:28:38: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this, 8.01475, 21828.6,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:28:40: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:28:40: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:28:43: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.90224, 22240.8]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:28:43: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.90224, 22240.8]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:28:45: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.90224, 22240.8,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:28:45: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.90224, 22240.8,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:31:56: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:31:56: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:32:02: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this, 9.8069, 22009.5]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:32:02: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this, 9.8069, 22009.5]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:32:11: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this, 9.8069, 22009.5,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:32:11: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this, 9.8069, 22009.5,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:40:26: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:40:26: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:40:30: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.41964, 22936.7]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:40:30: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.41964, 22936.7]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:40:35: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 8.41964, 22936.7,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:40:35: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 8.41964, 22936.7,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:57:29: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:57:29: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 13:57:29: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 7.90149, 23943.8]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:57:29: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 7.90149, 23943.8]spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestructionStage2" 24.12.2012 13:57:30: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #38 "[this, 7.90149, 23943.8,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 13:57:30: CornThatLefty (71.22.147.206:2304) e1051533306044efd018d25d3ec2cf59 - #49 "[this, 7.90149, 23943.8,false,true]spawn BIS_Effects_Burn" 24.12.2012 14:03:26: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #38 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" 24.12.2012 14:03:26: iasclanman (68.96.203.121:2304) 24ec754418c1a22a84e387e26bff271e - #49 "[this] spawn BIS_Effects_AirDestruction" this is one portion of one log the two of them have 20+ entries in every log I run.

Please leave me alone, that was never my intention, if you have nothing helpful to say just let me be. I didn't spawn weapons I only spawned vehicles. I just want to know how to alter my CD key, I'm having trouble.

No, I don't want vehicles and all that removed. Basically, all I want now is a server that runs straight vanilla. No EXTRA vehicles, maybe less, no custom starting gear, and first-person only is great. That's really all I want. Now, outside of that, I like to play the game a certain way because I have fun like that. As an example, my friend and I met up along the east coast of Chernarus and we took up arms with an enfield and double-barrel. We needed food, and we needed blood. She was passing out, so I had to rush and find a survival knife and an animal, and not be seen because I would be hit and possibly die. Then after that, we still had something to do. We needed some ammo. We needed more food, more water, better gear. And it drove us. That was fun because I was constantly engaged, and it didn't feel like losing. It felt like surviving. Making with what I had and trying to sustain myself. It was great. If I could, I would totally revamp DayZ, but that isn't the point. Still, I enjoy the servers that run like Public hives but are private hives and ect, so that really doesn't matter what I would change about it. That's my vision of this game. What I do. Touch and go, done with one challenge but created 3 more. Always running.

People say Wasteland's like Day Z, but it's not at all. It's just a large amount of players on three different teams that find vehicles and fight or do random-location missions.

Players "want" it because they haven't got used to the idea that it becomes boring when they give you all the gear. They are too used to dying. Once they mill around for a few hours, they'll go back. But when they do, they don't have any servers to go to. Also, there are a lot of people who, like me, can't find a private hive that doesn't do this but doesn't want to join a public hive unless they have to. Playing on maps other than Chernarus, servers are pretty much all private hives. Yes, the community wants it, but we need more servers that aren't like this because there is a section of the community who actually wants to play the game, seen? Right now, that's pretty impossible. The majority of the servers in question are all US servers too, and while most of the servers are probably in US, I can usually find DE and UK servers that actually run vanilla or have third person turned off. But there's a problem, because I can't expect a good connection from them. I'm saying that the quality of this has gone down. Back in the old DayZ, you started with a bandage, painkillers, and a coyote backpack. Now people get enfields on startup. It's sickening to me how people can just take rewards and not care a bit about not getting them. So instead of insulting me like a child, why don't you listen to what I have to say and understand that: -I do not care if these servers exist, but right now they are waaaay too big in majority -I do not care if people play like this, as long as I can play my way too, but I can't, because no or few good servers. Sure, I don't agree with it, but I can't force it upon them. -We need more servers that appeals to the other side of the community. Seriously, it could be like 13 or less servers out of near 2,500 Chernarus servers, and it'd cover it. But practically all those are all about massive amounts of vehicles and starting gear. How is this too much to ask? All I want to do is play, and play my way, and my way of playing is reasonable. I'm not entitled to servers sprouting up at my word of complaint, but I think I got quite a few beans from this so you can see atleast 1 server full wants this to happen. Again, once more restated, I do believe these servers are wrong, but that's my belief. It doesn't matter. What does matter is I need a server to play on. I don't care how many of these custom loadout and vehicle servers there are so long as I have a server I like to play on too. And right now I don't. Unless you go public. But then I get hacked, ghosted, lootfarmed.... ect. Also, using logic here: If just about every server has these things, and just about every player playing DayZ plays DayZ, every player has to join a server. Since there are lack of any servers that don't offer normality, they join the other ones, because they have no choice. Again, public hives, but public hives are just stressful.

Thanks for the help. The first car I had ever found on a server was blown up by a hacker spamming satchel charges. It turned me to the dark side, I started to spawn vehicles. I spawned quite a few, gave people nice helicopter rides, but eventually I got the big ole global ban. I just want to play the game.

No, no, no this is a terrible idea. Since I don't care to fully explain how bad of an idea this is, let me list four problems: 1) Internet Ping - best man with internet wins 'fastest reflex' competition 2) Assigned Keys - people with superior typing skills will beat the 'chicken pecker' typer 3) DayZ is based on tactics and skill, not button mashing. If you want to play a button mashing game, go play Mortal Combat. 4) Waste of resources - why for god's sake would this be implemented? How often do you stand toe-to-toe with a enemy, I'd much rather have the DayZ team work on something useful and something you would actually come across more than once (if you're lucky) in your entire dayz career!!! Like them making a system where you can modify your guns and bullets more effectively, more vehicles, etc. not some stupid godforsaken button mashing minigame!

2017 has armoured vehicles like that, sheets of steel where the windscreen used to be with a small hole for the driver to look through, pretty awesome!

Best get a new mouse ASAP. Without scroll I don't believe you can give transfusions, repair vehicles, start campfires, and tons of other stuff. Actions in Arma 2 and DayZ revolve around mouse scroll.

You welcome to check us out on our private hive mate. It runs Taviana, which has more military spawns and better towns across a bigger map plus more vehicles. Details on our website

1.Taviana-vehicles and guns are awesome, map layout is perfect-lots of places to roam free but just enough bottlenecks forcing PvP i.e Bridge 2.Cherno-because it is and always will be home 3.Lingor- So different from other maps its refreshing. 4.Namalsk- Again very different but the small size and yet always feeling you are in the middle of nowhere is pretty cool. Not to mention feeling like someone is always watching you

Jury-Rigged vehicles would be cool, like it'd take 2 Scrap Metal to cover one window with armor plating. Nice idea!

Have a good Xmas. Here's some special festive (and somewhat X-rated) beans for you, Mac! PS: Lol. Usually that's a quiet spot. I've had vehicles last a week or two there. I wonder what you were doing... maybe you've got a tent nearby? I'll have to investigate! The van 'came back to me' yesterday morning still full of guns, after circulating through several players! I just dumped it by the side of the road again when I ran out of fuel. As you said, easy come, easy go (except range finders, ghillies, DMRs and choppers)!

SQUADS I feel like adding ways of seeing who is in your squad (similar to arma2) would help with team raids and avoid killing your team-mates due to lack of communication and Would it be possible to make your team mark places on your GPS,similar to a objective on a mini-map,so you can meet up for a large raid,also having them marked on the GPS (and it would only update every minute or so) so you could see where they are during raids. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARMOURED VEHICLES I feel having a way to armour vehicles should be added and im not talking like steel plating im just talking about sheet metal placed over the door frame and back windows, maybe some double thickness glass that would be harder to shoot through but should also be a rarer spawn than plain glass

Numbers of players are very important. If you're mostly looking for PvP (player versus player), and want to gear up mostly by killing/stealing from other players, then the server should have 25-45 players. With that many players, tents usually only last a day or two before being found, and vehicles change hands very rapidly. So really the game is about rampaging around on the map shooting whoever you see for whatever they've got. Over 45 players, and it tends to just become death-matching. For me, the game loses a lot of tension if I know that players are very likely to in my vicinity wherever I am on the map. If you want a slower game - a chance to scavenge, build a couple of little bases, repair a couple of vehicles and manage to keep them for a week or more - then try to choose a server with a constant 10-25 players. This will still give you a fair chance of encounters in 'hotspots' like the cities and airfields and some rarer encounters in the forests, whilst allowing you space to roam around collecting loot and looking for heli-crashes. I love not knowing when or where I'll meet another player, and get a real shot of adrenaline when I suddenly see someone completely unexpectedly. Personally I prefer this style of play, and have had some great times on Wireworld EU recently, especially since almost everyone is on the Wireworld Teamspeak so you get to know all the players you are fighting against. It'll probably be a bit dead the next few days for obvious reasons, but will hopefully pick up again after Xmas. If a server has consistently under 10 players, once you've done enough scavenging and vehicle repairs, the game gets a bit boring. NB: Wireworld runs the very latest community beta patch. Follow the instructions in the above link - basically join the lobby and get kicked (this is so your player name and id is logged in the database), then email the address in the 'kick message' with your GUID, and finally download the latest beta (3 PBO files) from the link you're given. The details of the TS server are in the lobby message if you get stuck.

You take what you can carry, no tents or vehicles. Position etc stays the same but that's only on public servers, private hives means a fresh start on that server. Build new tents go back to old ones collect move repeat until new tents are full.

I have come to the realisation that this is not about play style, yes I agree the whole server issue making things too easy etc.. But that was not my point. I too love the survival aspect and you slate me on my play style which is to use the means available to me within the game to survive to the best of my ability. If that means I stock up on weapons and build a base then so be it! My point was that is how I play and I did no see the point of doing so on servers that are not secure from hackers and because SA is around the corner then I choose not to pour hour of game play in to my interpretation of surviving a post apocalyptic zombie world. What do you want? All weapons tents vehicles removed so you can crawl around zombies eating cans of beans because that's your interpretation of surviving? If this where to happen in the real world I pity those who do not live my play style, because I for one will kos for your can of beans end of story, and because within the game I can re spawn I will re equip my gear at my base and do it again because someone has to find the gear for your lazy play style. I am sorry but it makes me angry that this has become about play style when it has nothing to actually do with it.. Read back I did not once say that I prefer servers like the ones being described, I simply stated the fact that after many months of playing I am now passing time by playing they so called easy servers because once again will say I do not see the point in playing the game how I play it when my work put in is pointless with SA and hackers. Yes I will build my base in SA and yes I will camp and yes I will kos don't like it cry about it idk. @ op, what has this become about your vision of the game?

A server that has it's own private player 'database' (hive) rather than using the official 'database' (hive). As a result they can run different maps, loot spawns, starting load outs, vehicles and vehicle spawns. They also have custom banned lists and a (usually) dedicated admin

Man everyone saying that surrendering is a bad idea, I hate when all I want is you to drop your rifle, handgun and pack so I can pick from your supplies maybe even give you a hand but you people always have to fidget or pull a gun on me and force me to put you down. I prefer doing that instead of just killing people, saves me from wearing that ridiculous bandit skin and also adds to the role-play. Me and my group once tried to hold up 2 players with an ATV and a car that were driving up and down the western roads, we posted 1 machine-gunner down the road, another gunner a little up the road while I stood at a gas station waiting for them to drive through. As they came over the hill I told them to stop the vehicles or we would stop them, sure enough the dumb asses sped up straight into a wall of machine-gun fire. Both were killed , the car blew up and we later recovered the ATV. When people try to hold you up, co-operate.

You know you could have found the answer to this if you looked a server providers websites, anyway with a private hive server you can kick, ban etc also you can spawn in vehicles and weapons and even buildings but you need to know how to do it and also if you do spawn them in the players are going to find out very quickly and just leave your server, the one thing you should be hosting a server for is to create a nice friendly place for people to play. Also you will get moaned at every time your on your server if your an admin, if you kick someone for a legit reason like spamming their mic in side chat then will just complain, so think before you decide to host one.

At the moment we are not whitelisted this is due to are registration form not working fully but the form will be at http://www.moltenenterprises.com/dayz/ Are forums are at http://www.mcapocalypse.com/ TS3: play.mcapocalypse.com IP:98.243.193.217:2302

I've seen these posts countless times and its starting to get annoying. You want to play this game as bad as the rest of us.. otherwise you wouldn't be on the forums making posts like this. So stop being a fanboy and a poser. As many have said, its not the time that everyones mad about. Its the broken promises and lack of communication. If he just made ONE POST or even ONE SENTENCE to answer us instead of ignoring everyone.. he wouldn't be so "swamped with questions about SA" and he'd be less "stressed". He should not be stressed at all about the whole WarZ situation. This kind of stuff happens all the time in the gaming industry. Thats why theres been 50 WoW and COD clones. People will ALWAYS copy successful games to try and make money..Its just a matter of who makes it the best. WarZ is a piece of shit and so is that Russian idiot who made it. The Day Z mod is even better than it. But they released it early in order to beat Day Z SA and start making money. Soon it will have vehicles and new maps, which some might consider better than the mod. The longer Dean waits on launch, the harder it will be to compete with the slowly improving War Z. Which is why it needs to be released ASAP. Most people don't care who started the idea, they won't wait for this kinda game when theres one already out. He previously redid the map, the inventory, clothing, the weather system, zombies, and greatly optimized the game. THATS ENOUGH. As Rocket said himself, he needs to release a foundation, and add features along the way. Rocket has 2 deadlines, one from both Bohemia and WarZ. If it isn't released in a month or two, I fear WarZ will leave Day Z in the dust.

Check out the Cherno Journo's interview with Mandalore. This seems to be a popular play style, especially for solo players. I nearly always play solo and I've found that avoidance is the best option assuming that survival is your primary goal. Of course, you could theoretically survive indefinitely without ever having to go near trafficked areas, but that would be boring. At the moment, My goal is to assemble 2-3 camps with similar equipment, weapons, vehicles, etc so that if I get killed I can gear up again without having to run all over the damn place. I stay behind the treeline, go into the smaller towns like Pustoshka, Polana, Zelenogorsk, and Berezino if I really need the medical supplies, and hit up deer stands, barns, and heli crash sites for my weapons and ammo. If I see another player, I avoid them as long as I can. If I can't avoid them, I kill them. I'm on day 18 at this point, which is the longest I've ever survived.