Completely hopeless and utter dispair....

[Penny Sue 77]

One of the first things I noticed about this game as I played it a few hours.... I feel completely hopeless.

I need water or something to drink.

I get close to some buildings and see some zombies.

I try to be sneeky but they always detect me.

I run away because I have nothing to kill them with.

I have nothing to kill them with because I can't loot anything in a building.

I need water....

Don't get me wrong; I'm not mad nor do I hate the game or anything. I'm not making a judgement call on the game about this. This is just something I observed while stumbling my way through the game for the first time.

It was actually very weird and interesting. Very rarely do games incite real emotions and physical responses for me. I honestly feelt dispair! By the time I was so messed up, could hardly see due to the bluriness, and about to bleed out I stopped running, turned, and faced my demise. Even if I managed to get away I could barely see anything and would just bleed to death anyway; just get it over with! =)

Oh man did my heart race a several times!

What a great game; really looking forward to playing it some more!

[Bludy 324]

try to play with someone, you will learn the fastest possible, then play without caring about your life until you get used to the game, where loot is, which buildings are good which not, a bit of tactics and firefights, weapons use..then you can enjoy the game for real! godd luck and welcome buddy

[HIHBGaming 14]

Takes a lot of time and patience to get the initial gear. I suggest going in prone and doing a lot of crawling, use the alt key to be aware of what's around you and above all, take your time. This game is not about rushing in, because if you do that initially with no gear, you will die.

Having a partner to tag along with is a good thing but I tend to go it alone. Don't despair you will get better over time :)

[joebob 117]

If you'd like some one on one instruction on Chernarus 101, the Trusted Mentors of the Wasteland are available. Just click on the link in my sig line.

[Penny Sue 77]

I tried crawling prone a few times. Usually there was so much grass and brush around I couldn't see anything. Seems to work alright in urban areas where everything is pretty flat and line of sight is clear.

Again don't get me wrong... this isn't a bad thing =) I thought it was very interesting that this game could invoke these real feelings from me.

Just something you don't see in many games...like...ever. =^.^=

[attorney1977 311]

I tried crawling prone a few times. Usually there was so much grass and brush around I couldn't see anything. Seems to work alright in urban areas where everything is pretty flat and line of sight is clear.

Go into 3rd person view. The default key is Enter (on your numpad).

As for looting, check this loot map:

http://dayzdb.com/map

Gives you all the locations that loot can spawn in. If zombies are chasing you and you have no weapon do one of two things:

1 - Run through bushes and go into 'crouched run' as you leave them. The zombies stop following when they lose LOS. The crouched run will help mask your noise levels.

2 - Run into a building. The zombies can only walk in buildings. Try to only go into buildings that have two entrances (so you don't get boxed in).

You're normally somewhere where there's bushes and/or buildings so this should work for the majority of situations.

Good luck!

[joanjett (DayZ) 31]

Again don't get me wrong... this isn't a bad thing =) I thought it was very interesting that this game could invoke these real feelings from me.

Just something you don't see in many games...like...ever. =^.^=

I think thats what makes the game so cool is the feelings that you get when you play. I don't have a mic but I try to stay on servers where are talking because its feels so much less lonely!

I wish more people played friendly or that there was even a server for people who would take out snipers. I think it would be very cool to have some people run and others just blow zombies away, have cookouts in the woods (lmao). I really love the game too much!

[wtfisthis 4]

Dispair you say? Wait till you have all nice gear AS50/DMR silenced assault rifle fully tooled up and you log into the game in the middle of nowhere on an empty server and are told YOU ARE DEAD.

Thats fucking dispair.

[DazTroyer 227]

Takes a lot of time and patience to get the initial gear. I suggest going in prone and doing a lot of crawling,

What rubbish!!!!

You can get geared up pretty quickly with one trip through Balota Airfield, Cherno or Electro or head inland and look for a farm with a barn.

When you first play, its scary, the zeds are a problem and the pvp can put the shits up you. Enjoy these feelings, they are intense and some of the best you will feel in game, in ANY game, EVER!!!!

You will die, lots, you will lose your kit many times but this is the fun of DayZ. Now the zeds are pretty easy to lose, crouch run when you see a village, don't worry to much if they see you. If you hear the scream, run! Now run through buildings, around corners or through trees and bushes, then crouch run again. Once you lose line of sight your good to carry om looking for loot. Be aware that agro'd zed give your position away and that when the pvp becaomes a problem.

Other than that your on your own, stop reading the forums and go play. Enjoy the terror, i promise you, you will look mback on it as the best feelings in a game you've ever had. After that, teaming up is a whole new ball game but then thats a story for another time. B)

Edited October 22, 2012 by DazTroyer

[Cloned4newLife 2]

Hi.

I also play the game for only a few days. I just read something in internet about it and i loved immidiately. Then I just jumped to the game but earlier I read some things about what i need to do to stay alive like drinking ....However i played till now as many as maybe 20 times or so, I must say that this game is very very hard to play or to survive, I just share the words of the topic autor. if that aren't zombies that kill me, then players, when not players then hunger. There is only answer to you and other players of this game...

The more you play this game or will play the more possibilities will you discover to die :). There will always be a thing that kill you, and from it you must learn. Its just like in real life. you can know everything well about the situation, but when it comes. there is no time to think about it, then you must react. And nothing is so good to react like things that are already have been trained. So that means this game is so much big, almost never ending. For example: Yesterday or so I was quiet good on my way to deal the surviving:), I had some food, some drink:), only the primary weapon, but no problem:) 4 magazins:), nevermind witch weapon. And Iwas in the forest , so far so good:) hehe Actually i had everything to survive for some hours:). and was very watching out on the situation not to be discovered:) You know what then happens:)???? suddenly comes a jeep 10 meters or 20 meters away from me:), I just heard him when he was so near:(..not normal. When I think today about it, i think they could have been chaters-hackers, cause otherwise I should have heard them coming, cause i was very good observing the area arround me in 20 second frequenty time arround me. Never mind. so they were there,,,So tell me people what would you do?? I got panic. lol automatically:( instead of running away to the house that was about 30 or 40 meters away and hide my self waiting for those ba...rds, there was only one thing that i had in my head:)....."Friendly Im friendly.."lol they made this sound from car hub or what ever this calls in english. and I thought they want to take me on the way to the city or so...How dumb i was and must be at all to think so:(:(:(:(:(:(:(....So i got in and drove about 100 meters, then I just saw me got shock and jumbed out or (beeing thrown) from the car and also got shot too, and died:(:(:( those mother.-..fu..rs was such liers, but never mind...Ok, people just don't laugh...I know that Im stupid:...but i will learn from my experiences, its the game. I was in panic, after some minutes I thought what i do in future:),,I have a play.) no problem to me.

All I want to say , the point is that in real life you have only 1 chance to survive...Nobody has an idea how horrible and difficulty it would be in real life. This can we see in Arma 2 Dayzmod in some situations. or every situationc what we do . how hard it can come., As i said earlier this game is such difficult that I ask myself sometimes: "can you handle this"...hmmm. I dont know it. I just must train and try to be better, that means for the first deleting the mistakes that i made last. The less mistakes the better, thats the only way to learn this game. And also then it will be always something that will kill you: but ESPECIALLY CHEATERS-HACKERS or players without brain and humanity or stuff like that. Im just not afraid of the awarnes and hardness in the game, im just awared of other players that have nothing better to do besides killing others to see them selfes on the top of any stupid list.

Well that is the world. as long as we have good games or any other good things in the world, there will be always some idiots that want to posess them without taking any risks and just braking any rules to get them.- to be the best-cheater:) I only ask my self what for. Finally they must know that they are only loosers ZERO-s but they still do this.pffffff, thats why idiots:)

[Mr Horsey (DayZ) 0]

Don't get too down on it.I have only been playing a few days myself and have never played a game that pisses me off more (although Dark Souls comes close).Being a newbie most of my good loot has come by chance from dead players and yesterday I found a body with all sorts of goodies on it (even a radio,which I have heard is a cheat or something).Anyways I had a GPS and map and so made my way up to the fabled airfield in the north,via a scary detour to Green Mountain,I felt like it took forever .I was on edge the entire time and saw snipers where ever I looked ( when I say snipers I mean aggressive looking bushes).I finally got to the airfield and this was by far the furthest north I had ever been and I was feeling seriously out of my depth,and wished I had taken the time to improve my blood levels but it was too late to turn back and the thought of being able to replace my dinner bell with something less suicidal was pretty exciting.So I spy the barracks and reccy the area before going in...almost there!Its all gonna be worth it!

Except it wasn't.

Some twat had erected a tent in the doorway and I couldn't get in.

Had to laugh.