Ok so what am I doing wrong?......

[Molochius 2]

Tried to get into this game but pretty dissapointed, way harder then I expected, ive spawned a total of about 10 times....everytime ive run to the nearest houses only to find them all access denied and i always run into a zombie trying to find one that is to gear myself up and i just cant get rid of them, eventully i die or i get bored of running stop and let them kill me.

Im dissapointed, why can I not find any useable buildings like all the people in the youtube newbie guides seem to find right away? and how do you avoid death by zombies if theyre all over the place and you have no defence as you cant get in a damm house to get a weapon!

any help?

[boneboys 7988]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/10051-index-of-helpful-threads/#entry104583

Game-Play for you...

[Max Planck 7174]

Sneak.

[bigdogsco 143]

Hey there fella. Fear not, it gets easier. Only certain buildings are enterable. Once you recognise the enterable ones you can lose zombies easier and find some decent loot. Buildings with more than one door are your friend. Go in and the zombies will slow to walking pace allowing you time to grab loot and dash out the other side. Once Zombies lose sight of you, they lose interest pretty quick.

Go back to your favourite youtuber and pay attention to the appearance of the buildings they are going in and out of.

[OrLoK 16186]

Hello there

Practice, practice and more practice.

The game *is* hard. It's also not for everyone. But once you get into it, it can be astounding. It's sometimes worth playing vanilla Arma missions to get to grips with the engine if one is new to it.

Other posters here have all given great advice. Follow it :)

Rgds

LoK

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

All I can advise is that you stick with it!! Although as Orlok said, it's not for every one. It has a very steep learning curve but you need to dust yourself off and try again. It's the fact that it's so hard that makes it all the more satisfying every time you achieve something.

[beastoverlord 574]

You can't just sprint around. You have to be stealthy. Not all buildings are enter-able either. You should familiarize yourself with the ones you can and cannot get in. If you attract zombie aggro (try to not do this in the first place), lose them by running through barns (since they can only walk in then), through dense forests, weaving them through buildings (so they lose LoS), and by hopping fences. Use DayZ DB to familiarize yourself with loot-able buildings.

[Dayzo 182]

This map will help you see where to go for loot, but it will also spoil much of the game for you too:

http://www.dayzdb.com/map

In the very beginning, I loved exploring without knowing where the loot was, just using the in-game map I got from a supermarket.

However after a few weeks, once the novelty of that wore off, I looked at the dayzdb map before the game to decide where I wanted to go for particular loot, and then used only the in-game map to get there.

These days I just have dayzdb open all the time on another monitor.

[trunkz jr 61]

Once you learn the system you'll get how everything works and enjoy it more :)

[PuRe DAYZ 39]

watch recently uploaded video's because i beleive there was a update that increased zeds sight or hearing so be very stealthy and just like every other person who posted on this topic not all building are enter able i cant tell you much i'm a fairly new player , my only problem is bandits pretending they're friendly but im sure i will come around this - by killing everyone sus. this game has allot to show you so don't give up you will learn reckognise the disappointments in this mod also just remember that this is a mod still and a very advanced mod i do have one tip though don't lurk around churno or elektro there is only one way it will end get what you need and get out straight away hope you thought this was useful and focus on the good things about the mod

[Molochius 2]

Ok well after about a week or so of playing ive got the hang of it now, like you guys said the game does have a steep learning curve! I think my problem was I paid to much attention to certain newbie vids on youtube which although gave some good advice also have bad advice, particualy the one where the guys running around a lot not bothering to be stealthy, this made me think it was ok to do this which is why I had such trouble with zombies, obviously if youve been playing for a while and you know how to dodge zombies easily like the guy did then its no probs but for a newbie it is.

anyway so ive been playing a lot, dying a lot but enjoying it, longest ive stayed alive was about 4-5 hours in a long sesh I played yesterday was a bit annoyed actully about my manner of death, after a long sesh yesterday I logged out having geared myself up well with everything apart from the sniper rifle I was after (went to and looted the southern airfield when server was almost empty only to find literally nothing there....was kind of annoyed but i guess its the luck of the spawn) I logged out on top of a fire station in electro again after finding nothing there(just my luck when I finally chance going to some of the `danger but rewarding` areas nothings there haha) logged in this morn, under cover of darkness tried to get out of electro, had a zombie get lucky on me and break my leg before I killed him, had no morphine so crawled on my belly through half of electro to get to the hospital(thankgod it was dark lol) got the morphine got back up, had another zombie get a lucky hit in and lost a bit of blood needed to find food fast as my blood was low enough to the point where you can hear the heartbeat and you cant see easily.....got right next to the supermarket, about to go inside and some twatish other player comes out and shoots me dead point blank without explanation, very low as I wasnt even armed at the time other then my axe and I plainly wasnt going for him.

Thats the biggest annoyence ive found so far, selfish players...... I have no issue with bandits pvp is a big part of this game however a couple of deaths have pissed me off, once when I was a bambi not even an axe running to find supplies and some idiot just sniped me like a coward from the top of the fire station with no warning, and once when like I say I was running for supplies unarmed and again shot for no reason...I know this is a survival game however pvp is meant to be a challegne, cutting down wounded or unarmed players for no reason is no challenge and just cowardly.

Never mind ill pick myself up and try again finding the game kind of addictive in that way.....hmmm how long can I survive for this time? y`know?

anyway just wondering if anyone knows the best way to join a clan on this game? Ive found it quite hard being a lone wolf and I think id like to get with a regular bunch of players who help each other out and band together for mutural protection etc, I think thats the only way im going to get to the level ive seen where you can get a chopper with no problems etc.

any clans looking for green but keen members? give me your server info ill be more then happy to join.

[trunkz jr 61]

Ok well after about a week or so of playing ive got the hang of it now, like you guys said the game does have a steep learning curve! I think my problem was I paid to much attention to certain newbie vids on youtube which although gave some good advice also have bad advice, particualy the one where the guys running around a lot not bothering to be stealthy, this made me think it was ok to do this which is why I had such trouble with zombies, obviously if youve been playing for a while and you know how to dodge zombies easily like the guy did then its no probs but for a newbie it is.

anyway so ive been playing a lot, dying a lot but enjoying it, longest ive stayed alive was about 4-5 hours in a long sesh I played yesterday was a bit annoyed actully about my manner of death, after a long sesh yesterday I logged out having geared myself up well with everything apart from the sniper rifle I was after (went to and looted the southern airfield when server was almost empty only to find literally nothing there....was kind of annoyed but i guess its the luck of the spawn) I logged out on top of a fire station in electro again after finding nothing there(just my luck when I finally chance going to some of the `danger but rewarding` areas nothings there haha) logged in this morn, under cover of darkness tried to get out of electro, had a zombie get lucky on me and break my leg before I killed him, had no morphine so crawled on my belly through half of electro to get to the hospital(thankgod it was dark lol) got the morphine got back up, had another zombie get a lucky hit in and lost a bit of blood needed to find food fast as my blood was low enough to the point where you can hear the heartbeat and you cant see easily.....got right next to the supermarket, about to go inside and some twatish other player comes out and shoots me dead point blank without explanation, very low as I wasnt even armed at the time other then my axe and I plainly wasnt going for him.

Thats the biggest annoyence ive found so far, selfish players...... I have no issue with bandits pvp is a big part of this game however a couple of deaths have pissed me off, once when I was a bambi not even an axe running to find supplies and some idiot just sniped me like a coward from the top of the fire station with no warning, and once when like I say I was running for supplies unarmed and again shot for no reason...I know this is a survival game however pvp is meant to be a challegne, cutting down wounded or unarmed players for no reason is no challenge and just cowardly.

Never mind ill pick myself up and try again finding the game kind of addictive in that way.....hmmm how long can I survive for this time? y`know?

anyway just wondering if anyone knows the best way to join a clan on this game? Ive found it quite hard being a lone wolf and I think id like to get with a regular bunch of players who help each other out and band together for mutural protection etc, I think thats the only way im going to get to the level ive seen where you can get a chopper with no problems etc.

any clans looking for green but keen members? give me your server info ill be more then happy to join.

Feel free to check us out or if you find some find some friends here feel free to just check out our server, it's easier to new players. Also we have many ppl that play so we split up into 2 groups and we PVP (last night we found them at a base and had like a 1-2 hour long battle lol but once all was done we all go into the channel and GG to each, tho Battlegirl was too happy with me since in the end I crashed my chopper on purpose into the base hanger and she died with another and I survived (barely) and ended up taking out 2 other guys lol I should of recorded it.

[Molochius 2]

Feel free to check us out or if you find some find some friends here feel free to just check out our server, it's easier to new players. Also we have many ppl that play so we split up into 2 groups and we PVP (last night we found them at a base and had like a 1-2 hour long battle lol but once all was done we all go into the channel and GG to each, tho Battlegirl was too happy with me since in the end I crashed my chopper on purpose into the base hanger and she died with another and I survived (barely) and ended up taking out 2 other guys lol I should of recorded it.

Sounds awesome ill come on and check it out.

[Molochius 2]

Dude what version of the game are you playing? i cant find the server via dayz commander, when i go to launch it via the dayz launcher itself it says bad version, version being used 1.62 but i cant find 1.62 on the list of dayz versions to retroactivily install on dayz commander, is it a really old version im going to have to find manually?

Edited February 28, 2013 by Molochius

[DMC14 46]

it helps to find a buddy to hang with to at first i think.

and then shoot em in the back and take there stuff. preferably with a gun they have given you.

Edited February 28, 2013 by DMC14

[BigglesPiP 6]

Dive in the nearest bush!

[Molochius 2]

The guy posting above stars and stripes thanks for the info, been having a lot of fun on your server last few days, no hackers seen, no bambi killing assholes seen spot on it seems very well run and setup.

I may have to apologise to some of the members of sas black clan though, had some fun last night with them in electro, i was at deaths door barely any blood left after to many run ins with zombies, got to the firestation roof and found on a dead player an assault rifle(forget which one but it had a scope.....m1 something or other) and a load of ammo for it (lucky find) anyway i fancied having a pop at some geared people as with my supplies and health so low I couldnt do much else, so I went into sas blacks teamspeak channel and found them discussing going causing chaos around electro.....seperatrly in chat I made out to another player I pretended I wanted to team up and said I was going to the supermarket.......they obv saw this as the ts chat turned to going to the supermarket and taking me down......Soon as they appeared I dtarted trying to snipe them, failing badly due to never having fired anything bigger then a pistol in dayz before and my aim sucking, but it was hilerious them not noticing I was in there teamspeak and listening to them try and hunt me down as I took put shots at them(.....hes definitly in the church.......ummm no hes not guys haha) I died in the end from a well placed sniper round when after about half an hour they finally relised where the shots were coming from (pretty poor no offence....high up sniper purches like the fs roof would have been the first place id have looked lol) they seemed slightly angry when I let out id been listening in to there team speak but hey thats why you should police your channels I was just giving a friendly tip :P

But it was fun to cause some random chaos in the game any members of team sas black reading this you were very lucky Im new to the game, I had 2 or 3 of you in my sights at certain times and if not for not noticing my scope was to far back and shooting the roof of the building rather then firing a shot off youd have lost a few members :P

No offence meant and im intending on making this server my perm home now as ive had such fun, any clans fancy a new eager member? the lone wolf act is fun but a lot harder to survive so im looking to join a team, I do have teamspeak obviously and im on mostly in the evening hours gmt.

Edited March 4, 2013 by Molochius

[Mr Nasty 1023]

Glad to see you stuck with it.

[Molochius 2]

Glad to see you stuck with it.

Glad I did the game does have a steep learning curve but once you get the hang of the basics its awesome....nothing else like it around, to think this is just a mod as well is mind boggling, I got arma 2 combined op because I had to, to play dayz and I havnt even touched arma2 yet im having to much fun hiding from zombies and trying to become a big shot with a sniper rifle heh heh