Picking stuff up, opening doors

[{MGW}Mercman 0]

Hello

I m a noob to DAyz (L4D2 player). I cant seem to open any doors or pick up any weapons. I found an axe but could not pick it up and doors to houses i can never open

I looked thry the key binds and didnt find what i was looking for

Any help would be appreicated

Thanks

[herrjon 478]

Do you know what the scroll menu is? It's used for a lot of misc. actions such as picking things up and opening doors, as well as switching weapons. It will pop up when your scroll your mouse wheel and will be different based on what your crosshair is pointed at.

With the hatchet, you have to mouse over it until you see "take hatchet" in green text, then that option will be in your scroll menu, just pick it up and remove it from your toolbelt in your gear menu.

As for doors, a lot of buildings in DayZ Mod Chenarus are not actually enterabled, so I would assume the doors you can't open are the ones for these buildings. An easy well to tell if it's enterable is if you can see inside through the windows. If you can't, just there for show and cover, no loot to be had. If you do find an enterable building with a closed door however, just mouse over it until you see two large green arrows pointing away from each other with a line in between. This is the open door action icon, once this pops up, you should have "open door" in your scroll menu. To close doors is the same thing, just the 2 arrows pointing at each other instead. Just know zeds can open doors with ease and sometimes just walk through them, so don't expect them to protect you like L4D2.

Also just a note, nearly every enterable building by default will have open doors, so if you come upon one with a closed door, there may be another player inside, so proceed with caution.

[Beck (DayZ) 1768]

Scroll your mouse wheel.

[{MGW}Mercman 0]

thanks for the tips

I am surviving a little longer now lol

[sausagekingofchicago 4711]

Bootcamp bro, bootcamp. Arma2 offers an easy tutorial that'll give you a better understanding of the game mechanics.