Seriously, WTF?

[Potofchocolate436 0]

Okay, so let me begin by sayin this. I love this mod, I love how hard it is, I dont mind the starting kit. I do mind one thing though.

So I died a couple of times before I learned to crawl through towns and around zombies. Fair enough. Next time I spawned, I crawled through an entire town, looted some good stuff, and prepared to leave. As I was crawling out, however, OUT OF NOWHERE, a zombie somehow is alerted to me, and attacks me. Having no weapon yet, I am forced to run, and swarmed, and die.

That frustrating because I did everything right, and died because of some bug.

[Eldo (DayZ) 7]

This is an alpha mod, this has been said by countless people, countless times. Point is, your playing an unfinished project, if you aren't expecting bugs then you are a fool. I've died be bugs, we all have, the difference is is that we all expect it, because it's and alpha.

[shadex123 0]

How can you die when you ran away from them?

[z310 9]

Run if you aggro a zombie - don't let it hit you. Sprint away and try to ditch it by losing line of sight through buildings, up ladders, etc.

You can also try using steep hills, I've lost zombies by running up and down hills, trying to make the zombie have the "running uphill goes slower" animation while I maintain a full running animation by going at an angle to the mountain (as close an angle as possible, hoping to make the zombie be walking "uphill" technically while I'm still running at full speed. (Hope that makes sense!)

[ZtruK 0]

My only complaint with the current verson is how bad crouchrun is. It just slows the game down a ton to have to prone everywhere. A few versions ago you only had to prone if you were pretty close. I love the changes to volume and sight depending on what surfaces you are on, just wish the visibility of crouchrun and crouchwalk for that matter were reduced a hash or two.

[Maca (DayZ) 769]

I read this post about 4 days ago?????? WTF??

Sorry my bad wrong post..

[walrus2517 27]

It wasn't out of nowhere, you did something to alert it. If this was during the past couple of days zombies had almost supernatural detection powers but you still made some kind of sound or entered its line of sight.

But yeah, as others have said, expect to die a lot due to bugs. It's alpha.

[Disgraced 1123]

Learn what the aggro sound sounds like... and have more situational awareness. You should know where every zombie is that MIGHT come after you, and be using ALT to look at them as you progress along.

If one screams, or runs towards you, jump up and sprint away immediately. You will catch a lot of zombies, and then have to ditch them through various methods.

I do this for fun.