Standalone: Grunting, no status effects, general question about health

[General Desire 22]

Hello there!

 

Bought Standalone 2 days ago, didn't get to playing much, holidays etc, you know it. Either way; loving it! I can understand the remarks by some people of it being boring but for some reason I really get in to it and enjoy running around and the stress for food and water.

 

On my 3rd character now; first one fell of a ladder, second one I drank too much, got sick and just let it die cause it was such an unfortunate, pathetic, little fucker.

 

Now I'm doing quite well; For some reason I spawned at shitloads of zombies, fought like 12 in my first 20 minutes, that's when I knew it was a man to keep. Was struggling to come around after finding my first crowbar, but after a lot of empty houses I reached the well where I got my 2nd character sick. I quickly found an army base, still hungry and thristy, where I met my first real people, exciting! Mic didn't seem to work though, so luckily they spared my life (were new as well). Not too much there, so I ran towards the massive skycrapers I saw. Awesome, my first city! Went into an apartment building, ALMOST died falling of a small little edge at the ladder, climbed up, not much to see there.. Some random newbie started bashing me in the middle of the hallway, tried convincing him to spare me but he kept at it, I couldn't defend myself and to be honest I ran, hid and logged off.. Not too proud but didn't want to lose my character. I also had found a compass and felt like that was useful and rare.

 

Today has been a good day! Left the apartment building, found like 30 garage boxes, each with tons of stuff; best of all a backpack (25 slots). TONS of food and shirts for rags. Couple of scopes and things like that, not that I can to anything with them. After that ended up in a hospital looking for some medical supplies, didn't find those but after that found my holy grail (after fleeing for zombies); an unfortunate dead player with a 35 slot backpack, a handgun and a bloodbag (without blood or syringes, but okay). Thanks buddy, you will be remembered.

 

Now, to the question! (Sorry for the long intro, bit of my stories :)); I have fought an insane amount of zombies on this character, and bled. A lot. I think I bandaged 3-4 times. Now my character is grunting every now and then, and I feel like he's in pain. There are no status effects (not hungry, thirsty, sick, ...). What is wrong with him and how do I fix him? Is pain an official status effect (appearing in the tab menu)? Also; how does health/blood work? I clearly lost a lot. Will it recover if I stay put, don't fight and just survive for a while? In that case I will look myself up at the top of an apartment building, read a book and just hope nobody comes and kills be. Or do I actually need to find someone willing to give me blood?

Thanks!

 

(Other random rant; bashing zombies seems to be hard, some die instantly, some take a long time. Just alpha stuff?)

[sweaper 0]

From my experience, grunting is from pain, it naturally subsides with time. Painkillers can help. You may also have an infected wound which also subsides with time and it doesn't  always show that its infected immediately. 

[Serious Stan 202]

Hello and Welcome to dayz!

 

If you eat and drink alot you will eventually get a status bar called "healing" when you are healed it will change to "healthy"

 

Suggest you find a well or a pond to drink and just gather alot of food.

 

Best of luck!

[snipper_cr 5]

I had the grunting issue before. I had no other status effects so I wasnt sure. I thought it might have been pain so I took pain killers, no effect. I took anti-biotics and I started to get the "my wounds are looking cleaner" message. This happened several times over the course of about 10-20 minutes until I got the "my wounds are clean." The grunting noises stopped.