The REAL Newbie Guide (Don't Believe their lies)

[Revant 0]

Guys I just got this game a little while ago so im not pretending to be the most expert leet Day Z player in the game but let me tell you the newbie guides are all lying to you!

Here is how to really get a new player to not starve to death and get eaten by zombies in Day Z.

So here we go...

NEVER EVER EVER sneak anywhere, sneaking is for when you have guns and don't want player to know your around, sneaking will just waste hours of your time at this stage in the game (its very helpful for sneaking up up players when killing zombies would give you away and later in the game when you actually have something you care about losing) and if a zombie actually sees you sneaking around he'll get a free hit off on you while you get up (at which point you should immediately re spawn your character as you wont find a blood pack for days and days and will have nothing on you anyway). Run full speed through all the coastal towns (do this in low pop servers) looking for building that actually have insides (this will be about 1 building in 15 by my count) of these building 8/10 of them wilk have nothing but empty cans and flares you don't need. Zombies will never catch up to you if you keep moving try to train as many as you can. The good building usually have multiple rooms inside them. When you see a nice building run in side the zombies will have a little trouble getting inside, look around if you see something you like or the building only has one exit, immediately hit esc > abort > disconnect > Rejoin. This will make all the zombies chasing you disappear completely loot the room calmly. Now you have 2 choices if you think its a nice big building with good spawns, you can exit the server and rejoin a new ones with really lower server pops and reloot the room on all the different servers (this is the safest way to actually find a gun, it will take on average about 10-20 server swaps but you'll find something to defend your self with eventually) or you can just repeat what you were doing before (this is less safe as players can see you and missteps will make you lose precious blood which you can only really recover at this stage by suicide).

Using this method you will be able to reach a point where you can actually play this mod how ever you want much much much quicker than how others would suggest you start. Once you find a decent gun and some food/water head inland and start being sneaky you be able to cover your sneaking errors a lot better with a gun and some ammo. I suggest trying to find some areas with medical supplies and repeating choice #1 a good number of times until you stock up on blood packs and bandages.

I can't stress enough how if you take any damage at all before you find relevant gear that suiciding and respawning will save you just a whole crap load of time, you lose nothing and most of the time you get respawn in an area you haven't run through yet so better chances of finding a building with something useful in it. I can't tell you how much time i wasted actually trying to sneak around and deal with having no gun / no first aid and low bp, full health and and a new bandage is just a click away! But with this new technique I discovered you shouldn't have to many problems with zombies as they just seem to disappear when you do it.

Anyways good luck out there guys I hope to see more of you actually doing something useful and fun now!

[m2n2l2 0]

Yeah. Take tactical survival mod and take the tactical out, you get this. Run Forrest, Run. No intensity, no tactics, just boring and repeating, mindless running around in town from one house to another hoping to gain access to loot. Or you could just go near beach to a pier where the zeds can't come (safezone) and then loot the houses next to the pier, jump to another server . . rinse and repeat.

This is what happens when muppets get a say in developing a game. It's just shit now.

[ATOJAR 23]

Any new players out there do not listen to a word this guys has just said!

"immediately hit esc > abort > disconnect > Rejoin. This will make all the zombies chasing you disappear completely"

This is an exploit! ... This guy clearly has no clue on how this game is SUPPOSED to be played! ... By the sounds of it he has no clue how to sneak and i guarantee you that if you follow his "Run full speed through all the coastal towns" tactic i guarantee you that 90% of the time you WILL die quicker.

[Zakificus 10]

To paraphrase "playing the game is fun if you take out the 'playing the game' part."

Hey did you know there is an armory in arma 2 that let's you have infinite amounts of all the loot you could ever want? Maybe this isn't the game for you.

[Revant 0]

^ this guy just wants you to be less geared and waste your time so he can gear up inland with all the better loot. This method is 95% safe (pretty good for day z) and will waste 10x less of your time, don't play the game like the bandits want you too. Feel free to sneak about and "play the game" once you can defend your selves guys, but sneaking through cherno with no gun WILL get you killed (mostly by players) 90x faster than this method.

[Asinine 0]

Way to take the realism/fun out of playing..

I'm still installing getting ready to play :D

[Revant 0]

The "Realism/fun" of prone crawling at 1 mph 10 feet away from 5 zombies that can't see/smell you for some reason while guys in ghille suits snipe at you with high powered rifles, while you can't fight back is EXTREMELY debatable....

[FunkyHermitCrab (DayZ) 95]

Please dont feed the trolls :)

troll/

[hawc 63]

immediately hit esc > abort > disconnect > Rejoin. This will make all the zombies chasing you disappear completely loot the room calmly. Now you have 2 choices if you think its a nice big building with good spawns' date=' you can exit the server and rejoin a new ones with really lower server pops and reloot the room on all the different servers

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I hope someone bans you for exploiting.

[NightRipper 284]

You know, in some games this is called "boosting," and is typically a ban-able offense.

[boneboys 7988]

Revant.

You are inciting people to > disconnect > this is considered an exploit.

You are promoting exploits, this is, unexceptable.

Thanks.