(NOT Tedious Anymore!)

[e00c 84]

Well, during my short time playing so far. I've pretty much got the grasp of it. That said, and I know some of these have been mentioned already.. I've read the posts.

 

No matter where I spawn, what server's I join (I've joined a ton of them!).
Regardless of what direction I head in: Berezino, via: Nizhnoye, Solnichiy and various other towns on the way.
Or.. Elektro, via all the towns. 

Even tried going inland a little bit. Tulga, Msta, Deer Stands. Next stop, Staroye. 

 

Other than water, I can't find anything. Not even food = resulting in death. This being the case, running around like I'm Rambo. After all, I have nothing to lose! 

 

At the moment, It just seems like an utterly pointless exercise. Run around, drink, get hungry, die. Re-spawn and repeat.

Did I just join Alpha at a bad time? All servers @ night, loot modified? Don't get me wrong, I'm still persisting with it. But, it's starting to drive me insane now. Not even a crumb! 

 

On a side note. I totally crapped my self running through the woods. Flash light on at the time, I swear, I saw the mask of SAW. I'll admit, I jumped.. hugely. 

I then realised it was my flash light making a certain pattern on the tree bark! Flash light was off after this... ha!

 

p.s: Text chat, does this work in the same way as voice? Only people within a certain radius can read it?
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This is no longer an issue, hence my follow up replies. Just sheer bad luck. Let this topic rest :-p

Edited February 6, 2014 by jumling

[GpB311 236]

Perhaps youve just had bad luck and are hopping on looted servers, but there's been a few people that seem unhappy with the most recent update. I think it's all just part of the development process and if it is an actual issue, itll be resolved sometime soon via another update.

[e00c 84]

Perhaps youve just had bad luck and are hopping on looted servers, but there's been a few people that seem unhappy with the most recent update. I think it's all just part of the development process and if it is an actual issue, itll be resolved sometime soon via another update.

I do hope so. I mean, if I was further on in the game, I wouldn't mind. But - just starting out, I have nothing to do except wait for my hunger message to appear (like now! ha). 

[GpB311 236]

The game in its current state only offers so much to do anyway for the time being....Kill people, help people, explore a little in between.   Itll continue to expand and morph as new things are added and bugs are found and dealt with. 

[FatherChaos 1]

I read on a post somewhere that since this most recent patch, players have been finding food less often than before.  However, it's there.  I was on a server last night and found plenty to keep me going.  I think you just had bad luck.

 

Try playing on a low-population server.  You might not be able to keep what you find after you log out, but you can at least expore and get a feel for what the game is like.  Also, find maps and other tidbits of advice by doing Google searches for DayZ.

[e00c 84]

I've tried that too. I think I've just had major bad luck. I do have the dayz map open on my other monitor, so directions / loot locations aren't a problem :-) Makes life so much easier! 

[MyPassword is Chickens20 11]

I've had the same issues finding food in the last few hours. Then again, The server jammed up quickly and was like a "Newbfest" We went to Cherno, every house/shop was looted, Moved onto electro and had the same issue. Moved further north and still had no food, Barely made it alive... Then again, My player was wiped shortly after so who cares! lol

[Ankhenaten 111]

Two hours playing and no food ...  Second character died within an hour with no food. I played the mod which was better tbh. There is nothing there. All servers at night. The only way drinking was at wells. I found a bag pack with firewood, one wrench and one baseball bat, stupid pants, sissy boots, worn wellies.  

 

Given the fact that you can live two weeks without food. Met two zombies. One I let kill me, 

 

Supermarket also blank. 

 

flashlight simulator :) 

[ifruitini 1]

Well i can tell you , when i first started playing. I died , for days i died of starvation alone. No matter where i went i could only find clothes , and death. When i finally figured out which houses have loot , and joining servers with low population ( for food ). I started to learn where the wells are , which houses to hit 1st and last. 

 

Now its pretty easy to live , i can find food pretty easy. Its just the server you are in since there is no loot respawning you have to join a somewhat new server. Some server reset every hour which is not a bad idea.

[e00c 84]

Currently playing at night time (dropped my flash light by mistake... opps!)
However, even in the dark (safer than daytime! I think..), I'm now carrying a ruck sack, various tools, fresh fruit, tin of beans, tuna and a scope for which I have no gun to use it with :-D Happy times!

[e00c 84]

oh... I'm now unconscious! Nothing happened.. I was watching my screen. No bleeding, no shots, no zombies. huh?! :-( 

.. how your fortunes can change within seconds  :rolleyes:

Edited January 24, 2014 by jumling

[knoCC (DayZ) 211]

Two hours playing and no food ...  Second character died within an hour with no food. I played the mod which was better tbh. There is nothing there. All servers at night. The only way drinking was at wells. I found a bag pack with firewood, one wrench and one baseball bat, stupid pants, sissy boots, worn wellies.  

 

Given the fact that you can live two weeks without food. Met two zombies. One I let kill me, 

 

Supermarket also blank. 

 

flashlight simulator :)

 

You said "sissy boots".....made me laugh loud for no reason whatsoever. Do you have said picture of these boots? I got plenty o' beans.

[RyanK (DayZ) 40]

yall suck

[Window Licker 504]

try and hook up with other players to get them to show you the ropes, honestly the new patch has made the game a bit more difficult, the server I just left has been looted to fuck, still I've surviving just "fine" I'm in some town in the middle and was rather surprised to find it all looted out as well, Players are being forced out into the world instead of... run to airfield, get guns, grief unarmed players, get taken out.  

 

So you picked an interesting time to join loot is harder to come by, but because of that people are less likely to gun you down cos they can get 600 rounds in 10 mins.  Less shooting's less agitated players, easier to find people to run with. just don't group with people who don't have a mic or anyone who sounds like their balls haven't dropped. Experience has taught me they are the most unstable.

[Ankhenaten 111]

You said "sissy boots".....made me laugh loud for no reason whatsoever. Do you have said picture of these boots? I got plenty o' beans.

Sadly no, it was some form of white shiny disco boots. :D

[Ankhenaten 111]

Well i can tell you , when i first started playing. I died , for days i died of starvation alone. No matter where i went i could only find clothes , and death. When i finally figured out which houses have loot , and joining servers with low population ( for food ). I started to learn where the wells are , which houses to hit 1st and last. 

 

Now its pretty easy to live , i can find food pretty easy. Its just the server you are in since there is no loot respawning you have to join a somewhat new server. Some server reset every hour which is not a bad idea.

Yeah probably, but I left the Mod when I could survive easily. Hard to balance these things. Server hopping seems to be not frowned upon anymore.  ;) :unsure:

[Disgraced 1123]

To me it's obvious that something is wrong with SOME servers.

I'd recommend that if you can't find anything on a server, just go elsewhere.

Server owners are complaining of no loot on restart. Something is wrong there. Since other people are not having this problem, the easy conclusion is that some servers are crapping out on loot spawn when started and will never have any. Others are spawning loot fine (or at least, spawning loot based on the current tables).

I had no problems today on a clue of servers, but if also used to play that way on the mod. After being up for x hours, mod servers used to stop spawning or whatever, so if I got one of those, I'd just move on.

I'm sure they will sort out why some servers are borked. Everyone just relax and quit assuming that your experience is hive-wide.

[broguenz 333]

I would say the biggest challenge is exactly what your experiencing.

 

When a server has been picked clean of its goodies instead of hoping to another (that's been restarted recently) you stay there

 

you experience desperation, can I find what i need to stay alive

 

Of course this gets old very quickly, so find another server and try that.
Hopefully its not stripped clean and you can live a little longer and experience more, shit happens a lot, you need to get used to that but there is more to this than meets the lack of baked beans.

[Ankhenaten 111]

Hmm,3D Tamagotchi with rare food and rotten bananas. The early mod was still the best. I don't really see that all this alpha time has improved gameplay. Zombies not really an issue, players not really an issue. Just running around looking in houses. I don't care about my character as I don't find anything useful. No I am halfway in the map and when a zombie comes I want to die,. It's that tedious. I ran 20 minutes bleeding, thirsty, hungry and sick.  Unconsciousness finally came. 

 

Optics have improved though.  :thumbsup:

Edited January 24, 2014 by Ankhenaten

[broguenz 333]

That's end game for you

 

make players an issue and see how that goes

[jsopko90 23]

300 hours in, still fine.

[gungza 29]

3 of us combed the entire map last night, we found plenty of food and didn't go in every house.  However we went to all military installations (that includes green mountain, zelenogorsk, and pavlovo) except balota and found the following, 1x m4, 2x mosins (at a school), a couple of fnx's, a couple of magnums and one shotgun.  Weapons are really scarce and i think that's cool.  However the nerfed stomach makes it almost impossible to get healthy.  I drank water at place i spawned (solinichy) and made my way to berizino, at berizino I ate some tuna, from berizino to NEAF, from NEAF to NWAF, halfway to NWAF I got hungry but i could only eat two cans before I was full... How are you supposed to reach 3000 energy and 4000 water and maintain that if you can barely eat anything?  I think your stomach capacity is half what it was before the patch.

Edited January 24, 2014 by GungZA

[broguenz 333]

3 of us combed the entire map last night, we found plenty of food and didn't go in every house.  However we went to all military installations (that includes green mountain, zelenogorsk, and pavlovo) except balota and found the following, 1x m4, 2x mosins (at a school), a couple of fnx's, a couple of magnums and one shotgun.  Weapons are really scarce and i think that's cool.  However the nerfed stomach makes it almost impossible to get healthy.  I drank water at place i spawned (solinichy) and made my way to berizino, at berizino I ate some tuna, from berizino to NEAF, from NEAF to NWAF, halfway to NWAF I got hungry but i could only eat two cans before I was full... How are you supposed to reach 3000 energy and 4000 water and maintain that if you can barely eat anything?  I think your stomach capacity is half what it was before the patch.

 

 

Being healthy also relies on being over a certain blood level. Have you lost blood?

 

Eat less more often perhaps

Edited January 24, 2014 by RogueNZ

[Tooeasyy 5]

I usually never die of thirst or hunger in dayz i see all these posts about people not finding food and im curious because i always seem to have loads of food and water on me along with a lot of weapon/ammo

[byrgesen 1341]

I would suggest you lean back, spend some time on the forums and simply dont play the game yet.
Its not a game yet, its not ment to be played, in fact, the only reason WHAT SO EVER to start the game on Steam atm, is for bug hunting, nothing else.

Even the devs are saying they dont recommend people play it yet, as its partially broken and lacking so many things from the final "vision" and they know it will break over and over, during the Alpha testing.
Remember, they are trying to make the RV engine do things it was never build or intended to do, its "un-tested" grounds for them atm.

The fact that you cant find anything, is a clear example of this mate, theres no loot respawns yet, so servers need a restart to get "filled with loot" again.
I can understand you want to play the game, but im kinda worried most people dont take theese warnings, which are littered all over the place tbh, seriously.
Many people already have several 100 hours in the "game", and i fear theese people will simply loose interest in it, because they did not wait for the game to become an actual game :)

Ive got about 25 hours so far, ive done nothing but test certain features and just simply had a look at the game, then report the bugs i came across.
Now im not saying you are "doing it wrong", im just saying, dont complain about a broken "pre-alpha" not working mate :D