Now what?

[RanST 6]

So. I got the game, haven't ran into bugs yet.

In the description it says people team up, some group play or maybe pvp. It says you can do great things, but here's my experiance.

I spawn at the coast, run around trying to find anything or anyone. The first town i ran into is completely empty from either players, zombies or even food or drink. There's nothing.

Now, I don't know how large this map is and I assume it's pretty large, therefore I must ask where is everyone going to, because I'm probably running in the wrong direction.

 

Any help on how to get started?

[DropBearChick 1217]

Chenk the link in my signature, its a guide to starting off and some of the mechanics for dayz as well as tips for using items and getting gear.

[xCAPx 349]

maybe in berenzino, solnichny, cherno, elektro, stary sobor and the airfields/mil bases...but you can never say where the players are. I played on full 40 slots server and met nobody, and I played on empty servers with 5 other players and met 3 of them. So you can never say.

Move along the coast or inland and you will find some closed houses and loot.

 

MAP:

http://www.dayztv.com/map/#5.143.056

[DemonGroover 8836]

Everyone is hiding from you in the treeline

[RanST 6]

This time I managed to find a large town. Unfortunately there are many zombies there where ever you go. and unarmed you can only take out one, and even when you do you need medical care afterwards

[MetapoliC 263]

:DD I love posts like this. Mate you can't run in a wrong direction... there are no goals. You have a map, many towns and villages, you can decide where to go. If you want to meet people you should go on a full server and wait in Berezino/Solnechniy or you make your way to west - Kamishivo - > Elektrozavodsk -> Chernogorsk. The last two are the biggest cities on the map and you will meet some people there. THe others are most likely on one of the airfields or they are somewhere in the fields, making their way to the next location

[Survivor_Ted 269]

You definitely don't need to go where everyone else goes, if anything you should head the other direction.

 

Seems to me that you bought the game after a friend said it was pretty cool and you have otherwise no experience. I'm not trying to be rude, but play it more and think outside of the box, try your best to survive. It almost feels like this was your first 20 minutes of playing and now you make a post saying 'Now what?' as if you've experienced the whole game.

[RanST 6]

I didn't experiance much but here is what I got:

I spawn in a coast with nothing but my clothes and a flashlight (I can't even make it to the night so that flashlight means nothing for me atm). 

I go through 3-4 houses in each town I get to, all the them are completely empty of any food/drinks or weapons.

If there are zombies already they are in large groups (one finds you, the others are sure to follow) and your fists does no damage whatsoever, even when I got a crowbar it took my so long to kill the zombie that I died few minutes later. I get the alpha thing so I don't complain about the fact they are running around you and can hit you from a huge distance, but seriously, I wouldn't wanna get hit by the end of a crowbar, and I'll probably won't be able to run around my foe and hit him again and again.

We're past that. found a nice spot, suddenly a player came, dressed up well, probably not a zombie. He just stood there and did nothing. Than another one came and shot us both. Absolutely zero communication.. also pretty surprising.

 

So even though I get the idea of going around and exploring (which is what I do. between one comment and another I'm in game) I can't deal with any zombie and yet I am required to deal with them In order to get gear that will help me deal with them. That's pretty much an endless cycle of remaining a loser.

[amiasfree 262]

Yeah you can't meet players in-game, they'll just kill you. If you meet any, kill them if you can or run away. If you want this game to be 'multiplayer' you have to get people you know from outside the game to play with you, otherwise just look at other players as hostile NPCs with derpy AI.

 

Edit: Look in barns, tool sheds etc for a starter zombie killing weapon. Best weapons so far are pitchfork, farming hoe, splitting axe, and fireaxe. Two shots kill a zed with everything other than fireaxe, which is a one hit kill itself. You can also easily box a zed to death but to do that you need to be able to circle strafe around it without getting hit.

Edited April 20, 2014 by Amias Free