A few noob questions!

[Fulgrim 0]

He guys,

i just got this game a few days and im really struggling mainly because i cant find a weapon and im to chicken to enter a town crawling with walkers/zombies to scavenge so here are my questions.

1. really simple but what are good places to start looking for a weapon? since im getting spanked right off the bat :P

2. is there any way to do something at night about the darkness cause i cant see shit xD i was dry humping a wall for a minute earlier on because i didnt see anything

3. should i even let other players know im there or just avoid em i got shot a few times alrdy so i rather leave em alone and move on.

i hope you guys can help a noob out thanks in advance!

[BigTrain86 3]

My tip is go north, the coast is a death zone, weapons you can find in hunting towers around fields. And barns that you will find every where as well.

But my tip is, before you hunt weapons get a feel for the game, avoiding Zeds (Zombies). Get food and water. Then find weapons.

Gl & hf!

[fluffyville 0]

Head away from the larger cities at first, unless you're playing under the cover of darkness on a low pop server. Getting a loot map will probably help you out no end too. Once you're out of the cities and away from imminent danger, head to farm buildings, barns and deer stands. That should get you started, once you have some means of defense (don't be too eager to shoot, loud bangs = dinner bell) you can head into some of the smaller towns and start looting houses and such like. From there well, that's really up to you.

As for seeing in the dark, you do spawn with a flashlight, you'll need to equip it by right clicking it in your inventory and it'll end up in your secondary weapon slot, provided you don't have a weapon there already. If you do then put the weapon in your bad and then equip the flashlight. To turn it on it's the L key. There are also chemlights in 3 different colours that radiate light to different levels depending on which one you use, red gives of the lowest level of light and I think blue gives of the maximum with green floating somewhere in between. You can also pick up road flares and spark those off. Chemlights and flares are thrown but they can be picked back up again however running with a flare may or may not be a smart idea as you do light yourself up quite well, zombies are also attracted to light sources, especially flairs. I think they like the fizzing noise. flairs and chemlights can be extinguished too if you need to hide in darkness in a hurry.

You can also turn the HDR setting all the way up and play around with your gamma settings, both of these are under the advanced video options. I'm not too keep on messing with gamma as night time is supposed to be dark and artificially messing with the darkness kinda takes the immersion away. Once you get yourself equipped with a compass, orientated and you know more or less where you are, not being able to see in the dark isn't really that much of an issue. Of course once you get into or even close to a town you can loose off a flair or two to distract the zombies for a few minutes and also light up the loot. But don't hang around as opportunistic players may see your flair and come and steal your beans!

As for advertising yourself to other players, do so at your own risk. joining a group and teaming up with them for ops might not be a bad idea. Teaming with some random survivor could be great but equally it could go pair shaped very quickly.

Hope that helps you out a little, enjoy :p