DayZ needs more loot

[PlasticAssasin8 (DayZ) 78]

Ive often thought " where the hell is the gear" but i then roll on to see how far i can go, i have starved  at times ive found nothing, buts that all good.

[blacklabel79 949]

i played for hours yesterday. On high and low population servers. I could find ammo, but no weapons to match. Or I could find a weapon, but never find ammo. Do the servers have to restart before the loot is replenished?

What tips does anyone have for getting ammo and weapons?

 

check the blue wrecked cars....

[sachad 1016]

Don't look for loot where everyone else looks. Tiny villages that may look unappealing at first glance can prove to be veritable treasure troves, because people hardly go there for precisely that reason. Weapons, clothing, food, anything you need to ensure prolonged survival can be looted in under fifteen minutes in those places. 

 

 

check the blue wrecked cars....

 

 

Pick-up trucks are even better! Guns, ammo, bags, food, drinks and clothing all spawn there.

Edited March 15, 2015 by Sacha

[Kaffarov37 125]

Their is enough loot as is. You just have to know where to look, along with not going to frequently visited places

[pilgrim* 3514]

i played for hours yesterday. On high and low population servers. I could find ammo, but no weapons to match. Or I could find a weapon, but never find ammo. Do the servers have to restart before the loot is replenished?

What tips does anyone have for getting ammo and weapons?

 

If you find an sks then you will need to go to a military sight to get any good amount of ammo (a quick dash into the tent city will do) If you get a lower grade gun like a mosin or repeater or magnum etc you can find ammo everywhere. If you really want big stuff like m4's AK's etc then, good luck.

 

well, I logged in and found an SKS on a building site ..also found a good canteen, an ice pick, and a pink derringer (heh) and a pristine cord .. moved on, found ammo for SKS in school building (how much do you need, really ?), also 2 bags of rice, picked up 1 box shotgun shells, on my way out to the woods found a pump gun in a shed.. I had just dropped in DayZ for 15 mins before work, there were 5 or 6 people on the server, more when I left..

 

This is not in a new area or any special area.

 

I was looking for a shotgun (I got a hacksaw, good for opening cans too), but this stuff will do till I find what I want. There were clothes and boots in good condition around that area, but I have a green raincoat, military carry-vest, matches, fishook, meat knife. spade, pumpkin seeds, don't really need the SKS so I'll probably put it in some place where I can find it later, or where no one else will get it.

 

My problem with DayZ is I have all the stuff I need, I look for stuff I want, or just to check out new equipment.. When I log in I'm well fed, hydrated energized, dry, armed, camouflaged, i've got what I require and extras I can pick up anytime.. so after a while traveling and hunting and eating and exploring and going through villages and checking out players .. I have to go get in a shooting match so I can get killed and start over..  I go hang around a barracks and see who turns up (that is funny sometimes).. or take a walk in a big town see who doesn't expect to meet a hill-billy with a sawed off shotgun in a small space (heh)

 

then sooner or later I get wasted (usually unexpectedly) and start over.

 

The "barracks players" are mainly totally disorganized and have a life expectancy of from 1 day down to 10 minutes.. maybe 2 days if their lucky (I mean 100% complete lucky-by-chance) they are fun to see. If you want to find guns and ammo, and stay alive to use them, don't go to those places. Go to the places most other players don't go. It's that simple.

 

Every barracks area or airfield building has one or two ways of holding off attackers or placing yourself at an advantage - teams who play those areas know them - apart from that, its quickest reactions, chance, or who gets the drop on the other.. being cunning can help, but inside a known barracks area there are only so many moves you can make, so the game in there is like a little CoD map.

 

But mainly IMO 'barracks players' are not-very-skilled players and hoppers who are just running in and out hoping for the best.. this means if 2 other players turn up while you're going through a barracks area you have a 33.3% chance of living. Hop 3 or 6 times and you should be geared up (even if you get killed once or twice).. but then why bother to play like that? Sure its fun and exciting but there's a lot more on the map than two or three "key" places. IMO stay on the same ONE map and try to survive. And hey - surviving includes NOT going to places where people shoot you on sight.

 

But - OK - If you want to go into a police station (and you're a loner) hide out where you can see the street and watch for a while, see if there are zombies around, or players.. then decide yes/no to make your move and don't dawdle. Go straight to what you want, get it and get out.. on the way in you can already see if stuff has been looted, don't search at random .. have your escape route planned.. (etc, etc, etc, ya know?) be ready to meet someone coming in as you're going out. Whack him. Then expect his friend is 3p-ing round the corner waiting for you.

 

Anyway - SKS and SKS ammo - you find them anywhere.. specially you find them in places where there are not so many players. Go find a quiet building-site and go up to the second floor and look on the wooden work bench, always a gun there unless someone else took it, go on the roof, turn right and look at the "sniper point" see if there's ammo or a sight or a silencer or a gun.. its called a "sniper" location on all the loot maps. Not difficult to find. And players who reach these quieter places often already have the gear they want and tend to leave more loot around. Check the block of stone on the ground floor in the long room close to one of the corner stairs - guns?.. check the pile of bricks on the ground floor open veranda between the 2 stairwells, sometimes a gun half hidden under there too..(hey, this is just half of 1 building I'm mentioning..)  But if you really NEED a military auto, I guess you know where to find those (see the loot maps) .. you don't have MORE chance of finding those, you just have more chance of being killed doing it.

 

[hey survivor people - sorry if I'm giving away some of yo' reliable loot locations, but no one reads this stuff anyway]

Edited March 19, 2015 by pilgrim

[HarryPotter (DayZ) 172]

I suppose the thing is I only really play private hives that are the full 50 pop logging on if I can get a space... I have 2 or 3 I play on. So I almost never find sks ammo anywhere (the actual guns are everywhere) apart from military sites... sometimes find loose rounds in other places but not often. Sometimes it hard to find a can of beans on those servers! But I prefer to play this way it's much harder and more rewarding for me.  

[pilgrim* 3514]

I suppose the thing is I only really play private hives that are the full 50 pop logging on if I can get a space... I have 2 or 3 I play on. So I almost never find sks ammo anywhere (the actual guns are everywhere) apart from military sites... sometimes find loose rounds in other places but not often. Sometimes it hard to find a can of beans on those servers! But I prefer to play this way it's much harder and more rewarding for me.  

 

yep, from habit i always pick up an SKS clip if I find one and keep it...true, they are not common.  But I like better the Mosin because you can saw it off or add a scope as you feel, but mainly because it shares ammo with the Longhorn, which is a neat little one-shot gun with a scope that works good, and you can keep in your backpack. That's real useful for ALL kinds of stuff from hunting to sniping. For face to face the sawed off shotgun set to 50 with both barrels on is the biggest laugh = door opens and a dude military-geared to the teeth dives in - he's gota be crazy - you don't even have to aim (heh).

Edited March 18, 2015 by pilgrim

[HarryPotter (DayZ) 172]

Longhorn is a great gun.

 

A good civilian load out for me is Longhorn for long shots, repeater for mid distance and sawn off shotgun for close range + maybe magnum as its good close in and shares same ammo as repeater.

[emuthreat 2837]

I would recommend using a non-persistent server when you are freshly spawning at the coast (or by novo, CP or Vybor).

 

The persistent servers get cleaned out by thursday mornings, and all the loot respawns in "loot bombs," at a few different locations; making it very difficult to find what you need to survive.

[cash81 506]

What we really need are more boots. I can't tell you how many times ive ran from one military camp to another risking life and limb to walk in to a hanger or shed and only find 4 pairs of boots laying around. Then walk to the next building and find just 3 more pairs laying there. then walk to a vehicle and find 2 more pairs. Then more in a tent, or jail cell, or every other structure in the game.

Could we have more random boot spawns? Like middle of the street, gas station pumps, hidden inside a jerry can?

I just cant get enough! :)

[lrp1984 199]

What we really need are more boots. I can't tell you how many times ive ran from one military camp to another risking life and limb to walk in to a hanger or shed and only find 4 pairs of boots laying around. Then walk to the next building and find just 3 more pairs laying there. then walk to a vehicle and find 2 more pairs. Then more in a tent, or jail cell, or every other structure in the game.

Could we have more random boot spawns? Like middle of the street, gas station pumps, hidden inside a jerry can?

I just cant get enough! :)

 

When your leg breaks randomly in the ATC or the firestation at NWAF, you'll be glad of those boots.

[cash81 506]

When your leg breaks randomly in the ATC or the firestation at NWAF, you'll be glad of those boots.

 

they didn't do much good when climbing down a guard tower on prison island. my guy decided to jump off midway down and didn't make it...

[thewire 88]

apple tree is your savior...help with thirst and hunger :) 

[PlasticAssasin8 (DayZ) 78]

apple tree is your savior...help with thirst and hunger :)

Ill have to look for one , never have before.

 

Possibly needs more, or as you get older the loot gets progressively harder to locate as it is now.

I'm doing ok for now though

Edited April 4, 2015 by PlasticAssasin8

[slippery gypsy 107]

Ill have to look for one , never have before.

 

Possibly needs more, or as you get older the loot gets progressively harder to locate as it is now.

I'm doing ok for now though

Either you had that gear before the patch or you are not playing on private persistent servers