New player needs advice

[xneoshadowx 1]

Okay just started and got killed by some gun fire, this time i respawned and dont know where i was. ran down a railroad track for a bit and eventually in the woods i found a pick up truck, now i used it to get to a what looks to be a town and i have no idea what houses i can go into and what i'll find.

any tips or tricks would be nice >.< as im all alone with nothing but a flashlight my 10 minutes of play and a single truck at my disposal. (did find road flares and a few ammo)

also do zombies drop anything??

Edited July 13, 2012 by xneoshadowx

[Scene 36]

Posted this earlier on for another person after some help

A good map with markers for places to get loot

http://teamfackin.com/moocow/dayz/map/

another map with crashed chopper locations (just shows where they can spawn)

http://southcoastbeanwars.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Crashed-Heli-Map-v7.jpg

Weapon damage chart

http://i.imgur.com/BuY29.jpg

the dayZ wiki

http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

When you first spawn take note of the bottom right, it will tell you the location of the place you are closest to.

Then just try find it on the map.

This map list the Russian names as well as so is helpful for finding places based on street signs that you can find around towns

http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/Gmap/beta/gmap.html

Just read through the DayZ wiki, it has a bunch of good info.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Scene

[chrispowdrill@yahoo.co.uk 10]

Get that truck stashed if you get killed it will be twooced. Barns give guns and ammo and easy to raid, if you want good loot you gota risk high bandit areas ie elecktro, cherno, nw airfield but chances of making it out alive on your own are slim. We always enter main cities in a gang of 3 to 7 people

Edited July 13, 2012 by Targett

[moriak 35]

there is only a few types of houses you can enter, you will learn them with time

most common ones are:

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_HouseV_1I4.jpg (easily confused with http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_HouseV_1I3.jpg)

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_HouseV2_02_Interier.jpg

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_HouseV2_04_interier.jpg

some sheds:

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_kulna.jpg

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_hut06.jpg

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_KBud.jpg

and farm type buildings:

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_stodola_old_open.jpg

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_stodola_open.jpg

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_Barn_W_01.jpg

http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_Farm_Cowshed_a.jpg

there are a few other enterable building and also some buildings that can not be entered but spawn loot at their door (e.g. http://picacid.com/arma2/imgs/Land_HouseV2_01A.jpg)

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

So new of a player and already found yourself a fixed, driveable truck? LUCKY.

Been playing for about a month and all I've found myself is a broken ATV and a bike.

I would read this very carefully, though. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2712359

[moriak 35]

also do zombies drop anything??

zombies have a small chance to "drop" one item (you need to loot it from their body) depending on their type.. towns folk can have food, drinks, empty cans and such.. military zombies can have military grade magazines, grenades, etc.

[xneoshadowx 1]

Alright just went through town knocking over zombies and found an open gas station that i went in and found a few things, if what i heard is right then if i quit my character will be saved and when i come back i hopefully will still be in my truck. not a 100 percent sure though.

and okay i might make a scavenge run to the zombies that i mow over if i feel like bringing the balls to it. At the moment though as i write this i am taking safety in my truck and am still next to said gas station. there are a few thing sleft in the station but i wasnt able to grab them. i have a pepsi and canned sardines, a few ammo, i think a road flare and a steel bolt, also a heat pad and pain killers. im honestly freaking out at what to do next lol. no weapons and no way of knowing where to go.

[terraknight 11]

gimme a sec, gonna copy paste some of my tips from another post.

Hmm, lets see, a few tips to get you started huh.... awright, lets see

1. You're either a Bandit or a Carebear. The Difference is that Bandits will shoot on sight WITHOUT some sissy warnings and crap. If you wish to get someone you can trust and play with, take em from some other game/irl where you KNOW they have your back, as trusting strangers in this game, even if they just started out = certain death. On the other hand, if you're a carebear, have fun being shot in the face by bandits who you think are your friends cause they gave you some food and let you hang with them until you found a weapon/usually other way around but yeh.

2. If you die, get yourself the basic starting gear: Hatchet (if nothing else, first weapon) hunting knife, box of matches (a biatch to find at times) compass (your holy grail on your quest further north/northwest) a map (you can always use online maps to figure out where you are by landmarks and compass, so its quite unnecessary) watch (you can get your bearings by using the shadows from trees with it, ofc, this is only if you don't have the patience to look for a compass. It also tells the time of the server =D)

3. weapons. For your secondary, I would suggest getting a makarov to start with unless you find better, then you should get an M1911 or Revolver, mostly because you can turn revolver rounds into M19 rounds and the other way around, tho I have to tell you, Never EVER pick up a G17, thats the next most useless gun in the game after Makarov, and you will still use makarov cause its easier to find ammo for it.

For your main, atleast what I've found the way I do it is: Hatchet > Lee Enflield > AK 74/M4A1 > ak/m4 with scope >different snipers or rarer weapons from barracks/heli crashes if you're lucky

Sure, you could get a shotgun as well, but as I see it, none of them really stands up to a ranged fight if you were to encounter an enemy player. Ofc, if you stay in towns alot, thats a different matter, but I would still recommend longer range even there

If you get a hatchet, remove it from your tool belt and equip it, this will serve damn good as your first weapon, cause if you get within close enuff range of Zeds, you will 1hit kill them without them noticing you (if you're lucky) btw, normal Zeds drop food/bandages, and military ones drop ammo. Ofc, this is just a few of them, again, if you're lucky.

You are free to choose whatever weapons you wish to have, but these are atleast my tips.

4. NEVER get too attached to gear, cause in one fast "swipp" it can all be gone and you'd have to start again. I've seen ALOT of people crying about starting again without ANY weapons and that they're defenceless babies etc. The only thing I agree with those people is that they're babies. This game is MEANT to be hard, its MEANT to simulate how you would behave if, lets say, your ship sunk out at sea thanks to the zombie infestation onboard, and all you could with you was stuff that wouldn't make you sink, like Bandage, painkillers and a flashlight (not so heavy) If you had the same situation, and had tried bringing a gun, you'd have sunk like a stone unless you were some kind of athlete.

5.should've been brought up as 4th, but conserve your ammo! This is not L4dead where a big pile of all ammo will be and your gun uses magicly refilling clips, and you can be sure, if you use your gun within a town, you are sure to bring attention to yourself both from Zeds and Bandits alike. Best thing to do is to avoid them all in all.If you somehow aggro, run into a building that you can run out on the other side of, and when I say run, I mean crouchsneak out of it so you don't further aggro Zeds. This brings us to

6. Learn ALL the buildings! learn how they look, and which ones that have 2 entrances/exits. This will be valuable info when the Zeds are running after you ready to buttrape you Ofc, you ought to take notice of all enterable buildings, and if there's sounds of flies coming from them if you're outside one, you ought to be careful, as there might be a player inside camping the building for unsuspecting pray.

7. If you get a tent, hide it WELL, and by that, I don't mean close to the road somewhere behind a random tree, nonono, hide it somewhere far in the woods where even YOU would need a compass to locate it, preferrably close to pinetrees, as they give the best cover.

8. Read the forums after a patch! more specificly, the bug section, cause you will find stuff happening with stuff that you might be looking at, or intending to use, like the Ghille suit, and boom, its gone with all your stuff! Thats atleast what've been happening since 1.7.2 and there's atleast 3 threads about it, and one had I think 4 pages with cries and rage about how they lost their stuff, this is why you read on the forums after a major patch, and wait to use stuff until its been fixed (feel bad for you guys out there who used yer ghille suit, but its yer own fault =D)

There we go. I think thats about it as far as I can think now. If I have any other tips, I'll edit them in. Think I'll save this for newbie threads like these, seems worthwhile

oh yeah, btw, these maps/sites are freaking awesome, you ought to use em:

http://dayzdb.com/map

http://dayzwiki.com/...title=Main_Page

http://southcoastbea...com/day-z-maps/

[chrispowdrill@yahoo.co.uk 10]

That truck stays on the server you found it, so if you want your truck you need to keep playing on the same server.

[xneoshadowx 1]

currently parked outside of town in my truck so hopefully when i log into the server again ill be right there.

atm i got food bottles etc and a pepsi for drinks etc but im not sure if going back in is a wise idea and im not sure where else to go. Thanks for the help though guys

[chrispowdrill@yahoo.co.uk 10]

Get back in there if you thought like that youd never play the game lol

[xneoshadowx 1]

well thats just perfect, i disco'd then re-logged to make sure it workd, spawned right in the middle of the truck, saw the gun loot icon, and found ALOT of good stuff, and when i was done the truck crushed me :/ so yeah im kinda dissapointed now

[species5021 28]

Yeah, alpha can do that to you sometimes. Next time hide the truck in the woods somewhere. The map is huge but it's so widely traveled by people that most things get discovered or stolen pretty quick. Also make sure you dont logout on a roof, or inside something narrow like staircases, the game can log you into a position that will kill you when the logging completes.

[xneoshadowx 1]

i think someone had tried to hide the truck lol i figured out where i had spawned when i found it since i entered a new serv at the same spot. Doubt ill goto the serv and find it again but least i had my few mionutes of glory of a working truck with hidden stuff i didnt know it was there and mayb ruining some bandits stash since there was alot of meds and AK stuffs there.

[hazzathealmighty 51]

Drive north, all the good stuff is up north (apparently)