Day 01

[dvious 9]

After playing this game for about 3 hours which I enjoyed alot. About dying 4 times i have learned to be tactical and play this game with smarts unlike call of duty. After learning from my mistakes which to run around in fields and looking for loot its quiet hard to find guns with ammo if you are new to the game. In the end after walking around for 1 hour i found some military tents where i got my first gun AKM but still i am too scared to kill a zombie.

My expectations:

- Run around and kill a bunch of zombies

- Try to team up with other survivors

- Get a pistol when you first spawn

- Jump in and play any time

Reality

- Get killed by zombies

- No one talks..

- weren't I suppose to get a pistol ?

- Game takes patients specially when it loads..

Couple of Questions

- When I look around in the game I found that my screen gets shaky and blurry, anyway to fix that?

- How can i use my hatchet/axe to kill zombies

- How do i walk woth my chemlight

[GenTroy (DayZ) 22]

After you pick axe up, if u right click on it in your gear menu, you can remove from tool belt. Then "reload" it, and ur good to go.

You throw your chemlights, can't walk with them to my knowledge. With them in your inventory just press "F", until you see them show up at top right of screen. Same with flares.

[GeeksterDayZ 55]

You don't spawn with a weapon, that was taken away ages ago.

If you are shaking in first person view it means you need to take painkillers as you are in shock, or pain.

Once you pick up the hatchet, open the inventory by pressing G, right-click on the hatchet and choose "remove from toolbelt". You will then have to click the mouse wheel to 'reload' the hatchet. click left mouse button to swing!

[dawson1488 3]

So you push F to cycle through usable items in your inventory(it shows what you are using on the top right). Throw a flare or chemlight and then run over to it and look at it. Roll your mouse wheel and you will have a pick up option where you can pick it up and run with it. You can also extenguish it or drop it once you pick it up. Rolling with the mouse wheel will basically give you your choices on any item of what you can do with it. Good luck. Go to www.dayzwiki.com and read the survivor's guide. It will help you out a lot. The amount of info out there has come a long way of the first days I was playing on the mod in early May when there was nothing.