New player Qustion for veterans

[roaraam@gmail.com 3]

So I will say I am rather lucky or understood the game flow in this game rather quick . as so far I have zero death after 8 hours and first gun I found where a m1911 and a DMZ so can be the main reason^^

1. Do spawn loot work like spawn zombies? I notice if there is no zombies spawned around a barn/house whatever there is never loot, true or false? (except for cleaned camps)

started to notice this when I did visit 3 hunter lodges, first where no zombies around and no loot. but 2 other hunter lodges did have 2-3 zombies and they both did have loot(DMZ with plenty of ammo yay!)

also noticed zombies always spawn around places (outside town) where there is loot, false or true observation?

2. what backpack can carry guns? (like keep my makaroni for the zombies as I not want to waste usefull bullets on easy targets)

Why I ask is because I notice when I did try to put items in them they dissapear completly (from inventory,backpack and the ground and just vanish)

http://picacid.com/a...ackpack_EP1.png is what I use now because I found a bugged ALICE pack

is there a spesial pack or is it a bug or intended? Clarification is welcome

3. is the skin you spawn as (male) random? I notice I always started at the beach with the ugly blue look that you can see from milez away, but today I notice I have more of a black outfit that is much easier to blend in the surroundings (by far for non.military outfits)

4.why do people pickup tincans than drop it? is it because of reseting loot?

I thank in Advance for the answers and I love this game so far and maybe consider apply for few DayZ server with my spare server rack/blade server later on(hosted around 30 minecraft server with lowping for EU region but minecraft is something of the past ) ;)

Edited July 16, 2012 by RoaRawR

[killavirus 12]

1

Yes zombies spawn around loot points. havnt found a non lootable building with zombies yet.

2

guns take up 7 inventory spots. If you dont have enough space in your pack they vanish.

3

dunno never really bothered about skins.

4

clearing lootpiles scouting round other building chance is yes another loot pile will spawn with other stuff.

tin cans are actually usefull.

[roaraam@gmail.com 3]

Thank for the fast answer Killavirus;)

[Jukez 44]

guns take up 7 inventory spots. If you dont have enough space in your pack they vanish.

Not true. Main weapons take 10 slots and secondary weapons 5 slots. You also need room for mags. 1 slot per mag.

[Reecon 3]

the default skins are clientside. so you can look different for other players. until you wear a camo or ghillie suit. female skin is always the same and females can't put on other skins.

[roaraam@gmail.com 3]

the default skins are clientside. so you can look different for other players. until you wear a camo or ghillie suit. female skin is always the same and females can't put on other skins.

ok thanks, I just hated the white one as it just a big target practice and just don't go with anything

[noobfun 87]

So I will say I am rather lucky or understood the game flow in this game rather quick . as so far I have zero death after 8 hours and first gun I found where a m1911 and a DMZ so can be the main reason^^

you found a De-Militarised Zone in a deer stand? :P

1. also noticed zombies always spawn around places (outside town) where there is loot, false or true observation?

they spawn around buildings lootable or not

2. what backpack can carry guns? (like keep my makaroni for the zombies as I not want to waste usefull bullets on easy targets)

any with enough room 5 for sidearm 10 for main, if you have more slots then just for the weapon it will try and move ammo as well so you can end up loosing it (if your switcihing weapons in backpack with main make sure you got room for ammo or better yet keep the backpack full)

3. is the skin you spawn as (male) random? I notice I always started at the beach with the ugly blue look that you can see from milez away, but today I notice I have more of a black outfit that is much easier to blend in the surroundings (by far for non.military outfits)

server side and completley random what you see V's what other people see, you see blue they might see blue .. or black

4.why do people pickup tincans than drop it? is it because of reseting loot?

yupp takes 15 minutes to respawn if all the loot piles are cleared (well did up until 1.7.1.5 but i had a break so not sure if its changed now) Edited July 17, 2012 by stuffnthings

[louist 163]

Contrary to what stuffnthings has said, zombies only spawn at buildings that have a chance of loot. You can test this put by checking the loot map from dayzdb, and going to any of the remote non-loot buildings. You won't find any zombies.

Just keep in mind that loot has merely a chance to spawn. Often times low value buildings will spawn zombies, but no loot.

Edited July 17, 2012 by louist

[Numinak 10]

I'll note that Zeds can and do spawn around non-loot buildings. I've been far out in the woods, come across a shack (no loot and not enterable) and still had them spawn...sometimes right on top of me because I wasn't expecting them and had run to the building for a little cover.

[louist 163]

No loot, or no loot this time? Some of the shacks only have 1 loot spawn, and a 30 or 40% chance of actually spawning.

I won't say I cannot be wrong, but nothing I've seen has proven otherwise. The closest I've come is two loot able building not marked on the map. They had zombies, and investigating them, I also found some food and tin cans.

Edited July 17, 2012 by louist

[noobfun 87]

Contrary to what stuffnthings has said, zombies only spawn at buildings that have a chance of loot. You can test this put by checking the loot map from dayzdb, and going to any of the remote non-loot buildings. You won't find any zombies.

theres a hut that doesnt span loot north of the north east airfield, approximatley east of the single door barn there, and zombies spawn there, i know i stashed a motorcycle there then couldnt remember exactly where and had to spend an hour checking every dam conifer tree -_-

also if you jump onto the road north of prud, take the short arm that ends in the woods, no loot but the building still spawns z's (and they are a different spawn to deerstand out of the forest)

[louist 163]

Next time I'm out that way I'll take a look.