Why didn't I start with a gun?

[-Mac 3]

I started with a flashlight, some painkillers, a bandaid and a backpack.

[dougan25 34]

you don't start with a gun. crawl into some houses and find a pistol, it shouldn't take long. or a hatchet. i used a hatchet till i found an ak

[Disgraced 1123]

Derp.

It's been weeks since they announced that there would be no start gun.

[Lou_Drew 10]

You don't start with a gun, that'd be why you didn't start with a gun.

[TheBadger (DayZ) 67]

I'm not following. So you're saying I don't start with a gun? Without a gun, I start without a gun and therefore are without a gun.

Shit.

[Drogur (DayZ) 169]

He got it...

[TheBadger (DayZ) 67]

What, the point? Because he certainly didn't get a gun.

[Disgraced 1123]

Man up. Drop all of your equipment on the beach and find everything yourself.

[TheBadger (DayZ) 67]

Man up. Drop all of your equipment on the beach and find everything yourself.

Challenge accepted.

And I'm gonna record it all. all thirty seconds of survival.

Edited July 21, 2012 by TheBadger

[Disgraced 1123]

Challenge accepted.

And I'm gonna record it all. all thirty seconds of survival.

I rocked it. SVD CAMO, m4A3CCO, ALice, two tents, &c, &c.

Sure, I die a few lives here and there, and I almost die quite often, but I NEVER hit respawn and play out every life to the end. It's worthwhile.

Edited July 21, 2012 by Disgraced

[TheBadger (DayZ) 67]

I rocked it. SVD CAMO, m4A3CCO, ALice, two tents, &c, &c.

Sure, I die a few lives here and there, and I almost die quite often, but I NEVER hit respawn and play out every life to the end. It's worthwhile.

I agree, I've been playing only for a few days but I've only once thought about being a coward-- never again. It's a bitter up hill struggle and I have no weapons experience, but it makes my few victories feel all the more sweet.

Did you have any companions with you?

[ChinWooMan 34]

Derp.

It's been weeks since they announced that there would be no start gun.

It's called "New Player Discussion" for a techinal reason.

The "Derp" here is you.

Edited July 21, 2012 by ChinWooMan

[Disgraced 1123]

I agree, I've been playing only for a few days but I've only once thought about being a coward-- never again. It's a bitter up hill struggle and I have no weapons experience, but it makes my few victories feel all the more sweet.

Did you have any companions with you?

Nope. Just moved away from the coast and prioritized.

Each patch, I spend a few lives learning how zombie aggro works. Once I know that, I prioritize gear. Last patch,morphine injectors had a high priority. I made a number of failed, and finally successful hospital runs.

This time, broken bones aren't quite as common, but guns, food and drink are plentiful, so avoiding the need to go into cities and towns climbed higher. I'm working on securing my own vehicles, now. I've started working on helicopter crashes in the northern fields, but I've got good guns, so a vehicle and tents are priority. And a place to hide them... Place or places.

[Disgraced 1123]

It's called "New Player Discussion" for a techinal reason.

The "Derp" here is you.

It's a tough learning curve, but there is a lot of information out there for those with even a rudimentary understanding of how to find information these days. It behooves anyone playing to at the very least keep up with the latest patch information, lest that person post an ignorant thread missing an extremely basic fact of the current iteration of the mod.

[tacooftwister22 10]

If you need to find a gun use http://dayzdb.com/map#2.040.094 . It's a map of the game and it all the red dots/squares spawn guns.

[nwgx_kronos 1]

it promotes kids to be fannybandits and kill eachother on the beaches like its normandy or some shit. you gotta loot a gun now :) enjoi!

[LT.Sacred 9]

If you need to find a gun use http://dayzdb.com/map#2.040.094 . It's a map of the game and it all the red dots/squares spawn guns.

Using a loot map ruins a large experience you could have had if you did not use the map O_o

[1n5anity 0]

Not mad or anything but shouldn't you maybe do like a minute research before you go through the troubles of making a post. Much more profit towards doing the research.