FIVE Things I've Learned Playing DayZ

[Kin0 21]

So I've been playing this for about a month now and I'm even getting to a point where I'm pretty familiar with the map and can navigate to places I've been to after I die.

So I figured it would be interesting to share 5 things I've learned so far playing DayZ, feel free to share your top 5 as well.

1. SNIPER NESTS DON'T STAY EMPTY FOR LONG

I found this one out the hard way... Before I knew to reference a map, I stumbled across the fire station/power station just north of Elektro. It was overrun with Zeds and I found a hatchet in the shed nearby, so I figured why not check out the main building. I heard random gunshots firing off in the distance, so I ducked in the fire station for cover, it was quiet.

I made my way up the tower where I found a DMR and lots of ammo, I thought "hey this is actually a pretty sweet gun!" and I was checking out the scope, when I heard somebody running around downstairs. That's when I knew it was too good to last... I heard the ting-ting-ting of footsteps up the metal stairs and I prepared for the inevitable. A survivor with a nice shiny DMR popped his head up and fired 3 rounds in me. Needless to say, I don't hang around places where rifles spawn anymore!

2. INFECTED ARE DEADLY ACCURATE, ONCE

This has happened to me more times than I can count. I'll be at 12k bllood and I'm sneaking my way through a small farm, when oops... I aggro a zed. No biggie, I'll run for the hills. So as I stand up from my prone position, I turn to run and I get a small nick from a zed and proceed to run away and lose him in the buses. Only to notice moments later that I'm spraying more blood than a Tarantino film. Strangely enough, after the first nick, I have found it very, very difficult to bleed again. Thank goodness for extra strength bandaids!

3. LEG BONES ARE COMPRISED PRIMARILY OF PREZELS

I'm being tounge-in-cheek with this one, but seriously... I've broken my legs jumping down from a 5 foot surface, I've broken my legs when I have over 9k health from an infected beat down, I've broken my legs crawling around things. Maybe Rocket should implement wheelchairs into the game as a vehicle, cause clearly something happened to everyone's kneecaps.

4. FIRING A GUN AT A ZOMBIE IS A BAD, BAD IDEA

Pre-patch, I did not have much luck finding a gun, so I stuck to my hatchet. Post patch, I've found shotguns littered along the coast like candy... I wonder if that's a coincidence?

5. I REALLY DISLIKE DODGING INFECTED

One of the most significant things I've learned as I've been playing DayZ. is that I really f**king hate sneaking around a city for 20 minutes only to have a random infected aggro and send me high-tailing it into the woods. I'm not whining about the game, I still enjoy it as a whole, and it speaks volumes that a game gets me so involved that I am genuinely invested in what I'm doing in the game.

I just really, really hate those zombies.

Cheers folks

Edited August 4, 2012 by Kin0

[FaceAche 69]

The zombies hate you as well.

[Dingus (DayZ) 429]

3. LEG BONES ARE COMPRISED PRIMARILY OF PREZELS

I was going to go with wafer cookies.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Dingus

[Brudagon (DayZ) 64]

I've developed a hatred for zombies after Rocket adjusted their hearing. They're just obnoxious, it's almost as if I wish they weren't in the game.

[copper2010 6]

1: I hate graphical gliches

2: I hate Alt+f4

3: I hate hackers

4: I hate bandits

5: I hate my pretzel legs

One, two, three, and hopefully five will all be fixed eventully, DayZ is just in Alpha and it has a lot of breathing room to fix crazy shit that happens. Four is just a fact of DayZ life, you learn to deal with them, and you get over encountering them.

So in all, I don't hate anything about DayZ anymore. They will either be fixed, or you grow use to them.

[Dingus (DayZ) 429]

I've developed a hatred for zombies after Rocket adjusted their hearing. They're just obnoxious, it's almost as if I wish they weren't in the game.

Yeah, just about any primary weapon draws an entire town of them. Just have to adjust until it gets changed again.

[Kin0 21]

Yeah, just about any primary weapon draws an entire town of them. Just have to adjust until it gets changed again.

I fired a slug from my double barrel shotgun (which did not kill the infected btw) and it attracted zombies from other servers,

[Dingus (DayZ) 429]

I fired a slug from my double barrel shotgun (which did not kill the infected btw) and it attracted zombies from other servers,

HAHA

I tell you what though. I have learned how to patiently get head shots with my secondary since the weapon nerf. Learn out of necessity.

[Brudagon (DayZ) 64]

The hearing adjustment definitely made me love my M4A1 CCO SD. It's freaking amazing.

[Wolfgrey666 29]

My 5 i have learned.

1.Being good with a crossbow means your a hacker(according to everyone i kill).

2.Being friendly during the day is pretty easy.Being friendly during the night is near impossible.

3.The dark is your friend not your enemy at night.Learn to identify head movement variants based on zombie or player.Once you do, you can headshot all night without NVGs.And get called a hacker XD

4.The woods is your best friend thanks to meat and catching snipers by surprise.

5.Treat military bases like they don't exist and stay far awy from any like they are full of radiation.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Wolfgrey666

[Falcrist 119]

I fired a slug from my double barrel shotgun (which did not kill the infected btw) and it attracted zombies from other servers,

I fired an M107 in Cherno once, and was promptly attacked by groups of zombies from Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead, I am Legend, Alone in the Dark, 28 Days Later, House of the Dead, The Crazies, Killing Floor, Dawn of the Dead, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Curse of the Dead, Pet Sematary, and Plants vs. Zombies.

[jmido8 62]

I fired an M107 in Cherno once, and was promptly attacked by groups of zombies from Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead, I am Legend, Alone in the Dark, 28 Days Later, House of the Dead, The Crazies, Killing Floor, Dawn of the Dead, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Curse of the Dead, Pet Sematary, and Plants vs. Zombies.

You know that one guy that tries to jump into a joke and kills it? Yeah.

[Falcrist 119]

You know that one guy that tries to jump into a joke and kills it? Yeah.

The only thing that died was me. I blame the lack of lawnmowers.

[Eidos (DayZ) 4]

zig zag between building and around corners. you dont have to run to the woods everytime you catch an aggro. lol @ pretzel legs comment. I close a door on myself in an outhouse and broke my legs on the island one time. terrible experience.