My first couple days

[kenneth@hadm.net 0]

I bought Arma 2 and OA a couple weeks ago and played for all of 1 hour before all of the servers quit showing up for me. The next day every time I started Arma native or using 6 launcher it would show an icon on my task bar then disappear but still have a task running this also killed my flash in all web browsers. Well between moving the beta EXE and unplugging my headset it finally magically started working.

During all my downtime I took time to research the noob section here and watching the Survive series from DevilDogGaming (which was addicting by the way haha, it was almost like a good TV show, couldn't wait to see what happened next) so now I have some ideas about how to navigate, where to go, what to look for, etc.

Finally, I'm in. Time to go find me some gear. Time to put my knowledge to the test. I post up on a +GMT server since I play in the evenings. I started exploring in prone and try to open all the doors I can find. I quickly figure out that most houses are not open to you. I also discover you can and will randomly break your bones. I found a tent so I crawl over to it, from grass to pavement and when I look in the ten blam, broken leg...can you booby trap tents? I was crawling through Elektro and found a ton of medical supplies luckily. Crawling around some more, I think a zombie with retard strength hit me and broke my leg again. Otherwise I just randomly broke my leg crawling around.

I ended up getting mauled by a swarm of zombies again and die. I start again. I'm wandering around the town north of Elektro for about 20 mins and bam, all 15-20 users on the server are teleported to the cement dock. Wtf is this? We all run away, all the zombies are fired up and I eventually get sniped and die. I quit that server because I'm not into playing with cheaters or admins doing stupid stuff. I decide to play at night because I'm digging the sneaky cover of night by this time. All of a sudden a black ring of smoke appears out of nowhere and looks very, very out of place, I think it did something bad to me but I forget what. I backtrack and GTFO scared of more cheating. At this point I'm done for the night.

This morning I decide to give it a whirl again. So I fire up the dayzmap.info or whatever site it is and start using roads, train tracks and the coast to figure out where the houses are I can get in. Bam, I hear flies. I find a survivor corpse with a compass, enfield, 3 clips and some medical stuff. I find a high yield house and stock up on even more ammo and whatnot. When I get home today I'm going to find me a supermarket and find me a map!

Oh and one more thing. The axes in the chopping blocks are not usable, you have to find them laying on the ground..haha