My Introduction to DayZ, And my current crisis.

[resoula 23]

Game 1: Lalalalala. Oh hello there Mr.Zombie. Why are you looking at me like that? NOO STOP CHASING ME I DON'T HAVE A WEAPON. *Runs very VERY far before losing them* An hour in I find my first building with loot. Yay! *Loots* *Sees player* *Says friendly* *Gets shot* Oh.

Game 2:Okay..let's try this again, *Goes to nearby city* *Gets shot.*

Game 3: *Falls of a building, chased by zombies, saved by a player, gets shot by player*

Game 4: *Trapped on crane by zombies. Player saves me at last second. Thanks player. Gets shot.*

Game 5: *Starts, finds a bunch of players at a town, has absolutely NOTHING but a flashlight, gets shot.*

Game 6: (Current) I got chased inland by zombies for the better. I found a player's corpse and got a sniper, food, water, and painkillers in the beginning. I ran through a bunch of forest for two hours. Only looted two buildings so far. Unfortunately it just seems to be very....NOT worth it. The first building I found a makarov and a soda, but then had to fight 5 zombies because a zombie decided to spawn next to me as I was leaving, my loud sniper shot alerting the rest. After an hour and a half of running through forest and avoiding towns, I find a small farm area, so I check a shed on the outskirts, fight two zombies. One of them eats two whole clips of makarov ammo before dying and inflicts so much damage to me that some cooked meat I ate went to complete waste blood-wise. Now I'm very paranoid about looting this farm. But I know that there's worthwhile stuff in that barn.

I have two complaints.

1.It takes so long to really get anywhere in the game due to players deciding killing you is fun, when you don't even HAVE anything.

2.By the time I get any headway, being all by myself survival is just ridiculously difficult, and while looting places to try to simply survive hunger and thirst wise, I end up loosing health with each small encounter because there's literally a zombie in EVERY building in the entire game. (Hard to deal with when you have no weapons.) So here I am, with I believe about 7000 blood now, probably less. One bandage, one thing left to eat, and my life riding on if this farm has a ridiculously high amount of zombies or not.

x_x That and I'm completely lost wah. I'm so paranoid of players that I ran so far through woods that I literally have no idea where I am. So I'm probably gonna die by zombies, probably at this farm too. But with essential supplies at a minimum..I have no other choice. Wish me luck.

[sturmwaffles 38]

If you want, I can try and find you and help you out. I have decent kit.

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

You're obviously new to the game.

Play for a week, and you'll join the rest of us who complain about the mod being TOO EASY.

And you'll most likely also join those who complain about hackers.

Edit; /ass-mode off

Zombies can't run in-doors. Use that as your advantage.

Zombies start walking when they lose sight of you and can't hear you. Run through pine-trees and crouch-run after. Most of the time the zombies get stuck looking for you around the tree.

Running zig-zags uphill makes the zombies walk. Running DOWN a steep hill will cause the zombies to die from fall-damage. (Only if the game forces you to walk down the hill. You must do this in zig-zags.)

Edited August 30, 2012 by Dancing.Russian.Man

[resoula 23]

If you want, I can try and find you and help you out. I have decent kit.

I'm logged out of DayZ currently, as I'm about to head to sleep, but thanks for the offer =P Plus according to people it doesn't spawn you where you left off, but instead by the coastline anyway. So who knows maybe getting supplies will be a tad easier? Maybe I'll get shot by a trigger-happy makarov owner who sees my sniper?

You're obviously new to the game. Play for a week, and you'll join the rest of us who complain about the mod being TOO EASY.

And you'll most likely also join those who complain about hackers.

Yeah this was my first day playing it =P I don't see how this could ever be easy though. x_x these zombies have such a good detection radius. I can't even get into a building without having to kill every zombie there. And I'll be crawling completely silently and far away from them too o_o

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Yeah this was my first day playing it =P I don't see how this could ever be easy though. x_x these zombies have such a good detection radius. I can't even get into a building without having to kill every zombie there. And I'll be crawling completely silently and far away from them too o_o

Edited my first post, sorry about that.

[SP45M 240]

Zombies cant see you if you stand in a low pine tree, they will run up and possibly look like they are hitting you but it doesn't connect and they will walk off after a few seconds ;)

[- Valkyrie - 89]

When we all started we just kept sneaking past zombies but there's a much more effective way. Since you live of the farm land and smaller towns, I guess there are a lot of barns there. Just run through the zombies and enter a barn that has 2 exits. You can loot the barn (and any other house that has a front and back door) and escape through the back door until the zombies reach you.

Since you are knew to the game you should know that zombies can only walk in buildings. I just run through cities with a train of 20 zombies chasing me, I enter a building loot it and exit through the back door while they slowly walk in it. Its the easiest way to loose zombies. Get yourself an Hatchet, Matches, Hunting knife and you are good to go.

Slay animals with the hatchet, gut them with the hunting knife, go into the woods stand next to a tree and get wood from it with your hatched (right click on your hatchet in your gear inventory and choose "harvest wood") then make a fire place (right click on your wood in the inventory and choose "create fire place") and you can cook the meat and regain blood very fast. If you find a water bottle you can refill it at ponds and wells. Its how I used to live in my first DayZ week. Only real challenge are to find matches, the other is common stuff to loot. In supermarkets you'll find maps more then anywhere else.

I hope the info helped at least a little. Peace