Newbie questions

[Moeror 0]

Saw this mod last night on a Haatfilms. Bought it in like 5 minutes. I have a few questions. If I am completely quiet, how close can I get to a zombie? If he's facing me? Also, when a zombie attacks me do other zombies around him automatically come to us or is it only when I fire a gun? One more thing, last night on my first play through, i had a zombie o two chasing me and I ducked into a house and like 3 or 4came inside. I managed to kill them all but I was bleeding, so I banaged and that stopped. However, the screen was going kinda grey and I was moving slowly and every few minutes I would collapse and a little hourglass would come up then I would get back up. What was that?? I tried morphine and painkillers but didn't seem to do much.

P.S I kept seeing a lil broken chain icon pop up on my screen every once in a while, whats tht?

[Zakificus 10]

If you're laying down zombies can get almost point blank before they see you. If they're walking past I've tried to get out of the way, but slow crawling they can get within a few meters and not see you. Usually just one will aggro, they don't automatically alert others, but if you're loud the others will catch on independently. Louder noises, larger area of zombie aggro.

When you lose blood, screen loses saturation, bad things happen, etc. Read the DayZ Wiki, it has a lot of great info for people starting out. After enough blood loss you begin to pass out.

The chain is connection speed. Usually invisible and fine, lag spikes may make it get more red, which means connection is really laggy. Sometimes this might lead to disconnecting and timing out.

[Moeror 0]

Thanks :)

[Zakificus 10]

Also, keep in mind bug occur. I've been crouch walking through a building and aggroed 5 zombies surrounding the place. Other times I've crawled 30 feet from a zombie in a field and had it freak and attack haha.