Day Z: Persistant world zombie survival mod - Page 229

P.S. No compass fucking blows.

can someone link me to an up to date video guide? Every one I find is really old with people still starting with pistols. I really want to play DayZ more but I keep dying and feel overwhelmed because I know nothing. It seems like there are so many items and control options and I just need a place to start

On July 30 2012 15:18 Danglars wrote:

I didn't get it till my 5th time playing the game and came from looking at the DayZ maps and comparing the orientation of the buildings and their situation compared to town, trees, hills, and clearings to get my bearings. Let me tell you, the invaluable fact that you spawn knowing the nearest city felt like almost a hack compared to the dearth of information given to the player about his whereabouts and heading. From moment of spawn, you do not possess weapons, you have no map and compass, and possess only rudimentary medical supplies. That is the beauty of it.

The fun for me was navigating with help of the online map & keybinds on second monitor. If you're a hiker out there, reading topo maps is invaluable for locating the deer huts in the game without map and compass, or the (I'm told) easymode gps map and compass. I found the map and comparisons much easier than using a watch or shadows to find the cardinal directions.

As a side note, ArmA owes a great debt to the streamers of this game that help it spread like wildfire. Just seeing JP McDaniel get accidentally killed by friends within his own party (A party the included Destiny) got me hooked. I had to follow his exploits and timely revenge while I laddered for the rest of the night. Even seeing many of them totally miss zombies with their pistols at medium ranges was a selling point. The weapons do not possess infinite accuracy, and you're not gifted with extreme scoping rifles that give close to it in every bathroom stall and chicken coop. So you can actually enjoy knowing that you might not be able to kill all the zombies closing in on you and they will smack you around a bit unless you take off running. Truly an engrossing game.


DayZ wiki has movies on articles such as the complete steps to gathering meat from animals and cooking it to restore blood on eating as well as negotiating the intially cumbersome inventory screen.

I'm down with both, so the help pages found on links on the TL thread and on DayZ Reddit were much more helpful. Having the keybinds and topo map open on second screen (Alternative would be printing them out) was more useful to me than any video I'd seen. Running it in windowed mode for rapid tabbing has also been a help since I'm still discovering common things like what to do with broken bones, how to know if you're in pain, and if that rifle over there makes a louder report than the one I'm currently using.

On July 30 2012 15:31 Cloud wrote:
Damn it! Death by answering people on steam, followed by getting baited by some trees who had a corpse between them. I crawl to it and get instantly killed by those spawns of pure evil.

Also, balota, stary and the airfield are completely inaccessible to me because of the damn graphics glitches. Has anyone found out how to fix them?

On July 30 2012 15:50 OptimusYale wrote:


The impossible has happened people....Madagascar has been infected.......My mind is completely fucking blown

On July 30 2012 15:18 Danglars wrote:

I didn't get it till my 5th time playing the game and came from looking at the DayZ maps and comparing the orientation of the buildings and their situation compared to town, trees, hills, and clearings to get my bearings. Let me tell you, the invaluable fact that you spawn knowing the nearest city felt like almost a hack compared to the dearth of information given to the player about his whereabouts and heading. From moment of spawn, you do not possess weapons, you have no map and compass, and possess only rudimentary medical supplies. That is the beauty of it.

The fun for me was navigating with help of the online map & keybinds on second monitor. If you're a hiker out there, reading topo maps is invaluable for locating the deer huts in the game without map and compass, or the (I'm told) easymode gps map and compass. I found the map and comparisons much easier than using a watch or shadows to find the cardinal directions.

On July 30 2012 14:20 Shelke14 wrote:
FUCK! Just broke my leg and need someone to run me a auto injector!! I would be forever in your debt!! I'm near eleckro if anyone wants to message me... Dammit, I don't want this one to die!

On July 30 2012 18:13 Shelke14 wrote:


Seriously, I'll just quote this once! somebody! I'll do anythinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

On July 30 2012 14:40 zZygote wrote:
I decide to go to Zug castle and

On July 30 2012 18:17 Benjef wrote:

Try reddit rescure force.

On July 30 2012 18:17 EchelonTee wrote:

Where's Zug castle? Is it a hotspot or relatively safe?

On July 30 2012 14:42 oZii wrote:
Ok was just watching a stream and they went to land the helicopter on the international helicopter. He didnt land all the way on the hotel. Dude gets out with a PARACHUTE! WTF Didnt know that was in the game too. Sweet.


PS3: The white knights can't let it die. lol. Already forgotten ffswowsucks and praetorian time to move on now. Will rant again if I feel like k. Appreciate the feedback o.O

land the helicopter on the international helicopter