nano wrote (View Post):

Bought the game, played for about 2 hours.  Just exploring and minding my own business, Player kills me from behind with a rifle.  That is fine, when re spawned, everything I had gained was gone.  So, you can spend countless hours exploring and within seconds you can lose it all.  Game is confusing, I probably just wasted money on this game because it is just terrible.   Hope they reconsider it all, because I feel like you can put hours of work in this game and lose it quicker.  To frustrating, probably way better if you had friends.

-nano

• Find lower population servers.  
  
• Higher pings to servers isn't always bad.  I frequent servers where I have up to a 250 ping and I have no lag problems.
  
• Stay away from the major towns/be very very careful when entering them.
  
• P brings up the player list so you can see who and how many people are on the server.  Also helps see if anybody is close to you to a degree.
  
• A sudden red chain on the lower right side of your screen could mean a player is in the area.
  
• Your breath, the clouds, and floating debris almost always go east.
  
• Turn your cloud settings to highest to help see better at night.(or stick to 24/7 day servers)
  
• You can have one hardcore character and one regular character. I think most of us playing work on both.
  
• Instead of the in-game map and compass I suggest using http://dayzdb.com/map.
  
• You can open canned food with just about anything with a blade but you do spill a small amount with everything except a can opener.
  
• You can take your shirt off and tear it to rags to use as bandages.
  
• Weapon silencers don't appear to work correctly, but they still look cool.
  
• Currently zombies are bugged and can walk and see through walls, but if you can run upstairs they more than likely will bug out and stop following you.
  
• The Hacksaw is a great starter weapon. It can open food and works well when fighting zombies.
  
• Most of the time you can't outrun a zombie, so turn and fight it.  Always aim for the head, even weaker weapons should knock a zombie down.  You should also try to keep circling around while fighting, they won't be able to hit you.
  
• Don't trust strangers. Ever.
  
• Seriously, don't trust strangers.
  
• Drink and eat until your stomach is full.  This will make you energized and hydrated which will then give you a healthy status and help you heal when hit by a zombie.(you can drink from any fresh water source right now without needing to purify it)
  
• Don't eat rotten fruit.
  
• Other stuff I can't remember right now.

Well that didn't take too long.

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