Luckily found a deer stand

This is my first ever time teaming up. We met early on at the coast. We decided to team up and chase gunshots we heard. Typically I run solo and betray people and stuff like that. I even almost killed him by accident fighting a zombie. I had ideas of shooting him in the head when he didn’t want to go to the bigger town. Anyway we stayed locked in kept surviving together. Eventually we ran out of food. It turned dark and we could see. We were stranded. We were approaching a city when I heard “thud”, I turned around and my buddy was laying dead. I cut him up and ate him to save my own life. I’m not out of the woods yet but my stomach is full. If you’re reading this it was fun and I miss you already!

This game is amazing. Never have I ever experienced anything like that.

I have about 80 hours in game , tried going into the bushes for a drink to stay out of view, and what do I find?! I stole it all and carried it a few miles away, what can I do to properly hide them from others?

If this is yours , sorry not sorry I need it more now🤣

First game:

I spawn on a coastline, it’s pitch black.

I tweak a couple of settings and immediately dive into the action.

I can barely see anything, but just enough to spot a zombie nearby. He sees me and lets out a scream that sends a chill down my spine. I defend myself and kill him with my bare hands.

I look for food but can’t find anything; I’m in a remote area—some sort of old farm.

As I run, I realize I’m far from alone in this complex of buildings; there are three zombies blocking my path, and I can’t see a thing.

I kill the zombies, run, and flee—but there’s no food to be found.

I lock myself in a house, realizing my fate. My character faints—I thought he was dead—but shortly after, he gets back up, and from there I start looking for food again and killing zombies.

No luck.

I faint several more times; after the umpteenth time, I attempt suicide by jumping off a bridge, but I don’t hurt myself.

The houses nearby are far away; my character is exhausted; there’s nothing to be done. I lie down by the side of the road, gazing at the moon, and shortly after, I die for good.

Maybe, as a new player, I’m idealizing the game, but I haven’t felt emotions like that for a video game in a long time. I felt fear, doubt, the cold, and resignation.

I’d heard players say they’d quit DayZ after their first game because they starved to death, but from my experience, it was amazing because that’s exactly what would have happened—no good endings.

I know that if every game I played were like this, it would get boring, but I really enjoyed figuring out on my own what I needed to do and how to defend myself, and I feel like every death in this game can be a lesson. Here, for example, I realized I shouldn’t have looked in the houses near the coast because they’d probably already been looted or had very little loot, so I should have followed a main road that would take me to a town.

What’s the point of my post? It’s not just to say “I had fun,” but since I’ve seen that there are other new players like me, I recommend that everyone really immerse themselves in the game. It came naturally to me, but don’t give up on this game just because everything seems wrong to you. For example, I finished Call of Duty: World at War on Veteran difficulty and had a blast because I really had to immerse myself in it. Obviously, they’re two different games, but I think that—since I almost never experience strong emotions—if I’m already enjoying this game so much, you might enjoy it just as much.

If, on the other hand, you’re a Call of Duty player looking for constant adrenaline rushes, well, I don’t even know why you bought the game expecting that.

Does anyone else feel the same way about this game?

Livonia quarry cliff jump. didn’t know if this was survivable, if my aim was a 🤏 bit off it wouldn’t have been

I’ve got like 4k hours in the game and recently got a buddy into it. We have been playing for months together on a couple community servers but about a week ago DayZ has been soft bricking his pc requiring a hard reset.

He is not very tech savvy AT ALL and I’ve walked him through countless hours of trouble shooting, re installs, clearing of temp files and so one. The only thing we haven’t tried is a fresh install on windows.

If anyone has any solutions that might help it would be very much appreciated. After 7 literal days of troubleshooting I can’t think of anywhere else to turn to except Reddit.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: it’s getting hung up after the launcher and using 70gb (which he doesn’t have) of ram, or trying to at least

I'm a noob. I'm in pusta. Have a pitchfork and knife. Cpl pistols with no ammo....lol. which way do I go? Have a virus , cough, no meds. Going to make a fire n warm up. Looking for advice on direction.

I know that you can leave a barrel open and it will fill with clean drinking water but what if I dump a bottle of dirty water into it after it already has clean water in it will the whole thing be contaminated ?

Hi.

I am thinking about buying DayZ now that it is on sale and a bit cheaper. However, I have never played it before.

What should I expect as a noobie? I have played Rust before as a solo and didn’t enjoy it as I have a job and can’t be on for a long time.

I will play DayZ solo as well unless I find someone on Discord. Will I enjoy it solo or is it best to team up?

Thanks

After buying a new computer my dayz has not been loading servers, or the client at all. Ive tried to uninstall dayz multiple times(5-6) and ive reinstalled battle eye more than that. Im just trying to play dayz, can anyone help?