If you're pretty careful about only engaging one zed at a time and have good aim, you can take them down with a single shot to the head. I find this really important in the first hour or two when ammo is scarce and you're still scavenging for the basic essentials.

I'm finding the smoke grenades very useful to get out of places silently and saving ammo but are quite scarce. Found a frag last night though

BTW, if you want loads of loot and to never really come into contact with others then head up the east coast to Berezino. I'm there now and I have more than I can eat and shoot, just need to find a tent and I'm set up.

My copy of Arma2 C.O. arrived. Time to get up to speed.

Hope to kill some of you if I see you at the servers.

An in-game feature ? Or you just pulling our legs ?

lol that's actually Arma's "physics" (or lack-thereof). No ragdolls

I wonder how well the rag doll physics will work in ArmA3?

I've been getting into this for the past week now. Not sure where you're playing at on the map, but I've been able to load up on ammo pretty quickly after spawning it. Found its just easier to run through a small town, allowing the Zeds to chase me. Find a barn or house, park myself away from the walls and take them out with head shots as they try to come through the door. Loot the place and move on. Seems easier than sneaking.

If you're using a long rifle to kill hordes in the buildings, then switch to handgun as the hordes diminish. Lower noise keeps the whole viallge of new spawns from filling your building.

Will be fun now to try with a group of my friends Friday, though I'm sad to lose a life that I have marched all the way to Stary Sobor just so they can join up close to me on the beach

Thats where I usually head...there right now. Usually quiet of other players. Made the mistake of dropping my pack becuase i found a larger one there. For some reason I could not pick either back up. Read somewhere that you have to turn your back to it and hit the middle mouse button then turn back around and it will give you the option. Pretty stupid if you ask me. I hope its still there when i log back on. Dont have a pack atm.

Well, I was up there until I updated to the .4 patch and now I've warped down onto the south coast lol with all my health back too, which is a bonus

No, I'm only joking