HogDriver, you can refill your canteen by walking into the water of the coast or a pond. Click the middle mouse button and you should be able to select to refill your canteen. Just make sure to not walk too far into the water. It's said that the player loses his backpack when walking into deep water. Also, as per some player diaries, there ought to be water pumps around where the player is able to refill his canteen.

Another tip for those having trouble playing at night (personally, I somehow prefer it): turn brightness and gamma all the way up. You'll get what I'd like to call "cat-vision", which really helps spotting zombies and other players.

Also I found that even though some players might shoot you at sight, there are generally a lot of very helpful people around on the servers. So, simply ask when you have a question or need translation of a Cyrillic name sign of a place (beware though, this of course also gives away your position to bandits).

Last but not least, there's a "Newbie Survivor Guide" in the official forum that might be helpful.

When filling water bottles at ponds, you have to be deep into it though and actually swim before the 'Fill bottles' command appears so be careful as if you swim too long you lose all your equipment with that lovely ARMA bug

Sick of this f&king #%&*$# done it all and still cant find a f$#king game through ARMA2OA ive always deleted the files and downloaded them again and redone it 3 times just to make sure it wasn't missing a file how do i find a game

Press 'Missions' twice at the top of the browser screen then scroll down to 'D' and there will be loads of DayZ servers. If you mean they are all full then you just have to keep trying.

I've just had my first go tonight. It took a while to find a space on an Australian server.

Had a great time even though it was night.

After hearing about all the player killing I was very dubious about showing my face to the first two players I saw. They were wandering around a building holding glow sticks.

I needn't have worried as they were quite helpful and let me tag along with them.

I managed to get my first few zombie kills and eventually lost them after getting rushed by 7 or 8 zombies.

I must have played for a solid 2 hours before getting killed searching for a dead PC I could hear near by (flies). I threw a flare and got engulfed by Zombies standing only a few metres away in the dark.



The easiest way is to use the filter and type DayZ (or Day Z) in the missions bit

Yup filter for 'dayz' hide full servers hide password servers, that'll narrow it down a fair bit.

I tried this yesterday, and I would say, its really good.
My only problem is the real day/night cycle.
I only have free time to play after 10PM my local time, so all good ping servers are running at night already.
Being a newbie, its not the easiest thing to survive in complete darkness...
I assume using time compression would be better, but maybe I am alone with this problem and will get used to it...

Hey Smosh, if you haven't done this already I really suggest you to turn brightness and gamma up for playing at night (night in the game that is ;-)). Flares not only attract zombies but also other players that might not have all the best intentions... It's at least my experience with this mod that flares are more dangerous than they do any good. I stay clear of them.

I agree that playing at night is pretty rough. I think they should either use time compression to make the day/night cycles shorter, change the time of the mission so that nights are partially lit by the moon, or make flashlights more prevalent/part of the starting kit.

KlarSnow, Dead Meat, and I jumped on last night for a couple of hours. We actually managed to link up in Elektro in the middle of the night - I confess it was actually a little fun trying to find each other by signalling from rooftops with flares. This was on an underpopulated Russian server so bandits weren't too much of a concern. I found Dead Meat alone and out of ammo on the end of a pier, surrounded by swimming zombies. Once we killed them, we pushed into Elektro and searched a factory while we waited for Klar to catch up. With a map and compass in hand (and looking constantly over my shoulder at those ruthless miscreants Dead Meat and KlarSnow ) we set out north for the power station, but didn't make it too far before Dead Meat was eaten alive and I died falling down a ladder.

Unless BIS patched the game engine you cant time compress in Arma2. You only get 1:1 time afaik.

The main thing for combating night in dayz (and all arma2) is to turn your HDR Lighting Quality to the highest your computer can handle. That will give you more colors to work with. Then when you turn up your gamma you can see at night (well not in buildings or in a forest but still.

My guy has been alive for 3 days now. He has gone Civilian (killed 3 civis in self defense) into Bandit and then back into Civilian. I have almost 100 zombie kills. Right now my group of 4 has pushed north near the east coast headed up to the hospital in Berezino.