Didn't accomplish much. Why can't you spawn with an axe? That's not asking too much. Anyway...I spawned somewhere on the coast, not sure where, then headed inland in search of *anything* of use. Zs were around all the structure that I snuck near, I had the bad luck of only finding closed structures. Inevitably one of them spotted me gave me a whack and I started bleeding (one of the fat ones with a beret). Applied my only bandage (at least I think I did). Still bleeding. Ran toward another structure hoping to find a bandage, nope, another closed building. Flashing red blood marker, shakes and blurred vision, no other structures in sight. Lay down under a bush and that was it. (actually went in and tucked my son into bed). Very challenging! I didn't see any other players even though there were supposed to be 40 or so on there. Maybe they were LTAO through scopes or something.

[...]do you have a axe on you or within reach in real life?

In fact, I have many different things within reach in real life I could harm or kill someone else with. Thing is, there are no freakin' zombies in real life! (Well, except for all the many consume-zombies, of course).

I totally agree with Harry: taking away the pistol the player had after spawning when DayZ was still fresh was one of the worst decisions in my opinion.

It's not like that the pistol enabled the player to go on a killing spree. But at least he or she had the chance to defend him-/herself in case needed.


Harry, it's possible to survive this game without a weapon- if you know where to look for and find the stuff you need to survive. Best bet in my opinion are always supermarkets. But then you'd need to know how they look like and where to find them. If you haven't given up on DayZ already, I can only repeat what Reschke said: join the team and learn the ropes from them. In my opinion, it changes the DayZ experience entirely.