Fully decked out with guns/food/ammo/backpacks and was searching a town. Found a guy who I grouped with and we stayed together for about 10 mins. Then he mentions my mic is low. Soon as I hit ESC to adjust it, I got a arrow to the head. Well played.
Easy come, easy go.
Was a rough night for most of our group. Intropy lost his personal share along with the group share due to a shack raid while we were asleep after a all night to 7am cst world stomping. Then lost his and 3 others personal items after a combo of bugs, murders and whatnot. Later in the night we had 4 people in a jeep and 3 hop out to look at a map and a guy runs up hops in screaming this jeep is mine now fuckers, losing a fraction of our battery/plug supplies, but no deaths at least.
As a update to the earlier suggestions I made, the police station is just a murder fest 24/7 and spawn rate is not worth the risk. It is fun however to sit up on the hill behind it and listen to gun shots ring out every few minutes. You know people are dying there constantly. Z's and quest are the best loot/rewards right now. Most zombies around town and nearby in the woods carry large caches of loot from killed players.
Item security is best from shack with a chest and logged out alts. Personally I have enough backpacks, knives, food and drink at any one time for 5 deaths. It is best to wander the world with a bow/knife and pack. If you get more than that, store it, less replenish the 3 things. People still complain on loot but I find most things I need with exception of ammo/guns in about any house/apartment building. 1 house last night after a death had a pack, knife, axe, 2 shirts, can of food and a hat in it. Clothing can be hard to spot , and impossible at night but makes good bandages/other items scrapped down. If you have scrap metal/cloth stowed away you are always 10 steps ahead of 80% of the people.
The map Skanda posted is very valuable printed out. I wish it allowed editing but I just make notes on it.
As for the state of the game, Thursday was a nightmare. Many things gave it a bad rep off the start including what imo was not a issue at all, Air Drops, which are almost are rare now, maybe 1 a hour and most of the time people can't even find them, the other login/crash issues which have been largely fixed.
For people on the fence but don't want to have as many in game issues I say by the end of the week it is going to be in good shape. Don't regret my purchase the least bit, but overall the game is extremely stable now and functional. The random fall/world deaths is the biggest issue I see now, which has only happened to me once but seems to equally happen to others as well.