[QUOTE="JC_Spot"]I've been playing for about 2 hours and I've scavenged through dozens of towns and only ever found 2 axes, some ammo and some useless miscellaneous items along with dozens of empty cans and tins. No food, no drink, no guns. The fact you start without a weapon is a bit annoying because if you get spotted by a zombie you just have to run until you lose the trail. I've died twice, both times after being desperately thirsty and hungry (how you can starve after only an hour of not eating is beyond me). I've only seen two other people and a cow (in a full server), one had no weapons or anything else like me and the other had broken legs and was crawling around on the ground in a sorry state. I know this is meant to be hyper realistic and extremely hard but seriously, 2 hours of sprinting around through over a dozen towns and finding just 2 axes is kind of pointless, what am I doing wrong?Nickprovs
It's really all about knowing where to go in DayZ. Try to figure out where you are on this map next timehttp://www.teamfackin.com/moocow/dayz/map/.
From that point try and get to large towns like cherno and elektro. They have a few key buildings that spawn gear better than any other places. Firehouses for military weapons, Medical Tents for Supplies/Weapons, Hospitals for Supplies, and Supermarkets for all your general needs (food, water, ammo, compass, watch, in-game maps, ammo, etc.)
After I loot a major city (and survive hopefully) I usually go to either a military airfield or berezino, and along the way look for these things called deer huts which spawn military loot and stop by each small city on the way to check civilian buildings for ghillie suits if I don't already have one. Airfields (especially the North-West Airfield) have the best gear. The only other loot spawns that have better gear are crashed helicopters which randomly spawn throughout the map on each server.
Good Luck!
Yeah I did end up in Cherno and went through a whole bunch of buildings to only find a pistol with 1 clip..... EVERY other place just has empty cans and stuff. Might try some other servers I guess. Didn't find any people for about 1.5 hours as well. Boring as, and there are too many zombies to not give anyone guns at the start. If you get seen you just have to sprint away, it's dumb. 
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