Already play this with a couple of friends can team up anytime.
DayZ is made up of a many public servers which all connect to a central DB so all stuff that you pick up, your current health and location is stored and persistent across servers.
The object is to survive in a world destroyed by a zombie inducing infection where you can die from hunger, thirst, disease, wounds, etc. you spend most of the time hunting for food and water. Most other players will avoid you shoot you on sight, or try to sneak up on you knock you out, handcuff you remove your clothes and do unspeakable things to your body. The zombies are generally the least of your worries
Each time you die you start from scratch on the shore half starving, dehydrated with no weapons so your first objective is to get some water and a fire axe, then to find food and a gun. Key items are a compass, a can opener (though you can make do with a screwdriver), water bottles, torch, bandages/cloth strips, guns and ammo.
I got 2 spare pistols and am logged at an airstrip ATM so could prolly pick you up an m4 or mosin as well. Hope they add the ability to stash stuff soon getting a bit overloaded
