Thought we could use a thread to tell the stories of our experiences with this little mod, instead of clogging up the main thread. They can be small gunfight anecdotes, or a whole journal if you wish.
Full Story:
So my first real character (that I played for more than an hour without dying) was the first bit of fun Ive actually had playing DayZ. I started on the east side of Electro and made my slowly into the city. I managed to scavenge a few bits and pieces but nothing major so I made my way into the school, at which point I see someone creeping through the halls. Now, everytime I have seen someone so far, theyve put a bullet in me but against my better judgement I still asked if he was friendly first. To my delight, he replied with 'Yes, im not after another damn shootout'. As a show of good faith he gave me some morphine and a hatchet and i gave him one of my makarov mags as he was running low; then we went our separate ways.
After taking a break to go to work, I came back to a server at night time and managed to scavenge a few useful things in the rest of Electro (compass, watch, some matches and a 1911 with a few mags) but it was pretty slim pickings in terms of guns and ammo so I decided to set off for Cherno. Just as I was on the western outskirts of Electro: DISASTER!!!! Just as I was crawling through a pretty thick mess of zeds, the server spazzed out and I started to lose connection but the zombies kept getting closer. I kept hoping the server would reconnect me but instead i just heard the frenzied cries of aggroed zombies and the sound of my face being bashed in. In a panic I tried to alt-f4, alt-x, alt-tab but nothing worked. Eventually the server crashed outright.
Upon reconnecting I found to my surprise I was still alive, yet with only around 1k blood left after bandaging myself. Regardless of the setback, I continued towards cherno, fainting every 5 minutes and hoping zombies didnt eat my unconscious face. The first building I happened up was like a gold mine. Two 1911 mags, A hunting crossbow and a few bolts as well as enough food to get me back up to 2.5k blood. After sneaking around a bit more, I saw a flare go up about 100m away so I went to investigate, at which point I saw 2 guys exchanging fire with someone in a tower.
Not wanting to attract attention, I snuck around and tried to find myself a better primary in a nearby house. Just as I came out the other side a flare flew across me about 10m away and I immediately hit the ground and saw someone peeking his head around a fence with his makarov drawn. I aimed my cross bow but missed and he quickly ducked away. I didnt think Id given away my position so I stayed still in partial shadow. Before I could react, 2 flares landed pretty close to me and made me fully illuminated. I had 2 options: run for it and hope I dont get shot in the back or stay prone and fight. I opted for the latter, thinking that if I win, Id be pretty stocked up.
I switched to my 1911, knowing now that there was 2 of them. The same guy popped his head out again and I fired a few shots, managing to hit him at least once, but before I could reload bullets started hitting the ground all around me and I panicked, got up and ran away. I managed to get around the corner of the house I was in before and I peeked round with my 1911, catching them off guard as the ran after me. I unloaded my whole magazine and managed to kill one before being shot and knocked out by the other and then finished off.
So ended my first real foray into DayZ.
Tl;Dr
I found some decent stuff, didnt get shot on site by a player, had a shootout with a pair in cherno, killed one, died to the other.
Not the most epic of stories but im sure ill have a better one in time.
Gordon's Ramsays adventures (my char)
adventure 01
I teamed up with my two flatmates, I got matches from Cherno church for the fucking very fucking very fucking first fucking time hell fucking yeah! As soon as I had matches I promoted myself into a VIP and two other guys moved to me to protect me at any cost, because matches = fire and fire = food and food = blood and blood = life in Day Z mod (at least this is how it seems to me)!!! We ventured northwards until we made an awesome fire close to Zelenogorsk, I personally cooked 2 cows I gutted before and 1 pig and were just ready to survive forever with stacked up roasted meat. The problem was we were hungry in real life so we ordered 3 pizzas for ourselves (mascarpone, peperoni and quatro formagi). As we were eating just delivered pizza in my flatmate's room we suddenly saw a grenade explosion on his monitor. We dropped our pizzas on the ground and ran to our rooms like in Startrek where guys run to their battle stations. Before I was able to sit down I was torn appart by another nade an burst of bullets as well as my other flatmates. And this is the end of the story - one should never make a fire and stay on the same place for more then a few minutes. You should also disconnect from the server when you eat a pizza in real life.
adventure_02 day_1 Night sniper
DAY 01
Started about the same as above (i got matches from a dead body) and we all moved north. On a way we split about 500 meters from Zelenogorsk barn with the objective to meet there while 1 of my flatmates was the one that was supposed to move in. I was waiting 100 m from the barn for about 15 minutes to the south while 1 guy was telling me that he cleared the barn while the other one was saying he's covering it from the north only to find out that the guy in the barn is in completely wrong one (Drozhino) while the other one that was coverign the barn was about 2 kms away at Kozlovka. These are my flatmates I play with - this story quite simply sums up their sense for orientation. Also I forgot to mention that I got cold while fucking waiting for them.
Ok on the other hand so that I don't speak only badly about them - in the deepest night one of them spotted bandit sniper in deep north on 25 meters before he was able to shoot. Fully equipped with our Makarovs and 10 Winnie shells we had enough time to react because of his superior sight so just as the bullets and greanades started to fly around us, we were just ready to retread and troll the sniper that his aiming is the worst in day Z ever.
Aye we survived for the first time for longer than for a few hours! We were so happy we went to the pub (irl)!
We set up our next objective to be the Zub castle, we found it almost without any problems, but then cabin fever slowly started. We were to meed at the right side of the castle wall, one of my mates ran in to the middle of the castle into the tower instead without any looking around. As there was nobody inside it wasn't a problem, but it still a little bit pissed me off. The other friend also went to loot so I just stayed around and tried to look from the hill downwards covering the perimeter.
One minute later I spotted a guy trying to enter the Zub, I just cried contact into the TS and lied down so he couldn't see me, but maybe he did because he lied down too after a few seconds. The guy that was in the tower confirmed that he can see him from the top and can shoot him like a chicken.
So far we had mostly bad experiences when meeting anybody in the north so I told him to shoot him. The other friend said don't do it and that I should reveal myself to stand up and salute the other guy instead. Then my flatmate that was told to shoot him said he won't do it, but that we should leave and run :D So we got into a simple situation where everybody suggested 3 different ways how to solve the problem. The problem solved all by itself, the guy at the Zub spotted probably even my friend in a tower, turned his tail and ran away.
I think he had winnie, my other mate said that he had some M4 or 16 and the last one was absolutely sure he had a shotgun.
I don't know who will kill me, but I think I know who will kill my flatmates on day 3.
Now we're heading to Sobor area