I'll tell you about what happened yesterday in DayZ, this was surely one of the most intense game sessions I had in any game ever. I was literally sweating excitment.
The story begins with me and Spleen meeting outside the village of Balota. We first scouted and looted it, we were attacked by a few zombies on our way through it. It was day, but the weather was kind of foggy so the visibility wasn't the best. As Spleen lost a lot of blood in his first shootout with some guy (he killed him), I gave him a blood transfusion from the blood bag Spleen looted from the guy he killed, so he was kind of lucky that guy was carrying a blood bag he apparently got from some hospital.
Next we decided to check out the small army airport just outside Balota. As that place is usually a hotzone, we approached it from the woods to the north of it, checking for signs of movement for several minutes before entering the base. The base was empty and we didn't encounter a single person or a zombie, but sadly there was no loot either. Luckily, we both had good weapons (Spleen had a shotty, I had a Winchester) from before we met. We decided to check out the biggest and most dangerous city in Chernarus, Chernogorsk.
None of us was there before, so we didn't really know what to expect or how that place is. We took the safe road and walked through the forest following the road to Chernogorsk on our right. We soon saw a big factory on our horizon. It was just outside the city so we said we're gonna check that out. As we were walking towards the factory Spleen suddenly yelled "There's a sniper on the roof!"
I looked at the factory and there he really was, in a crouched position, but not aiming at us. We quickly went prone and hid in the grass. We observed him for a while, but he quickly disappeared as he apparently moved to the other side of the factory roof, so it was safe for us to proceed towards the factory. We were originally planning to scout this house near the factory, but we knew it was best to secure the area first, as that sniper could've turned on us at any time. We decided we're gonna get rid of him.
We slowly approached the factory. There were no zombies so we were lucky. If there were, we would have to shoot and the sniper would be immediately alerted to the gunfire (and probably would've discovered us). We finally reached the walls of the factory. We started looking for a way up to the factory roof and found a ladder on the side. I told Spleen to cover me as I climb the ladder and get rid of the sniper. I started climbing up the ladder and just before I reached the top I peeked over the edge of the roof and saw that the sniper was looking in the other direction. I quickly got up, walked right up to him and shot him right in the head from point blank range.
I yelled down to Spleen the roof is safe and he can come up and loot the sniper rifle. His shotty was useless at this point as he wasted all the ammo. We looted the dead guys body but found nothing of worth, other than the sniper ofcourse. Suddenly we heard zombie moaning. We looked down to the ground and there was more and more coming towards the factory, most probably because they heard the gun shots. Luckily we were on the roof and they haven't yet figured where to climb up, apparently. We shot them all down from the roof. Little did we know there was another guy climbing the ladder to the roof from the other side of the factory... However Spleen noticed the guy just as he climbed up the ladder. He saluted us but we decided to play it safe and shoot him down. We checked what he was wearing but there was nothing special.
Since the last guy surprised us like this, we knew the roof is not safe and proceeded to climb down and head for Chernogorsk. We finally hit the city. There was a few zombies on the outskirts that we avoided as we didn't want to attract attention to us by opening fire. Just as we entered the city carefully, we noticed a store. Stores are filled with loot so this wasn't an option to skip. As we approached the store we noticed there's 4 zombies inside. We made a plan to start shooting at them from the outside, clear the store asap then quickly run inside as there will surely be more zombies coming from god knows where in the city, when they hear the gunfire.
We opened fire and zombies started dropping. We noticed there were more zombies in the store than we originally thought. Taking them down took more than we expected and there were already zombies coming for us from behind outside the store. Spleen decided to quickly take shelter in the store that still had zombies in and I ran just after him. The outside was getting cluttered with zombies. I got scratched by them entering the store. As Spleen started shooting the remaining zombies in the store, I secured the entrance. There were atleast 10 more zombies coming to the entrance... luckily Spleen finally cleared the inside of the store and helped me protect the entrance. We kept shooting them as they were entering the store and after several minutes of defending there was finally no more zombies that tried to enter the store.
As we expected the store was filled with loot. Bandages, cans of food, ammo.. it had everything. I even found a 0.44 Magnum gun I believe. Suddenly we heard gunshots and Spleen yelled "Someone is shooting at us!"
We quickly took cover behind the walls and shelves. At the time someone started shooting at us Spleen was really close to store windows, so he was lucky he didn't get killed. We spent atleast 3 minutes looking at where the shots were coming from... and I noticed the perp in the red building to our right. I told Spleen where he was and we returned fire. The adrenaline started pumping, I knew I could lose my life any second now... The gunfight went on for several minutes but the perp never managed to hit us and I think we never managed to hit him either. He kept switching positions, so he wasn't totally clueless at this. We decided it wasn't worth keeping this up and wasting ammo on air, so we grabbed what was of worth and bailed the store by exiting through back doors. Luckily for us this ended in a draw, we were already both severely injured from our fight with store zombies from before.
We ran away from the store and hid in a safe place close to the sea and decided to call it a night for that day. Most definitely one of the most scary, intense and exciting days.
