Between this and the crazy ghostly ghillies my 5 kiolmeter run to elektro in the dark was.... Tense.

Actually im curious, who exactly hears group chat? I was unaware there was a button to press to form a group with someone

There are brony meetup threads for this sort of thing. Scavenge the forums for those.

Well, it seems ive gotten unlucky enough to catch a cold, and a constant 3 blood per second is starting to wear on me, Ive looted through many a hospital and ive yet to find any of the bastards. I dont suppose anyone would have on their person?

A race? Completely uneccesary.. That and i wouldnt want to shoot one of you because im not one for taking risks

I hear its the rarest thing in the game. Is it like helicoptors wheres theres only one in the server? (mostly because im curious about a mountain dew i found on a random corpse, and seeing as all of my friends know me as the mountain dew knight its only fitting)

So far ive lived 5 hours with my dew. Lets see how long it lasts.

Inexperienced or not, serpentine is always better than running in a straight line.

I cant believe i missed that.

Show you the ropes? Im feeling an incoming sex pun.

Despite everyone saying the pine tree hill being the easiest prey in the game i never seen anyone up there.Let alone a sniper. Just seems like snipers avoid it because its too obvious and survivors avoid it because of snipers so it remains empty.

A solo man wandering into the city with valuable loot and youre the good guy? Take my beans for being batshit insane in the good way.

Honestly, is there really a need for this "brony meetup" nonsense? I dont see the point to it.

It seems ive been pretty luck in my 30 or so hours of DayZ. I came into this completely confident in being a bandit and you know what? Ive only killed one man to date, and that man was a bandit who killed two fresh spawns while i had an AS50 trained on him. And you know what? Killing is great, but its infinitely more amazing to meet nice players, team up, trade stories and share supplies. So to you folks who go out of their way to give value to human life, i salute you and im proud to be another fellow survivor and (hopefully)soon to be hero.

Well its certainly conditioned me into a much friendlier player, there have been many a time where i know full well i can kill someone before they can retaliate but i simply dont because, well, hw do you turn your gun on a friendly player? After all the work theyve gone through to get what they have? Not to mention counter sniping is all the better when you know it saved someones beans.

I made a quick post in the new player about that(not so quick, more of a story, really) and ive never had anyone shoot on sight. Short of two bandits in a church, in fact ive had folks sneak up behind me and instead of killing me give me a hello.

Bandits get what bandits give. Bullets.

He probably would've been sneakier with http://youtu.be/XAYhNHhxN0A

I received my AS50(one of two) in a bus camped in the middle of the woods. I plan to keep her for a while.

Im relatively new to dayz, ive got about 30 hours experience total and ive never, ever made it to the airfield. Not from deaths but rather from my lack of need too.See i love dayz and the concept of it and when i first started i figured id be you standard kill on sight i want your loot player. But.. Well, i actually havnt. in fact until this very day, ive never killed anyone! If i sneak up on people i often let them pass or give them a friendly hello. And in 30 hours, despite a hacker nuking the server, ive never had those "bandit" stories people have had. My deaths(excluding some zombie related ones when i was learning) have been getting sniped because i was on a roof(never again) and gettign mowed down by two bandits the very second i walk in the church with military grade assault rifles(yes i Q/E look into buildings now) In fact, every player ive come across has had a chat with me, we share supplies and go along our way. its a bit refreshing actualy for others players to give your life value and ive done the same. My only act of PVP was firinga t a player looting dead bodies i nthe store. I panicked, shot his leg with a lee enfield and ran past. After spawning in again permanently passed out(oh bugs, how i hate you so) i starved and headed back into cherno, it was night and the city was dead. Creeping along suddenly gunshots everywhere(sounded military) avoiding them and making my way to the store i inadverdantly found the ones firing them, both dead. One had a shotgun of some kind and the other a SAW. They died not 10 feet from each other on either side of the corne of the supermarket(see why i dont go to the airfield? I find everything i need in the city) Heading north i bump into a camp, after stealing some ammo from it i head to stary, on the way exiting the camp i somehow dont see a ghillied sniper running right at me, apparently he didnt either. so we circled around each other for a few seconds before we ran our seperate ways. As i was heading into the forest i saw a bus(the first vehicle i ever drove) deep into the forest, not aware of the button for 3rd person(am now, thankfully) i tried driving it off. After learning that forward momentum is impossible i try to back up out of the forest, in first person. Somehow gettign it out i drove very slowly away further tos tary, apparently the bus hates dirt roads, somehow getting it stuck between two fences i checked the loot and good lord there was two AS50's, 6 mags of 1901 and just about every goodie i nthe gam,e(Already got those off the bandit in the supermarket). So i ditch the bus and decide ill play dayz with some friends because ive been the lonefull the entire time( a much better experience) We hit a city on the coast, it started with a B, i dont recall, and it went smoothly, my buddy found a ghillie suit(which will save my life later) and decided he wanted a ghillied sniper covering his rear. Some uneventful looting later we disconnect. Now i was alone today, the day of my first kill(sorry about the story but if youre like me you love reading stories on these forums) and as i was heading to elektro, i got the crap scared out of me as someone had apparently snuck up on me and, even with my ghillie and AS50 present, decided not to shoot me and instead wanted to team up(i later learned he was a hacker and i aborted immedietly) So after a 5-6 kilometer trekk to elektros sniper hill i decide to flank it and go from behind and kill the snipers. This didnt go sow ell since no one was present. I decided what the hell and found a cozy spot under a pine tree to view elektro from. 30-45 minutes later i see zombies spawning in the city, keeping a watchful eye(while checking my rear on occasion) i sudenly hear footsteps. Immedietly i roll further into the tree, and turn around to look, my heart racing. Suddenly shooting starts going off(sounds like an AK) and it takes all of my willpower to stay where i am under that tree. Then i start hearing a lee enfield and again, i remain motionless. 10 minutes later i decide that im hidden and turn back to the city, once again the gunshots start going but this time in the city, once again the AK and the lee start going at it. Some silence and I see zombies spawning in the firehouse. Training my sights on the windows of the fiehouse i see a bandit going up. Making a rookie mistake i pull out my range finder(i had already ranged everything previously but i wanted to be sure) as he went to the top, thankfully he pauses for just a second to look out the window into the city, the moment building on me i realise its now or never and take the shot. As he turns to leave a red fountain spills from his chest and i swear he looked out that window and right at me before he fell over. Suddenly i felt... Well... Alive! I felt like the predator and he, the prey and it only made it sweeter than it was with a weapon that i had no real practice with, i had practiced on goats and a zombie or two before. I had the decision to let him live or end his life. But was i guilty? Oh no, no i wasnt. Why? because after another 10/15 minutes of scoping i ran down to the firehouse and found two dead players, one unarmed and the other was mr.lee enfield, he had the fireplace barbed wired(i had a handy dandy toolbox) and after running up to the third floor this guy not only had a bandit skin, but a godamn m1901. But the kicker is.. No side arm. What on earth was he doing with a sniper weapon in there? I did fond a dropped AK on the second floor but i think that was a spawn. So, to steven, ive a few things to say. You were my first, you popped my kill cherry, and dont stop in the damned firehouse! I may not be one for killing survivors, You folks have treated me well and ill return the favour. But to you bandits, well, Serpentine!

Oh im well aware(not so much the spot, some beans for a place to head when i inevitably die) but the fact that elektro is positively batshit. I know ive mentioned not having to go to the airfield because of all the insane city antics.

Two ideals that i normally follow. Had i not combed through sniper hill previously. And in most of those 10-15 minutes post kill were spent scanning my back and the other sniper hill(that and those footsteps so nearby made me feel like there was a fellow sniper in the other tree) Not to mention the many minute adjustments to have atleast one branch/leaf cover not only my back but my gun(relatively) to boot. Of course i dont pretend to know much at all. but with elektro in front of me and two possible sniper killzones where i was heading i wasnt in any rush to leave the safety of my tree. Another piece of advice given to me was -Patience is the holiest of virtues, dont get to antsy to go collect your prize

Haha, well i suppose it is mostly luck. That and despite having little to no FPS experience(more of an RPG fan) im succesful in the game.IT really does amaze me the value of given to human life in this game. Hell ive even become rather attatched to my weapons. The day i killed that bandit was the day i dubbed my AS50 gods hand. One shot kill from 0-1600m and, well, it really is gods hand. Picking and choosing who lives and dies. Sadly im lacking stories seeing as those were all of my noteworthy experiences in DayZ, short of jason vorhees ambushing me in the middle of nowhere.

Likewise just met a hacker. Didnt kill me when he could have but he spawned an ammo/weapon crate for me. Didnt try and kill him because he was nice, just aborted. Dont recall the name