Now here's a true story that happened to me just an hour ago. I signed in just to post this, since this is further evidence that GM is a place to be avoided. My friend and I both bought this game just a week ago. Tonight, we were making our way from Sosnovka to Pustoshka along the road. I had a map and was perfectly aware of where we were. We were just about to arrive in Pustoshka, when suddenly the server goes down. It must've been a server restart or something, but I had not seen any warnings. Also, usually on server restarts I just get the text "No message received for XX seconds." and my character stops moving, but this time we both just suddenly disconnected. A couple of minutes later, my friend and I rejoin the server. When we spawned, we instantly realized that we were not where we disconnected. Instead, we had spawned several km south of there. And when we spawned, we both stared at - you guess it - Green Mountain, with the radio tower rising ominously from its hilltop. We had never been there before, but I instantly recognized GM from the numerous videos and urban legends. My friend was not as well versed in DayZ, so I told him about the weird shit going on in there. We decided that since fate had pointed us that way, we had to go and investigate. Immediately after that decision, my friend's screen went white. He couldn't do anything in-game, he was just looking at a blank white screen. His game or computer had nor frozen, he could go to desktop and the game appeared to be running perfectly fine. He could use the net etc. My friend's character had disappeared from the game. He disconnected and rejoined the server. Meanwhile, I made a campfire and filled my water bottle at a nearby pond. I got a cough, probably from the unboiled water I drank. We continued on our way to the mountain. Near the courtyard of the radio tower, we got attacked by a horde of zombies. Literally a couple of seconds after the zobie attack, my game screen went white. It was not a bright white, it had shades of gray. My task manager told that the game was working fine, and I could still navigate on my desktop and jump back in to the game (the white-gray screen) anytime I wanted. My friend told me that I, as well as all the zombies, had just disappeared from the game. He decided to get the hell out of that place and started running away. I quit the game and rejoined the server, spawning next to the radio tower. I, too, ran as fast as I could. We had run separate ways and didn't manage to find each other quickly. Soon after, my friend got into problems with zombies and died. I will never got to Green Mountain again. First, we miraculously warped near it even though we had been far way from it. When I spawned, I was literally staring at the mountain. Near the foot of the hill I got a cough. My friend disappeared, his screen turning white. Later, the same happened to me. I don't think the white screen could have been caused by infection (cough). My friend got the screen before I drank the dirty water. I got it just as I was nearing the mountain, mere five minutes after starting to cough. It's difficult to describe the screen, it was not pulsating or varied, just flat white and gray. Later, as I was running away from the mountain, my screen flickered with the same gray-white again ( you know, the diamond-shaped flicker), but it was just instantaneous and went away after a few seconds as the distance between me and the mountain grew. Seriously, stay away from the mountain. And I'm not a native English speaker, so excuse me if my text was difficult to understand at some points.
