Daybreakdz

Last night I was able to play two games. The first, I finished like 11th. Not very good as the space to play in was still the second largest, and well, I was killed by Zombies and not a player. Being super punched by a zombie only to be eaten is a terrible way to go out. The second game however.... The game is different, because it's limited and forces you to confront players. As a player in DayZ, I avoid humans at all costs cause they are unpredictable. Atleast here, I know and can plan on them trying to kill me as soon as possible. So my strategy consisted of avoiding players right to the end. Right at the start, I went for the middle, as I need a map, and will make due with any supplies I happen to get. This time, I got me a machete. Great for killing zombies. Bad for killing players, but as I said I'll figure that out later. I started my adventure by heading west to the coast and search for some food and drink. Drink depletes super fast while running, were talking like 3km and you need hydration. Food is just as bad. 4 of each got me through this round. After being successfull on the coast, I followed a player for a bit. Just following, not gonna attack him with my machete in the event he had a pistol or anything else. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. I kept my distance and eventually stopped following him. I went into a town, and found a medical house, full of blood bags and bandages and painkillers. I found another ammo type house which had a hand gun with 3 clips of 8 rounds. I count my blessings from zombie dodges and then headed towards a castle. At this point with all the carpet bombings and area shrinking, there was about 8 or 9 players left. So I felt the chances of the castle being occupied was limited. So much for that idea. As I approached down hill, I was greated with a sniper shot. I heard the bullet hit the ground before the shot rang out. Two more shots. I'm lucky he's not a good shot. I start sprinting for tree cover a good 500m away. He switches to an automatic, most likely due to no ammo in his rifle. He hits me good. Centre mass. I loose almost all my blood. I do a dance, lie on the ground, vault and one last mad dash to the closest tree. Once there i wait patiently to not be in combat so I can self blood. Yes self heal is lame, but this took almost 2 minutes to complete. That's a long time to be stuck in an animation, where at this point anyone sneezes on you, you're dead. I make a quick dash deeper in the woods and hear more gun shots ahead of me. I freeze and hope. Hope, prevails and now to consider my options. I review my map and learn the circled area is shrinking. It looks to be centering just east of where I am. And from what I could tell, the end game would take place in a very open area. Practically no cover and surrounded by hills. My position is in a forrest between the two castles, which are most likely being camped. There's no more time to get a better gun or supplies. If I maintain my position, I can keep a good visual on the exits of both castles. I can get eyes on all players before hand. Now the only issue is my lack of fire power. Time to figure out my end game. After waiting patiently, my hypothesis of the end game location was increasingly on the money. However with just a pistol there was no way I'd be winning this. Especially with shots from a shotgun, an automatic of sometype and an uzi ringing out in the near by distance. With an overview of the possible end game area, I studied it. Scanning for rocks, trees, a small brick wall to help me with defense. Nothing was there, it was a death trap and quite possibly chosen for that reason. Reluctantly, I summarized I'd be dead soon. How many left? 5 players. What to do? Where was my salvation? How could I prevail. The answer was always there. A way of life, I've always played in video games. Whether it was Splinter Cell SvM, Assassin's creed, or Tribes. The answer was always to hide in plain sight. There on the road 800km away was a car. Just sitting there, waiting to be driven. That's too obvious. Too loud to drive or use as a weapon. But for hidding. It was perfect. It was multicoloured and the windows had lace. You'd be stupid to hide in that. So that's what I did. I made my mad dash from the hill side to the car. The on screen text told me the area was shrinking. I had to be quick as the last update would make all campers come out into the open. Must get to the car. Sprinting for dear life, watching the castle to the south, watching the hills to the north, I ran. Then stumbled upon a care package. Too good to be true, contained no ammo or weapons. I continued running and reached the car. My new hidding spot. I got in the back seat, less noticable, at least, in theory. Sitting, hidding and waiting, I concluded I had also selected my grave. A couple more minutes, I sat, and the area shrank one last time. The car, inside of the end game zone. "They'll be coming soon" I said. Patience. Then just up the hill, a crouched figure crossed the road. He crossed twice, surveying the land. Then, two shots fired, then more. From behind the car, and in front, shots rang out arround me. A death appeared on screen. 4 players left. The silence now was torturous. I couldn't see, I couldn't hear anyone. Sitting in the back of this car, in the middle of a battle field. I sat, looking out all windows as fast as possible. Do I move to the front seat to get a better view? Do I risk being seen. Shots fired from behind. 3 players left. Now I realise this might actually work. Can I pull this off, and the other two kill themselves? Wait. I don't hear them. Frantically, I scan through the windows. Then, running up and down the road a player with a shotgun appears. He's running about with no care in the world. Searching desperately the small area in which 2 players are hiding. Me in the car. The other, somewhere else. As he slowly approaches, I think about my next moves, and then realise he's out in the open. The other player is not shooting him. There's only one reason. They're a team. He's quickly approaching the car. Dismissing it like a rock in the desert. He zigzags and wanders by the side I'm sitting on. I don't dare move. The Jurassic Park, T-Rex scene comes to my mind. "IAN FREEZE" He can't see me if I don't move. He runs infront of the vehilce, to look on the opposite side. Nothing, but then he freezes. We lock eyes and I know I've been found. He's just as surprised. I swtich to the driver seat, and floor it. The car surges forward and the impact is not what I had hoped. I push him for 20ft before he's moved to the side. He fires his shotgun missing multiple shots. I get out, so slowly, my back to him. 2 more shots, he missed. This has to be the guy from earlier. I spin, and take 2 quick shots, both miss. Me getting out of the vehicle allowed him to switch to his hand gun. He unloads his clip in my direction. I do the same. We injur eachother. We both need to reaload. He attempts to reload. Nothing. I do the same, but I have another clip. He's out of ammo. We circle the car, and he jumps into the vehicle, concluding I'm also out of ammo. I bait him to line me up, not shooting yet implying no ammo. He jumps into the driver seat, and I ensure my shot is sure. Pop Pop. The sound of flies, has never been so soothing. With what seemed like an eternity, only seconds passed. His dead body lying on the ground, a shotgun on his back. Was he out of ammo, or didn't want to reload. The feeling overcomes me. I need that shotgun and more ammo. Searching his backpack was the last thing I did. He had binoculars, food, and drinks. He had done well for him in this fight. He did have ammo left. I would have put it to good use. His death would not have been in vain. As I hear that final shot, all the fear of hidding in the car, the anticipation of being found, the thrill of the fire fight, drops away. The green and white hourglass appears on my screen, disappointment rises as the screen fades to black and a message that, I've been kicked from the game appears. The disappointment lingers, and grows into sadness. Not for the 2nd place finish. Not for my fatal mistake. But for the lingering questions. Who was the winner? Who faught the good fight? Who killed me?

I tired the the open dayz forum. The server says to post the issues there. I guess I'll just have to wait a couple days which is fine. I just thought of trying here because it gets more traffic and well... I was hoping I wasn't alone. As for the Twitter. I'm not a member. i guess theres a time to start.

Hey all, This alpha finally came out through the commander. Even though there are like only 9 servers out there it's extremely popular if you can get into a game. That being said, I keep getting an error and botted as soon as I do get in that the "files required have been deleted or missing". When really, i just got it and didn't do anything. Others are having no problems with the mod. I'm just wondering what I can do to possibly succeed in playing this version. I've unistalled and deleted the said files which were already missing, and re downloaded the files all over again. 3 times over. Same result. ANy thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Stay frosty.

I forgot it was a hoodie! Front: I survived Cherno, and all I got was this hoodie. (can replace to any city, Zelen, Stary, Elektro) Front: DayZ logo in background. "Now, I need a backpack".

Front: Daybreakdz: "Any one at NWAF?" Matrix34: "I am" Devon: "Me too" Matrix34 has been killed Devon has been killed Daybreakdz: "To Starry!" Back: Dayz Logo. ---------------------------- Front: Picture of the guy from "Anyone in churno" wearing a head set. Get off side chat! Back: Dayz Logo ---------------------------- Front: Daybreakdz: "there's a sniper on sniper hill. I'm gonna " Daybreakdz has been killed. Back: Dayz logo. ------------------------------ Front: Picture of Kamenka bridge. Written below the picture: The bridge (or any of these gateway/path/road) to Elektro. (While non-players will think it's just a bridge. Players know you suicide off the bridge to get a better spawn) Back: Dayz logo ------------------------------ Front: Dayz Logo. Survive? At what cost? (Plays off the notion that to survive, it'll cost you anything from beans to your own humanity. ----------------------------- Front; DayZ logo What will you sacrafice? (same idea) ---------------------------- Front Dayz character from "anyone in churno" with many weapons pouring out of his back. "I was a bambi, untill I got to Starry" ---------------------------- Front: DMR scope zoomed in on a new player. Below picture: Fresh Bambi. ---------------------------- Front: Dayz character from "anyone in churno" ontop of a pile of dead zombies. "Anyone got Anitbiotics?" (survived the onslaught. but got infected) ---------------------------- I'm thinking about a couple more situations ive been in and how to make it fun. EDIT: Front: Dayz logo. Below: Zombies aren't your only problem.

You threaten to upload it? and then he taunts you. Clearly he knows exactly what he's doing.

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Continued life from above. As an FYI, I try not to kill at all. Since i started back in December, i've killed only 5 guys. 4 bandits and the story below, the civ that shot at us first. After running around solo for a couple of days getting drink and food. I decided to scope out Stary, as it sounded like a happening place. With my DMR I set up to help lonely looking civs raiding the tents. For about a half hour only 2 individuals show up a civ with an enfield and a guy in Guile. The guile stopped serveral times for good 800m shot, however i could not tell if he was a bandit. I decided since he was no threat, to spare his life. Shortly after, 2 common friends logged in and after lone wolfing for so long, I wanted to team up with them. The two of them had recently died, and spawned in different areas. We decided it'd be best to meet at the lumber mill. It's a good run away but I'm confident I can get to them no problem. During the run, one got severly lost and it was decided I meet him half way at a small damed lake. Unfortunately, he climbed onto the rock and fell to his death. I continued to me the other as he respawned. Patiently the friend waiting at the Lumber mill, found food and ammo for my DMR. The other, spawned relatively close to his body, and successfuly picked up his gear, which included an M16, and a tent. Enroute to the Lumber mill I got unexpectedly close to three valley, and had a couple of Bandits run by me about 200m. One unarmed, the other with an AK. I stay covered and let them run by. As usual I want no part. Finally, we all meet up and split the gear. I was feeling pretty sketchy with the DMR as i've never really shot anyone with it. I give the DMR to the friend patiently waiting, and I resuply with the M240. Magically, during all this, the M240 ammo disappears, and i'm left with an empty M240 and my revolver. They ask if I want the DMR back and I confess, that it's probably too much gun for me. We decide to make our way to the Berinzino tents for some "easy" military pickings. We travel to Berinzino in the trees to stay out side of the main city. As we near, we have to cross a large empty field and a road, to get to a tree line. After a nervous run, we travel through the tree line only to come accross a bandit with a hand gun running through the open field. My friends, who have weapons, start shooting to take out the bandit. I am crouched, with my empty m240 and a revolver. I cover their shooting by shooting the zombies that approach them. Sadly, this isn't very affective against one of those super zombies. Running in circles, occurs, and it's time to loot the bandit, and the Deerstand a couple feet away. As i'm reloading in the bush, my dmr friend looting the body, and the m16 guy in the deer stand, two shots break the silence. Sniper took out our DMR carrier, and is now taking shots at me. I bolt, and instinctively run in a zig zag ducking behind trees. After multple shots i quickly determine he's a bad shot, and make a run for the DMR. All the while i'm yelling at the M16 to get eyes on where the shots were comin'. He informs me it's near him and he's trying to flank, after successfully retrieving the DMR and ammo, i run circles as bait. He's no longer firing. I'm not sure if he's under cover, and I don't know where my friend is. I dive by a bush to get eyes on the area in which my friend said the shots were fired. I get eyes on my friend who's behind a bush, and looking in the direction of the shots. Scoped in, I find a civ holding an M14 aim right at him. With a holy shit, I fire 2 ft above the civ's head. FUCK. Readjust, just miss his hat. Readjust, he's looking at me, I fire. Death hits him in the nose. For another intense 2 minutes, I don't move while my friend scopes the body. Or, what he thought was his body. Turned out, there was another that just died beside him. Beside the two bodies, was a residential building, and I noticed zombies within and a bambi with a machete. Luckily, he ran out the opposite door and went to raid the tents. Quickly I met up with my looting partner and informed our other friend who got a Solinchy spawn to head here asap. I ran and got cover to overlook my friend raiding the tents. He came accross a body and machete before getting there. He was in trouble before even getting there. The tents provided nothing, so we headed back the way we came. We were three again and approaching the same tree line where we find a tent we walked by, but didn't notice the first time. Water and a clip of ammo. A refreshing small reward. Now we need to figure out where to put our tent. As we discuss, the side chat flares up with hacker accusations as a known hacker appears on the server with the same name. My friend calls him out on side chat. We stop momentarily to check our route, when I notice on the map exactly where we are standing a big X with Shots fired. No shots were fired. We've been had by the hacker. We quickly split up, and watch eachothers back and log off. No hacker kill today. Not today.

After teaming up with a random player who failed to kill me on sight, we wondered to Stay and killed a sniper. After having the random friend driving the ATV all over, my power went out. When it came back on, it took me 5-10minutes reviewing the map and hills to find out where i was. Once that was determined I set out again. However, it seems that some other rando had the same problem, but spotted me first. With a KoS mentality, he started shooting. I panicked, hit "h" to holster M4cco SD, with 10 mags. I die. All without getting a shot off. Dejected, I spawened (without my M4 or the grenade) in pigidorski and headed north. Depressed i felt like a yolo mission, and heard my chance: shots fired. So I headed towards them. To my surprise, I find a guile sniper looting two civilian bodies. I await until he finishes in the hopes of grabbing the sloppy seconds if there were any. Hiding behind a tree no bigger than my head, I circle around it as he departs. I keep LoS until he runs through the local town. Now's my chance. The first body has some food and a crossbow with 1 arrow, and then get rudely interrupted by the guile sniper shooting around me. I run when he suddenly dies by zombies. Increddible. I run grab everything on him, and head for the hills. Just up the first hill I get to, is a motor cross bike. It's busted, I try to drive it, but instead I honk the horn. At this point, it's clear, I have no idea what I'm doing. This is true. Panic over comes me and no sooner I start running again, the sound of an ATV approaching rather quickly, freezes me in my steps. I dive into a pine tree and hope. I get LoS on the ATV and do my tree dance. Then I run like the wind. Me vs what looked like 2 experienced players was not something I was looking forward to. Now I can live another day. Of course, knowing my luck, I'll spawn, climb out of my hidding spot only to run into a bambi with a enfield. Edit: Sloppy seconds consisted of a DMR 4mags, revolver, NvG, meat, Assualt pack, M240, food, drink, and 2 antibiotics.