Okay, here's one of many experiences of mine in DayZ. I have had a good number of awesome times in that awesome game, one where a hacker even gave me a box full of EVERY SINGLE GUN in the game, but this one stands out. I played on one of those servers where they have custom loot tables, which I always like. It keeps you hoping whenever you enter a building. But yeah, the server had very few people with high-end stuff like M4A3's, AS50s (This was before the .50 cals were removed) FN FAL's, basically any military weapon was pretty hard to obtain on that server, which was pretty nice as it was more realistic. AK's though were still pretty easy to find. So I spawned on the beach with a hatchet and an M1911 in Kamenka and decided to loot the place out. Nothing, I headed to Komo, found an Enfield. Awesome. Then I headed up to Cherno and looted the hell out of it. Got an AKM from the supermarket along with a Czech Backpack and a Camping Tent. This went on for a few hours and by the end of the day, I had almost died around five or six times, by Bandits and Zombies. So I felt extremely lucky that day. The next day I logged on at 7AM when only one other player was on so I could get some fancy loot from NWAF and Elektro. Whilst I was looking around NWAF, I saw a bandit sprinting away from Zeds, I debated on shooting him but that would only get me killed. So I watched him run into the woods, and all of a sudden I saw the message "Lt. Tankard was killed." I waited until the zombies walked away and I made my way to his body. On him I found an M4A1 CCO SD on his body, along with a PKM and a few mags for it. I couldn't believe my luck, so I headed to my camp and logged out until night, when only three people were online, so I could continue my "Tour of Chenarus." I headed to Stary to find awesome loot in the military tents (Not many guns, but mags and flares, bandages, etc). Then headed up into the trees to see a Heli Crash Site. Pretty good day, hmmm? Once I took out the zombies with my new M4, I looked around the crash to see an AS50, SVD and Camo clothing. There was other stuff which I didn't need. But I head an empty backpack, as all my supplies were in the tents, so I loaded those two beasts into my backpack with two mags for each, then dropped them off at my camp and got the remaining mags for both guns. Now by the time I had finished, I was so ecstatic I was literally smiling all the way through. The next day I teamed up with a friend to loot the firehouses for weapons and the supermarkets for food and water. We did a clean run of the cherno market and firehouse... In Elektro we cleaned the supermarket up and headed to the firehouse. Once we'd looted it, we both headed down the stairs at the SAME TIME. We both got concussions and lost blood. But out of nowhere a guy runs into the firehouse, he has nothing but the starting gear. We'll call him Lenny. This kind man gave us both Blood transfusions. My friend and I offered to take him with us back to camp, as he was new to the game and didn't really know what was going on. So a few hours pass and we get him a Winchester and a Revolver, plus I emailed him the Coordinates of our tents so he could drop stuff off. At this point he was still a noob, so we gave him an Alice Pack, Coke and Beans so he could go and get loot freely without starving, getting dehydrated or running out of space. We all played for another few days, and he was genuinely just a nice guy, we would constantly see survivors running around with good gear, and instead of one-shotting them with his Winchester, he let them be. His personality on skype, was really nice. He also told jokes like a professional comedian. But one day, we had finished looting Balota and were at our camp, when he pulled out his mic, got his Winchester and shot us both. He let us bleed to death instead of finishing us off. He then took all the guns from the tents and loaded them into our truck, along with all the ammo. When my friend and I got back, he had left a few sodas and a few cans of pasta and steak. But no guns and backpacks whatsoever. But yeah, Polite Ole Lenny had shot us both, stole our gear and left. I slammed my mic on the desk and stopped playing for a few days. It was a big disappointment, and now I don't trust anyone anymore, even Heroes, because of Lenny. I'm still enjoying myself on this game, though. :)
