Here are my interactions on this first day (make what you will out of it): 1. I spawned and after good 20 minutes of tweaking config and getting used to the game finally ran towards Cherno. Saw 3-4 flashlights far away in houses and multi-storey warehouses at the same time, which was freaky. At that point I realized that those people would not be friendly if they ran into me. 2. After a while found a red pen and armed myself with it just in case. No zombies, just glimpses of flashlights in this huge city 3. Thought that I saw a player in some convenience store but it was a zom zom glitching through the floor.. I ran out with my pen 4. Only to see some shadow standing near a wall, staring at a wall. At a closer inspection it turned out to be a player with a backpack, staring at a wall, probably AFK or checking settings. With my heart pounding like crazy I snuck up on him and looked at his gear. To my surprise, it was available (I never pulled this off in the Mod just so you know). I see that he has a pristine Axe, pristine clothes, rags, bike helmet. Wasnt sure what to do - the guy obviously didnt know I was right behind him looking at his gear. Then something happened and I wondered if I could take some of his rags. I took them. Then I realized that the guy will chase me down and kill me with his Axe for this.. So I took the Axe. Then I realized that I will need more space, so I took the bag. As you can see it was a quick transformation showing how this game can go wrong. Once I had the Axe and all of his gear I killed him just so that he doesn't follow me. So I guess I am a bandit now. 5. At another point, I found more cool stuff which increased my inventory capacity to levels previously unseen in the mod. Even found sunglasses! Then a Mosin just lying on the 3rd floor of one of the "first" buildings that you see near the port. 6. As I was about to leave Cherno, I hear a guy calling on the mic "yo, can you hear me dude?" I wondered if it was actually directed to me or the whole server. I looked back and some dude was running not far, catching up. -"Hey man. You friendly?" I dont have a mic so I figured I'll just type quickly "lets split". Not gonna risk it all for a psychological experiment of trust vs bullshit.. And then he goes "Yo, it doesnt have to be this way. Cmon, its SA" I started running backwards keeping him in sight. -"Yo dude. dont pull out your Mosin" he said while already welding a Mosin. I took out mine and turned back into the woods and just ran for it. Then stopped behind a tree to catch my breath and observed him.. he lost me but still went in that direction while being armed. So tell me, do you really expect trust in this game? You can bet that this guy was hoping to rob or shoot me. He just wanted to pretend like he is friendly for a bit. Play nice for a while. I looked at this guy from afar as he was scouting the woods where he thought I was. He wasnt using his mic anymore, he was just looking to kill somebody and ran about with his gun. I typed "Its SA, but still DayZ" and logged off, although I think I should've shot him. 7. On a different server just ran through Cherno again in search of water (Thirst is a b*tch in SA!), and all of a sudden bullets just passed by me. Almost died. Had no clue who was shooting and from which direction, but it sounded like M4 (based on the frequency of shots at least). Somehow I am still on my first character! Planning to gtfo Cherno asap. To those whom I killed, its nothing personal.
