Ivanho (DayZ)

So when I started the game an hour ago I didn't see any servers. I "Alt + Tab"ed out of the game and "Alt + Tab"ed back into it. Bam there where the servers. I thought this was just random luck. So I refreshed and waited a while. No Servers. Tab out + CLICK back in = NO SERVERS. Tab out + Tab in = There is the list. Sounds like a troll, feels like a troll. Isn't one. Cheers Ivanho

So 2 friends of mine and I play DayZ. One of them is over at my place the other one is not. We are OK-geared and are taking a dinner and inventory-tetris break in one of the estates in northern Berenzino. (By estates I mean the houses with the pianos) So we are sitting there enjoying a short pause from all the action, when we hear somebody downstairs. I carefully walk down the stairs and see a Bambi with a SKS aiming at them. Me: "HELLLOOOOOO" (like the guy from Borderlands 2 whose name i forgot) No response. Me: "HELLOOOOOO" Him: "You are fucked!" Me: "Look buddy. We don't have to fight. I am a friendly guy." I roll into his view and roll out again. BANG BANG BANG. He's shooting. Well. "Ok" i think to myself "this is one unreasonable fellow". So I am sitting in a corner of the stairs rolling in and out of his view screaming "HELLOOO" and he continues to tell me that I am fucked. Everybody of my group is having lots of fun so far. I am checking once more where he is, and he is approaching. So I go upstairs a little (I didn't want to Rambo down there with a Mosin vs. a SKS). After nothing is happening for a while I intend to go down a little and see what our friend is doing. The very moment I spotted him and start to go up again MY ENTIRE ROOM GOES BLACK!! No electricity. The friend who's sitting next to me and I are looking at each other terrified, our faces barely visible in the dark. "Power-Outage?!" "Must be." We jump from our chairs and stumble out of the room. There is light in the Hallway of the House. "Must be a fuse." By then my flatmates get out of their respective rooms and look at us puzzeled, due to our mad behaviour. "Hakuna your Tatas" one of them says. We are switching the fuse back in. Instantly pops out. "Whoa whoa. Plug out the electronics first." Me: "chances are we are dead by now anyway. :( " So we plug out all the stuff. Get the shit back going and 10mins later we are up and running. We connect to our TS-Channel and our 3rd guy is still there. Me: "Sorry bro. Fuse. Are we all dead?" Him: "YOU are alive..." ... Me: "aaand... you?" Him: "I died.." Me: "Oh I am so sorry. But it was very heroic of you, that you saved our asses, when we just sat there logging out. Are you mad?" Him: "Check your facebook." Me checking facebook reading: "AERJJSFPJFUOSRBJXNSKOMN ORIERJJSJIArbuqwbierbdjf34u9wu 459osnfj!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 1 min later we all laughed about the incident and shared the remaining loot brotherly after we met up again. Cheers Ivanho P.S: Sorry for any massive mistakes regarding my English. I hope you enjoyed that little tale of darkness and fear.

I seriously do hope this won't happen again. I guess the next time I play I have to force my flatmates to turn off all electronic devices. "This is DayZ-Airlines please turn off your..."

It is really hard to understand how some people are active on this forum or reddit, without being able to read or to understand what they are reading. I do not know how many times Rocket wrote/said something like "It's early Alpha. It will be for some time. DO NOT BUY THE GAME, IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE BUGS... " and so on and so forth. I think these attentionhungry-ragekids (of which I became one myself with this post in some way) are even delaying progress, because whoever works at Bohemia and reads that bullsh*t, should be somewhat mad and extend the caffee-pause I think. Anyway. That said: DayZ is probably the best game I ever played so far. Cheers

So the title is of course not meant seriously. My character got deleted twice yesterday. When my buddy and I started playing and I logged in, I started as a Bambi on the coast. First thought: "Damn this wasn't a save logout-spot after all." But my buddy and I logged at the same position and he was alive. So i thought: "Hmm bad luck. Anyway." After several hours of playing (I was rather well looted again and we were on NWAF in a group of three) the server we were on restarted. So my buddys reconnect to the server. All good. I reconnect: Aaaaaaaaand.... "Welcome to Bambi-Land, where Bare-Knuckle-Boxing is the standard form of interaction and Bandit-Referees reward the winner with a shot to the head." I ain't mad or something (Alpha and so on) but i wondered if I was just unlucky or some of you had the same problems. Cheers Ivanho

So yesterday night I was still playing DayZ, when the Server I played on contained two players including me. I just looked for loot on the roof of the Firefighter-Station in Cherno, when I decided to roll myself a cigarette and think about where to log out. (I think it is very very nice, that one has a 30 sec timer now, because it really forces you to plan ahead, even when you want to stop playing) So i layed there in the dark night feeling pretty safe. Suddenly i hear shots of a M4. Instant adrenaline-rush. Smashing my cigarette into the ashtray I reposition myself (IRL) from lazy-hangaround to full-combat-stance. What do? I look around and see a shadow running across the street in some distance. My chance. I climb down the ladder to the roof below, lay down and start to look out. Bang Bang Bang. More shots..... HOW DOES HE SEE ME, WHERE THE F* IS THAT GUY. Hands are shaking by now and in the back of my head I think to myself: "how unlucky. 2 guys on the server and he sees me first." 5 minutes pass by in which I reposition myself carefully and he sprays more bullets around cherno. Then I see him again. Running across a street. He shoots again.... slowly i realize: He is not shooting at me. He doesn't even know I am close by. He is shooting Infected. For practise of what ever.... I get back to lazy-hangaround-stance, pick up my cigarette and calm myself. End of the story. Morale of the story: Think before you panic and this game is incredebly awesome.

So I just wanted to start a thread in which we share our "classic" moments of Paranoia. Mine: - Mistake random sound for someone eating or drinking. - Walk through a house. Stop. hear just one more step-sound. ERMAHGERD someone is in here. - be low on blood, see something in the distance. PANIC!!!! oh just a tree/bush. - dem Scarecrows sometimes....

Not Paranoia but still: When running around with a friend and you think he is in another house and suddenly you meet him in the house you just entered through the backdoor. OR (what i really like to do :D ) if running through the forest with friends pull out your axe and hit a tree. BÄM everybody is on the ground and over TS you hear "I HEARD A SHOT I HEARD A SHOT!" :P

I am flattered.

Happend to me while climbing a ladder. Shiiiiiiiiiiiit someting moves ... oh shadow. Yeah I am spending most of my time playing beeing paranoid :D. Another Classical TS-line. "CARE..." "WHAT?`" "there...." ... "Just a tree. sorry." Edit: And thank you for the beans everyone.

This is a little story about a bandit getting what he deserves: So my buddy and I are in Berenzino on our way to the office-building at the lumbermill, when we spot another player with a mosin on the roof. He did not see us so far, so we approach the building. When we get up to the roof he is still there so I started to talk to him: Me: "Hey buddy. Don't worry we are friendly. Are you?" ... ... Him: "Yeah..." Me: "Cool. Wanna trade your Mosin for my Shogu?" ... ... Me: "No?" Him: "Nah man I will keep the Mosin." Me: "Ok. Have a good day then." So my friend and I wander off and head to the waterpump close to the lumbermill. BANG. Me: "Shit we are beeing shot at. RUN!" We start to run. More shots. I turn my head and see the guy on the roof aiming for us. Another shot. My Buddy: "Shit I am dead. This little dumb*ss on the roof." I continue running then take cover in a bush and start to flank around my buddys corpse. The guy from the roof and another one approach the dead body together. They are careless... One is dropped by the first two shots of my shotgun. A Firefight between me and the other guys leads nowhere, because now both of us play very careful. Again I flank the bush he is sitting in and hope he doesn't see me doing it. He did not. He is dead too. This was my first real combat kill and when I think about it my heart is still pumping. I love this game. And now I got a Mosin. Cheers Ivanho

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