al-97

Harsh and not exactly on topic... but so much true!

Don't be so touchy. If you feel like you've been misundersood, try to reason or make your point sound more clear. If I said something offensive I apologise, haven't mean it. As I said I am playing on EU servers. As do my sense of humour.

No offence man. I understand how it is tiring to get killed every time when you try to approach a person when all you wanna do is try to find out if he is friendly or not. Been there myself so many times. And once again I'm no advocate for Russians or whatever. Man that's some narrow minded thinking there. If you met a person(s) who lie, betray and don't understand humour, that doesn't mean that all of his compatriots are the same. Also if he is such a douche, why are you playing with him? And one more thing, humour is essential! Zombie apocalypse tastes so much better when flavoured with humour!

Well, I'm Russian and I play on EU servers. And I am more of the friendly mentality. I do not KoS, I do not abuse or harass other players. And I prefer talking to shooting. This usually will get me killed before I can do anything, but this is how I roll. I just feel bad killing other players. Yes, I do know this stories about those pesky Russians but I can not advocate for or against them. I think I have played on RU servers just twice. It's just more fun playing with people from all other Europe. It's the diversity thing. But anyway, hear me out. I think that I have some kind of explanation for this. When you're killed by a person with unaccented english you think: hey, it's just another bandit. But when you're killed by person with eastern-european accent it's always those damn Russians. And frankly speaking, if my English is good and accent is nearly non-existent (I don't say that about myself, just a figure of speech) how could you tell that I am Russian? I can kill you and you would think that yes, it's another bandit, or I can help you and we will travel together, but you won't know from where I am from. But if my english is bad and accent is heavy, then it can lead to a situation like the one that Retro19 posted up higher: "I'm sorry but your accent sounded funny and I couldn't take any chances with you. I'm not actually racist in real life, but you know Russians in DayZ..." Once again I'm no advocate for other people actions and it doesn't matter for me if they are Russians or not. But I think that Friendly/Bandit mentality is based more on a gear of a player. Just watch this fine video by Wobo ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1fGLfR3jk ). It also features players from Belarus. And I'm sure that if most of you met them ingame, you'd call them Russians, but they are not. They are also friendly to player. To end this post on a more positive note, here is a fun story. I play in a group with people from Slovakia, UK and China. And I have been killed by Slovakian dude because he mistaken me for a bandit when we were at NWAF. And I also have been killed by UK dude because he mistaken me for a zombie (not really, he wanted to help me out, but missed and shoot me instead of zombie). So who is the worst now? Surely not a guy from China, 'cos he haven't killed me yet ;) .