HeavensValor

This is a nice video, and I do appreciate your post, my situation wasn't quite like that, they were literally right on me, no more than 10 meters behind me at any point. I really couldn't find a means of escape.

So I have a story for you today. I'm fairly new to DayZ with probably 50 or so hours under my belt. Maybe not that new. But still, I've never killed anyone, and don't want to. So I come across a Mosin and find a decent amount of ammo for it. I decide to start making my way up the coast and come upon the outskirts of what I believe to be Svetlojarsk or however you spell it. Upon getting closer to some of the buildings, I notice a player up ahead of me, completely unaware of my presence and running toward a building, presumably to loot it. I catch up to him as he goes inside and ask him to stop. He doesn't have a gun but has a melee weapon on his back. He continually tells me not to shoot him, to which I reply, I'm not going to kill you, just come here (I actually wanted to give him food and drink) and asked if he was hungry or thirsty. He ran out the front door. I went ahead and searched the building, arriving at the top floor, until I heard voices and footsteps approaching. It was the same player, and he brought back a friend. They climbed up the stairs and they both asked me not to shoot. I kept my gun trained on them in self-defense but neither had a gun. I backed into a corner (my first mistake) and they came up to the top floor. I demanded they both go back down and aimed at them. They both rushed me and tried punching and swinging at me. I ran outside and another of their friends appears with a fire extinguisher. They've hit me a couple times on my way out and I'm bleeding. I keep running while continually turning and firing my Mosin quickly at them, attempting to bring one down, while they chase me hot on my heels. They keep telling me to give it up, but I refused to die easily. (At this point you may be wondering why a guy with a gun is running away from unarmed bandits. I asked myself this too but didn't see another option.) I'd put the cursor on them, fire, and nothing. Either the aiming is broken, or there's a delay, or something. I never hit any of them. Finally, my game closed itself on me, to which I quickly opened it again to find myself dead and hear them laughing. So..is this what DayZ is all about? I wanted to help one of them, and they chase me until they kill me? I die because the game glitches? I guess I'm just sort of frustrated. I want nothing more than to be a hero in this game and help out new spawns and play cooperatively with others, yet things like this just sort of make me bitter. Thoughts? Input from experienced players?