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I never said "rob". I typically make you drop your stuff or put your weapon away to make sure you're compliant. At that point, we normally have a conversation and try to establish some type of trust there after. I know that sounds a bit strange with me ordering you to holster your weapon or drop your gear, but there is nothing else that I can do in most cases. We then offer supplies and part ways. It makes the game more engaging and fun to us.Edit - we typically don't take ANYTHING from anyone, but i'm not saying I wouldn't if they had something I was interested in. There have been a few cases where I was close to taking a weapon or item.

I finally found myself stuck in a situation where I literally could do nothing to remedy the situation. I had logged out (semi geared) in the small green house in Kamywobo (the one with the stairs you have to go up on the side of the house). When I logged back in, my guy was underneath the house. I could run around and crouch, but could not vault or go prone. If I tried to kill myself, my guy would immediately drop whatever weapon was in my hand but still do the animation. I could not pick my weapon back up by looking at it, nor could I see it in the vicinity. I stripped myself of everything and waited to starve. My energy and thirst levels never changed and I never got cold.. Yikes! I logged in to a high pop and yelled for help. Two guys came by and offered advice but had no guns. The second guy went and found a guy with a rifle and I asked him to shoot through the wall/window at me. It did not work. They wished me a "good luck" as I sat there and left my computer for a couple hours. I was eventually kicked (or disconnected) from the server. I logged back in and I was able to re spawn. Yay.

I love this idea. It would definitely create some unique situations as well.

I mostly play hero. Even when Eno and I go into "Bandit" mode, we primarily find ourselves telling people to toss their weapons as we let them go (with all or most of their gear) as long as they comply. The only time we kill others is when they try to kill us. We typically like to get involved in peoples business by alerting them to our presence and if we feel its somewhat safe, we offer food and items. Sometimes good people get killed because of craziness or confusion, but most of the time we are "good" players. We typically document our nights in the "How was your DayZ?" thread.

Last night, Eno and I decided to team up and get into the thick of things. I got on earlier than he and ran from Cherno to Berezino looting everything on the way. My guy was pretty decked out in almost the same military gear in the screenshot a few posts back, except I was missing the pistol holster for the plate carrier and the fact that I now had an AK with a wrap on it to match my gear. Eno and I met on the western side of Berezino and proceeded to sit on the hill overlooking the southern edge of the city on a high pop server. I was along a stone wall, hidden in the bushes with Eno about 10m to my right, doing the same. I noticed a truck was parked on the main street along the coast but did not pay it much attention other than checking on it periodically to see if it moved. We watched the area for about 15 minutes before we saw two semi-geared players run down the road in front of us and run inside a small yellow house with blue shutters. They both lined up in front of the windows and were facing my direction, not moving. I wasn't sure if they had a good line of sight on me so I didn't move, with my binoculars fixed on them. Shortly after they disappeared.. they apparently went in to log out. We scanned the city for another 15-20 minutes talking about random shite with both of us still in awe that we had not heard ANY shots in that amount of time. Eno got ants in his pants from the lack of activity and decided to walk down towards the truck. He literally walked down the road, through the fields, past the houses, allllll the way to the lumber yard before he picked up the pace. His reasoning was that he was "in good hands". I told him that he should think differently because I will only react after a shot is fired and with all of the possible hiding spots for someone, chances are he will be dead before I can figure where they are at. Watching him walk that far in the middle of Berezino on a high pop server was pretty hilarious to me. So once we hit the lumber yard, I heard someone eating close by. I looked around in 3rd person and didn't see anyone. I heard it again (full sound effect) and figured it had to be coming from across the street near the water fountain (what we refer to as "Chez Eno"). We decided to rush it so I went in and charged the nearby 2-story green house and cleared the upper floor while Eno cleared the bottom floor. I then rushed to the next building over and cleared that upstairs and down. From there, we could see the truck sitting in the middle of the road just north of us with both doors wide open. It looked like a set up so we looked around for a few moments before we devised a plan to follow the coast up past it towards the light house. As I step onto the shoreline and turn to head north, I notice a guy in a full ghillie suit running towards me along the shoreline. I duck behind some rocks and sit and wait while I alert Eno. At this point, the guy clearly hasn't seen us and he runs closer to me and then ducks behind a large rock sitting in the water. I yell to Eno that we should rush him and I go for it. I tell Eno I will go right if he goes left, which he does quickly. I rush around the right side of the rock and shout commands for his to drop his weapon. He complies by going prone and dropping everything but does not type or talk over voice. Eno has been looking for a winchester and this guy had a nice one with Eno's name on it. Eno declines and says he can keep it, so I relay to the guy and tell him we will let him keep his gear if he goes south after we leave (the guy's name was "yolo"). I ask him to shake his head if he understands.. he nods up and down. We run north along the coast as Eno keeps an eye over his shoulder. Just as we get to the fencing leading into the docks, we get shot at.. and again. We run around in circles before realizing it is coming from behind us where we let the guy go. We do a 180 and serpentine back towards our little friend. Meanwhile, another shot goes off but not at us. As we approach we see the ghillie guy run towards the bridge for cover. I veer off to the right (over the railroad) and west of there to intercept him but he does not come out the other side. I noticed the bridge was sitting low to the ground so he was probably on the other side still. I run around the bridge and come back down the coast and end up coming up behind him. I do not give commands and I do not say anything, as I fire 4 shots into his back. He drops. I was pissed that he tried to kill us after we had an agreement! So I cuss at his dead body over comms and leave his body. A few moments later, Eno says that there was another body (a female) near the lighthouse. I run up and see that she had a blaze rifle and we try to figure out what happened. Clearly our ghillie guy killed her, but was it him shooting at us or was it her? If it was him, then I am glad I killed him, but if it was her and he SAVED us from her, then.. oops? Anyways, the female had a pistol carrier for my plate carrier (YAY) and we survived. We ended up heading into the center of the city to follow some other gunshots, but the server restarted shortly after. Sorry "yolo" if you were not the one shooting at us.

Yes, yes it is!

Cargo and military pants spawn on prison island. Schools have hunter pants if I recall correctly.

To answer your question, yes the loot system is not what it should be. You could've saved yourself hours of "testing" time by searching the forums.

Good video! Love the slow mo at the end as well. Yes, it looks like his friend killed him, lol.

Eno messaged me saying he got a new video card and that he had one last night to play before the wipe. So we logged on at relatively the same time and decided to get into some PvP if possible since we normally stray from it and try to help people. We also thought we would try the bandit route for a change of pace. I logged into my 3pp character and immediately got the "You are unconscious" message.. uh oh. Rewind: A few nights back, (one of Eno's last posts in here) we got into a fire fight outside of Berezino where I killed a guy, but I was shot up pretty good. I had bandaged and eaten some food, but the server reset a few minutes later. So now, when I logged in, my character was unconscious and shortly after.. dead. Poop. That guy was alive for a loooooong time even after countless interactions with players of different varieties in Svet. Poop, poop, poop. Oh well.. So I spawn near Skyrim mountain (in between Cherno and Elektro). Eno spawns in near the factory on the coast and is heading towards Kamyshovo. I run straight for Elektro and stop at the first guard house, finding a smersh vest smersh backpack, SKS with some ammo, and a 75 round drum, which I empty and take the ammo for my SKS. I gear up within a few short minutes because I also find an FNX and a mag for it at the next guard house as well as a boonie hat and black m65 jacket. Bam! We meet up in Kamy on a high pop (40/40) as Eno takes overwatch on the hill, his range of view isn't the best where he can see in both directions, so he shuffles position a few times through our session to help. I immediately come across a relatively non geared guy crossing the road looting houses (I think he had an axe and a black m65 jacket), I run up to him asking how he is doing just as a freshie runs up to my side and starts talking to me. Me: "Hey guys, need anything? Food? Wa-" **The freshie runs at me Me: "Back up man, do you need anything?" Freshie: "I, uh, what did you say?" **I raise my weapon Me: "I said BACK UP man" Freshie: "Okay okay, i'll take whatever you can give me" I drop two cans of soda and one can of beans, I noticed the guy with the axe and black m65 jacket took off towards the warehouse along the water. I wish the freshie well as he thanks me and heads west towards Elektro down the coast. I run up to the warehouse to see the guy with the m65 jacket yell out to me as he closes the door: Dude: "Go away man, *long rambling*... I don't have anything" Me: "Alright, it's cool, just checkin' on ya" Dude: "I'm actually cooking some breast in here if you want some. Come try some." **He opens the door Me: "Are ya? Hrmmm.." I recall there not being much of any animals in this patch and with him being relatively fresh, I figure it's of human variety. I rush into the doorway in a sprint and look around and see a guy in the far right corner, and without stopping, in one move I do a 180 and zig zag back out and around the corner.. I was expecting that! Ha! Dude: "It's cool man, he's only got a trumpet, blah blah blah (hard to understand him)" Me: "Tell you what, you guys have fun, I'm leaving. Cya!" Shortly after, I hear the guy shooting his trumpet randomly (at least it doesn't sound like he's shooting at anyone). A few minutes pass by and I hear gunfire coming from the west. I figure someone is shooting at the freshie I helped earlier. Just then Eno says he sees two relatively geared guys (with weapons in hand) running towards Kamy between the tracks and the road. I get ready behind a fence and await their arrival. Eno asks if he should shoot or not, I tell him we should go for it since we really have nothing to lose (with the upcoming wipe in mind). Plus we figure we are taking care of two bandits as well. Eno lets a shot rip, then another, and another. He thinks he hit one guy because he went prone. The other dude ran north into the tree line past the train station. I notice a concrete wall along that tree line next to the train station with a hole in it, so I decide to follow him and just as I cut across the opening he turns and comes back towards me, but by then I am already at the wall waiting. I am assuming his friend saw me and notified him. The guy cuts 90 degrees and heads west, I line up a shot and let er' rip. One shot, one kill. I am not the best when figuring out the desync and such, but that was a beautiful shot I must say. He was running full sprint and I guessed correctly. His body fell behind a tree part way up the hill. I run up and see that he is still alive and shoot him in the head. I check his gear, finding stuff of not much use other than a bandage and a water bottle. I then turn my attention to his friend who is still apparently prone near one of the sheds entering Kamy from the west. I rush down the hill and around the area, just as Eno shouts out that he is to my left. Eno fires off a couple rounds as I rush to the right of the guy. I start talking in a retarded foreign accent as Eno is raining hell down around him. He is still prone behind a chicken wire fence next to a shed along the road. I run up behind him as I am telling him I am coming to get him. I round the corner and open up on him. He expires without firing a shot at me. I check his body and notice he had an ak74 with 16 rounds still left in the clip. Why didn't he fire? Shortly after that, we hear a truck approaching. I decide to go into bandit mode and I open fire on the cab. On my screen, I hit the driver 3 or 4 times in the face.. the truck crashes as I celebrate my victory. As I start to approach it, it suddenly vanishes and appears down the road still going forward.. wtf? The truck slows down and two freshies jump out. Just then Eno shouts out that three more guys are approaching from the same spot. I see two run to my right (north) and one guy circles my position and runs up to the wooden fence I am behind. He shoots through the fence wounding me as I rush around and put two in his back with my SKS. He keeps running as I fire one past him. As I turn I see a guy with a crowbar round the fence and rush at me. He gets a hit on me in one try as I start running past (wow, lucky hit?). I run forward and then stop and fire a couple rounds and miss as he zig zags, I then cross the road and do the same, missing all three times just as I hear the dreaded *click* *click*. He shouts to me "Yer gonna die today" or something of the sort.. as I tell him "Okay, come and get it". I sprint around the fence and (as I am still moving) hit tab to bring up my inventory and drag the ammo onto my rifle as my character reloads.. Now, before I continue. I need to note that I use SHIFT + W to sprint. I know some people just double-tap "W" and they sprint. I don't, but I definitely need to rethink my key layout or not be a total retard next time. So, as my character is reloading and I am still "jogging" with the menu up, I press the SHIFT key as I hit TAB to close my inventory. Crap. That pulls up the steam overlay and my character stops dead in his tracks. I quickly hit it again and take one step as my buddy with the crowbar pops me once in the back. Down I go.. he shouts out "good game" and kills me. First off, this guy was a maverick with a melee weapon. I don't think he missed once. He only had two opportunities to hit me during that short fiasco and he hit both times perfectly. PROPS to him. Secondly, I hope that it would have went down differently if I hadn't accidentally pulled up my steam overlay. Oh well, lesson learned. Shortly after, Eno got bum rushed by all 5 guys. Fun times!

I logged on last night wanting to get my 1pp character into some type of trouble. I could not find a server under 100 ping with more than 6 people in it, so I picked the one with 6 peeps and in I went. My 1pp character is totally decked out in full military gear, complete with a plate carrier, pistol carrier, and pouches (all matching). My goal was to find someone and engage in a fire fight or to help them out as I normally like to do. I logged in on the coast (out in the open for some reason) near the shore just north of prison island. My character was cold so I quickly built a fire and warmed up. I have noticed that I never get hungry anymore on my 1pp or 3pp characters.. like the status never goes below green. However, I do get thirsty quite often. I ate some beans and drank some water to fill up as a "just in case" so I don't get bit by the death bug and die from starvation in the event that my character is indeed hungry and I not know it. I ran to Cherno and climbed to the top of the police station, lit flares, yelled over voice as I literally patrolled the city (walking and also at a slow jog pace at times). No luck. I then ran to Elektro and did the same on different buildings at different heights as I looked around with binoculars. No luck there as well. I then decided to run BACK to Cherno as the server got up to 8 people and I was hoping to get lucky. I ran down the middle of the road, yelling and totally playing the role of a survivor. When I got back to Cherno I climbed the crane near the construction site and kept searching with my binoculars, seeing nothing. I climbed down to hear my character scream out in pain once he hit the bottom. I checked my boots and they were ruined. My pants went to "damaged" state and a lot of the items in my pants were damaged as well (nothing ruined thankfully). I fixed my pants with a sewing kit, took my boots off, and ran like an idiot trying to find shoes as fast as I could, hoping that my pants wouldn't get damaged again. Darting from house to house with no luck for what seemed like forever.. 15 minutes later I found some boots in a shed if I recall correctly. I patrolled the city for another 20 minutes or so calling out with no response. Fiddlesticks!

Try uploading to imgur (imgur.com) and pasting the link in your post. You can edit your post afterward.

I like what you've shown. I really like the idea of "flipping" items sideways to fit into your inventory a bit easier.

Show me the trees! :)

Awwww! Poor Arnold :(

The shadow of that hat cracks me up. Good video.

I made a video for that second part of Eno's story but before that clip I put in a short clip of a funny encounter I had the other day. Good stuff.

Love your stories!

^ this You can buy DayZ Standalone on steam and play it once it downloads. Keep in mind it is a WIP.

I logged in for 30 minutes to find a pistol holster for the plate carrier and I am having no luck. Anyways, I logged in just outside of the NWAF (I had forgotten that I logged out there in a hurry previously) on my 1pp character. Just as I run inside the fence (near the prison/barracks building just south of the tents), I see a guy running past me towards the guard house just before the tents. I check the server list and see that it is literally only me and him in there (lol). What are the odds of that happening twice in such a short period of time? Anyways, I minimize and press record on my handy-dandy recorder program and follow him through the trees towards the guard house. He has a weapon in his hand and a backpack, not totally kitted out but looks to be dual carrying. I watch him stop at the entrance of the guard house as I rush him (allowing the shed out front to block my approach). I run past the fence surrounding the building, come within 20m, raise my weapon, and.. Me: "Hey bud! How're ya doing?" **He looks up at me with his weapon in hand.. he does not raise it but I have my AK raised and pointed at him as I side step slowly.. Him ("THURMO"): "OH GOD dude, you scared the shit out of me, I thought the server was empty." Me: "Ha ha! This is the second time I've logged in right behind someone." THURMO: "Do you want me to get naked and drop all my stuff so you can check it out?" Me: "No, hah, I just wanted to see what you were up to. Tell you what, if you can just drop your weapon(s) until I leave, I will leave you alone." *He drops everything and strips anyways.. Me: "Alright, that's cool, cya!" THURMO: "Thanks for not killing me! Cya!" I finished looting the tents, hangars, and all other military buildings with no luck. Loot is pretty scarce in that area. Anyone know where to find a pistol holster for the plate carrier?

Your screenshots are the best by far, ha. The painting filter is the better of the bunch. I'm not a fan of the rest.

Would've been great to see you tie him up. If he had just logged out when entering the shed (instead of stepping away), he prolly would still be alive because of how long it took you to get there.

It is totally up to you and how you want to play. A lot of people like to PvP and rush to gear up as soon as possible so that they can rejoin the fight. I play both ways; some dayz I take my time and sneak around (more so on first person servers), while other dayz, I crave the interaction (3rd person servers) and may join in on some PvP or try to make contact to help people. By sneaking around, you definitely reduce the amount of exposure, but it does not eliminate it as you stated. I've died too many times due to bad luck. I can recall one incident where I was sneaking around testing the zombie aggro range and checking over my shoulder on all angles while in Cherno (going building to building near the coastal area). Shortly after I notice movement on the high factory building (golden spire building I think it is referred to) and a shot comes through the window and hits me from 400-500m away. I was literally sitting in a building looking out the window and this guy spotted me. It was a nice shot, I must say.

I'm totally stealing your line for the next bandit I encounter.

I logged on to my 1pp character last night and saw that I was in Cherno (west side, near the water). I got my bearings and stepped outside and looked both ways down the street. I saw a guy with an orange mountain backpack jogging towards the stores near the water (good timing eh?). I ran to intercept him and see if I could help or give him anything.. Just then two zeds jump out and molest me. I dispose of them quickly with my AK but obviously give my position away. I run back towards the guys direction and see that he has ducked in one of the buildings. I call out to him: Me: "Hey bud, it's cool, come on out" (as I glance in windows looking for him) Him: "H-Hey man, please don't shoot" Me: "It's cool, it's cool, I had to get rid of some zed aggro, you can come out" Him: "Please don't shoot, I about shit myself when you shot a moment ago" Me: "Ha ha, it's all good, you need anything? Come on out" *He comes out and sees me* Him: "Holy shit, you're armed to the teeth, nice outfit" Me: "Thanks? It's just me out here. I'll lower my weapon" *We exchange pleasantries and I offer supplies, which he rejects. I then let him go and run off in the opposite direction looking for certain gear. I then get a friend request on STEAM shortly after. I add the person and it turns out to be "him". His in-game name in Chance. We chat for a bit and he tells me he is looking for supplies to make a ghillie. I find some netting and 4 burlap sacks for him during a 30 minute run through Cherno and on the coast. He ends up running to Balota as I head towards the apartments (north of Cherno).. just then he types to me advising that someone is shooting at him. We end up voice chatting over steam as I rush over.. **I notice that there are 5 other people in the server as I rush over to Balota from the apartments north of Cherno. Me: "Where is he?" Him: "Not sure, I was in the military prison building and I am now running to the tower" Me: "10-4, I'm looking everywhere with my binoculars and I don't see any movement, plus the zombies have not moved either" Him: "He hasn't shot in a couple of minutes" **Just then the server is empty except for us two. I alert him of that as he discovers an active mine in front of the steps of the other prison building (west side). I tell him I do not know if you can disarm them but that he can try to shoot it to see if that makes it explode. He fires a bunch of shots at it which do nothing. He then goes to disarm it (lol) and he deactivated it on his end, but on my end it exploded. He said he got the message that it hurt him, but nothing is ruined on his person. Weird. We loot the rest of Balota and the town, head along the shore as we find items for each other. He thanks me for being friendly as he does not normally see friendlies in this game anymore. I logged off after an hour of scavenging.