Meteo

Besides looting / gathering extra supplies (either by killing players or exploring), what exactly do you DO in DayZ? Haha, it's funny now that I've gotten good at looting I suddenly find myself staring at the map wondering what to do next. Any ideas? Some things I thought of: 1. Scare people in various ways. Shoot near their feet, make noises in the mic, throw smoke/flares. 2. Leave tents in obvious places, possibly filled with nothing but raw meat. 3. ?????????? I mean I guess I could just kill people, but the fun of doing that to me is only when I get supplies out of it I need. There are better games for doing nothing but killing people for no reason. Anyway, what do you like to do solo or with friends?

I was looting my own dead body in Elektro's hospital (died of infection, last breath was spent looking for antibiotics). So I'm behind that little wall partition and I hear another player suddenly run in, and of course he heads straight for me and the sound of my other self's buzzing flies. As he rounds the corner im still getting my inventory to close so I just shout "WOH WOH WOH FRIENDLY I HAVE BLOOD BAGS!" and at the same time he startles and puts a round from some kind of assault gun into me but stops shooting. I dont move and just say "I'm friendly, I'm bandaging myself" hoping that my passivity will put him at ease and let me live. Surprisingly, he does let me live but keeps me at gunpoint. My heart is pounding, the game is still hard to me and I have the culmination of two of my decently-stocked lives in his hands. Him: "How many blood bags?" Me: "3" Him: "Drop the axe" Me: "I'm going to put it in my toolbelt" (doing this automatically causes my sidearm pistol to be drawn) Him: "DROP THE GUN DROP THE GUN" Me: "OH GOD IM SORRY DONT SHOOT" Pretty sure he almost shot me there, but I took care not to turn my body toward him at any point. After I dropped my puny gun he relaxed and I dropped the blood packs. He took them and offered to heal me with one if I healed him at the same time. So I got my health back, and he told me I could have the rest of my stuff and ran off with the last blood pack. Close call! short other stories: Got two noobie friends together to team up and do some coastline looting. A few funny things happened. 1. On sloped vegetation, a bandit surprises us from behind, firing wildly and hitting my buds. Only one of them is able to shoot back but both are grounded and have noob aim. I have no weapon and start to bolt away, but I realize the other guy is also grounded and a fire fight is under way. I get the idea to run right up to him and dance around as a distraction. It works brilliantly, he flips out thinking I have an axe and hits nothing but the air around me as my buddy finds the chance to line up the killing shot. Our first PK together. 2. For our second PK, from our uphill cover we see some poor fool out in the open trying to fight a zombie. At first we are afraid because OMG A PLAYER and hit the ground. We line up our gunsights and discuss what to do. At that moment, he finishes the zombie off, and turns to us, probably spotting us from a medium distance. He is standing still for the first time, and I fire. The others follow immediately and we bring him down firing-squad execution style. We felt guilty after that, like we just drowned a dumb puppy. 3. Karma is a bitch. Soon after that, we spot a guy on a bike from long range, he heads towards us maybe 10 feet but turns. Did he see us? It looked like he was just riding normally. It certainly was long range. We're prone in cover. We keep a hawk's eye on the entire area for about 5 minutes, he couldn't leave the area without us seeing him, but we don't see him. Did he log? Did we miss him leave? He probably didn't see us. He definitely didn't see us. We march away, but my friend Nick keeps turning around looking. He is worried he might have seen us and trailed us, but theres no sign, we're moving quickly, and it's been a long time now. About 30 seconds after Nick agrees that he was being paranoid, he turns around one last time. There the guy is. Headshot on nick, my other friend falls down and I RUN for my life. He hits me after several near misses and I run bleeding into the deep woods. Finally I lose him, and we reassemble much later, defeated. Puppy's vengence?