Golgo82

started playing DayZ with my brother a week ago. First encounter with an armed Player (me unarmed) ended with me taking about two mags worth of ammunition from that prick. Second Encounter in a supermarket, we had just looted our first Alice backpacks and just a remington on my brother, suddenly someone enters from backroom (ghillie suit, assault rifle) and instantly turns us into swiss cheese. Third Encounter out in the Wilderness near a Farmstead we (AKS Kobra, CZ550) spot two guys(makarov and hatchet) crawling around and decide neither to announce our presence nor to shoot them. Fourth Encounter about 5 hours later near Stary in the hills, we're prone overlooking the tents, spot one dude, crouching into the tents, while another one shoots some Zeds and then the crouching guy. We decide to open fire, my brother shoots for the first time with cz550 and misses the killer, we decide to haul ass since my bro is infected. But instead of taking the route through the little patch of forest on the hill, we stupidly decide to run down the hill...heading to the airfield. Shot fired from the Dark instantly kills my brother - i hit the deck, roll around dodge the sniper fire 3 times, then i bite the dust. We adapted since then. Four days ago we shot some guy in cherno, he had superior gear and we had just a makarov and an 1911..but a ton of medical gear - didnt wanna lose that. Three days ago i axemurdered two guys with makarovs, that tried to stalk me around cherno. If they have a weapon that can kill me, I avoid and observe or kill them outright. Its a mad world. But im not gonna get shot ever again for being too nice/hesitating to ruin someones day. DayZ lessons learned.

Airdrops arent really authentic to me, if I take one look at the Metagame. The highest pop servers I have seen so far have about 66 people on them, so thats 66 people spread across 225km². Since most of the worlds population has been wiped out by the Zombiecalypse i seriously doubt that any still functioning Government or Paramilitary Post-Apo-Organization would be willing to spend the fuel, the Tech(Heli/Airplane), the resources or the manpower to make supply drops into a Zone with an unknown, if even existent, number of survivors that havent even been able to make contact with the outer world. People are killing each other in this game for a lousy pair of boots(well..if there were boots..we would kill each other for them) so I have to ask..why would anyone outside, with their own problems at hand(you know the Zombiecalypse) do something like that? And please dont use the Heli crashsites as an argument..they clearly had problems..otherwise they wouldnt have ended in a big heap of scrapmetal. Migrating Zombies dont feel "authentic" to me either. Where do they come from? Why are they coming to Chernarus? Why would they follow Aircraft if they are physically unable to get to it? Zombies in the woods also doesnt feel "authentic". Who becomes a Zombie? People do. Where are people nowadays concentrated? In Cities, Villages, etc. For what "authentic" reason would they stay in the Wilderness, when there are no brains to eat? I do understand your concern about the "gamey-ness" of spawns in DayZ, but if spawns were authentic, there wouldnt be anything to eat left unless new servers would open up every frickin hour. Some things need to stay gamey in a game - no matter how hardcore it is.