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What did you expect me to do? Wait till they all bailed out the car and got the upper hand or use the car as a battering ram to take me out? I've spent the last week being continually killed by snipers camping spawning areas on the south coast. I've learnt that unless I receive direct voice/on-screen communication from a written/ spoken address to the player in question I will shoot. Obviously I'll try to avoid confrontation but in this case (although on a bit of an excitement high) I believed my use of force was proportionate to the threat perceived by both me and my mates.

Been playing this character for about a day now (character name: Tom). Was collecting supplies at around 21:00 GMT on the LU123 server from the medical camp near Balato airstrip with a couple of mates. Fairly successful haul, AKM, Remington shotgun, blood bags and of course the obligatory beans. As we ran out onto the road, I heard the sound of an engine, spun around and saw a rusty white GAZ barrelling towards me. As it was my first encounter with a car of any sort I panicked and fired a full mag into the drivers side window. Car rolled to a stop and two guys (? might have been three but he may have disconnected when I started firing) jumped out and let off a couple of shots with their Remington and Enfield. Put my remaining mag into one of the bailers (overkill I know) and switched to my Colt to take out the legs of the other (finished him off with a headshot using my Remington). Unfortunately, the car then exploded, ending any dreams of owning my first vehicle and cruising the roads of Chenarus. Managed to recover a large amount of Enfield ammo and beans/soda from the other body. Turns out we had wiped out a couple of members of the SWAG clan (not sure how big they are or anything like that) and about 5-6 clan members were on at the time. To avoid any further confrontation (the Clan members kept respawning, probably to find a better spawn location to get one over on us) we fell back into the woods. If I shot you, sorry. Overreacted to what could have been a pretty big threat but just so you know, your groups car is now a burnout wreck and your Enfield ammo (which you had been stockpiling) has come to some use. Just a little story I thought I'd share with you about one of my first truly (in my eyes) great moments in DayZ. TL;DR - First encounter with car, crapped myself, killed passengers/clan members, car exploded :(