Posted by one of the guys I play with on the forum we all basically live on. This was our very first day playing as a full group together. Extremely long but one of the best days of gaming I have ever had. Norska: When I logged in I was close to Aeinna and we met up on the outskirts of Chernos with Jersey, Valec and Marou. We started running around and looting areas; for the most part it was uneventful. Found some great stuff, lot of corpses, and got in a few fights with zombies as we scavanged, but no players. But that all changed when we found the rock of doom. We were running towards a town and decided to stop on the side of a hill, right on a little rocky outcropping. As we all came to a halt the rock ate Aeinna. The very ground beneath her feet sucked her in, then spit her out. Much lawls were had, at least by me. This was followed a few seconds later by the gluttonous earth swallowing Valec, and spitting him out as well. In the light of good sportsmanship, and under the express wishes of those still remaining alive, Marou, Jersey and I took all the good shit off their corpses. During this time Jeresey moved a bit down the hill and apparently ran into a tree with enough force to knock him out. I ran to his aid, and stood above his body doing absolutely nothing until he magically revived and thanked me profusely. It was at this moment that, down below us in the seaside zombie infested town that a player swam to the shore from the ocean... trailing a swarm of zombies. We all hit the deck, and watched in awe as the lone man ran while his swarm grew to include the zombies from the town as well. Valiantly, he stopped and took a few down, and I had him in my sight but we decided it was too close and if we fired the zombies would just turn and rush us. We hoped he would simply die, but no. The fucker runs towards the hill. Luckily he went wide of our location. This however caused some zombies from his swarm, taking the shortest route to their prey, to come directly for us. We were able to take them out with little fanfare, and didn't aggro any others. Jersey went and kept an eye on the guy, while I stayed by the corpses of our fallen comrades. During this time Aeinna and Valec were trying to make their way towards us, but had respawned rather far away. I'm not entirely sure what happened to zombie swarm guy, but eventually Jersey returned and we started spreading out a bit trying to see if there was anything to loot in the nearby village. Jeresey was leading the way, I was a fair distance behind him, and Marou was still at the corpses. It was during this time that a lone gunmen ran up and shot me in the side of the head. In my death throws, I alerted Marou and Jersey, who both turned and shot the bandit that was now looting my fallen body. I prepared to respawn and, to my despair, was reincarneted in a spot rather far away from everyone else and was convinced to kill myself by the disembodied voices in my head. I listened, and in their infinite wisdow I was respawned right next to the lovely seaside villa and promptly looted everything of value again from my own corpse. Take that atheists. Jeresey and I decided to once again search a barn close to the nearby town, and I believe Marou went AFK during this point. Jeresy and I found nothing, but in the course we aggroed a few zombies. We were able to clear them, but a person was close enough to hear our shots and started shooting at us from the hill we had descended. Jersey was hit and went down, but thankfully I was around to save the day yet again with my fast bandaging skills. Jersey attempted to flank him, and at this time Marou returned and also attempted to get to our location (and he would have come up behind the bastard) but he eluded us. Meanwhile, little ol' me who stayed put to play as bait alerted the zombies that started to repop. I wasted about 16 shots with a shotgun trying to frantically kill about 5 zombies. I ran out of ammo for the last two, and climbed a rock. The zombies wandered back in forth below my feet, and I was able to finish them off with my trusty pistol o' doom. I made it back to Jersey and we decided to head back to a firehouse that had rather good gear, and would be a decent meet up point with Aeinna and Valec. Marou was following, though lagging behind a bit. We entered the firehouse and immediately Jersey runs up the stairs, gets hit and goes down. The shot attracted some zombies, which I took care of, and I then proceeded to inch towards the steps were Jersey was shot and another player pops into view. We exchanged fire, I moved out and reload, then came back and exchanged some more fire. The player was using an auto MP5 and I was using a Makarov pistol. I hit him with 14 shots, and the bastards still didn't go down. But he got me, and I died. At this point, Jersey rises like a pheonix from the ashes, rushes up the stairs and kills the other player present. There was much yelling in vent while this occured, and as the dust settled we realized something. It was Aeinna and Valec on the 2nd story of the firestation. Jersey had run up the stairs sporting a bandit skin which you get from killing other players. This startled Aeinna who then shot him and Jersey fell off the stairs going unconcious. I exchanged fire with Valec, who killed me, but I wounded him enough that he bled out and died a moment later. Jersey regained consciousness and ran upstairs killing Aeinna. Marou then showed up, once all this was figured out, and joined Jersey to loot everything from the firestation. Genius! Valec and I both respawned rather far away, and met up. During the course we aggroed a rather large amount of zombies (mostly because I decided to shoot a zombie that aggroed in the middle of town, and thus alerted the rest). We killed them, but both ran out of ammo. We snuck our way towards Aeinna (who had met up with Jersey and Marou) and for the most part were rather succesful. Until we aggroed about three or four zombies. Seeing as how we had no ammo, we ran for our lives. It was at this moment that the other group appeared before us, and saved us from the mini horde. What followed was a rather succesful run through a few areas and we were able to get pretty well kitted out. We stuck to the wilderness for the most part, looting deer stands and only venturing into town if it looked relatively safe. Eventually we had to switch servers, as the one we were on started bugging out. Up until this point we had been playing during daylight. On the new server, however, it was night. On default settings, it is fucking dark, but if you adjust your settings it's rather enjoyable (though still dark). We made our way eventually to a factory, we popped a flare into the center of the walled area, and snuck inside avoiding zombie aggro in the darkness. There wasn't much inside, so we regrouped out front, and made our way towards a nearby deer stand. It was at this moment Jersey realized that there was 6 people in our group. There were only 5 of us. What followed was a frantic conversation through vent to get our characters to lean, fall prone and otherwise move in a way that identified who was who. We singled out the infiltrator, popped a flare, and proceeded to gun him down. Because you know, a random silent guy suddenly running next to you in the dark is freaky. And he might have had good gear. And because. We played for a few more hours, which were pretty uneventful compared to what happened above. Playing at night is really fun since you're able to stealth around all the zombies, quietly infiltrate areas, loot them, and get out. All of us got kitted out in some really good gear. Backpacks, maps, compasses, weapons, ammo, med supplies (raided a hospital and we are loaded). The only thing I'm actually low on is food/water, in that I only have one of each which I'll need to use when I log in. On the plus side, they're probably one of the most abundant things, and all new players spawn with some. So yeah, fucking awesome game. Very enjoyable with a group to run with. And since it's alpha, it can only get better
