Shintsu

He wasn't at the loading screen, as I turned to look at him he turned and looked at me - and we both stopped like "Huh...that's a player..." then we realized OH NO, that's a player! Sorry I just don't see someone with a 50 cal who's likely been way north coming back down south as someone who would've saluted me back and not just shot me in the face. That's typical bandits who come back south to pick off people who never bother going north - since it's easy to pick off people without scoped weapons when you have one. If I had seen him running around in the distance I would've just laid low and let him go, but given how people react in-game it was a knee jerk reaction on my part especially given his gun would one shot me and I've had next to no player interaction in this life especially since I've had a weapon. Just being honest here, I don't think there's hardly anyone who wouldn't have done the same. I'd be more trusting of people, but I've found in my first lives that guys with AK's will chase after and murder someone who just has a hatchet and runs away from them instead of trying to chop them.

So my first few lives I spawned around Chernogorsk and Elektro - I ended up running around finding some loot and chopping some zombies but ultimately died, once to a sniper after I found an MP5 (Stupid me standing in the fire house tower...derp) and several times to zombies when I was low on supplies and just let them finish me off. Well with my current life I decided to go through the woods, so I've been avoiding the cities and villages just scouting about in the trees. I find a deer stand and my first gun - an AK-74. I was giddy to have such a nice first weapon, I cautiously walked about with it and made a run into a supermarket and found a revolver - in the process I somehow deleted my AK-74 and was a sad panda. But I ended up finding a Winchester which I used as a primary for awhile, then I kept running from deer stands to barns and otherwise looking for loot. Low and behold, I find a G17 in a deer stand and 2 clips! Hurray, a nice pistol! A bit later I find a CZ550 in a barn, huzzah! So I'm loaded up on survival needs and decide to stop just running between these (As I've never encountered anything but zombies doing this) so I start heading east. Well tonight I'm on a pretty low population morning server, about 10 other people on (In-game was about 10 AM). So I'm checking some deer stands, striking out and after aggro'ing a military zombie near a deerstand I decide to approach the next one prone and scout for zombies in third person. So I'm just crawling along, looking left and right then suddenly a person shaped shadow. OH NO, the zombie spawned right next to me - CRAP! I look over, it's not a zombie it's another player. And not just any player, he was holding what had to be either an AS50 or an M107. My heart was literally racing - "NO, I decide to leave the safety of my barns and deer stands and now I'm going to die!" This guy freaked me out since he literally spawned 10 meters to my left. I look at him, he looks at me - all I'm thinking is "QUICK QUICK GET OUT THE GLOCK!" as I had my hatchet in hand. I remain prone, pull out my Glock BAP-BAP-BAP-BAP I unload on the guy sure he's going to murder me with that 50 cal. I'm certain all 17 shots hit him at that range and with ironsights, he looked stunned at first then ran around gushing blood. "YES," I thought "I didn't get sniped and lose all my progress to some random guy logging in literally next to me" he's running around and getting out his pistol, I reload BAP-BAP-BAP-BAP and unload another clip on him. "That got him for sure! Now to find his body"...except there was no body. Sigh, he ALT+F4'd - coward. I was a bit shaky for a minute or two after that, never had something startle me in a game like that - horror games are too predictable and throwaway anyway but I've had this life for several days and I'd hate to lose it. So I'm curious, since this guy was gushing blood all over the place and I shot him so many times with my G17 before he ALT+F4'd is he going to re-log and have full health like it never happened somewhere else or log in on another server near death? It destroys all the fun of this game when people do this, it's a shame there isn't a penalty like a 1 minute delay from when your client suddenly ends to when your in-game character disappears that won't happen if you exit the game through the menus. Now I have a G17 with no ammo, and no loot to show for it - and I'm sure that guy I shot up had a lot of nice loot on him if he's running around with a 50 cal so close to the southern coast. Just wanted to share my story, really makes me love DayZ even despite the fact there are ALT+F4'ing cowards everywhere. I just hope something gets done about it eventually, it breaks the game. I wouldn't have ALT+F4'd if the guy shot me, though I will admit I would have thought it was a cheap kill - but nonetheless. What are the odds of someone being THAT close to you when they log in, when I'm not near any kind of known sniper vantage points or bandit camps at that exact time. I mean it, if he logged in where he was a few seconds later I would have been in front of him and died without even knowing where it came from. Another question from some more veteran players, should I keep carrying this G17 around considering ammo is probably gonna be hard to come across and just hope to find some or ditch it for another sidearm? I found a Makarov earlier with 4 clips, but this was before this little incident and I know the Makarov is a big step down from the Glock.