Jepix

Yeah i figured :S The 2 guys were registered as bandit kills but the axe guy as a murder though... but maybe he was a bandit, got killed, respawned and wanted to axe my face in or shoot me anyway... You just don't know :\

So i was holed up in Elektro Church on DE 177 server (with like 40 people in it) and i was ready to make some friends. Recently i had made a positive encounter there with another guy, there was an enfield and he asked if he could take it, i told him yes (keeping him zeroed with my AKM), he took it and ran off into the city. I had my hopes up for more of these encounters today, so here i was, shooting zombies, making it an easier place for everyone. Some time later, i hear a massive gunfight break out, like 5-8 different gun sounds, it was brutal. Some people died and i was on my toes for bandits. These 2 dudes try n rob me now! Probably the same ones who shot some poor survivors before, and they try n zig-zag rush their way into the church. Fortunately they weren't synchronized as i could easily take out the first then switch to the second. They didn't reply to any of my 'friendly' shouts so i just shot them. As weary as i was, a few moments later the doors opened again. I see a dude rushing in the doorway, looting zombies with an axe. So i'm like 'friendly don't move!' He panicks his arse and starts running away. 1 minute later i see him poping his head around the corner of the door, only now with a makarov. So i'm there behind the pedestal with the Bible on it, and what i thought was that he started firing his gun at me! I shot him a couple of times in the face. As i rushed forward to claim my victory, another dude pops from the left and starts looting his corpse, guess what, he also had a makarov... I had mistaken the 2nd guy's firing for the dude that poped his head out (maybe the 1st one didn't want to kill me after all...) Now i feel bad for slaughtering the first one, not the second one, but still. It feels like i'm the guy now that i hated when i started playing, someone that shoots you in the face for no reason...

I have an AKM with 5 mags now, found a Kobra sight AK now, no ammo. Should i hoard it with me until i find ammo for it? I also don't like the fact that u need 2 body shots to kill a zombie and 2-3 for players, whilest the AKM kills with 1 shot (maybe 1/10 chance for 2 killshots). So for ammo conservation the AKM seems better, but it's almost twice as loud as the AK though. So should i hoard the AK with kobra sight until i find some ammo and ditch the AKM or keep the AKM?

.How long you have been playing => About 2-3 weeks .How often do you play => Used to be hours and hours, but now 15-45 minutes and i log off again, maybe 2-3 hours a day .Why you have chosen that lifestyle => I was the friendly wannabe-helper at first, but after being shot, mauled, left for dead with broken bones, eaten alive, etc... i'm the weary survivor. If i see you, i warn you to back off and if u come closer you're dead. i've had some people yell 'friendly friendly!' and just back off, but others just aim for your head hoping they can shoot you first. If i have to be a 'type' of survivor, i'd be 'Toughened carebear', from deep down i want to help people but i've seen enough sh1t and treachery that i just became hard for it and can shoot someone now without too much of a thought if they form a threat. .What drives you to play like that => My first 100 toons getting shot for no reason, often hardly saw the guy shooting me. I once raided Stary Sobor for like an hour long, saw no one, then i right before i went north to log out, bam, a dude with an Mk48 mowed me down, just like that, i hadn't even seen him cuz of his ghuillie suit. I was like 5 feet away from him when he shot me. .A normal session in DayZ for you => used to be run around the entire map looking for stuff, but now that i know what i need and where i can get it, i just run around cherno or elektro (based on where i spawn), get some decent gear (preferably an assault rifle with food, soda, map, etc...) and then just hunker down in Elektro Church and rack up some zombie kills :). .Has this game affected aspects of your real life => No xD .What made you choose DayZ => I saw a gameplay/fun video on youtube after scrounging through it cuz i was bored as hell. Saw it, liked it, bought ArmA 2 and the next evening i was playing. .Why you play DayZ => I like the zombie-aspect, the just shooting every(thing?) on sight without thinking and saying it's good for humanity. I like the struggle, the survival, the feeling deep down inside any person, a remains from when oru ancestors really had to SURVIVE in their caves hunting mammoths and stuff, that SURVIVAL thrill is just overwhelming. Nowadays if u want food u go get a can of beanz in the store and you're set, then you had to find, hunt, gut, cook and defend your prize: a slain mammoth or other animal. I also like GUNZ :D .How you feel the team has done with the game => Great, seeing as howlong the mod is actualy out yknow, alot of patches and stuff. It feels like they are really putting their minds to it and helping create a better game and ultimately becoming a standalone game. .The impact of Hackers/ scripters => Sad, I remembered my first m16a2 i found, i was overjoyed, then a couple of minutes everyone started dying and i was also transported miles up in the air just to fall to my death. .If you have stopped playing or thinking of stopping, why => 0 friendship with unknown survivors, i just HOPE there is some consequences for slaughtering random players, or great rewards for not doing so. Maybe pvp servers and pve and implement a group-function, more cities, cities swarming with NPC survivors maybe? Like a safe-haven for survivors, military camp, etc... . EDIT - Will you be buying the stand a lone game: Most definately, won't say right away when it comes out because of exams, but it's definately coming on my shelf

I'm up for some teaming, contact me via my forum name by sending me a message and we can share steam information. I won't be able to always voice chat though.

Today i was camping out in the Church of Elektro, occasionally aggroing zombies with my AKM for minor loot such as food, sodas, an extra AKM clip etc... Somethimes going to the firestation and the shopping mart. Today i heard gunshots, and talking on the mic. I was anxiously in over behind the preacher stand near the end of the church, facing the doorway. After like 30 minutes, nothing heard anymore, i decide to continue my zombie slaughter, aggroed a couple, and as i was taking them down nice and easy, suddenly a dude rushed in with like a couple of zombies behind him. I was like, wtf?? which right mind rushes into a church where he can clearly hear AKM fire coming from and zombies storming the place? Anyway, from straight panic i shoot a couple of shots, but he quickly yelled 'friendly friendly don't shoot me!' He ran behind the right burial crypt thingy as i picked off the last zombies. I stated: 'Get out now and i let you live' No answer. I thought, hey what the heck, only an axe, if he gets closer he's dead. Suddenly i see white smoke building up all around me and i'm like 'WTF which friendly person pops smoke to conceal my vision?' And right as i'm thinking that, the dude storms from my right, axed me once, so i was like bleeding as i rushed out of the church, to the end of the wall, preparing to shoot his treacherous ass if he came out and he just chased me out and took 10 round to the chest. Moral of the story: After getting slaughtered on sight by my previous 100 assailants, i tried being nice again since he only had an axe and was chased by zombies. Him using voice chat also gave an okey indication. WRONG. He clearly was after my AKM and other beanz, so the next guy i'm seeing coming up is DEAD once again. The game should have pvp servers and pve servers with additional stuff to do (like giant bases filled with zombies which is nearly undo-able alone, so u have to team up) Anyway, yeah, there might be a 1/1000 chance that the guy u see won't maul you to death, but i'd rather not take chances; it's SURVIVAL at the end...

Here's a link to a map that has ALL loot spots, showing their value, howmany loot spots are in a house, what loot, what %, vehicles... the whole bazar! (except for the random Heli Crash Sites ofcourse). It has helped me dearly, finding loot routes through a city, town or the world. Have fun! http://dayzdb.com/map#3.050.119

I just saw on some other post from yesterday that a guy linked another map which wasn't so interactive & detailed so i figured there might still be certain people out there (and alot of new guys and gals) that don't know this awesome map, so i would also be glad if someone posted it again on the top of the forum.

is this patch already in the main SixUpdater System? Because i don't think i've seen it around yet (just read about it now and here)

I just had a M16A2 with like 15 mags of ammo, Coyote 24-slot backpack, G17 with 7 mags, bandages, painkillers, 8 cooked meat, couple of drinks, at Stary Sobor when this dude from the bushes just mows me down with his Mk48 (i think). Bam, 178 zombie kills later, i meet one guy and i just get shot like that. It's been like this for the past 50 guys i made, i try n be helpfull or just leave them alone when i see someone, not alerting them or anything, then they show up in the same house where i am in and BAM instant death. My word of advice, shoot EVERYONE on sight, even a dude with a Hatchet, or you're dead. Plain and simple. It's the cruel community this game has become as it's so easy to kill someone without any (seriously, ANY) consequences. Hope they fix something in the standalone game for this.

Maybe an idea for the standalone version of DayZ, is to have a or multiple player hub-towns, where you can't discharge your gun and have some NPCs there, that give you options for end-game or late-game. Examples may be a researches asking you to collect blood from a killed zombie to study with an empty blood bag found in your local hospital on one of the floors (exactly, let's have several floors there too), a military guy asking for a group of 5 people to clean out a zombie-infested military base and as a reward u get the stuff found there, etc... Now all u do at late-game, when you got your basic stuff, is scrounge for a AS50 or so, get shot and killed to have to start all over again, or the last option : hunt people for no reason at all so u could rather just quit. It's a great game, and the standalone should be even more greater, so please make it more community-friendly instead of the 'first shoot, then ask questions' policy that's around now.

i'd like to join too, i'll check out the server, i'm quite a cautious man so if i see someone i might stalk you for an hour or so to make sure u don't fire first at people. Almost 19 y old, from Belgium, currently working on having an active mic, but i'll check the TS channel :)

Well, the thing if you're going with a group of survivors the other night and want to continue playing the game the next morning, it may be that those players are not online again at the same time you are, or can't come online then. So you can either go out by ourself, potentially getting your face blown off by the next guy you see (or don't see) or just don't play. This is quite annoying so it would be great to be able to make several characters, each dedicated to one single Player Profile, or that every other Player Profile can create a new character to play. All you have to do is remember who's who and you're set, one guy to be in a group and one char to be the lone wolf. Hopefully Rocket adds this in the standalone version!

2 Different cases i had today... I was scrounging through the northern military baracks of Chernos, as in the most north tent i spotted a player with his back to me looting. All i had was a hatchet, but he had no idea that i was there, but i decided i'd let him live (since that was all i had until then anyway). Once he turned, he was scared shitless, but figured if i wanted to kill him he'd be dead already. We stood there a bit, mexican stand-off-style, while circling around eachother and he left, he had an M16A2 i figure. I think he was happy, and i was happy, that i didn't have to uselessly butcher someone. The other case is a little more grim. I was raiding the Balota comm tower near the 2 giant hangers. I heard flies, indicating a dead body was around so i was extremely cautious. When i went up the first stairs to the sub-level of the tower, i saw a pair of feet slowly coming down the stairs, i duck, he ran down. He UNLOADED what i guessed 25 bullets off of his AK-74 into the stairs, thinking it would penetrate and kill me which it didn't. I, hardly knowing what the heck was going on and since he shot me first, i aimed my Glock 17 and unloaded half a mag in him. He died, i lived with 3000 blood. Thanks for the AK mate and the cooked meat, i'm sorry i had to kill him but he opened first. Another indication that players would rather kill you than take the chance of you killing them first, and through my hours & hours of gameplay i have become the same. Sure, i want to be friends, if u don't have a gun and pose no threat to me :) Otherwise, u get a couple of AK bullets in you for your beanz.

So on a new guy i had to make, i decided to directly go loot some military equipment north by northeast of Cherno. I found myself in quite some luck. After scrounging some meds in the medical tents with my hatchet, i heard small arms fire (pistol) near me and, as military spawns are quite the feast for starting players there, i decided to rush quickly through the 2 military tents as of i only had a hatchet and no way to protect myself (and since people shoot you for 2 cans of beans and a coke). So, another luck i had was that i came across an M16A2 rifle with 1 mag and some other stuff in there and when i walked out of the most northern tent, i saw this guy with his back to me going into one of the medical tents. i swear to you, this was the first time in like 3 days (i only started then) since I was the one who spotted someone and not the way around. I decided to be a little friendly, since i know how a bitch it is if u get killed from outa nowhere and such, so i said to him i saw him, and he had 1 minute to bail it outa here. The guy RUSHES into one of the military tents, hoping to get a decent gun. I figured he had a Makarov since he was probably the one i heard shooting earlier. As like 10 minutes past, me trying to talk him to just leave, and me crouching near the northern tent only a few meters away, my aiming vision is constantly blocked by medium-height grass, i decided to take a hike for it. I stood up, ran like a mule to the north by northeast 'small hill' where i crocuhed again. I figured by now he heard me as i saw his head leaning out from the northern tent, seeing if i left him whole or i was stalking my prey... Next thing i know, this dude walks out, aims at me and fires a couple of shots. This was the most intense stress i had in like weeks! Now i figured, it's him or me, and shit it sure as hell won't be me. My vision still blocked by medium-tall grass, i took aiming position and unleashed 6 shots as to where i thought he might be. I hoped i'd killed him, but no 'murder' count was increased (still on 0). HOLY SH1T what to do now? As i feared for my life, i rushed all around the big factory building, slowly taking my time trying to asses in what mess i got myself into in close quarters, i took a good aim and what did you know, he bled out right infront of the tent. Murder count : 1 (although i tried to settle things peacefully). This all took longer than half an hour, and i bet this guy's thoughts were something alike : him or me, and it won't be me. BEST zombie mod / game ever! Jepix

btw steam name = Zanzil, working on getting the mic going

i'm looking for a partner(s) too, 18, Belgium, have some experience as in what to do in order to stay alive long enough (or try)

Since you thought you were already unlucky, i just died getting mangled by several zeds. So i was making my way through chernos from east to west, i raided several big houses along the south side, the firehouse, the church and some smaller buildings. I had a Ghuillie suit, mili light, all survival stuff like map, kompass, watch, box of matches and the rest, a CZ550 sniper rifle, a PDW with quite some ammo left + a back side arm in my backpack (BIG MISTAKE). So as i left the firestation and crawled my way cautiously to the supermarket (as i heard distance AK shots being fired and i was in no hurry in getting shot over my ghuillie suit), looting a binocs there. When i was steadily and undected crawling to a safe spot in the forest to the west of chernos, i happened to accidentaly pressed G instead of B, stood in crouch position and pretty much alerted a swarm of 10+ zombies... I got hit, bled out like 6000 health after shooting more than half with the couple of mags i had for my PDW, lastly running out of ammo and getting knocked unconcious by some fockin zed... My point, u can survive on your own as long as you don't make mistakes like here, don't be a 'friendly survivor' (either avoid or shoot, i prefer avoid so no one hears my gun shots) and crawl alot. For long term survival you REALLY need a partner if you're ever gonne go in the cities or airfields... and i'm drastically looking for a 'apocalypse friend' with some skill as to how to play cautiously.