Heres my first few major encounters that have had a pretty good impact on me. I play with the mindset of how I would act in real life, as It makes it the most interesting to me. I'm still pretty noob, but I feel I have learned from my mistakes. 1. My first day on DayZ. Spawned, I ran around in the forest for a bit then came down around a town. I was pretty cautious, and crouch ran along the treeline scoping out the town. I noticed a survivor also in the forest, no weapons, and female. I had no idea how to chat or communicate, so I just stalked her a bit until she was about to enter the town, then she turned and noticed me. I stood up to announce myself. We proceeded into the town, both moved through and went through a couple buildings, I stayed far away enough, but near each other. I didn't see her so I went back to her side looking for her. I went by a shed, near where I saw her. She came out with an axe and didn't hesitate. Her name was Kelly. Welcome to DayZ. 2. Playing on a more crowded server. I had gotten myself an enfield, and enough basic gear from patiently looting around Cherno. Theres a helecopter flying around above me, I stayed low and didn't announce myself. A few minutes later, theres a big bang outside of town. I took my time, and crawled toward the sound. On a hill, I look out and see something, by the shore. By some miracle, the helicopter didn't land completely in the ocean. There were 2 bodies visible. Upon closer examination, there was a third, A weaponless new spawn looting the corpes. I dropped him with my enfield. I get there and grab everything I can and head to the forest. There were blood transfustions, a Alice pack, morphine, and other cool stuff I had no idea what they did. I grabbed a crossbow which replaced my enfield, and realized 1. I didn't have any bolts and 2. I loved my enfield. After organizing my gear, like a smart person, I decided to run back, grab the enfield, and get back to the forest. Natrually, after making the swap, I was taking fire from god knows where. I sprinted my ass back, and prayed a hill on my right blocked his line of sight. Turns out, he must have been on my left side. I never even saw him. 3. In a factory around cherno, I was was in the third story when I turn a corner and am face to face with a survivor. I quickly ran into a room nearby and shouted "Friendly?" into my mic, very nervously. No response, so I go out looking. He wasn't there, so I go up a level, my fear being he was going to go up and around to flank me. I didn't see him, and checked the roof level as well. I'm thinking he ran away, so I go back down, double checking every level. It is then when I spot him moving away from me on the second level. Around the corner, he notices me and we both back off and run away from each other. I go out looking again, trying to figure out where he would have gone, and I spot him noobishly climbing a ladder just outside climbing a tower. I didn't want him to finish climbing and have the high ground on me. I hesitated, then fired with my enfield as he was climbing with his back to me. I fired again for good measure. His name was Todd. While I had the mindset that he must have been armed with a pistol or something, It turns out he had only random ammo, chemlights, and bandages from maybe a half hour of looting. All I took was a coke. No joke, right after that, it started raining. I felt bad. While I gave him a chance at communicating, I am not sure if he heard anything, as that was the first time I used my mic in game. I never thought I would get to the point of killing someone who was unarmed, but I did. To my luck, a few minutes later, I revisited the area and found a bandit standing up looting Todd's body. I shot and killed him with one bullet. But he didn't have anything at all, must have been a new spawn or something. I had quickly killed two people, when I don't think I should have killed any. Now I only have one bullet left for my enfield, and I am hoping next time, I don't end up using it.
