Meta-Tales Of A Newbie

[VViking 3]

Maybe some other noobs find reading this interesting.

Especially if your idea of fun does not include:

- Getting shot in Cherno + Electro trying to find some basic gear.

- Spawning in the south, running a trillion miles to the north without having basic gear. Was fun the first time I did it, now even thinking about it sends a chill up my spine.

Disclaimer: To me, public hive is "anything goes". Shoot on sight, shoot to kill.

Private hives are there for more serious play.

Public hive has one objective: Find some good gear. Stash some gear. Find more good gear. Kill people attempting to get even more good gear. And so on and so forth. Serverhopping/Ghosting: Well, not in ongoing firefights. But logging out at a nice position in the middle of a city or on some hill -> yes [The gentleman thing to do would certainly be to log out in the woods somewhere, having to flee cities before logging out and approaching them each time, not logging out at nice positions in the middle of cities]

Only thing I don´t do in public hives is logging out in an ongoing firefight. Lose a firefight -> die.

So here is the story of my first "succesful" play, aka getting good gear and holding on to it for more than 2 minutes! Took many fails before that happened, luck is always involed. If you get lucky... don´t take too many chances, is my advice. Not the very first time.

- Join a server. Spawn near Cherno. Go to southern church. Barricaded by barbed wire. Hear flies buzzing. Circle the church, find a dead bandit and a dead regular guy lying right next to each other. Mkay... bandit has AKS Cobra with ~20 bullets, toolbox, matches, compass... lucky start. Church is empty though.

- Log out. Join empty server. Find more mags, food, drinks. Log out on the hill near the hospital in Cherno.

- Join full server. Approach city. Enter some roof. Don´t know the city, have no idea what I´m doing. Get shot at by someone with a silenced weapon. Strafe around more insanely than a headless chicken, get down ladder and ruuuuuuuun.

Somehow survive with plenty of health despite being hit at least one time and bleeding a good while. Flee the scene. Wouldn´t have entered the city anyways after that, no way in hell. So either log out or go somewhere else. As I said, on a public hive I want deathmatch, not marathon. *disconnect*

- Join full server. Approach city. Enter some building, go to roof. Hear shots, see trillions of zeds gathering at some building. Nobody there? Aha, look upwards. It´s the highest building in the city. Even see guys up there... take some shots at them, they hit the floor. Leave building, approach enemy position with care. Throw a smoke grenade to lure the trillions of zeds away from there. Enter building, slowly crouching.

Blood is raining through the ceiling beneath the roof. Get up the ladder, see a sniper looking at the ladder. Get the fuck down. Sniper goes down the ladder. Guess he was trapped between a rock and a hard place at that moment. Shoot him, get really nice weapons and gear. Reeaaaaalllly niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Hang around for a while.

Too nervous, log out. Cowardly. Yes. Nobody was actively shooting at me, or probably even knowing I was there. But I´m not sure I could´ve fled the city without dying. Anyway, just too nervous about holding a sniper rifle in my hand for the first time. Haven´t even configured the keys to really use it yet, never mind about zeroing etc.

- Join emtpy server. Learn how to use sniper rifle. Find tent. Stash all my shit in tent. Go to city, find another backpack + m4a1, having a sniper rifle + assault rifle + sweet tools + best backpack stored in a tent.

- Join full server with m4a1 + empty backpack, ready to die without a care in the world or get more sweet, sweet loot.

Now at this point, at least for me, the game starts to be more than a frustrating, hellish chore. I can interfere in some firefights with a chance of winning them and if I die, I don´t have to start with absolutely nothing(as long as my tent is not looted).

So, people who play this game for ages now and have every extra rare weapon stashed a trillion times on a trillion different servers, you now may bash me for being a coward etc. trying to get a foothold in the public hive without being everyone´s bitch again... and again... and again... and again... :D