Asking people if they are friendly?

[sirinon 80]

Hey mates, i'm not sure what you're talking about, ive never heard somone say friendly and later try to kill me.

Perhaps you should do more to help them? Usually when i spawn and someone offers me help, they might end up gettng me a gun. I aim it at their skull and... I can't do it i shoot the nearest zed, to not create supicison. And most bandits don't talk at all, they don't let you know their names so you can't bitch about them and you don't know who to put a kos on.

lol Ive had guys that were 'friendly' for 2+ hours until I got better kit then them and was gunned down for it.

[thelonewarrior 886]

To the OP, I have just started this series on youtube, as well as being a lets play kind of thing on Dayz+ I am also explaining all my player encounters during the game and trying to give tips and advice to those looking to be friendly:

So take a look and see if you can get any tips from it:

http://youtu.be/7kcXvyxPXa4

Edited January 17, 2013 by Regulator Lone Warrior

[John Matrix (DayZ) 0]

Ha, John Matrix, my favorite Hacker. Do you remember me at DE 1781?

I never saw so bunch of disorganised hackers in the history of DayZ.

How's you're little brother?

I have never played on that server. And have you ever thought the possibility that some player might use the same name?

Edited February 12, 2013 by John Matrix

[victusmortuus 1074]

Ah yes, truth is, people are a bunch of liars. And I say that as your friendly friend.

Just the other evening I was having a bit of a skip through Cherno, confident in the knowledge that there were only 2 other players in town, when one of them asked who was in town. I said I was and he asked where exactly. Ahahaha! Oh yes, I'm going to tell him that. Next thing a bullet whizzes passed my ear and like a feeble-minded chicken head I stop to taken time to wonder who could possibly be shooting at me. The shooter - very generously, I thought - shot at me again, to encourage me to think faster. So I legged it out of town as quick as my avatar would carry me. And what does the shooter say? "Hey, I killed that zombie for you....come back...do you need anything or help?" <_< I told him I'd take a rain check and I kept on running.

To be honest, I rarely meet anyone in dayz that I don't already know. When I do, it's because they've died repeatedly on the server and I can't take it any more, I just have to go help them. But the kids I come across who are immediately asking "where are you?" always end up being killers. Avoid them like you would the plague. :thumbsup:

Dallas, I agree. That's the one thing I don't like about Frankie's approach. It's humiliating and intimidating, even though he doesn't mean it to be. He's just trying to stay alive.

Hey! I seen you at Balota and didn't shoot :P (Chuck Morris)

[CF Mallard 18]

I agree with Deli real life friends are best I run with 3 guys right now that I know in real life and we always wok together share camp vehicles and loot, others I just have someone shadow us in case things go south I've got overwatch.

[MiniAzza 3]

2 stories for you, both took place on Namalsk.

1 - I was heading up the road at the old hospital after coming away empty handed looking for antibiotics and was making a beeline towards the office. I made a dash in to the main front doors and briefly I saw a guy at the top of the stairs who blindly asked "Who's shooting, why are you shooting!?" This was aimed at me as I had turned at the this point to put the brakes on a few zeds chomping at my bits. He had a Makarov (I didn't know this at the time, I also thought he had a friend with him), I had an M4A1 with a ton of rounds. As soon as I dropped the last zed, he hadn't moved and I bolted out of one of the side doors. In doing so, I typed over chat "You dudes upstairs, you cool?". The reply came via mic in good english but I couldn't hear it very well. Having seen nothing to indicate I was going to die, I walked back in and headed upstairs, gun raised. Over mic again I heard "Don't shoot!". I didn't. A friendly chat ensued, he gave me some antibiotics after I told him why I was there, and we proceeded to run out to get my new bud a gun and we going to go repiar a vehicle if we could find one. Needless to say before this happened I managed to agro a bunch of zeds in the hills, must have been near one of the deer stands or APC type thing wreckage, but I got gang banged by 7 or 8 zeds, took a 1 shot to the chin, busted my legs and fired a number of clips at the surrounding zeds. I hadn't realised at this point my bud had run out of rounds and was trying to bosh things with his hatchet, taking a 1 shot leg breaker at the same time. The pair of us, without morphine, at the top of hill waited for death. Elzzzon, if you read this man, It was my fault we died that night mate. I wish you could have taken my stuff as reward but we both got fudged!

2- Again on Namalsk. I had been playing for a couple of hours the day before and had picked up a PKM and had an M4A1 CCO in my Alice pack. I logged out in a tower by the old Saw Mill on the eastern island. When I logged in It wasn't a packed but talkative server and there was a guy called Jman14102 and another due on the beach as a hacker had bought in a plane wreck and bodies hanging from the sky, and what looked liek whirlpools of fire. I sat in the tower unnoticed and when Jman and the other guy left after checking it out, I got down from the tower and made my way west to the western island to see if a could find my bestest friend in Namalsk, a PKP. Over the side chat I see that Jman and the guy he was with declared themselves friendly but a moment later it showed they had been killed. When he spawned another guy called Marius had logged in looking for friendly players to join up with. Jman says to Marius that he is, but had just at Sebjan Dam and that he would meet at the middle of the map as he had spawned near Vokuta. Thinking he just made his where abouts public I dropped what I was doing and headed towards the Dam. Now near there is a wood house, with a window that you can see the tower at the Dam. I popped into the house, dropped my pants and took my binoculars out and saw two dudes waiting at the top of the tower. I bolted from the building but was too late. Jman had been shot by another player near the chemical plant who was then taken out a few minutes later by the guys at the tower. Knowing that I was too late, I stayed in the building for what must have been 10 or 15 minutes. I was getting bored so I headed out up to the chemical factory hoping to bypass the two guys in the tower without fuss. As I approached unseen I saw Jman run in, followed by some gun shots. I hung back and stood behind the brick wall and told him not to shoot, and that I would be coming in. He tells me at this point that he's not that type of player so I ran in. There were about 4 or 5 zeds around so I took down what I could with my M9 SD before I ran out of rounds as I forgot I only had a clip and a half and I couldn't shoot a turd if it was 2cm in front of me with an RPG. We took cover in a building with 2 doors, front and back, I whip out my PKM and proceed to make some noise. At this point the whole zed population of the chemical plant was on me, and blocking both doors. So I ran to a side wall and mowed down what I could, and before I died told Jman not to go to the dam as there were people waiting for him, and to take my PKM instead and run. Just as I finished typing, the zeds at my spleen, and I died.

Needless to say, the two guys in the tower eventually tried to take Object A2 from another friendly player who had been down there all night, one died in the process, the other came back about 10 minutes later. By this point, I had run in and camped the bottom of the steps leading down, had picked up a new PKM, and blew his legs off the minute he came down the ladder.

Edited February 12, 2013 by MiniAzza

[bilbey 17]

Hey guys. I've experienced that saying "friendly" to another person is not always ending good. I've tried being friendly several times, but yet getting killed.

Tired of losing my gear...

I don't want to be seen as a bandit, so I don't kill survivors. What do you do if you have good gear and you meet someone?

I tend to run around, zig zagging saying "woah woah woah friendly dude, friendly friendly friendly." ducking and diving through fences and trees.

If its a bandit then id shoot to break his legs and take his gun.

[colekern 1364]

You're probably doing it wrong. If you wanna be friendly, don't run straight towards the guy shouting, "FRIENDLY!!! I'M FRIGGIN' FRIENDLY DON'T SHOOT!!!!!". You have to stay behind cover and make sure you have the advantage. If you don't have any leverage over the guy, don't approach him.