You know a game is good when...

[funky_mish 75]

...a game's 'problems' mess you up just when something great happens, but you still come away smiling. Here's the story:

I'd built up a day 8 character with pretty good gear. Most of the tools, M16A2, M1911, Alice, plenty of food and water, yada yada. I was playing around in a PBK I found when boom! Server hacked, everyone dies. That wave of hacks we were getting with the high pitched sound, then death.

Well, ok, shit happens, I'll spawn again.

As a new spawn with my not-so-trusty Makaroni, I made my way to Stary Sobor to try my luck at finding a nice gun. Being newly spawned, I had nothing to lose. The only primary I found on the way was a Lee Enfield.

Eventually I arrive and start carefully making my way from tent to tent in the military camp, finding a G17. Just as I'm entering a tent I hear a crack as I'm shot. My leg breaks but I manage to crawl into the tent and bandage myself before I bleed out. I pulled out the Enfield. It's noisy, but the G17 is a bit weak to use on players. After a couple of minutes lying prone watching the entrance, he tries to sneak in and I pop him in the knee. He passes out. I switch back to the G17 and give him a few more shots to make sure he's dead before preparing to deal with the horde the Enfield attracted.

Eventually I do that, but by the time they're all dispatched the bandit's body has gone. It was only a couple of minutes. Annoying, since he had an M4 and by the sound it made, I think it was silenced. Would have been the best weapon I ever had in DayZ!

Then another bandit killed me a while later.

This was a pretty bad day. But the tense standoff was worth it. It felt great to beat the first bandit at his own game.