Soo... What now?

[Poor_Survivor 2]

Poor Survivor here, how is everyone doing today? I'm personally doing dandy, though I haven't played DayZ in months. Last time I played, I seem to recall getting all sorts of fancy loots. Like, game ending good loots. I have a fancy snippy rifle, and some sort of assault (FAL I believe) Ghillie, coyote backpack, more food and water than I could drink, and I dunno what to do now. I've never killed someone, and I don't plan to start, so what's left for me that doesn't risk my gear too bad.. Bandit hunting in major Towns?

[BSB Jimmy 360]

sounds good to me, well done good sir.

[mazeash@mail.com 73]

Poor Survivor here, how is everyone doing today? I'm personally doing dandy, though I haven't played DayZ in months. Last time I played, I seem to recall getting all sorts of fancy loots. Like, game ending good loots. I have a fancy snippy rifle, and some sort of assault (FAL I believe) Ghillie, coyote backpack, more food and water than I could drink, and I dunno what to do now. I've never killed someone, and I don't plan to start, so what's left for me that doesn't risk my gear too bad.. Bandit hunting in major Towns?

The sooner you join active servers and run that gear losing risk, the sooner you'll discover the half of the game you've been missing lol. I've been a military weapon weilding, NVG stealthin' creature up until recently, the server I play (being night usually) is always quiet, I get my choice of loot and sites without a strong danger of being killed. And whilst i'm struggling to relent and place more risk on my character, I realized that I'm missing out on some of the tension, paranoia, confrontation, comradeship, betrayal and with all that: the satisfaction of victory that comes from playing on a busy server, putting the NVG's away and relying on my limited skills as a ninja as well as luck to guide me...

Give it a shot (or maybe scout a tent and hide your most precious belongings before you begin lol.

[Element47 2481]

rule #1: dont get attached to your gear.

[escoffiersghost 11]

i actually prefer the mid-level game where you have at best an alice pack, an ak or an m16, and the most basic tools.

in particular trekking around at night without the aid of nvg on a active server where you know that a lot of the other players have the nvg, ghillie, dmr, etc is true fun.

the best and most intense encounters are the ones where you are severely outgunned and outgeared but manage to escape or get the kill. i was ambushed (or rather suprised) at night in starry by a player who had a acog, nvg, and ghillie. i had made my way north by way of a lee and a compass. i entered one of the military tents in search of something better. he was crouched, grabbing some mags. as he turned his acog swung towards me. i could not be bothered to try to escape or find out if he was friendly. two quick .303 shots at close range ended things. of course, zombies love the sound of the lee. our dead dude must have been on teamspeak cause i heard the motor of an atv rev down by the barns.

panicked i grabbed his acog, as it was a quick loot and bolted. i could see the lights of the atv coming up the hill. the next ten minutes had me fleeing into the woods with one dude on the atv following and another on foot throwing flares everywhere trying to flush me out. he would fire a burst from his m-16 every so often just to scare the shit out of me even more.

i escaped. it was brilliant fun.

Edited December 3, 2012 by escoffiersghost

[Publik 404]

Ha, I know the feel. I hadn't played for 2-3 months until yesterday. Logged in to find myself right where I'd left myself: Hero skin, CCO SD, M24, all the fixins... I went looking for a tent but it got eaten by a tree :/ Now I gotta hope I can find another tent so I can stow my gear and grab a crap weapon to go wandering with.