My First DayZ experience

[Meeshe 170]

Hi all, bought the Arma 2: CO from steam yesterday and downloaded last night. DayZ Commander didnt want to DL the DayZ mod but after uninstalling and then installing again, but this time remembering to disable virus protection, got that to work. BattlEye decided it didnt want to intialize so spent 30 minutes dealing with that. So sadly most of tonights gametime was eaten up by problems. BUT....

Get everything ready and pick a server and log in......waiting, waiting......SUCCESS!

I spawn in on the beach near a highway, with a group of buildings off to my right in the distance. The game really is a beauty, Im going to need to play with the settings some to get it just right but wow so far im impressed. After standing there for a bit i feel foolish for being out in the open gawking so I start heading up the beach towards the city (?). Im trying to hop from bush to bush but I bet every sniper around was shaking his/her head in embarrassment for me. I go a bit and Oh wow what is that? I go prone and crawl to the nearest shrub. Theres a tent under a tree! Woot, I bet there will be loads of stuff in there. But reading the forums I wait a few to check surroundings before moving in.

I move up, crawling closer and out of nowhere, 2 guys are surrounding me. Mr. Ghillie suit and Mr. Sniper Rifle with a big ol scope and silencer. I dont move a muscle franticly trying to figure out what channel to type "FRIENDLY DONT SHOOT" Damn I really should hooked my up headphones and mic. One guy says, "looks like a newbie, should we let him go?"

A couple seconds go by, I start to think "yea I might get out of this". Pow, one shot to the head. My first life lastest 5 or 6 minutes.

I respawn in again with no buildings and nothing of interest in sight. I head straight for the hills, over some train tracks, across a field where i feel like sitting duck and into the trees. I followed the treeline for awhile and man i hate when your guy slows down going up a hill. Im getting the hang of movement and looking around so I feel bold and head down out of the trees to a little village. Four or five houses, and a big metallic shed/building. Im feeling like rambo as I crawl the last way into the town. I had to avoid a couple Zeds by hiding in bushes after i aggro'd them (it felt cheap to do so, i admit)

There were tons of Zeds in the village and while there I saw one guy run straight down the middle of the road, a whole buch of Zeds in tow. I heard what I thought was flies buzzing but could never find a body, but considering i was crawling most of the time its no wonder. Only thing that bummed me out was none of the buildings were enterable so I got no loot, and was starting to get thirsty, the indicator was red. So Im starting to get worried.

I hear a sound of a heli in the distance and start looking around for it. It starts coming for the village. Its not a huey its soviet made I can tell that much. Looks like an attack chopper but dont know the designations. Hes hovering aways off and starts shooting. Im hiding in a bush, thats starting to make me sound like a coward /grrr, and I swear like 4 or 5 death messages show up on side chat. The tension was incredible. Im sitting there playing a video game and Im afraid to move a muscle hiding from the heli massacre.

The heli moved off and I start making my way towards the large metal building, I pick up some Zeds so I have to run and get a lot of them on me... ZOMBIE TRAIN. I got in the building and it had a stair leading up to a walkway around the inside of the building with a little room upstairs nothing in there to be found, im upstairs and theres only one entrance, but for some reason the zeds didnt enter, so I hang out there a bit and decide what to do.

A few moments later a guy comes in there, hes got a rifle and the Zeds followed him in. He killed a few, but didnt have enough ammo for them that started coming in, so he headed up the stairs. He saw me on the walkway and was a good guy, offered to help me get out of there. Follow me he said, pulling out a revolver. Me, pulling what is probably the dumbest move ever in the history of the mod, vaulted over the railing and break my leg. Ill give the guy credit, he tried to kill zeds, bandage me from the bleeding and give me morphine(?) to heal the leg so i could run out of there. I died. So if your the guy that tried to help a total Bambi just a bit earlier, THANK YOU. I promise to pay it forward when I learn to play.

Wow, should of started playing this a long time ago. I had a lot of fun and forsee a lot of DayZ in my future. Thanks for letting me tell my story. B)

[herrjon 478]

Geez, must've found quite an active server. Glad you had a good time.

You'll get used to knowing which buildings are enter-able and which are not soon enough. If you're looking for something to deal with zombies look through industrial buildings and find a hatchet. Remove from tool belt, reload, and your set for some nice, quiet zombie killing. By the sounds of it though, zeds aren't giving you too much trouble.

I'll tell you, going up on the walkway of that warehouse is bad news if you got zeds sniffing you out and you're not silenced, it can even get the most experienced of players. The other day me and one of my mates were scavenging helicopter parts. We get to the lumberyards of Berezino and split up a bit. He could see some windscreen glass on the walkway up there and rushes to get it. He already had a couple zeds on him and agroed some more while clanking around on the metal. It was this time he realized he had used up all his G17 ammo and only had his DMR left. He paniced a bit and fired off a couple shots. This of course alerted the entire yard and surrounding area of fresh meat.

I rush in to help him to find him in the very corner with a conga line of zombies all the way around. I start firing to take out the ones closest to him and keep going down the line, as all need to die for him to leave safely. I end up using all my M4A1 CCO SD ammo and resorted storing it in a zombie body (there was plenty at this point) and pulling out my hatchet to deal with the rest. Some bandages, blood bags, and 50 odd zombie kills later, we finally got him out of there safe. It's just a nasty little spot to be in.

Edited January 12, 2013 by (TMW)HerrJon

[Meeshe 170]

Yea sounds similar, except your friend wasnt a complete dummy like me, breaking his leg. I just hope the guy that tried to help me didnt die in there.

I would love to have seen your pile of Zeds, that must of been epic. Thank you for the advice, I certainly will take it to heart, I dont ever want to be caught up there on the walkway again. Finding my first hatchet will be a moment of triumph haha

Its funny I didnt get a whole lot accomplished my first time out, but I had a couple moments where I felt "pro". Watching the guy run down the street right past me and not knowing I was watching him, and keeping an eye on the Heli, while staying unnoticed and out of the line of fire, made me feel like I did a couple things right. Then of course the whole rest of the time was Fail but man was it fun.