DayZ+ Stealthy and Extremely Intense

[JesusWatchesAnime 2]

My friend and I were heading to Stary Sobor to load up on more ammo and guns. As we cleared the majority of the military tents, began to hear a faint sound of an engine. Instantly, I thought, "Shit." I told him to stop moving to see if heard the sound as well. He couldn't hear anything. The faint engine sound disappeared and then instantly came back, I told my friend to hide as fast as he could. I ran into a bush, next to the tents on the opposite side the city was on. The sound began to get louder and louder. About 30 seconds later, a HUMV comes into sight. I begin to become extremely tense. "What's happening?!", my friend asked puzzled. "I have a visual on the vehicle; it's a HUMV", I said nervously. We began to worry He, might notice someone had been looting 'his tents'. He continuously is going forward and backing up in small portions. I assumed he was trying to see if someone was trying to snipe him. He continued to do this for what seemed like 5 minutes, but he kept moving to different spots.

He started to drive down by the two larger military tents. The vehicle came to a halt. I watched as he turned the car off. The armed driver got out and he was less than 20 feet away from me, and he was armed with what looked like some sort of assault rifle. As soon as you he got he moved toward the bush I was in, and then he went back into his HUMV and drove off a bit up the hill and then turned his lights on and continued to use the vehicles light and shine them on the strip of land I was on. I was forced to repeatedly adjust my position due to the bush not being terribly big.

Eventually He progressed down the row of tents. I hoped that he wouldn't notice my friend in one of the tents. The HUMV slowly drove through; I became frantic, assuming that he would be checking the tents as he drove by. Luckily he began to speed up and drive down to the end and drove up the hill. He turned the lights toward the area one last time, then disappeared into the night. I thought I might have heard the vehicle possibly turn off. But I ignored it because I didn't see him anymore. "We should be able to resume looting the tents", I said to my friend. We began looting again and not even 30 seconds later, A DMR round is fired. My friend is hit and immediately knocked out in the large tent next to me. (I was in one of the smaller ones) I begin to panic knowing, there is a possibility my friend might not make it. I had to do something.

My friend soon awakes from being knocked out and starts bandaging himself. I come to the decision to dart out of the tent I was currently in and sprint into the tent my friend was in. I dashed out and made it into the larger tent safely, no shots were fired at me. I checked if I had a blood bag in my pack. "Thank God", I thought to myself, as I found one inside. I proceeded to give my friend the transfusion. When the transfusion was complete I explained to my friend that we were going to sprint out and run through the city keeping to any blocking the shooters line of sight. A few shots were fired at us, but failed to hit us.

We continued to sprint for our lives out of the city into a field and then down a small slope so the sniper would lose any visuals he had on either of us. Even if he did see us, we were past 300m. So I thought it would be harder for him to get the right mil dot and position himself correctly. No other shots were fired. We ran down the slope and into the forest. We had sprinted near 1000m away from Stary. We were safe for the time being. My friend and I were completely puzzled why a kill shot wasn’t fired through the tent. I thought it was possible it was intended to be non-lethal; maybe he just wanted to scare us off. The answer wasn’t available, we were just glad to be alive. We decided to use the forest as our refuge and went to sleep.

Please post some comments about the story! Any criticism is appreciated, constructive or opinionated.

Thanks for reading. If you would like me to update this story resuming from where we left off just let me know! =D

Edited January 22, 2013 by JesusWatchesAnime

[NickM (DayZ) 57]

So he left, and you still had zed spawn making it obvious there were peole still in the area?

No surprise he shot you.

I would not have resumed looting, but instead unassed the area quickly and stealthily as soon as he drove off.

Was pretty obvious on his tactics.

[JesusWatchesAnime 2]

Yea, was pretty stupid on our part,but we're working on improving better tactics. Thanks for the input =D

xD

[NickM (DayZ) 57]

Until SA, where zeds can spawn with no player present, you can use zeds as a sure fire indicator of player activity.

In addition, if they chnage their movement pattersn and especially if even one agroes, the player is close to where they are getting riled up.

Live and learn...or die and learn as the case may be.

FWIW, I've died ALOT, so I should be some kind of frikking DayZ genious by now.

:lol:

[Matteh 63]

So he left, and you still had zed spawn making it obvious there were peole still in the area?

No surprise he shot you.

I would not have resumed looting, but instead unassed the area quickly and stealthily as soon as he drove off.

Was pretty obvious on his tactics.

Zeds spawn when you're within 150m or so of a building, so unless he saw the zeds spawned in from afar, he might have thought he had spawned them in himself.

Also I doubt he would just drive a humvee straight into an area he thought players would be in, that would be so easy to ambush, it's large, bulky and really rather loud, so my guess is he got there and camped with a sniper seeing as its a military spawn area.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Matteh