I might not be playing the game right....

[CaptGentry 4]

Ok, so I'm playing Lone Wolf. I enjoy it so, I guess, I am playing the game right( to answer my own topic's title). I had survived for 62 days, collected every item except range finders. Sand bags, Ural, LittleBird. I never really claimed ownership on the vehicles. I'd lose them and find something new all the time.

Damed range finders are my White Whale.

Anyway, I drove my tractor full of helicopter parts through Stary at night and just lightly clipped a fence and blew up. Yea.. I was cussing a little. I fell out and was eaten. 62 days turns into zero. Run back thinking how weird my guy looks without camo, a big coyote pack and M4-SD. So I find my corpse gather my gear head off to my camp just to regroup a bit and on the way get teleported up in the air and fall to my death. Ok, a hacker got in and was screwing things up. I try to disconnect but end up dying and lose all my gear.

Yea, kinda pissed off. But what are ya gona do? (Hurry up Standalone!!!)

So i decide to play Not So Lone Wolf this time. Gathered up some gear in Cherno. Rations, toolbox, axe, binocs, revolver and an AK and stuck around the city to see who I would meet.

I got bored listening to enfields go off followed by cries of zombies and then the crack of broken legs so I headed off to Balota to go through the military loot and see if I could replace my crappy Chinese rifle with something NATO. About half way there I saw someone tailing me. I cut back around some cedar trees and yell at him as he passes. Go through the "don't turn around or I'll kill you" thing. He seems to follow my orders so I just cool out and tell to follow me and we'll team up a bit. I tell him to hold still and add some food and drink to his pack. Here is some foreshadowing for you... I notice a scoped rifle and ammo in his pack and ignore it.

We run through the Balota airfield and collect a couple things and my newly found friend empties a clip on me and has to go point blank to actually kill me. God it's so sad how bad people are at this game.

What I bring away from my "find a friend" adventure is a question. How do I find a partner? Do I want a partner?

I really don't think it's fun to try and turn this game into a Call of Duty. If it want to shoot other players there are way more developed games that are designed perfectly for FPS. In the two months playing my last character I've watch over a dozen players creep past me oblivious to the fact I had my front sight post on his head the whole time.

I've never been more scared in a game than having a player train a bunch of zombies into a residential house I was already in, turn and start firing his AK at the dozens of zombies following him all the while hollering into direct chat, in broken English,"I'm friendly!".... This encounter turned out ok. We both went our separate ways after meding him up a bit. This was one of the few player encounters I really enjoyed. He couldn't speak English and my French was useless. He followed me a while but I lost him and really didn't see the use in keeping him around.

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My message seems to be rambling a bit so I'll leave it for now. Perhaps I can add more later.

I guess I'll close by saying how much I enjoy DayZ. All the new maps and tweaks are fantastic. There is a fellow who is scripting something neat named piXel. Go search for his server. He is almost ready to release his additions to the public. Dogs that will stay, follow, search for the nearest animal. Tow hook for Helios... All kinds a stuff.

That's all I have tonight. Maybe I'll add some later.

Semper Fidelis,

Capt Gentry

[hogscraper 328]

No matter what your personal 'end game' is, having someone around you can trust makes everything a lot easier. The problem is, finding that person. Every server I play on I end up finding a player or group to hang with. Sometimes they're heroes and sometimes they're bandits but every time I die quite a few times before I find someone that likes the style of play that I like and doesn't kill me the second they see me. A lot people get bored easily and will tell you to stop lone gunning it, but if that's what you really like, stick with it. While its easier to get ahead with someone watching your back, you definitely don't have to have it.

[A_Lonely_Bush 3]

I enjoy the lone wolf scenario too, as you can see by my name. I always had a craving to find the things I need and keep socialization in the servers to a minimum, as I had trouble trusting others and couldn't really find a good reason to have a partner. Then as you progress alone, you start to realize that having a partner or people you can rely on is ever so important. For example, you cant give yourself a blood transfusion if you need one (Hopefully you can in SA), and this game being as depressing as it is, you really need someone to help you out. No matter how hard you try, the solo path will always go the same road and eventually become boring, even for the loneliest of bushes, and there comes a time we a friend is needed.

[Thorsblood 26]

I found it impossible to find people who don't kill me on sight...i'v tried many many time's almost always ending in my death (i'v also been unarmed all these times) THE ONE TIME i was armed i saw some guy with an ax being chased by a ton of zeds, i called out friendly? He said yes! So i tossed a smoke and we went and hid in a house nearby, he says thanks bla bla i ask if he want's to team, he says SURE! I was empty on drinks and there were 2 Pepsi's here, i grab one and before i can offer the other i'm being ax'd to death >_>. In the end I gave up on human kind and joined a PvE server...at least there people are honest xD

I'd have no issue with a PvP sever if it wasn't for PvP severs being ---> Call of Duty: Eat shiz and shoot people Edition

+Sniping in a PvE sever can be much harder (Your sniper over-watch meaning you shoot the zeds chasing your friends far enough away that YOU don't aggro zeds and so THEY don't have to shoot xD Its a pain but effective!)

*I haven't done this since the update so it might not work any more since zeds have superhuman hearing >_>

[Ivanuvo (DayZ) 117]

So i decide to play Not So Lone Wolf this time. Gathered up some gear in Cherno. Rations, toolbox, axe, binocs, revolver and an AK and stuck around the city to see who I would meet.

I got bored listening to enfields go off followed by cries of zombies and then the crack of broken legs so I headed off to Balota to go through the military loot and see if I could replace my crappy Chinese rifle with something NATO.

Are you implying that the AK is a Chinese rifle?

[Fenrod 60]

Sad. This is why you should only play with people you really know well, I believe.