Are people more hostile, or friendly?

[goawaii@gmail.com 0]

Actually, I have no problem at all with the hostility. In fact, I think it adds to the atmosphere!

You have no clue who to trust, which means that those few friendships you earn are really worth something. My first encounter with another player was really cool, we spent the first few minutes just aiming at each other while discussing, until we came to the conclusion that we are both new started characters without any inventory space to loot each others stuff.

We ended up cooperating for a couple of hrs, which felt good :)

[typath@comcast.net 0]

One time after playing for over 6 hours and finding some good gear. I was shot in the back by a so called friendly that I was trying to help out by giving him a blood bag. I got so mad that when I re-spawn, I spotted a survivor defending himself form a hopper zed. I guess I was still raw from the betrayal, that I started shooting the poor guy. With two or three hit from the Makav pistol he went down and was trying to roll for cover. I advance on him from the other side of the car he rolled behind, and finished him off. Looking through his gear he was a freshly spawn character just try to get in-land like me. Instantly I felt shameful for what I did, that I hid his body with all his gear. I thought of it like giving the guy a proper burial.

That was the first time I shot a character with no provocation. Sense then I've been killed many times. Hell I was in a large group once that a couple of guys laid an ambush on the rest of us after "scouting" ahead. Now I haven't killed anyone else out of anger. But it get damn hard not to snap and go on a killing spree after working so hard for your gear. I learned that you can't trust anyone even though there are plenty of people out there that want to play cooperatively like me.

[Dust (DayZ) 0]

Within the first 10 minutes of starting my first ever character, I was shot in the face upon meeting a fellow survivor.

Now on my third character (Recovered my gear from my second!) and the last 5 survivors I have met have been friendly.

What really makes me paranoid and anxious, is the lack of communication, whether it's because they don't know how or just want to remain silent with their rifle steadily pointed at my head... Many times I've been close to just offing someone because they seem SO suspicious.

[beeman 1]

I try to stick with two of my close buddies. We talk on TeamSpeak while we play this and any other game. Definitely trying to suck some of my other friends into the mod.

We're for the most part pacifists. I personally couldn't shoot someone without feeling bad about it.

Though I did unload on a bandit on this one server yesterday out of pure fright. I saw that headwrap, man. Operation Arrowhead taught me to fill those takistanis with lead >_>

[Taylor (DayZ) 7]

I've met some really helpful survivors, and giant douchers. One guy gave a blood transfusion after I fell and broke my leg. He really was what I was hoping others would be like. The majority of people I've come across will execute you as soon as you turn your back. That's why I've taken up an "avoid or kill" plan that applies to everyone. I'm tired of trekking for hours just to be killed by someone setting up an ambush for a can of beans, ridiculous.

[Stick32 0]

At first thought I was going to say that most people are just giant douche's/pricks but then I thought back to my last play session and I'd have to say that it was really about 50/50. Sure I ran across a couple people who would shoot unprovoked trying to take my gear. However, over half the people I ran across last night just seemed more interested in staying alive and avoiding me. Had some uneasy standoff's. Some ending in being helpful to one another, trading food, supplies. Others us just parting ways.

What really sticks with you though are the assholes who do shoot first and ask questions later, the ones you always seem to run into when you've gotten a nice haul of gear from hours of stressful looting.

All in all, I think this would make for an awesome sociology experiment. Get a bunch of new people in a server. Tell them their goal is just to survive as long as they can. Then watch what happens. Heh, I need to talk to a sociology friend of mine tell him I have an idea for his next research project.

[Skippy (DayZ) 9]

Most of the time I see people, they just book it. I don't even have a bandit skin, and often many of them do, but people just want to live. For every ten people I see, whom see me, maybe 1-2 try and attack me. I only fire if I really -have- to (dying from hunger/thirst, etc) or if they're a bandit, or they're firing on me/a friend/some else first.

[Blaise 1]

I avoid people as much as possible. Most people I have encountered are friendly, but I had a few incidents where people murdered me in cold blood, and I don't want to take the risk any more.