Do you remember the first time you played Dayz?

[Hetstaine 10852]

Worse than servers being packed was the 20-40 minute wait just trying to get into game. You didn't want to die because it might be that long before you respawned agan..fuck :)

[Agent36 25]

Nice i just read all them they all remind me of my first time keep telling your stories!

[plexico 386]

First time playing DayZ was annoying and hard. I expected it to be fun with barely any hardships other than the average glitch here and there, as video makers made it look like. When I got it, I experienced rage more powerful than any game I have ever played. All I did was spawn, have no idea where I am, and then die after 15 mins. Over and over. Finally learned about maps, cherno/elektro, where to get good loot, and where to go if you have a bad spawn. From then on I actually started to enjoy DayZ instead of feel like it was a waste of time and nothing like I thought it would be. 

[RyanTH 4]

My first time playing DayZ (A month ago YES I AM A NEWBIE) pretty much went like this:

"Oh, that Franky guy survived 'till episode 30+ this game will be fun!"

"Are you friendly?"

"Yes, yes I am!"

"ARE YOU MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDLY?!"

"YES YES! DON'T SHOOT! D:"

*BAM*

*RESPAWNED*

*INSTANTLY LOVED DAYZ*

[Tr1x 53]

My first experience was pretty awesome I thought at the time. I spawned at like Komarovo, looted through the small towns and went into cherno. When I got there I stealthed around until I got into the top bedrooms of the pub. Then downstairs/outside of the pub there was a huge gunfight, I don't remember what guns were involved at the time but now that I think about it they were probably AK's and Winchesters. There were probably 3-4 people all running around Cherno shooting each other and I was upstairs in a pub crapping my pants, wishing not to die because I just found the almighty alice pack.

 

This was back when the mod first came out, maybe a month after it's release.

[muse9191 2]

I think I spawned in Kamyshovo. Sheer terror was flowing through my veins the first time I heard the god-awful scream of an aggroing zombie. Needless to say, I spent the rest of the day glued to the ground, crawling through towns.

[reuben5150 83]

Started playing around the time the mod became really popular, about when the revolver was taken out, I forget...

First game spawned in and I heard gunshots from the distance in the trees, I follow the sound and find a guy with an Enfield sniping and some other player, this was before bandits were a thing, I crept up and killed him with my pistol, took about 6 shots, picked up the Enfield then the server crashed, doh.

Dayz was unlike anything I had ever played in over 25 years of gaming, I knew it was something special right from the start.

[reuben5150 83]

Once, night time really was the thing to scare the crap out of you.

[ponc 100]

First time was on a server @night, with a bug that no zombies spawned anywhere.

I ran around cherno and spotted some dudes with flares looting buildings.

hided and shot the one of their group with the best gun.

they paniced.

got shot.

[Elo 44]

Guess I'm one of those lucky bastards who got to play DayZ "as intended" on their first day

 

Started my first day with a Bro, it was nighttime ingame and IRL

 

We spawned and got to know the controls for 10 minutes, then tried to find each other using the moon and landmarks as reference points. We knew how dangerous DayZ was, shit was scary at night.

At some point I saw some other dude's flashlight, almost shot him when I realized that it was my bro

 

At this point I should add that it was one of those super fukken dark nights, you could only see anything using the flashlight, so the effective POV was like 20°. We also had the lights in our rooms turned off and were using headsets. Combined with large screens that was super immersive and we really felt like we were *in* that game fighting for survival. Man that was tense

 

We followed a street and headed towards the north. At some point we found a small village with a barn and we saw (or, rather, heard) our first zombies. First we panicked, then slowly crawled towards the barn as we were getting thirsty.

Found something to drink and a crossbow. Then for some reason a zombie decides to wander into the barn.

We totally lost out shit and didn't dare move for 10 minutes (we were on the upper floors). We didn't know if light attracts zombies, so we turned our flashlights off.

It was completely dark inside that barn

*Is he still there?

*Fuck I think so

*Shit, yes, I just heard him

 

 

The damn zombie then decides to slowly wander upstairs, so we are forced to use the crossbow. I illuminate the zombie with my flashlight, bro manages a headshot with the crowssbow and we get the fuck out of there

 

We heard distant shots. Decided to go into that general direction, suddenly bullets hit the ground nearby us. Fled into the woods for cover and lost our pursuers there.

Next we noticed one of those huge radio towers on a hill against the skyline. Went up there, sneaking past the zombies (panicking, again, while doing that), to get a good view of the surroundings so we had a general Idea where we should go next. We finally got up on that tower and had an _awesome_ view of our surrounding environment, even though it was still pretty dark.

We saw a rather large town and decided to go there next since both of us were starving by now, then logged off as it was getting late

Edited July 21, 2013 by Elo

[philbottle 430]

I spawned in that short time between day and night, didn't know if it was early morning or late evening.

 

I played entirely in first person.

 

The sound of the sea behind me, the moan of the first infected to spot me, the snap of my leg as I fell off my first ladder.

 

Will never forget it.

[Agent36 25]

I love these :D

[Jonson (DayZ) 31]

Tried to play, could not connect to a server, stopped trying.