My DayZ Experience - 15 Months Later

[Lemondog (DayZ) 6]

Greetings Survivors, Heroes and fellow Bandits,

 

I am Lemondog, and I have been playing DayZ since June of 2012. I have seen and done it all, starting as a lowly good-guy bambi, to becoming one of the most ruthless and cold-blooded bandits I think DayZ would ever see. This is my story about DayZ, how I changed as a player and some of the greatest moments I have ever had.

 

**1) My First Spawn**

 

My first ever spawn. I spawned in Seattle 1337 with two of my friends North of Cherno. Because I was clueless, I was told to go prone in a brush and wait for them. Upon meeting up, I was escorted to Stary Sobor, possibly the scariest place on the map. Upon arriving at Stary, my friends noticed peripheral dots, signalling zombies at the tents. Upon seeing this, we came to the only logical solution: I was going to run out there and juke this guy.

 

So here we have me, who's been playing forest simulator 2012 for 25 minutes, now running into the middle of the tents, screaming in Direct Chat, "HI HOWS IT GOING! THIS GAME IS AWESOME!" The player in the vicinity comes out of the tent and just stares at me. I think he thought I was high as a kite because here I am running around trying to make small talk.

 

The meanwhile, my friends have moved around to the East of the tents, crosshair on his head. As he lifts his gun to shoot me, I beg and plead and then, silence. He drops to the ground a lifeless corpse. I get my first gun. Yay. We continue on to the NWAF, were I spot someone crawling to the barracks. I nervously aim my gun at his head and shoot probably 15 rounds into him. Yeah, he's dead. YAY! First kill! After this, we head back to Stary, only to run into a camp. As we go to loot it, we get wrecked by a Machine Gun. Dead. RIP. Never forget Seattle 1337 North of Stary.

 

 

**2)The Rise of a Hero and Betrayal**

 

I played DayZ believing everyone was deep down innocent until proven guilty. I made it my mission to save innocent new players from the assholes known as bandits. As I continued to do this, a very popular server, the Billy Mays Server, came to existence. Alongside my friends, we inhabited the server as regulars and were always helping people, until one day, it all changed.

 

As usual, someone was hurt and needed blood. Nothing new I figured, everyone knew us on the server, he probably just got hit by a zombie since he seemed new. As we approached, I noticed something didn't feel right. He was taking a long time to reply to questions. Also, he was down in a very open area, making me vulnerable to any sniper shots. Most players found cover, but not him, not good old Chaos. So I approach Chaos, heal him up and take my payment (Mountain Dew.) As I'm on my way out, all I hear is the sound of a DMZ. Next thing I see is a screen. YOU ARE DEAD. I wasn't the only one. My partner was hunted down as well, our car stolen. The last thing I remember hearing is Chaos laughing hysterically, whispering "No tears." As I re spawned in Elektro, I only had one goal on my mind: Revenge and absolute destruction on Chaos' soul and his groups.

 

 

**3) A Team is Assembled.**

 

After death and re spawning, a plan was hatched. I was to infiltrate their group of friends, locate their camp, and earn their trust. Alongside me were 3 friends I've known for a while. We had Nick, someone I've known since 2004 and still one of my good friends to this day from elementary school. We had Russ, a friend of Nick's from high school, who we had been playing games with since 2010. And then, Randy Motherfucking Shuggs. The final member to ever be inducted into our group of friends. I found him on mIRC for a counter-Strike 1.6 scrim back in 2009 and he stuck around ever since. 

 

Nick's specialty was sniping. He rarely ever missed shots, and if his gun was shot, you would die. Russ, the scout. His experience in Cub Scouts as a child clearly payed off here. His ability to range accurately without any rangefinder or binoculars was uncanny. And Randy. The close quarter combat specialist. More than once he was known to run into Stary alone guns a blazing, kill 5 people and survive. This man was a crazy moron. We love him. And then there's me. The special agent. On top of my superb rifling ability, I could charm you faster than a whore on mainstreet.

 

 

**4) Plan Pineapple**

 

Plan pineapple was a go. As I ran back to my now lifeless body, I ran into Chaos. As he aimed his gun at me to kill me once again, I simply uttered 4 words..."Let me Join You." He looked back at me, smirking and asked quietly, "What makes you think we trust you?" I had him. Two things sell on people, fear and greed. "I'm the most trusted player in the server, you can follow me to my missions and cap kids. Together, we can make a fortune." He lowered his gun, and I let out a sigh of relief. Him and his group agreed to let me join, but under the condition I don't carry a gun as I could backstab them. I was handed an Axe and told to kill any zombies. What had become of me? The most trusted player on the server reduced to a mere zed killer for a group of people I resented. I knew what had to be done. I did as they said for roughly an hour while the group was setting up the scene. 

 

 

Berezino was the place. Randy was the bait, sitting in the supermarket alone with his Alice pack and a CZ inside. Nick was camped out, roughly 500 feet away in the trees, aiming his trusty dusty DMZ at the supermarket. With a ghillie suit, he could not be seen from more than 10 feet away. Russ sat on top of the hospital, serving as the eyes. I credit him to this day, that job left him so vulnerable and more than once they had to kill someone shooting at it him while we approached.

 

After an hour of being their personal zombie shield, Chaos and his friends invited me to join their Skype Call. Lucky me, I thought. My group uses ventrilo, so I went for it. So here I sat, a double agent in action, in both my ventrilo and a skype call at the same time. They gave me a weapon, an AK74, and said welcome. They provided me with gear at their camp which was north of the NWAF. I told them I recieved a message that I'm needed in Berezino and the reward were 2 Coyote packs and a CZ. Chaos looked at me, probably wondering if this was real or not, but eventually I heard the words I wanted too. "We'll take the UAZ."

 

 

**5) Executing the Plan**

 

We drove to Berezino in what seemed like a second. As we approached, Chaos mentioned in Skype our plan, which I cryptically relayed to my teammates in Ventrilo. I would repeat things such as, "So you said we are going to enter from the north, right?" in both calls to try and not draw any suspicion. We left the UAZ roughly 800 metres from Nick, which scared me a bit, but luckily he wasn't seen. We approached a faint help from Randy, doing his best 5 year old impression. "Can someone help me, I'm friendly!" Chaos snickered in skype as we approached. After killing the aggro'd zombies, we circled poor Randy. "Hey there man, I'll blood bag you and we'll be on our way!" As I bloodbagged him, Randy got silent. He stood up after and said nothing. Chaos had had enough and aimed his gun at his head. "Say your last words you little bitch." Randy looked at him, barrel to the face and said the magic words. "PINEAPPLE." The second we heard that, it was on. Nick took out Chaos with one shot, I sprayed into his teammates and Randy took out the third. After the bloodbath, we quickly looted their bodies and buried them. As I sat in the skype call, basking in my glory, all I heard from Chaos was a whimper, "but why Lemon? Why?" Before I ended the call, I simple chuckled and said our now famous catchphrase, "No tears, only dreams now." We ran quickly to the UAZ, looted their camp and got out. All the while, news broke to the server of what I had done. I simply embraced it. Anyone asking for help was now shot on sight. More than once I earned a player's trust only to backstab them. This was the life I needed. WHAT A RUSH.

 

 

**6) Laying Low, Base Established**

 

We decided that we needed a base. We officially named ourselves the TNP Banditos. It was time to lay low. Everyone knew us by our gear and our style. We had to lay low, because we were a server-wide hated group. Someone went as far as to put 2 UAZ's and a Heli as a reward for killing and locating our camp. Luckily, with no nameplates, it helped but everyone knew my player model. I wasn't changing it. I wanted them to come at me and get some. We quickly looted 4 tents, ran to our now top secret base, established it. The base was fairly big. Probably 20x20 metres in terms of size. I cleverly placed the tents so they could only be accessed one way, which took forever to figure out. We hid the UAZ as well in about 6 trees. There was only one way to get it out, which took us about 4 hours of practise. Now that the base was established, we were ecstatic. We had gear for the rest of eternity and no one knew where we were. Until Janaury 28th, 2013. When some kid named Alex spotted me heading towards my camp. He promptly followed me until I was about 500 metres away from it. I finally saw him crawling behind me in trees and killed him. All I saw next was on the map, him place a marker on me, simply typing "TNP BASE." A tiny red message popped up in the corner, server restart in 15 minutes. We had to survive for 15 minutes. We didn't have a choice.

 

 

 

**7) The Battle of Krasnotav**

 

We first heard it from the north. We were in Krasnotav, quickly looting some food / drink and heading back to the camp when we heard it roar. A convoy. 2 Cars and a UAZ. We had about 20 seconds before they got to us. I did the only logical thing anyone would do, I went prone in the middle of the fucking road. So here I see them driving right at my head as I'm prone. As they near me, all hell broke lose. Randy and Russ are hammering M249's into their vehicles, Nick is sniping relentlessly and I'm spraying the tires. The UAZ stopped on top of me. I literallly was pinned under a fucking UAZ in the middle of a 4 on 15. Randy and Russ quickly blew up the cars and Nick took out the UAZ players. We got out of there so fast I couldn't tell you. As we got to the camp, we heard it. A heli. It started firing at us and then I saw something I swear I'll never see again in this game. Randy runs at this chopper which is landing, and sprays the m249, capping 4 people in about 2.5 seconds. I did a double take but had no time. Nick and Russ were stashing as much stuff as they could onto the chopper. I helped as well. After piling on everything valuable, we took one last look at our camp. Our home for 4 months, destroyed. We did the only thing we could. Set fire to it. As we lifted off, Nick the pilot, we looked back, and prepared for the next chapter of our adventure together as the TNP Banditos. (At this point the server restarted we had landed somewhere random.)

 

 

**8) Gorka (Fuck this place)**

 

We landed in Gorka, we needed fuel badly. We landed and Russ started filling up while me and Randy looted. Then we heard it. Another chopper. And a car on the road. We were fucked like no other. Thinking quickly, me and Randy both threw smoke grenades and ran. As we found cover, the car stopped at the gas station and a player, alone, got out to loot. Yeah, dumbass. He was dead. The heli started firing. Nick yelled at me in vent, "Get them distracted I fucking got this." I took a deep breath and looked at my 120 day long character. This was it. I ran like a mad man across the road as it fired away at me. Then all I hear behind me is shots. Nick killed the passenger. The chopper, and for some reason, maybe fuel, landed. He got out and surrendered. As he surrendered, all we did was laugh. I axed the poor bastard in the back. As we took stock of what the fuck just happened, we had 2 heli's, a car and so much gear you wouldn't believe. Nick piloted one chopper, Russ the other, I drove with Randy. Nick was hovering in his chopper roughly 25 metres above us when no one knows what happened, whether he fucked up or the game derped. As I watch him hover while he sets a marker, he starts to descend. We scream at him but it's too late. He crashes into the helicopter Russ was in, creating an explosion so big I was in awe. The explosion wrecked our car, killing Randy on impact. I survived, with 500 blood. As I quickly tried to loot everything I could to run, a player came by. And told me to freeze. As he aimed his sights on me and told me to help him and he'll let me go, I sat there, dejected. Instead of letting this kid have the satisfaction of bossing me around, I did the only thing I could: I dropped a frag grenade at my feet. This kid looked at me and ran away as fast as he could. Me, I just stood there. The seconds seemed like years, My character had started as a simple revenge character against Chaos, and had now become the most vilified and hated person on the server. I had raided camps, ruined lives, destroyed villages, and now this was it for me. As the grenade bounced one final time and was about to detonate, a familiar voice entered my head. "No Tears, only dreams now."

[callsignBravo (DayZ) 323]

haha, good sweet revenge. I hero like no other on the servers I play but revenge never hurts, I got backstabbed by a guy called Ilikedickintheass and his group. My friend trevor went to be bait and as they surrounded him bang bang bang, 3 rounds 3 deaths with my trust lapuna. we used our bragging rights when we flew over freshspawn them in their own helo

[scaramoosh 162]

Here's mine.

 

quit sept 2012 to wait for Dayz SA

 

November 2013 comes along and still waiting

[mercules 1290]

Here's mine.

 

quit sept 2012 to wait for Dayz SA

 

November 2013 comes along and still waiting

 

...and don't you look for the fool for being too stubborn to play during that time yet still post about it.

[Owain1122 218]

Read this on Reddit, Thought a lot of it was fabricated or at least heavily exaggerated, however I saw the video of 'the battle of Krasnotav'. Great story and well told!

[Bludy 324]

i sat on a hill so long that ''the end'' died right next to me, but nice story and happy SA waiting to everyone!

[scaramoosh 162]

...and don't you look for the fool for being too stubborn to play during that time yet still post about it.

 

Why would I play it? Dayz is a frustrating and very broken experience that only showed potential with development. Once they canned the development of the mod for the SA then what is the point in playing? Just becomes boring knowing you have to wait 6 months for the smallest of patches.

[mercules 1290]

Why would I play it? Dayz is a frustrating and very broken experience that only showed potential with development. Once they canned the development of the mod for the SA then what is the point in playing? Just becomes boring knowing you have to wait 6 months for the smallest of patches.

 

1.7.8 just released, with some really nice upgrades. I think maybe you misphrased the "canned the development of the mod" since the mod is still being developed and I don't believe it was 6 months from 1.7.7 to 1.8. Well, and they have already patched 1.8 a couple times to fix things. 

I also don't find it all that frustrating or "very broken". There are glitches in this ALPHA but one expects that and none of them are that horrible, this is from someone who has fallen through a piece of terrain and died with a totally unlootable body in the ground. Those sort of things are rare.

I think it is more that you don't actually like DayZ but really want to complain about how "sour" it is like the Fox and the Grapes. Most people, if they have decided they don't like a game, move on and stop posting in the forums. You are all stalkerish, "I'll show up at the bar and restaurant you and your friends go to all the time and show you how miserable you made me. That will ruin your good time... won't it... won't it!" never realizing you are only punishing yourself since the girl really doesn't care.

Free yourself, go find a game you can play that won't be so "frustrating" and stop making yourself miserable and trying to make us realize how horrible this game we are enjoying and loving is. ;)

[jukaga 271]

Good story, thanks for posting it. That's the kind of shit that keeps me coming back to DayZ again and again.