PC Gamer Article: DayZ Christmas ceasefire

[cafepatron 5]

Though this was really intresting and decided to share it with everyone. Check it out!

From PC Gamer website....

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/12/20/dayz-players-propose-a-christmas-ceasefire/

"DayZ players propose a Christmas ceasefire

Patrick Carlson at 15:27 on 20 December 2013

Echoing the Christmas truces that took place along the 1914 Western Front during World War I, some DayZ players on Reddit want to spend the day with their baseball bats shouldered and their guns tucked away. Since the game often acts as a sort of laboratory for human behavior, any proposed ceasefire in the DayZ Mod or Standalone alpha will take place as a simple—but maybe revealing—experiment.

With its release Monday, the DayZ alpha has seen a massive influx of players and it's a time of year when people might have an hour or two to sit down with a hot beverage and explore DayZ’s gorgeous, nightmarish landscape. Since so many of the survival sim’s most terrifying moments usually involve encounters with other human beings rather than the game’s zombie antagonists, a Christmas truce seems like the perfect way to see what the mood is like among DayZ’s alpha community.

Are you like the person in the motorcycle helmet who challenged me to a pointless fistfight on a lonely hilltop the other day, or are you more apt to give a hungry survivor a cold soda and a can of beans after a long trek through the woods? I guess we’ll find out. And that’s sort of the strange and interesting point of DayZ for me anyway—the not knowing. What would you do?"

[Weedz 1105]

I liked the later Christmas truces were they would pretend to have a truce and then lob poison gas at each other ... so I'm in!

 

Now I just need to find some poison gas grenades ...

Edited December 20, 2013 by Weedz

[xInfinityx 44]

Would be pretty cool, but can the 12 year olds keep their fingers off the trigger?

[Verex11 95]

It's a good idea, but lets be real here. Also, shouldn't it be "Holiday" ceasefire? Jokes.

Edited December 20, 2013 by Verex11

[subliminal_city 27]

Seeing how the last person I gave food to stabbed me with a fucking bayonette afterwards (although he died, not I, so joke is on him) - I'm staying well away from people in general and seeing as this is a computer game where people kill people for lulz, I'm not buying any truce deals.

[cafepatron 5]

Would be pretty cool, but can the 12 year olds keep their fingers off the trigger?

Yea I never said this would work or people would actually do this its just an intresting thought...and its intresting and awesome to see that DayZ is in the spotlight. But also its not just 12 years old haha I found that age doesnt matter nor what country your from...Id say about 90% of people on DayZ KoS and of the 10% who dont KoS 8% have plans to kill you or will kill you shortly planned or not. (The numbers are in no way actual/fact just my person opinion and based on my experience playing DayZ)