my 7 Dayz of Player Interaction..

[Liege 70]

The very 1st day was in fact Night. it was night time and i was using my torch. unknown to me at the time that I was waving a freaking lighthouse around. If I hadn't seen two heavily armed dicks (not bandits.. there was no attempt to steal anything) through the window in a spawn location a second before they burst in through the door, I would never have known what happened... KoS.. Welcome to DayZ, Bitch!

 

My second interaction was hilarious. once again Night time. Elecktro Fire Station. I'm playing with a mate, pitch black... then from no where is this scary mother fucker playing eerie music on direct, wearing nothing but a mask and trying to bare fist fight us both...we run around for a good 2 minutes before we worked out what the hell was happening.. my mate saved the day with a fire axe...

 

My 3rd interaction.. just completed our 1st ever run (not mod players) through balota, military base NWAF and across to the coast. finally have guns and ammo and havent seen anyone for about 4 hours. pretty sure we were in the south of berezino. and we notice zombie are being aggroed, run around the corner and see a guy with an axe and a mosin on his back being mauled by a zombie with 2 more closing in. We take out the 1st zombie and tell him to bandage and we mow down the next two.. have a nice chat offer a few items which he declines and tell him if he touches his gun before we leave, we'll drop him.. and then we hightail the hell out of there.

 

Straight into our 4th interaction, find a guy holed up in one of the small towns and my mate runs into the building with me right behind "hi, how you going?" as we duck the axe the crazy man in swinging at us...my mate unleashes the M4 clip in close quarters in a panic.. and mows me down! and my character glitches and won't stand still, so bandages and saline wont work as apparently im moving while unconscious. his solution... .357 to the head.

 

respawn and run back to my body, loot what i can and away we go again.. find a new spawn and our 5th interaction has started, have a chat offer assistance when BANG.. the spawn goes down right in front of us, we hightail for cover but my mate never gets there.. he goes down.. dead. I sneak around a building.. find the one of the shooters, unleash my M4... bang bang bang click click click.... forgot to reload. You Are Dead.

 

My 6th interaction is when i find a guy on the roof of an office building in Berezino, and i get the drop on him with my Mosin and say Hi. guy hasnt got a Mic and types in return.. ok I'm cool with that. I tell him where to find a spare Mosin I found a few minutes ago and drop 5 rounds on the ground for him. And he offers me a "Thanx Friend"

 

My 7th interaction which occured an hour or two ago, we were in the hills above the wrecked ship way up North, and I hate to say this but my Mate opens up fire on an unsuspecting fellow going about his business, It;s too late to worry about the morals and I open fire as well, the guy is winged but runs and finds cover. what ensues is a 15 minutes gun fight with positions being traded and rounds flying in both directions without any combat logging or ghosting. THIS IS WHAT DAYZ IS ABOUT!! My mate goes down to M4 fire after getting caught in a rock, respawns and runs like buggery to get back to me. I loop around for a better position to find that ol mate is now off the boat and circling through the forest, I'm taking snap shots with an unscoped mosin and missing badly.. he is running and blazing away with his M4. then a very tense 7 minutes passes with nothing happening and then i see movement.. and I land a hit with the mosin but he is still standing and running and I miss oh so many shots.... i run to the boat and head up for a vantage point.. movement in the trees while the enemy tries to scope me again... and it's over.  He gets hit the head from behind with a wrench from newspawn mate. we unceremoniously loot his bodies, thank him for his valor and move on.

 

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I love the unpredictability and the player interactions that occur in DayZ, for the sake of a somewhat interesting read I left out the Multiple times i was spawn camped by armed guys and the many many new spawns that punched me in the face when i was a new spawn as well. also some of the abuse i copped... wow, glad my mother can't hear you boys.. she'd make you wash your mouth out with soap! To get the best out of this game my mate and i have a pledge, no matter what. we dont combat log.. never have never will, even if the other guy does and we get ghosted.. as my mate said to me.. fuck it, it's only gear.

 

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TL:DR:

1. KoS spawn camped

2. Freaky scary clown man trying to box us to death.

3. save a man from zombies, and leave him be

4. KoS attempt by new spawn which leaves me dead thanks to friendly fire

5 KoS'd

6 Friendly interaction. give ammo away , thanks Friend

7. A KoS attempt from our group, turns into a long and gruelling gunfire fight, and i would like to thanks this man for sticking around and seeing it out to the end, even when outnumbered. I really enjoyed it. it was tense and i was very very worried for my safety.

 

 

 

 

[zaphodity (DayZ) 41]

You get some wonderful encounters, specially on the weekends whilst people enjoy some "beverages".

 

This one dude spotted me crouching down for a rest and look-around, and drunkenly said that he had a sniper rifle pointing directly at my head.

He then introduced himself as a door to door salesman, and was I interested in purchasing a life insurance policy ?

 

......before I could say yes or no, he shot me in the head.

Edited January 13, 2014 by zaphodity

[Olfart 13]

Lucky you. My 10 first interactions went something like this:

 

KoS.

KoS.

KoS.

Unarmed noob runs away from me. (Guess he thought I'd kill him with my crowbar. Who can blame him?)

KoS.

KoS.

"Getdownnoworwe.."-BANG! (Guess they get credits for trying, but at least give me time to press Z...)

KoS.

Freshly spawned, found some food. While eating, a guy runs up to me and whacks me in the head with a pipewrench. He runs off leaving me bleeding and unconscioius. KoS but at least that was sort of funny.

KoS.

 

No joke: 78 hours played and I have *not once* met a person with a gun that didn't simply execute me. Hell I even got executed by a noob with a pipewrench who caught me during a bean-break. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I'm about to give up on playing DayZ as a survival game, and simply join the others in the death match.

 

Next person I see is dead; I don't care who it is. No talking, no trading, just bullets.

[Radunas 2]

So yea, I've seen a lot of people post about KoS and complaining that it is ruining their experience... But, I read all that before playing the game so i knew what to expect. Knowing this, I picked extremely low pop servers (0-10) to learn how to properly play, become self sufficient, learn how to get the most important items the quickest, learn to navigate and learn the damn map.

 

All of this should be done before logging into a high pop server; personally i don't see why you wouldn't want to take matters into your own hands and place yourself in a situation where this won't be a factor until you're good and ready to deal with these types of people.

 

KOS STUFF

 

[Olfart 13]

So yea, I've seen a lot of people post about KoS and complaining that it is ruining their experience... But, I read all that before playing the game so i knew what to expect. Knowing this, I picked extremely low pop servers (0-10) to learn how to properly play, become self sufficient, learn how to get the most important items the quickest, learn to navigate and learn the damn map.

 

All of this should be done before logging into a high pop server; personally i don't see why you wouldn't want to take matters into your own hands and place yourself in a situation where this won't be a factor until you're good and ready to deal with these types of people.

 

The point wasn't "wah wah unfair." I'm perfectly capable of surviving just about indefinitely, learning first on low pop servers, and then on high - but staying out of sight and being a ghost for hours on end is pretty boring.

 

So, I went looking for people to interact with. Usually I'd carry some nice extras I found laying about, such as spare canteens, bags of rice, medical supplies and so on. I figured I'd find someone in need and give em a helping hand, or something. The point, if there is one, is that I was trying to play DayZ as a survival game, like the thing Rocket seems to want to build judging from the streams and news updates. I was sort of hoping maybe I could be a good guy instead of a dick who snipes bambies. I was fully expecting some people to be bandits, even a lot of people. I just didn't expect every single person I meet for 78 hours straight to be a bandit. I find it sad that the only player interaction to be had is "I killed you" and "You killed me".

 

I'm merely pointing out the state of the game mate, and noting that I'm less than pleased.

[wild_man 4442]

my interactions list looking like this

 

I talk - he combat log

I talk - he combat log

I talk - he combat log

 

:|...

 

I KoS

I KoS

I KoS

I KoS

I KoS

I KoS ... :thumbsup:  :ph34r:

Edited January 14, 2014 by KoS

[Muzzah 0]

I picked up the game yesterday after I had been eyeing it up for a while on steam.

 

First day I died several times to zombies, which i expected to be honest.

 

I have yet to spawn somewhere other than in a tiny village by the coast, and I have yet to find any sort of Map.

 

The only Human contact i have had, was where we both entered a building from opposite ends. We both skirted the room while looking at each other and made for the exits. So far, despite the bugs i love this game.

 

Lets see what happens in today's Log on.

[zaphodity (DayZ) 41]

Lucky you. My 10 first interactions went something like this:

 

KoS.

KoS.

KoS.

Unarmed noob runs away from me. (Guess he thought I'd kill him with my crowbar. Who can blame him?)

KoS.

KoS.

"Getdownnoworwe.."-BANG! (Guess they get credits for trying, but at least give me time to press Z...)

KoS.

Freshly spawned, found some food. While eating, a guy runs up to me and whacks me in the head with a pipewrench. He runs off leaving me bleeding and unconscioius. KoS but at least that was sort of funny.

KoS.

 

No joke: 78 hours played and I have *not once* met a person with a gun that didn't simply execute me. Hell I even got executed by a noob with a pipewrench who caught me during a bean-break. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I'm about to give up on playing DayZ as a survival game, and simply join the others in the death match.

 

Next person I see is dead; I don't care who it is. No talking, no trading, just bullets.

 

 

I like this games for its ability to show people what they really are. Dumb, frightened, panicky animals.

 

Video game wise, best $30 I have spent in years. Excellent hiking simulator.

Edited January 15, 2014 by zaphodity

[Proper Gander 45]

We killed a dude today; not exactly KoS, but we didn't wait around to see if he was a friendly.  Turns out, he was carrying every firearm from the game (all four), several canteens, more than a half-dozen sets of handcuffs, and a bunch of morphine.  I can only imagine the party that he had planned!