What have you been doing in-game while awaiting patches: Honesty please.

[DemonGroover 8836]

do you manage to find guy to have pistol duel???

I have 3 times now challenge accept but guys don't show  :|

 

No i even asked one of the newbies but he just persisted in trying to punch me.

 

I plan on sitting under a bridge when i find a second Magnum and forcing some newbie to duel me.

[Mos1ey 6301]

I'm aiming for a "perfect char" at the minute. Essentially this loadout...

 

 

With everything pristine. I'm currently short one 60 stack in the ammo box and another 60 rounds to fill that mag, my jacket is worn and the hat and axe are badly damaged. I have a few spare items that I've picked up for friends, and and abundance of useless crap (e.g. vitamins) that I've picked up because "why not?" that need to be replaced with something more worthwhile but I haven't decided what yet... Would also like an ACOG sight that can be switched out with an RDS depending on the situation.

 

I'm not far off anyway. Hopefully I can gather the last few items before dying...

 

Then it'll more than likely be back to NW airfield PvP and protecting new spawns from wannabe bandits on the coast for a while until I think of something better to do, maybe I should just settle down with a good book...

 

 

[Avengerki 20]

Well last night I went on a jog and saw a guy camping in the NEAF, he killed me as I didn't use smarts and just ran in knowing he was there. When I respawned I hightailed it away from the coast and within 5 minutes had a fire axe along with some food and drinks. I wound up back on the coast since I hadn't actually bothered to try and figure out where I was and what directions were what, and ran into a new spawn who asked if I was going to kill him said "no" and then he tells me there is a group of guys in the town ahead killing people something like they just keep screaming you stole from my store, this is my store.

 

So why not I head into town looking for these guys, it was 3 of them 1 with an fire axe, 1 with a crowbar and a ton of handcuffs. Mister fire axe seems me and starts charging at me so I pull out my axe and get a lucky blow on him and he starts bleeding. Of course he turns around and starts running so I start chasing his butt all over town. Eventually he stops in a warehouse type thing thinking he lost me and begins bandaging himself, as I run up and finish him off he started begging for his life. I grab his backpack since I didn't have one yet and he has 2 more fire axes in his backpack. I head away from town and go up into the forest and randomly drop his fire axes around the trees along with like 5 sets of handcuffs.

 

I headed back into town and his buddies were still going at it and were preparing to handcuff another new spawn at least until I came charging in. Me and the 2 goons start running circles around each other giving the new spawn a chance to run off, I managed to get a couple hits in on the guy with the crowbar and then started to chase the other guy and then I see mister crowbar bandaging himself. I run up and go to hit him again but miss and his buddy starts trying to handcuff me so I start running around and mister crowbar says "Oh ya, you can't kill me I am mister invincible" before I manage to hit him yet again with the fire axe and so he starts bandaging again. I finally hit his buddy with the handcuffs turn around and the one guy was bandaging himself so I hit him and he went unconscious and I make sure to make mister handcuffs unconscious. I loot them of any weapons and handcuffs and start picking up some of the other pairs of handcuffs on the ground. About this time a guy comes running up and see him see me and I say don't worry you can take whatever loot you want off these guys.

 

He came up to the other guy with a backpack and takes his backpack and then starts chasing me yelling "I want my stuff back that you took from me" I just ran around and through some buildings loosing him. I kept hearing him yelling for me but I didn't feel like killing him again, although some people never learn. I see a guy with a shovel and started to chase him thinking he was one of the three guys but then he spoke over chat "Don't kill me" and he was not one of them so I helped him with some food and led him to water and even brought him over to one of the fire axes I had ditched in the woods. He was very appreciative and had only played DayZ for about an hour. We went adventuring together for a little bit heading away from the coast and had a generally good time.

 

I could not figure out how those guys managed to have close to 20 pairs of handcuffs, at least after their run in with me they need to restock that stuff. I was really surprised I didn't die or get knocked out although they did hit me 2 or 3 times all I can think is the fact that I had filled up on water and ate a lot of food that I just got bruises since I was Healthy status.

 

Mostly I just explore the whole map and try to get all my gear pristine. Which seems like a constant battle since if I get hit by a zombie something becomes worn. I also like collecting the small protector cases, when I died before my melee battle I had 9 or 10 small protector cases on me 3 of them pristine.

[Avengerki 20]

I have just one question. How do you turn the pages?

[Mays (DayZ) 154]

Being a bandit that handcuffs people while looting Berezino, Cherno, Balota and Elektro.

[Mos1ey 6301]

I have just one question. How do you turn the pages?

 

If you press one of the arrow keys the "next page/previous page" buttons should appear.

[Sencha 100]

Tzu.

And.

I hate you.

I have been searching that book since forever.

 

I found that one a couple of times. The one I was looking forward to reading was The Aeneid. And then I found it and got all excited. Open it up, it's the fucking original in Latin.

Why?! Who is this for? Who is this fantasy person that likes to play DayZ, likes reading books IN DayZ, and also speaks Latin?!

[Immersive 121]

Getting killed by ladders, exploring the map, looking for a press vest, helping new spawns out, finding seculuded houses that have awesome scenery making mental notes for when tents/building comes, rocking my leather shoes like a baws. You know, the usual.

[flexy 10]

Honestly right now I just don't play while waiting for the patches. It's hard, because I want to play but atm DayZ isn't offering much entertainment.

When a new patch comes out, I log in and play until I've seen what's new.

 

The wait will be easier for me once D3's expansion is out  :)

[Highlander007 249]

I know there are a metric fuck ton of you that like to kill the newspawn's or just KoS in general.

 

This morning I had a point blank opportunity to take a shot at a newspawn from my mosin and I let it go. I pardoned him lol.

Edited January 15, 2014 by Highlander007

[Florx 1326]

I try to stream sniping some streamers.

[k0pkaas 4]

My latest adventure involved a very prolonged 2 on 2 shoot out in elektro. Me and my friend were geared and hunting bandits in Elektro. My buddy wanted to get a Mosin, so he went to check the school building out to see if one had spawned at the top floor weapon spawn. Halfway down the road to the school he gets shot at by some idiot with an m4. I'm sitting on the hill outside Elektro with my Mosin trying to keep an eye on him, but I couldn't spot his attacker. He retreated and I continued scoping the whole town out looking for this would-be bandit. Within a few minutes I spot a guy near where my friend was shot with a mosin, and figuring him to be our attacker's friend I take a shot at him. Seeing as I always over estimate distance while zeroing the scope I shot directly over his head by a few inches and he retreats to safety. As I continue to look for our attackers and my friend tries to flank to a better position I hear Mosin and M4 shots going off in quick succession. I quickly retreated assuming these shots were meant for me (they sounded very close). I ran further up the hill and back down around to the firehouse. I climbed onto the roof of the industrial building near the firehouse and look again. I don't see a thing, so I decide to get down before I'm spotted. Again we hear a quick succession of m4 and mosin shots going off. This time we decide that the two armed men in town with us are actually shooting at each other. I go further up the hill and tell my friend to flank around to the eastern side of the hill and come up from behind where the gun shots sound to be coming from, while I scope the area out and watch for anyone to come out. After about 10 minutes of silence we decide they moved on and I start to head down the hill. As I'm climbing down the hill I come face to face with our m4 bandit which shot at my friend. I didn't think he'd seen my yet, seeing as his head just poked up over a crest giving me vision of him so I instantly went prone and raised my revolver. He stopped and then fired at me. At this point I do my best to shoot him with my revolver from the prone position through the grass. I tagged him once before he killed me, but couldn't win the firefight. It would have been better if I had remained crouched when I spotted him and shot immediately seeing as I had a height advantage on him, but the shock of spotting him so close caught me offguard and I choked. As I tell my friend where to find the guy who shot me I hear his character moaning in pain and cursing aloud. I relay to my partner that this unlucky bandit won't be seeing too well. The bandit looks around for a couple minutes too make sure I had no buddies, then starts to loot me. My friend takes a few shots at him from a distance with his m4 and the bandit sinks my body in the ground. My friend crests the hill to our position and the bandit takes off down the hill. My buddy fires off a salvo of rounds and he believes that a couple hit him but he lost sight of the guy in some bushes. To this day I like to think that the poor bastard died or was knocked unconcious in some bushes in the vicinity of Elektro, or better yet maybe some bambi ambushed him with a fireaxe a little ways down the road. Either way if he wasn't dead, he left Elektro in a very poor condition....

Edited January 15, 2014 by k0pkaas

[PhillyT 554]

I mostly gear up, then help bambi's along the coast.  I avoid some armed players, since I am not a great shot in DayZ (though I am an very high level COD player).  I do kill spawn hunters, since I can normally get the drop on them.  I bandage people and normally run with a group of 4 other players who do something similar (though one is a true bandit at heart and I often have to talk him out of killing for fun).

 

Solo I like to head inland and explore the towns for food.

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

I'm aiming for a "perfect char" at the minute. Essentially this loadout...

 

You could put the saline bags into two med kits and fit more.

[VuRaL 46]

That 

 

You could put the saline bags into two med kits and fit more.

 

And the helmet needs to be replaced.  :D

[Gekkonidae 270]

I've just been screwing around mainly. Starting fist fights with fresh spawns and bandits that try to camp them. The other day I was fully geared and was tired of killing. Was sniping on top of a tower at NW airfield and a sniper nailed me. Another guy was below me. The sniper almost had me. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of the kill nor the chance to loot, so I jumped off of the building behind it, away from his line of fire so that the guy below could make off with the goods :)

 

Honestly, i've just been kind of bored until they come out with new stuff. I was thinking about getting some mates together to set up ambushes in various places just for the hell of it.

[Mos1ey 6301]

You could put the saline bags into two med kits and fit more.

 

Can you do that? I didn't realise you could put items back into a first aid kit. :O

 

And the helmet needs to be replaced.  :D

 

No way! Ushanka FTW. I just need a pristine one...

[-DMG-Jonesy 226]

Chillin'.  Killin'.

[quobble 175]

taking photos, finding bugs and glitches, creating ideas for places, posting stuff about the northern area, analysing new areas etc pp.

[DaveAzoicer (DayZ) 135]

Medicing, trading, helping people, basically.

[Souli 9]

I found that one a couple of times. The one I was looking forward to reading was The Aeneid. And then I found it and got all excited. Open it up, it's the fucking original in Latin.

Why?! Who is this for? Who is this fantasy person that likes to play DayZ, likes reading books IN DayZ, and also speaks Latin?!

Salve! Aeneid mihi quoque placet.

[unicornsmustdie 32]

eating, exploring, getting stronger (not killed for three weeks now almost which improves your stamina and resistance I believe). I built up my M4 with all the trimmings, RIS guard, Magpul stock, both the Acog and the other scopes, learn all of it (for as much as possible since they don´t zoom right which I still don´t get alpha or not). Ñearn to use the flashlight in engagements. Then took me some time to drop it and go for the Mosin, which is what I got now. I was too afraid to give it to someone although I really wanted to. Learning to not become attached to my tac vest, and live a little, take some risk. I want to learn more about player behavior and am thinking now about dropping my military gear and go for more different looks and see if people will shoot less on site (I have thought long that if you can see a threat coming your way, a tactic could be to drop everything close by, walk away and act stupid. Chances are they will not shoot you (you´re in your undies) and if they will, chances are they will not look further than your body so that if you respawn you have a shot at regaining your equipment.)

 

So now I´m learning the map, the terrain, thinking of places where to hunt and cook and build shelter. Still avoiding players. I have my own server so I like to play different times like early morning, late afternoon, the effect of sun in your back on your opponent and so on.

 

And mostly what I do is fantasize about all that is possible. Which for now is what I like most about this game, especially because it is alpha. Because I feel like a little kid again, when video games were new and your imagination far outpaced possibilities. It feels like that again.

 

Which in itself is one of the main pillars on which DayZ is built imo, the ability to make your own game, as much in your head as in-game.  I love that.

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

Can you do that? I didn't realise you could put items back into a first aid kit. :o

 

Yeah, they work like containers that can only hold medical supplies. I usually end up with an inventory full of them.

[twingunz 308]

furiously fapping over the mic while in hidden closeness to other players.

I may be lying but then again on a cold, gloomy night you just might hear my heavy breathing and the sweet fap sounds. That is when you know the fapman is real ;)

[stolenbanjos 110]

On my current character I am camping sniper hill above Elektro looking for spineless KoS bandits to mug or kill.