DayZ | Day 4 - A new hope

[pinkdino99 13]

So it's been a long, sleepless week.

I promised myself that I wouldn't stay up 'till 2am on a work night again after Tuesday night, so ended up crashing at 1.30am the next two nights. My lunch hours and breakfast internet activity has strangely been focused on the DayZ community website and some amazing DayZ videos on youtube.

So my adventure continued. I was weak, a coward, and I'm ashamed to look in the mirror. I checked an online map , realizing that I was actually on the NORTH EAST corner of the world rather than the SW where my in game map (which I assumed was the full map !) hinted I might be.

Oh yes, the map is some 24km squared. OMFG !

So I now fire up my MacBook and have izurvive.com running in parallel. It's a really cool interactive map with satellite, weapon, medical, water and food spawns included. In the back of my mind I know that it's cheating, but I was SO wrong with my initial assumptions that I need the help.

Second I went to http://forums.dayzgame.com/ where you can put your name out onto the forums in the hope of finding like minded players to roam Chernarus with. I linked up with a gamer on Steam and we spent the first evening going to completely different locations in completely opposite directions, mainly because he didn't have a map to help him. Oh well, at least I started to get some good gear at last.

My medical kits, which started out being a bit rubbish have by now started to, bit by bit, be replaced with some prestine gear. I have full camo gear with a pistol and a revolver in case I run into any nasty people. The head bonking zombie slayer axe is still working a treat, although I did have a few scares from some vicious mobs in some of the bigger towns.

Wednesday and Thursday disappear. Still have not seen any people online. I have been inland the entire game, so plan to head down to the coast with the idea of finding people heading into Cherno.

I have watched a couple of outstanding videos which I'd like to give credit to. The wonderful Merino DayZ  http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9YSGX22B6Z3k9-hJzJcz4w who taught me everything about eating, drinking, stamina and health in DayZ, and all the tricks that my medic will need to survive, and help other players in Chernarus.

Also the hilarious jackfrags http://www.youtube.com/user/jackfrags who has remixed "Call me baby" with a DayZ theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1wzdlu-WM His video "Betrayal" is one of the key reasons I bought this game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HvFrp7o9ss It is funny, heart warming and beautific. As he says mid way in "MAN I LOVE THIS GAME !!!"

So I stumble across another airbase on the south coast. I now have a lovely automatic rifle with a prestine suppressor. I have 2 ammo crates full of ammo, 2 full medi-kits with a bunch of morphine, anti-biotics, blood packs ... the works. Now where are all the people ? My server is apparently jammed with them ?

I still aim for Cherno, but pop into a few adjacent towns to fill my belly with food. In the second town, bricking it incase of snipers, I run into my first player.

He approaches hands raised. We exchange food and I give him a gun. He states not to worry, he's a pacifist but I still worry ... a LOT. I tell him I'm going AFK to grab a beer and hover above the keyboard ready to pounce if he pulls my gun on me .... he doesn't !

Litmus test achieved, he's a top bloke. Now we are two ! HA HA !

 

[Happy- 41]

Nice read. glad you found someone that was actually friendly. im still looking for one my self

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