My friend, the psycho

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

im sorry but the more you tell me about your bud the more i thinking this aint a friend thats the guy you have in your group of friends that you barly tolerate but is allways acting like a douche.

 

Well, in that case it seems that either I wasn't clear enough or you misunderstood something - Psycho is in real life a nice guy and I know him for around 15 years, I think, and I played a lot of video (and board, card etc.) games together with (and against) him.

Sure, he is somebody with a mind of his own, but who isn't ;)

 

But DayZ has the ability like no other game to change the expected behaviour of everyone it seems.

Take my 3 buddies in the story:

Silent is a real great guy, logical thinking and cool temper...but in DayZ he gets lost in the woods as soon as anybody announces that he has seen another player.

KoSBuddy is friendly and self confident - but in DayZ he has developed a KoS-mentality because of the suspicion against other players.

Psycho...well as I said: A really nice and great guy and somebody that helps you if you need him without asking, he is a hell of a friend :). But in DayZ...well he becomes a psycho sometimes.

 

 

And here is the thing: they dont do that because its roleplaying the character - this behaviour gets stronger the longer we play. After 3 or 4 hours in then game, they do those things without thinking about it. And that makes DayZ one of a kind.

Edited January 22, 2014 by LaughingJack

[Richard III in Leicester 200]

Well, in that case it seems that either I wasn't clear enough or you misunderstood something - Psycho is in real life a nice guy and I know him for around 15 years, I think, and I played a lot of video (and board, card etc.) games together with (and against) him.

Sure, he is somebody with a mind of his own, but who isn't ;)

 

But DayZ has the ability like no other game to change the expected behaviour of everyone it seems.

Take my 3 buddies in the story:

Silent is a strong and nice guy, logical thinking...but in DayZ he gets lost in the woods as soon as anybody announces that he has seen another player.

KoSBuddy is friendly and self confident - but in DayZ he has developed a KoS-mentality because of the suspicion against other players.

Psycho...well as I said: A really nice guy and somebody that helps you if you need him without asking. But in DayZ...well he becomes a psycho sometimes.

 

 

And here is the thing: they dont do that because its roleplaying the character - this behaviour gets stronger the longer we play. After 3 or 4 hours in then game, they do those things without thinking about it. And that makes DayZ one of a kind.

 

Bang on. 

 

My friends have the same tendancies as well. One (in the mod) even left the game after he got lots of great gear, because he couldn't handle the psychology of 'now i've got all this gear and I'm terrified I'll lose it'. After we'd been in a few scrapes with other players but survived (or won) it made him very jumpy and he'd have to go drop all his stuff at a tent if he ever wanted to go anywhere that might be populated. While that's a sensible idea, with him it became something beyond that. And like I said, he stopped playing because he had gear he didn't want to lose. Mad isn't it. But that's what is so incredible about DayZ. I should have just done him a favour and broken his legs or something ;) 

[King of kong 1117]

It's the best advice I can give...KILL HIM WITH FIRE

[tobias winfro 305]

I can't believe I'm saying this but I think your friend did that guy a favor. If he was bleeding that bad then there was a chance he could have infected wounds too and depending on when the server restarts, he may not have found what he needed to heal. I've been in that situation before and if I meet a player or am with a friend I will ask them to end my suffering

[elLoCo 154]

Plz click the links 'cause I picked random pictures from google to make it graphic, but I guess you need to click 'em 'cause they aren't white listed.

 

Brothers in arms

Well to start off, I've played the Mod for quite some time, most time with a friend of mine. In the mod we were...sneaky. We avoided other players, and fought only, when we were in danger.

 

But in the SA...Well, while I'm still the more friendly guy - I only shoot when I see myself in danger and (in my freinds opinion) I'm to naive to survive long in DayZ because I try to help other players too often and always - he was...well, let's call it the secure type: If he sees an armed guy, that is in voice range, he tells him to put his hands up and stop moving, if the guy runs, he would have let him run, if the guy was out of voice range, my buddy would hide and wait.

 

That was before we got slaughtered by 5 or 6 guys (we did not even see them - they camped the main street in stary sobor, we managed to get into an house alive after they started shooting, but were taken out, when they stormed it. No bad feelings, was an awesome shootout ;))

 

But since that time, he changed his playstile...If he sees a guy and tells him to put his hands up, and the guy doesn't do that immediately (and that means within one second) or he moves -  my buddy shoots. If the guy is out of voice range...he shoots. And since he prefers the Mosin with long range scope, it's pretty common that he shoots at others - because he sees them long before they have a chance to see him.

 

But the worst situation occured yesterday: We looted Novy Sobor on our way to NWAF. As I look into the church, I see a guy sitting in a corner, surrounded by 3 Zeds, punching at them without any effect. He had clearly nothing but the starting gear...how he made it there (without getting anything...) was a mystery.

But I felt pity for the poor guy, so I ran up to him, and killed the Zeds with my axe, he waved at me and started to bandaging himself - he was bleeding like hell.

In that moment my friend looks into the church - bam, and the poor guy is gone. As i looted him I saw that he really had nothing on him - tshirt, jeans, shoes, flashlight and 4 rags.

 

I asked my friend, why the heck he did that, and he answered: "First, he was dead anyway. He was bleeding out of like 10 wounds. And more important: Now he is just another one, that is no threat to me anymore." Pause. "To us."

 

I swear, I know this guy for more than 15 years in real life, but that side of him, even only in a videogame, gave me chills. I really expected him to shoot me as soon as I made something suspicious, and I'm not proud of that, but I was really thinking about killing his char, when he would not expect it...

 

Talking about that with him later that evening resulted in laughter and strange plans how to handle other players in the future, but still...the way DayZ brings out behaviour in people, you'd never think about, amazes me.

 

Let's finish it right here!

And here we go, chapter 2:

 

 

We arrived at NWAF today, with 2 other buddies. One, a silent guy, avoiding fights and usually running so far away, that we have trouble, finding him again.

The other one is more a KoS Guy - mainly because he has the classic "if I don't shoot they will shoot me." - mentality...and I can't say that it comes out of nowhere ;) but he has a problem with directions...e.g. We don't see each other, and he sees a guy running somewhere, he usually calls it like "There is another player!" "Where?" "Over there!"  "WHERE IS OVER THERE?" "He is to my left now." ....makes us laugh every time. And puts us in danger. But laughing is more precious ;)

To keep it clean I refer to the 3 as "psycho" (buddy from post 1) "silent" and "KoSBuddy"

 

But let's start...So we came to NWAF, the other 3 guys with their mosins, me with my precious M4 - I just like it more ;)

They scouted around and I started checking the Hangars. Suddenly KoSBuddy says "There is someon. On the fire station."

I hid and scouted, and made my way around, just in case. Suddenly again "He is going down the ladder!" BAM! "hit him!" BAM! "He fell. i think he's dead."

Poor fella. Well, maybe he was serverhopping...but who knows...

 

But well, dead is dead and after some "Why did you kill him?" we looted..nothing we could reall use...well except for some food and a can opener. I collect them. I had 6 now. Strange, I know, but I was thinking about going to the coast and giving them to freshspawns...

Back again, we talked, and reminding this thread, i thought...well, at least I should prank psycho. So i went near him while he was scouting and handcuffed him - and stole his can opener. 7 now - happy me ;)

 

Since I had no keys i told him to wiggle out the handcuffs but they were pristine so it took a while...so long that KosBuddy set him free as he had some keys. Suddenly he pulls out the magnum and lands a hard shot to my hip. In panic I pull out the M4 and unleash hell - struck by bullets he goes down, I'm bleeding too, vision goes to black and white. I turn around and see KosBuddy running towards me - I just thought, well he may be out for revenge, and since he killed that poor guy on the fire station...Bam.Bam. Bam. Dead.

 

Whoa did I feel guilty. I apologised - even if psycho did start the shooting - and Silent and me collected as many stuff as we could (I even throw away most of my precious can openers...so if you found today at NWAF a body with ~6 can openers around it....that was psycho ;)

 

Met KosBuddy in Gorka, to bring them most of his stuff...well there was a guy in an orange raincoat with a mosin in his hand in Gorka.

I ran towards him, called friendly...no reaction. I lurked around the house where he was hiding and tried it again "Buddy? Everything ok? I Won't kill you" Suddenlky he raises the mosin - and before he can shoot I have pumped 10 rounds or more in his body. And as we loot him, I see why he did not shoot: There was no ammo in the mosin...

But well KosBuddy hat a mosin again and since we rescued his pristine long range scope and his ammo etc. he was good equipped again..

So we went to Polana to meet up with psycho, gave him the rest of his stuff - and my magnum even if I had a very bad feeling about that, so I tried to move in a way that either Silent or KosBuddy would be inbetween him and me...but well, as I look to the side, suddenly Mosin-Fire. KoSBuddy shoots and hits, I run for cover, but Psycho flanks me, the magnum roars...and I'm dead. Shot by the mosin, for which I killed a poor guy that didn't even had bullets for it and the magnum that I carried around for 10+ ingame hours...

 

Running back there from Kamyshovo...so they take my stuff out because I'm not sure that I would make it in time....aaaand server restarts as I'm 500 metres away :(

 

But at least they saved my precious M4. So now we're even - at least thats what they say....and the funny thing comes now:

 

After psycho quits for today, we decide to run up again to NWAF, because the server restarted...and passing through Gorka we see two guys with mosins running and looting - careless - around. (Whats up with Gorka? High traffic area? ;))

KosBuddy has his mosin out "I can take one out. Should I?" He asks...well thats something different. Normally I would have heard two shots... "no, wait..." I reply.  So I sneak closer - they go in cover but look down the hill into the city, and we are already flanking them just by...well sitting in the bushes. "Should we take em out?" I hear KosBuddy again, but I decline and move closer. As I'm sitting ten metres away in a bush I say "Yo, buddy. Friendly. Don't worry....look to your side..."

 

Well glad that we didn't shoot them - because they were nice as hell and after some chatting we traded Magnum Ammu and food for some painkillers we wished them a safe journey and reminded them to be more careful...but I really was impressed that KosBuddy did not shoot.

 

After we found Silent who was, like usual, somewhere lost in the woods, we decided to head to NWAF again....

 

It is the situation that defines people's behavior. And people tend to act odd, when it comes to strange situations.

 

The funny thing about this is, at least as how I read it, that after each of you killed each other, except of the silent dude, you now have cooled down your temper and it appears that each of you guys reflected about the past events and learned something for the future :beans:

 

Very impressed about the style of the thread, the story and the reactions of the others. :thumbsup:
Guess this forum is some kind mature at some points.

 

And I will not stop saying that this game is one of the greatest labs for social studies I've ever seen!

Edited January 21, 2014 by elLoCo

[worst2first 71]

The group dynamic is interesting. I play with a group of guys and we are still working out how we're going to operate. I'm the tactical, sneak and peak, don't kill unless you have to guy. I'll help someone if I think I can do so safely but there are a couple of guys who I suspect may have a different opinion on how to play the game. 

 

I also have an (over)active imagination and really get into games. Sure, I know it's a game and all that will happen is that the player I just killed will respawn somewhere, but where's the fun in that? It's much more intense if you mentally put yourself into the situation and I'd like to think I'd preserve some semblance of humanity even if it meant I didn't survive.

[noblue 27]

players with starting gear or close are a threat

 

I wouldn't shoot them right away, but I wouldn't turn my back either

 

I've been wearing a pristine ballistic helmet and still been knocked out by one hit to head with a baseball bat

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

@ elLoco: That is SO awesome XD But I'm sorry to say that the learning effect was..well...read chapter 3 ;)

Ah and Silent did kill KosBuddy and me once (before chapter 1 ;)) but it was a fun thing...We died all together at Balota airfield from some bandits ina  very tense fight and met up in Kamyshovo again - KoS and I had a crowbar Silent a fireaxe - but he got hit by Zeds and broke his leg and we couldn't find morphine or sticks, so we decided we put him out of his misery, so he can spawn again and we would wait for him - but he started to swing his axe and shout "You won't kill me!" (all 3 of us laughed really hard the whole time - more fun and joke moment so I didn't tell about it earlier) ...but in the end managed to kill both of us with his fireaxe. But well...before we even respawned he was eaten by Zeds ;)

 

@ worst2first: Totally true. DayZ will create an awesome atmosphere - immersion at its finest ;) Yeah, you die, you respawn, nothing that bad. But if you let it happen...it creates moments of shock and fear like no other game I know, you get into it and maybe thats the reason why I love playing it so much.

 

Ah and all 3 of my buddies know of this thread and read it ;) I hope they have a good laugh at the memories presented here *waves at them* Love ya psycho, even if you make me paranoid and give me shivers when we play DayZ ;)

 

 

But we are not finished, right? Right. So right on, here comes chapter 3:

 

Yesterday, Psycho and KoSBuddy were online before Silent and me. So they decided to head east from NWAF to Krasnostav and NEAF.

To meet with them I went to Gorka (once again. That city is something special to me, it seems^^) and waited there for Silent. While he was on his way, Psycho and KosBuddy told me what happened in the meantime...they saw a lone survivor running somewhere on their way and since Psycho did not have a mosin by then (just my old magnum...), KoSBuddy shot him - just because they suspected, that he could have a Mosin.
Well bad luck - just a splitting Axe and some food. Poor guy...died for the possibility that he might carry a weapon that Psycho wanted. Or maybe just for crossing their paths... Psychos reaction to my question why they killed that guy: "He didn't see us coming."... (After questioning that he said, it is ok if anybody shoots him, if he doesn't see his killer coming ;))

Some time later (Silent still on his way^^) they wanted to go to Berezino, but got lost and ended up in Olsha and decided to look at the harbour to the north of it.
While I looted Gorka and waited, they found another victim: KoSBuddy shot at him, missed, the other guy tried to fight back but gave it up and ran for cover - and got shot. And here comes the reason (Because I asked - as usual - why the heck they shot that guy) "He shot back."
I just let that sink in. Anyway I replied "And you would have shot him also, if he wouldn't have shot back?" - "Well, we will never find out now..."

After some time Silent and I made it to Berezino and started looting it - suddenly server-restart...yay, in the middle of Berezino. We connect again and - surrounded by Zeds. As fast and silent as possible we take them out with our Axes, then the shooting starts not far from us.
We ask the other two, but they deny...so we're not alone here. From the positions of the shots, one of they guys is at the harbour, the other one somewhere in the West of us, both with a Mosin.

Very very careful, we make our way to the next houses and search for cover there and scout the area...nothing, even after some minutes, nothing to hear, nothing to see.
So I decide to cross the main street, and get safe there, Silent follows - and as he enters the house where I wait, only some centimetres next to his head a bullet hits the wall.
Again we ask Psycho and KoSBuddy, but they say they are not close enough and din't shoot - they didn't even hear the shooter.

So we know that one guy is scouting mainstreet, so we make our way out the backdoor, hiding, crouching and make it to the next house, again scouting the area - suddenly another mosin-shot and the Zed next to our house is dead.

We are suspicious now and go to another house - that kind with a piano on the ground floor - and wait there. Again we ask them if they are shooting, and surprise, surprise, they were trying to prank us.
Just a little bit annoyed I tell them "Funny guys. And takes a lot of skill to follow two people, who tell you all the time, where they are and where they are going. Come in and see if my M4 also thinks this is funny." Since the house has three doors they have a fair chance - especially because Silent uses his FNX inside buildings and not his mosin...and he is sitting on the stairs, looking to one of the doors.  (Funny bug occured: Silent tried to lay down on the stairs - and glitched through the closer rail, landed on the second one and surfed it down on his belly XD)

Not that smart, because if one of them looks carefully, he will see his feet before Silent has a chance to see anything of his enemy.

And exactly this happend after some tense minutes - KoSBuddy looks throught he door, shoots with his Mosin and hits Silent - right into the leg. Silent backs down upstairs to bandage himself, while I go downstairs...and get a glance at KoSBuddy as he looks into a door, but he's gone before I can react...but well....He always wields his Mosin, so I'm gonna show him, why a M4 is superior in close combat.
I go out another door, lurk around the corner - and there he is, waiting for me, he shoots, I move, I hear the bullet right beside my ear missing my head by..well some pixels - I pray & spray...and he goes down, I run back into - Psycho is somewhere with his mosin and that makes me paranoid as hell...
KoSBuddy laughs and swears and wants to reconnect...aaaand the server restarts.

I don't know if a funny admin was online or if we really were playing in Berezino for FOUR hours (I'd say it was mostly a half an hour but time flies when playing DayZ....), but we try to reconnect - but the server is gone for good.

So we connect to another server...and KoSBuddy is alive again for some reason, heavy bleeding but conscious - and I'm not missing a single bullet.
But he has no bandages, so I call him in and start to bandage him (yeah I know...other people wopuld have finished their work ;)), while Psycho logs out for the day (fun thing: I haven't seen him for the whole session, but knowing he was around with his freaking Mosin and his damn good aim made me paranoid as hell ;)) - and as I look up I see a damn FOUNTAIN of blood coming through the ceiling.
I ask Silent if he is bleeding - his answer  in a total calm voice: "No. There are two guys up here. One dead other one with an axe just standing there and bleeding."

As we go up I see he has pointed his FNX at the head of the axeguy...well he has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, so his dangermode is kicking in, it seems. I go close to the axeguy and ask "Buddy? You ok? You need bandages?"

...Nothing

"Hey buddy? Can you hear me?"

Nothing, just standing there, with the axe in his hand, a dead body at his feet, bleeding like hell.

Maybe he is dead and the char is just stuck. So I turn around - and he moves his head. That was the last movement he would ever make, because now the FNX of Silent roars, bullet after bullet hitting the axewielder, he goes down. "Fuck. I was scared. He didn't say anything and i thought he was dead...and then he moved his head." was the next thing Silent says, followed by "We should get out here..."

So after a quick search we make our way out, to the next group of bushes and trees outside the city. Suddenly KoSBuddy announces "There is someone. At the building site. Next to the crane. On the roof." (that was the clearest call, I've ever heard from him - way better than "Over there"^^)
KosBuddy and Silent scout him - but they don't shoot. Meanwhile I explain that killing randomn people is no solution and try to convince them to kill only bandits...so we start to discuss possible ways, how to find out if someone is a bandit...

Suddenly Silent, now in his natural environment (in cover behind a bush ;)) announces "He is sprinting towards us, across the field." KoSBuddy already aims at him, while I say that I kill bandits...and KoS player. And well, he is one of them if he takes that guy down.
Unimpressed he shoots, hits, but the guy is still alive, and runs now straight towards us...for what reason ever. but at least he is smart enough not to run in a straight line, KoSBuddy shoots..and shoots...and shoots...but he misses them all, the guy is now only 50 metres away, nio chance that he could hit him with his mosin, since he is in full sprint.
If he sees 3 guys lying there ...it  wouldn't make a difference who of them shot at him I guess. I aim, one shot of the M4 - and he goes down. KoSBuddy runs towards him to check him out...and he is dead.

Being with Bandits makes you one it seems. Instead of delivering on my threat and shoot KoSBuddy, I killed an innocent guy, that had his weapon on his back...
Cling together, swing together it seems....

Edited January 22, 2014 by LaughingJack

[elLoCo 154]

Someone just linked in this article in another thread:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3025201/most-creative-people/dayz-a-murder-simulator-psychology-study-and-zombie-game-tests-your-emo

 

U should take a look!

 

 

@ worst2first: Totally true. DayZ will create an awesome atmosphere - immersion at its finest ;) Yeah, you die, you respawn, nothing that bad. But if you let it happen...it creates moments of shock and fear like no other game I know, you get into it and maybe thats the reason why I love playing it so much.

 

-> do you play first person?

Being with Bandits makes you one it seems. Instead of delivering on my threat and shoot KoSBuddy, I killed an innocent guy, that had his weapon on his back...
Cling together, swing together it seems....

 

 

You my friend, joined the dark side

 

Edited January 22, 2014 by elLoCo

[worst2first 71]

I play both elLoCo. I'd guess that I spend about 70% of the time in first person. I know there seems to be a big divide in the community over 1st vs 3rd but I don't have a dog in that fight. If Rocket removes 3rd, it will be fine with me but if servers allow it I don't mind using it (mainly when running cross country to navigate - I suck at 3rd person combat). 

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

 

 

And I play 90% of the time 1st person no matter which server I'm on - mainly because I like it more...immersion and such ;)

 

 

 

 

Psycho ordered me to say that (and I quote) "You wrote it wrong! I'm not that nice!" ;)
    
BUT you all waited for it (I hope so) so here it is: Chapter 4 from LaughingJack (Psychos Nickname suggestion for me was "Sweaty" because I'm so afraid :P while Silent was nicer, he suggested "Bewildered Avenger") while he travels Chernarus with Silent, KoSBuddy and, for sure, Psycho.

Patchday! Yay! We discussed the news and fixes while we waited for the servers to come back...and yeah, late in the evening, there they are. Psycho already had logged off, so it was just Silent, KoSBuddy and me - and sure as hell a pitch black server.  We spawned in Dolina - with chars and equipment from 4 or 5 days ago - No rifles or pistols, only small backpacks...
But Dolina was empty...we thaught. But playing at night was something totally new for KoSBuddy (he had avoided it by then) and Silent and I also werent that used to it. But we didn't want to change the Gamma settings - and use our flashlights instead.
Carefully we started looting, but it was...well...mediocre. Food and clothes but nothing else. After some time, suddenly KoSBuddy screams "Woah! There was a light!" I was standing in a building, not far from him and Silent...well...I don't know, but I guess he was already somewhere in the woods before KoSBuddy finished his sentence ;)
It wer very tense moments - lasting nearly half an hour - we had by then...the small city, darkness, just listening to the sound and watching around without seeing much. We stayed together and moved incredibly slow and we saw the light again 2 times - but we never met the person carrying it and I'm pretty sure he had no clue that there were three persons crawling around in the same city, looking out for him.
Whoever you were stranger with the light, you used only three times for some seconds, thank you - it was an amazing experience seeing KoSBuddy more careful (and absolutely NON-KoS) than Silent because "Night is awesome. I got chills."
We left Dolina (after we were sure that the stranger did not notice us), heading to Polana. KoSBuddy found a shotgun there (and lucky buddy, I was carrying shells for it) We had some fun there, looting around and shooting Zeds with the "shotty", but after we logged off, KoSBuddy tried to log back in to another (Daytime) server - and had a "You are dead" screen, without any reason. No, not a hardcore server, nor a server not connected to the hive (as I joined there and still had my char). His char was just dead and gone - with the shotgun.
    
Next day, different story:
KoSBuddy was somewhere on the coast (and again: nighttime), Silent with router-problems...so Psycho (who was lucky again, because his character was also set back to ~ 5 days ago, but he was fully equipped back then with his beloved mosin and all his stuff) and I met up at NWAF - my weapon was a Magnum (I seem always to find one as fkirst weapon^^). We decided to go east because, well, we werent there before.

So we made our way to Lopatino in total darkness (I had a headtorch already but I only turned in on when it was too dark) and started looting it - pretty big city so far from everywhere, it seemed to us.
There is also an industrial complex, while I was lootign in the factory itself (Headtorch on) I suddenly hear shots from the Outside - M4 shots.
"That wasn't you, right?" I ask, half believing he found an M4, pranking me again...but no, he storms in, throws himself on the ground and starts bandaging himself "Yeah, like, I shot myself in the feet with my invisible M4 to trick you." - he was a little bit nervous ;)

So we waited. And looked around. And waited....and...nothing happened. Finally I can't stand the tense no more and decide to try my best and leave the building, crouching, my Magnum in my hand, lurking through the night, ears wide open. I make it to the next building, Psycho follows up, but decides to stay there, while I start to crouch around...but I notice nothing suspicious.
Suddenly, fromt he other side of the area I hear shots and Psycho goes "DAMN! He shot me! Fast, he may be still there!" My buddy - gone. And his precious Mosin (that he spraypainted against my suggestion and was now a one-shot-rifle ;)) that killed so many innocent people in the hands of a KoS-Bandit.
Karma? No. There is no thing like Karma in DayZ - just people.

 

As I walk around the corner of the building I run into a Zed - however it came there and was not startled by the shots I don't know...I switch to my axe, take him out, get the Magnum in my hand, lurk around the next corner where Psycho died...but his killer is gone. Bam. A Mosin shot. Goddamn idiot using a spraypainted Mosin and missing his (only) shot, I turn around where the shot came from - there he is, the Magnum roars, he starts running, but I hit with at least one bullet, I follow up, but suddenly the M4 starts shooting, I get hit real bad, my vision is blurry like hell, now I run for cover...
    
I try to bandage up, hiding behind a small obstacle and make it, without getting killed. I try to reload but...well: Magnum. It still has bullets in it - I can't empty it, i cant fill it up. Again I look around, but I can't see him...wait, there he is! Trying to flank me, 40 or more meters away, only visible in the night because he crosses the street.

I shoot, but I miss it seems, he hides in the shadows, I move to avoid getting flanked, but he must have moved further than I thought, because suddenly I hear bullets hitting the ground besides me, I roll over, blindly firing back, one shot, I thought it hit him (maybe it has, I don't know), he comes closer, spraying bullets, that miss me by centimeters only, I try to aim for him again, shoot...Click. No bullets left.
NOT NOW! And again the M4 roars and my screen turns black. "You are dead" the last thing I hear is him coming closer, I hear him coughing and groaning, and then shooting again. One bullet only. And I know, that one went straight through my head.
    
And Psycho, laughing "Ah well, as you always say: People are SO damn FRIENDLY. All they want is HELP you. All YOU have to do is TALK to them. No Killing on sight, right? Let them live and try to help them and talk to them."
A shootout in the middle of the night in a old factory complex, you see close to nothing, but still it is intense, more than any video game in my experience.
Damn, my Hands are shaking. I can hear my heart beat, loud and fast. I take a deep breath and look at the black screen with the white letters.    
I smile. I love this game.

Edited January 24, 2014 by LaughingJack

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

What did I see from my friends behaviours? As long as KoSBuddy is not with Psycho his KoS-Mentality is not that strong - but as soon as Psycho and he are together, there are no limits anymore ;)

 

Silent...well, he hides, gets lost in the woods (orm the houses) is extremly carefully, and even if he has also shot people by now, he is for sure one of the harmless guys as long as you don't startle him ;)

 

And Psycho is just Psycho. He is a Sniper, a killer and has the maybe most realistic and best survival strategy: Kill everything you don't know, because if you don't, it might kill you instead. Kill or be killed. Law of the jungle, baby.

And I just CAN'T imagine that the shootout (with KoS-Attempt on him) will help in any way ;)

 

 

But the story is not over, so here is chapter 4.2:

 

If I make mistakes here, my buddies may forgive me, but all this happened some days ago - on the same night as chapter 4, so I might have forgotten something...

 

 

I respawn (after serverhopping because I wanted to go an a daylight server now - but either I got kicked (insert rant here *)

or the server wasn't connected to the hive...

Finally I found one but...well. As I had seen (before I was kicked multiple times from different servers), I had spawned in Elektro. KosBuddy is somewhere around NWAF and Silent is somewhere north of balota...no help from there.

 

 

The first thing I hear after I join: Mosin shots.

That's a pretty nice start...so I start running, away from them, into a house...and glorious glory: there is a Rasputin Kvass waiting for me.

Quaff it, run from one house to another, after some minutes I got a pretty nice gear (for a server with so many people and only being in Elektro: Small backpack, splitting Axe, shotgun (without any ammo), some cans of food and even a can opener.

 

As I leave another house, I literally run into another player - a freshspawn it seems that wanted to enter it at the same time. He is only wearing jeans and a green shirt and hasn't even raised his fists.

I wave at him and ask if he needs something - giving away some of the food wouldn't hurt me, I guess.

But well, axe and shotgun on my shoulders seem to freak him out, because the only thing he did was starting to sprint - directly into the center of Elektro. I yell "Wait, there are people there, shooting around!" But either he doesn't hear me or he doesn't care.

 

Well, some time later as I start leaving Elektro I hear Mosin shots again, somewhere close to the center...ah well randomn green shirt guy, I hope you made it. Even if you didn't communicate and were frightened to death by me...at least you didn't try to punch my face off.

 

I'm alread in the north east of Elektro, just 2 houses left and the power plant on my way out of this madness that was called civilization once upon a time.

I crouch into the house, head upstairs, look into the first room...and there is a guy, dallas mask on his face FNX in his hands, a dead corpse at his feet, loot shattered around them. Well I don't know hat happened here and who was the attacker, so I take a step back and say "Friendly. Stay calm, I will not attack you."

 

His answer? Right. Raising the FNX and shooting...

But well, poor idiot, no Ammo left. click.click.click.

I rush back, around the corner so he can't see me - maybe I could have killed him with my axe, but I really didn't need to get wounded and also there were some wild shooters already in the city that might get attracted it he starts shooting...so I run down the stairs...and it seems he has managed to reload the pistol, because now I hear him shooting, but the bullets miss me as I rush ouit the house.

I run out, heading to the power plant - time to get my ass out of Elektro for real, but maybe there is a fire axe or shotgun shells waiting for me - as I hear more shots from behind me, at least two different people are shooting, maybe more. Either they are hunting me or Mr. Dallasmask is in trouble - but I honestly don't care.

 

I run into the powerplant, for cover and loot, as I hear steps behind me, only way is upstairs to the top of the firetower, so i run up, steps behind me again, I reach the top floor, get on the ground an raise the axe - I may be friendly but I just got fed up enough with these people, so if the guy that follows me climbs up the stairs he'll feel the axe in his head.

 

I hear him roaming around downsatairs, he must know that I'm up here...but it seems he doesn't care or is wise enough not to climb up.  After some minutes the steps are gone. I wait some time more, than I look down...nothing, he is gone.

Free! I head outside, and run north, away from these people....

 

After some minutes of hiding in the bushes and eating everything I have, I decide to go to Pusta - nice little village just across the hill, as I remember. Well, it is nice and small, but someone comes running up the street - another player.

I wave at him - a newspan it seems, no weapons as far as I can tell, only shirt and jeans. He runs up to me and I say "Hey buddy. Everything ok? Ya need help?"

 

His answer? Right. Running up to me and hitting me in the face - lucky me, I don't get unconscious. I step back and pull out the axe "Woah. Are you crazy? Stop that! I don't wanna kill you!" He raises his fists and steps closer, i step back, he misses his punch "Just go away. I don't wanna kill you!" I yell again, but he keeps punching - so i hit back. I'm not proud of that, a desperate guy it seems, attacking someone with an axe and a shotgun with his bare fists. Maybe he was just hungry or thirsty or frightened...or he just snapped from all that violence he had to witness, but I hit him hard, three, four, five times, he goes down.

 

I stare at his body "Damn idiot." I say, hitting the body once more with my axe, just to make sure "Why. did. ya. do. that." every word companied by another axehit.

I didn't attack a guy that tried to shoot my, but was to dumb to check his ammo first. I did not attack that bambi that was scared the hell out from me. And i din't go an a search mission for the mosin-shooter in Elektro, or faced the guy that was following me into the powerstation. But I killed an unarmed man, that just went crazy. I coul have run instead and leave him  there...nobody wants a chase I guess, not even the snapped ones. But that was just enough shit for me it seems...

 

I step back and sit down in the grass. The sun is going down it seems. Pusta loooks nice, a little village in the woods, its...peaceful. If you ignore that bleeding corpse in the middle of the street. But, you know, you've got to lower your standards in this world. It is peaceful.

 

 

 

 

randomn-kick-rant: I mean, that is already really annoying. A 40 slot server and there are 3 people online, but they kick everyone that joins, just because they want to loot alone? Thats just...well, cowardly and worse than server hoppers. I wouldn't mind if a server admin kicks ppl for bad behaviour, racis names or something like that or even to make room for his buddies...but really? To loot alone so that you have the best gear without any danger? Thats like paying for the gear...but well, there are enough people that play Pay2Win games and pay the hell out of it, so why should I wonder about that...

[doctorwhy 157]

I've already started to degrade into the Chaotic Neutral state of complete randomness.

 

For the most part though I will yell friendly to somebody and tell them politely to just keep walking.
I'm not helping anyone only to be betrayed for my beans.  I'm not traveling with anyone other than my close friend.  

 

last time the guy just spoke.
"Hey do you need anything"

 

I said
"Nope. You're good just keep walking that way bud. Go Away"

 

[Vicco 123]

To the OP, you're in KOS group.  Simple as that.  Lowest common denominator.

[1S1K-Airborne 148]

To the OP, you're in KOS group.  Simple as that.  Lowest common denominator.

 

Yep, pretty much the only way to play DayZ.........KOS.

 

No interaction, no depth, just shoot / stab / bludgeon everything living.

 

Yawn, wonder why I don't play the Standalone right now.......

[dirby12 33]

very nice story :D

[dedoolb 157]

The group dynamic is interesting. ... I'm the tactical, sneak and peak, don't kill unless you have to guy. I'll help someone if I think I can do so safely...

 

I also have an (over)active imagination and really get into games. Sure, I know it's a game and all that will happen is that the player I just killed will respawn somewhere, but where's the fun in that? It's much more intense if you mentally put yourself into the situation and I'd like to think I'd preserve some semblance of humanity even if it meant I didn't survive.

Haha, exactly the same here. As an aside, your sig made a White Zombie tune run through my head. \m/

[RawDeal 0]

Your buddy seems to have your's and his survival in mind. Potential threats get a fair chance and all the rest meet with necessary force to eliminate that possible threat. He might creep you out, but stick with him, his actions will insure the lengthy survival for both of you. 

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

Wow, thank you again for the posts and beans ;) I love sharing this story with you and try to figure out how the Inagme-beaviour of us changed and changes while playing DayZ...

 

 

@DoctorWhy: Chaotic Neutral...DnD Veteran (or at least Baldurs Gate?) But yeah, I totally understand your way...and you don't KoS and you don't totally avoid people...ragarding DayZ thats very friendly ;)

 

@Vicco: Ah well, KoSBuddy does KoS. And Psycho does most of the time not only KoS but more like killing on purpose...and Silent? Nah, he is far to careful for KoS^^

 

@1S1K-Airborne: In my opinion KoS is a valid play to play DayZ (because there are no wrogn ways...) - but by far not the only one. For me...I play DayZ for the same reasons I played the Mod: Freedom (aka social-psychological experiment) and Zombies. Well in the SA the Zeds are too less, too dumb, deaf and blind, but I'll wait for the changes (and I somehow think, since the last patch the number of Zeds has already grown a little bit...)

 

@dirby: Thank you :) Well...I hope you like the next part. It gets nasty XD

 

@RawDeal: Psycho? Well it isn't really a fair chance to put some poor fella that has no clue that you are there a Mosinbullet through their head at 500+ Metres...but yes, he is a garant for survival -  while I, with my naive-friendly behaviour am a danger to the group...strange world.

 

 

But I couldn't finish chapter 4 again last time...so here we go again: Chapter 4.3:

 

KoSBuddy wanted to join but as soon as he entered he was kicked - not by an Admin but by Battleye: It seems he got an global ban. For...well, I don't know. Changing the gamma settings?

I'd swear, he is not a cheater or scripter, but Battleye wouldn't believe me I guess. He tried every trick to be found on the internet to work around it, finally wrote an email to the support, only to get the answer that he is banned, they can't tell him why and that he he will not be unbanned and has to make a new steam account and buy the game again if he wants to play. Well, that was just rude. I know, every cheater would say that he didn't do anything, but by the surprise that I heard (and from my experience with him),  I'd bet anything, that he wasn't cheating or scripting - so I have to think that Battleye failed

Not really fair and I understand his anger totally.

 

 

Psycho was out for the night, so it was only Silent and me...while he is the one that makes me least paranoid or uncomfortable, he is also the one that is (like me) not a garant for surviving, because of...well, lets call it just conscience.

 

 

I sat there, peaceful and quiet, in the grass in Pusta, watching the sun go down, while I waited for Silent to show up - finally he arrived and one more time we were heading North-West.

Mogilevka was nice but already looted, we found only some food and clothes...nothing we could really need. When we reached Novy things changed a little: some houses were looted, some not - which made us just more suspicious.

And there he was - a guy in a yellow raincoat, axe over his shoulder, not caring about anything. I was in a house, Silent sitting in the ruins , watching the surroundings, so he spotted him first. Since he did not seem to be dangerous, I walked out and greeted him and told him not to worry and if he needed something. He waved at me, but did not say or type anything.

 

How hard is it to use a damn headset? Or if you don't have one, the chat? If people don't answer me in any form, I get nervous, because who knows what they are plotting...and Silent thinks the same way as it seems, because he has already put up is Mosin, aiming at the head of the guy.

I ask him again, if he needs something, he turns around - and sees Silent (whom I didn't mention for sure - maybe the guy has buddies around...) aiming at him - and he combat logs.

 

That's something I will never understand: Why do you log out when you are in danger? If you die, you die, ok its bad and starting all over again is sometimes annoying, but combatlogging kills the immersion and the tension which is worse in my opinion.

 

We turn to Stary (already looted) and after that to Kabanino... As i come out of a house, and head through the backyard I see two guys on the street, both in full military clothes, one with an M4, the other one with a Mosin.

And they already have seen me. So I lower my axe and wave at them...and they wave back, putting their weapons on their back. I go closer and start talking to them and this time I quickly inform them about Silent being around - not that they get scared and start shooting around. While Silent, who got just a little bit lost this time, searches for us, we start talking about what next.

Damn, this time I'm glad that I'm only with Silent, because a shootout with this two could have been real bad...especially because they were really nice guys, both from Sweden and both just friendly.

We decided to team up with them and go to NWAF together. Being again in a group of 4 was great, also that these guys were after some minutes really trusting:
After they alwaysw walked at first in a way that one of them was always behind us, they gave that up later and lead us, first dipsy doodling, but soon just running straight.

 

Well, guys, I hate to say that, but with Psycho around, you would have been dead twice now. First in the city with some Mosin shots and if not by then, he would have killed you now. Good thing, only Silent was with me - so we just walked together as a group and talked ;)

 

We loot NWAF as the server restarted - and we lost our new buddies from sweden :(

Well...another server, no more luck it seems, everything is gone. Silent and me walk around for a bit, searchign strange places (and found our new favourite place to be: Weapon spawns, food, and no people anywhere near ;)

(we logged off, but I'll just continue with the next session in the same chapter, since it somehow goes together)

 

 

Next day, next chance. We are already quite good equipped now: I have a M4 and an Axe and carry my precious shotgun in the hands, Silent has his Mosin on his back and a M4 in his hands. (By the way: I found this quite uncomfortable...picking up the Shotgun after every singlem thing you do...next time I'll just stick with one weapon) and we head to NWAF one more time, just to check it out and head east afterwards for the "Big round" (from Svetlojarsk down at the cost to Balota).

In the first military building we don't find anyone, but some good loot and go on, as we enter the second building, i stay at the entrance, silent goes up -and makes a step back "There is someone. In that room. Saw him, think he didn't see me."

 

People at NWAF are more likely to shoot it seems, but well, I still don't wanna end a mans journey without a reason, so I stay outside the room and call him "Hey buddy. We saw you already in there. Don't worry, we're friendly. Just don't cause any trouble, ok?"

I hear him mumbling something and go closer to the door "Did ya get me?" I ask again, this time I understand him "Ok. I'm friendly too. Where are you?"

I'm a little bit suspicious now "Close enough, we could see you" I answer and try to not sound threatening - people that are afraid, often do stupid things (DayZ 101, lesson 5).

He answers "Ok. Ok." so I wait for some seconds, but I can't hear anything. Is he waiting for us with his gun aiming at the door? Did he combatlog?

 

Again I call him "Come out, we don't wanna kill ya. We just want to be sure, that you are no threat to us." Silence . "Buddy? You still there?" Silence.

"Ok. I'm coming in. But I'm not alone, and I'm sure you will get killed if you shoot at me.

Q-ing I glance into the room...nothing. Other side behind the door? Also nothing.

 

"We should get out here. I got a bad feeling about this." I tell Silent, he agrees, so we head outside - crouching, but fast...nothing. Around the corner of the fence, there are 2 guys waiting for us, the guns already in position, I hear Silents voice "That's him!", I try to spin around, M4 bullets everywhere, I fire back with the Shotgun, but its too late...I'm dead.

 

Again I hear shots, than Silents voice "Crap." More shots "I think I got one." Again shots, followed by silence. "Still alive?" I ask, but I'm sure I know the answer, and yes in the usual calm voice "No. I think I killed one. Well, except he could survive 40 rounds into his body....but the other one got me."

 

As you could read in the older posts here, I normally don't mind getting killed - its part of the game. But this death annoyed me - getting ghosted is really...well its just an act of cowardice, recreancy whatever you want to call it.

When I remeber my other deaths caused by players...I wasn't a bit angry back then. Sure, I had to start over, but I lost fair fights (well if e.g. 6 vs 2 is fair, but you know what I mean), some of them are really good memories - like the last one, the fight at night against the M4 KoS-player in the factory, and even in the moment after my death I was glad that I could experience that situation....but this?

Bah. I was angry, annoyed...yeah I was just pissed. Instead of just calling his buddy to attack us from behind, or trying to ride it out in his room and shoot at us as we look into it, or even lie to us (we would have let him go as usual if I he walked out), walk out and attack us when we follow him outside...I mean there are thousand possibility and he took the cheapest and most unfair (since its not "in" the game) way out.

 

But well, it's an Alpha and I'm sure that it will be dealt with.

So after some moments Silent and I start again - this time on a hardcore server (since I play 1st person 90 % of the time, no big deal for me ;))....but this post is getting far too long, so I'll continue next time with it...

[slims 1]

I call these players Carl's

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

So...still only Silent and me online, since KoSBuddy is for some reason still global banned and Psycho is not online....and Silent and I decided to start on a hardcore server - since our chars are dead anyway.

 

I spawn north of Solnichny and find...a fire extinguisher and meet up with Silent again, before we make our way inland. I'll make it short: After wandering diagonal across the entire map (to NWAF), I had an FNX (but no clips) and my fire extinguisher (and I was already real good at killing Zeds with it: Hit to the head - 3 smashes on the ground, one more on the head when he stands up again), Silent had a Shotgun with some shells I found, so we enter NWAF from southeast, heading for the barracks there. I go first, crouch into through the hole in the wall look through the window into the barricades...and there is a guy with an M4. I lower the fire extinguisher (what a weapon^^) and step back and want to call friendly - as he opens fire.

I run outside, behind the wall, heavily bleeding and hide behind a tree, Silent is lying somewhere (lost in the wood as usual^^) but he sees me, I hear shots and - You are dead.

I shout to Silent "Run!" but since outside is nothing to hide, he decides to stay and fight, he shoots, hits, hits again, but the guy doesn't die (Shotgun with snaploader...yeah we didn't knew about that) - but Silent does after the guy hits him with the M4....respawn time.

 

 

 

 

As usual I spawn at the 3 valleys, between Solnichny and Kamy (really, 9 of 10 times I spawn there) and Silent spawned...well. He didn't know. Big city, dangerous and all together not where he wanted to be.

So he started running and guessed it was Solnichny where he was, so I started to make my way up north, but first I wanted to loot some of the houses where I spawned and drink - you'll never know what comes.

And for sure first thing that happens: A military Zed sees me. So I start running and I lose him, in a circle I come back and enter the first house...suddenly I hear a moaning, I look around...and there are some feet at the top of the stairs.

"Hey buddy...ahm...I can see your feet." I call up, the reponse? A step back. "Don't worry I'm a freshspawn and couldn't kill ya even if I would, but-"

In that moment the Zed (that I appearantly did not lose) glitches through the wall and hits my face, I retreat and yell to the unknown guy upstairs "Woah. Stay up. Zed inside, i'll bait him away."

 

And the most heroic thing I've encountered happened: A guy with nothing but starting clothes, a beanie and a baseball but charges out, but instead of attacking me, he starts swinging wild at the Zed (who hits back) and says "I got this. stay back, so I don't hit you!" But he gets wounded again, after some hits he gets the Z down, I bandaged myself in between and start to bandage him now - least I could do.

And he still doesn't kill me, he thanks me, and starts to make his way south. Strange - that guy tried to save me and put his own life for me on the line...I hope he did not get KoSd or ghosted and stays as he was.

 

As I reach Solnichny, I hear Silent say "Ah damn, I'm in Elektro...I guess." I sigh, but I loot fast the factory north of Solnichny (love that building) and found a fire axe this time, as I exit the factory and head south I see a new spawn. As he sees my, fire axe ready, he seps back and raises his fists "Yo buddy, don't worry. I'm firendly, I won't kill ya." He lowers his fists and comes closer, "hat?" I hear over voicechat so I repeat what I just said, he says "Do you have something to eat? Please?"

 

I open my inventory to give him something, he comes closer and punches at me - suckerpunch misses me, inventory closed, three, four fast hits and he is dead "Goddamn idiot.  knew where a splitting axe was and would have told ya." I say to his dead body - he literally had nothing, not even a flashlight.

 

People are strange. In one minute you meet a guy that puts his life on the line for a stranger and in the next a guy that tries to trick you and kill you with hisbare fists...

People ARE strange.

[Rudette 435]

These stories have been good reads. Always interesting to see what other people counter. I have moods. So I give a decide how I'm going to portray each survivor I respawn as--- to experiment with what tactics get me further, or just to play a social experiment for my own sick entertainment. Sometimes I'm friendly. Sometimes I'm hostile. Sometimes I'm just crazy.

Though... Lately all experiments are off If I find a payday mask or burlap sack to throw over my head. My goal after that is usually to find an axe and stalk people. Wait for them to get into a vulnerable animation, get complacent, or just present there back to me for long enough. The latest victim was going into an apartment building, oh he had a nice shiny backpack with my name on it. I followed him in and waited in the hallway on the second floor---putting myself between him and his exit.

When he came down there was this awkward moment of silence as he just stood there locked in place---staring down the foreboding scene of  terrifying maniac in a mask holding an axe who had seemingly manifested out of thin air. Then I laughed over proxy. "HEEHEHEAHAHAAHAAAHahaaaAHAH!" and ran right at him. He panicked--you could almost see his character stuttering as he jerked around hitting buttons in terror--by the time he went for his own axe he was already dead. And his backpack was mine <.<

To show you the polarity in the way I play there was another instance where I was traveling and met with a friendly stranger. We hiked to town, hearing gunshots in the distance before we reached our destination.  He was more geared than me so I told him that I'd clear houses first, so that if any suprises were waiting inside at least he wouldn't lose his stuff. We walked into a building and I get winged by an M4 on entry. I duck around the corner just in time to yell "Run. Don't come in here. He's got a gun. Just get out of here. GO." In atypical cinema drama fashion, I run at the armed bandit, strafing another round, and start pummeling him with my fists. I managed to get him to move around, dislodging him from his corner. He repositioned and shot me in the face. Hope the other guy made it!

I think adapting different playstyles can be healthy for your over all psyche. I think if I didn't get axe murder people every now and then my frustrations with my friendly playthroughs would have risen beyond any chance for redemption.
 

Edited February 2, 2014 by Rudette

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

@Rudette: That are awesome examples of not only roleplay but polarity and a good read as well *throws beans at you* :)

 

Oh my, oh my, I should quit raging at people in General discussion and continue here to tell what happened recently...

 

Psycho hasn't played for quite some while - maybe getting shot was not such an experience to him as the duell at night in the factory was to me ;) KoSBuddy is still globalbanned by BattleEye (and still angry about that, which I understand), so it's usually just Silent and me at the moment.

And while me being with Silent is a profit for everyone we meet - because you get to live longer ;) - it's sometimes not so safe and healthy for me....why? Because DayZ is DayZ. And being nice is sometimes the wrong thing...

 

But I was still seperated by miles and miles from Silent, and on the way to meet up with him I looted some houses and abrns and - ran into a guy. Literally. I sneaked into a barn, he sneaked out at the same moment, both holding an axe in our hands...and both jumped back at the same moment, a secon d of silence, then at the same time "Friendly!", followed by laughter on both sides because of the unexpected mirroing.

 

The guy was a nice gentleman from britain (despite his dallas mask) that was searching for ammunition for his shotgun. After we looted some houses together and talked a little, I thought, what the hell, he has a shotgun but no shells, I have shells but no shotgun. Better he can load it and can shoot back when we get attacked, than we both die because we're just wielding axes.

So I droppped him some shells - and he didn't shoot me, he thanked me and we continued our walk and find anice house to loot. I went upstairs...and found a corpse. "Watch out buddy, here's a corpse. Maybe the killer is still around!" I yell downstairs and hear a "ok."

 

I start to scavenge the rooms...and suddenly shots from downstairs, first the Shotgun then a Magnum, and...silence. Was my new buddy dead? Shot by some maniac? And would I be next? Holding the axe firmly I waited next to the stairs...if someone not wearing a dallas mask would come up, i'd kill him...seconds passed, nothing to hear.

I move downwards, slowly, peak around the corner...and look right into a Magnum, not more than ane step away from my face.

Before I can take any actions - or he can shoot - I hear my british budy scream "NO! He is friendly!" turns out the guy in the wolf mask was also a nice guy, coming from Ireland. As I warn him about the body he answers "Yeah, that was me. He tried to attack me. Idiot."

 

Soon after that, my british buddy had to log out, so I went with the Irishman further along...but after some minutes we split up a little, to scavenge faster, everyone taking one side of the road. I'm into a small hut, where I know theres not much to loot normally, but why not risk a peek.

I glance out of the window, to the "funneh fellah" as he pronounced it, as he carelessly runs out of the house, into another, suddenly he falls to the ground...I did not even hear a shot. That means normally: A sniper with a Mosin. My irish buddy...gone. I still wait there in the house, maybe the Sniper wants to loot the body?

But nobody comes, even after some minutes the streets are empty and I decide to head out the backside of the house and search cover. One glance back at the street while I'm already sprinting away from the houses, into the woods, at the corpse of....I don't know his name, but you were "a hella of a fellah"...

 

I make it to the trees, not shots are fired, I go down, look around...nothing to see, nothing to hear. That's good...

[fing24 36]

I'm obviously to nice for this game I'm mostly friendly and pay the price for it.  I have only KOSed the once when I was in the ATC tower at the NW airfield. Coming down the stairs I come a cross another player.  Having been KOSed lots by this point the first thing I do is open up on this poor player. He tries to run, but I follow him and kill him. He did get 26 rounds in his direction lol. I did feel a little guilty after as he might have been friendly.  Other people kosing you makes you do it back at some point.  In all the time I have played I have only met 2 people that have not killed me on sight.  All the rest have shot first and haven't even asked questions afterwards :( .

I did have a funny moment at Krasnostav.  Been shot in the back at the ATC tower wake up with the shooter looking at me.  I don't move to see if he starts to loot me, but after a bit of time of him looking at me and no looting I log out.  I come back in and have the fuzzy screen telling me I'm not to healthy.  I do some looting get some food and start to heal.   At this point I'm in Krasnostav, still groggy I see something running towards me.  I think Zed and shoot and miss to here friendly don't shoot so I stop as I don't want to kill any one and I apologise for the shoting and he seems ok about this and say he thought I was his friend.  Every thing is fine at this point.  I turn round to face him as he has gone behind me and there he is with his mate.  We have those few seconds of looking at each other his mate then gets his gun out and shoots me.  I go unconscious then wake up with some of my gear gone.  As an experiment I move and get shot again for moving. Go unconscious again for a few secs wake up with even less items on me now.  I think they might let me live as I'm no threat to them so to see if they have any humanity in them I move again so they can see that I'm still alive, my arms are in the position for holding a rifle, but It is gone so it looks to me like I'm pleading to them to let me live.  Do I hear them walking off to leave me to my fate, no just that last final shot and the shooter saying "don't mess with us". Ahh would he have found it so funny the other way round would I have let him live?

 

It does make me laugh on the boards when I see people saying this is what they would do if there was a real zombie apocalypse, that they would kos another person for their food and gear.  I think that would be the last thing they would do as you would want some one to watch their back as the zed threat would be far greater  than any threat that person might be.  and if you have been scavenging and avoiding zeds on your own for some time you would welcome the company. I'm not saying you wouldn't be wary but cooperation with another human is going to make both your lives easier and your chances of survival have dramatically increased.  Ahh well let them live in their dream world.