What is your survival style?

[Punkrawks 136]

Just like the title says, how do you survive in Dayz?

Bandit?
Murderer?

Scavenger?
Hero?

Squad Militant?
Lone Wolf?
Clown?

[Greaves 131]

Been friendly (hate the term ''hero'', especially calling yourself one) since the start, but i'm planning on roleplaying a crazy bandit soon. Gonna ask people riddles, and depending on their answers, i rob them of either a little or a lot of gear.

Edited January 21, 2014 by Greaves

[sYs 133]

My survival style is to have sex with almost everything that moves. 

[Punkrawks 136]

Been friendly (hate the term ''hero'', especially calling yourself one) since the start, but i'm planning on roleplaying a crazy bandit soon. Gonna ask people riddles, and depending on their answers, i rob more or less.

See, this is the creativity that Dayz players are lacking. More of this.

[DarkwaveDomina 1099]

Militant, I guess. I prefer playing with my friends and our main focus is looting, if we run in to other players our response really depends on the circumstances.

 

If I'm playing alone, which is a very small proportion of my time, then I'm very much a scavenger. I focus on gearing up for when I'm with my friends and I avoid firefights.

[Konna 149]

Probably the clown. I just kit myself up and hit the coast to do some serious wiggling. 

[razguul@gmail.com 80]

I survive by shooting them before they shoot me, though It doesn't always work out that way.

[Banana_Duck 121]

Semi naked freak, that runs around offering to be a meat shield decoy!

[tonk 1]

murderer, either shoot on sight or if its a new spawn ill handcuff and torture them.

 If I don't have a gun I generally run around acting a clown.

 I hardly ever snipe I like to get up close and personal and make sure to trade insults and threating abuse over direct first! makes the kill that little bit sweeter, makes the meat full of adrenaline when they know its coming

 

 yummm yummmmm

[byrgesen 1341]

My play style isnt there lol.

I play "Sneaky Bush Lurker".

Can sit in a bush for hours just watching people and eating and drinking, i move SUPER slow all the time, sneak everywhere, heck it took me almost an hour to go through Vybor yesterday lol.
I never engange people i meet, i might talk to them, but only if im in a "safe" place.
I only play 1st, have never used 3rd in any of the Arma games either, hate it hehe.

The only time i EVER run, is when im being followed/hunted, btw thats my IRL philosophy aswell rofl.
So if you see someone walking around Chernarus, its most likely me lol.

This has kept my char alive since the beginning, have not died one single time yet, only got a new spawn, because of the DB wipes and such :)

[komadose 190]

lone wolf murderer. i wanna use my bullets to something... those zombies are much friendlier than other players atm. sry fellow survivors.

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

I've not voted because I'm a mix of two. I'd class myself as a Lone Wolf Hero. I spend the majority of my time on my own out in the wilderness, moving as quietly and carefully as the situation requires. The 'Hero' part is because I detest unwarrented newspawn killing, especially at range with a scoped Mosin, so I'll immediately kill anyone that I find doing it. Similarly, my experience of anyone in full milgear and a gas/clown mask has been a bad one, especially at spawn areas, so they get popped on sight too. I'll also help newspawns where I can.

In fact, I died yesterday whilst doing it. I had headed up to the hill overlooking Electro to check for snipers and then the game crashed out. When I logged back in (possibly into another server, I forget), I heard someone behind me and turned around to find someone in milgear and a gas mask stood about 15m away, just looking at me. There was an awkward moment where we both stood and stared at each other for a few seconds before I raised my Mosin and landed a shot clean to their centre mass. It didn't kill them and they then managed to avoid my subsequent (and somewhat panicked) shots and gun me down with an M4. Annoyingly, my Mosin had a pristine long range scope and worn bipod (that I had previously liberated from another bandit), about 60rnds of 7.62 in an ammo box (along with a similar amount of 5.56 and .45ACP) and my backpack had two medkits and four canteens in, so they probably patched themselves up and used the Mosin to snipe anyway. I cursed.

[minime1000 78]

Prefer to stay away from populated areas and run around in the woods but won't even bother to find out if the guy I just ran into is a friendly. Will KOS.

[komadose 190]

Prefer to stay away from populated areas and run around in the woods but won't even bother to find out if the guy I just ran into is a friendly. Will KOS.

yeah. running in the woods when geared up to your teeth is also boring. you eventually want some action.

[Jimbo_au 18]

My survival style is to have sex with almost everything that moves. 

 

 

Holy crap you made my day, pure gold.

 

I lone wolf it. Methodical, deliberate... if I get killed I let myself be seen so it’s no one’s fault but mine, if I kill it’s with a purpose might be I felt threatened or needed your beans. But I also will let myself get into risky spots just for a bit of fun.

[Plan_B 82]

I play with friends. Sometimes, we are friendly, sometimes we kill for the fun of it. It all depends on how you react to us.

[Hethwill_Khan 233]

You miss a dozen other styles at the bare minimum.

 

As wiggling is not a proper sect of any spiritual belief i'll stick with Oddball teachings - "Knock it off with them negative waves!"

 

Works for everything :)

 

Hero Scavenger is the most close, but not really. I do my own thing and if I happen to cross others way, we'll see... so far so good, good trades and life saving situations. Other than that just the scared soul scarred spawn that runs away without trying to communicate... such is fear of death already instilled into a new spawn mind...

[BrainlessZombie 190]

None of the above, i simply go with the flow baby!

 

Yesterday i put on ruined clothes and i aproached people asking "Hey man, do you have tuna? I'd suck ya' dick for a can of tuna", one dude ran away, 3 tried to kill me and the 4th succeded, none of 'em talked back to me, people got no sense of humour...

[Gekkonidae 270]

I would have personally added Militant Hero to that list, as I've seen quite a few in squads actively hunting bandits and helping noobs. Like some sort of merry roving band of robin hoods.

[Punkrawks 136]

Wow I expected more murderers/bandits. Seems like that's 90% of the people I run into.

[The Batman 75]

Psychopathic bandit. I'll force someone to remove their clothes (but leave them with their bag) and leave the area. Or hold someone up and ask them to drop their food, if they say they don't have any, handcuff them and if they lied, disinfect their mouth.

[TangoAlpha 39]

I am a 'Lone Wolf - I'm not a bandit and gather my own resources. Not a murderer but will kill in a heartbeat. In it for myself.' I leave players alone to survive strictly unless I observe that they are a danger to myself, in-which case I kill them immediately.  

 

[Window Licker 504]

loan wolf, very high interest beans

 

depends on what the situation calls for usually this ˅˅˅˅

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/161305-orloks-random-thread/page-3#entry1690046

[taxi driver 9]

A mix of "hero" and "Lone Wolf", also dont like the term "hero".  Had a few good meetings with others to exchange ammo (got 5.56, gave 7.62) and other stuff but thats more the exception.

 

If somebody doesn`t reply in chat, even after several tries, it`s extremely suspicious for me and it may happen that i decide to kill that guy for my own safety reasons. If there are more than one, i`m mostly retreating and hiding somewhere and maybe stalk them a little bit by watching their behaviour. If they`re bandits (and no chatting is a good indication) , it could happen that i try to involve them in a close to medium range combat. (As most got a mosin, i got an M4) or simply taking to my heels/leaving area.

Edited January 21, 2014 by taxi driver

[MarcOwaR 29]

I kill everything in sight, take everything I can.