Keep walls aren't as solid as they seem.

[cpo1bishop 44]

Been playing for about a week or so and I've found so many ways to die that don't involve zombies, or other players I have a talent that must be shared.

 

Useless suicide after getting kitted up number 5:

 

Riding the high of just having found a 556 suppressor on the bottom floor of the control tower and the magpul stock in the nest, I end up falling backwards off the ladder leading up the wall of the control tower at Balota, in a moment of indecision attempting to back down it (Useless suicide after getting kitted up number 4). Truly beginning to understand the meaning of despair found in the words "You are dead". The sound of waves gently washing against the shore, I find myself spawned I assume south of Solnichniy in a state of utter denial trying to convince myself the pristine mountain back pack full of packed ammo boxes and assorted supplies should have somehow broken my fall.

 

 

....

QQ

 

As I'm one of three people who've occupied the server for the last little while, and I figure I'm just south of Solnichniy, I decide to head north to the construction zone looking for a mountain backpack (almost always the first piece of gear I actively seek out). After stuffing myself at the well passing through Solnichniy, I wander through a couple warehouses keeping an eye open for a hacksaw and come across one without really altering my path north towards the construction site.

 

As I'm walking up the southern most stairs at the site, success, a tattered ugly orange mini backpack as I'm heading up the stairs! A fire axe at the top of the stairs, and what's more, a pristine blue mountain backpack on the roof on some bricks!!! Back down to the bottom level and into the room on the south side, I find a 20 round 556 magazine. +1!

 

OK, off down the school/clinic whatever you call it, on the southwest side of  Berzino, looking for a firearm of some kind. I find the top floor room has already been picked over, and some evidence of pack rearrangement left behind, an empty shotgun clip and a pair of pristine runners.

 

On my way out I decide to take the ladder on the west side of the building to avoid the zombie milling around to the east, and overcome my fear of ladders, and find a shotgun on top of the roof! -1 Hacksaw +1 Sawed off. XD

 

I decide to avoid the well to the west, the site of what I now consider to be useless suicide number 2. (at the time I didn't think standing still while someone running towards me repeatedly yelling friendly while wielding an axe was suicide)

 

Off to the cargo ship stopping over at the gas station hoping to try to find a map. I've tried a couple times to find the north airfield, always at night, I've gotten used to getting lost pretty much after heading NW from the ship, compass or not. (I recently discovered that with your inventory open you can use your compass regardless of light levels!) Nothing at the gas station. Headed off to the ship.

 

Once aboard I immediately headed up to bridge to find.. absolutely nothing. Circle around up to the top, and a holster is waiting for me. Down from the top on the starboard side, I find a FNX45 on the bridge level deck outside. Feeling pretty lucky and a little antsy as I notice there are a few more people on now. I decide rather than taking a bearing in the light of the ship and attempting to find Krasnostav, (previous attempts found me wandering in a canyon between huge impassable walls of rock to a place where no trees grow and all the roads seem to end.)  I'd stick to a road.

 

I should mention at this point, finding food and water along this route is a give in and not really worth mentioning, there's no shortage of supplies on the way so I generally only carry a screw driver, two cans of food and two beverages. Picking up any canteens or water-bottles I find with significant enough contents. As well by now I picked up a pair of ruined cargo pants and a red hooddy, which were quickly replaced by a green raincoat and a pair of summer hunters pants, found along the way with no real effort. I generally don't go into houses, with the exception of the house with the piano which sometimes has some random ammo on the shelves near the stairs. And sometimes wandering into those barns with opposing stairs leading to the lofts, which one should navigate carefully lest one slip off the side and plummet to their death (Useless suicide after getting kitted up number 3).

 

I figured out the shipwreck is actually much further north than I first though, and found my way north to Olsha with relative ease.  Oh! I forgot to mention I found a NE map in one of the cabins aboard ship. Having a look at the map, the road I took into Olsha loops back around SW towards the airfield. As this road turned south I continued heading SW right into a perimeter fence. I spotted the silhouette of guard tower a little ways out but didn't have to adjust my trajectory all that much.

 

I quickly check the player base to see that all of the players that were on before had been replaced by some guy called Eric. Feeling confident the gods didn't place Eric on the server to hunt and kill me, and most likely wouldn't be in the same area, I abandoned a degree of caution to flip on my torch to try to find a hole in the perimeter fence.

 

Making my way across the runway it's light enough to tell there are plenty of zombies swaying around outside the front of the hangars my hopes of loot become raised, and I flip to the player list again to notice Eric is still off in some unknown location braving the hordes alone. I see the door on the guard house is still closed, and my excitement builds, I skip it entirely and head straight for the tower. In the nest I find a worn M4 CQB Buttstock and add spray-paint to the mental checklist. Check the player list. No one. Check the clock. It's 4am. wow... giggle like a mad clown.

 

Head outside and round the tower to find a pristine M68 CompM2 Optics, added to the ACOG I find on the roof a few moments later, and I'm feeling pretty lucky. After very nervously trying to find the ladder activation to get off the roof, I take the stairs back down avoiding the other, more hated ladder.

 

So now all I need is a frickin rifle to put all these fancy attachments on! In the first hanger, a pair of boots waay off in the back corner and nothing else. In the second hanger an M4. =) And way at the back almost against the wall, a FNP45 MRD!!! Very pleasant surprise, I wasn't aware the 45 had attachments.

 

Found a worn UK flack and enough ammo to make me feel safe in the guard house, and decided to not try my very good fortune much further. Checking the player list, I notice some new people and decide to head north, and then west to try to find the devils castle.

 

I head out into the bush and log to take a break, feeling pretty happy about replacing what I had and finding some new exciting stuff.

 

After a few hours I find a low ping server with a couple people on, one of the few it's daytime, and start making my way west towards the ruins. After a couple of minutes of heading west trying to follow the hill upwards to it's peak I stumble upon some ruins that are much closer than I expected the Devil's castle to be. A single tower and a collection of ruined walls. I find some stairs on the side which lead up to a point I have to vault into the stone keep off the scaffold like stairs. Inside I find stairs cut into the stone which I follow to the top of the tower. Although there was no loot to be had, the view was spectacular. I decide I want to try to find the fabled NW airfield. I quickly tried to orient myself running to each battlement trying to match the landscape to the map. Finding a town in a specific direction, and then trying to find another town to confirm. As I'm running towards the battlement preparing to open my compass I notice I'm in midair, and falling. 

 

 

 

 

You are dead

[ratiasu@hotmail.co.jp 122]

Poor bastard. =p You seem so lost. If you have a mic, I wouldnt mind playing a round with you.

[cpo1bishop 44]

Hahaha, I thought I was doing pretty good for having been playing for a week. This was a day or two ago. I'm much more use to the dimensions and distances. Found the NW airfield and I'm mostly kited out now.

[zhrike 264]

Yeah, watch those walls. I glitched through an industrial wall for suicide #I can't remember. I walked to the corner of the office building to dump my m4 in favor of a mosin, and my character walked right up onto the wall. I didn't fall that time, but one more nudge forward and I would have. By the way, you were so close to Svetlojarsk in Osha. It's literally right down the hill from there.

[divinelobster 0]

-SNIP

 

Ahh the fun to be had :)

Have a can of beans dear sir.

 

Very well written. I enjoyed it.