Just had a sour death. This game can make you feel really bad sometimes!

[Hagon94 74]

I was overlooking the boat in Rify from the hillsides on a hardcore server with my friend. He was down low while I kept watch with a mosin, 4 bullets and an ironsight. We see some guys and try to make contact through direct, but they do not show signs of beeing friendly. They keep looking for us with axes out not responding so after a fair few warnings, I take a shot at one guy with what I like to think was a damn nice shot for an ironsight mosin from that distance and he goes down. His mates hide. Maybe they combat logged, we don't know. The server restarts shortly after and we find another. 

 

On the new server I see no one in the area. It had around 6 people on it, including us. My mate is down on the boat and I tell him to look my way to see if he can spot me. To check if I was well concealed. I stand up to show him where I was and wiggle for a bit. ( Dumb move, you'll see why later). I keep overlooking the boat while my mate looks around it for loot. A short time passes. I hear a small sound but think little of it. Most likely some rustling of the wind or maybe some ambient noise. But I casually decide to maybe move a little bit and just do a quick scan of the hill to be safe. Then as I start getting up to turn I get a shot right in my side and I see a guy crouched right next to me staring me in the face. He was properly armed and fully camouflaged. He hesitated slightly and I managed to pull up my gun and fire one, two, three shots. All my remaining ones. I miss, EVERY single one of them. Only milimetres away from his body. One slightly to the left, overcompensated on the next shot, very slightly to his right. and same for the last one. Then he kills me. My heart is beating so fast and I'm filled with mixed emotions...

 

On one hand I'm really upset about missing that guy because of my reactive pull of the mouse made it go past target due to the mouse accelleration and poor mouse control in the game currently. I had a chance to kill him and survive in that split second window, but I failed. I like to think that maybe if the mouse was 1:1 like a normal shooter I would have lived. The other part of me blames myself for simply not beeing good enough to hit him. I don't really know what to think. It was all fair game technically. But man was it sour.

 

I hope rockets does gets arround to it eventually and I believe he will. This  is an amazing game and it has the power to invoke such strong emotions and reactions in you. My hands are still shaking after the encounter! The game has it sweet sweet moments of which, to be honest, I've been pretty lucky with and those oh so sour moments like these. Do you have any sour moments to share?

[Katabasis 83]

currently the way the cursor works is based on a large number of factors including gun, health, tiredness, encumbrance (clothing), and probably other factors.  I am pretty sure this will never change.  It may get more intuitive and a bit less clunky but in general this is kinda working as intended.

[wuffi (DayZ) 18]

Hey today i died from drinking a soda.

Must had cyanide inside because i dropped dead bevore i could even finish drinking ;)

[Hagon94 74]

currently the way the cursor works is based on a large number of factors including gun, health, tiredness, encumbrance (clothing), and probably other factors.  I am pretty sure this will never change.  It may get more intuitive and a bit less clunky but in general this is kinda working as intended.

I see what you mean. To be honest I don't think it's neccesary but It's an interesting concept. The thing I currently don't like about it is that a slight touch of the mouse gives huge turn speeds while rapid movement of the mouse gives super low turn speeds. It doesn't make much sense even in terms of the system they have in. 

[LeChat 131]

Hey today i died from drinking a soda.

Must had cyanide inside because i dropped dead bevore i could even finish drinking ;)

 

Cyanide in a soda must be a complete waste of good cyanide.

[AryanBoogeyman 185]

IMO the control scheme is not laser accurate for a reason. To simulate the effect of stress on your characters reaction time.

 

It is just another obstacle to overcome in the hellish landscape that is the apocalypse.

 

Good story though. Those are the ones that you will remember for a while.

 

Mine was running with a group of three of my friends fairly early in the mod. Being new I got the dregs of the groups equipment in my case a Glock with 2 mags.

 

We rolled up in a group to several deer-stands looking for ammo and such. Each time my more experienced friends seems to bunch up a lot but being the noob I didn't say much.

 

The last one we visited that day happened to be frequented by a silenced M4 wielding bush wookie (ghillie suit) he proceeded to rape my 3 friends but I immediately flanked hard as they were dropping.  Got right up beside him as he was reloading and missed every shot in my mag from a distance of not more than 4 feet.

 

Worst death ever.  Sit in the corner and feel shame son.  lol

[Hagon94 74]

IMO the control scheme is not laser accurate for a reason. To simulate the effect of stress on your characters reaction time.

 

It is just another obstacle to overcome in the hellish landscape that is the apocalypse.

 

Good story though. Those are the ones that you will remember for a while.

 

Mine was running with a group of three of my friends fairly early in the mod. Being new I got the dregs of the groups equipment in my case a Glock with 2 mags.

 

We rolled up in a group to several deer-stands looking for ammo and such. Each time my more experienced friends seems to bunch up a lot but being the noob I didn't say much.

 

The last one we visited that day happened to be frequented by a silenced M4 wielding bush wookie (ghillie suit) he proceeded to rape my 3 friends but I immediately flanked hard as they were dropping.  Got right up beside him as he was reloading and missed every shot in my mag from a distance of not more than 4 feet.

 

Worst death ever.  Sit in the corner and feel shame son.  lol

I can taste it. I can taste the shame.

[AryanBoogeyman 185]

I can taste it. I can taste the shame.

 

 

Yeah it was embarrassing but informative.

 

Play this game long enough and you have an encyclopedia of fail deaths.

 

The funniest one was on the very next spawn being my second fail/noob death.

 

Running with a friend through the forest near NWAF we found a vehicle and camp. We picked their tents clean, all loaded into the UAZ and our inventories. 

 

Suddenly we hear shots in the distance. In hindsight I am sure it was nowhere near us but I digress. At any rate we both panic and jump in the UAZ. I of course am in the drivers seat and don't have the first clue how to drive in DayZ. 

 

I made it about 25 feet before we both perished in a fireball.  My buddies reaction was utter, shocked silence. I just laughed hysterically.

 

We talk about that death to this day. I wasn't allowed to drive in a vehicle with him for along time afterward.

[KnightFall1856 24]

  The last few days I've had a couple of shit-my-pants moments. A buddy and myself were patrolling the coast to do some banditry and look for a firefight. We were creeping in the trees near Kamyshovo and heard some shots VERY close by. We maintained our positions and listened intently for more shots. Low and behold I see an armed player walk INCHES in front of my bush, oblivious to the fact I was there. A quick spray to his back and he went down. Rendezvoused with my bud and we headed north and spotted another two players to our immediate right that had just become visible from behind the giant rock near the road. An intense open field firefight ensued with us being the victors, however Id be lying if I said I didn't get swiss cheesed. I was blood bagged and patched up and we continued on. All of this occurred in 5 minutes. Never a dull moment.  

[Hagon94 74]

Yeah it was embarrassing but informative.

 

Play this game long enough and you have an encyclopedia of fail deaths.

 

The funniest one was on the very next spawn being my second fail/noob death.

 

Running with a friend through the forest near NWAF we found a vehicle and camp. We picked their tents clean, all loaded into the UAZ and our inventories. 

 

Suddenly we hear shots in the distance. In hindsight I am sure it was nowhere near us but I digress. At any rate we both panic and jump in the UAZ. I of course am in the drivers seat and don't have the first clue how to drive in DayZ. 

 

I made it about 25 feet before we both perished in a fireball.  My buddies reaction was utter, shocked silence. I just laughed hysterically.

 

We talk about that death to this day. I wasn't allowed to drive in a vehicle with him for along time afterward.

Haha sounds like fun! Once on the boat of Rify ( Yeah, It's homely there) Me and my mate was so tense after a firefight earlier. I found a new crash helmet and put it on. I snuck up silently on my  mate without telling him over the mic. He turns arround, looks at me for 3 seconds dead silent. He raises his guns and fires a full 60 magazine into me. He then let out a huge relief sigh on the mic and said " Duuude, I just killed someone. There was someone here!" I paused for a while. " Dude...That was me." Somehow the mere changing of headgear was enough for my good and very nervous friend to pump me full of lead haha!  

Edited February 13, 2014 by Hagon94

[Geckofrog7 1168]

Oh, I've most certainly had times like those.  :)

My most recent escapade was in a fairly populated server, however. (I usually stay in servers with around 15 people, but I decided, hell, I'll live a little.) Me and 2 friends meet up. I'm not at my desktop right now so I can't post a screenshot, but I was dressed extremely bright and unbandity orange raincoat/red motorbike helmet and all, with a shotgun, cause it was all I could find. One friend was in full military gear with a mosin. (Let's call him mcgeared) And the third guy was mostly a newspawn with a crash helmet and an fn45 I had given him. (And lets call him mr.helmet) So a few minutes in, I meet up with mr.helmet near Berezino at the big factory, and mcgeared was still on his way from Balota. Apparently mr.helmet had found a couple other guys who were friendly on his way from electro. One of them had been shot, but the other guy ended up becoming trustworthy. 

 

So mcgeared finally shows up, and we prepare to head out, when suddenly, we see 2 newspawns. Mcgeared, as always points his big intimidating mosin at the poor guys, and says "hey guys, wait stop, we're friendly." Of course, the newspawns didn't buy that shit for a second, so I concive mcgeared to lower his damn gun, and I run up now unarmed to great them. This finally convices them we're okay, and we talk and give them food/water for a few minutes. Then another newspawn shows up. Then another. One with a red motobike helmet, one with an axe. Suddenly, I hear "WTF YOU ASSHOLE!?" and "The guy with the axe is hostile!" So mr.helmet decides to help out...by shooting the guy in the red helmet. 

 

"WTF DUDE!? YOU SAID YOU WERE FRIENDLY!" By this time the axeman had gotten a 7.62 in the face. While bleeding, the guy was still alive, so I could bandage him. He thanks me, and I give him some food to restore some blood. By this time, some guy in a construction helmet and mountain backpack had showed up, weaponless. We talked and traded with the newspawns for a few more minutes, and-wait. That guy didn't have a baseball bat before, did he? He must have. Huh. Then I see him pull the thing out and casually attempt to beat our brains in. 

 

Here's the fail: I had a shotgun with 8 filled speed reloaders.  I chewed through them all. And that bastard got away without a scratch. Well, we scared him off anyway, let's check casualties and throw this gun into the ****ing ocean. We're all okay, except for the first newspawn (the trustworthy one.) who was laying there bleeding and unconscious. I try (and fail) 3 times to bandage him until I get it right thanks to the menu system. We then use a saline IV on him, and he's good to go. After this whole fiasco, we decide to get the hell out of this accursed factory, and head north of berezino, to some little villiage just west of the town.

 

We meet a guy with an SKS, who was panicky as hell, seeing 3 guys with guns. (By this time our newspawn had headed west to grab his buddy, and they'd meet us up somewhere in between. Mr.helmet had also picked up an empty SKS.) We assure him that we're friendly, (even with mcgeared and his mosin pointed at his head the entire time.) and continue on our merry way looting the place. 

 

Que almost 8 rounds from the SKS before the bastard finally manages to hit me. (I was like 20 feet away in an orange raincoat.) Then he took out mcgeared. (lol he was PISSED.) but mr.helmet managed ti hide and survive. he watched over our gear as we respawned (thankfully) close by. Most of our stuff was ruined, but I still had my orange raincoat, thank god.

 

Then I logged in the next day, and all my stuff was gone. I was a newspawn. MY RAINCOAT!  :(

Edited February 13, 2014 by Geckofrog7

[AryanBoogeyman 185]

Haha sounds like fun! Once on the boat of Rify ( Yeah, It's homely there) Me and my mate was so tense after a firefight earlier. I found a new crash helmet and put it on. I snuck up silently on my  mate without telling him over the mic. He turns arround, looks at me for 3 seconds dead silent. He raises his guns and fires a full 60 magazine into me. He then let out a huge relief sigh on the mic and said " Duuude, I just killed someone. There was someone here!" I paused for a while. " Dude...That was me." Somehow the mere changing of headgear was enough for my good and very nervous friend to pump me full of lead haha!  

 

 

Nice. I absolutely love the tension and confusion of firefights/encounters in DayZ. 

 

A little history to this one. Don't know if you played the mod but they had zoms that could crawl, silenced weapons, and crucially zombie player skins...

 

My son and I were playing with 2 other friends, all cautiously advancing up the hills near Devils Castle single file with decent spacing. We were trying for stealth as there was suspicion of a camp nearby.

 

I was bringing up the rear and heard a zombie on the other side of the wall so I dropped and started crawling towards our little group that had stopped at the summit a few feet away. My son turned smoothly toward me and yelled in TS " Zombie!".

 

He then perfectly head shot me with his silenced M4.

 

Was a really nice shot actually.

 

>:(

[DirtyscumbagLith 270]

Were you guys on the hill? Were there 2 of you? did you have a cowboy hat on?

[Hagon94 74]

Oh, I've most certainly had times like those.  :)

My most recent escapade was in a fairly populated server, however. (I usually stay in servers with around 15 people, but I decided, hell, I'll live a little.) Me and 2 friends meet up. I'm not at my desktop right now so I can't post a screenshot, but I was dressed extremely bright and unbandity orange raincoat/red motorbike helmet and all, with a shotgun, cause it was all I could find. One friend was in full military gear with a mosin. (Let's call him mcgeared) And the third guy was mostly a newspawn with a crash helmet and an fn45 I had given him. (And lets call him mr.helmet) So a few minutes in, I meet up with mr.helmet near Berezino at the big factory, and mcgeared was still on his way from Balota. Apparently mr.helmet had found a couple other guys who were friendly on his way from electro. One of them had been shot, but the other guy ended up becoming trustworthy. 

 

So mcgeared finally shows up, and we prepare to head out, when suddenly, we see 2 newspawns. Mcgeared, as always points his big intimidating mosin at the poor guys, and says "hey guys, wait stop, we're friendly." Of course, the newspawns didn't buy that shit for a second, so I concive mcgeared to lower his damn gun, and I run up now unarmed to great them. This finally convices them we're okay, and we talk and give them food/water for a few minutes. Then another newspawn shows up. Then another. One with a red motobike helmet, one with an axe. Suddenly, I hear "WTF YOU ASSHOLE!?" and "The guy with the axe is hostile!" So mr.helmet decides to help out...by shooting the guy in the red helmet. 

 

"WTF DUDE!? YOU SAID YOU WERE FRIENDLY!" By this time the axeman had gotten a 7.62 in the face. While bleeding, the guy was still alive, so I could bandage him. He thanks me, and I give him some food to restore some blood. By this time, some guy in a construction helmet and mountain backpack had showed up, weaponless. We talked and traded with the newspawns for a few more minutes, and-wait. That guy didn't have a baseball bat before, did he? He must have. Huh. Then I see him pull the thing out and casually attempt to beat our brains in. 

 

Here's the fail: I had a shotgun with 8 filled speed reloaders.  I chewed through them all. And that bastard got away without a scratch. Well, we scared him off anyway, let's check casualties and throw this gun into the ****ing ocean. We're all okay, except for the first newspawn (the trustworthy one.) who was laying there bleeding and unconscious. I try (and fail) 3 times to bandage him until I get it right thanks to the menu system. We then use a saline IV on him, and he's good to go. After this whole fiasco, we decide to get the hell out of this accursed factory, and head north of berezino, to some little villiage just west of the town.

 

We meet a guy with an SKS, who was panicky as hell, seeing 3 guys with guns. (By this time our newspawn had headed west to grab his buddy, and they'd meet us up somewhere in between. Mr.helmet had also picked up an empty SKS.) We assure him that we're friendly, (even with mcgeared and his mosin pointed at his head the entire time.) and continue on our merry way looting the place. 

 

Que almost 8 rounds from the SKS before the bastard finally manages to hit me. (I was like 20 feet away in an orange raincoat.) Then he took out mcgeared. (lol he was PISSED.) but mr.helmet managed ti hide and survive. he watched over our gear as we respawned (thankfully) close by. Most of our stuff was ruined, but I still had my orange raincoat, thank god.

 

Then I logged in the next day, and all my stuff was gone. I was a newspawn. MY RAINCOAT!  :(

The tale of the Orange Raincoat.  Haha, good stuff my man!

[Hagon94 74]

Were you guys on the hill? Were there 2 of you? did you have a cowboy hat on?

At this point in time, no. 

[AryanBoogeyman 185]

Oh, I've most certainly had times like those.  :)

My most recent escapade was in a fairly populated server, however. (I usually stay in servers with around 15 people, but I decided, hell, I'll live a little.) Me and 2 friends meet up. I'm not at my desktop right now so I can't post a screenshot, but I was dressed extremely bright and unbandity orange raincoat/red motorbike helmet and all, with a shotgun, cause it was all I could find. One friend was in full military gear with a mosin. (Let's call him mcgeared) And the third guy was mostly a newspawn with a crash helmet and an fn45 I had given him. (And lets call him mr.helmet) So a few minutes in, I meet up with mr.helmet near Berezino at the big factory, and mcgeared was still on his way from Balota. Apparently mr.helmet had found a couple other guys who were friendly on his way from electro. One of them had been shot, but the other guy ended up becoming trustworthy. 

 

So mcgeared finally shows up, and we prepare to head out, when suddenly, we see 2 newspawns. Mcgeared, as always points his big intimidating mosin at the poor guys, and says "hey guys, wait stop, we're friendly." Of course, the newspawns didn't buy that shit for a second, so I concive mcgeared to lower his damn gun, and I run up now unarmed to great them. This finally convices them we're okay, and we talk and give them food/water for a few minutes. Then another newspawn shows up. Then another. One with a red motobike helmet, one with an axe. Suddenly, I hear "WTF YOU ASSHOLE!?" and "The guy with the axe is hostile!" So mr.helmet decides to help out...by shooting the guy in the red helmet. 

 

"WTF DUDE!? YOU SAID YOU WERE FRIENDLY!" By this time the axeman had gotten a 7.62 in the face. While bleeding, the guy was still alive, so I could bandage him. He thanks me, and I give him some food to restore some blood. By this time, some guy in a construction helmet and mountain backpack had showed up, weaponless. We talked and traded with the newspawns for a few more minutes, and-wait. That guy didn't have a baseball bat before, did he? He must have. Huh. Then I see him pull the thing out and casually attempt to beat our brains in. 

 

Here's the fail: I had a shotgun with 8 filled speed reloaders.  I chewed through them all. And that bastard got away without a scratch. Well, we scared him off anyway, let's check casualties and throw this gun into the ****ing ocean. We're all okay, except for the first newspawn (the trustworthy one.) who was laying there bleeding and unconscious. I try (and fail) 3 times to bandage him until I get it right thanks to the menu system. We then use a saline IV on him, and he's good to go. After this whole fiasco, we decide to get the hell out of this accursed factory, and head north of berezino, to some little villiage just west of the town.

 

We meet a guy with an SKS, who was panicky as hell, seeing 3 guys with guns. (By this time our newspawn had headed west to grab his buddy, and they'd meet us up somewhere in between. Mr.helmet had also picked up an empty SKS.) We assure him that we're friendly, (even with mcgeared and his mosin pointed at his head the entire time.) and continue on our merry way looting the place. 

 

Que almost 8 rounds from the SKS before the bastard finally manages to hit me. (I was like 20 feet away in an orange raincoat.) Then he took out mcgeared. (lol he was PISSED.) but mr.helmet managed ti hide and survive. he watched over our gear as we respawned (thankfully) close by. Most of our stuff was ruined, but I still had my orange raincoat, thank god.

 

Then I logged in the next day, and all my stuff was gone. I was a newspawn. MY RAINCOAT!  :(

 

 

As long as the raincoat lived, that's all that matters.

 

Great story.

[DirtyscumbagLith 270]

At this point in time, no. 

 

Ahhh. I had a gun battle with 2 guys on the hill- I got one, my friend got the other right before I got shot. I thought maybe that was you.

 

Speaking of raincoats, my orange raincoat was ruined when I got back to it, but it looks cooler now ruined. F u sewing kit!

[mercules 1290]

On one hand I'm really upset about missing that guy because of my reactive pull of the mouse made it go past target due to the mouse accelleration and poor mouse control in the game currently. I had a chance to kill him and survive in that split second window, but I failed. I like to think that maybe if the mouse was 1:1 like a normal shooter I would have lived. The other part of me blames myself for simply not beeing good enough to hit him. I don't really know what to think. It was all fair game technically. But man was it sour.

 

They will be changing it some. It sounds like it won't every be 1:1 but will be changed some. However, a good player learns how the controls on the game function, practices with them, and uses them well. I think the main issue is many people don't have a whole lot of practice with it in a combat situation and so overreact just like you did. Having played the Mod for over a year with the same Mouse Accelleration I am used to it and don't tend to mash it up. That isn't always true though, I do on occasion get adrenaline pumped and make mistakes and sometimes miss, but for the most part I do okay. 

[Trigger Hippy 176]

On one hand I'm really upset about missing that guy because of my reactive pull of the mouse made it go past target due to the mouse accelleration and poor mouse control in the game currently.

 

_________________________

 

 

The player should adapt to the game. Don't blame the game.

[AryanBoogeyman 185]

They will be changing it some. It sounds like it won't every be 1:1 but will be changed some. However, a good player learns how the controls on the game function, practices with them, and uses them well. I think the main issue is many people don't have a whole lot of practice with it in a combat situation and so overreact just like you did. Having played the Mod for over a year with the same Mouse Accelleration I am used to it and don't tend to mash it up. That isn't always true though, I do on occasion get adrenaline pumped and make mistakes and sometimes miss, but for the most part I do okay. 

 

 

No fail deaths?  Lies.... ALLL LIES !!!!

 

:D

[HunterJay 81]

On one hand I'm really upset about missing that guy because of my reactive pull of the mouse made it go past target due to the mouse accelleration and poor mouse control in the game currently.

 

_________________________

 

 

The player should adapt to the game. Don't blame the game.

 

Works both ways though friend. This time you got screwed over by the control system. Perhaps next time your opponent will suffer the same fate.

[Hagon94 74]

On one hand I'm really upset about missing that guy because of my reactive pull of the mouse made it go past target due to the mouse accelleration and poor mouse control in the game currently.

 

_________________________

 

 

The player should adapt to the game. Don't blame the game.

Not blaming the game man, just stating my dissatisfaction with the mouse mechanics. I said in the thread that I know it was me that did poorly under the circumstances. To some degree you are right. But i also believe that maybe under better mouse control conditions I would have been able to perform better.

Edited February 13, 2014 by Hagon94

[Karmaterror 982]

Sour death....

 

Log in at north camp with a friend...jump in heli and take off couple of feet in auto...set waypoint...hit w instead of q by accident...front flip onto nose...fire and mayhem everywhere...both dead...

 

Dayz rocks :)

[DarkwaveDomina 1099]

I got killed by some prat while blood-bagging a stranger today. :(

[Hagon94 74]

DayZ is a cruel mistress.