My poor heart...

[KaiShenlong 0]

After I got Arma II and DayZ both installed and running, (minor problems, but this is an alpha. I'm not complaining.) I was wandering around for about 45 minutes. (45 minutes on my first spawn, I know. I did my reading.) During this wandering, I spent almost all of my time crawling, only coming to a crouch or standing to either look around, or inside a building I had made sure was clear. I found 2 bundles of loot, consisting of 4 tin cans and 2 empty whiskey bottles. I saw no one, but I was stopping dead still at every new noise I heard, only moving after I made sure I was the one making it. When I finally decided to give up, it's not because I was tired of not finding a gun in my first loot spot. It wasn't because I had been killed, and think the game is too hard. It was because my heart was rocketing along at roughly 100 bpm, and I chose to log off and wait until my roommate was here playing as well. This game is well made, and it's a better rush than any survival horror game out there. I love it, even after only 45 minutes.

Edit: I booted it back up again, and, 15 minutes later, I'm dead. Turned out I spawned just outside Elektro... Big shiny building, carefully move to loot, big fat bullet in my head. Guess I'll try again tomorrow.

[ALICE666 0]

I know how you feel mate.. nothing more tense than scrambling away for loot then you hear other footsteps in your vicinity. There I was, camping the top of the stairs at the firestation, my pistol level right at the opening. 100bpm heart rate.. waiting for the guy to show. I think he heard me crawling around so he didn't come up. Game is intense lol. I am increasingly needing to prepare myself mentally everytime I play this game. If not I'm not ready, theres no way I'm logging in. :D

[TheFired3mon 33]

I know how you feel mate.. nothing more tense than scrambling away for loot then you hear other footsteps in your vicinity. There I was' date=' camping the top of the stairs at the firestation, my pistol level right at the opening. 100bpm heart rate.. waiting for the guy to show. I think he heard me crawling around so he didn't come up. Game is intense lol. I am increasingly needing to prepare myself mentally everytime I play this game. If not I'm not ready, theres no way I'm logging in. :D

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Same XD that's why I'm not logged in atm. I was in the process of going to the barracks at the NW Airfield (I had to go earlier when I was on the fire-station roof) so I'm afraid to hop on atm cause I might get insta-sniped. Running low on food and drink so I can't take too long crawling around to be safe. I gotta get some shit, then get out of hearing range of those zombies and sprint to the nearest town. XD So yeah, easy to see why I don't wanna hop on.

[KaiShenlong 0]

Wow, this game is hard on your heart. Nothing makes me jump quite like low-crawling across a field toward a barn, then hearing a new noise. Stopping just to figure out that the noise was me on some new terrain...

[Dreganius (DayZ) 55]

Every time I shoot someone my heart goes ballistic.

...Get it?

In all seriousness, the fact that you die and lose everything you've worked for is one of the biggest reasons I find my heart pounding as it does while playing DayZ, and I love it. The longer I survive, the more my heart pounds. At one point, I had a moment where I was watching three Survivors try to get into Cherno, when they were pinned down. I was near them but they hadn't noticed me, and through no other reason than idle curiosity I began to shoot at them. This was the second (and third and fourth) time I had killed another player, but it was the first time I had done so without provocation. I then got sniped by a guy in Cherno.

I stopped playing for the night. My chest hurt.