How do you deal with playing lone-wolf?

[Rudette 435]

The classics are:

 

Charnarussian Tourist Office

Military patrol of the defense forces

Big bad mofo cowboy

Black dude telling everyone they are racist

Desparate survivor

Selfless hero

Friendly rapist

Morgan Freeman: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy5OkG7_WR07nbgkDLDXZYQ

You forgot the long standing tradition of axe murderer.

There is something invigorating about it yes? ... You usually don't just kill your opponent. You screw with their heads first. Nothing beats tracking a target for miles, waiting for him or her to present their vulnerable backside, or get stuck in a bean-eating animation. .. Like when someone goes into an apartment building, never knowing they were being tracked, only to come back down the stairs to see you standing between them and last flight down----A monolithic maniac in clown mask that had seemingly manifested out of thin air. You lunge forward, laughing in proxy a soul siphoning reverberation of the sick anticipation and newly found satisfaction in your macabre indulgence.

The most rewarding kills are always the ones where you build up that anticipation and tension by sneaking and tracking. You may spend 20 minutes waiting for that complacent vulnerability to present itself.. But once it does? There last bit of seasoning you need for that kill to taste as sweet as you can even fathom is fear. Fear that you evoke with proxy chat dialogue. Particularly delicious when people just freeze up as if they don't know what to do.

Guns? You don't need guns. You travel light. When you kill your opponent you take the ammo from the clip and empty it, you scatter his remains in the street. Figuratively leaving his ashes behind for someone else to discover....and wonder... Why? Ruined clothes...weapons...what happened here?

Edited February 20, 2014 by Rudette

[ChimpyGlassman (DayZ) 51]

For you, sure. I'm in my second week, and have started turning into Retro19. I enjoy being alone and the challenge of it. You really have to stay sharp- I let my guard down the other day for 3 seconds while I opened a beer and got killed. I'm learning to take control of encounters quickly- sometimes through words (mostly with fresh spawns) but usually with bullets (everyone else). I've learned to be very stealthy and patient. Lone Wolf really teaches patience. It takes me 3-4x as long to work my way through a city or airfield, but I get out alive. To me, that's an enhanced game experience.

 

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Edited February 20, 2014 by ChimpyGlassman

[PJSleaze 111]

Yup. And if they add beards, mine's gonna be epic,

[Elidor 1]

The classics are:

 

Charnarussian Tourist Office

Military patrol of the defense forces

Big bad mofo cowboy

Black dude telling everyone they are racist

Desparate survivor

Selfless hero

Friendly rapist

Morgan Freeman: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy5OkG7_WR07nbgkDLDXZYQ

I'm thinking about roleplaying a Czech nationalist, who only allows people to live if he thinks they're fellow Czechs. So if they can't answer basic questions about the Czech Republic, POW, "Die foreign scum." If, on the other hand, they can speak knowledgeably about Vaclav Havel, or about the tragedy at Lidice, I'll give them my best weapons and all my food and water and offer to help them gear up. I'll also be polite to Slovaks, but I'm suspicious of them, because this is not really their home. (One small difficulty with this idea is that I don't speak the Czech language, so my luck I'd end up meeting a real Czech and he would kill me for being an imposter.)

[MentalMidget 12]

If there's one thing this game has teached me is that other people are worse then zombies. 

 

Head up north and hide in the bushes.

2000 year old latin phrase: Homo homini lupus - meaning man is a wolf to man..

In this case it would be something like: Homo homini mortus vivens - meaning man is a living dead to man :)

[Grimey Rick 3417]

If there's one thing this game has teached me is that other people are worse then zombies. 

 

Head up north and hide in the bushes.

 

On your way up north, stop by a school or two. (;

[MisanthropicOne 1]

I've considered looking for a group to play alongside but that hasn't happened nor do I believe it will anytime soon.

Currently i've taken to familiarizing myself with the landscape to reduce the need for maps. I venture into towns only to stock up on supplies after making sure no one is in the area.. in this zombies are my (not so) friendly sentries. When I get bored I practice stalking skills using either unsuspecting survivors or zombunnies.

I watch, learn, hunt & survive.