Friendlies are plentiful in DayZ- At least, for me

[doctorbadsign 645]

Mostly my encounters have been somewhere in the middle. Non-hostile, but not friendly.

 

On one occasion I had a Mosin pointed at me until I put my axe away then I was allowed to leave.

 

Another occasion I was at the NEAF, saw a guy that was clearly a bit afraid that I had a gun in my hands (they were unarmed), I told them it was cool and I wasn't going to shoot them, but they said nothing and I left them to it.

 

Another time I was playing with some friends and we saw a guy with an SKS we just told them to keep their hands up and face the other way whilst we went past. 

 

None of these encounters were friendly, but at least no one died.

[thelonewarrior 886]

Mostly my encounters have been somewhere in the middle. Non-hostile, but not friendly. On one occasion I had a Mosin pointed at me until I put my axe away then I was allowed to leave. Another occasion I was at the NEAF, saw a guy that was clearly a bit afraid that I had a gun in my hands (they were unarmed), I told them it was cool and I wasn't going to shoot them, but they said nothing and I left them to it. Another time I was playing with some friends and we saw a guy with an SKS we just told them to keep their hands up and face the other way whilst we went past.  None of these encounters were friendly, but at least no one died.

I have mostly similar encounters

My policy is usually no one joins my group, but we help you if you need it

Only exceptions are really new players who we observe from a distance and if they really have no clue what they are doing we may mentor them for a short time

Also heroes are welcome to join us, if we witness something epic like a guy saving someone from bandits and then they go their own ways (so we know they are not just friends) we would ask him to join us

Sadly I've only seen one hero like this and couldn't catch up to him before I lost him in the woods

He killed 2 bandits that were attacking new spawns and he let the new spawn take the bandits gear and went their own ways after that

[Highlander007 249]

Where is this magical fairy tale place where people hold hands?  No seriously, where?

 

It's called Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Edited March 7, 2014 by Highlander007

[daisho 74]

50-60 hours of gameplay, met 2 friendlies, died multiple times a day being a bambi getting hunted down by squads of fully geared people. Tried to communicate with them, they didnt either respond or just called me names.

Guess I was just unlucky. Would love to have more friendly encounters, not to beg for any kind of equipment or protection, but just to have my faith in the playerbase restored.

 

I'm havent been killed for days as I just stay away from people. I'm geared now, took me days, because I don't hopp servers and would find it utterly boring.

Maybe I now will shoot first ask questions later as well whenever I come across another player. I haven't decided yet. I just keep trying to stay away from people so I'm not forced to kill them.

 

Call me a carebear or crybaby for all I care, I wanna play this game  because it's different from all the other shooters on the market. If I want to show off a high KDR, big score I hop on a Battlefield server and show people their place.

 

Things will look different once Zeds will be an actual thread and maybe server-hopping is fixed and weapons and ammo will be harder to find so people can't go the easy way, then we talk again. I'm kinda looking forward to all the posts complaining about how they actually have to PLAY the game then.

 

/edit: typos

Edited March 7, 2014 by daisho

[comikz 218]

I was on a 40/40 server the other day, and out of the 13 people I met, 2 of them where bandits, 1 was KOS.

[Jex 1104]

I got shot in the face twice last night for being friendly.

[candytripn 10]

Wish I had your luck. In the last 40 hours of playing, I only met one person who didn't shoot me without a word. I found a bunch of bodies right after spawning and this guy runs up and asks if he can have his way with them. I got shoot by a sniper a few moments later.

At least there's hope that I'll run into someone who doesn't just shoot me on sight eventually.

[makomachine 263]

Over 150 hours in the game and approach every situation as a friendly. I can tell you that it's a 1 in 5 encounter on both experimental and stable servers for me. I find a direct correlation to how geared you are, and how likely you are to be smoked waving at someone, kind of frustrating and frankly until they put the Zeds as a greater pressure, a LRS or fully equipped M4 will get you KOS very quickly...