Reminded as to why I love Day Z

[WeeCody 16]

So after dying every time I get somewhat armed, I began to get disheartened. I mean how many times does a guy have to get tickled with the prospect of a weapon? You know, to shoot those bastards that ALWAYS seem to kill me. Every time I get stacked a little bit, I die before I get a chance to use anything!

Until just now. My hands are still trembling from the experience.

I'm at the NW airfield with my buddy. We had been traveling for 4 hours now; starting our trip at the ever-hostile Elektro, we slowly moved our way north thru small villages and medium sized towns. Loot was promising, as we slowly but surely got ourselves supplied for the trek north. We managed to clean out Nova and Starry Sobor entirely. Once we reached the airfield we encountered our first bastard (in 3 hours) who tried to make a move. We put him down quickly and shared his scraps.

Once we reached the barracks we split. I took upstairs while my buddy searched downstairs. While I have my head buried in my own gear, I hear a symphony of gunfire and curses.

My buddy is down by a silent assailant. Shot with an M4. I have a Mosin, but lets be honest, I have one opportunity to save my ass. One shot to save my hard earned work. One chance to revenge my buddy and kill this son of a bitch that dared to enter.

I proceeded to slowly creep towards the stairwell. I know this guy is either below me or next to the entrance. I peered my head around the base of the stairs and was met with a flurry of rounds my way. Snaps and cracks warning me they are much to close. I pulled my mosin back up to my face, eyes beamed at the bottom of the stairway. He hasn't moved and inch. I have.

By the time the whites of my eyes met his, it was too late. Bandit #2 had the advantage of firepower. I had the advantage of a fresh angle. This fine sir peered out from his safety wall, M4 ready to go. He was kissed right on the forehead by an angel with a 7.62mm round to follow up.

Threat down. Right?

I'm rummaging thru the murder scene, trying to scavenge anything I can. Ammo, food, water and medical supplies. Thanks to this guy, I now had two ammo boxes to stuff things into! I'm excited. Adrenaline is pumping. I tasted victory like no other. I was down and caught surprised. I wasn't ready. I didn't have the gun for the job, but I did it.

And that's when the door opens again.

I've never pissed away a magazine as fast as I did there. I lit that doorway up and when the entrance was clear of a threat, I kept firing. Run away asshole. Get off my turf.

And that's when he starts yelling at me over the chat, cursing me for standing over two dead bodies like a vulture. Cursing me because he's bleeding out and thinks I'll come to finish him up.

Here I thought he's playing tagalong with the guy that took out my buddy. Here he is thinking I killed both of them. Once we started chatting, we started laughing about the whole thing and I patched him up and sent him on his way.

I have more loot right this moment than I have ever had during my 60 hours on SA..... This game rocks!

[Knock (DayZ) 111]

That was a nice ending. I've met a group of baddies at the NWAF before, but I also formed a group of four strangers at the NWAF. This is why I don't get KoSing 24/7.

 

Nice story :)

[WeeCody 16]

Haha thanks man. Yeah any of the military bases or airfields are not the typical locations I expect to find pals.

Granted, we never linked up but for me to be able to come back out and actually not get shot by the guy I just unloaded at..... I was surprised.

[shaeg 136]

Nice to meet someone who didnt take you out when he had the chance (bandaging him up). It seems every person I met at one point tried to kill or betray me. I had one guy play with me for 3-5hrs we were at NEAF when I caught him raising his m4 to me in my left screen (3 monitors is the shit) and started fireing. took one in the chest and one in the leg but I was faster.. I fired an entire clip of 45 ACP at him as he scrambled away. He was out of ammo and trying to tell me it was an accident as he bled out I handcuffed him, stripped him naked took out his kneecaps and left him there after i bandaged him up.

 

Revenge is sweet.

 

Cool of you to not just finish the guy off who apparently just stumbled on to a bad situation at the wrong time in the wrong place. The game needs more players like yourself and not just KOS baddies.... I mean, I understand the world needs things that poor parented children can take their frustration out on so we dont have school shootings and all but really the KOS mentality is a bit much in this type of game which should be about survival/banding together/strength in numbers vs zed hordes....not shooting everyone you see to get "Ruined" trophies

[P0rkchop 31]

If I meet someone at a military location I assume the worst. Also since I'm fully geared now, and I mean fully I expect to get screwed. When I'm low gear I don't really care and will risk it.

 

Now that I'm fully geared I'm really only looking for a fight lol :)

[nexventor 429]

Great story.

 

There are a few glaring mistakes you made, I hope that you read back what you have written, analysis where you could have improved and come back with another story.

 

Well done.

[Irish. 4886]

So you're saying my precious NWAF is starting to see some life again? 

 

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, that is some good news.

[Khanarac 252]

With the changes to militarytents it should see a revival. However, still many servers don't have lootspawning militarytents, and we stalked the airfield yesterday for about 1 hour or more, without anyone to be seen (and we always ran into servers that had no militarytents with loot somehow)

[WeeCody 16]

Haha I had made a few mistakes and I continue to make them. I'm doing my best to learn from every encounter and see where in the interaction I went wrong. I definitely should've gone to the airstrip with either an sks or a sidearm.... minimal. You need something with semi auto to be able to cover your ass. The Mosin should only be used from a distance.

I was surprised that the interaction at the airstrip didn't turn out worse. You always have to assume the worst, that's for sure . Even non bandits will put you down in a heartbeat.