We enjoy this for different reasons

[bain 23]

We get several threads about how much people enjoy meeting friendlies in game to team up and go loot and kill zombies. It's held up by many to be the quintessential DayZ holy grail experience. I get it to some degree, I'm fortunate to have a few real life buddies who play with me and I love the teamwork aspect of that.

 

But I also have had the experience of meeting randoms and teaming up for a while. It just isn't the end all be all DayZ experience for me. It's just the same as playing with my buddies only minus the hilarious in-jokes we toss about as we go.

 

I started playing the mod way back in the day BECAUSE the other players out there are untrustworthy and blood thirsty. I love the feeling of isolation and hopelessness when hunger/thirst forces me to enter a city echoing of active gunfights when I have nothing but a flashlight. Even when I play with my friends, I still crave the solo play where it's me VS the world.

 

Honestly, when I'm looting through town and some poorly equipped guy runs up in hopes to team up and loot together, I'm a little disappointed. I'm not the kind of player to KOS them, nor do I like the notion of holding them up. I don't need their gear regardless of what I'm carrying or not (I freely admit this game needs far more difficult survival aspects). Having them with me invites the threat of a bullet in the back, and even if they're legit they'll just slow me down. Most of the time I turn them down and send them on their way with a couple cans of beans.

 

I play this game because I want people trying to KOS me. I don't want less of it. On top of that, looting up is easy and boring (unless people are shooting the town up). Zombies are an after thought, boring, and I don't need help with them either. Playing with friends is fun, but again, only really when we have other human threats to deal with.

 

Am I alone in this? Am I spoiled in that I have friends who play? Are the most of you stuck being lone wolves against your will? Why do people speak of KOS with such disdain?

[crazykilla420 11]

I have a couple friends that i play with as well. I don't find it entertaining to just kill zombies we look for fights that is what is fun we spent the time getting what we get so we can use it as we please

[Ubernaut 297]

I am surprised by how much of this I agree with. Beans to you, OP.