Day of exceptions...

[Sedstr 18]

Today has been the best and strangest day I've had on DayZ SA so far.

 

My plan was the usual, loot the ship, head to the NEAF and hope for something nice, but as expected, the whole place was cleaned out.

 

I decided to call it a day, and wait till the wee hours and find a quiet server. Being careful, I headed out to find a safeish place to logoff...

 

Its funny and scary, when you think your alone, far away from the action, and you suddenly hear someone popping a can of Pepsi...

 

I say over voip, "Hey, hows it going?", hoping that the next thing I hear isn't a gunshot...

"Don't shoot, I'm cool" came the reply.

 

Now I've heard this before, and I've come a cropper after trusting people saying words to this effect, but, I wasn't that geared up, so what the hell, lets just see how this pans out.

 

"Just come out without a gun in your hand and I won't shoot" I respond.

 

He didn't have two primary weapons, just a Mosin on his back, and he came out with his hands up, I'm a 'lone wolf', so this is a first for me, I'm usually on the other end.

 

He explains to me that he was on the way to the airfield and that if I needed anything, he has some spares.

He shared his beans with me, and we chatted a bit about DayZ.

 

I decided, that again, I don't have a lot to lose... "I'll take point, lets head back to the airfield and through to the NE city, if someone takes me out, you can get them with that mosin".

 

About half way, it became so frustrating - communicating over the in game voip, that he suggested that we start a Steam chat, I've never used the steam chat and he didn't have TS, but we both had Skype, an invite later and we were communicating out of game.

 

After an easy loot run, we headed down south, his mate was finishing work in an hour, and they'd already planned to play for a few hours. I had some other things to do, I'd been on longer than I anticipated already, so we both logged off and agreed to catch up later.

 

A few hours later, I get a message on Skype, his mate was ready to play and would I like to jump on with them, I'll see you in a few minutes I respond.

 

His mate had been killed last time he was on, so first we had to meet up. We were down south, and he spawned in the NE city, we met up at the shipwreck.

 

"Lets head to the NEAF" I suggest, "perhaps there will be something left".

 

About 300m out from the AF, the server resets... OMG! We might actually get some loots!

We all load up the server IP and spam connect, we are the first ones on, we rush to the airfield paying attention to the player list, by the time we get there, there's already 10 people on the server, ignoring the zombies, I make it to the door on the top floor of the prison... ching ching, another player is spawing right next to me.... "Please don't shoot, Please don't shoot" I hear him say, he knows he's helpless - Should I kill him?

"don't get a gun out and we are cool" I say, "I have two friends behind me, if you shoot, so will they"

He doesn't, and he seems friendly at this point. he says he's just after SKS ammo, I just happened to have some, so I drop it on the floor.

 

The prison loot is ordinary, I grab a pistol clip and and we move on to the tower, all four of us. The new guy appears a bit trigger happy, another player appears from the west end, searching the hangers..."I can kill him, I can kill him" the new guy says.

"Just keep me covered" I say "I'm going to see if this guys cool"... I head to the hanger, 5 of 12 players on the server are now apparently at the NEAF.

 

Again, this guy is cool, and we head back to the tower, not a single shot is fired, and many beans are shared.

There are two guys heading this way from the south someone says, again, I take point, rush down and make contact, we now have 7 people out of 12 players, and still not a shot fired.

 

One more player logs in, and rushes out of the prison next to the tower, I can only imagine what went through his mind, 3 people were running around just outside fanatically killing zombies with axes and 4 people were milling around in the tower.

 

More beans were shared.

 

Four of the guys get bored and take off together, heading west, our plan was to head NE then south. The first guy we found starts talking about shooting the group that split off, "I really want to just shoot someone" he says...
 

At this point, we decided to bug out, there was some discussion on if we should take this guy out, just in case, but we just left him while he was double checking the prison at the other end of the AF.

 

We found a nice place to logoff, and agreed to do it again soon.

 

Did I win DayZ? It kind of feels like it.

Edited April 21, 2014 by Sedstr

[Pazzmon 64]

Sounds like you had a good time with meeting up with people, just remember, it could have been a very different game if either of you decided to be the tougher guy and lay a few rounds into either of each other, this is the part of the game I have yet to experience yet would fully enjoy doing, shame I never find any people to actually meet up with. :D

[hiniberus 122]

Sounds like not only you didn't KoS but you shared beans with such a large group of people, wish I'd have experiences like this. So I'll share my beans with you too, bud ;3