How was your Day(Z)?

[schwaBAM 200]

After 3 days of roaming high pop servers in the north looking for players to interact with, Eno and I were talking about heading to Berezino and then maybe south the next time we could play together.  We were just about ready to log near Svetlojarsk when we spotted someone.. then another, and another.  Keep in mind, we normally like to engage in chatter with other players, maybe try and hold them up but let them live.  After the 3 days of not seeing a single soul, I let the bad blood set in and resorted to shooting on sight after the first guy ran away.  Sorry dudes!

 

This video is about 11 minutes long but I didn't want to cut out all of the clips that that lead to the end result.  

 

Edited June 28, 2015 by schwaBAM

[DaveB 194]

ahaha nice gameplay schwaBAM and ENO :D I just parked my pub toon near the train station in svet so I can join the fun when you guys are back online

Edited June 28, 2015 by DaveB

[schwaBAM 200]

At 6:28 in that video, there is something moving in the trees at the far right of the screen next to the "red" tree.  A zed I think..

[eno 1049]

Yeah I can confirm that's a zed... one of the two that ended up on top of me once our engagement was complete. I could hear them making their racket... kind of wrote it off for awhile- then when we were done I looked up and they were both literally on top of me at the level just above where I was. Fortunately the terrain was complicated and they were just walking back and forth behind me. 

Edited June 29, 2015 by ENO75

[Killawife 599]

Some annoyance today and one good thing. I spawned outside cherno and jogged towards the city. After a bit I hear voices so i go to investigate. Two bambis come running, one chasing the other yelling threatening obecenities. I blow the annoying one away away. Later I approach cherno and the weirdest thing happens. I notice intense lag and then my character starts skidding along the ground, a bambi appears and I am tossed hundreds of metres into the air. I then fall and die. I have no idea what happened. Might have been a hacker but I have had this happen to me before while in a v3s so I can't be sure.

 I log in with another character in elektro. I have a cr257 with hunting scope so I keep to the outskirts. Theres a war going on with lots of shooting and everybody seems hostile. I geared guy spots me so i shoot him in the head from 200 m, nothing happens so I run and hide. I go up in a crane adn spot the guy and a friend on sniper hill. I watch them for a while adn they kill another player down by the guard house so I shoot one of them but he sneaks away. The other guy starts shooting so I shoot him too but hes immune to bullets. He approaches the crane adn im forced to keep low as his friend shoots whenever I pop up. He starts talking to me, trying to lure me out but just as Im gonna pop him again the server restarts :/

 I log in on the same server but the two guys doesnt show up so i go down from the crane and continue on to kamyshovo. A couple of hundred metres away someone starts shooting at me from the elektro side so i hide in a tree. I hear him bustling past and just as Im gonna ready my gun I see that ITS MISSING! The damn game left it in the crane! I only have a cr75 as backup so i sti tight for a bit then decide to go back for my gun. I make it to the fences by the guardhouse when I am shot at and hit. I lie down and the guy comes running, its the same one from before or at least he looks the same but hes not talking. He probably thinks Im dead but I empty ten bullets into him and he drops. I take his AK and leave. everything else on him is ruined. I cant get his name as he's already left the server.

 Half my equipment is ruined but I can reload the ak and feel quite good about the whole thing.

 Now happens the most annoying thing of the whole evening. I am hydrated and energized but my screen stays white. I bandage myself, use morphine and epi-pen and eat six or seven cans of food and drink lots of water and soda. I do notice that my statuses are not updating and the server is emptying so i go to another public server. On this one the statuses seem to work as I am instantly unconscious and never wake up. And I had gone all the way from Elektro to maybe 500 m from Stary sobor just to drop because of those damn statuses not updating. Really annoying.

Edited June 29, 2015 by Killawife

[eno 1049]

 Now happens the most annoying thing of the whole evening. I am hydrated and energized but my screen stays white. I bandage myself, use morphine and epi-pen and eat six or seven cans of food and drink lots of water and soda. I do notice that my statuses are not updating and the server is emptying so i go to another public server. On this one the statuses seem to work as I am instantly unconscious and never wake up. And I had gone all the way from Elektro to maybe 500 m from Stary sobor just to drop because of those damn statuses not updating. Really annoying.

 

This is definitely cause for concern. I was in with Schwab last night and noticed my status wasn't changing. At first I wasn't too concerned since I hadn't been moving around a lot at the time... then we ran over to novo and my status still wasn't changing. I'm not sure if the system is totally glitched (health system is literally not changing) or if the health system is changing but the notifications aren't... Which part of the system is broken? Anyone know? 

[PlasticAssasin8 (DayZ) 78]

What , you had to time to pen that little ode while being assaulted by three Zs? Hmm.

 

Anyway, I neglected to notice that it was exactly midnight, tried logging in to a new server and got wiped, after a solid three weeks of pretty successful pillaging. So a pretty shit day tbh.

i sat upstairscalmly penning it while knowing i had only a few minutes of life left either way

[eno 1049]

Schwab and I got together again at Novo to see what kind of action we could drum up. The last reunion (video above) at Svet was a refreshing blast of activity and interaction of sorts followed swiftly by hours of silence. We worked the main road through Novo and looked into a few of the guard shacks to see if we could find anything of use but short of a couple nice to haves it was the same old thing: Loads of vests of every description (including the previously mystical Smersh vest I'd never seen until a few days ago), some boots- makarov clips... An AK74U (but no mags) etc.

 

We agreed to make our way back out east towards Svet and see what was happening around there. We've been playing a bit more aggressively than I'm used to and I wanted a chance to get back into helping people out a bit more... protecting the weak from the "others." As we worked our way towards Svet from the West, DaveB got on and mentioned his character was also in Svet. We coordinated through Steam Chat and eventually ended up joining him in Svet. We had a bit of a hairy moment right away as he opened fire on a zed just across the tracks from where we found him- then another... and another... and another... they were coming from everywhere. I think he knocked out most of them- Schwab may have grabbed one as well. 

 

I hung out up high and watched for trouble or activity while those two looked for a few things on our shopping list- including spray paint. 

 

They burgled as I watched over them to try and ensure they weren't taken by surprise... but no paint. 

 

Finally some movement caught my eye in the train yard. I was able to confirm that the person didn't have any weapons... whether they had a bag... how they were dressed... 

 

I won't go through all our engagements- but we saw a weird trend develop that evening. It went something like this: 

 

I would call out a location, description and direction of a target and DaveB / Schwab would intercept. They have an advantage since I'll have been able to prepare them for what they're going into. Once they get into range, Schwab would initiate contact.

 

"Hey- put your hands up!" No response other than the character would turn and run away. Okay- not really a surprise. Schwab has some good kit and so does DaveB. "Stop running- we can probably help you out!" 

 

No response- just more running away... generally to ladders. In this area, these ladders generally belong to cranes. Cranes that proved incredibly easy to jump off of. 

 

One guy was more compliant... Schwab told him to get down on his knees so we could cuff him- 

 

"You'll be fine... we're not going to hurt you- we're just protecting ourselves." Schwab tried to cuff him and the guy kept moving around. "Dave- shoot him in the leg." Dave held a vote in his head as to which leg he was going to shoot and ostensibly shot the guy in the face instead... Not sure that one was going to hold up in court so we promptly hid the body and moved on. 

 

Another freshie... Tracked him down but this again resulted in another ladder swan dive. Now I'm actually starting to feel bad for people- I think perhaps we are "loving" a bit too much... killing people with kindness.

 

"LET US HELP YOU!"

 

"No."

 

"Alright then- you asked for it!" 

 

 

You are dead

 

 

We're literally not running around looking for people to kill- it's just that everyone we come across either resists or kills themselves. Wish we had that series on tape... (cough do we schwab? cough).

[schwaBAM 200]

We're literally not running around looking for people to kill- it's just that everyone we come across either resists or kills themselves. Wish we had that series on tape... (cough do we schwab? cough).

Lol yes, I don't think I have the one of DaveB shooting the one guy in the face though.. that one made me lol.  

 

Not one person complied!  I was literally there to give out food, water, and items to whomever wanted but they all were intent on fighting or swan diving off the nearest crane.  Oh well.

[eno 1049]

I think back to my beginnings... if I'd seen us do that to someone back in Berezino I'd have killed us all! 

[DaveB 194]

Hey don't blame me, my native language is french so i confused leg with head lol

[eno 1049]

Man... I'm glad you're on our side!

[eno 1049]

Had a bit of a strange one last night with DaveB... starting out in Svet and I was in my new found hide looking out over the town for activity. DaveB joined me down below but after 10 minutes of looking around, 3 swan divers (freshies looking to respawn) we got bored and decided to make a break for Chez Eno down in Berezino. For those of you who haven't been here since we tried that concept out- Chez Eno intended to be a quick stop shop for the desperate to get a variety of supplies to sustain a trip inland. Generally it was for people who knew the coast wasn't a safe place to be... especially near Berezino. Take some supplies, and a rain coat... here's a melee weapon and get out of here. For some time we'd actually tried to help "escort" people through Berezino to safety but didn't find a lot of people to help in that regard. 

 

Anyway... DaveB got on with Schwab and I back in those days and he and I figured we'd head down there and check it out. With a full server, we knew there was going to be some trouble but between the two of us we were confident that we could manage ourselves accordingly. We were on Steam chat but his mic is on the fritz- so he can hear me but he doesn't use voice. 

 

In the back of my mind, the number of people running into town from the east / SE, up the industrial building and jumping off (without knowing we were there this time) in such a short period was indication to me that something was going on somewhere else. Hopefully not Berezino.

 

We headed south through the trees between the rails and the road... being relatively cautious but by the time we got to Riffy we (I?) were (was) getting a bit careless. This was evident when out of nowhere I thought I heard a voice building up from behind me. 

 

"Hey! Hey!" WTF?

 

"Did you hear th-" I was cut off as the voice got louder.

 

"I know you can hear me!" I looked around behind me to see a fresh in his underoos sprinting up. DaveB was in front... so checking 6 had been my responsibility. I had just been issued a flaming F grade for my performance. I mean... really? "Listen, can you just kill me? I need to get (somewhere) to help out my people." 

 

0 hesitation- DaveB drills him. 

 

A quick pause before I see Dave type out: "How did we miss him?"

 

I was relieved to see he took some ownership since I was feeling pretty sheepish to have been ambushed by Frank the Tank.

 

We carried on more tactically from this point- with each of us taking our turns checking 6 as we took the rear position in our Berezino Express. Gradually as veg closer to the water thinned out, we headed slightly west towards a small church. This landmark was just starting to come into view when we heard gun shots. Something heavier- a pretty good thud but no snap... So not likely being shot at us. We both went to ground and listened. 

 

"That coming from the church?" Which was to our right.

 

Dave types out "Sounds like up ahead- 100m."

 

"Okay- So closer to the tracks." 

 

There is a newer rail yard located on the North side of Berezino along the coast. The advantage of Chez Eno back in the days we were running that was that I became intimately familiar with every feature of Berezino... common spawn points, common sniper hides... I could visualize out of sight areas and maneuver accordingly. This new configuration was still relatively unknown to me so I was totally disorientated. 

 

We stayed low- and random shots rang out... We weren't sure at whom so gradually we both leopard crawled our way closer. A few more shots- then silence. 

 

"Contact..." Dave types out- "Fresh." I was able to see a fresh with a blue shirt run past the rolling stock lined up on the tracks... but no gunfire. He ran out of sight... no shots. We inched closer.

 

DaveB moved between the trees- I crouched and started moving a bit faster to give him some cover. 

 

Shots- smaller caliber weapon this time... faster rate... and now accompanied by the telling "snaps" of rounds passing closer by. We moved a bit more- now we're hearing the shots, the snaps AND the impacts. 

 

"Pull Back!" Dave managed to type out before beating cheeks in a quick advance to the rear. 

 

We maneuvered around that area, heading west then south of the church... then back in towards the source of continued gunfire in both calibers. It was still near the tracks around that rail yard... Maybe we could see more from the hill on the south side of the road we were approaching?

 

What happened  next was pretty chaotic but involved a lot of maneuvering on our part... some confusion as we lost track of one another while being shot at and then add occasional zeds drawn into the fray... I found myself wishing persistence was on so that I could put my pack down and lower my profile. There were times I wish I'd been able to dig a shell scrape from being unable to get down low enough- the intensity of everything happening around us at that moment really helped to remind me what it is about this game that I enjoy so much. 

 

We both eventually had to log out of this disaster before identifying the location of the shooter/s... Felt a bit guilty having to break contact at that moment but that's how it goes sometimes. Dave's situation was made worse as we were starting to get closer to our opponents and couldn't get his weapon in hand. 

 

"Can't load anything in my hand... bug?" he typed out in frustration I could feel 3 provinces away. 

 

We both withdrew to a safe location and agreed we'd go at it again- maybe tonight (cough Schwab cough)!  

Edited July 2, 2015 by ENO75

[schwaBAM 200]

Awww, that story pumped me up!  Wish I was there.

[Bonappetit 117]

Few days ago I decided to meet with a friend just above Cherno forest. Next thing you know I hear shots, many shots actually! I look down the Cherno 500 meters away from my position and see a massive deathmatch of 10 players at least by some random house at northern part of the town near the football field. I decided to join in from the sides and killed 3 of them from said distance. Next thing you know there's 2 players rushing my position and I managed to get a headshot on both of them. Using blaze is still challenging for me and guess I was pretty lucky there. My friend started moving through a tree line to meet me when all of a sudden some guy jumps on him, I fired 2 shots but missed and my friend died. While I was reloading he managed to break my legs and make me bleed, as well happened to him by me. Next 5 minutes we were crawling, hiding behind the trees and trying to get each other with few zeds on our backs. Luckily for me he had a couple of zeds more on him and there it was, my chance to go for it and kill him. Just a few seconds after he died I started getting shots from which I assumed it was the closest apartment building in Chapaevsk. I rolled and rolled and rolled until I get into a cover and bandaged, by then my screen was already mostly grey. In a matter of seconds I aimed down the sight for the upper floors of the apartment and spotted a ghilied sniper and wounded him. Just a few second later another player with an SKS came from behind and finished me. Wish I'd used my Shadowplay option from Nvidia to save the last xx amount of minutes, didn't had so much fun in a while I'll admit. Also since then, blaze became one of my favourite guns even though I always disliked it :)

Edited July 2, 2015 by Miracool

[Killawife 599]

I had an interesting night. I logged in incherno with a pretty new character weilding only a sawn-off shotty and almost right away spotted a three guys up to no good. I avoided them and I'm glad I did as I heard shooting shorter after. As i moved up towards Dubky I see another two guys ruunning towards chapaevsk. As I enter a building near the road I find a dead guy in there. As I get to Dubky its looted and i find another dead guy in the middle of the street, Jeezus! I go to Chapaevsk prison and close the door behind me. Moments after it opens, I sit still and ready my gun, a guy appears blazing so I blast him with my shotty. He lives. I position myself better and ask him shy? No answer. He appears again blazing so i pump two rounds of shotty into his ugly face again and he drops. I go unconscious and never wakes up(you never seem to recover form unconsciousness in 0.57?).

 I respawn in Elektro and theres murder going on there too so I go along the coast to avoid it. I find an axe which saves my life as I hear gunshots and happen to run into two guys carving up some poor dead guy. They see me so i go into a house and hides. A guy comes in with a flare gun so I whack him and he dies. His friend comes in so i whack him and he dies. I take his gear. As I'm looting two bambis show up. I explain myself and tell them to take what they want. I leave.

 I go up country and after a while I spot a guy standing by a deer stand. I talk to him but he doesnt reply. I check his name and tie him up. I go through his gear but he has nothing of worth so I cut the ropes and move on. He still doesnt react.

 I come to some buildings, go in and find ANOTHER DEAD GUY! In the middle fo nowhere almost. Hes recently dead too but I spot no people anywhere. I go to the Stary tents. The server restarts and i find a truck right away so i got top the first heli site. Theres a guy there but he has no ammo so we tag along and go to the second heli site. Theres two guys there shooting so we go to the third. Theres no good gear but I give the guy some ammo and my hunting scope. We go to the airfield and the guy has some net problems so he logs out. I go on to the prison. While Im there I hear shooting adn I see someone come running so I plant a mine in front of the door. I sit and wait, the door opens and its the guy from before. I screma to him not to come in but he does, the mine explodes and....nothing. It says "you have been hurt by a landmine" but no damage is inflicted.

 We go on but only get to the hangars til the server crashes.

[DaveB 194]

That was sooo intense and fun, I just wish we could spot and fry the guy. Had a blast with you Eno, can't wait for schwab to join us on our journey to conquer and secure Chez Eno :)) Pretty sure to be online tonight if you guys are up.

[eno 1049]

As promised DaveB ducked into Berezino looking for the elusive paint can and after scouring the entire south side to about the hospital we got bored and figured we might as well head to the construction site. 

 

We didn't find a single item there... I think Dave summed it up best when he typed: 

 

"There's a nice view- but that's about it."

 

I took a look around and saw no activity. When Dave joined me the server pop had been quite low but by the time we were clear of the industrial site it was packed full. 

 

"How about we run our old route down to Nizhnoye and head to the factory... see if there's anyone around we can help out? Loads of people in here and this is a common spawn area." 

 

"Sure." Dave typed in reply. 

 

We headed down and almost immediately saw a fresh running along the beach. He didn't want any part of me as I stepped out to join him and just kept on running in a straight line. I tried calling out to him but he didn't hesitate to frost me out... It was a bit strange since there are only two reasons to totally ignore someone:

 

1) You're afraid the guy with the AK / Hunter gear is going to kill you

2) See 1. 

 

Okay- granted he may have not had a mic so he may not have heard me (did they ever fix that, I wonder?)... or maybe he was in a hurry to "help his people" or something... but 9 times out of 10 if you're going to elude someone it's because you're worried about getting killed. 

 

But the guy just ran in a straight line... no sniper shuffle... just ran straight. I ALMOST killed him just because it made no sense- but then I realized that not being given an opportunity to help someone is not a justifiable reason to shoot them in the back. So we carried on to the south. Niz hadn't had anything and as Dave pointed out, "Looks like someone's been through here already- a lot of open doors." Definitely more than just random doors... and we found nothing. 

 

We got to the road block just north of the factory and I spied another relative freshy with a motorcycle helmet on (and as a rule I don't like those)... I think he was in "road autopilot" mode when he looked up and saw a couple of handsome gentlemen with rifles pointing at him politely telling him to stop and put his hands up. And when I say politely- I mean we could have charmed the queen's panties off from our relentless pursuit of pure, unbridled eloquence. I mean... I'm not sure why you'd want to- but hey... Keep an open mind. 

 

Our new friend was quite cooperative and we quickly learned he had returned from a break from the game for a few months. He was a bit out of sorts (and ended up having to take a phone call halfway through our interaction after having locked the microphone open- probably by accident). He needed some water and food so we provided him with a canteen, some and some sardines. 

 

"Oh wait," I took the sardines back. "Who the fuck wants sardines when you can have peaches!" 

 

DaveB (spoiler alert: doesn't actually kill this guy) offered the guy a crafted improvised knife for the journey and we sent him on his way. There was some graphical glitching going on and the guy was nice enough to point out that it looked like Dave had left his AK on the ground. I was relieved to see that he hadn't said so while sprinting towards it with every intention of rocking it like an air guitar all over us. Dave had his AK... but part of it was still on the ground...

 

Weird.

 

"Welcome to .57 dude... Things are probably better than when you left but there's still some work to do!"

 

"Alpha."

 

"Alpha..."

 

Alpha. It's like a salute between players.

 

Anyway- we bid the guy farewell and wished him luck.  A cursory look into the factory revealed no kit at all... and the search for the mystical paint can continues! 

[Hairy_eyeball 82]

After 3 days of roaming high pop servers in the north looking for players to interact with, Eno and I were talking about heading to Berezino and then maybe south the next time we could play together.  We were just about ready to log near Svetlojarsk when we spotted someone.. then another, and another.  Keep in mind, we normally like to engage in chatter with other players, maybe try and hold them up but let them live.  After the 3 days of not seeing a single soul, I let the bad blood set in and resorted to shooting on sight after the first guy ran away.  Sorry dudes!

 

This video is about 11 minutes long but I didn't want to cut out all of the clips that that lead to the end result.  

 

is that the SVD you are using? how do you like it? what gun was ENO using?

 

[Hairy_eyeball 82]

ok so first time posting a story in this thread. here goes. 

been lurking around the north area for a few months when .57 came out and wiped my guy. which i was ok with since i needed to learn the new stuff the hard way. so i end up spawning in svet and the first thing i find is the guard house full of vests, an AK, ammo, food etc. 

'well this is a good glitch' i see noone ( i think there was maybe 6 or 7 people on the server) so i do my favorite run up to Novo, Severo, over to bashnya and NWAF. i log for a bit then i get a message from a friend to meet him up later. 

so i wander around looking for more gear. experimenting with stuff along the way. i go to vybor and i head in the base, check all the buildings. i had been searching for fnx mags. i had seen a hundred makarovs and everything, but i ad the fnx with the light and fnx scope but no battery. I find a mag and do a happy dance when i hear someone pop a soda can and munch some food(upstairs). I pull my ak74 that is fully geared, im in the back room when a guy runs into the room and i kneejerk and shoot him, he falls and i immediately regret it. i type out 'my bad' because my mic decides to not work, then get to work patching him up. i check pulse, and am in the middle of bandaging him when his partner runs in and shoots me in the head. i felt bad but felt i got what i deserved. (his name was Death by the way, it was funny because when i checked pluse it said 'death has a pulse' and i was like 'wtf?')

so then i spawn on the east coast at 3 valleys, i run to the lumber mill and gather supplys, i find a container and rejoice! i go to the police staition looking for an m5, (i had a makarov at this point for zed defense), but see someone running around in front. i pull back and he shoots me in the back. i zigzag around a few buildings and patch myself up. then wait a few mins before coming out. i see the guy being chased by 2 zeds and  get mad he shot a guy in the back, so I shoot a few rounds at him. he somehow loses the zeds and i lose sight of him in front of the train station. so hide in teh trees for a bit looking for him, then go into the police station so get geared up. im almost done clearing the building of loot when im sitting in the jail and a guy comes out of the back room and shoots me, im able to put a few round in him, but he has me cornered. he is fully geared, gorka helmet, face mask, ak74, the works. he ducks behind the stairs and i tried to shoot a few rounds to keep him down while i try ot get out the front door and he pokes out and gets one good headshot on me and 'you are dead' 

before i hit the respawn button i hear 'thats right b*H!' 

oh well. dont get mad.

but really im kinda mad...

so i respawn at 3 valleys again and decide to go inland immediatly. and to my surprise the Dayz gods blessed me. after nearly starving i make it to msta and find a bunch of food, a water bottle and a truck! so i hammer down to try to get to NWAF to meet my buddy (remember that was the original goal) the truck had a full tank of gas buti ran out by the time i get to Stary sobor ( i made a few stops to get food) then get to vybor and loot the base (everyone had logged by this time so im alone) finally make it to NW and my buddy isnt there and doesnt know when he will be back. so here i am hanging out in the forums and doing item research

[schwaBAM 200]

is that the SVD you are using? how do you like it? what gun was ENO using?

Actually, it was an AK with the new kashtan scope. Eno was using the same I believe. We both had silencers attached.

[eno 1049]

Yeah... we have identical weapons.

 

DaveB let me fondle his Remington with hunter scope last night and I must admit I think it would support my play style better than the AK74... 

 

We were on the coast yesterday and worked from Nizhnoye to Three Valleys and down around the Horn... Not a ton happened until the end (pretty common every time I tell anyone I have about 5 minutes before I need to log). A truck went by us while we were looking for netting at 3V and both of us took cover. It went past us without a fuss- but neither of us feels great when trucks are near. He got run over by the first one he encountered and me? Well... I fear conflict.

 

 

Dave and I had moved semi-tactical down to Krutoy Cap with the intention of hitting a boat spawn just west of there in search of netting for his gun wrap. We made our way around the houses located there- 

 

"Truck!" Dave managed to type at almost immediately the same time I realized what I was looking at. The driver's door was open- Then I heard a dull thud. Like shooting but...

 

"Can I hear shooting?" 

 

"Like axe on a tree." 

 

I took cover on my side of the house, peeking around the corner through the sights. I had a perfect view across the driver's side of the truck... Am I going to shoot the driver? Am I going to try to make contact? 

 

Thud... Thud.... Thud. 

 

I checked around the other side of the house- clear. Went back to the truck side just in time to see the operator coming back to climb in. I held fire- but heard a shot.

 

I know what you're thinking before you think it... DaveB assassinated another innocent survivor, cut off his ear and added it to his growing necklace. Well- you're wrong again! Instead, Dave types, "I shot his tire." 

 

Just as he types that, the guy gets out of the truck and runs to the back. Looks at the tire (I SWEAR I saw him kick the front tandem), then goes around to the other side of the truck and taking a peek on the front driver side tire on the way by. 

 

To be honest I'm not even entirely certain why I did it... whether it's some fear of people in trucks- or the thought that they're all hackers who are going to make the truck levitate in the air and drop on my head... Maybe the curiosity of whether or not a tactical helmet can take a 5.45mm round- whatever it was that made me pull the trigger on him as he got back into the truck (maybe I just wanted the truck?)- I'm not 100% sure... but I was INSTANTLY filled with regret. Oh, by the way... it can take a bullet so the regret was very short lasting. At that point my regret was that I didn't shoot his face in the face. 

 

Instantly- engine off. Buddy leaps from the truck and starts sprinting around- heads out towards the water but disappears between the houses and the shed. I figure he's got a bead on me and he's moving to flank so I sprint out onto the road and to the west past the truck and back behind cover beside the fence nearby. I think he was bandaging- looking for a fight.

 

Well- he's going to get one! I thought to myself as I silently prayed for DaveB to step in and burn his world to the ground while I wrote my name in sanskrit with urine on the fence during a nervous pee. Where the heck is Schwab when I need him!? Family eh? Pfft.

 

The guy didn't pull out guns akimbo and start shooting us into tetley teabags... nor did he turn the world inside out, fold it in half and then make our game crash. He got back in the truck as fast as he could and took off leaving us to shoot at his tires... which we did albeit with questionable effect.

 

Sigh- late for bed again!

Edited July 4, 2015 by ENO75

[Hairy_eyeball 82]

there is something psychological about those trucks. it makes you want to shoot them, no matter how well armed you are, no matter how overpowered, or under powered, if you are alone or in a squad; you just HAVE TO SHOOT AT IT. ( the tires remark made me laugh so hard by the way) 

too bad a gas tank takes so much to make it blow

[eno 1049]

Well- a mixed bag last night with DaveB. 

 

On the top shelf he finally got a mic working so we were able to communicate for the first time and I can verify that he is not, in fact, a dolphin embedded in some top secret naval research study in facilitating communication between the species through Steam. 

 

We'd made it to the southern end of Berezino and after a little running around decided to stop tickling the sides and to just push in towards Chez Eno. Thought that going straight in would rip the bandaid off and once at Chez Eno we could hole up and evaluate how much further we were going to go. This was a 50/50 server- busy... and new to both of us. 

 

A pub server is a pub server- it takes all kinds... but sometimes you get a different feel from one versus the other. Sometimes it's a little less PvP- other times even the trees want to kill you. We weren't sure where this server was going to fit in that analogy, so we were both being cautious. I made contact just before the east / west road that branches off the main highway and ducked out of sight. 

 

"Single contact... looks like he's seen me- I'm taking cover." The individual I saw had stopped around the same time I did so I took it for granted that I was seen. I dropped behind a bush and thinking I might be seeing a few rounds coming my way took partial shelter behind one of the posts lining the tracks. 

 

"Where is he?" 

 

"Just south of Chez Eno... just came out of the trees from the-" snap... snap- along with impact on the post. "I'm taking fire here... I'm hit- I'm hit." I sort of lost track of Dave at that point- I thought he was further back but he was in fact further forward and to my left. I caught a glimpse of him before I withdrew. 

 

"Can you flank?" 

 

"Not sure- bleeding but otherwise I seem okay. I'm going to back off and head around the left." Dave then started taking fire and was hit.

 

"I'm unconscious-" 

 

"Fuck. I have an epi pen but I've got to get it up there to use it... No idea where this guy is anymore." 

 

"He's right in front of me- in the next tree." I fired a few rounds into a few trees- no idea if I hit anything. Then the character came into view around a bush and tried leaning out to get a couple shots in on him. My rifle was all over the place. I fired a couple shots- then he fired a shot into DaveB. "I'm dead." 

 

More expletives from me... I leaned around again and started shooting but I think my arm was broken because I couldn't aim at all. He got a few more shots into me and I was unconscious... then dead soon after. Probably had it coming for one reason or another but it was still frustrating to have felt like I flailed so badly. 

 

We both respawned immediately and I was fortunate in that I got put on the north side of Berezino- a quick sprint from where I dropped... maybe get a taste of who just took us out. Not to take anything away from him since he took out both of us and showed great skills- but I was curious about whether or not this player would shoot a freshie on sight. DaveB was spawned in around Krutoy Cap and I knew I was going to be on my own for awhile. 

 

I saw movement as I entered the north side of Berezino- someone running across the street towards the water. It was right around where I'd expect someone to be if they'd just been involved in our slaying. I continued sprinting down the middle of the road.

 

Snap- ugh! Okay... well now there's a good chance I know what type of person we're dealing with. I dropped with at least one broken leg and then had to start crawling... forgot to turn my shirt into rags... and also forgot that rags were standard gear. Either way it didn't matter- both were ruined and covered with blood. I was bleeding and had a broken leg. 

 

"Well well well-" I hear someone say. I can't remember exactly what he said after as much as it was very taunting- you know the kind... you know the whole "I owned you bish... how you like that?" 

 

"Yeah- shot a freshie... you're a terrifying predator- a mercenary." 

 

"Look at you crawling... where you going to go?" He stands above me then shoots at me... miss. 

 

"You didn't seriously just try to shoot me with a sniper rifle (a .308 remington with a ghillie wrap on it- similar to DaveB's it might be worth mentioning)." Another shot- miss. I keep crawling around.

 

He stood above me at one point and said "you just tried to ambush my friend... so this is what you get." All I can figure is that he checked pulse on me before I respawned and got my name... this guy might have checked pulse on me to get my ID and made the connection. He shoots at me again... and again... I think he hit me once but missed a bunch- felt like half a dozen times or so. Not sure what the Remington carries off hand but it was more than a few shots. I was still crawling like crazy- but when I looked up over my shoulder this guy was running away. You can only imagine what I said over my shoulder. I crafted a stone knife, went to a bush and cut it down for some sticks. Now I just needed some rags. 

 

Fortunately it turned out I was very near a guard house- so with my broken arm and leg... bleeding... I was able to crawl over to it and swim across a lake of high cap and assault vests, grabbed an AK, ammo, mag... then I found a rag in one of the half dozen vests. Sweet! A red bike helmet- hmmmm... okay, fine. Need all the protection I can get.

 

"Hello." WTF.

 

"Uh- hello?"

 

"Hey." Sounded a lot like the last guy-

 

"Yeah, hey... it's me. You and I just had a bit of a row but I'm over it... Let's just carry on shall we?"

 

"I just got in this server man. You cool?"

 

"Yeah- busted up pretty bad... leg, arm..."

 

"Sorry- don't have any IV stuff."

 

"Maybe a bandage? Got a bandage?" 

 

"Yeah- I think so... here mate." Nice guy! 

 

"Careful- the guy who did this is skulking around and his buddy has skills. They're not afraid to shoot." 

 

Stay tuned for part 2. 

[Killawife 599]

Something happened today that made me sad and angry. I have a fully geared character on public 3pp that I didnt really know what to do with. I then went to the prison island with another character and noticed that plate carriers spawned there adn since this geared character had a pretty rare gun holster I figure I 'd go there and get a fully loaded plate carrier. I found a truck in Severograd and drove through the whole fucking map, into the sea and then swam half the way onyl to have the game swallow my holster as I was taking it out to remove my gun.Wtf? I looked like a madman for it but it was just gone. I had to settle for a plate carrier with pockets and no holster. And If I want one I have to go to the heli crash sites. Again. sigh.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Killawife