A story of triumph and tragedy...

[Apocrypha8 54]

This is my story... I was playing on hardcore with a good friend of mine, and this is how it went:

We begin our journey at Pavolovo military base, and begin looting . After we finish, we come across a player with no gun, whom kept thinking we were taking him prisoner for some reason(LOL), and just leave because he has nothing of interest. We make it to Zelenogorsk, and loot the barracks and then the jail. Here is where it gets interesting. I have only a blaze with about 20 bullets, him a MP133 with a good amount of ammo. As we are about to leave, we hear zombies aggro'd. We think it's us, so he takes out his axe. As we are about to head out, someone runs up the stairs with an axe, he sees us, pulls out his AKM, and sprays holy hell at us. My friend gets lit up and is knocked unconscious, and I am bleeding. I post up, scared shit-less. I risk my life for the life of my friend, and bandage him. I forgot about myself bleeding, and then do that. After we get our bearings and he awakens, we discover that all of his gear was ruined(he got shot a bunch). I look at myself and to my surprise, only my backpack was ruined, but not anything in it. We had found SKS ammo in the jail, and I had dropped my SKS back in the barracks. I take his shotgun, as I have more blood left and would be better for using it, and prepare to clear downstairs. I go downstairs, nothing, nothing anywhere, but I notice he had closed the doors. I take a risk and run to the barracks, where I had dropped my SKS. I take it, with only 20 rounds to it. As I go to look in the one room where there is a backpack for my friend, the guy opens up through the window, scares the absolute shit out of me, but doesn't hit me once. We take cover in the bathroom, one covering the window, one covering the hallway. After about five minutes, we take off. I head left around the other barracks and out back, he goes out front. Then I hear another rip of gunfire, my friend is dead. He was at the main entrance. Me and this guy play chicken, running around, taking shot at each other.

After a few minutes of that, I move out of the military complex and into some bushes around the perimeter, waiting for him. As I stroll left, looking for him, with only two bullets left to my name, I see him. Back by the gate. He shoots, breaks my arm(but i wasn't bleeding), I shoot twice. HE DROPS! I was ecstatic, but this comes with a grain of salt as I had lost my partner. I go over to him and hit him in the head with my axe for good measure, and yell at him in direct chat :P

Hardcore is intense.

[Zing Freelancer 58]

Cool story bro, glad you have friends who still play DayZ.

[a_ruttle 199]

Cool story bro, glad you have friends who still play DayZ.

Same boat, though mine stopped playing because poor optimisation and their absolute turbo potato powered PCs

[Apocrypha8 54]

Same boat, though mine stopped playing because poor optimisation and their absolute turbo potato powered PCs

Optimization is a bitch, sometimes it lags so bad, but I stick it through. Of course its always good to fall back on the mod and arma 3 :P