Storytime: Just reached my endgame

[non-orthodox 27]

Ever since I started playing DayZ, I always wanted to play the hero, helping others out and hunting bandits (specially the second part). Today, after 200 hours of gameplay, I finally managed to do so. After going basically around the whole map, I found a bandit camp outside Electro, with 3 bandits active, shooting bambis in Electro. I sneaked upon them and killed them, from 50m away, 10 minutes apart, and they didn't even see me with my ak101! Today was a good day, and this is my story:

 

 

Spawned in a server, near Svetlo. I was actually pretty frustrated because I had a fully geared character reset after trying to connect at 09:20 to a server (I do not reconnect anymore until there are at least some ppl and it's 09:21 - hard, hard lesson learned). I walked upwards to Svetlo, found a black drybag and a firefighter axe and proceeded to scavenge for food and other things. After finding 5 composite arrows, I decided to give the bow a try, found myself a machete, found a chicken thing and gathered 20 feathers. Made myself some arrows, made myself a bow and thought of playing the hero with just the bow for a while. Found a bambi in Novo, didn't even have a bag, I gave him a canteen (found 3 of them in 10 minutes =S), but when he was about to get it, I decided to handcuff him to see how the handcuffs worked (I had never had the chance to put them on someone). So, when I told him to break free, it turns out that neither of us really knew you had to crouch before you pressed A and D, so I told him to wait while I went to the industries on the outskirt of Novo, to get a hacksaw. 10 minutes later, I came back, he was gone (he had googled and found the way of breaking free). I saw then the same guy (he was wearing a white construction hat) right outside the building, I ran up to him and crafted him an improvised backpack. He thanked me quite a bit, and we looted some food together before both of us had to go for lunch.

 

Now alone, when I got to Novo, I found a guy outside the police station, who just asked me to kill him. He had friends in Electro and argued that it was too far for him to walk there, so he wanted to get a new respawn... I almost left him there alive, but then again, it's fairly easy to get yourself killed in Novo, so I tried to bow on him (I needed a target, after all). Another lesson learned, do not aim in first person, the arrow will land anywhere but where you think you are aiming at... Hit him in the chest (aimed at head, on third person - he was 20m away, should have aimed higher), he dropped dead.

 

By the time I reached Severograd, I was a bit frustrated with the lack of military loot, I had visited every single police station, fire station, prision and barracks between Svetlo and Severo, with the exception of the NEAF and Krasnostav (I was sure those would be a deathtrap on a full server). I had a feeling that if I carried on, I would reach some military building PACKED with loot, since all of those were completely empty. When I got to the gas station on the west side of Severo, I tried to blow it up with my improvised arrows... Turns out that improvised arrows are TERRIBLE to hit anything further than 10m away, and I didn't want to get myself blown up with the gas station, so I figured I needed a real gun and proceeded to Novaya Petrovka.

 

I hadn't visited Novaya before, I actually liked the city, it looks pretty different from the others. But still no good loot, just zombies to kill, so time to head off to Toploniki (heck, I was almost there already, why not) and then NWAF. I was happy that when I reached NWAF, it was early in the morning, so very few people were around. On the north of the airfield, I came accross SKS ammo and found one SKS at a broken tank, kissed my bow goodbye and hoped for the best, proceeding to the actual airfield. Luckly, I came across a single person in the entire airfield, who heard me from afar and started screaming "Friendly? FRIENDLY?". Lol, he was more scared than I was. He was server hopping, because it was a Brazilian server and the guy was speaking English with an American accent. I thought of killing the server hopper, but he was gone as soon as I said friendly. I had my SKS out, so I guess he didn't want to stay and find out how trustworthy I was.

 

Absolutely NO loot on the airfield. Not even gorka clothing. I would have to stay with my summer hunter pants and green raincoat for a while longer. At least I had now an UN helmet. I always toyed with the idea of using the UN helmet all the time, but the light blue really sucks for camouflage, you can be seen from afar, but for now, I didn't have much to lose, I had no military gear, my most valuables were a lockpick I had found, and a longhorn with 4 bullets...

 

Time to hit up Vybor, before heading to the military camp just southeast of it. Vybor had nothing as well, and I wondered why I would even bother going to the military camp, I was pretty sure it would be empty too. Boy, was I wrong... When I hit there, I could barely get inside the actual building, with all the backpacks and loot on the ground, on EVERY single barracks, or even the prision! I was so happy! There were about 3 to 5 AKs in every room in each barrack. Loot was on top of more loot, and it was really hard to go through it all. In the end, I left all my stuff outside and proceeded to put things into things until I could sort all the loot. I was done in the second barracks, after I found the third ak101 clip I wanted. From there, I had everything I had when my character got reset, on Saturday... Autumn gorka clothing, uk vest DPM camo, hunting backpack, ak101 with PSO-01 scope, makarov with 3 clips, longhorn with ammo, binoculars, rangefinder, gorka helmet with visor, my shades and a white balaclava (I couldn't find a green one so far, like i had on my previous life). I was pretty happy =)

 

I figured, finally, now i can go hunt bandits without having to worry about camouflage or having a decent weapon. Put my shades on, and headed towards Cherno, avoiding roads. When I got to Cherno, the server had only 10 people in, so I thought of moving to Electro, as Cherno sounded pretty dead, zombies everywhere, not a single noise at all, after 20 minutes waiting.

 

I headed to a good spot in Electro, where I get vision from not only the hospital, but both firestations, police station and more importantly, the sniper hill. A few people walking around, one on top of the hospital, looking around but with no guns out, another on the police station fighting off zombies, but absolutely no shots heard. Then, server restart... Took some time, when I was about to log back in, I saw another server with over 30 people in it (I only play on those two servers). So I decided to get there and hope for being luckier spotting bandits. As soon as I logged in, I heard shots. It sounded like a m4, but I wasn't sure, I hadn't heard m4s firing in a while. And there was also a mosin shooting, from the same location as the m4, the sniper hill. I could hear a SKS inside the city, but I figured it was someone already doomed to die to the bandits on the hill, so after having a good idea of where they were on sniper hill, I started moving around it to get them from behind.

 

I didn't know how many they were, or if they had support around the hill, so I decided not to risk and took the long route. went as far as Topolka Dam, before crossing the road (I was west of the sniper hill), and proceeded to climb the mountain... I could hear the shots pretty close, but I had no idea how close, so I went prone and started rolling all the way there. After about 200 meters of climbing the back of sniper hill like that, I reached the top and couldn't believe my eyes, there were bags and bags, clothing and clothing of military loot, from smersh vests, hunting backpacks to the new military backpacks I forgot the name of. I didn't know how far they were, but I went to check what was in them, and they were filled with ammo and other stuff. There was a skull balaclava damaged, I had looked for one of those for AGES, so I put them on and proceeded to locate my foes. I was worried they might come back to the camp, so I picked a good spot behind a tree on the east side and waited to hear another shot from them.

 

My fears came true, and they were talking with someone while climbing up. One was in military gear with a m4, another while just a white shirt and a blue drybag + mosin, and the third only had a backpack. I was prone, so I didn't want to risk shooting them and missing (aiming in DayZ or Arma, for that matter is really odd, there is a small movement delay which always fucks up with my aim quite a bit). All 3 of them were on the upper side, 20 meters away, after failing to spot me, even when I saw the mosin guy looking straight at me while walking towards the camp. I knew I had to take down the m4 guy first, but it wasn't a good shooting position while they were moving. I said fuck it, let me do it before one of them gets another m4, so I shot him while prone, at 30m, 7 times before he got out of sight. I thought I had him, I thought that 7 shots was enough to kill one at the torso, but nope, I was wrong (I couldn't aim for the head while they were moving, I was prone, hidden and having issues with aiming in the game, I went for body damage). My bad, he didn't die, but luckily none of them saw me either.

 

I stayed on my position for a few minutes. They tried to locate me, but goddamn, they were blind... Then I moved uphill, towards their camp, I knew at least one was there, I could hear him messing with ammo and eating. He was still with his mosin, while the m4 guy was moving down to snipe people again, and the third guy was nowhere to be seen. As soon as he started eating again, I crouched and hit 3 bullets on his head. He dropped dead, I went prone again, and the m4 guy went nuts trying to find me. He went past me 3 times, and when he was on the side of the hill to which I had complete vision, I just shot him half a clip. he dropped dead. I went to his body, he had a pristine skull balaclava and a m4 with 60 rounds mag. I decided to stay with the AK101 because of the PSO scope, so I took the balaclava and heard the third guy running around the camp. From there, I decided to just go, I had shot the 2 confirmed bandits and scored the best loot I could hope for, so I started running with a huge grin on my face. I was done, I accomplished the single thing I had tried to, after 200 hours in DayZ. Thank you for this game.

 

EDIT: Pic or it didn't happen:

 

Edited November 17, 2014 by non-orthodox

[odin_lowe 3686]

Great story. I enjoyed reading that. Good job on those bandits. This is truly the stuff of heroes! :thumbsup:

 

Keep it up! And share other stories if you ever get another good one like that! :beans:

[harteman 155]

Lol, I love it when people decide it is time to go hunt bandits.  They should look in the mirror.

[non-orthodox 27]

Great story. I enjoyed reading that. Good job on those bandits. This is truly the stuff of heroes! :thumbsup:

 

Keep it up! And share other stories if you ever get another good one like that! :beans:

 

Thanks alot =)

I will be working for a while now, but I will post new stuff, when it happens. Thanks for the incentive!

 

 

Lol, I love it when people decide it is time to go hunt bandits.  They should look in the mirror.

This makes absolutely no sense. It is not even wrong...

Edited November 17, 2014 by non-orthodox

[jukaga 271]

Lol, I love it when people decide it is time to go hunt bandits.  They should look in the mirror.

 

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”.

 

So true in DayZ.

 

I really like watching some of the better streamers but the hypocrisy in declaring everyone with a weapon out as a bandit making it okay to kill them just cracks me up. Let's be honest here, if someone is a threat or a potential threat to your survival, you kill or avoid them. Trying to take the moral high ground in DayZ PvP is patently absurd.

[odin_lowe 3686]

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”.

 

So true in DayZ.

 

I really like watching some of the better streamers but the hypocrisy in declaring everyone with a weapon out as a bandit making it okay to kill them just cracks me up. Let's be honest here, if someone is a threat or a potential threat to your survival, you kill or avoid them. Trying to take the moral high ground in DayZ PvP is patently absurd.

True. But Streamers are not a reference. They do PVP to get viewers. They usually say a lot of non-sense. Players play to have fun, enjoy their entertainment and do it for all the reasons they find taking some time off the real world is important.

 

I often see people go "It's just a game, to hell with integrity!" and laugh of their own contradiction of finding silly ones who set up self objectives.

 

Of course, making it sound self righteous is absurd, but in all 700hrs+ of playing between survivor and hero style, I've never killed someone who didn't deserve it. I stick to my rules because I like the way the game evolves around this play style, and I don't impose it to others or say it's the right way to play the game, as there's no "right" way to play and enjoy games. 

 

Judging from the content of his story, the way it's written and the maturity of it's formulation, I'd say I believe 90% of what happened was true and as described. Which for me, is a true "hero" playstyle.

 

Anyway, we're all monsters. The choices and decisions we make with the power in our hands makes us better, or worse monsters, but mankind will always be a monstrosity.

Edited November 18, 2014 by Odin Lowe

[jukaga 271]

Yep, I didn't mean to disparage the OP, it was a good story. I just object to the bandit/hero labels that get tossed around so much.

[non-orthodox 27]

True. But Streamers are not a reference. They do PVP to get viewers. They usually say a lot of non-sense. Players play to have fun, enjoy their entertainment and do it for all the reasons they find taking some time off the real world is important.

 

I often see people go "It's just a game, to hell with integrity!" and laugh of their own contradiction of finding silly ones who set up self objectives.

 

Of course, making it sound self righteous is absurd, but in all 700hrs+ of playing between survivor and hero style, I've never killed someone who didn't deserve it. I stick to my rules because I like the way the game evolves around this play style, and I don't impose it to others or say it's the right way to play the game, as there's no "right" way to play and enjoy games. 

 

Judging from the content of his story, the way it's written and the maturity of it's formulation, I'd say I believe 90% of what happened was true and as described. Which for me, is a true "hero" playstyle.

 

Anyway, we're all monsters. The choices and decisions we make with the power in our hands makes us better, or worse monsters, but mankind will always be a monstrosity.

 

Thanks alot =)

 

On what is true and isn't, all I said actually happened, what I didn't say though is that I left the m4 there, and I didn't hide neither of their bodies, so in the end, they still got their gun and will be able to recover the loot and shoot people. I should have hidden the bodies, but I had never gotten to this point in the past. And I was also afraid that one of their friends would log on in their camp and kill me.

 

That said, I only shot people that I saw sniping bambis. No one saw me, so I didn't get shot by anyone else, if that wasn't the case, yes, I would have to kill them too, even if it was a bambi thinking that I was the one shooting him/her.

[odin_lowe 3686]

Yep, I didn't mean to disparage the OP, it was a good story. I just object to the bandit/hero labels that get tossed around so much.

Totally agree.