The Tales of A Lost Man

[The_Lonely_Bandit 94]

So I thought I'd share a short story of mine that I experience earlier today. To preface the story I'd like to add that I have taken to love and dedicate my entire SA time to hardcore only servers now and this story took place on a hardcore server, adding to the immersion in a indescribable manner. I encourage you all to try out 1st person only servers!

Now... Story time:




So your probably thinking.. WTF???! Haha I know but this is where my story begins. I log onto a high pop 1st person server at Berezino, now many of you may think "Oh well shit riperino dude". I thought the same, but funnily enough things seemed calm. No distant sniper shots, no new spawns running around hitting anything that moves. It was relaxing and to be honest the sunset made it quite beautiful and peaceful. WHAT?! Peaceful? In DayZ!?! I know.. Give it a second...

So I loot around the hospital, get pretty well geared. Drybag, sawnoff shotty, green raincoat, LOTS of food and ammo for several guns that I couldn't find!. So obviously my next choice was the police station on the coast, naturally I move down towards it cautiously. Dealing with any and all zeds silently, looting building that look juicy and untouched by the filthy hands of a bamby.

Finally after about 30 minutes (Yes I moved that cautiously) I am at the front entrance of the police station. Nobody around but me and a few dead infected within a over watch distance. All is good. 

For now.

I search the police station top to bottom, clear. Nothing.

Nothing but a broken pants and shoes for me! (Thanks Rocket) :P

I move out and quickly loot the surrounding houses, still no sounds or movement. But something feels off, I've got that itch that I think we all get when we feel someone is watching us. When someone is sizing us up. When someone is hunting..

Regardless I see nothing so I fear nothing, I continue to loot. Quickly now as I feel I have overstayed my visit in the City of hackers and bambi betrayal. 

I move towards the small blue hospital-like building just down the road from the Police station, all the doors are closed. So naturally I assume the worst that some arsehole is camping a room in there ready to blow my head off for my hard earned loots. Naturally, in my overconfidence I think to myself "Fuck it, I can take the fucking scrub". 

I stock up on the front door, shotgun in hand, loaded, ready to go.
I burst through the front door, quickly swiping left to right, checking my corners of the front room. Clear.
I make my way through the rest of the building with extreme caution, trigger ready, heat pumping. 
Last room closed room, I form up. Burst through the door, certain the camping punk is inside this room, this is it I've got him!
I swipe left to right naturally with precision. My gun ready to go.
Clear.

Nothing, not even a dead body. Not even a bambi hiding, waiting in ambush. "Whatever fuck it, I still looked badass when I did it". 

I walk back out of the room going to loot the rest of the building when BOOM BOOM BOOM 

3 shots hit a perfect triangle above my head, I panic, my gun is holstered, I'm fucked!

I shriek in direct chat like a little bitch and begin the universal panic run. Zig Zag, BOOM BOOM. Shots still hitting the walls next to me.

10 seconds in and I'm starting to snap myself out of my hysteria, "Ok, ok ok, chill man you got this. He has a repeater. He is alone. Lets do it."

I flank the building twice, hoping a double flank will catch the KoSing punk off-guard. Instead I realise he has already piss-bolted down the road to keep range between myself and him.
Smart guy.
Somewhat at least.

I pop off a couple rounds at him, hoping one of my little pellets will clip his legs and make my life easier. I fail.
I flank around, wide. Behind the church, behind the police station, with the KoSer running up and down the road like a smartarse over-confident prick chanting "Come fight like a man bitch'.

I'm on the wall of the police station, Peaking around cover. Waiting for him to run back up this side of the street. I hear his footsteps I peak around b "WAIT WTF!! Thats not him!" 

A fucking bambi sprinting towards me taking shots from the KoSer, fists up and of course swinging at me obviously thinking I'm also a arsehole. I try to hold fire, point my sawnoff at the bambi to scare him off. It works. 

I peak my head into cover just as I hear one more shot and the groan of a impact from a bullet. Bambi down. 

I peek and semi-blindly/semi-skillfully pop off two shots at the KoSer, legs broken.
I flank him for the finish.
Two shots later,
KoSer down.

I quickly take his repeater and run, I already had plenty of ammo for it and everything he had was ruined. "Fuck fuck fuck I need to get out of here man!" Is a chant of my own going off in my head now. I run north, north west in fact. And somewhat accidentally I enter the town next to Klen Mountain, Nice peaceful. "Sure I could loot this up, nobody is ever here right?"

First 3 houses, decent loot. I'm doing ok.

I get to the town square, clear the diner and run out into the parking lot when  "WTF!! AGAIN!?!"
A somewhat bambi/semi-geared dude is just jogging around minding his own business. Clearing cars for loot and what not.

I pull out my sawnoff.
I'm in cover. 
He isn't.
I know he is here.
He doesn't.

If I were to follow DayZ tradition, I had him dead to rights. He exposed himself, he fucked up. I didn't therefore I should be able to take his shit right?

Well sure... But is it worth it?




Turns out this time nope. He is a good guy, a rare type in DayZ. Or maybe he wasn't and was just being nice to not die? Who knows. At least he was very grateful of the box of cereal I gave him and the ammo, and the raincoat and the sympathy I think we shared for each other. Both being grateful that the other is talking in the same language, both thankful we were talking at all. 

A small encounter that didn't last long, but it didn't have to. After dealing with the KoSer in Berezino, this was the last thing I expected to see 10 minutes later. Shame it doesn't happen more often. 

Regardless I was grateful for the experience and gave the nice quiet town a good old wave good bye and pressed on with my adventure.




So I press on north, to a large city that starts with a S and is home to more KoSing and treachery. Of course I can't help but take some screen shots of the beautiful scenery at NEAF 



 


I pass through Olsha on the way down to the large city to the North East, after such a pleasant experience I guess my ignorance reached an all time high, often poisoning myself with thoughts such as "I hope I find a little bambi I can help out, need to get rid of some of this food!" "Maybe I'll save someone!"

I stroll down the into the valley gracefully, little caution and little time left..




I loot a few houses on the outside of the fringes of the city. Taking my time, listening out for shots. 
So far so good.

I make my way to the small hospital like building on the South side of town, as before I clear it, weapon out ready to blow. Clear.

"Black Cargo pants! FINALLY my outfit is nearly complete!!"

I prefer the all black look. "All I need is a black dry bag" I celebrated to myself silently.

I move towards the entrance of the hospital, I hear voices next door suddenly. 
I hear a leg brake. 
"FFUUUCKK YOUUU HACKERRR!!!"

I think to myself "Oh shit nononono not this way!"

I'm about to step out the door as suddenly....

An invisible hacker axes me in the face..




"You are dead"







Really man? 

Edited January 19, 2015 by Punisher5795

[boneboys 7988]

An invisible hacker axes me in the face...

 

I'm not convinced !

Did you see him break legs too ?

 

Apart from the hackspam, nice story.

[huf757 82]

video would be nice too :)

Edited January 14, 2015 by huf757

[The_Lonely_Bandit 94]

An invisible hacker axes me in the face...

 

I'm not convinced !

Did you see him break legs too ?

 

Apart from the hackspam, nice story.

I didn't see the man that had his legs broken. I just heard him yelling, which proves nothing. But getting axed in the face, from the angle that the front entrance faced would have been impossible for a normal player to do. I would have seen them, even if I was desyncing. I've died by invisible hacks before so I know it when I "see" it.

Sorry you thought it was filled with "hackspam". It's just how it went down. I'm not trying to make this into a bitch fit against hackers or anything :) (Not that I like them in anyway)

[The_Lonely_Bandit 94]

video would be nice too :)

I know! Wish I had my recording set up :( With my mic getting progressively shitty I haven't looked into doing any recordings. Perhaps I should soon.. 

[rickyriot 1009]

But getting axed in the face, from the angle that the front entrance faced would have been impossible for a normal player to do.

IMPOSSIBRU!

 

 

So if it was an invisible hacker how do you know he used an axe, and by all probability if they were a hacker  they wouldn't be using an axe.

 

 

Other than that, I like the picture of a cow in the street. 

[McWendy 675]

Good read during lunch,so thank you for that. :)

[The_Lonely_Bandit 94]

 

 

 

So if it was an invisible hacker how do you know he used an axe, and by all probability if they were a hacker  they wouldn't be using an axe.

 

 

Other than that, I like the picture of a cow in the street. 

Because of the sound that axes make when they hit a person, it was certainly a melee object of some type. Don't try to make out I'm a butthurt twelvie or something. 

Edited January 14, 2015 by Punisher5795

[The_Lonely_Bandit 94]

Good read during lunch,so thank you for that. :)

Nice to hear someone liked it, thanks. 

[McWendy 675]

Nice to hear someone liked it, thanks.

Tension, humor, depression, social interaction etc its all there. Keep writing and have some beans! :)

[The_Lonely_Bandit 94]

Tension, humor, depression, social interaction etc its all there. Keep writing and have some beans! :)

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

My first beanz ever... 

Not sure what to do..

Fuck...

"You are dead"

Rip beans <3

[BrainlessZombie 190]

What if someone had axed you... From the back? you said it, 1st person server.

[blackberrygoo 1416]

What if someone had axed you... From the back? you said it, 1st person server.

This actually happens to me a lot , and once even happened while I had all the doors locked to the 5 story office building . I had just locked the doors (including the roof door) and then put my back to the corner with the roof door to point my gun at the ladder .. I was expecting someone to eventually come up the ladder , but as I was waiting for a friend to arrive I hear footsteps and before I can turn around I hear an axe hit a door (must have been the one behind me I locked) and then another axe sound and the "you are dead" .

so it's definitely possible someone logged in behind the OP and axed him , and the guy complaining of a "hacker" with broken legs could have just been a coincidence being attacked by someone else .. But then again it doesn't matter we all know the hackers exist but I know for sure they aren't as big as some people say (8 times a week come on man you must be playing on the hackers home server ! ) but good story Mang I love hearing about peoples adventures, especially if they aren't KOSers , keep it up !

[Grimey Rick 3417]

No guys, it was probably as the OP described it. They're everywhere. I killed one the other day that was axing my buddy from a good hundred meters away. I saw it happening. My friend was getting hit inside a building so I burst outside only to see someone laying prone with an axe laughing in VOIP. I shot him, he died, friend stopped being hurt.

@OP: Good story, I enjoyed reading it. Basically sums up DayZ at the moment. Good guys, bad guys, two-faced guys, and cheaters. Don't let them turn your thread into hackusations. You just told a story how it undoubtedly happened.

Cheers mate.

[rickyriot 1009]

Don't try to make out I'm a butthurt twelvie or something. 

 

I'm not.

 

However.. the problem with online games is that when you lose a life the option "hacker" is a possibility. In reality it's a tiny percentage of actual deaths but it is a percentage, something you wouldn't think of with an offline game when you die in a strange or unexpected manner. Add in the fact the game is in Alpha and that insta-death are a known bug (I was once killed by running across a field in an empty server) then it's the explicit nature of your claim that I was poking fun of.

 

I still like the cow pic, btw.

[LoveAffair 329]

Great story , I'm glad it was NOT a video for once.. Finally some text and pictures in this press play of a world.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

The cow... you had me at the cow! Great story. That ending though - it's tough when you don't know if stairs or someone abusing the system is going to end a perfectly good run. I think that's one thing the community as a whole is patiently waiting to get past, but until then, tragedy loves company!

[Kyarno 5]

Good read, sorry your life was cut short. Better luck next time!

[sneakydudes 278]

Great read,

 

Gogo Gadgets!!!

 

-"Your Dead"-rip Punisher5795

 

lol

[hombrecz 832]

Was this on whitelisted private shard server?

[Old_Crow_Whiskey 119]

Sweet justice for KOS. BTW what we're you doing with a holstered weapon? That's city life 101 bro, keep your guard up.

[xhiril 43]

I'm not.

 

However.. the problem with online games is that when you lose a life the option "hacker" is a possibility. In reality it's a tiny percentage of actual deaths but it is a percentage, 

 

<sarcasm>

Yeah, all those players must all be chicken-littles. There is no hacking in DayZ, some guy with 1400 posts on this forum implied that there is just a tiny bit of hacking and almost every death is legit in DayZ SA.

 

Good to know.

 

Maybe the people selling hacks and exploits of DayZ for real money on other sites (with $ back guarantee) are just making it up. Maybe the hundreds of vouches they have in those threads are all astro-turfers...right? 

 

</sarcasm>

 

Back here in reality, most players know hacking is painfully rampant in DayZ, moreso than almost any other online game right now. And, because DayZ is perma-death, this hacking has a lot more negative repercussions than it would in other online games.

 

Of course, if you are only frequenting white-listed private 1pp servers you might not see this because there are only about 200 of you playing that way consistently. Whereas if you join a public 3pp server with a lot of players, I guarantee you will see this invisible/speed hacking you are seeing other posters report.

[xhiril 43]

An invisible hacker axes me in the face...

 

I'm not convinced !

Did you see him break legs too ?

 

Apart from the hackspam, nice story.

 

I just can't fathom how so many of you act like this hacking isn't rampant. Play on a 3pp server with more than 25 users for a week. I promise you will see this hacking.

 

Maybe you've been on a whitelisted private 1pp server too long. 

 

-shrug-

[jukaga 271]

I confirm 3pp publics are a mess of hackers. You're generally ok off the coast but I've encountered them at Vybor base and much more obscure corners of the north. ESP and teleport hacks know no map distances. I'm very grateful to private 1pp hives so one can play in (relative) peace.

[xhiril 43]

Dont get me wrong, I play the 1pp private servers too. 

 

Just saying that isn't an accurate representation of a challenge this team faces.

 

The good news is I saw Eugene I believe comment a week or so ago that they had some anti-hack stuff coming, and if you check some of the less reputable sites you can see some of these exploiters are getting banned.

 

We want to surface this issue though so the dev team can put a stop to it. Pretending it isn't there or isn't as rampant as it is is just plain disingenuous.