My first life in DayZ 1.0, death by flying car

[Survivor1431 116]

I spawned on the coast and my FPS was terrible despite a decent PC. I met a couple fresh spawns and learn that its a bug. One of them acts friendly then tries to kill me. I almost died due to the stun-lock despite him having a stick and me have a sledgehammer and a helmet. Eventually I kill him and eat to recover my health. An hour later the FPS issue is fixed. Then I explore and move North-West. I get to a city and notice the infected are moving in slow motion and stuttering heavily. I can outrun them by simply jogging away from them. It turns to night and the game is pitch black even on a clear night. Infected start attacking me and I manage to kill them despite being unable to see. A player hears me and approaches with a pistol and head torch, he kills the last infected. We part ways and I watch his headlight move through the city at night. Next, I get to some barracks and find an automatic weapon with ammunition and some military gear. I find more food and cook it with a fire. I move further north and hear wolves howling, however, they attack an infected some distance away from me instead. Both the wolves and the infected are moving in slow motion and stuttering, and glitching over a fence. I move in the opposite direction since they were still fighting each other after 5-10 minutes of spectating. I kill some more slow-motion infected with my axe and find a well where I fill up my water bottles. Then I see a vehicle, it is Lada 4x4 missing some wheels. I decide to get inside to see if the engine will start. Before I can do anything the car starts bouncing around uncontrollably and eventually launches 150 feet into the air while wildly spinning around in circles. At this point I knew it was over and wished goodbye to Chernarus. My car landed and I died on impact. The environment finally got the best of me: death by flying car.

Edited December 14, 2018 by Survivor1431

[pilgrim* 3514]

those wolves hate zombies, that's for sure. It's a good way to get away from a pack ATM :  shut yourself in a house and let them all fight it out.   & go easy on cars - who needs them?

[Survivor1431 116]

Well, the wolves wouldn't have been a threat since they were moving in slow-motion. But I have confirmed this is some network issue with full pop servers. On low pop servers the infected (and presumably wolves too) work normally. Hopefully these issues get fixed soon as I am enjoying the overall atmosphere and experience on 1.0. But these bugs are game-breaking.

Edited December 14, 2018 by Survivor1431

[Survivor1431 116]

Another player made a video that depicts how I died perfectly. Just imagine I'm in the car...