Our first real piece of action

[JakeXP 4]

So me and a few friends are relatively new to DayZ - about a week old now - and have already had many bad experiences during our short stay. Bad experiences such as helping out someone just to have them hack you down with an axe have provided us with a different mentality to the game as to what we started out with. The mentality that we've adopted is that of the 'shoot first, ask questions later' style. So anyway, after days of being cut to pieces with an axe and getting sniped from God knows where, we decided to take matters into our own hands.

The day started out with us three of us (we typically play in a group of 3-5 people) visiting the NW airstrip. We approached it with caution as we had done the previous time we had been there and scouted it out from a distance. We spotted a couple of guys casually hanging out in the ATC tower. At this point we only had medium ranged guns; an AK47, AKM and an M249 we managed picking up at a crash sight we luckily found along the way. Anyway, we watched these guys for a while and wasn't able to make a move on them as their weapons out ranged ours. To cut this part short, one of them we believe died to a zombie and the other ran out over the horizon. We spotted another crash sight nearby, which we decided to loot where we found our first sniper rifle - the DMR. So we logged out for a while until we began playing again on the evening.

We made our way back to Elektro and our guy with the M249 managed to die whilst out for supplies after getting knocked out by a zombie. He spawned nearby and went over to the fire station in search of a gun. To his surprise he found another DMR so we now had two of us kitted out with them. We now had two of us with DMRs and our third guy posing as our lookout with just a Revolver and a set of binoculars. The three of us decided to take a vantage point over Elektro from the hills to the north-east with cover from the main sniping spots. This is where the fun began.

I was lay prone overlooking Elektro whilst the other two decided it'd be best to scan the hills as we've been sniped from there countless times. I was happily keeping watch when our second sniper calls out "I've spotted a sniper on the hill above the dirt track.. no, two of them!" I quickly divert my aim following his directions and I could see them, one with a sniper rifle also and the other scouting for him using binoculars. We took aim on the sniper and I counted down from 3 to 1. This was the first time we'd properly used snipers on DayZ so we were not so sure on the handling at such range meaning we both just guessed the dip. We fired. One of the first two bullets hit and we saw him bleeding. We quickly fired of a couple more times and we were credited the kill. We quickly rescanned the hill for his friend who we then saw crawling around in the grass. Another few shots were fired and hit, though he must have used alt-F4 to avoid his inevitable death. We thought we landed both kills so we went up to collect loot.

The three of us headed up to roughly where we thought we killed them and the flies gave us a good indication. I looked through his gear and bags to find ANOTHER DMR, meaning all three of us now had this sniper. He also had a silenced M9, which I took without hesitation. After I had looted, I let the other two rummage through his corpse when I saw his buddy log back in right next to us. I instantly took out my new silenced pistol and fired off into him. I secured the kill, though this guy only had an AK47 along with another silenced M9 and minor supplies. We thought that would have been our share of excitement for the evening but we were wrong.

After thoroughly going through the two corpses, we were about to move to a new position until I spotted another guy running below us in the hills. It was hard to keep track of him due to the long grass around us and bushes that obscured our view. At the same moment, a quad bike zoomed past us in the tree-line further up the hill, though he proved irrelevant. I lay down in the grass keeping my eye out for this new arrival. I glanced over at the corpse of one our victims and spotted him run by. He was now fully in my aim. I crouched up to get a good shot at him but by this point he was also aiming back at me. I fired off a round of my DMR into his chest, but at the same point I was hit by his AK47. Luckily I was only unconscious with minor wounds whilst my shot was fatal. One of our guys quickly patched me up and we went over to loot this guy who must have been a friend. Again, nothing too rewarding.

We moved up a little higher into the trees when suddenly shots were fired just above us and one of us went down dead. I quickly proned down along with our other friend and kept still whilst looking out for the latest addition. I saw movement next to a tree just ahead of us. By this point my heart was racing moreso than any of the other occasions as I didn't know if he had seen us. There was more movement and I could now see clearly this guy lay down in the grass next to the tree. I remained patient and followed his movement some more before crouching up and instantly firing off several rounds from my silenced M9. I saw blood so I knew at least a few bullets had hit but I could no longer see a body. We moved further up to where I believed he was and could not find him. During this time our casualty managed to run back to his corpse and get his gear back. All of a sudden, the guy logged in in front of us and I fired off the remaining mag into him. It wasn't enough to secure the kill so I called one of our other guys over to execute him with his silenced M9. Again there was nothing really of any value so we decided to call it a night.

Apologies for the long winded post and a lot of not so relevant information but being our first proper encounter, along with being my first post I thought I'd put the effort in. I hope you enjoy the read somewhat.

[Bower 4]

Good read.

[tanktastic 1]

Enjoyed the read, the more info the better in my opinion.

[Xero66 26]

Very nice read, i wish i had a DMR right now.