Your plans ?

[gambla 118]

What are your plans ? ....if you stay alive long enough to make some ?

First i'll try to get the knife and matches for some good steaks. Already got a hatchet and a nice cantine to refill. With that i plan to stay in an area with a lake and forrest. And just being happy that i don't need to loot for food and water anymore.

Second, if it get's too boring after some weeks, i'll look on the map for some interesting locations to explore, but will still avoid big cities and airfields. Maybe i just travel around, but still being very cautios.

Third, still alive, i'll go for better gear, but still taking no big risks.

Fourth, after having done everything i wanted to do and getting bored again, i'll try to get my hands on a sniper rifle. Finally, i'll then hunt Campers.

More good, realistic or just funny ideas ?

[Tranqlusion 0]

Go outside.

[gambla 118]

Ah, ok, so i guess you're trapped in a house, running out of water, hundreds of Zeds lurking behind the walls and a triggerhappy sniper waiting for you and just discovered that activated satchel charge ? ;)

[atasheep 0]

I would raise a family if I survive that long, lol.

[freak367 24]

Well, currently I am on my longest life, been playing for a good few days with one life, started by doing a couple of looting runs of Berezino picking up an ALICE pack, every tool apart from GPS, about 5 drinks, 5 tins of food, a double barrel shotgun and makarov with lots of ammo, and plenty of medical supplies, bandages, painkillers and morphine mainly, oh and about 3 smoke grenades. So I could survive in the forest, I went up north, found a heli crash, picked up a Bizon SD with 3 mags, explored more up north/west, came across some town I know nothing about, found a Revolver and managed to pick up 7 mags for it., kept exploring, killed a sheep and got 5 steaks, cooked them, so now I have even more food which also doubles as quick healing.

Then I stumbled across the N/W International Airfield, where I picked up a military flashlight? (no idea of the difference). Ran out of ammo for my Bizon SD so I picked up an MP5A5 with 4 mags, refilled food and water stocks, picked up another couple of smoke grenades and bits and bobs, then moved more up north/west.

And my quest now, is to find a Ghillie Suit, that is my plan. I want one so bad, I want to extend this life for as long as possible, and a Ghillie Suit will give me great cover. I must hunt one down.

Apart from that, I'm just going to keep up north/west, might do another run of the NW Airfield even though it is dangerous as hell, and just keep hitting local towns whenever I need supplies which is rarely to be honest.

Hoping eventually I might stumble across a vacant camp site left by a group of players, replace my weapons with better ones, fill up an ATV and be like the Mad Max of Chenarus. And if that ever happens, and I ever get bored, I might just drive through Cherno on a 60 player server and take on the entire city.

[gambla 118]

Thanks for sharing your plans and also like to read a bit of your char's story. I would not yet take the risk of showing up at an airfield or big city. But the danger must be exciting, so i'll try to resist as long as possible. I've found a ghillie once, don't remember where it was. But it was useless as i was already starving and loosing blood. Eventually i lost in a fight with Zeds.

[gambla 118]

Come on guys, first thing to do is making a plan, studying the map. Don't run around like a headless chicken.

[freak367 24]

Took a little time off DayZ but went back on today, I decided to do another run of the N/W Airfield even though I was fairly well kitted out, the place was packed with zombies and I ended up using 5 smoke grenades in total at different locations of the airfield to lure zombies away from places of interest, and I still ended up needing to kill about 30 zombies, mainly due to my lack of patience, I prefer to jog around the hangers to get in and out, but I figured I would pick up new weapons so I didn't mind using my Revolver ammo.

Before the hangers though I checked out the Barracks, which was an AK-fest, loads of them, so I picked up an AK-74 with 2 mags and threw my MP5 in my backpack still with about 5 mags after picking up more, I checked out all of the hangers and found more AK ammo, (So I dropped the MP5 and ammo), and I came across a G17 with 2 mags, and I only had 2 mags left for my Revolver... so I switched, then remembered seeing G17 ammo in the other hangers which I had already checked and in the barracks... So I backtracked picking up G17 ammo, killing more zombies.

There was a few hairy moments when I managed to get about 7 zombies onto me, and I took some hits, but it was ok.

Throughout I was having bad graphical errors... the entire sky and buildings distorting when looking in certain directions, making it hard to see anything, sometimes all I could see was a bright white spiky mess infront of me, unable to see zombies or buildings, so annoying, that caused me to take about 5 hits at one point, but I escaped.

So now I have an AK-74 with 6 mags and a G17 with 8 mags. There was actually a PDW in the Barracks, but I had no idea how versatile it was with regard to the different ammunition it takes, I could have had a PDW with 8 G17 mags :(, ah well. The G17 is still pretty sweet. Other than weapons, I managed to recoup about 2 smoke grenades and some bandages, but there wasn't much else. Still no Ghillie suit :(

So I headed back out North/West from there, then South/West, killed a sheep, got some steaks, cooked them and filled my blood back up to 12,000 and stocked some cooked meat away in my backpack.

Then my Dad rang me so I awkwardly got to somewhere safe while on the phone and disconnected to talk to him, since DayZ requires 100% concentration. Then I went to the shop and bought some cheese and an energy drink. My life isn't as fun as DayZ.

So my plan is still to find a Ghillie suit, I think I need to go to more residential areas to find one, I'm still not that familiar with the map though so I don't really know where I am going, on my 30th day now :D.