Those little things...

[Foogals (DayZ) 61]

Well, i've been playing DayZ for about a week now. I'd like to start by saying this game is great even though it's an Alpha. Alongside that I see a whole lot of potential and wish Rocket and the Dev team for DayZ the best luck in this Mod.

You've gotta love these kinda games. Games that feel open and feel like every little personal touch of yours can come back to haunt or reward you. Plus the extreme tension created by meeting people, other players is something i've never seen before. Everyone has their stories and (With given consent) I'm hoping people can share some of their seemingly random experiances on this thread.

For my two cents, I've never ever found a sniper rifle with a scope (Not sure what the Enfield counts as) but i've tripped over 3 tents, an AK, and two Ghille suits in my short time. This is intrestingly weird in my mind, but also awesome that stuff like this can happen. Aside from that I got shot up by some people I passed who I thought I yelled 'friendly' at, and it turned out my microphone was switched to mute.

TLDR: Share some of your better or worse experiances! I'm gonna try to read 'em all.

Also, gotta love it when a graphical glitch makes it look like the NW airfield is on fire :3

[Bender Rodriguz 8]

I seen a huge fire the first time I tried this game. Have not seen it again. I just assumed it was a mod to make a map smaller for Dayz. Now I don't know what it was. All I know is my video card didn't like it one bit.

My personal feeling about the game is how much every thing matters at times in the game. You spend all this time finding loot and you run into stranger(s), I don't want to kill them but I sure don't trust them. So what do you do? Take the chance they won't kill you or kill first ask no questions. So in this 30 seconds of the game all these emotion build up into this big rush. I have never played a game where my heart feels like its going to burst out of my chest and leaves my hands shaking so bad I have to walk away from the computer.

I know its just a game but its intense. Most games I played I want to be the best or just win, but this is not like any game I have played before. So much to gain and so much to loose.

Edited July 12, 2012 by Bender Rodriguz

[Foogals (DayZ) 61]

I seen a huge fire the first time I tried this game. Have not seen it again. I just assumed it was a mod to make a map smaller for Dayz. Now I don't know what it was. All I know is my video card didn't like it one bit.

My personal feeling about the game is how much every thing matters at times in the game. You spend all this time finding loot and you run into stranger(s), I don't want to kill them but I sure don't trust them. So what do you do? Take the chance they won't kill you or kill first ask no questions. So in this 30 seconds of the game all these emotion build up into this big rush. I have never played a game where my heart feels like its going to burst out of my chest and leaves my hands shaking so bad I have to walk away from the computer.

Yeah, that's what happened when I accidently left my mic off and got in a fight :o

[zmol 18]

My group and I found a chopper with an AS50 among other things. It's my first sniper (having played a month though) and I wanted to try it out at the NW airfield. I get one kill as a player is running away from me at 700? m distance out in the open. First shot misses, but the second hits just after he leaves my viewdistance :)

It starts raining and i change to a new server, lie and wait 10 minutes without anything happening then all of a sudden i hear the grunting of a zombie. I look behind me in 3pd-view and see one zed crawling like 10 m behind me towards Vybor. We're 300m from the nearest building and I had yet to fire a single shot, so I can only assume that another player must have run right past me trailing a slow moving zombie. That got my heart going and it makes me try to piece together the scenario that went before this :P I really appreciate those 'what-on-earth-happened-here-moments'

[species5021 28]

Me and a friend encountered the NE airfield being on fire, it was caused by someone that had crashed a heli on the runway. Not one of the loot helis, an actual flyable one. Made it look like the sky was on fire for miles around. Weird stuff, nice going finding a sniper rifle. I tend to find the CZ550 a lot which is a great gun up to 800 meters where you need to make headshots to put someone down.

At the NE airfield me and 2 friends were looking for loot and we had just checked all the barracks and towers and were sitting on a hill discussing where to go next, my friend heads down to the line keepers box at the edge of the airfield (the toll booth looking thing) to check for ammo and drinks. We're talking on skype when he yells i see movement, skype goes silent and we immediatly go prone. At our edge of visibility we see a guy coming down the hill heading towards a cow that was standing there and he shoots it. Me and my buddy had a CZ550 at the time so we take aim, telling eachother its like 700 meters away so to zero to that range.

The guy goes prone to minimize risk but we realise he has to crouch to gut the cow so we wait and take aim, he crouches and we open fire. Two bullets hit his chest from 700 meters away and he barely hears a shot, he passes out and starts bleeding but hes not dead yet. We try to finish him off but from that far away and being prone its not an easy shot, but my friend gets a lucky hit and he goes down. But my friend at the linekeepers box is under fire from somewhere so we scan the treelines but see nothing. My buddy next to me is getting low on ammo at this point with no secondary rifle so i give him my last CZ550 clips and i grab my m14 and move off down the hill in a large circle to see if i can come behind whereever this other guy is.

My buddy at the box has run out of ammo so he picks up a crappy double barrel shotgun that was on the ground and starts firing sporadically to keep the other guys attention on him. I've moved around the target and my friend finally spots him lying prone just next to the road almost invisible because of the long grass. Im almost behind him at that point and i take aim and fire 5 shots.

They all go wild. Now he knows im behind him so i hide behind a bush where he cant see me because of the grass in his face, he makes a decision to go for me and stands up. The start moving towards me and at that point a bullet enters the back of his head from my friend who was still 700 meters away, marksman shot. We take home the gun with the thermal sight on it and an m4a3 and a shitload of medical supplies.

We later get congrats from our adversaries over sidechat and a GG for an awesome firefight.

Best experience in games in a long long time :)