Just played for 3 and a half hours with a friend (first time) and...

[serenityrick 218]

...We both were shot dead. We probably had it coming though.

US Server 171. Approx 10:45pm EST/EDT. ENE of Polana.

My friend and I have both played this game before about two months ago back when it took about an hour just to log into a server and have your character created. We messed around a bit but ultimately we both agreed that we would wait to play again when the game was a bit more stabile. Right off the bat we cheated a bit (as I'm guessing most people do when wanting to play with a friend) by loading up an interactive map of Chernarus and trying to get our bearings so we could find eachother. After about a half hour or so we meet up, pick a spot and go exploring for supplies.

Nothing too exciting happens in our adventure. We stick to the forests and treelines when we move so we never ran into anyone. After a couple hours of rummaging barns and houses we both have Enfield rifles, plenty of ammo, plenty of food, water, soda, bandages, painkillers along with a couple watches, axe and a toolbox. We were doing pretty good. Between the two of us we had close to 40 zombie kills as well :)

Welp. After ransacking a high yield factory southeast of Polana we make our way north along the tree-line to check out a deer stand. From this hill we have a perfect vantage point of the town of Polana. My friend mentions that he saw unusual movement in the town that made him think that there weren't just zombies there. Sure enough we hear a single gunshot in the distance. We go prone in the tree line and we just stare at the town.

A few minutes go by and we confirm that there is at least one survivor in the town.. a few seconds later and we see that he has a buddy with him. We wanted to stalk them and see what they were going to do and while we didn't exactly confirm to one another that we were going to kill them, we both knew that's what we were going to do.

Unsure if they saw us in the tree line to the south, my buddy provides watch over the town while I make my way north along the tree line to flank them. My friend says that they are booking it as fast as they can to the forest where I projected to be within seconds.

I bring up the iron sights of my enfield and begin my search. I pan my rifle to the right and out steps one of them from behind a tree with a handgun pointing right at me. In mid sentence I begin to yell to my friend "oh shit oh shit oh shit" and sprint back into the trees, zig zagging my way through. In hindsight I should have just shot him dead but I was kind of hoping he would say/type "friendly" and for a couple seconds in my retreat I figured that was the case as I didn't get any gunfire... But then he fired.

He missed with each of his shots and I dove behind a rock relaying any information I could to my friend who was now flanking to the left. He finally creeps up to him on the other side of a tree and takes the guy out. I continue to flank to the right knowing that there was a second guy in the woods. After a couple minutes of not hearing or seeing anything, I assume that he ran away so I go back to my friend who is rummaging through the guy we just shot's stuff.

As he's going through his pack and finding stuff we didn't have like a compass and matches and another map, I'm keeping my sights on the trees just in case this guy's friend didn't run away. But the dense foliage proved to be great camoflauge and a gunshot rings out and my friend says he's hit. Another shot and my friend is dead. I hit the deck and suddenly shots are firing past me. I keep scanning the woods but nothing.. I see some muzzle smoke among the bushes but I still don't know where the shots are coming from. Finally I'm hit. And I'm hit again... and again... and again... and we're dead.

3, almost 4 hours and it all ended so quickly. But damn was it fun/intense.

Our mistake, other than pursuing these guys, was obvious after we died; We should have fallen back to keep watch on the body for a good 5 or 10 minutes to see if his friend would come back to take some of his stuff. Instead we were out in the open just next to the tree line just dicking around.. and while we were aware that we were still probably in danger, we didn't heed our intuition and ultimately that got us killed in the end.

Sorry for the long story. it realize there are a lot more exciting stories from this game but I wanted to share our first real experience with the game :) It was great. And surprisingly we wanted to get right back into it despite losing hours of hard work.

Edited July 14, 2012 by serenityrick

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

+1 because it wasn't a "OMFG EVEYBODE SHUT EECHOTHAR" -thread.

[Lycake 33]

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[DeTaiLz 18]

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[Zordon (DayZ) 0]

I just love to read stories from others players, that´s what makes this game so fun to me, i didn´t play much but i´ve had my first intense moment a few days ago:

I was in Cherno scavenging for food and water since i had lost everything due to the ghillie suit bug, well, i had a shotgun with a few bullets and was just trying to make my way across town when suddenly i saw a guy running from zombies and coming in my direction.

This was the first player i´ve met in the game and i shouted friendly in the direct comm and offered help, we both ran to a house and i killed the zombies since he didn´t had a gun, i asked if he needed supplies or something and he said he didn´t had a gun, i was badly wounded i asked him to give me a blood transfusion after that we both head out to search for weapons.

We reached the hospital and i told him to scout for some medicines and weapons when suddenly shot were fired from a building across the street, as i quickly ran to find cover i heard my new found buddy screaming in the mic "I´m hit!! I´m hit!!.

The smart thing to do was to just get away from there as fast as possible but odd enough i was feeling pretty angry and wanted to get revenge, i proceeded to the building the guy was hiding in and made my way to the top very carefully, he was in the rooftop and i waited for a good long 30min downstairs with my sights on the ladder. Finally thinking maybe i was long gone the guy poked his head at the ladder and i shot him straight to the face, after picking up his stuff i was still feeling bad about that other guy i couldn´t save.

This is what makes this game so unique to me, i couldn´t remember feeling this way playing any other game, sorry if i wrote somehting wrong english is not my first language.