Like an episode of Lost...

[TwitchyPickle 3]

Just thought I'd share this experience I had with those of you, who like me, are bored and looking for something about Dayz play to read...

I've been playing nightly since early May. My most recent long term survival effort had me at 28 days. I survived shootouts with bandits, several strategic trips to "hot-spots" like the NW airfield, one of which had me getting sniped from afar, leaving me with a broken leg, no morphine, holed up in a metal building, praying, only to be saved by another, very large group of players moving into the area and putting down some dramatic exchange of fire with the group of snipers that had winged me. I made a crawling escape out of the area during the fire-fight. I also survived being nearly gutted by what seemed to be an elite zed who WOULD NOT DIE. I had no bandage and had to run to the only building on the horizon where I got very lucky, found a bandage and stopped the flow with 900 blood left. I survived a run-in with another survivor who emerged no more than 100m in front of me across a clearing. We stared at each other for what felt like 10 minutes before we both backed off. I survived nearly being run over by, of all things, a school bus that was barreling through a small northern town at dusk where I was, until that point, alone, crawling by the road (the driver never saw me, but I imagined I could feel the wind from the tires of the bus by my head). I looted half-a-dozen chopper crashes, had my pick of the best weapons and gear in the game and played nightly for at least 2 hours and was living very high on the hog, until.....

I logged in Sunday morning after a fine saturday evening of joining a buddy out in the woods where we feasted on the remains of an unlooted chopper crash. Immediately upon logging-in I found myself hoisted high in the air over the trees and then slammed into the ground. The sound of flies was immediately turned-on, and I knew that my long survival stretch was over.

It was extremely similar to the episodes on the show Lost where the Smoke Monster picks people up and slams them into the ground. I was in awe of how it happened. Even though I sure it was a bug (z-index location corrupted or something like that), it just felt so bizarre that I have to praise the way it happened. The nuances of this mod are so colorful that even being killed by a bug can be interesting and imaginative -

So - back to the grind I go!

TwitchyPickle

[Brusann 67]

I applaud your not disconnecting during any of the firefights that you described, and also your ability to forgive, and even embrace, the bugs of this game! Everyone should play more like you. Well done.