In a “real” Zombie apocalypse is PvP real or not../how i see thing, if anyone is interested/

[snowcrash 82]

Many players are trying to justify their PvP playing and those on the other side that are saying that in a „real“ zombie Apocalypse ppl would not kill each other…as i worked late yesterday and was not in the mood for playing (no use of playing DAyZ if i am not fully concentrated on the game..i make stupid mistakes and i didn’t wont that yesterday..)…i was sitting on my terrace with some palls (no one of them plays video games anymore :( , but we still like to imagine and we all love SF), smoking some fine „cigarettes“ and trying to imagine how would the world look like in a real situation like we have in DayZ /yes i was molesting them with my DayZ stories :D /

And this is only my opinion and imagination, nothing to do with dayZ team and their story..

First: in DayZ we are dealing with a horde of Infected, and the disease they all got zombifies humans..

/Zombies are actually corpses brought back to life, by voodoo priests, and here we deal with an pandemic that makes ppl behave like zombies, that’s why in further txt i shall call them Infected B) ../

Lets imagine that the infection has started somewhere on the coast, near the harbour and at the beginning only few ppl were infected, and the medical stuff are trying to cure them, with no success, the epidemic is spreading, after we got like 20% of ppl infected…the panic is spreading, government is sending military to keep the ppl under controls so the medical stuff can try to deal with the situation..After few dayz the epidemic is spreading around the island..And after month or two..The whole island is in chaos. The panic has done enough damage itself, ppl were stealing from stores, even killing each other for some supplies and now only us few survivors thx to our genetics didn’t got infested, we are alone, we are forced to leave the villages, towns, our homes, coz the infected somehow feel attracted to the places they lived when they were healthy, some tiny tiny voice in their destroyed minds drowns them to the places where they were living before…So we were forced to get somewhere safe, and that’s are not our homes for sure..

After we recognized that we are not going to get ill, we don’t give up hope and try to survive, and as we are humans, the most intelligent predator on the earth, we have adopted to the situation and roam the island trying to find us food, water, and all other stuff that is essential for our surviving..

That’s where the game starts..

Now just try to imagine the situation, we are in the woods, with few animals left, living with constant fear, our minds are blown away by fear from infected and form the fear of starvation, dehydration, cold, no real shelter..Only think that can help us survive is our ability to move around and gather food, water the essential tools we can get our hands on..Weapons, compasses, maps, matches...

And there are others on the island same as you living their lives day by day torn apart by insecurity, and we all know as much humans are perfect, most of humans are also very fragile especially in our minds..

And one day u see another survivor, and that went well, u traded some stuff even teamed up for a raid on a village full of infected, but the will to survive, the constant fear of tomorrow has done the damage and knowing that the few cans and his NVG will get u through the next days without having to risk your lives going into the towns, one side decides in order to survive kill the other human (who will know, the world is burning with chaos, no police, no fear of punishment…) and that’s where it starts..Someone sees a dead human body not torn and eaten by infected but shoot in the back, that’s the moment when someone recognises that not only the infected are danger, also humans are.. , in that moment

another disease starts to spread, in your mind that’s is already damaged by the situation, things get even worse..Now u know there are humans still killing other humans..who can u trust ..no one! U se danger in every shadow, hear danger in every sound. Again the will to survive forces us to adept, and now everything that moves is considered as a threat…our

minds are doing the math, human=threat/supplies ..and u start to act by pure surviving instinct; first shoot than ask..

So YES i do believe that human will attack each other in a situation like we have in DayZ, and yes the alliances would be made, .. and interrupted, pure surviving would turn us into hunters again, be honest even if we have smart phones, PCs and all the other nice stuff, we still live in a world of wars, hunger, meaningless violence against living things..we are not so far away in our mind from our ancestors, the main think no matter what are we doing right now in our lives that motivates us is instinct to stay alive, and we will survive no matter what.. <_<

Huh i think the coffee was way to strong.. :D

Edited July 21, 2012 by snowcrAsh42

[Vanglory 72]

RED. RED. RED. RED.

[FrostDMG 398]

Ok I get what you're saying but why make the text RED

[yahhzoo 10]

Too much REDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[snowcrash 82]

ok removed the red... :)

thx m8s

[Doctor Disfigure 29]

WHITE. WHITE. WHITE.

[FrostDMG 398]

WHITE. WHITE. WHITE.

Yeah reading this on my phone proved to be quite the challange

[johnsmith312 0]

I think only psychopaths can handle the emotional trauma of shooting someone in a real apocalypse. Put it this way, if you were stuck in the desert lost, wandering around with no supplies but you had a knife. If you found a stranger who was also lost but had food and was willing to share with you, would you kill them with your knife? If you would, you should go see a psychologist :)

[EndEffeKt 87]

A very good post, but the flaw at the moment is, that rarely somebody here has been shot for food :) One of my friends really was in the situation some weeks ago, that his food-icon was red, he had nothing in his pockets, but a lee enfield in his hands....and then another survivor steps out of the forest. Long story short, yes he did actually shoot him for food. But at the moment the most people are shooting others for imba-weapons or just cos they can

[yankee_1776@live.com 20]

A real zombie apocalypse wouldn't be limited by a gaming engine and the idea that you can't press the restart button. Bandits would exist, but in gangs and few would kill simply for the pleasure of killing. Communities would develop with their own law systems and militia who would prevent attacks upon a settlement by all but an opposing army. The danger would increase as the distance from the settlements became greater, bandits would lay in ambush for a traveler who entered their territory, but a bandit clan might try and sort a regular supply chain out by extorting those travelers, offering protection in their territory exchange for part of the supply.

All of this is impossible in DayZ due to limitations in the engine. At best the environment in DayZ would represent the first couple months of the disaster where no one has any contact with anyone else and are so desperate for food, water, and ammunition that they are willing to kill for it. Yet even that presents it's own dilemmas that would not sync such a social breakdown with DayZ. In the end we have to remember that this a game, and games need to have enforceable rules and some degree of social order.

[sandorski 17]

Cool story bro, but No. That's not how it goes. It is exceedingly rare that someone in DayZ absolutely Must kill to Survive. Most of the time it is simply Envy and not Need, that makes one kill another.