I helped a man today.

[Inception. 9443]

I had recently clicked respawn on myself to have a fun, fresh start.

I was strolling through Cherno with my AK47 and saw a player run into the church. It didn't look like he had any weapons, so I went over there. When I came to the church door, I saw that he had been knocked out by the zombies and they were eating him.

I decided to help him. I placed bullets into the zombies, carefully avoiding the unknown player. After the zombies had been eliminated, I dragged his bleeding, unconscious body into the church and closed the doors. I then proceeded to bandage him, give him morphine, an epi-pen and then give him a blood transfusion.

As soon as he got up, he ran to the back of the church and stared at me. I spoke on direct comms saying "considering I have just saved your life, wouldn't it be obvious that I don't want to kill you? Also, since you are unarmed, there is no reason to kill you." No response.

It didn't matter, though. I just felt happy that I had helped a man.

After looting the bodies, I decided to give him my M1911 so he could have something to fight off players and/or zombies with.

The next thing you know, I am lying dead on the flood because he shot me. Unfortunately for him, I had snipers placed on the roof's overlooking Cherno.

[Somepants 3]

Consider helping people in less game-y terms. Handing anyone a loaded weapon is a baaaad idea. You never hand anyone a loaded weapon.

Ever.

[Inception. 9443]

Consider helping people in less game-y terms. Handing anyone a loaded weapon is a baaaad idea. You never hand anyone a loaded weapon.

Ever.

I know, I just felt like being nice.

[kloony (DayZ) 0]

After that You`ll never help anyone again, that`s fckn sad, as much as he was damn idiot.

[hombrecz 832]

I do not risk giving unknown players, that do not even reply on direct chat, any weapons.

Yesterday we met a guy crawling through Elektro. He had broken legs so I gave him morphine (I guess he would get to the hospital eventualy if not being shot). He just stared at us (we had guns, he did not) and then just ran way.

Also later that day, we found unconscious guy in some house. Again he had no weapon, just czech backpack.

I dragged him away from doors, moments later he woke up. We talked a bit (damn direct voice chat is so damn SILENT for me), I asked him if he needs something, he said some food but did not have anything to trade for it. I gave him can of beans and pepsi, said goodbye and went away.

I know some will call me carebear, but it kinda felt good to help somebody a bit. Dont get me wrong,if somebody shoots at me or run at me swinging his axe, I will gun him down if I manage to. Its just that its nice to give people luxury of doubt. This ofcourse gets damn harder when you meet people equipped to the teeth that usually shoot first and ask later.

That might be the reason that I enjoy spawning fresh on coast, gathering basic supplies, low tier guns (enfield, shotty or such) and then interact and help people, or fight bandits etc.

As the mod is, there is not much to do and for me these coastal stories (cherno and elektro mostly) are what interests me most.

Camping some spot for ages and killing people from hundreds of meters away with sniper rifle is not my thing (I know many people will disagree).

Anyway message to all folks that are still trying to be friendly. DON'T GIVE UP...but be cautious as hell :).

[dallas 5195]

I wouldn't trust the new breed of DayZ players with a rubber chicken.

While we're waiting for features promoting less-idiotic gameplay, you're better off treating all strangers as braindead as the infected.

[deanwac 1]

Good job on helping that guy, people can be so ungrateful sometimes -_-

Hopefully all this will die down in the next month or so, when all the noobs get tired of the game.