What are the odds?

[KcR 10]

Long read, I'm afraid. I've been playing for some time now (rather unsuccessfully) but I haven't bothered to look past the occasional relevant support thread. As soon as this happened to me, I created an account just to share this with you guys:

I had just started a new character, and I spawned within a stones throw from the market in Cherno. It was a night server with less then 10 people playing, so I took my chances. I didn't find a backpack, but I found two water bottles, a Makarov (no ammo), a watch, and binoculars with plenty of food, obviously. Not a bad first 5 minutes at all. Now I may have been decked out for one bad*ss nature hike, but this was this apocalypse. Me, feeling bold, decided to take the short jog to Balota. Again, risky, but this early on, what do I have to lose?

15 minutes later, I'm within eyesight of the hangers when I get that weird graphical glitch people have been getting. I try huffing it out, but it was entirely game breaking as I couldn't even see past the artifacts 5 feet in front of my face, so I disconnected.

I then joined an American server, which was at about 9:30 PM in New England. Yet when I joined it was middle of the day in-game. I only travel at night, so I again disconnected. However, I don't know how, but I had spawned in the first hanger. I don't know if I had wandered in there when I still blind, but I didn't even look around first. I NEVER travel in the day. If I had a Fight Club that would be my first and second rule.

This is were sh*t gets weird. I join a foreign server, veteran, with 1 other player. I don't want to spawn in the middle of such a high traffic place willy-nilly, so I could at least get my bearings right. I spawn, and it is dark. I mean DARK. I couldn't see a thing. I started to turn around, I see I'm still in the same hanger, and the middle is lit up with red flares.

Sh*t.

My.

F*cking.

Pants.

I don't see anyone. I'm standing as still as possible. After a minute of that I start looking around, and I see a rifle in my most immediate corner. I shuffle towards it, looking at my surroundings. I'm so scared I picked it up even though it didn't have ammo. It was an AKM. Not my favorite, but if there was ammo near by I would use it. Then I see him. The one and only other player in the server. He was in the opposite corner, and while looking back on it I don't think he saw me, but at the time he lit up a flare and chucked it in the middle. He lit up from absolute darkness, like he had been expecting my arrival or some terrifying thing. He had a pretty decent assault rifle too.

It's at this point I realize he didn't see me. I wasn't going to disconnect either, I ain't a b*tch. So instead of presenting myself visually, I decide to type and explain my comedic situation to the gentleman. I had NOTHING to offer him, he looked pretty well equipped, and I had just merely spawned in his scary red lair. I figure I wouldn't startle the guy into shooting me if he heard me out. Again, he had nothing to gain from me, he might have been awesome and let me go...if I hadn't made the mistake of pointing directly at him with my Makarov while typing my greeting so that when he saw me he killed me like most smart people would. I would have done the same. He didn't know I was empty.

I ain't even mad. It's not too surprising considering how popular the air strip is, yet since there was only one guy within a possible 220 square kilometer map I somehow managed to spawn in the m*therf*cker's basement.

The guys name was "(something) S W A R" or "(something) S M A R", and if by some chance he see's this...no hard feeling's. If I had ammo, I would have killed you too. I was almost excited, because I've never gotten the drop on a player like that before. But I died a little inside when I remembered I was out of ammo.

Anyways, thought that was random and interesting enough to share,

[LunaTiK (DayZ) 45]

Odds of running into someone in a military spawn location on a low pop server is higher than running into them on a medium pop server. It's because people server hop these locations on servers that are low population. People on medium population servers tend to stay clear of them.

Edited July 30, 2012 by LunaTiK

[KcR 10]

Good point. I have the same mentality. That's probably why I get shot in the face every day.

Edited July 30, 2012 by KcR

[dougan25 34]

I love when this happens. My squad's home server is rarely populated during our peak hours (for whatever reason - people must have shitty ping here) and it's always funny when you run into the one or two other people on the server.

[TheTigger 34]

Once I was in a night server with one other person.. We were both at the NWAF... Lets just say I had fresh beans that night