Close calls/"I shouldn't be alive" moments?

[garglemouth64@yahoo.com 11]

Describe moments where you were certain that you were going to die, but lived.

I was in cherno waiting for my friend. We were near a couple of apartments and a hospital. All of.a sudden a man walked into the building next to us. My friend was spotted so I had to act quickly. Since I had my breath and the man was standing still it took only one shot to subdue him with a Winchester at about 65-75 yards.

[Shakakahn 23]

My friend and I were in the woods far into the north talking about where to head to next when we hear a gunshot. We run a bit and hide to look around when another shot rings out and hits the ground at my feet. We then book it deeper into the woods all the time shots being fired at us. Probably about 6 in all. Not one landed and we lost whoever was firing at us. Crappy sniper or not, the adrenaline was pumping.

[Bishop7 3]

This guy shot me and i alt + F4'd... I shouldnt be alive

[hombrecz 832]

I was in a barn near Cherno, hiding top floor with my trusty Lee Enfield.

Man enters the barn, I could have shot him without him knowing about me but I somehow did not want to.

I said I was friendly on direct com channel, he starts walking towards me.

I got a bad feeling and tried to run by him on those stairs which ofc resulted in me falling and breaking my leg.

Again I said I am friendly and that I dont want to shoot him even if I could have. So I started to applying morphine and I see this dude switching to axe (he had winchester I think) and slowly approaching me.

Since I could not end the morphine animation I could just watch him hitting me with axe like 3 times.

Before I stumbled to coma I managed to shoot him once with Lee. As I go down to the come I see him backing few steps a bit and bandaging himself slowly.

He must have been rather new because he did not finish me immediately, instead he bandaged and maybe ate something before taking axe out again and comming towards me. Luck was on my side, I woke up from coma and blasted his arse with Enfield and managed to bandage myself with 1700 blood left :D . Like 30 mins later my buddy arrived and gave me transfusion and we had good laugh. It was 3rd attempt to axe murder me or my buddy this evening (yesterday).

[AluCaRdBe 32]

came across 4 guys yesterday, they shouted "PEACE PEACE". So i walked towards them, as i was walking one of them enfielded me in the leg, i was bleeding with a broken bone.

I went like: "that's not peace asshole", one of them responded with "fuck you".

So i threw one grenade... 2 kills.

Threw another, 1 more kill.

In the end i just rolled to the side only to find guy nr 4 scared shitless hiding behind a rock looking the other way. Shot him in the back like a baws.

Tons of loot for me :D

[aquilez 16]

I somehow took out three guys with a revolver. Found a group of four talking to each other about the Teamspeak address in the middle of the woods. Even though I only had a couple bullets left in my AK, I couldn't resist. Shot and kill the new guy with the rounds left in my AK and blind fired on everyone else with my revolver. Of course, nobody died of the revolver bullets.

Anyways, I started running into some trees as cover and spotted a guy trying to flank me. I pointed my revolver at him and fire a couple shots and see him drop. I don't know if the guy was dead or not but I didn't see him anymore in the area afterwards.

The second guy tried running away but actually made it easier for me to shoot him in the back with my gun considering he wasn't zig zagging or anything.

The third guy was trouble though, He went straight for me with what looked like an AK-47. I could literally hear him cussing me out and then the hail of gun fire. I ran up hill and took cover behind a tree. I leaned out and aimed for his head with my revolver while he pelted me a couple times but I managed to get two shots off for him to drop dead. The zombies behind him finished him off.

I somehow managed to survive all that with a weapon I thought was impracticable for pvp.

[Ghostrage 5]

Me and my friends were camping the outer cherno hospital trying to find some antibiotics for our friend. I had climbed down from the roof when i saw a player. I quickly unloaded an AKM mag into the guy and accidently throwing a frag at him too killing him. All the while my friends were screaming WTF OMG etc etc because it's quite unnerving to hear gunshots and then an explosion. Anyway, the guy had managed to shoot me quite a bit but i had been lagging so much it didnt register. Finally 5 minutes after he died i dropped to -60,000 blood.... and was alive. the fact that we were at a hospital saved me because i needed 8 blood transfusions to get me back to full 6 morphine shots and 14 bandages. I was very lucky. Shortly after that i fall off the hospital roof and die. Oh well.

[MasterZ 90]

I ran into Electro and was looting the town.

I entered a building and went upstairs and bumped into a guy with an M4. I thoughts for sure I was dead but it seems he was afk or something.

Being the good guy that I am, I left the guy alive and went on my way.

(I'm still alive on this character too.)

Edited July 30, 2012 by MasterZ

[Delta Smoke 01 765]

I had run through cherno, dodged bullets like neo. Through elektro, slaying undead like Conan the barbarian (Arnie ofc). Navigated my way through black forest without a map, and here it was, my greatest enemy. A fence.

The fear within me began to show, but i went for it anyway. Yes.....i fucking vaulted over that badboy and lived. This is what this game is all about.

[blackout14@live.com 51]

I went up to (REDACTED) Mountain. At night. And made it out alive.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Supplice VI

[Herb (DayZ) 121]

I went up to (REDACTED) Mountain. At night. And made it out alive.

you wont live long

[samjwbrowne@gmail.com 15]

I was skirting around Stary heading north to meet a friend near Prud. Had stuck to the trees mostly, but there was a stretch of open ground that needed crossing. I was about 500m or so from Stary now so thought I had a pretty reasonable chance - I started running.

Seconds later the air around me exploded into supersonic cracks as someone on the hill to my right opened up with what I assume was a LMG of some kind (God knows why, I had an AKM and a Czech backpack, not exactly leet loot, and was running away from the guy).

I went for the trees, but halfway there he clipped my leg and I went down. Knowing I was gone I fired two mags wildly at the hill, waiting to die. It didn't happen. I didn't get any kills, so no idea what happened, but I managed to jab myself with some morphine and make it to the tree line. Kept running for the next few kilometres to be sure, but nothing.

I'm still alive almost a week later, now about to starve to death because the game glitched my meat out of my backpack and suddenly the fields are empty of game. Ah well.

[SadPanda (DayZ) 181]

I was planning an ambush on a guy that was running from north heading to stary, when he was close enough I begun to run behind him when all of the sudden I hear a loud gunshot (AS50) from behind. I turn around to see where the shots came from, looks like he was around 30 meters from me, he shoots 3 shots more but misses, so I ran away. Shot the other guy, he ALT+F4'd, then I saw the guy who tried to snipe me, shot him to but he also ALT+F4'd.

[Jackftw 310]

Got shot with a Lee Enfield and lived.

[97ADU Doug 103]

Let me tell you all my tale. The tale where my 7 TS friends and I decided to pick up 2 of our friends in cherno, with our bus. The ride down was smooth, we took a pit stop in Kamenka while we refuelled the bus. We had one survivor approach us while there, we told him to leave and fired one warning shot to be sure. After that we continued towards cherno and picked up our two friends. As we are about to leave a new person enters out ts and requests pickup west of Elektro so we decide why not, as we continue driving through chero again after leaving previously. The new player informs us that he is halfway between Elektro and cherno. We arrive at the said location and announce to the player that we have arrived. He then infoms us that he is in the middle of Elektro where the tracks meet up. I then say: "didn't you tell us to meet you between Elektro and Cherno? The player goes silent. I continue asking him questions to which i get no response. I decided to leave the bus and go under a bush to asses the situation. I disembark the bus and at the exact same moment the bus is riddled with sniper fire. I run to cover as I hear the bus explode behind me. out of the 10 of us in the bus, only 4 survived the initial explosion including myself. Only 3 made it over the ridge of the rocks.

3 hours of being pinned down behind the ridge of the rock before one of our attackers decided to come and investigate our bodies. He came over the ridge on the left hand side where our heavy gunner was postitioned. They saw each other at the same time. Our gunner opened up ripping the guy to shreds. But not before our enemy could get off 3 m4 A1 SD shots to his chest. Only two of us left now. We exit the ridge to our right and spend the next half our crawling along the coast. Once we thought we were clear, we stood up and sprinted towards the tree line. Only two of us including myself survived that day. 8 casualties and the loss of our bus.

I shouldn't be alive.

PS: that was my 21 day character who recently met his demise when I accidentally hit respawn when attempting to ramp up my gamma at night, good times.

Edited July 30, 2012 by dougie12345

[Robert Shannon 27]

A guy right next to me shot me with an Enfield and it only brought me down to 5k blood.

[Problem? 33]

On my 2nd day playing. I was still getting hit by zombies. I was already down to 3k health when a zombie hits me and I go unconscious. I knew game's over and I won't be able to back up and bandage myself. So the timer is running out and halfway through I only lost 1k blood down to 2k. So I have hope thinking will have enough time. Nut no, the next half of timer takes me down to 500 blood left. The stupid animation to get me back up takes me down to 400 and I had clicked bandage myself in the menu already. Its going down, down and I stop bleeding at 9 health. LOL. That was the first time I seeked help of wasteland medics to give me a transfusion.

[SamboS1ice 0]

I found a goat by a crashed helicopter,

i looked around for any walkers,

shot the goat in the noggin with my lee enfield,

proceeded to gut it for meat,

and out of nowhere i was getting gang raped by 8 zombies,

I ran about 2 miles to the nearest woods,

taking gun fire from douche bag bandits.. or maybe they were trying to save me, idk i didn't stop to ask,

lost a shit ton blood,

but, i lost all the zombies and i had bandages to stop the bleeding... I shouldn't be alive.

[Lennsik 176]

Playing with a buddy of mine, we're in a town off the Sobor twin towns and enjoying the mad loot we find. We're talking ALICE Packs, new guns, ammo, food, water, the whole shabang. I pass up to a higher floor when I see a man in a Czech back pack in a black shirt pass infront of me. Well the client dictated that my buddy would also wear a black shirt and we had yet to find him an ALICE pack. My brain goes "Oh, it's just Chris. Move along."

I turn around to the stairwell to see yet another similar looking man. I raise my gun and ask who's at the stairwell. After learning it's my buddy, we hear gunshots outside followed by a smoke grenade going off. Followed by two other players dead.

Shyeeeeeeeet.

[alyas 14]

Was Hunting snipers Next to elektro. Came out of the woods to look over the side of the hill next to the dirt road. Something didnt feel right I took a Quick look to my Right. A player with a Enfield was looking right at me 15 feet away. Now to Most players im going to look like a bandit because iv got everything you could want and was wearing a ghillie suit w/ m14 aim out. We stared at each other for a few secs as i was stumbling to find my VON key (Night time on server so i play in the dark) before i could tell him/her im a good guy they took a shot at me, nearly taking me out. I opened fire with my m14 while they tried to find cover dumping 15 rounds into their chest and back.

My heart was racing after that. Felt like my first PvP fight in EVE online. loved every moment of it.

[Deadend197 8]

I was looting a brick building in Elektro when just as I pick up a Macarov I get shot in the back by some guy with an Enfield somehow I didn't get knocked unconscious or die, I reloaded the pistol as I was making evasive manoeuvres (Running left and right) then sprayed all my lip into him, I reloaded again as he pulled out his Macarov and tried to shoot me I sprayed my second clip into him, Finally he went down and I shot him in the head one last time. Still to this day I have no idea how I survived a point blank shot to the back by and Enfield as Iv'e always got one-shot kills or been able to knock unconscious someone with it.

[kingmeanie 6]

came across 4 guys yesterday, they shouted "PEACE PEACE". So i walked towards them, as i was walking one of them enfielded me in the leg, i was bleeding with a broken bone.

I went like: "that's not peace asshole", one of them responded with "fuck you".

So i threw one grenade... 2 kills.

Threw another, 1 more kill.

In the end i just rolled to the side only to find guy nr 4 scared shitless hiding behind a rock looking the other way. Shot him in the back like a baws.

Tons of loot for me :D

lol yeah right.

[himmu03212 31]

Saw a guy in the barracks, i shot him, he shot me, he was dead, i just was bleeding to death. It was going darker and darker, but then my friend came, gave me an epipen in my ass and i was under the living again. But this firefight was awesome, because we both broke down in the same time.

[StoneColdSteve 52]

well, i posted this one in gd a little while back, entitled "*whew* that was a close one!" people seemed to like it...

so i'm moseying up to a deer stand, and BOOM!! gunshot really nearby, like right on top of me. made my heart skip a beat. sounded like an m14 or DMR.

i break into a sprint immediately running through the tree that is less than a meter away to my right, then break left through another tree. i continue evasion tactics, sprinting, zig-zagging through cover, waiting for the follow-up shots.

i begin to think about what just happened, that guy was SOOOO close, how did he miss me? i didn't see him at all, because i went into super-jackrabbit mode immediately rather than turn around and look and get a bullet to the face for my trouble. maybe he didn't see me till the last second either and just fired off a panic shot? in any case my pulse was racing and i felt lucky to escape such a deadly situation.

i've moved far enough now through enough cover that i'm pretty sure i've made a clean break. i begin to consider whether i should circle around and try to find this guy and get the drop on him. there are a few other deer stands in the area, and he might be looking to clear them out. if so, i can probably get him.

i mentally calculate where i would be if i was him, how long he was likely to have stayed at the first deer stand after missing me, the next-nearest deer stand, and the one after that. i start to move through the forest, carefully watching, pulling up the scope on my own DMR to scout ahead, when i notice...

DMR ammo 19.

/facepalm. so embarassing. nearly gave myself a heart attack

[daze23 549]

well, i posted this one in gd a little while back, entitled "*whew* that was a close one!" people seemed to like it...

so i'm moseying up to a deer stand, and BOOM!! gunshot really nearby, like right on top of me. made my heart skip a beat. sounded like an m14 or DMR.

i break into a sprint immediately running through the tree that is less than a meter away to my right, then break left through another tree. i continue evasion tactics, sprinting, zig-zagging through cover, waiting for the follow-up shots.

i begin to think about what just happened, that guy was SOOOO close, how did he miss me? i didn't see him at all, because i went into super-jackrabbit mode immediately rather than turn around and look and get a bullet to the face for my trouble. maybe he didn't see me till the last second either and just fired off a panic shot? in any case my pulse was racing and i felt lucky to escape such a deadly situation.

i've moved far enough now through enough cover that i'm pretty sure i've made a clean break. i begin to consider whether i should circle around and try to find this guy and get the drop on him. there are a few other deer stands in the area, and he might be looking to clear them out. if so, i can probably get him.

i mentally calculate where i would be if i was him, how long he was likely to have stayed at the first deer stand after missing me, the next-nearest deer stand, and the one after that. i start to move through the forest, carefully watching, pulling up the scope on my own DMR to scout ahead, when i notice...

DMR ammo 19.

/facepalm. so embarassing. nearly gave myself a heart attack

lol, I hate when I lean too hard on the left mouse button. I haven't scared myself like that, but I've definitely ruined some stealthy moments

my 'I shouldn't be alive' moment was my first bandit kill. I was up north, pretty much in the middle on nowhere, when I got shot from the back. I got prone right away and turned around, but couldn't see shit (I was playing 1st person). I guess he went prone too, but he had zeds chasing him, and I could see more or less where they were standing around him. we had quite an exchange, and I got hit again. I was kinda noob status at this point, and tried to bandage myself while prone. of course I got up into crouch. :facepalm: I thought it was over for me for sure now. I moved and canceled the bandaging, then I saw him trying to crawl away from the zeds that were hitting him. I quickly shot him up with my kobra, took care of the zeds, and bandaged up. I think I escaped with around 2k blood... and my first bandit kill

what he did was so stupid. we really were in the middle of nowhere, so he must have been running for awhile with those zeds behind him. anyway it was a lesson to me to always check my six no matter where you are