Bandit remorse

[nothx (DayZ) 0]

Think I'm done with banditry.

Was playing early this morning around stary. Took position up on the hill after filling up my water bottles, looked down and saw sprinting zeds moving into the store. I spend a few mintues watching and finally catch the survivor moving out, popping a few straggling zeds and moving up the hill towards the camp.

He doesn't see me, so I could back off at any time. I'm set for food, water, ammo, trinkets, health, warmth, so I'm not in need of anything. Instead I waited until he moved a little more towards the camp, and dropped him with my rifle. I wasn't in any danger. The worst part is that I didn't end up taking any of his gear, not even the m4a1.

I still feel a little guilty about it...the guy was minding his own business, maybe he would have popped me, maybe not, but I could have stayed out of view and he never would have known I was there. Just lame as hell. I see plenty of posts saying 'thats it, I'm shooting everyone', but I'm going in the other direction.

The other night I saw a fellow standing at the door of a barn, and again I had position on a wooded hilltop looking down. This time I'm not set on shooting..until I see another emerge, and then another. They start moving up the hill and I decide I can't let them come this way. One survivor might not blast you, but a group working together is far less likely to take any chances where an outsider is concerned. I end up dropping two of them as they climbed, the third ran into the barn and disconnected.

They had some good stuff. My only thought was 'I just trashed all of their progress'. I'm sure they would have done the same to me, but it still feels dirty, hah.

Anyone else feel shitty about a kill or two?

[thegarcia 12]

Haven't killed anyone to feel shitty about it. But I do feel shitty about not saving someone today. An innocent lone survivor in Mogilevka was just looting, I asked if he needed help, he replied no. I then proceeded to other side of town to long warehouse. I then saw a survivor with CZ beside barn looking at red house. It didn't clue into me that it was a different survivor at the time as I thought by the time I circled to that location that it was the same one.

This CZ survivor popped off 5 shots at red house, every zombie ran after him, he made his last stand at red house and was mauled to pieces. I then threw a smoke to lure the zombies away from the house to inspect. The CZ survivor had murdered the innocent survivor in cold blood no absolute no reason. I could have killed the CZ survivor with my Winchester but wasn't sure how good the range was so didn't risk a shot, but I could've prevented an innocent survivor from dieing..

[ivan2294 0]

As interesting as this is, shouldn't this belong in the bandit section of the forum? :/

[Bandit Hunter 29]

Hah, a bandit who has feelings and social skills. Why don't you learn a lesson in maturity and become a survivor ;)

[Skippy (DayZ) 9]

As interesting as this is' date=' shouldn't this belong in the bandit section of the forum? :/

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He's joining the... Dark side... The Survivors..! So no, it fits here just fine.

[ivan2294 0]

As interesting as this is' date=' shouldn't this belong in the bandit section of the forum? :/

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He's joining the... Dark side... The Survivors..! So no, it fits here just fine.

I always viewed the survivors as the light side.

WE ARE TRYING TO REBUILD SOCIETY DAMN IT! lol

[Bandit Hunter 29]

As interesting as this is' date=' shouldn't this belong in the bandit section of the forum? :/

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He's joining the... Dark side... The Survivors..! So no, it fits here just fine.

I always viewed the survivors as the light side.

WE ARE TRYING TO REBUILD SOCIETY DAMN IT! lol

We are the light side, if social behavior is still considered a good thing..