Flares = Awesome.... Then.... Flares = Scary

[daspope 146]

So, last night and tonight I have teamed up with another DayZ player to run around and loot up (one of these days we will both get fully equipped and get to take shit out lol...)

anyway, tonight when we decide to meet up we are about 20-30km from each other. we join up on a server that is night time and coordinate a meeting spot.

I go prone down under a tree and I think I see him to my right, we are on skype so I tell him to stop and he does... but the person to my right kept running, at first I thought it was lag but it was not.

So to signal my general location to him, I toss a flare about 30m out into a clearing. he heads to the flare and hides in some trees outside the light and kicks on his flashlight so I can head to him.

Once we meet up we hang out there for a little bit, he drinks a soda and eats some meat then takes a quick afk. while he is afk, my original flare burns out. I am not paying much attention to the pc, and am looking away doing other stuff.. I look up and see another flare going.... WTF!

I assume it was lag since it was in the general area as the first flare and go back about my business of not paying attention while my buddy is afk. I look back up, 3 more flares are burning, one waaaay out in the field farther that I could possible throw.

Ahhhhh shit...

I just realised... We aren't alone.

He has binoculars and I have a sniper rifle so he starts scanning the distance (it was a full moon) and I try to then realizing I am shaking way too bad to see anything in my scope and have no pain pills. he see's a guy running from the small village being chased by zombies headed to cherno... shit... that's where we are headed.

we let the flares burn out, book it across the field and get to the outskirts of cherno... what do we see? Another flare. by a building to our left. we scope it out a bit and another flare to the right pops.... fuck... fuck it... we head into cherno in the dark spots and manage to aggro zombies. during the chase we get split up so he pops 3 flares outside the house he dipped into and we meet back up.

this house with 3 flares outside is lit up like a beacon in the night to anyone wanting a gunfight so we get out and go prone. at that time we here some idiots talking on direct comm voice chatting looking for us. he catches a glimpse of them and opens fire breaking a guys leg and they split up. so we run around a fence and head in to finish the job. after I got around a brick wall to join the fight I am running up where my friend and the guy with a broken leg are exchanging gunfire, then BAM BAM BAM. someone shot me in the back and I die. My friend kills another one of the people in the group and thinks the job is finished because we both thought there were only 2 guys. when hes coming back to drag/loot my body the guy that killed me kills him too.

so yes... flares are awesome tactical devices for signaling your friends and lighting up areas... but they also signal other players to your general location...

oh and they distract zombies, as if that's much benefit :rolleyes:

[prkrsr 0]

Thanks Captain Obvious.

[DrewDubious 19]

They also make a killer light show if you toss them inside a closed grocrey store at night! Try mixing in some other color chemlights too and you have have your own chemlight and flare rave!

[messiro 19]

I love those moments!

Thrilling, epic and just cause of that a lot of us play the mod!

Edited August 4, 2012 by Messi

[daspope 146]

Thanks Captain Obvious.

Captain obvious? you obviously have no clue how to correctly use that saying because I told a story, I didn't make a statement... lol time to go to bed kid, its past your bedtime.

[daspope 146]

I love those moments!

Thrilling, epic and just cause of that a lot of us play the mod!

Exactly, I don't see why people get so pissed at bandits killing them, yeah you worked hard for the gear, yeah they didn't "Have" to kill you... but they did, go loot some shit and get it back.

[daspope 146]

They also make a killer light show if you toss them inside a closed grocrey store at night! Try mixing in some other color chemlights too and you have have your own chemlight and flare rave!

lol, the zombies gather 'round outside... then over the air raid sirens in the city you start hearing un tssss un tssss un tsss tsss tss un tssss lol