A short story and realization

[Sterling (DayZ) 22]

Yesterday I walked into the Cherno Market and stumbled upon a player with a Shotgun. I myself had an AKM at the time with five magazines. The player was scared and said on the mic "friendly friendly!" I responded in chat saying "It's alright I won't shoot." Shortly after, a good ten or so Zombies came in after us. We both had our backs faced at the furthest wall in the main room of the Market shooting some of them off. Before I knew it I heard real loud pops and watched as my character fell over, this player killed me. I've been playing this mod for a good month or two now, and I must say I really was shocked by the behavior of this fellow, unfortunately it left a mark on me that won't easily go away.

I realized everyone who is playing this game is out for themselves. The primary goal of players is to have fun, and to do so they kill others to acquire high-adrenaline and new equipment. No matter what anyone says, how sad and scared they sound, how unarmed they may appear, they're going to kill you should you trust them.

Ever since that time I've been hostile to every player who isn't a "true" friend, or do my best to avoid them. Everyone is a target.

[HeHeHe 38]

I pretty much realized that everyone except for "professional" clans and rl friends are going to be hostile.

Hostile as soon as they see you, or when you got your back turned. Just the nature of the beast.

[crusader_111 62]

Ultimately its up to you if you trust someone or not but when you do get back stabbed don't cry because you shouldn't be attached to your gear. Countless times this has happened to me so I just don't care and carry on. Its going to happen eventually so why not now when he had you distracted by the zombies?

CRUSADER

[Scraggle426 10]

Hehe, I had some guy outside the South Barracks in NWAF Saying over Mic to my friend and I "Friendly Friendly" in a high pitched voice, we shat ourselves because we thought we were alone in AF Before and as we looked around in the barracks we saw someone go past a window quickly, Then 5 seconds later an Almighty AKM Burst ripped through the side windows and hit my Friend, We both got up, (Him bleeding) And Sprayed n' prayed out the windows, We got a Murder count so went outside to check his body, discovering that it was some Kid with a L33T Name something like "Sn1p3r Pr0".

If he'd been serious about friendly we'd have given him spare weapons and food etc seeing as his gear wasn't good at all, Instead he decided to try and trick us and shoot.

Dem CoD Kiddies.

Anyways, Moral is don't trust them, best thing to do is not help them, not fight them, Get out the back entrance and run like hell, That way noone gets hurt.