QQ topic...seriously.

[Rifle Eyez 34]

I'm done with playing like it's a survival sim after only 3 days. In advance tl;dr ''why not kill on sight when everyone else does''

I spent the first couple just grasping the basics - few stupid deaths and eventually got to that point I felt ''better''. Not good, but better. So I gathered a ton of supplies over a 2 day period (about 3 hours gameplay per day) I had a Enfield with 6 mags, g17 with 4, GPS, matches, knife and everything - pretty kitted out with a full ALICE pack I found in Cherno supermarket with food/soda, medical supplies and a few extra bits.

So I decide to head north - pretty easygoing with my GPS mini-map, I looted a few small towns along the way to keep my food/soda up and quickly realize by the co-ordinates that I'm actually east of the NW airfield (there we go) Seriously suprised as I expected it to be a huge trek and I started from Cherno so while I was up there I figured I'd check it out. I swang by a town just south - forget the name but theres huge amounts of farmland there. Being low-ish on blood after a few zombie scrapes I hang around for what felt like a hour to find a animal to cook before hitting the NW airfield. (seriously need to sort that shit out - I know ''survival is easier'' in teams with blood packs but I didn't see so much as a rabbit for a HOUR in FARMLAND). Eventually I spot a goat a couple hundred meters off - Enfield pretty much alerted every single zombie in a 15 mile radius. Spotting a long barn half a mile off (my ears still ring from that zombie sound behind me for 2 minutes) I figured I'd lead them in to take advantage of A.I and pick them off.

So I mop them up, loot them for some beans/soda and figure i'd go back to hunting completely minding my own buisness. No sooner do I leave the barn silenced shots fly past me - determined not to die I call ''friendly'' and type some messages, guy couldn't have been more than 50m off. More shots. Figuring I need to bail I use the barn for cover and dash for a treeline and make my way along it. After 30 seconds I decide to just hit prone and survey the area with my binoculars. As soon as the animation starts - pew pew pew, you are dead.

So from now on, I'll let myself die till I get Cherno spawn, loot it - hit stary and deer stands straight away for some guns and camp the area around the NW killing everyone I see.

Edited August 7, 2012 by showtime

[Priceless 154]

Welcome to Dayz you were around an area shooting a loud gun that is heavily PVP oriented. Dont go so close to NW airfield and yell friendly there are no friendlies there 9/10.

[SiGouin 25]

yep, thats pretty much what half the people do in this game...

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Welcome to Dayz you were around an area shooting a loud gun that is heavily PVP oriented. Dont go so close to NW airfield and yell friendly there are no friendlies there 9/10.

Any good locations for picking up higher tier weapons on the way up north? I literally have Enfields, Winchesters, Makarovs or G17 is all I seem to find! A nice M24 or something silenced would be awesome. I'm about to gear up and go for round two haha.

[lugaru 103]

I'm friendly but my assumption is that anybody who takes a shot at me is not friendly. Usually I will run, hide, run, and sometime try to fire back but if I hear TWO guns, I'm running.

I've had some crappy deaths that way though, like one time I got pinned under a bridge... took like 10 minutes of me peaking out, shots whizzing by, hiding, yelling through my mike, etc... before I finally got killed. Never even saw them. Sure, I can Alt + F4 but that is for "bandits" (lol).

[sonicrainbrony 136]

yep, thats pretty much what half the people do in this game...

Only half? You sure?

Also, welcome to DayZ.

[KarinjaNinja 80]

Any good locations for picking up higher tier weapons on the way up north? I literally have Enfields, Winchesters, Makarovs or G17 is all I seem to find! A nice M24 or something silenced would be awesome. I'm about to gear up and go for round two haha.

Try the Firehouse's in Cherno and Elektro. You can also hit the Balota Airstrip for the Hanger's and Military outpost/deer stands. Usually I get a AKM or some sort of assault rifle :)

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Just spawned in Electro, in that first large factory I found 2 dead survivors - one with a full Czech backback. Awesome luck - gonna loot Electro and head north!

[lugaru 103]

Try the Firehouse's in Cherno and Elektro. You can also hit the Balota Airstrip for the Hanger's and Military outpost/deer stands. Usually I get a AKM or some sort of assault rifle :)

Not guaranteed but I agree the odds are good. Barns sometimes have some great loot if you want a nice rifle...

[haviv[3rdid] 57]

yep, thats pretty much what half the people do in this game...

The other half want to but they don't know how.

[AzinGaming 60]

Here's something more interesting that the sob story you posted (which sounds like pretty much a good early experience in DayZ so no idea why you're QQing):

Imagine you got into the NW Airfield, looted it and found a pretty nice gun and 5 clips of ammo. Maybe a ghillie suit as well.

What do you do then?

Honestly, what?

......and then you realise that there's nothing else to do except hunt other players. And then when you realise that there's no skill or fun involved in that, you quit.

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Here's something more interesting that the sob story you posted (which sounds like pretty much a good early experience in DayZ so no idea why you're QQing):

Imagine you got into the NW Airfield, looted it and found a pretty nice gun and 5 clips of ammo. Maybe a ghillie suit as well.

What do you do then?

Honestly, what?

......and then you realise that there's nothing else to do except hunt other players. And then when you realise that there's no skill or fun involved in that, you quit.

Haha - pretty neg attitude though. You can apply the same rule to anything, anygame. In all honesty I can't QQ about it because thats probably exactly what i'd end up doing once I get some good kit and a comfy ass camping spot. It's more about the experience than the end result. Heres a example again forcing me to banditry - I'm looting the firestation in Electro, find a m4 and a 24 slot coyote pack after spawning 20 minutes beforehand finding 2 dudes dead - one with a full Czech backpack! This is after my QQ story so can't believe my luck.

As I made my way downstairs I hear a dude run, then a leg break sound. I peak out the front door and see him. ADS but decide against it - then run inside and say friendly. He says ''me too'', and I offer to take a trip to the hospital for morphine in exchange for a blood transfusion. He crawls in and I waste the zombies following him after spamming his Enfield. So off I go - find the hospital is empty but have a blood bag and find some morphine after 5 minutes. I'm extremely low on blood at this point so being extra careful. I approach the station from the East in full view of the tower and boom - one shotted. Frustrating? Sure. But looking back it's only in DayZ that shit will happen. He'd broken his leg and aggro'd so many zombies I doubt he'd have made it either!

From now on I see why it's a shoot first game. I could have wasted him easily as he was knocked out, looted and got out of Electro to live another day. Now i've respawned in Krutoy Cap and am currently sat in the water to kill myself for a better spawn. So far it's been 15 minutes and i've only lost 2000 blood. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.