Introduction and First DayZ Experience

[X_296 1]

Hey all. I just wanted to introduce myself to the community and my first - and imo, incredible - experience with DayZ.

My name is Michael. My Steam name is X_296. I like pizza, movies, video games. Blah blah. Enough of the courtesies.

So I have to admit, I did buy Arma 2: CO purely to play DayZ. I have lost much of my interest in FPS. But an MMO zombie survival? I just had to play it. Once I had gotten Arma and DayZ installed, I did have some trouble finding a suitable server at first. I got stuck at the loading screen on a few. I had no more than 2 fps on another. But when I connected, it was all good. I connected to the server and I had (barely) acceptable framerate. I don't remember where I started, but it was pretty far from any big cities. I wandered aimlessly for a bit, I was completely lost, I had no ide where I was going. I went inland a little bit and I saw a few houses and a barn. I went into the barn and I found a crossbow with three bolts. My first weapon, pretty sweet. After that I didn't find much else. I then started heading back to the coast. By the time I reached it, my thirst icon was flashing red.

I was thinking, "Great. I'm gonna die of thirst. This is pathetic." I started running up the coast. Trying to find something to quench my thirst. After about 5 minutes, I made it to a small town. I went into the first building I saw, and there was a Pepsi can. I was happy. I was going to live a bit longer. I drank it and went to the next room and found a Czech backpack. I dropped the one I had, and being the noob I am, couldn't figure out how to pick up the new pack. I couldn't pick up my old one either. Thinking they were bugged, I left. Not 50 feet from the door, I was disconnected.

After I logged back in, I was right where I left off. I continued on. I ducked quickly into some near by bushes to hide while I talked to my girlfriend real quick. Then out of nowhere another player runs just inches in front of me. I freaked out, dropped what I was doing, and got out of there. He didn't see me, thank god. Needless to say, I forgot I was talking to my girlfriend. After about 10 minutes, I reached another, slightly larger, town. By this time, my food icon was bright red. I wasn't being very careful, i was trying to move as quickly as possible to find some food. Consequently, I attracted a couple zombies. I ran into the first open house, killed one of them. But i lost my last crossbow bolt, thankfully there was a crowbar in the house. I picked it up, attacked the zombie, and was knocked out before I could kill him.

I thought I was dead. The zombie was chomping on my legs as I impatiently watched the hourglass go down. By the time I woke up and got away from the zombie and bandaged myself, I had only 600 blood left. The zombie was glitched in the doorway, and couldn't attack me, so I killed him with the crowbar. I was so close to dying and I was passing out every 2 minutes. At this point, I didn't care much. So I just ran out of the town. Once I was clear, I started sprinting towards the closest thing I saw, which was a small airstrip with two hangers. I dove down into the field in front of the hangers and I heard two gunshots from the ATC tower. I looked, didn't see anything, didn't care. I then looked to my right. There was a sheep. By this time my food had been flashing for about 10 minutes. I shot the sheep with my last bolt (which I was able to recover from the zombie I shot earlier) and gutted it. I was lucky enough to have found a knife, hatchet and matches in one of the previous towns. I took the meat, ran to the nearest patch of trees, got some wood and started a fire. I was saved from the brink of death. My blood went up to just under 3 thousand. I then ran back to the tower and found the guy that was shooting had fallen to his death off of the tower. I retrieved an AKM and one mag.

I quickly found a small military medical base. In it, I found only one thing, a Coyote backpack. I figured out how to pick it up and left. After a short run, I found my first major city. I don't know which one, I just know it had a big hotel in the middle. I quickly found medical supplies, food, drinks, a watch, binoculars, a compass. I then heard 4 shots from an assault rifle and a single sniper shot. I got kind of nervous. I was in no hurry to get to the side of town the shots came from. But when I did, i found two dead bodies behind a small grocery store. I didn't hesitate to search them. I found another AKM with 4 mags and an M1911 on one. On the other, I found an SVD Camo with 3 mags, a map, a GPS, nightvision goggles and a toolbox. In his pack was 4 cooked pieces of meet which I ate and brought my blood to about 6 thousand. An there was also an L85A2 AWS. It's my understanding that this is one of the rarest guns in the game. However, there was no ammo for it. And I didn't want to lug around a weapon with no ammo, however rare it may be. I left town, hid myself and logged of for the night.

Sorry for such the long post, I wasn't planning on writing this much. But it was such an enjoyable first day for me.

Oh, in case you were wondering, yes, my girlfriend is mad at me for ignoring her while I played my game.

[KamikaziPostman 0]

Awesome first experience bud! I enjoyed reading about it. As you play you'll get more familiar with the towns and cities. Take it easy and have fun.

[Hydra (DayZ) 472]

Why don't people understand that you are supposed to cover the city from outside when you have a sniper rifle? I've killed dozens of "bandits" that run into the middle of a town with their AS50s and M24s out.

[Sol (DayZ) 132]

Lol, fully kitted out thanks to item duping and spawning...

What fun DayZ has become.

Not to be a party pooper, but enjoy the novelty while it lasts... soon you will see the truth.

~Sol

Edited August 15, 2012 by Sol

[CoolCain10 55]

You were lucky you were not involved in that firefight that's all I can say...

[nicebasi 37]

Yei Hey!

Good luck with that awesome starter gear :beans:

The SVD-Camo is probably the rarest Gun ingame

[DR@GON (DayZ) 20]

great post! I can't believe how much this game immerses you and give you a sense of fear and desperation at first!

Also, you dont know how lucky with loot you are! That gun you passed up would have been worth taking without ammo, because it has a thermal scope and most people use it just to scout with.

I had a chuckle when you couldn't figure out how to take the backpack, but DID figure out everything involved in getting cooked meat. :D

[herrjon 478]

Wow, quite the lucky run there. Not exactly safe, but you lucked out in the end. By the sounds of it you took the path I took my last life, Kamenka, to barn, to Balota, to airstrip, to Cherno. It can be one of the better spawns imo because you can get geared up for Cherno on your way there. Just be careful with that SVD Camo, everyone's going to want it so you'll see 0 friendlies.

[X_296 1]

Yeah, it was a great first life. Unfortunately I didn't have the same luck today. I made it to Electro no problem. Then I hear VERY loud gunshots. I sounded like the 50 cal. sniper. I'm no expert though, so don't take my word on that. But against my better judgment I went to check it out. Not 10 seconds after I see about a dozen dead bodies, I drop dead. I knew I should have just left when I heard those shots. Oh well. Live, learn, die and live again, right?

[AllMightyKnox 218]

I'm glad you like the game!

[MickGinger0 13]

Nice!! You did a lot more than I did in my first try.

[Nubaa 0]

Sounds awesome, you did much better than my first day lol.

[Mark88 9]

great post! I can't believe how much this game immerses you and give you a sense of fear and desperation at first!

:D

I was on the 3rd floor in a building the other day cking out loot and all the sudden heard foot steps coming up the stairs and growling, scared the shit outta me! lol