There is still hope.

[Inception. 9443]

In among the murderers, liars, cheaters, betrayers...all those sorts of people, there are still those who are of good morale.

This video here proves it.

In the end, you'll see that people aren't here to shoot on sight every time, and that there is still good in DayZ.

[Of course, I would recommend watching the WHOLE video].

All rights and credit goes to Frankie, of course. Subscribe to him, he has amazing content.

Yesterday, I was in Cherno and I was looting the hospital near the apartments.

Some guy comes along WITHOUT me seeing him nor knowing he was there and asks "are you friendly, mate?"

He could have shot me and grabbed and L85, but he didn't. We talked for a bit and went our separate ways.

Not everyone plays like a murderer.

[Larkins 38]

My friend and I helped out a new spawn the other day. He was swarmed with zombies so I decide to clear them out. I gave him blood, and then we then escorted him to different loot spots so he could get some gear.

We then went our separate ways.

It is sometimes hard to trust people though.

[FrostDMG 398]

cOLD video but yeah there are some friendlies out there

[enaver 25]

cOLD video but yeah there are some friendlies out there

23/08/12.

Yeah, really old.

[Powell (DayZ) 734]

Most people are, in fact, "friendly"

however, other players force them to play otherwise. Most people do not go out of there way to kill others, most only kill on sight because they are afraid of getting shot first.

But then how are you any different then the people you fear?

[ybm 111]

There is some good in dayz still and nice to see the video. Last night I was playing on US1313 and the server got nuked from a hacker. I was able to get my equipment back easily as I was on the coast and I helped another guy get an ak-74 from balota and I gave him a transfusion and we went our separate ways. It is a nice change of pace to meet good people.

[SillySil 295]

Most people are, in fact, "friendly"

however, other players force them to play otherwise. Most people do not go out of there way to kill others, most only kill on sight because they are afraid of getting shot first.

But then how are you any different then the people you fear?

This is not players fault. How long have you been playing video games? If there is an overpowered weapon or a way of playing, most people will use it. Shooting on sight is the best way of surviving if you're not looking for friends. And the reason for it is that there are absolutely no downsides of "killing on sight" except making sound and loosing few bullets. Blame the mechanics not players.

Edited August 23, 2012 by SillySil

[Inception. 9443]

But then how are you any different then the people you fear?

This.

[Although, it should be "than", not "then". ;D]

Edited August 24, 2012 by Inception.

[Red_Sky 140]

Just, the best guy.

[gywidion@msn.com 80]

Yeah, I think he is kinda like James Bond meets Bear Grylls. Very casual as bullets fly, giving great narration while dodging bullets. He is awesome.

I run when I see other players. I have almost killed one person, he walked into the fire station as I was looting a corpse. He Killed me, but I hit him enough that some zombies were able to finish him off. I felt bad because I did fire first. Since then I just stick to the woods and do night runs to resupply, I avoid military spawns as much as possible. I have had many great adventures just running around the map, but that is not for everyone.

[elasticz 35]

This is not players fault. How long have you been playing video games? If there is an overpowered weapon or a way of playing, most people will use it. Shooting on sight is the best way of surviving if you're not looking for friends. And the reason for it is that there are absolutely no downsides of "killing on sight" except making sound and loosing few bullets. Blame the mechanics not players.

It's got nothing to do with the "mechanics", it's the mentality of the players.

If you see an overpowered weapon you could use it

a ) to kill people

b )to help people

Just because people feel safer holding a strong weapon in their hands and they are guarenteed to survive in a shootout, doesn't mean it's the fault of the game for adding that weapon.

It's the actions you undertake with it.

Edited August 24, 2012 by elasticz

[discombobulated 27]

This is not players fault. How long have you been playing video games? If there is an overpowered weapon or a way of playing, most people will use it. Shooting on sight is the best way of surviving if you're not looking for friends. And the reason for it is that there are absolutely no downsides of "killing on sight" except making sound and loosing few bullets. Blame the mechanics not players.

Please stop using that as an excuse. There wouldn't be any downsides to shooting first, only your own morality, and most people don't have morals, or ones that differ from yours. It is all down to the players, why would people be punished for using a perfectly viable survival strategy, in a survival game?

[SillySil 295]

It's got nothing to do with the "mechanics", it's the mentality of the players.

If you see an overpowered weapon you could use it

a ) to kill people

b )to help people

Just because people feel safer holding a strong weapon in their hands and they are guarenteed to survive in a shootout, doesn't mean it's the fault of the game for adding that weapon.

It's the actions you undertake with it.

There are no downsides for killing people on sight. There are only advantages, that's why people do it. It's not a problem with players but with mechanics. Shooting on sight is just better option.

Please stop using that as an excuse. There wouldn't be any downsides to shooting first, only your own morality, and most people don't have morals, or ones that differ from yours. It is all down to the players,

Oh morality you got it, something we completely lack in the game because nobody feels bad about killing pixels. It is what should be balancing the murders but it doesn't exist in virtual reality. That's why you have to replace it with something if you don't want everyone in the game to be a sociopath without any morals whatsoever.

why would people be punished for using a perfectly viable survival strategy, in a survival game?

Why would one way of surviving be favored? Right now "kill on sight" has a huge advantage over "friendly". If people choose to be friendly they are automatically at disadvantage, i.e. being punished for using a certain strategy.

Edited August 24, 2012 by SillySil

[discombobulated 27]

There are no downsides for killing people on sight. There are only advantages, that's why people do it. It's not a problem with players but with mechanics. Shooting on sight is just better option.

Oh morality you got it, something we completely lack in the game because nobody feels bad about killing pixels. It is what should be balancing the murders but it doesn't exist in virtual reality. That's why you have to replace it with something if you don't want everyone in the game to be a sociopath without any morals whatsoever.

Why would one way of surviving be favored? Right now "kill on sight" has a huge advantage over "friendly". If people choose to be friendly they are automatically at disadvantage, i.e. being punished for using a certain strategy.

You said it yourself, Shooting on sight is the best way to survive, it always will be, and as I said, morals mean nothing anyway. Morality would be short lived during an apocalypse, because those with them get killed by those without. Who survives longest? The ones willing to do more than the other guys. So murderers and bandits will always be more common in this type of situation. You can have morals and survive, but you better be sure you don't trust anyone else, because chances are they will kill you, either for fear of their own life, or to grab a bit more loot and survive longer that way.

Do you honestly think morals mean much? Do you think everyone in Nazi Germany believed the same as Hitler? No of course not, that didn't stop them from killing other people though, because if they didn't they would have been killed themselves. Willingness to survive will trump morals 9 times out of 10, that is the true Human Nature.

[Angel Knight 427]

Endless blah blah blah over killing on sight. Get over it, no one cares. We all see ech other on sight, we shoot. Everything's simple that way and nice and bloody. And lawl at high humanity counts like anyone cares about that either? Silly care bears want to play with guns, ahahahahah

This is why I like killing bandits between helping new players.

[Inception. 9443]

Endless blah blah blah over killing on sight. Get over it, no one cares. We all see ech other on sight, we shoot. Everything's simple that way and nice and bloody. And lawl at high humanity counts like anyone cares about that either? Silly care bears want to play with guns, ahahahahah

Ask yourself this:

"Why did I just post that?"

[elasticz 35]

There are no downsides for killing people on sight. There are only advantages, that's why people do it. It's not a problem with players but with mechanics. Shooting on sight is just better option.

Oh morality you got it, something we completely lack in the game because nobody feels bad about killing pixels. It is what should be balancing the murders but it doesn't exist in virtual reality. That's why you have to replace it with something if you don't want everyone in the game to be a sociopath without any morals whatsoever.

Why would one way of surviving be favored? Right now "kill on sight" has a huge advantage over "friendly". If people choose to be friendly they are automatically at disadvantage, i.e. being punished for using a certain strategy.

Haha, it's not about shooting the pixels, it's about hurting the person behind the pixels.

And let's say everyone shot everyone just for fun and not out of fear of getting shot first. Yeah nobody cares about the feelings of the other person, it's in our nature.

Stop crying and acting like you know how to run the game. It's an experiment more than anything.

Give alot of people guns and tell the to survive, this is what happens. It's meant to be a harsh and unfair game.

[Jex =TE= (DayZ) 218]

There are no downsides for killing people on sight. There are only advantages, that's why people do it. It's not a problem with players but with mechanics. Shooting on sight is just better option.

Oh morality you got it, something we completely lack in the game because nobody feels bad about killing pixels. It is what should be balancing the murders but it doesn't exist in virtual reality. That's why you have to replace it with something if you don't want everyone in the game to be a sociopath without any morals whatsoever.

Why would one way of surviving be favored? Right now "kill on sight" has a huge advantage over "friendly". If people choose to be friendly they are automatically at disadvantage, i.e. being punished for using a certain strategy.

Well the downside is it makes u look like an asshole but I'm fine with that if that's how you wish to portray yourself (speaking generally here, no necessarily you).

You may not feel bad for "killing pixels" but this argument is fallacious at best. There's a player behind the "pixels" that has spent a good deal of time getting where he is, collecting his gear and has made plans for his immediate or long term future so if u don't give a shit about that - it makes u an asshole as well.

Everybody needs to stop shitting themselves when they see other players or should we get ur mothers to sit with you and hold ur hands until you can become a decent member of society instead of a selfish prick?

[irl-calibre 744]

how did he kill the guy in the back of his car who had stolen the noob cannon at the start of t he video? i've stopped giving people rides case i'm sick of having my shit stolen outta my car... not that it really matters at the minute as they're borked! all you hear is the door opening and the guy is thrown out of the car?

Edited August 24, 2012 by Calibre

[discombobulated 27]

how did he kill the guy in the back of his car who had stolen the noob cannon at the start of t he video? i've stopped giving people rides case i'm sick of having my shit stolen outta my car... not that it really matters at the minute as they're borked! all you hear is the door opening and the guy is thrown out of the car?

I was thinking that when I watched it earlier (Frankie is a beast PC player) but I'm guessing its just that, he tried getting out the car when it was moving too fast and it killed him. He obviously didn't want to put the gun back, and even said to Frankie that he should kill him if he wants his gear back. What a turd of a person.

[Mikewhiskey (DayZ) 27]

Just watched that whole video, that is pretty cool.

[Mr. Church 10]

Endless blah blah blah over killing on sight. Get over it, no one cares. We all see ech other on sight, we shoot. Everything's simple that way and nice and bloody. And lawl at high humanity counts like anyone cares about that either? Silly care bears want to play with guns, ahahahahah

it is a question of style

[Erik (DayZ) 61]

The guy in the video seems to be a very cool guy. I'd love to know what server he plays on. I love the way he plays the game and I'd love it if I could be able to do that too. I sadly enough tend to go for the easy way and shoot on sight.

[ptk (DayZ) 178]

lol you people are fucking stupid! if morality was chucked out the window at first sight of any danger that posed a threat to civilization, then we would have been already extinct!

stop accepting your ignorance for fact...

[Virfortis 111]

Please stop using that as an excuse. There wouldn't be any downsides to shooting first, only your own morality, and most people don't have morals, or ones that differ from yours. It is all down to the players, why would people be punished for using a perfectly viable survival strategy, in a survival game?

Because it's not a perfectly viable strategy, it uses the excuse of respawning to explain away all sense of social interaction. Even running away is a social interaction, but EVENTUALLY these KoSers would die off anyways due to illness, or having nobody to help them when they're in trouble (and in reality, they would, frequently)

In DayZ, there is no need for others, so likewise there is no need for thinking. It's how gaming works, and it's why mature gamers fight every day to prove gaming is a medium worth paying attention to. Unfortunately, DayZ only hurts their argument. Honestly? This is just an MMO version of Postal 2, so good luck defending the "everyone would do this" argument. You're practically encouraging psychopathic shooters.