I never thought I would see the DayZ.

[ocelot07 60]

See what I did there with the title :beans: . Anyhow ever since I have played this mod I have only ever came come accross one friendly person. He was unarmed at the time so who knows if he would of shot me if he had a weapon.

Any how after about 8 weeks of playing this game I finaly ran into another player who had a gun and never shot at me. Instead he asked how I was doing. We chatted for a little bit I told him I just broke the window to the hostpital if he needs some supplies. He said thanks and was on his way. Makes a change from being shot at.

[zyl0x 11]

I ran into a guy at the northern fire station in Elektro. I had just grabbed an AKM, and I heard him coming up the stairs. Could've ambushed him if I wanted - I definitely had the means and opportunity. I held him at gunpoint for a second and asked if he was friendly, then told him I had left an AK-74 upstairs with a few clips. I kept my sights on him while he picked up the gun, then I left and went my own way. There are still people like me playing this game. My theory is that they prefer to hide when they meet another player.

[EndlessNight 103]

Ran into a guy with a car on lingor he was very nice, I never EVER meet nice people on Chernarus/DayZ, on Lingor Island are way more friendly players!

[shadow_moses 50]

I hide all the time if I see another player. I have been shot in the ass to many times. Plus its fun just to watch what you are doing and to see if you can spot me.

[ocelot07 60]

What happened to the Debug menu? I was so close to losing my - humanity to + humanity.

[ACOGshot 38]

I like watching from afar for a while, see what you are doing, and then I'll either go on my way or head down for an ambush. I will spare the player if he's completely unarmed 95% of the time, but if you are holding a piece then you are as good as dead.

[metapaus 31]

In my first month of playing DayZ, I never came across another player unless he was dead, and they were usually in groups of 3. I even played on crowded servers, with no avail.

But... things seem to work out strangely for me. A few days ago, I started playing again. In the first few hours, I had met another player. He had come up to me and was standing right in front of me. Not thinking, I aimed my double-barrel toward him and he got spooked, firing the revolver into my leg, fracturing me.

As we circled eachother, running and shooting at one another with zeds running in with all directions, the microphone was at the absolute back of my mind. There was no calming him down.

So I shot. And shot. And shot.

And missed every time. Eventually, we both separated ourselves. It got me thinking that either he snapped, or he was clever and planned this the whole time. But the story doesn't end there.

In another life, I had just spawned in, and I hear a truck. I see it moving through the trees, and so I run toward it. I catch it only to see the transport vehicle bouncing away across the road. So I went the direction it went, in hope to catch it and ask for a ride.

I didn't expect it to almost run over me. Sure enough, the guys inside picked me up, and we went for a ride. There was another in the back, and even though I didn't have a gun, he had an automatic rifle on his back. They let us take whatever we wanted from the trunk, excluding car parts, and even took me to the airfield to get an AKM. When I couldn't go in due to artifacting, he went in for me and brought out the exact weapon that he went in to get, with 3 mags. We hooked up in Skype later.

It was so unique. Unfortunately, I died due to hackers. So I respawned, and started walking down the railroad in Balota, unarmed and completely visible. I was shot down before I even got 40 meters away from a building. And I was shot with 1, carefully placed shot to the chest, with a sniper rifle by someone I couldn't see. Things are different, and change fast.

Anyway, if you want to read the full story plus a little more, click on the link in my signature. I'm sure it'll be worth your time.