How to be a true hero

[Xeva 12]

While the hero skin is all fine and dandy, I don't really feel like I've accomplished anything by blood bagging a few people in Cherno and Elektro. In my opinion, this is the true way to be the type of player that brings joy to this game.

STEP 1: THE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

a. Find a bicycle, boat, or hoof it. If bicycle, go to step 2A. If boat, go to step 2B. If on foot, either will work.

STEP 2A: THE PATH OF GLORY

a. Plot a course you will take. You will be looking for bandit camps.

b. Keep in mind that a single tent can mean more spread out in the area. Search that general area for more tents and vehicles.

STEP 2B: HONOR TO THE SKIES (Note this method is less likely to work effectively)

a. With your boat or horrible swimming skills, travel out to Skalisty Island.

b. If nothing is there on your current server, hop until you find one that has a bandit camp or helicopter (NOTE: A helicopter that is in need of repair most likely signals the server is NEW. Go ahead and take the chopper, but this process requires a server that has camps, which a new one most likely will not.)

c. After taking the helicopter, initiate a search for bandit camps from the air.

d. If no helicopter is found, either resort to step 2A or if you found a camp, go on to step 3.

STEP 3: THE HERO'S TEST

a. After finding a camp, search all of the tents. You may take anything you want except snipers for personal use.

b. Load up a vehicle (if applicable) with things you want. MAKE SURE IT IS NOT A URAL. If the camp has a ural, go to c. If not, go to d.

c. Remember the sniper rifles you couldn't get? Load them all except one into the ural. Shoot the ural's engine block until it explodes. Hide your current sniper rifle under a bush or tree so it despawns upon server restart.

d. If no ural, hide the sniper rifles all under trees or do the same process with other smaller vehicle(s). While the vehicles are not the targets of this process, you may use them as sniper exterminators or if you find the ammo, to put them back up at their spawns for survivors to fix up after a restart.

STEP 4: THE SAVIOR IS BORN

a. (optional) Go to Elektro or Cherno with your newly acquired gear. Check the area for snipers. If there are any, stealthily approach and kill them. Hide the bodies.

b. Travel along the coast and hand out your gear to fresh spawns. If you want, you may tell them the location of the camp.

c. Repeat the process, or bask in the glory of being a true hero.

This process is by no means comprehensive. You may go to any lengths to help new survivors, as long as it does not involve any grief from any said survivors.

Motivation to do this?

First of all, you're a hero.

Second, you probably just got rid of a lot of duped items.

Third, you most likely saved the lives of about 100 fresh spawns from being killed by those sniper rifles.

Have fun!

[GeordieMarv 293]

What about healing broken bones with morphine, giving painkillers, bandaging people and giving blood transfusions?

These are heroic acts too. :D

I'm also convinced i've been given a humanity boost for putting food/drink on the floor and letting people pick it up. But i'm not 100% sure.

Edited September 7, 2012 by GeordieMarv

[Forceflare 166]

How to be a true Bandit

Kill the idiot Heroes who actually do this.

[Xeva 12]

What about healing broken bones with morphone, giving painkillers, bandaging people and giving blood transfusions?

These are heroic acts too. :D

I'm also convinced i've been given a humanity boost for putting food/drink on the floor and letting people pick it up. But i'm not 100% sure.

Classic way to being a hero. This is just another way that I find more...heroic.

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

This is useless since it's hard to find camps, let alone a helicopter, even a bike!

[Inception. 9443]

Why look for bandit camps? Why not look for hero or survivor camps?

Oh, that's right.

Duping happens everywhere.

Also, why waste time doing this? You're most likely going to be shot by them. If not you, then they'll go and sit on hills sniping people. It is inevitable.

Edited September 7, 2012 by Inception.

[Xeva 12]

This is useless since it's hard to find camps, let alone a helicopter, even a bike!

There's always the option to hoof it. This requires a true hero's dedication, however.

[GeordieMarv 293]

How to be a true Bandit

Kill the idiot Heroes who actually do this.

We have to have good and evil in this game. It's a necessity.

It would be just as boring for a bandit with no good people to kill, as it would be for a hero with no bad people to kill.

Well...until the zombies are a REAL threat too.

But I wouldn't change it for anything. :) The PvP fear is awesome.

Edited September 7, 2012 by GeordieMarv

[Xeva 12]

Why look for bandit camps? Why not look for hero or survivor camps?

Oh, that's right.

Duping happens everywhere.

Also, why waste time doing this? You're most likely going to be shot by them. If not you, then they'll go and sit on hills sniping people. It is inevitable.

Why waste time playing DayZ? Why not go have a life doing something that doesn't involve video games? The reason people would "waste time" doing this is the same reason people "waste time" sniping survivors in the major cites. The latter is obviously the easier route, but this is an alternative for those dedicated to helping others. Also, I've never been shot and killed anywhere outside of a town or city. Some people know how to conceal themselves in bushes and such. Once I lost a guy tailing me by using a forest to my advantage.

[Xeva 12]

How to be a true Bandit

Kill the idiot Heroes who actually do this.

Yes. Except the idiot part.