First impression and condition of the player (me)

[catstyle (DayZ) 6]

TL;DR GOOD GAME!

Seeing friends playing Arma 2 on steam, looked into the game, never paied more attention then that, nothing I would ever get.

Hearing about DayZ briefly on a random forum, checking it up on youtube and stories, figured out thats why they played arma2, asked them and answer was easily yes. : D

I do love zombiegames like hell, so I got it asap.

Never played Arma2 so everything was new.

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Getting into the game

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Starting off in pitchdark, could barely see my feet, stumbling around for a long while until I figured out how to get flares out and throw them.

Realized by now that I am a living beacon for everything in a miles radius.

Switched to an American server to have some daylight.

Finding myself in a village when I logged in, a tiny one.

So thats where I stood lighting the place up like a christmas tree eh?

Strolling around, crouching past zombies (One almost stepped on my face, but the tall grass probably hid me well enough?)

Managed to find 1 place open, way to many locked doors/houses :(

Car parts, thats all it was, 2-3 carparts, tires, fuel and an engine.

By now zombies had noticed me and I had to call it a day anyway, logging out and being scared on how close the zombies might be when I log back in on my not so safe spot.

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Day 2?

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Logging back in the next day, different carparts and some food being on the ground now instead.

Zombies all around the tiny house, but so far noone spooted me.

Crawled out in the fields when I spot another survivor.

We both stood up to show that we have seen eachother, then I slowy crawled over the street to him.

(Is it any command to wave or anything?)

From reading the forums I do know trusting strangers is more risky then actually be-friending zombies, but first life, what the hell.

When we met up, a third survivor came from nowhere to scare us but greeted us. 2 of us had a working microphone (had to check controllers to find it, took a while but worked)

Started to scout out the village a bit, I took a right and they took a left.

Shortly after that I hear several gunshots from their location.

Making most of the zombies alerted.

Sadly for me, I was in their walkpath.

We managed to meet up again (by suprice thou) in a tiny house, all 3 well and alive.

Decided to move to the other side of the town we started moving as a group until one zombie spotted one of them, a shot was fired, and hell broke loose.

We decided to run toward the water, I got badly thorn apart in that fight, bleeding.

While they hold the fort I managed to bandage myself (it was easy to figure out thankfully)

Out of ammo, they had ran apart from me, got a few more hits on me, more bloodloss and a broken bone.

Laying there at a small concrete docks of some sort, passing out, seeing them shooting, running and gunning, hearing they said they needed to leave me.

During the hourglass I crashed.

Reconnected fast, every zombie was gone, I dragged myself back to a house I knew had first aids and more, noticed it during the chaos.

No ammo, bleeding, broken bones, passing out and trying to sneak past those monkey zombies, was hell of a run.

Found a winchester along the things (Isnt it a rifle? Its running on shotgun shells, close quarter weapon then?)

Banded myself up, stopped the bleeding, but kept on passing out.

Passed out right infront of a walker, he was so close I almost cried a little, waiting for the hourglass to go empty.

Dragged myself to their last location, following the beach and see if they are still out there.

Found 2 corpses, no flies, players.

not sure if it was them or some other people.

Looted them to get some ammo.

Tried to eat some food, noticed my blood was low and I had a temp of 42, cant be that good. even if its F or C temperature.

So food equals blood right? Better get all I can carry and eat the rest, need some when the hunger kicks in.

Dragging myself, a bit better now thou, along the coast, seeing more corpses along the way.

Something is not right here, either people tend to run off here and die or someone is sniping them for fun.

Leaving the beach and the village for the woods.

Now im wandering aimlessly in the woods, bloodvalue around 2400, a temp of 41 atleast, and passing out every now and then.

I love this game. <3

[GreyHunt 1]

Great story Thanks. :)

[Jono (DayZ) 1]

I'll add my 2p to this.

Well I finally managed to play a little last night.

Two thoughts spring to mind:

1) Are my graphics settings teh sux? Everything seems a little blurry, especially compared to others' screenshots. I don't care about FSAA, what can I change?

2) I am terrible at this game.

I got rid of my stupid starter pistol this morning and found a revolver in a shed. Much bettter.

I found a tractor, which I used to run over some zombies (satisfying) and then crashed into a fence. More zombies came, I was too stupid to run away. Tractor set on fire somehow. I died.

I started again - ran up a hill to a house, found a bicycle. Zombie chased me - Pedalled up the tiniest of tiny inclines... ground to a halt. Zombie ate my face.

Repeat above, but this time found my way to where my bike was left - set off downhill. Got to about 50km/h? Ended up in some village. Crashed into a roadblock. Zombie ate my face.

Started again this morning - made it to some docks somehow. I was led to believe zombies don't like docks. They do - they also like trying to eat my face there. I am currently logged off, cowering in a shed, with no bandages, about 6000 blood left and no idea what to do next.

I too love this game. Can't wait to play more this afternoon.

[Keurk 4]

and i love you !

[Huey (DayZ) 87]

I found a tractor' date=' which I used to run over some zombies (satisfying) and then crashed into a fence. More zombies came, I was too stupid to run away. Tractor set on fire somehow. I died.

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Don`t you just love this game! :D

Great read.

[balumba 0]

first day is best, can`t repeat feel of it ^_^

among dieing other stupid ways on first day here`s mine:

got to cherno, see guy fainting trying to kill last few zombies, helped him to shoot zombies, transfused blood, morphine, guy stands up shoots me in head, loots my body (civ skin in time there were bandit ones)

After repeating that mistake for second time i started to shoot first... never expected that to happen.

[rickenbacker 190]

I'll add my 2p to this.

Well I finally managed to play a little last night.

Two thoughts spring to mind:

1) Are my graphics settings teh sux? Everything seems a little blurry' date=' especially compared to others' screenshots. I don't care about FSAA, what can I change?

2) I am terrible at this game.

I got rid of my stupid starter pistol this morning and found a revolver in a shed. Much bettter.

I found a tractor, which I used to run over some zombies (satisfying) and then crashed into a fence. More zombies came, I was too stupid to run away. Tractor set on fire somehow. I died.

I started again - ran up a hill to a house, found a bicycle. Zombie chased me - Pedalled up the tiniest of tiny inclines... ground to a halt. Zombie ate my face.

Repeat above, but this time found my way to where my bike was left - set off downhill. Got to about 50km/h? Ended up in some village. Crashed into a roadblock. Zombie ate my face.

Started again this morning - made it to some docks somehow. I was led to believe zombies don't like docks. They do - they also like trying to eat my face there. I am currently logged off, cowering in a shed, with no bandages, about 6000 blood left and no idea what to do next.

I too love this game. Can't wait to play more this afternoon.

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The blur is the post processing effect. Turn that off for a sharper image (and a few fps).