Your Dayz Adventures

[latiasracer]

Hello Escapists! I have recently gotten into dayz, with a freind of mine we tour various servers for good times. I was hoping to create a thread where we all share our amusing (Or bad) dayz adventures.

This evening we joined one, it was night time. We met up quite quickly, we found a atv and went to head towards the north east airfield. After my freind managed to get KO'D by a tree (and then bled to death as we had no bandages). We met up again, and continued our journey north. I was runnning in the red on drink, and thus began our epic quest for some liquid. We made it to a small town south of the NEAF, ran through the supermarket and there was plenty of things... But no drinks, or bandages. We made the sensible decision to walk into a house with one entrance. But oh no! Zombies coming through the doorway! I only have a measly makrov, whilst my freind has a mighty DMR. After i attempted to deal with them, and got Knocked out almost instantly. Given no choice, my freind fired of his DMR. And as most Dayz'rs know, Every damn zombie in the town flooded in, Swamping my buddy as he frantically attempted to switch to his hatchet, he was also knocked out. Luckily for me, they ate him giving me time to wake up, and clear them out. I frantically ran out of the door. I Frantically ran around the town bleeding everywhere, eventually getting knocked out by a zombie and bleeding out.

All in all, it was an amusing adventure.


Now brothers and sisters of the escapist! Share your tales!

 

[lRookiel]

DayZ is a really funny game when shit like that happens. Good story.

Well... My first vehicle I found in Elektro with my best friend Phil, I found parts for it while he guarded it, 10 minutes later me and Phil had our very first car!

We set off immediately hoping this would bring us much enjoyment. I was the designated driver for the first part of the journey before I asked Phil if he would like a go, it being a special moment and all. 5 minutes and one wrong turn later we were surrounded by 20+ zombies as Phil had crashed into a piece of rubble and broken our front tyres. Oh how we laughed

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Me and two other friends were scaving the airfield on an empty server one night (DayZ and IRL night) A few people joined, no one we knew, so we kept out ears open for unknown gunshots. But we didn't really expect anyone. Then as we moved down the airfield, we heard a gunshot. Everyone asked, "Who shot?" but it wasn't any of us. We regroup and travel together to be on the safe side.

Then hell broke loose, tons of zombies were aggroed, we were all split up again. To make matters worse, it started raining, visibility was almost zero. After what was probably the most intense FPS experience in my life, trying to find my friends in zero visibility, running from zombies, and trying not to shot my friends, we all finally regrouped in a small shed to bandage our selves up.

The other player must have not heard our fire fight with the zombies, because we noticed flares light up in one of the hangers. So we hid in that little shed, for at least 10 minutes, all of us staring outside waiting for the other player to show up. Then off in the distance we could hardly make out the unknown player running around. Some times one of us would say I see him, only for it to be just a zombie, or he would just run out of our field of vision. Eventually he walked right next to our. All of us froze, he had some big guns on him. Then...

BANG

One hit head shot courtesy of my friend and his sniper. Apparently we killed a bandit so the hiding and shot first ask later was justified. After that we all breathed again. Plus we got some sweet loot.

 

[CCountZero]

As a founding member of the Freeside Trading company and occasional guardian angel for the Dr. Wasteland medics, I've got a few stories, sure.

If you don't know of us, we were basically a bunch of guys who decided that, instead of running around like headless chickens, we'd actually go and do something meaningful, and so we started setting up protected zones at specific times, where we'd provide a, relatively, secure environment for people to trade with each other without the fear of getting ambushed and having their stuff stolen off their corpse.

Got our own server after a while too, started doing it there, exclusively, even going to the point of fencing in areas to better control the traders we took in, as well as prevent anyone trying to sneak by us.

Needless to say, this wasn't foolproof. Different ideas were floated around, and we ended up going for a Mutually Assured Destruction-type of security, as we didn't consider it possible to relieve people of their weapons. And even then, someone could just carry in a hand grenade, we'd have no way to check for that.

Hence why I said "relative safety", as all we could really do was guarantee that we'd do our best to kill anyone who tried anything, but not that we could actually prevent a few people from dying.

We did hold on to peoples gear, and help them get back to us, if they died, though.

These days, 95% of our members have quit DayZ, at least for now, pending the release of the Standalone version.
As you might guess, this was due to the fact that publicly announcing where we'd be, what we'd be doing, and when we'd be doing it, lead to a lot of hacker attacks. We basically became the test mice for any new hack out there.

And making a trading company kinda doesn't make sense when people aren't playing in the same global community.

Still kinda sad about how that turned out, but hopefully Standalone will allow us to start up anew, 'cus we did have some damn good times.

 

[latiasracer]

As a founding member of the Freeside Trading company and occasional guardian angel for the Dr. Wasteland medics, I've got a few stories, sure.

If you don't know of us, we were basically a bunch of guys who decided that, instead of running around like headless chickens, we'd actually go and do something meaningful, and so we started setting up protected zones at specific times, where we'd provide a, relatively, secure environment for people to trade with each other without the fear of getting ambushed and having their stuff stolen off their corpse.

Got our own server after a while too, started doing it there, exclusively, even going to the point of fencing in areas to better control the traders we took in, as well as prevent anyone trying to sneak by us.

Needless to say, this wasn't foolproof. Different ideas were floated around, and we ended up going for a Mutually Assured Destruction-type of security, as we didn't consider it possible to relieve people of their weapons. And even then, someone could just carry in a hand grenade, we'd have no way to check for that.

Hence why I said "relative safety", as all we could really do was guarantee that we'd do our best to kill anyone who tried anything, but not that we could actually prevent a few people from dying.

We did hold on to peoples gear, and help them get back to us, if they died, though.

These days, 95% of our members have quit DayZ, at least for now, pending the release of the Standalone version.
As you might guess, this was due to the fact that publicly announcing where we'd be, what we'd be doing, and when we'd be doing it, lead to a lot of hacker attacks. We basically became the test mice for any new hack out there.

And making a trading company kinda doesn't make sense when people aren't playing in the same global community.

Still kinda sad about how that turned out, but hopefully Standalone will allow us to start up anew, 'cus we did have some damn good times.

I have read about you on the DayZ forums, And it is a massive shame that such a good idea can be ruined by scriptkiddies. One server i literally had just found a huey, fully green, was just taking off when one of those thunderdome events started...

It'd be cool if there was a pat down feature, that would list that persons gear, that'd be also usefull when giving people lifts and stuff. I once gave a delightfull person a lift along the entire coast, where he immediatly proceeded to shoot me in the head apon arrival.

Thanks for the stories everyone, Keep them coming!

 

[Tom_green_day]

I played this game on about 3fps (yes, my computer is that bad) so naturally my character was under the influence through his whole journey. I played by basically rapetraining whole towns, looking for houses that were actually open. Some towns gave me about 20 zombies, not great for my framerate. Houses that were enterable were rare, and even when I found them they usually were empty.
I eventually learnt barns were great for weapons, and found an axe after a while to beat up my train. After using the wiki to learn you had to reload axes, I had some great fun through several playthroughs. High point was finding an Enfield rifle, although because of my framerate I missed everything.