Ha, true words. Do you play, Jack?

Occasionally, not so much anymore as the bugs annoy me

I had no idea it was that much of a simulation. (From what I youtubed, I was thinking yeah it's got it's survival elements, but its somewhat of an open map COD zombies..).

I was naive about those survival things. So much so, that I can't believe I've survived this far in RL.

difference is you have no mother in the game. food dont cook itself you know. ^^

I got "alpha'd" last night while logging in. Immediately upon spawning the death message monitor said "Espen was killed", and I found myself far into debug-fields with another dude in a ghillie I suspect was a clone of me. I though FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU as this was my 11 day old char with tons of fantastic loot (I LOST MY MOUNTAIN DEW GERDDERMETT) so I ragequit. Calming down after a few mins when my friend needed help as he found a PBX-fastboat I reconnected only to find myself spawning in the middle of Elektro with absolutely NO gear except my ghillie + my stats, still at day 11. Wut. I needed food, didn't find any. Shit.

Anyways, got picked up by my friend in his PBX, went to a tent we knew was outside Berezino, got myself an M1A1 with 3 mags and I went to pick up the dirtbike he left when he found the boat. Then we went hunting for heli parts. I had been raiding the Factory between Nizhnoye and Solnichniy where my friend had driven past. Someone was ringing the dinner bell (Lee Enfield, loudest gun in game), and I went to investigate. When I got there I drove around for a bit, and sure enough, someone was ringing the dinner bell as there were tons of aggro'd zeds everywhere running to the south of the city, so I took a right before Quarry and continued half a click up the road before stopping and sneaking back through the forest. Upon arrival to the warehouse I hear flies - somebody has died. "His name was Xavier1, it appears he died from...." Shouldn't have ringed the dinner bell, son.

Anyways we have a stroke of luck and find a main rotor assembly and he continues over to Skalisty Island to fix the heli which we'd located there. Upon going back to shore to pick me up he spots two bodies in the water by the sunken ship, then hear bullets whinging past, I only hear SHIT FUCK DAMN COCK on skype. He tells me to get the fuck over, and we lay on Krutoy Cap for a good 20 minutes scoping it out before we spot movement in the bushes on the island. We fire. We hit. He runs. We take the boat over to the other side of the island and start sneaking up on the heli spawn. We see nothing. Then we hear someone speaking through a voice warping thing on direct comms, but see no-one. Wut. Hackers. Ban him then continue. We get to the copter, dispatch the few zeds and fill up the chopper with a Jerry can, hoping it will last over to the shore.

I fire it up, not even bothering auto hover and gun it for the mainland shore setting it on auto hover before reaching land and start descent. We're running on fumes by now and I'm scared shitless, 20m above ground, a fall that will kill us both. We get down to 1m altitude before the engines die on us and we land safely. We use the motorbike to refuel a couple of times but it's leaking everywhere because of broken windows and engine so I decide to blow it up. I spent 6 STANAG mags and 4 M1911 mags on that sucker, no blowing up in sight, so I shot up all its windows and used all its ammo before chopping it a bit with my hatchet for good measure before logging out.

And this was my DayZ night yesterday.

I played a lot of arma 2 (5 hours logged on steam but I had a version from another online store) and 107 hours in operation arrowhead, just downloading the games again but from what I hear the game is currently being ruined by griefers and hackers(I understand that some people will play as bandits but spawn killing is just pointless as there won't even be any real loot). Are there any decent password protected servers which cut out the hacker issues? My username on steam is OriginalPimp btw if you want to add me for online play.

A ton of hackers, yes. What you should look out for is your debug monitor disappearing. If that happens, log out and connect to another server. There's really nothing to do to avoid the snipers covering the major cities, but stay out of Cherno and Elektro and you should be fine. Or you could connect to a very low pop server until you get a bit further inland for a better chance of survival.

Keep us updates with these screenshots and diaries Espen, I actually find them quite interesting, even though I don't play the game.

I do film with fraps as well, but I don't have the full version so it doesn't film the whole scenes I want to record But I'll keep the screenshots in mind and snap some as I go, I always have fraps open anyway to check FPS.

Let me recap you with one of my first stories seeing as people seem to enjoy reading them. It's not quite as elaborate as Espen's, but I'll never forget it.

One of the first times I spawned in the game was when me and Danny planned to meet up, with no further plans ahead of us other than to survive and loot, then take it from there. I spawned on the south coast, west of Elektro and Cherno, Danny on the east side. I made it along the coast to the church just inside the first main city, and took refuge behind the altar, my pissy weak starting pistol trained on the double doors on the off-chance a bandit or two would decide to sneak in seeing as the church is a popular place.

Danny was on his way over, describing what he was seeing over Teamspeak. Finally he made it here, unscathed and with some decent loot. Ammo, food, water. We traded some items to stock up, and decided it was a good idea to turn right out of the church and venture further into the town to see what we could find. Keeping a keen eye out for bandits and zombies alike, we make it to the main square. Zombies, fucking everywhere. I tell Danny to stay still, or we'll attract their attention.

Through the silence, suddenly a shot rings out. What the fuck. It was Danny, he accidentally fired his pistol in to the group of zombies right ahead of us, causing every single one of them to charge at us. 50% laughing at his retarded inability to remain stealthy, and 50% scared for our lives, we ran through the main square towards a small shop on the corner. Taking shelter behind the counter, with zombies raining down on us, our ammo was soon depleted, and we suffered a slow and gruesome death. My last memory was being eaten alive by roughly 5 zombies in the back room of a dingy little shop.

And that is the story of why I am now hesitant about playing with Danny.