Had a good session last night on our server.
Had been over on the west side in Myshkino and went to meet up with some buddies around Stary/Novy Sobor, then pushed on up to Dubrovka. Just after passing through Dubrovka the server restarted and a couple of buddies had to log off just as we reached the outskirts of Krasnostav in the north east. We decided that we'd check out the BNN airstrip and here's were the fun started.
We scouted from range the control tower and hangars and spotted at least one person milling around, so I moved into the doorway of the gate entrance building. Just as I did, another player moved towards the 2 story building opposite, with the jail cell so I followed him in.
As he opened the cell door I politely held him up
Got him in the corner and searched his gear.He had a fire-axe,full back pack of food and drink, medi-kit and a pistol with ammo and did as I said. Luckily I had my buddy watching the door so I knew if someone was heading my way while holding this guy up.
After picking through his gear I let him on his way. He didn't have much left after dropping it and I'm not a bandit who'll kill on sight unless in the doo-doo situation... which is what happened next
The 1st guy waved goodbye (yeah he did say thankyou) as I'd not just killed him and I went back to feasting on the contents of his backpack. I asked my buddy if he wanted to grab any gear in here too as there was stuff lying around that I didn't need, that he might use. So he made his way to me.
I closed the doors until he arrived and waited, scoped in at the door with my M4, waiting for any reprisals from the 1st guy, or his buddies as we knew other people were around the airstrip too. My caution paid off.
Doors swung open and in walked a kitted out guy (gas mask, tactical helmet, M4) wielding a fire-axe. I dropped him on the steps in a hail of bullets and his corpse lay there unmoving.
It might have seemed a dick move to kill him without talking but after the hold up of the other guy I wasn't taking any chances. Strangely though, the guy I'd just killed was carrying an M4, but only had his axe to hand so either he'd been killing Zeds on the way or his M4 was out of ammo.
I closed the doors and waited again for my buddy to arrive as he'd held off after I killed the gas-mask guy.
I waited again, with the doors shut for my buddy to approach. Opened the doors as he neared and waited, scoped on doorway again, tucked in against the rear wall. Then I heard movement behind me, the other side of the wall...
My buddy dashed in and we closed the door, all the time I was scoped on the door while he rummaged through all the gear and equipment left by the holdup guy and loot spawns. Unfortunately gas mask dudes body was too far away and on the bottom step to be able to loot him safely, so we had to leave him be.
Now we were in a dilemna. We're kitted up, stocked up on food and drink and waiting to leave the building. We could have logged out, but that's just crappy, so we decided on a "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" style run from the building, knowing that there's probably hostiles waiting for us, somewhere.
I popped the doors & sprinted for the gateway that we'd come through. My buddy followed a few steps later... I made the gateway, when all hell broke lose. Shots were fired, my buddy dropped and the gunfire headed my way, but I kept sprinting and weaving... puffs of dust were kicking up ahead and around me from the shots. I didn't stop until I hit the trees near Krasnostav.
That's DayZ for me at the moment.
If you must know (and you brought it up not me) I work and have worked for large organisations who develop all sorts of specialised and high-profile software, I've been on teams of developers (and led teams of developers) working on contracts worth 6 figure sums (at least) and worked on systems teams that act as the point of approval and rejection for the code produced by the rest of an organisation consisting of hundreds of other programmers...