Frankie got me interested in DayZ as well, and I linked his channel to a friend and he enjoyed the videos, so we both own DayZ Standalone now and play it whenever we're both online.
Had an up and down time on it the last couple of days. Yesterday evening where I hadn't played in two weeks my friend was up in Khelm and I spawned where I left off near Kamyshovo. As per normal I spawned with all the previous gear, but pretty much starving even though I wasn't when I logged out. Tried finding some food on the way up to Berizino, but ended up passing out in a house at the coastal junction for Three Valleys and lost my Mosin, ammo and scope
Ended up spawning near the factory at Solnichniy so I didn't have as far to go and rather stupidly agreed to meet my friend at the construction site near Berizino. I get there before my friend and I hear gunshots as I walk up the stairs (nothing on me at all so not really bothered about being shot). Friend says shots are landing near him and I get to the top of the construction building to see a guy prone with a Mosin rapid-firing in the direction of my friend. Managed to get right next to him before he ran off down the stairs and out of the building so I follow him, then he turns around and hits me with an axe which kills me. Friend comes along and actually talks to the same guy who killed me while I'm shouting at my friend it was obviously him who killed me so get rid of him. Friend lets him go because he seems friendly
Today we went to Stary Sobor and had an encounter which was quite amusing. Me and my friend were in a long barn, me behind my friend by about 20 foot, my friend is yapping on about stuff in his inventory and this guy just runs in from the other end straight at my friend and I'm shouting "THERE'S A GUY RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU", and my friend asks if it's me and I say "No, I'm behind you" at which point my friend basically craps himself while they both close in on each other. Luckily the guy, despite being armed, was friendly. Didn't speak, but walked off never to be seen again.
Then went to the military base south west of Kabanino, found nothing in there despite a recent server restart which we thought was odd. Just about to leave in the direction of the North West Airfield when a guy appears from no-where with an M4. Friend says hello, but the guy turns and legs it, I go running after him through a tree line trying to speak, he turns around 50 yards in front and takes a shot at me which misses, friend is now closer to the guy than I am and takes a shot at him, guy goes down, then gets back up and aims at me again, so I take a shot and then leg it up to him and finish him off with an axe. I don't plan on killing people, but if someone takes a blatant shot at me I'm going to retaliate, I'm from the land of CS so I'm used to shooting on sight, so I don't think I'm doing badly as he's the only person I've actually shot at. I pick up his M4 and ammo and my friend takes some stuff.
Finished the day off by getting to the North West Airfield jail. I open the front door and I'm confronted by a suspicious pile of clothes and an M4 with red-dot sight among loads of food and other random things. Friend takes the latest M4 and 220 rounds of ammo, I take the food and we decide that's enough gained from the airfield and we leg it towards Devils Castle
Not too bad a day in Chernarus
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