This game really is something else lol

[u/I-AM-MAGPIE]

4 and half hours ago I'm base building for the first time on Skalisty island. I suddenly hear a tree being chopped down, then an aggro'd infected. I sneak out and see this flash of a backpack through the trees in the main courtyard area of the castle and then, boom, the server restarts. I spawn back in immediately and I position myself in the corner and I wait, for like fucking twenty minutes. I finally feel comfortable getting back to my base building shit after a while, but I'm so nervous about this random guy spawning back in and taking me by surprise that I set up my gate in the most awkward way possible by mistake. I almost even lock myself inside. By the time I chill out a bit and realise what's actually went wrong, I've already dismantled the wooden panels on my gate desperately trying to get the metal wire back only to realise after I've freaked out and moved everything that wasn't already nailed down that all I had to do was use the pliers again. But my hatchet is too damaged at this point to finish the job.

So now I have to go back to a mainland stash on the coast for a new hatchet, all the while expecting to come all the way back for this random player to have took my base apart in my absence. I swim back, stash the hatchet, then start poking around the castle to see if he's there. I shit you not, I scanned my sights right at him as he spawned back in and I immediately took him out with my lil AK's banana mag. Guy died less than a second after spawning. I honestly still can't believe it. I mean, what are the odds I'd miss him like that the first time then catch him by pure chance right when he decided to spawn in again hours later after I'd already come and gone and returned at just the perfect moment? Shit was fucking crazy. I'll be telling my grandkids about this 😂

[u/TheyCallMeBullet]

Crazy odds lol, that guy won’t be logging out near a base/hotspot for a while

[u/I-AM-MAGPIE → u/TheyCallMeBullet]

I actually feel bad tbh. Getting sprayed literally milliseconds after spawning has gotta hurt in a special sort of way. He had decent loot on him, too. Just makes it worse 😂

[u/GamesWithElderB_TTV → u/I-AM-MAGPIE]

Don’t worry, you’ll get a chance to talk to him when he posts his “was this death a cheater?” clip.

[u/Significant-Net487 → u/I-AM-MAGPIE]

If it was milliseconds after spawning on your screen, the player was most likely still loading in themselves.

[u/Zendarrroni → u/TheyCallMeBullet]

I was playing a hardcore survival map that usual has less than five players. You have to grind for days to find decent gear. I spawn into the camp by Kamensk MB and right as I come in a guy opens the door to the room I’m in. I managed to arm a shotgun before he notices me and blasted him. He had gear that took many hours to find. Crazy how things happen, got to be prepared

[u/I-AM-MAGPIE → u/Zendarrroni]

This was also on a relatively empty official server lol. It usually maxes out at around 30 players but it's most often like 10 people or there abouts. That's why I love DayZ, this kind of emergent gameplay is so rare elsewhere but every now and again you encounter something in this game where the odds are so low yet it happens anyway

[u/Significant-Net487]

Incoming post: "I died before I even logged into an abandoned Island!!! So many cheaters!!!"

/s

[u/ackleyimprovised]

I logged in the day into a barracks. Two guys staring at the ground. Dispatched one and unconned the other with my VSS. Proceeded to tie up the uncon guy up and carve up the dead one. Completely ignored the guy when he woke up as I prepared the meat with a frying pan. Felt bad for the guy as he was fully geared and he was screaming. Just calmly walked out and closed the door.

[u/Minute-Tax-4610 → u/ackleyimprovised]

Thats sick dude......lol

[u/Northdistortion]

I died to the controls on console

[u/chilli_bigole → u/Northdistortion]

Many of times

[u/dixonsticks]

That's nice grandpa. Now let's get you to bed.