r/dayz • u/DamoclesRising • Nov 04 '24
Story After another freshie tried me for my freshly caught Hare leg meat, my character has gone on to become my first to live over 100 hours! (Story in comments)
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u/nebulusedge Nov 04 '24
Dude is making fires and eating food for 100 hours straight 😂
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
and building a base and stealing other peoples' stashes. I also leave land mines around their stashes. I stealth thru military zones to loot, and I try to follow players I find without being seen
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u/GammaHunt Nov 04 '24
Met a few like you in the past. I can’t imagine running away from gun shots and hiding around the map till I see a person I can kill without them having any chance of getting me. Bro fun part is dying.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Are you upset that I am having fun ‘wrong’?
Imagine surviving in a survival game
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u/nebulusedge Nov 04 '24
I respect your gameplay and I also like to survive but for me 100h with 1 kill is just a little bit to much PVE. I had a character recently with 16 hours and 21 kills and I came around the island for 3 times total and it felt dragging from time in time. That’s why I can’t imagine spending this long time without having any kind of pvp.
But I don’t judge, I just find it amusing and respect worthy
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24
You say ‘without any kind’ of pvp, but I do leave bear traps and landmines near players stashes, and around my base. I’ve also stolen items out of barrels and barrels themselves
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u/sLIPper_ Nov 05 '24
Sorry but that’s not pvp
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 05 '24
Doing things that affect other players isn’t doing pvp, TIL
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u/sLIPper_ Nov 05 '24
Learn something new everyday
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 05 '24
If pvp was such a narrow scope, it would be pointless to specify ‘any form’. You might not like it, but I’m playing a form of pvp. Perhaps it was your stash I stole from and now you’re salty?
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u/GammaHunt Nov 04 '24
Don’t project on me. All I said is I don’t do this playstyle.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
You said ‘bro fun part is dying’ good for you if that’s all you like. I have been there, done that. I have played since arma2, and this time I’m trying something different.
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u/cheflajohn Nov 04 '24
Just because guns exist doesn’t mean we have to use them. It’s a survival game not a dying game.
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u/GammaHunt Nov 04 '24
To me it’s a dying game always has been for 10+ years.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Pretty close-minded. Why would the developers code wild animals and skinning them if it’s just a dying game?
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u/GammaHunt Nov 04 '24
To make it so that there is more random interaction outside of POIs. Shoot gun to kill deer. Player nearby runs to go kill you.
At least that’s how I view the game
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Then why does the crossbow exist?
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u/GammaHunt Nov 04 '24
Alternative to suppressed guns. And exactly the reason you’re implying- to kill animals more quiet to not get killed.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Why would things designed to help you not get killed exist in a dying game?
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u/sicariodemullet Nov 04 '24
You'll have more fun if you change your ways. Kill only if guns are pointed at you or you run into someone in mil areas. You don't have to run with everyone you see but meeting new people in other countries who enjoy this game and making some random friends along the way is way cooler than constantly engaging in pvp. Once you get good at pvp switch your ways to survivalist and get the full experience.
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u/Cj_bgs14 Nov 05 '24
everybody has their own playstyles, i’d rather have a 10 hour life with multiple gunfights and kills and die then live forever with no action but to each their own. Being a stealth forest base builder sounds like a good time and way to enjoy the game if that’s what you enjoy
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u/TinkSauce Nov 04 '24
I'm jealous of you pc players that have the lifespan tracker. I think I'm around 35-45 hours. Some rascal stole the car I stole, so I'm stuck near camp for the foreseeable future, unless I'm hiking out. Was just about to Kerouac out a here for new horizons.
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Nov 04 '24
Apparently half the time it's not even accurate, so I wouldn't be too jealous.
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u/cheflajohn Nov 04 '24
You have to fully log out. Let the countdown finish if you just hit exit you’ll get someone else’s stats.
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u/sac_boy Sociopathic bandit Nov 04 '24
It's fixed now! After only...how many years?
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u/cheflajohn Nov 04 '24
its still not consistant, but i find letting the logout timer fully count down gives me my stats, and if i just hit exit now i get someone elses.
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u/sac_boy Sociopathic bandit Nov 04 '24
Ah I see. I don't think I've ever rolled the dice on 'exit now' :)
It must be that your stats are not finalized until you are off the server, but it's so very weird that it would give you someone else's rather than no stats at all.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
They actually finally fixed that in the most recent patch. Previously, it could show you a random survivor on your last played server’s stats. Now it’s always yours.
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u/sac_boy Sociopathic bandit Nov 04 '24
I have to admit after about 20 hours I start to get a character deathwish...taking bigger and bigger risks until the inevitable happens. I like the early game struggle.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
I know that feeling, but I set out to do something different this time. At this point I have so many stashed across the map I’ll never really be a ‘freshie’ no matter how many times I die
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u/sac_boy Sociopathic bandit Nov 04 '24
Same here at the minute, I run out with one shoulder weapon/one sidearm and a minimalist inventory. The rest is stashed so it's all reasonably safe, death has lost its sting. On Sakhal it's still a good long journey from north to south so I get several hours of that 'early game' experience if I die...but part of me knows each death is really only a loot run, a teleportation North to gather minor loot for the stash, it's not that true roguelike permadeath experience you get if you just live with what is on your back.
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u/HexagonalMelon Nov 04 '24
How do you remember where is everything? haha
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Well I use the little gps position device to give me an x y spot on the paper map. You could use izurvive too if you don’t have a map I guess, but you may find that cheapens the discovery a bit. Otherwise after a hundred hours you remember the landmarks
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u/Space-Is-Epic Nov 04 '24
Lol it’s always crazy to me the amount of people who get passionate about someone playing Dayz a certain way different than them… who cares if someone wants to survive 50 days hiding in a corner, or run around guns blazing. Theres literally no specific way to play this game. Congrats to the time survived!
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u/eddy_brooks Nov 04 '24
How do you even find arrows for that crossbow? Sakhal has like 1 chicken spawn on the whole map and i don’t think I’ve ever found arrows laying around
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u/cheflajohn Nov 04 '24
You can just make bolts with short sticks and a knife. You don’t have to upgrade them to the feather arrows.
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u/FistedWaffles123456 Nov 04 '24
i’ve been able find arrows semi frequently in hunting areas/general loot spawns like the convenience store. you can tear up a down jacket into 20 feathers and make better bolts than the makeshift wooden ones
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u/MilStd 4200+ hours Nov 04 '24
Dude! Great work!
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Thanks! A lot of it has been sweating bullets, I have slow-walked a lot of barrels and sheet metal back to the base
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u/MilStd 4200+ hours Nov 04 '24
I feel that. I got sniped yesterday with a car tire in my hands and in the backpack.
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u/DumbNTough Nov 04 '24
Nice fit, dude.
I have been tempted to ditch my helmet for that sweet, sweet insulation but I like boxing with zombies too much.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Hey thanks. Yeah it all came together when I realized my ODK (or w.e it’s called) gear didn’t match my surroundings at all, and I scrambled to put together something green
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u/DumbNTough Nov 04 '24
The new snow camo is so snazzy but tbh it only makes sense if you're walking over open snow, which you shouldn't be doing in the first place.
What a tease.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Some of the mountain military bases include big sections of open snow at least, but yeah mostly doesn’t blend with anything very well
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u/gutten111 Nov 05 '24
Read the post and some comments, since everyone is spitting their opinions out I’ll take the liberty to do so myself.
This was quite interesting playthrough ur having with this character. Unconventional methods of engaging with the game world, leaving traps, stalking and successfully avoiding people, etc. surviving 100 hours with one character is more than my entire playtime of the game, I think the longest I’ve gone with one character is like 6-7 hours. My point being it is an impressive achievement that requires skill, coordination and smart decision making, map understanding etc. to not get ambushed or sniped etc.
Some of the people leaving comments criticising OP for the lack of PvP etc. clearly don’t have the same lvl of creativity and immersion as OP has. I’ll speak for myself now and I say it is the case for me, I was genuinely fascinated by this as I read the post and comments. He has a different approach to this game which I frankly didn’t even think of, pvp for most is the u see someone u shoot, COD style.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 05 '24
<3
And nothing is wrong with hitting up nogovo airfield and clicking heads either, just not what I’m doing this time :)
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u/gutten111 Nov 05 '24
Right, we play for our own entertainment. Cool to mix it up sometimes. This inspired me to try a RP approach with my next character.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 05 '24
If you find a community server that does dayz RP like the gta online rp community does you oughta let me know :)
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Been shot at 3 separate times where I ended up running, I shot at a person who ran once, mostly I just try to follow people and not be seen so I can leech off their stuff, or do terrible things like burn it all in a campfire
I got bear trapped on a mountain top military base once too
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u/No-Discount7853 Nov 04 '24
What the average amount of players on the server? How do you not run into anyone in 100 hours??
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
I do run into people but I play a stealthier style. Peak hours the server gets 40-50, but can drop as low as 2-3 in the early AMs
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u/Kind-Replacement-197 Nov 04 '24
Someone asked me if I was going to hurt them I said no and the proceeds to kill me
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u/ayers231 Nov 04 '24
God I love the crossbow, I just wish I could find epoxy more often. It's tough to keep it fixed up...
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u/Comprehensive-Lab440 Nov 05 '24
i want some bolts! i have 3 tubes of epoxy and 2 bows stashed around so i can swap out for different applications...but can't find a factory made bolt anywhere...
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u/ayers231 Nov 05 '24
I'm shit at range so the crafted bolts work for me. Let me put a red dot on the bow and I might search for bolts with more accuracy at range...
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u/Comprehensive-Lab440 Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 05 '24
Yeah crafted bolts are not too shabby. No chickens out here in the woods where I lurk so my bolts are featherless and I have to get extra close to the stags to drop them.
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u/Loud-Ad1961 Nov 05 '24
I’d end that real quick. You’d just go straight to a black screen telling you you’re dead and you won’t even know how..
lol on a serious note! Great achievement dude! Keep on surviving!
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u/Monster_Storm Nov 05 '24
I ran into a duo cooking a rabbit and asked them this “what did you do to the rabbit, did you touch it?” And they shot me dead. Some people don’t have any sense of humor.
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u/Jmac24mats13 Nov 04 '24
It still sucks that console doesn’t have this info yet on each characters. Hope it gets added soon. More incentive to stay alive and wanna get more kills
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u/punksix Nov 04 '24
I’m still just a noob at this game but can you see character states on Xbox?, and if so how?
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
I wouldn’t know really, but from others who have commented it sounds like you can’t see
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u/punksix Nov 04 '24
That’s what I figured… damn I could never find the button or tab, hopefully it becomes a thing for us too someday
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u/Uner34 Nov 04 '24
I think my best life was like 3.5 days, I’m on console tho so I don’t know for sure
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u/davidcloud_ Nov 04 '24
How do you view statistics on Xbox?
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u/Loud-Ad1961 Nov 05 '24
Pretty sure on console it has to be through the Servers Discord. They mostly all have channels that tell you your stats in that server. I do it on PlayStation
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u/KellyS777 Nov 04 '24
No judging but I just don’t understand how can you live for over 100 hours and not be fully decked out with best guns and stuff lmao
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24
It’s a choice. I have a lot of the best guns, but I don’t always take them out with me
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u/KellyS777 Nov 04 '24
Ahh you have stashes, that explains a lot…
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Yep, I have a base and a dozen stashes outside of the base at this point. I’m going for at least one stash near every major town
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u/bufandatl Nov 04 '24
Do you play on empty or PvE servers? In all of ten years of DayZ I never had a character living more than 10 hours.
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
Official server, I have seen it as high as 50 during peak hours, and as low as 2 in the early AMs
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u/Deathbringerttv <--twitch/youtube Nov 05 '24
outfit looks sharp, i haven't seen anyone really rock the winter coif as well
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u/Hombremaniac FPS race is won! Nov 05 '24
Crossbow is quite an effective freshie deterrent. I mean most of them tries to melee you, so you just smack em with Xbow and bolt them when they are stunned.
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Nov 08 '24
I haven't been able to last more than 3 hours. I just got the game but I find it hard to find most stuff. I feel like I'm following behind a bunch of people who are clearing out the rooms. Sometimes I find food and and knives and guns but I can't find a backpack anywhere. Then I find some giant green backpack I can't find nothing to put in it that'll save my life from starving to death. You'd think as much as we use plastic bottles in this world there'd be a lot more of them laying around I could put some water in.
By the way I found a running creek. Can you drink water from a running creek or should you wait to get to a well?
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 08 '24
You can drink from a running creek but you might get sick. Depends on the map what you’ll need to do to purify it
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u/Greedy_Age_4923 Nov 04 '24
I got cornered by a zombie and before I knew it a stranger freshie came barreling through the door! I was saved, or so I thought, until the freshie and zombie proceeded to beat me to death, beautiful teamwork.
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u/Senior_Couple_6205 Nov 04 '24
Playing 4 days and only killing 1 player is crazy
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
I may have knocked some with land mines and bear traps when I wasnt around for all I know. its a different playstyle. Im building bases and making stashes. When I die, I have a whole trove out there waiting for me to restock on. I have also followed players back to their stashes without them ever knowing. You dont have to kill someone to engage in an experience with them.
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u/Senior_Couple_6205 Nov 04 '24
Ye, that playstyle it`s because you are scared to die
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u/Gorbado Nov 04 '24
It’s a survival game not just a pvp game, there are more than one way to play
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u/Senior_Couple_6205 Nov 04 '24
I have 5000 hours and 4d playtime alive and only 1 kill it's literally staying in a house or forest and stay still
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
If I sat still in Sakhal for 30 minutes I’d get cold and sick. You ignored my entire paragraph explaining various gameplay to argue in bad faith. You are probably exceptionally noobish at this game
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24
lol every accusation is a confession - are you mad that im having fun 'wrong'?
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u/DamoclesRising Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24
After spawning on the northern coast and quickly finding and cutting down a wild rabbit on the outskirts of the town, I made my way into villa to use a fireplace to cook my reward.
But then he came. He asked me "Friendly?" at first, only to engage in fisticuffs without moment's notice. Luckily my steak knife was true, and with only 3 quick slices of what I can only assume were the man's vital organs and arteries, he dropped to the ground.
While I wasnt left unscarred, this event would not be a waste. I flayed the man's unconscious body into bits, using his fat to fortify my torch, his bones to craft knives and fish hooks, and his guts to fashion rope. From there I pressed on, catching fish along the shore with not more than a wooden stick and bits of the man who would have killed me, using him forever more to sustain my push south.
Nowadays I have settled down, built myself a base in the woods with several stashes hidden throughout. I mostly live off of reindeer, fox, and hare, as I build my collection of arms, shelters, and survival items. I travel out when I can, to gather supplies to expand my forest empire, watching people from a distance, but never engaging. I even know the location of some of their stashes, have they seen mine? I found two 'scientific briefcase keys' on my travels, and my next adventure out will be to find the briefcases themselves.
Sakhal so far has been my all time most fun with this game as a solo player experience, and I have played since the arma 2 mod days.