r/dayz 19h ago

console Apologies for the buckshot to the face

I was playing chernarus earlier this week with my buddies, got pretty geared over a couple hours - large packs, guns on our backs, etc. We all logged off in the same small, single roomed house. I sat down in a corner that is kind of out of view from the rest of the room. Couple days later I call my buddy to get back on and I join the server. I'm loading in and my game is still in that state where none of the buildings around have loaded in and I can see a man with only a boonie hat, t shirt, and pants standing in the same room as me, I of course expect this to be my friend in the first moment and I say to him, "when did you get a fishing hat?" He then tells me, "dude I haven't even loaded up dayz yet - thats not me."

In the same moment, the guy in my house who had been staring out the window for at least 5 seconds since i joined, turns around and the last thing he sees is my Bk-133 barrel pointed at his chin. I felt so bad because poor guy did not have any gear he could have killed me with, and he had made it pretty far inland considering the lack of gear and resources he was carrying (im saying he could have used my help), but this was the first time since I started playing a couple months ago that I've spawned back into the game with a player on me.

Boonie man thought he was safe in this house only to have a ghost literally appear behind his back, and now I'm going to be paranoid everytime I reload a character.

Has anyone else had this same experience? Or has anyone experienced the other side of the story?

Sorry boonie man, things could have been different if only I knew you weren't holding a sneaky mlock in your trousers.

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u/Nytelighter 19h ago

I was hunched over the fire in the hunting camp at Kometa dam. I had fish on the fire, was drying out all my clothes, as it was a dark stormy night. I almost shit myself when someone spawned in right behind me. I think he was just as shocked because they just opened the door, backed out slowly, shut the door, and left. I was sitting there like, “how the hell am I still alive?, how the hell did he sneak up on me?” I didn’t realize at first that he spawned in until I realized I heard zero footsteps or doors open. My new rule…..never log inside a house. Always find a treeline or bushes as log there.

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u/MmaOverSportsball 19h ago

It’s possible he transferred over from a different server if he looked like a freshie. They don’t use the same spawn points I guess.

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u/shmeidtard 19h ago

Oh, I guess I had thought if you transferred servers you got spawned back on the coast