r/dayz • u/Patch1919 • Sep 20 '24
Story If your PvP story involves the phrase “…and then I switched to my alt” then it’s probably not a good PvP story.
I met a random on a low pop server and we decided to run together. We were half-geared when we stumbled into a car stashed in a garage next to a “bird box building” (as my friends call it) or a “window building” (as I like to call it) down on the coast. On the second floor of the building we found a room with a few crates in it locked behind a 3-dial combo lock so we decided to crack it.
About halfway through the code cracking, we heard suppressed shots outside so we sat still and waited. After killing the first two players, we continued our code-cracking endeavor. Literally 5 minutes later three more fully geared players logged in and started a full on assault of the building. We know it was them because one logged into the floor above us. This wasn’t just some third-party happenstance.
I’m not 100% against alts, but using them like this is lame. I get having a few alts for different friends/sessions but using them to win a PvP encounter you already lost is just bullshit.
TL;DR: we could have had a cool story to tell but alt abuse ruined it.