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BSB Surviving Day Z - Day 3: The Breakout

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Day 3 (BSB Survivor Box)

The Breakout

Day 3 The Breakout

I decided to have one final go and logged in for a final time. I loaded into the game. I was at dock lands so I know I was in one of the two big cities on the south coast…. The 10 second identifier text flashed up "Elektra”. Damn… another hot PvP zone. I deicde this time Id head straight out of the city and head for BOFH who, having problems of his own, was somewhere down on the south west coast beyond Cherno City approaching Bolota airfield.

I headed west out of the city, not encountering any other players thankfully but also seeing just one Walker and finding no loot! I reached Cap Golova, the jutty out peninsula between Elektra and Cherno. A this point Bofh said he was calling it a night and left. There was little point heading West at this point so I decide to play it safe and head north off the coast and away from the dangerous PvP cities. I ran through the forest and ended up in a small village called Pusta. I moved around the edge of the village to check for activity, Walker or Bandit. Thankfully it looked deserted, just a single walker moving north through the main street. I moved through the back gardens and sheds looking for loot in the barns and open farm houses still fidning nothing other than a water pump, which I used to get a drink and refill my canteen from. Then I was alerted by the flies again, indicating more fresh dead meat.

I followed the noise to an open farm house where I found a dead survivor. I then checked the house to find another dead survivor and a dead bandit all together. What ever had happened here wasn’t pretty, it hadn’t ended well and no body had walked away from it!

I began by checking the survivor outside, nothing much on his person other than lots of food and drink and Markorov rounds. I took the rounds nad some food and went back inside. I then checked the other two bodies and arranged my loot. There was much more than I could carry, even with the new Czech backpack I had taken from the dead bandit I couldn’t take it all. I deiced to eat and drink while there was excess supplies and took what I thought woulds be most use.

The bodies indoors offered more useful loot than their friend outside! I managed to get a primary weapon, there was a choice of a cross bow (with a single arrow) and a Winchester shotgun. This was a no brainer, the shot gun was by far the better option with more rounds available and a higher probability of finding shotgun cartridges elsewhere. At this point I realised I’d made a wise choice to loot the body outside first, I heard the unmistakable chilling sound of walkers groaning near by! I heard foot steps of what sounded like upto 3 of them wandering around the back of the house. I sat patiently till they moved away. Thankfully they headed away from the house I was in and weret alerted to my presence.

I also managed to get a chem light, a watch (you never know!) more food and drink and more importantly a Colt 1911 pistol with two magazines. I equipped the Colt and moved the less powerful Markarov and ammunition to my backpack. The 1911 offered more stopping power but also more noise so Id save that for close encounters and ditch it when it ran out of ammo. The Shotgun was the real coup here though as there were 4 boxes of ammo with it each holding 15 rounds! This would last me a while, or at least the next stretch of my journey!

I began packing up and getting ready to leave when I heard gunshots to the south of the village. The walkers hadn’t detected me and I was pretty sure whoever was shooting didn’t know I was there but they would surely be attracted to the sound of the buzzing flies and would make a diversion to investigate, it was best I wasn’t there if and when they arrived! I headed out creeping through the fenced gardens and back streets again, heading north to the forest at the top of the hill just outside the village.

I was trekking north a short while through the forest before I heard a very dull but unmistakable thud of a large calibre rifle (probably the Lee Enfield), somewhere off in the distance to the north/northeast. It sounded quite far away but was a concern none the less. I kept pressing on and came across a camouflaged tent, out in the middle of the wilderness. I approached it cautiously, checking the area for survivors laid in ambush but it looked deserted. I figured it was a base camp to whoever was out shooting the 303 Lee Enfiled on what I presumed was at he village of Staroya or somewhere near there at least! I decided to have a cheeky look at the equipment stored in the tent. I could still ehar the occasional shot of the Enfield way off in the distance and took a gamble that it was indeed their tent and they wouldn’t be back for a little while yet.

The tent had some basic common supplies, beans, water, soda, bandages, flares, a box of shotgun shells and a jerry can of fuel. I decided to use the food and water stored in the tent and took the shells for my shotgun. Again, not a proud moment and distinctly selfish but the name of the game is survival! I made peace with myself with the rationale that I had left the rest of the supplies and only took what I needed.

I headed out again, not wanting to be around when the camp owner returned with his Lee Enfield! The contours of the land meant I had to head towards the shots, but at least this was done through the thick cover of forest. The forest soon cleared and revealed a valley with a couple of farm cabins and a pond sitting at the bottom. As I approached the edge of the treeline I heard the Lee Enfield again, this time much closer and directly in front of me – coming from this otherwise idyllic valley!

I dropped prone so as nto to give away my presence and watched. I could make out a couple of walkers wandering around aimlessly but didn’t see any survivors. As I waited I spotted movement to my left. Running along the tree line half a kilometre away was another survivor carrying a rifle. I watched for a while as he worked his way along the forest edge heading the way I had just came from. It seemed I was right and this was indeed the owner of the tent – this far into the wilderness it seemed unlikely this was just a chance meeting and he looked like he knew the area well enough to navigate around. He’d most probably been out looting for supplies.

I couldn’t go forward here as I would have been too exposed in open grassland all the way to the farm/cabins and beyond, I would have also had to take care of the walkers down there and probably would have given my position away with gun fire. To the east was more open plain land and to the west was dense forest and steep hillside.

I decided to move back slightly and watch the survivor till he was out of sight before I made my move along the same tree line he had just run. I watched for a few moments as he slowly started to make his way up the steep forest hillside, now only around 100 meters in front of me. Then all of a sudden he stopped dead! He dropped to his knee and began to look around! Something had startled him! Had he seen me? Had he heard me somehow? I had moved slightly to get a better view of him and to cover him with my weapon but it seemed impossible that he had heard me from that distance!

What ever had startled him was irrelevant now, he was there large as life alert and ready to fight! I wasted no more time and made the ruthless decision to shoot him – I had wasted far too much time waiting for him to move out and didn’t want to risk bumping into him a gain if I had to back track this area looking for supplies. I moved 25 meters or so closer through the trees, hoping he wasn’t about to turn around and open fire with that large calibre rifle. As I got closer, around 50meters away I dropped to my knees and fired 3 rounds from the shot gun, expecting him to simply be injured from the wide spread of the shotgun! He dropped to the ground bleeding badly! I was sure he was dead, probably after the first round as the shotgun was much more powerful than I had anticipated, but I thought I would be safe and shoot him a 4th time. It wasn’t worth the risk of taking heavy damage from a large calibre rifle out here in the wilderness! I couldn’t afford to lose blood here as I wouldn’t get out of the woods alive if I did!

I walked towards the body of this survivor and checked his gear. He had food and water, a few first aid items and a couple of magazines for his rifle and of course his Lee Enfield rifle. He also had the colt Python pistol , a heavy calibre 6 shooter that used to be the default hand gun until an update two weeks ago but was now much rarer (I hadn’t seen one yet after playing for 2-3 weeks). Had he been surviving out here since before this patch? Or had he simply picked the gun up from another older survivor or even found it in a town somewhere. Ill never know now!

I weighed up taking the heavy calibre rifle, in most cases a 1 shot kill against other survivors, but in the end decided against it! I wasn’t wanting to go player v player intentionally (especially after this senseless kill - ultimately as I ended up taking no items other than a drink and a snack!), there was only two magazines with the rifle, where I had now 5 boxes of ammo for the shotgun and the rounds were more common to find and possibly the biggest factor was that noise was a big deterrent! I didn’t fancy having to use that rifle and giving my position or presence away to everyone upto 2 kilometres away out in the wilderness!

I moved on feeling a little guilt over basically executing another player who was just trying to survive out here in the wilderness on his own, but I had paid a little bit of a price for it as now my humanity rating had dropped and I was now considered a Bandit! I was now dressed in the bandit skin and carried a real risk of being shot on sight when coming across other survivors! I had to stay well away from other players now until my rating had improved!

I pressed on what I believe to be north but by now I had really started to lose my Barings and wasnt sure where I was. I scrambled up a steep forest hillside on the other side of the cabin/farm where my "victim” had been. On the other side was a steep drop down to pen fields. In the middle of one of the fields I could see something large. It looked like it didn’t belong there and appeared man made – maybe some kind of structure? It didn’t look like one of this standard buildings on the map and really did look out of place with its surroundings. I decided to chance investigating it.

As I drew closer it became apparent that this was a vehicle, not just any vehicle or one of the standard wrecks that litter the map and are basically "map” decorations – this looked like a usable vehicle! Now right on top of the wreck it was clear what it was – a Black Hawk style helicopter! Crash landed in a field an in operational, but it was repairable!

On the side was a working mini-gun. Upon entering the chopper you could mount the gun and even shoot some rounds off, which I did but didn’t spend much time doing so just in case I was being watched! I pondered the wreck for a while, maybe the guy who I killed had found it and was planning to repair it, maybe that’s what the jerry can of fuel was for? Who knows. I know I had heard stories from the Day Z forum saying chopper repair was a tough job, salvaging the metal, finding the parts and then finding the 100-200 fuel cans to fill it! I knew it was futile trying to do this on my own so I decided to press on and leave this wreck for someone else.

I moved on through the plains and tree lines till I came to a sign. The signs are all in Russian style characters so are difficult to read (for those of us whoa rent Russian speaking!) I believe the sigh said I was 3 KM outside of the town of Novy Sobor, just on the outskirts of the military town of Stary Sobor, where the infamous "North west airfield” is loated. I have read enough stories and newbie survival guides to know that you don’t o to this region without friends or at least heavy weapons! It’s bandit territory as this is where rare military grade weapons and ammo can be found. Bandits and even some ruthless noobs head out here for it’s remote location , it’s relatively easy to find and obviously it s persistent resupply point for military weapons/ammo.

I decide to head to the town regardless of my reservations simply to get my baring’s. My at this point is to stay out of the town its self and then head northeast and hopefully meet up with other BSB survivors!

BSB Surviving Day Z - Day 3: Judgement Day

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Day 3 (BSB Survivor Box)

Judgement Day

So after a poor mid week session and losing our characters (well, me and BOFH at least, Dusk, Monk and Kindy are all still alive out there somewhere!) Bofh and myself managed to get online last night to have another go at the mod.

There had been technical problems with the servers for a couple of days and I wasn’t holding much hope of getting online if I was honest and my fears seemed well founded as it took me about 15-20 minutes to find an open server (that wasn’t full) and get loaded into the game. This was about 7:30pm GMT and the server was UK based but unfortunately it was already dark in-game and the pitch black bug had hit me bad – I couldn’t see a thing! I disconnected and decided to try a US based server that was still running daylight hours…

Again after much trial an error I managed to find one with a decent ping that had spaces left. In fact it was only half full… very strange. Upon entering I glanced at the debug/player indication pane and seen why it was only half full – 0 zombies were spawning.

"Never mind” I thought, at least it’s a good opportunity to have a wander around and familiarise myself with the map and maybe find some loot. I wandered around for about half an hour seeing no one else, even in the middle of Cherno city, and more importantly no loot! The people in the server were constantly complaining "no zombies” and "No loot” and there was a constant stream of people joining and leaving. I decided to quit the server and find another one.

Shortly after this I managed to find another server, again US based running daylight hours. I loaded in and was surprised to be just north of the Southern Airfield village at Bolota! I hadn’t realised Id wandered so far on the last server. I decided to try my luck at the airfield and try and get some military grade loot! I sOon found a tool box (for cutting player laid barbed wire/sandbags and for repairing vehicles!) but was again surprised at the lack of Walkers appearing, I had only seen a single walker through the entire town of Bolota and none on the main road to the Airstrip.

Once at the airstrip I found that I wasn’t the only one who had targeted this military base! As I approached the tower I could hear flies bzzing round fresh dead meat, the tell tale signs of a survivor casualty. I found a body at the bottom of the ladders leading upto the tower roof. There was barbed wire strewn around the tower and its entrances, it looked like someone was trying to secure this tower block and the loot inside. I "examined” the body but Im not sure if this feature is fully incorporated intot eh game yet as it said there was no obvious signs of death. I figured this was the guy laying the barbed wire and he’d maybe fallen from the ladder or something. All fo his gear seemed to be on his possession so this indicated he hadn’t been there long and hadn’t been murdered and looted. I grabed his empty AK-U carbine and some of his food and water. I also found a chem light stick and a compass! Not a bad loot at all. I then proceeded round the tower to try and find an entrance. At this point I needed to run AFK for a sec , when I got back I seen I wasn’t alone!

There was another survivor wandering around me, it looked like he was trying to take gear from me while I was AFK. Despite this he hadn’t tried to kill me but he hadn’t typed and wasn’t talking on the mic. His intentions were still unclear at such a hostile part of the map (as all military places are!) I decided I shouldn’t take too many chances with this guy. I pretended I was still afk and watched him for a few more seconds. He wandered away and waked round the side of the tower, presumably to loot the body I had already found. I immediately followed and watched from a distance. He then went up the ladders and left himself vulnerable – I made a split second decision to shoot at him and wound him and cracked a round off from my Makarov wounding him he reached the top of the ladder and returned fire clipping and injuring me. I quickly bandaged myself and emerged from cover expecting al hell to break lose but to my surprise I wasn’t shot at! I looked and could see him passed out half hanging over the edge of the roof. He had been more seriously wounded by my fire than I had thought!

I quickly ran up the ladders and planted a round in his head to finish him off. I checked his gear and took some ammo for the Makarov. This was indeed a savage and ruthless kill but one I deemed necessary. As I looked through the dead survivors gear I heard the unmistakable sound of a gun being cocked and loaded! I froze and looked around from the rooftop! I couldn’t see anyone but the sound was incredibly close, I figured the sound had come from just below me, probably at the base of the ladder. I peered over the edge and saw no one. It seemed someone had heard the ruckuss we had caused with our melee and come to investigate.

I paused a moment to weigh up my options. I could wait it out and hope who ever it was would go away or I could risk getting into a second firefight, after already taking a gun shot and losing some blood and potentially going up against a much better armed assailant. As it turned out the other guy made this descion for me……!

I heard steps coming from the stairwell, I turned to investigate and seen a bandit skin running up! He was warmed with an assault rifle, M16 I think and he immediately shot at me! I was hit and badly wounded and I was going to die. I did manage to crack a shot back off at him and think I hit him but it was too late for me.

I re-spawned back at Cherno city. I decided to have a quick look around and found I was at the apartment blocks near the hospital. There were still relatively few zombies around, I could see there were over 700 spawned across the map but for what ever reason I wasn’t running into many, not even here in thebiggest city in the game! Never the less, regardless of there being no zombies I knew form the forums that there was good loot to be found here but also know that this was a dangerous Player -V-Player city and it was basically Bandit territory! I could already here gun shots ringing from various different directions and caught sight of a number of different survivors scurrying around the city.

I was adamant I was going to search the apartments for loot then head out otherwise I wouldn’t make it out at all! I ran into the first block and found nothing. I swiftly moved to the second apartment tower and found a better back pack, the 16 slot Czech pack (better than the standard 8 slot coyote pack I had!). I switched packs and headed out to the third tower where I found an ALICE pack, the best pack in the game with 25 slots to it! I switched the Czech pack with the Alice pack and went to leave the building when it happened,..

A bullet whistled passed me as I was about to leave. I turned and ran back inside! I ran up and down the stairwell, cautiously checking out of all windows and doors from every view point to try and spot the sniper but still had no idea where he was! I waited a while and wondered if he was pressing down on me and coming to get me, After around 5-10 mins of waiting I decide to try my luck and make a break for it….

I powered through the doors and headed for the shrubbery at the end of the road and planned on using as cover to get me to the forest to the north of the city. My silent stalker had other plans though. I heard another bullet whizz past hitting the bricks beside me, then another snapped off and hit me, breaking some bones and slowing me down. I began to bleed heavily yet still limped towards the foliage! Finally another shot hit me and took me out. I stared at the now familiar "You Are Dead” screen sad at losing such a good Alice pack and the prospect of waiting another 5 minutes before I could get loaded into the game! It seemed I was paying the price for my own harsh actions against other players in game! This had turned out to be Judgement day for me!

BSB Surviving Day Z - Day 2: Status: Failed

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Day 2 (BSB Survivor Dusk)

Status: Failed

Our numbers doubled but half of us failed to meet, only me & Monk managed to find each other after several hours struggling through the darkness.

A patch was released the night before which changed several things, it also spawned Box with no items food and water, he was also in an unreckognisable place and shortly after perished. I spawned fine but back in my original spawnplace (This tends to happen after patches, no idea why...) but thank god i had my M16 and my beans. As i spawned near Elektro i headed west past the docklands. Soon enough i saw a survivor lighting up a residential area with flares, quickly spotting him i dived into bandit mode. The key with killing anybody is patience, finding the perfect opportunity to strike and get near. Unfortunately i missed the opportunity and he got slain by zombies (But i did still steal his beans) The highlight of my night though was when i was prone next to a rock waiting for the opportune moment, all i heard behind me was an "AHHHHHHHHH" getting closer with the sound of alerted zombies screaming, I saw a dark figure sprint past and dive into water (doing this he probably lost all his items) with 3 following zombies also getting wet. I still heard zombies behind me so i stayed static in the overgrowth beside the rock.

Bofh started playing for his first time, after struggling to install the mod. Starting to play at night is such a daunting time due to the fact you have no idea what you're doing, you don't know the zombies, you can't see, you generally don't know how to play. Near the end i can only assume where he finished off which was a cherno docklands so i'm just going to mark that on the map anyway. So after several deaths he managed to call it a night, its all down to experience and daylight...

Fortunately for Monk, he spawned near our Rendevous point at Cap Golova (After several attempts) i caught up eventually but we both started experiencing graphic issues possibly caused by the patch but it swiftly lead to us calling it a night, it made the whole map pitch black usually you can see outlines and the shore but this bug removed even them making it impossible to get a location. Not even the flares and chemlights could be spotted.

Day 2 (BSB Survivor Box)

The success of Day 1 had spurred us on and encouraged Monk and BOFH to join Dusk & myself in the game. So last Sunday/Monday we all managed to get on an EU server at the same time. We Were fortunate as an update (1.5.7) had just been released and EU3 was literally just finished updating and we were all able to get on in within the first few seconds of it going live!

Our luck ended there though – it was already dark in game and it looked like the patch had damaged save locations for gamers still alive when it was applied as Dusk and myself were no longer together! We still had our equipment but were back at our original spawn locations. Also it looked like there was some kind of bug with the lighting as it was much much darker for some players than others. This meant that all 4 of our BSB Survivors group were spread out along the southern coast in the pitch black in some cases. Also Monk and Bofh were brand new to the game and needed to get to grips with the controls and features of the game, not to mention the map it’s self!

Bofh died a couple of times afer running into zombies in what was either Cherno or Elektra docklands. Monk did manage to meet up with Dusk at Cherno and they found some supplies from what was left of 3 or 4 survivors at a light house. I on the other hand was far west heading towards the small airfield village of Borodo (spelling?). The update had included new zombie sounds and I was genuinely startled when I heard what sounded like some foul wild beast lurking in the darkness – kind of a cross between a lion growling and a bear howling! I paused and went prone in case I had alerted what ever was waiting for me out there in the darkness. Looking around I could just about make out the silhouettes of a couple of buildings and fences. It appeared like I had wandered in to the village it’s self in the darkness!

I turned to try back track my route and circumnavigate what was a dangerous village in the dark however I was confused and disorientate because eof the dark and wasn’t sure which way was back! I moved in the direction I thought was back but soon found that it wanst! I heard the shriek of a close by walker that had indeed become alerted to my presence and ran straight at me! I fired a couple of rounds off and took it out but that alerted what sounded like a horde! I ran and heard the familiar sound of the coast and headed for it, however there was now a growing pack of angry zombies sprinting after me! I turned and fired into the darkness, unloading an entire magazine! With each muzzle flash I got a glimpse of the walkers in pursuit – and they were much closer than I’d thought! Each flash revealed a snapshot of twisted angry faces against the black of the night, I estimated upto 15 of them were onto me! There was certainly a lot of them as my random shots were actually taking down walkers so I’d say there was a condensed crowd right behind me! The problem was I was quickly running out of ammo and there numbers didn’t seem to be dropping. As I loaded the last magazine into the Makarov I stopped and tried to steadily fire in the direction of the pursuing horde. I seen at least two of them drop around 10 feet in front of me, however I was flanked and over run and could just see the feet and claws of the horde as they feasted on my corpse. My last few seconds of that game were of a sea of dead faces clawing at my corpse!

Bofh , Dusk and Monk had already called it a night because of several bugs and server issues so I decided to do the same, but we would be back to Chenerus again soon!

BSB's Day Z Survival Stories - Day 1:The Beginning

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This Feature is an on-going journal of the events unfolding in the new (currently Alpha phase) ARMA 2 Zombie survival mod Day Z. The journal started in our forum but has quickly developed and all members are invited to get involved and submit their stories to be included in the journal (Submit to Box or via the thread in the Day Z board). For more details about the mod visit the website dayzmod.com

The story of the BSB Survivors starts 13th of May 2012 when I joined the EU2 server late in the evening (10pm GMT I think). After speaking to BSB member Dusk at work we had planned to get on at some point through the weekend together but had managed to miss each other a couple of times. We managed to get online together and joined the same server, obviously as it was so late the game server was in night time mode and was pitch black! Survival and meeting up with friends in this game is hard enough in the day light so we knew things were going to be rough tonight!

I was starting a fresh character after dying on my last game, Dusk had recently spawned and was still close by the South coast. As I spawn I get get a glimpse of my spawning location , as luck would have it I was on the West of Elektro and Dusk was on the East of the city so we decided to try and meet up, him heading west and me east.

As we progressed cautiously along the coast Dusk tells me that he'd spotted two players also heading west along the coast two. Whilst stalking them he found an M16 on an dead player that the two players he was stalking managed to miss! However getting the rifle he managed to lose the two players and continue on in the same direction hoping to catch up with them. Meanwhile I spotted a flare being lit up in the distance just off the coast towards a set of farm buildings so immediately headed for the light. As I approached I seen a lone survivor moving into the light, being very cautious for stray zombies but leaving himself very vulnerable to other players. I droped down to my knees and slowly pressed forward as he moved out of view through an opening in the fence.

Just as I was approaching the illuminated area I noticed a second player creeping through the light along the same path as the first. I instantly dropped to a prone positon thinking this guy was sure to spot me at any second.... However he continues on his path. I presumed that these two were a team and out looking together and was planning on giving them a wide birth when I suddenly heard shots fired from the direction the two guys went. I hadnt seen any walkers but presumed they must have spotted one. As I cautiously creeped around the farm house I and could hear the flys buzzing around - a tell tale sign of a human fataliy! so was a little curious and thought id maybe found a dead body with some loot on it close by. I headed towards the opening in the fence the two guys had gone through a few moments earlier, presuming they would be busy looking for loot and taking care of the zombies the probably were shooting at.

Upon going through the fence I see a dead survivor, i moved towards the body and just as I did so I spotted one of the guys I had just seen heading for the same body. He hadnt seen me, but it suddenly occurred to me that the two guys I had seen werent working as a team , but simply an unfortunate newbie being trailed by a bandit! I decided I would take this guy out and claim the spoils of both of these guys in a split second! In any other game I would have said this was uncharacteristic of me and my normal reaction would have been to befriend another gamer but this is Day Z and it's a harsh game world!!!

I shot at the guy as he went to check his victims gear, at least one round hit him and he immediately returned fire, clipping me as i moved for cover. Luckily he was using a markarov the same as me and it's relatively weak round wasnt fatal with a single hit! I double backed around the building and managed to sneak round behind him as he moved cautiously to my previous position. I shot 4 or 5 rounds off and hit him with at least one but he still managed to squeeze a few shots off himself. He dropped to the ground but was still alive. I walked over to him and finished him off. However it wasnt without it's toll as I was bleeding badly and needed to bandage myself. I had lost a lot of blood but stopped the bleed and taken some pain killers by this point, but I was still in a bad way and needed blood.

I began looting the corpses of the two other survivors. Lots of food and Markorov rounds, a few flairs and the usual beginners kit. However I also managed to get a Frag grenade, a watch, a Lee Enfield rifle (with no rounds) , a chemical light (red) and a hunting knife. I moved to the coast to continue with my Rendezvous with Dusk. We met just a few minutes later along the shoreline, as it turned out the two guys I had run into must have been the two he was stalking! It didnt matter now as I had paid a harsh price for very little reward! I needed blood! Unsure on how to do a blood transfusion (or if we even had the right kit!) we decided the best place was the nearby city of Cherno which has a hospital. My blured vision and the poor light meant it was difficult for me to find my way there so I gave the chem light to Dusk so i could follwo him, at least while we were in the rural parts of the map. Then the plan was to hole me up in a barn, house or other shelter while he went for the blood under the cover of darkness. I was toast if we had any entanglements with Walkers or bandits anyway!

We pressed towards it following the coast for about 15 minutes. I passed out several times. During this point Kindy logged into TS and joined our server. We believed he had spawned to the west of the city of Cherno. Eventually we reached Cherno Dock lands and headed for a warehouse. As we approached the familiar sound of a nearby walker loomed. This was particularly concerning for me as I had very limited vision and was really struggling to aim with my poor health! As we moved slowly towards teh warehouse Dusk spots the walker, through the first floor window, then we spot a second wandering around the ground floor. We decide i need to move inside quickly if I'm to stand any chance at all!

As we moved inside Dusk snapped off his first shot at the walker on the ground floor but it doesn’t take it down and it started lunging forward towards me! My vision was seriously impaired because of the blood loss I’d suffered but I tried to shoot the walker anyway, I quickly fired between 4- and 7 rounds off at the walker hitting it at least once (but also missing at least 3 rounds because of the blurred and shaky vision!)

We quickly pressed on to the back of the warehouse toward the stares as other nearby walkers who were alerted by the gunshots were now advancing on the warehouse. As I I climbed the stares I spotted the walker up there on the first floor heading towards the stairs for me, I heard Dusk shooting away at the advancing walkers now coming through the entrance to the warehouse following us inside. Thankfully, the game AI stops the "sprinters” dead in their tracks as they enter a building and they continue their advance at walking pace, making it a little easier when in doors (buildings are a great salvation when being chased by a horde!) I again fired a couple of rounds off at the first floor lunger heading straight for me, with Dusk following me and also shooting at the same zombie now having cleared the ground floor. We managed to clear the first floor and caught a breather.

The first floor of some of the warehouses is bugged and part of a tree’s foliage warps through the wall and blocks part of the walkway up there. I’d seen this before and knew you could "climb” (default ‘V’ button) through the branches and leaves and emerge on the other side of the walkway safe and it offered me a great position to wait while seriously injured as I could sit tight relatively safe from zombies (as I’d be able to hit ay that did wander in by chance as they climbed the stairs and struggled with the bugged branches ) and it had windowed vantage points that I could check to see approaching flares or if I heard footsteps of voices (There’s proximity voice comes built into the game so you hear people talking in your immediate area!)

As I pressed my V key to climb through the foliage DISASATER hits home! With my impaired vision I had climbed over the safety rail and fell from the first floor to the ground below and broken my legs and died form blood loss! Nightmare!!!!!

I told Dusk to get my positions and pick up the useful – especially THE BEANS! I decided to spawn again , luckily I spawned in a similar position as I had earlier and was able to follow the coast west again retracing the steps I’d taken with Dusk earlier. After about 10 minutes I had met back up with Dusk again on the south coast who had headed out of Cherno docks – it was pointless heading into such a dangerous city at night now as we didn’t need blood any longer. Kindy, who was still in TS and still in the game somewhere was unable to tell where he was and sounded like he was heading North somewhere, it was going to be next to impossible to meet up with him till he could find a landmark so Dusk and I decided to head for "Rog” instead – a hill top vantage point with a fort ruin and a military commandeered deer stand near by – sure fire place for some "Gucci” kit to be found! Rog was a good distance from the location we met at between Cherno and Electro cities, sitting a few Kilometres to the Northeast of Electro. It would need a serious navigation as it lies deep within forest and plains with only dirt track and side roads running near by. It was unlikely we’d reach there for another day or so, ideally we’d need day light too!

We pressed ahead anyway to break some of the distance down, heading towards Electro city, intending on circumnavigating it. As we proceeded we again seen a flare in the distance. We stopped and watched for a moment to see what was happening. Dusk spotted a single survivor in the light moving around an old farm building. We decided to move forward to get a better look and decide if it was worth killing him for his supplies.

As we approached we split up, I took the left flank, Dusk taking the right flank by the sea. We both pressed on the survivor sticking to the darkness and not venturing into the intense red glow of the flare. By this point we’d lost sight of this guy, but knew he was still nearby as another two flares were thrown. He was moving around somewhere between the three flares and the abandoned farm building.

We both navigated around the edge of all the flares and met up on the other side –scaring the shit out of each other as we did so and Dusk almost shot at me as he was expecting me to be in a Bandit outfit (as I had been when we first met up!). The same caution and hesitation to shoot could have cost us dear on another day! Neither of us had seen the guy we’d been looking for, it seemed unlikely he’d headed off into the darkness without us at least seeing him do so. We split up again to scavenge the site to look for goodies or clues, it looked like this was just some random newbie spawning... Then out of nowhere a random Markorov gunshot rang out, I immediately dropped to prone and scanned around to see where the shots were coming from, dusk did the same although I couldn’t see where he was! I called to Dusk asking him if it was him who had shot.

"No it’s the noob” He replied!

Then a couple more shots rang out, one of them just missing Dusk who said he’d heard the round whistle past his head. We both saw the muzzle flashes of random fire in the darkness to the north of the flares, around 30 feet outside of the illumination. Before I could get a shot off Dusk ahd plunged 3 or 4 rounds into the noobie, killing him. It looked like the guy was randomly firing into the darkness and wasn’t actually aware of us being there, although I guess we’ll never know now! We scavenged his kit and took his Beans and Markorov Rounds.

At this point it was getting uite late, around 12;30 AM and we deicide to call it a night so we headed north for a while and found some shrubbery and trees to disconnect from (meaning when we reconnect we will do so with minimum risk of being spotted by randoms!)

The plan now is to re-group tonight (8pm GMT ish) and get some more BSB survivors or friends involved in our group heading upto Rog for supplies. Then when we’re kitted up we will be moving back down towards the south coast for a couple of days running between Rog and the two main cities giving members the chance to rendezvous with us and get kitted up. Then once we have a good number and supplies we can head North for better equipment and better odds of survival!

Meet the Member - TinTin

Jumpmaster

You are a Newcastle native, how do you like living there?

Technically I live in Northumberland; I live only 10 miles from Newcastle and say I'm from Newcastle if people ask as its a lot easier then trying to explain where graphically where it is. Most people will know where Newcastle is because of things like the football team, Ant and Dec and Cheryl Cole and of course Geordies!! So this also tells you I'm not really a true Geordie, but I have picked up the accent a little lol

Are there any special memories about Newcastle?

I can think of two things, one was the Mayfair in Newcastle which was a night club for heavy metal, use to go every Fri. and sat for years until they pulled it down as a revamp of Newcastle, it was around from the 60tys I was told and use to be a ballroom!!.

The second is the 'Toon moor' which is a massive funfair that happens every year on and is where I got the first fish in my tank at the min.

What was your favorite hobby as a child?

A couple of things spring to mind....I used to love my bike which was called a Raleigh vektar,I mean this bike was the mutts nuts....it was a bike but had loads of buttons that made sounds and stuff, trip times, lcd speedo etc. In the 80s this was ahead of its time and I was always asked off other kids if they could have a go lol.

Also at around this time my Dad worked at Airfix,so often enough I used to get things from his work.....not just plastic model that u had to build but toys as well.....maybe they were trying to expand into the toy market at this time....not sure really but I dont think I have ever heard of them doing anything thing then the 'normal' which is the self build things.

Do you have pets?

Have four fish, we came to getting the first one from the 'toon moor' as I mentioned before and then soon after the kids all wanted there OWN fish.….yes mine is the big gold fish and is the Daddy fish lol which is ironic seeing in stature I’m not that big lol.(still bigger then T9fury though, sorry m8 lol)

Also have some Koi carp in a big pond in the back garden and get a lease share in them after my Dad died. Have been hoping for years the little buggers would die so I could turn the pond into a Jacuzzi as it really deep at one end, and no unfortunately it hasn’t happened as they seem to be very stubborn!!

If you were to be reincarnated what would you like to respawn as?

Unfortunately I don’t believe in all that jazz and as far as I’m aware its only the 'good people' so on that note either way I’m screwed!

How long have you been using computers? What is your first memory with a computer?

First computer I had ever used was the vintage pong ,bat and ball console....I mean this thing had 4 games in one box it was a revolution in the 80's,then obviously moving onto the Commodore 64 ,Sega then eventually my first pc.

What led you to on-line gaming?

I used to play on my brothers pc when I was in my about twenties….he had just joined a clan as we all know to be BSB and was playing a game called Rogue spear. I liked the game and decided I would look for a cheap and cheerful pc of my own as a Christmas prezzie to myself. That day I came back with a 900 pound pc which at the time was middle of the range. Was a Advent pc using a geforce4 mx440se 64mb graphics card lmao.......yes I still have it and it worked last time before I put it in the loft.

Did try to give it away to some 1 who could use it a few years ago but the declined after they found out it didn’t come with a tft monitor!! f$@~ing snobs!!!

What is your favorite gaming genre?

I like all types of games to be honest and wont dismiss it because its a certain game type,i like everything from world of tanks to a fast fps......like every 1 you normally have 1 core game and use the others for a break. Atm my core game is world of tanks but this is probley due to becoming a lazy sod and my reactions getting slower so I can not keep up with the fast pace of the new hipped fps lol.

It seems that the moment a game shows on Steam you are the first downloaded it. When do you have time to play all these games?

I love my games and can not help buying a game if its on special on steam, or if I have been waiting for a game to come out and want it asap,at last count had about 70 games ...not all these are good mind but its a small chance you take when you pay very little for them in the first place.

Excluding the fact that you are so good your mother named you twice, why TinTin?

Lol,when I first joined BSB my nickname was Fireknackers as I have/had gingerish hair (going more blonde now with age) and tbh if you can not work the rest out you need to be shot! Anyway had the name for a short time when I started to get called TinTin at work as I had a little bit of hair sticking up like the cartoon character....the rest is history really.

How did you become a member of The BSB’s "?

Like I said I became a member through my brother, have never been in another clan and am sure I will never have the reason to want to be. Having a real BSB tattoo on my arm is proof enough I am here till some 1 has to write my name on the 'lost in action' page that BSB will have add to the forum pages.

You have been a member of the since Moses was a Lance Corporal, what keeps you here?

Pure and simple... my m8s and the crack,BSB isnt like other clans and I’m happy it isnt. its easy going and as far as I know nobody is treated as second class citizen. I have been here for about 12 years I think now ....that’s longer then I have had my current job for so its a big part of my life.

Is it true you have a BSB tat?

Lmao ,yea it is, when I told Box he thought I was joking until I showed him it on a BSB meet up, he always winds me up that he is going to change the name of the clan …..lol

What is your all time favourite game?

My favorite game atm is World of tanks but like I said I like other games too, like left 4 dead ,company of hero's, payday the heist, war hammer etc.

Do you follow sports? If so which?

I don’t really follow sports, dont get we wrong I will watch a England match here and there or the TT sometime but I don’t have a set sport that I follow

Lately, we’ve been seeing you gaming with Little TinTin. Whilst watching Little TinTin learning how to play the games, do you feel any thing special?

Its strange playing a online game with my Daughter, and also very frustrating lol, not that she is bad because with the limited time she has been playing she is very good but....because the gamer in me and that of playing a game that I enjoy I think that I could do better ….often enough she shows me I am wrong lol

Please outline your perfect day?

I don’t really have a perfect day , just a list of things I would like to do, go out with the kids, go paintaballing, scubadiving, go karts racing BSB meet ups.....probably all the things every person in my position would want to do!!

What is your favourite food and beverage?

I like most foods but my favorite foods would probably be Spaghetti Bolognese or chicken curry....FROM the Chinese shop, I know its stupid but there’s taste so much better.

I like the usual coffee and tea and of course Guinness but over the last few months have been drinking southern comfort and coke.

If you could chose one country to visit, which would it be and why?

Same as the food question.....I would love to go a lot of places for different reasons.....maybe Venice to see for myself buildings floating on water Egypt to see the pyramids, Greece to see the buildings ...the list goes on......done the first one which was to Thailand did some communicating with the local ladies....and yes it was the ladies! seen it .....done them :P lol

What is your pet peeve?

lmao , how long have you got??

I’m short tempered I know, I don’t mean to but unfortunately I tell it the way I think it is....no I’m not always right but if your acting like a cock then don’t come near me as you will be told the obvious. bottom line I think is a few manners goes along way, don’t like bullying and will stand up to the usual people that think they can get away with it with people who are less forward speaking then myself.

Describe one of you finest moments in gaming.

Had to think about this long and hard …..the only thing that springs to mind recently was when I playing world of tanks with Robbo

We were in kv5s and the outcome of the match looked very bleak. it was a bit of a stalemate as no side wanted to advanced as they had been some heavy losses ….we were out numbered and were getting moaned at by the usual bell ends who die then moan for the rest of the match. at about 4 mins we decided to charged the flag, half way I got de-tracked and manage to take the heat off Robbo to advance in to the base and start to engage the enemy. I then rejoined Robbo and took care of some more enemy tanks.we sat in the cap zone and eventually capped the rest of the tanks out....by this time we could have not lasted another fight....but didn’t need to ask we capped them out with under 10 second left on the clock.

Last chat on the monitor was

'BSB FTW!' (Robbo)

'And that’s how its done!' (TinTin)

Describe one of your worst gaming moments

Its not that I don’t want to say but I don’t think I can think of anything major....yea had disappointing losses in games I have played but hay.....haven’t we all?

It would probably be best to ask the people I play most of my games and sometime witness the strops and foul language that I produce lol

Robbo, T9fury, Cervelat, Downpour

Of course if its a to bad a taIe will deny it lol

comments

Box

Cool bike! I remember them! We used to throw stones at kids who had them on my estate! lol And I don't believe you are ...

xzu Nice read... and OMFG!!! Raleigh Vektars I loved them but they were for bigger boys, I had the Wildcat :oD

Nihilia Nice article. I am pleased to know more about you TinTIn cos I play different games than you and have no opportunity to ...

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