DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

I spent the last 4 hours playing with a little under 50 blood. I started somewhere in the wilderness and almost immediately got spotted by a pack of zeds. In my panic I ran straight past another player, thinking hey, he has a shotgun, he'll slow them down. Alas, he didn't draw all of them away from me so I had to keep running. Found a radio tower and ran up, looking to delay the inevitable. The zombie stayed down below for whatever reason. But then the player from before emerged from the woods trailing more zombies than I'd left him with, and he legged it up to crouch beside me. And one of his zombies DID start climbing. I watched the other guy line up the shotgun with where the zombie would pop his head up, and *click*. Nothing. Absolutely terrified. Then for some daft reason the zombie climbed all the way down again. I though screw this, I'll take my chances, and legged it. Managed to lose most of them in the woods, and then the last one died chasing me down a steep incline. I was lost, though. Turns out Chernarus is a pretty big place.

I struck out in a random direction, and almost immediately a military-type zombie just appeared out of nowhere and tore into me. Ran like hell for another 5 minutes, losing blood all the time. Remembering the steep hill trick, I kept running until I found a hill, ran all the way up, ran back down, and hey, same thing happened, one dead zombie. Managed to stop the bleeding at 46 blood. Absolutely lost, hungry, thirsty, fainting every couple of minutes, no weapons, nothing. I happened across a deerstand with a half dozen gribblies around it, and somehow managed to sneak up the ladder, to find a beautiful (When you've played for an hour with no weapons, even a crowbar will look good) M16 and 3 clips.

I eventually found a village, and figured I might try to sneak in and find some food and water, when the zombies went nuts, turns out someone was already in there, which worked out great as a distraction. Sneak in, no food, but I did find the room where my distraction made his last stand. Map, watch, hunting knife, water bottle, giant backpack. Boom, I was in business again, as long as I didn't get spotted. Of course, I got spotted on the way out by one of those hopping chaps. One hit probably would have killed me, so I had to risk firing. M16 is rather a bit quieter than the Lee Enfield, I must say. It still drew a couple of zombies, but slowly enough that I could take them out. And hooray, one of them had a tin of pasta. 250 blood! The landscape was now more sepia tone than complete grayscale! Happy days!

Had a look at the sign, compared to map, realised I was in Kamenka, not terribly far from Chernogorsk, although with the low blood I'd pass out maybe 20 times between here and there. I decided to make the trek, if I stuck to the treeline I'd probably be ok. Passing Balota Airstrip, I was spotted by another hopper from a mile away (How the hell do they do that?), and he managed to take a swing at me before I put him down. Bleeding again, I bandaged myself up at 46 blood. And promptly passed out 3 times in a row. Lovely.

Finally sow Cherno over the hill, and was all set to run across a field when I saw a tent cunningly hidden in a large bush. I was terrified. I had some nice enough gear at this stage and I'd made it halfway across the map with next to no blood, I didn't wat to get popped by a human. Luckily the owner was out for the day. Even luckier, there was a tin of sardines in his tent. Om nom nom (I won't shoot someone in cold blood, but hey, if they leave food lying around it's fair game). Maybe I'd make it the rest of the way without fainting. Halfway across the field I saw a boar and a sheep. Remembering a fireplace nearby, I went for it. 8 lovely steaks later, I could see in colour again!

Now I'm back around Cherno with 6000 blood, all the bandages and painkillers I could possibly want, and a gun that won't alert the whole damn island. Fantastic session, that was, Just barely surviving until the last hour. Totally worth it.