Sep 18, 2012 18:39
I'm taking a break from Skyrim and playing the Arma II Mod DayZ for a bit. It's multiplayer, which is a whole new experience for me. I've been at it a week and :
I've died so many times I'm not even trying to keep count.
Trying to find a server, especially at night, is a pain in the backside.
I have yet to make it to Berezino, despite at least three concerted attempts.
I had my first contact with another player today that didn't involve them shooting me in the head. When he backed up though, a grenade came out of nowhere and fried me, not sure if it was from him or someone else in the area. If it was from him, hope the blast got him too, if it wasn't, hope the blast didn't get him, 'cause friendlies are rare as hens' teeth, and if it did, hope he had some mates to pick up his stuff, and I'm sorry if I exposed him, I'm new to this. I have now dug my mic out of the bowels of my laptop bag, if I have contact again, hopefully I'll workout how to use it. As I said, multiplayer is new to me.
Swam the bay between Mys Golova and Chernogorsk. Took about ten minutes Real Time. It would have been quicker to run around, but, hey, it was there and I'd just been scared witless by my first ingame contact and blown to hell by a grenade.
Have yet to find a decent sniping weapon, which is sh#ting me, because in games I'm a sniper by nature, whether with gun or bow. When I do, I plan to go onto a reasonably populated server, set up somewhere above Elektro, and snipe bandits, 'cause they deserve it.
I've been not doing much but gaming and studying this year. I'm back at uni, doing Masters of Translation. The gaming is for many reasons, it's what interests me at the moment, but it is also, in quite a considerable part, it is pain management. I might talk about that at a later date.
And I felt like writing/typing/blogging/posting/scrawling nonsense on the interwebs about it. And this is where I do that, 'cause Facebook is useless. I don't care much that no one reads it, that isn't really the point. Gaming is pain management, philosophising about gaming is sanity management.
Yeah, sure.
gaming,
philosophising about gaming,
dayz