LIRIK is a popular, if rather obnoxious, streamer who plays a lot of DayZ. Today, he was playing the Day Zero 1.0 release, which is a particular mod with lots and lots of pissed off zombies. After dying the first time, players re-spawn on a particular beach, weaponless.
After LIRIK was run over by a truckload of laughing Brits, he respawned on the beach and spotted another player. "Friendly! Friendly!" he shouted to the other guy. "Yo dude, let's team up and go fuck some shit up, huh? Do you have a microphone? I hate it when people don't have microphones. Whaddayasay?"
The other player, staring into LIRIK's face, waited for LIRIK to finish, then said in a thick Russian accent, "mebbe you talks too much," turned, and ran away.
LIRIK eventually got over the insult and went on to befriend another fellow, and they gave each other transfusions, fought off a murderous player or two, and were trying to deal with a huge herd of zombies when a third player went tearing ass through an adjacent field, spurting blood, with at least a dozen angry zombies chasing him.
"Hey! Over here!" cried LIRIK. "Come over here and we can kill all these fuckers!"
"Okay," said the running man, and steered their way.
"Wait a minute. Are you the guy who said I talked too much?"
"Mebbe."
"KILL THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE! KILL HIM NOW!"
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Oshi, a guy from Texas, likes to stream when he comes home from work, but streaming in DayZ is almost suicidal because so many other players enjoy stream-sniping (using the stream to mark the player's position, then sneaking up from behind and killing them). A couple of nights ago Oshi couldn't go four hundred yards without getting jumped, and he was clearly getting upset about it.
Not today, though. Today, Oshi was decked out in all sorts of finery that would normally take hours to acquire, and he even had a truck. Eventually, he made his way to the airport. I didn't have the sound on, but it was obvious by the way Oshi was looking about that fighting was going on everywhere around him.
Oshi himself was practically out in the open, spotting other players from one end of the airfield by watching the crowds of zombies and their movement. But he would never even look behind him. "They're gonna sneak up on you, man!" I was practically shouting at the monitor, but nobody did. Eventually, he got hit pretty bad in a head-on sniper duel, and crawled off into the woods to mend himself...
... Whereupon three of his friends emerged to give him aid. Apparently unannounced, Oshi was traveling with at least a three-man goon squad, who were setting up behind him and then mowing down and looting what must have been dozens of stream-snipers, judging by the quality and quantity of loot they had acquired. His communications must have been done through some means not audible or visible to other players, like Skype or ICQ.
Oshi and his boys have figured out how to profit from the trolls, which makes watching them even more entertaining.
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The Day Zero setup is really, really cruel, because all dead players re-spawn on the same stretch of zombie-infested beach, without weapons, and arguably the hardest part of the game is getting away from the axe-and-taser fights on the coast and finding relative safety inland.
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