So, I just recently got into Day Z to play with friends. I've always been an fps player and always got much more enjoyment from cooperating with people than just pvp dickery and was warned that it was pretty bad these days but in no way expecting it to be this rampant.

My 3 days of playing has gone like this: First spawn, run around with no idea, talking to friends through VOIP, meet up with them, raid some barns, work our way North, played about 4 hours, got around 100 kills with 90 headshots, didn't run into a player who wasn't one of our group (5 of us). Killed a zombie who was attacking a mate and as he shot at it I killed it and he blew my face off. Hilarious accident, I laughed, he felt like shit, we met up again and I got my stuff back.

Next day I'm playing by myself, moving into a town I see 2 players sprinting through the town followed by a horde of zombies. I start mowing the zombies down as they scream "friendly! friendly!" over the ingame voice chat. I tell them I'm covering them, help them defend a building from a huge pile of zombies then as soon as the zombies are dead they shoot me. I'm wondering if its an accident then hear one say "what the fuck, he's not dead yet" and finish me off.

Respawn and I'm right near Cherno. I'm sneaking around trying to find something and another new player starts following me, we both have no weapons then I find a hatchet and, together, we keep clearing through. Then suddenly I go down and he's standing over me with a crowbar and wanders off. Turns out I wasn't quite dead and when he runs back in followed by some zombies I hatchet his fucking face off and make damn sure I don't make the mistake he did. He dies. My first murder and even then I feel like a dick.

After that meet up with different mates, who pick me up in a car, give me some sweet weaponry and we cruise around checking out various locations then I go off to sleep.

Playing the next day with my brother, we spend a couple of hours getting totally set up, good weapons, all the useful miscellaneous items, food and water etc, and decide to head towards Gorka and Berezino to try make ourselves a vehicle. Running through trees suddenly some guy appears in front of us out of literally nowhere and starts shooting. We drop, get to cover, shoot the shit out of him as he just stands there then he kills first my brother then me. Hacking motherfucker.

I guess my experience with the game so far can pretty much describe it as the game itself being brilliant but the only fun I get from other players is the threat and idea of them being around, but every player I have actually encountered who I'm not actually friends with is a total cockhead of one type or another and I can't help but feel it's already quite considerably killed my desire to log on and try again