Echoing the Christmas truces that took place along the 1914 Western Front during World War I, some DayZ Mod or Standalone alpha will take place as a simple—but maybe revealing—experiment.
With its encounters with other human beings rather than the game's zombie antagonists, a Christmas truce seems like the perfect way to see what the mood is like among DayZ's alpha community.
Are you like the person in the motorcycle helmet who challenged me to a pointless fistfight on a lonely hilltop the other day, or are you more apt to give a hungry survivor a cold soda and a can of beans after a long trek through the woods? I guess we'll find out. And that's sort of the strange and interesting point of DayZ for me anyway—the not knowing. What would you do?
