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So I had been away from the game for about a month before coming back to it this week. Am I just unlucky or has there been a huge rise in hacking over the last month? For example: today I was teleported on no less than 3 occasions. Encountered 2 invulnerable terminators and saw 4 hacked weapons on corpses. My friend who I play with gave up after being killed for the 3rd time by a hacker. These events occurred on a number of different high-population servers. I'm currently playing on US servers as I'm travelling and these give me better latency. Normally at home I play on Asia-Pacific servers so perhaps it's been an issue for those of you in the US all along, but I can't imagine to this extent. Anyone else noticed a rise in hacking lately?

It would be interesting to hear what different people consider to be "bandits". My personal playstyle (though I often change between a few when starting a new character) is this: 1) Are you a threat to me? yes = Attempt to kill unless a suicide mission, in which case haul ass. 2) Do you have something I need/want? yes = Attempt to kill, no = avoid 3) Did you just spawn on the coast? yes = I'll leave you be, perhaps even kill some zombies that are after you. Would you consider that bandit play? The way I see it, there isn't a divide between bandit or survivor, it's just shades of grey. In fact, apart from a friend I play with regularly, I have met 1 person in the last 2 weeks who did not attempt to shoot me on site (granted some may have been hiding and waiting for me to pass). I feel by what was the original definition of a bandit a long time ago, 95% of players would be considered bandits now. I believe this is because 'surviving the zombie threat' has become to simple, and there isn't any real end-game apart from PvP (but those are different topics). So post what you consider to be banditry. Do you consider yourself a bandit? do you consider the person above you to be a bandit?

Hey all, So I get killed by a hacker (I unloaded 5 AS50 rounds into him, before I magically die without getting hit) and was running back to my corpse in the hope of reclaiming some of my items. I stumble across two dead survivors and one of them has the attached sniper on them - SVD NSPU (SVD with night vision). I grab some of their other loot (higher end stuff - NVG, RangeFinder, GPS etc) and head for the nearest tree to log out. I have ZERO intentions of using a hacked gun, and I am fairly sure this is but if I can just get confirmation from someone that it is or isn't I will dispose of it ASAP. Thanks in advance.

Indeed it would, but I find without the risk of bumping into players the game is missing a huge aspect to it. I do love the fear forcing me to play carefully.

I have every intention of doing so when I get home. Do you have strict latency restrictions on your hive? I'm based in Thailand so the latency to Aus is "ok". And probably my best bet for finding a hive in a similar time zone.

Do you think a lot of people (I think it must be an increasing majority) are drawn to a more bandit/murderer style of play because the game lacks "end-game"? ie once you have a pistol and a means of foraging food and water you have essentially beaten the zombie survival part of the game? I'd love for there to be more to do re-surviving. Perhaps the underground fortresses Rocket has talked about will make players less CoD-ish 'kill on sighters'

I opted to ditch the Sniper, but kept the rest of the gear. I've looted NVG and Rangefinders plenty of times before off dead bodies, so I don't feel like I'm giving myself an unfair advantage in doing so, whereas with the gun I felt I was. Just so happens that I know the location of a camp which tends to have some decent rifles in it, so I'll try sneak in there later and hope to find something good

Thanks all. Will dispose of it ASAP. I am aware the answer was probably hacked, but I only just started paying again after a month or so away so I was unsure if they had added any new guns