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This is MY version of the story, not to drudge up old news... but I spent a while writing this and it tells every aspect of the encounter with Hippo and I. Thanks guys if you decide to read it. This is just a heads up to anyone wanting to play the DayZ Epoch mod, DO NOT play in the " The Syndicate" DayZ Epoch Server The Syndicate server IP: 74.91.18.202:2382 For all you griefers This little story about "Lark" and "Hungryhippo" begins with a friend of ours (Wardaddy) telling me (Lark) that hes been playing on a new Epoch server called Syndicate. One day our DayZ group gets together and we all log onto this "new" server... That was mistake number 1. After about and hour of being a bambi, scavenging for the necessities, acquiring a DMR with 5 mags and getting a fancy pilots outfit the [sYN] clan starts spouting off in side chat. "If anyone goes near our base at Pobeda Dam you will be shot on site, also if you kill or mess with any of our friends we will hunt you down like dogs and kill you! We allow PVP on this server but don't PVP against us because we will hunt you!". There are 2 personality types... Fight and Flight, Personally I am a FIGHT personality... So their threats were more like challenges to me rather than threats. Meanwhile they, they being [sYN] are basically giving their play by play in side chat saying "OK, i'll be in Cherno in 2 minutes, hey come get me in Kamenka, meet me at the Elektro grocery store, blah blah blah. I followed their trail which lead me to a convoy of about 6 of [sYN]'s "friends" which consisted of an armored SUV and a cherry red SUV. They were stopped at the Elektro fire station looting it for its goodies, when /u/hungryhippo13 and I show up about 200 meters out with a DMR and 5 mags ready to go. /u/hungryhippo13 begins to make his way to the fire house with an AKS-74u when he is gunned down by our targets, I proceed to pick them off 1 by 1 with the DMR until none were left. After looting their bodies and stealing their armored SUV we are told in side chat that we supposedly "Messed with [sYN] clan friends and now we are to be hunted like dogs". Hungryhippo and I start cruising down the coast in our new ride and off to the left, on top of Klen mountain we hear a little bird starting up so naturally we head up the mountain in our new armed SUV to investigate when we found a little bird and pilot AFK on top of Klen with the helicopter running and a (admin hacked) Apache helicopter sitting there stationary. We then proceeded to shoot the pilot out and crash the little bird, which was mistake number 2, because we had just killed a [sYN] clan member and stolen their hacked Apache. The entire clan erupted with "YOU WILL BE HUNTED, WE WILL KILL YOU, YOU MADE A MISTAKE KILLING US" in side chat, which made me giddy as a school girl. Hippo and I proceeded to meet up with our friends at the NE airfield when I hear another of their hacked choppers flying in to intercept us. So I did what any reasonable person would do... I flew my Apache into their other hacked chopper and destroyed them both then promptly ejecting to save myself from the explosion. Hungryhippo picked me up in the armored SUV and we started to haul ass to the western part of the map avoiding their "other" hacked in armed choppers. After 20 or 30 minutes of driving west and never stopping we decided to make a pit stop in Petrovka to eat/drink and salvage car parts from the local abandoned vehicles when, sure enough... 3 [sYN] clan members show up in ANOTHER chopper. Directly over where we were parked in the woods (using admin map probably), Hippo and I decided to open fire on the wannabe heroes with the armed SUV, So I took off driving while Hippo unloaded on their chopper forcing them to land. Being the "fight" personality I was talking about before, we decided to turn around and further engage them. As we roll up to their landed chopper, Hippo gets shot out of the gunner seat and promptly after that, the ARMORED SUV gets 1 shot by a "mystery" gun... it burst into flames so I eject and run into the nearest clump of trees to the vehicle while dodging bullets the whole way. I lose them in the trees and begin trying to find a DMR vantage point to take out these hacking punk admins. I found a good spot and shot two of them and killed the 3rd [sYN] clan member just as he put a bullet in my head, killing us both. Wardaddy, another friend I had playing on the server at the time came and picked both Hippo and I up at the coast and we all proceeded back to the battle zone. While flying back to the battle spot we noticed ALL the [sYN] clan members sitting in the lobby, not actually IN the game. About 30 seconds away from the battle field all the [sYN] clan members log back into the game and fire upon Wardaddys little bird that he picked us up in, How did they get up to Petrovka so quickly after sitting in the lobby for 10 minutes? Probably being teleported by the admin. We land and head to the bodies to find that all the gear on the [sYN] clan members bodies was still there on their dead bodies, meaning that the admin spawned them with a full load out... they didn't loot their dead bodies to recover their gear. We looted the [sYN] dead bodies to find Thermal Vision AS50, PDW SD, Coyote backpacks, Rockets Red Beret uniforms and each one of them having a full load out of tools (GPS, Entrenching Tools ect.) We called them out on hacking items into the game and teleporting, which they denied at first but eventually admitted that they did it "Just to kill us". Personally, I was honored that they needed to pull out all those hacked tricks to kill my comrades and I after besting their entire clan for the entire night. This is not a "bitch-fest" post, I just want to get the word out... Do Not play on their Epoch server if you wish to have a legitimate Epoch experience. Sorry for the long read.

So, the AS 50 TWS, the PDW SD and the full load outs of gear / tools wasnt game breaking?