Scofflaw

I wonder how easy it would be to hit myself with an axe, with a little desync.

double-tap W and wait a good hour to make it somewhere interesting.

A long time ago, I was scouting a city with my Mosin + LRS. I saw a zombie who must have been nearly 1200m away. He turned around and started running for me. This was nearly a year ago though.

Sweet! I found a Steyr at my first crash this week.

I find making those decisions add to the immersion.

This man is correct. For the longest time my only mission was to get military gear. I would never even get to use any of it, due to dying from someone else server hopping like me. What on earth did I think I needed 4 75rnd drums for... I never even got to empty half of one in a firefight.

I imagine a lot of people are server hopping the barracks. I've given up on finding loot in military locations.

I was going to post this in the new player section, but I have >300 hours, so I'm not exactly brand new to the game. I just died again, and I'm starting to get a little annoyed at myself. A little back story : I was on a 4-5 player server, climbing one of those green metal guard towers to see how I fit in them. I get to the top, "YOU ARE DEAD", not a sound, nothing. Fine, probably got sniped, my fault for being silly. Respawn, join a high population server, gear up a bit, go up on the hill that overlooks elektro, and I prone in a tree root. The tree root basically hides my entire body, but I don't think you can shoot in or out of it. Lame I know, but I like to lay down there and watch all the fighting in elektro sometimes. I had a Blazer, so there's no way I could hit anyone if I wanted to anyways. I see someone run down the hill behind me, right up to my tree, and unload into my little cover spot. I walk out, get shot down, whatever, kind of asking for it. But how on earth did he see me from behind the tree from up the hill? You can barely see me from the front if you run up to the tree. Respawn, join another server with 1-2 people on it, spend a few hours getting geared, finally find a mosin with a LSR, and also a rangefinder. I go on top of a building in vybor, and see if I can shoot into the barracks of the military base to test my rangefinder. I keep turning backwards to keep an eye behind me. I aim, take a shot, turn around, someone somehow already got behind me, I say hello, "YOU ARE DEAD". I felt stupid because I was looking around the building quite often, and somehow someone just appeared there. Fine, maybe he got up there really quickly while I was looking down the scope. Respawn, join another server with 4 people, spend a few hours getting geared, run from elektro to cherno, along the forest, keeping an eye out ahead and behind me. Near the rocky hills between the two I quickly glance into the little town to see if anyone is there, I hear "DON'T MOVE". I get robbed by the 3 other people on the server. My first time not getting KOSed, so that was a positive experience at least. Not in the mood to regear, I take a break for an hour or two and come back to a server with 1 other person on it. I logged out on the roof of the office building, figuring it would be safe from zombies. I'm not even able to prone before "YOU ARE DEAD" without a sound. Really? One other player on the server, and he happened to have a sniper rifle pointed at the roof of a random building in Elektro right as I logged in? Respawn, join a different server with 5-6 people, run to Svetlo, "YOU ARE DEAD" without a sound. At least the only gear I lost was an axe and a battery. What should I be doing differently? I have garbage aim, and I'm aware the game is buggy sometimes, so I don't get mad when I die, but I'm basically spending 95% of my playing time running around to find gear and then I just die. It's really taking the enjoyment out of the game for me. No matter how much I try to spin my head around to keep an eye around me, I never see people before they see me. Do people camp in bushes on empty servers and wait for me to go by? How do people keep finding me and then getting the jump on me on nearly-empty servers? I used to be somewhat decent, and actually managed to kill other players back when we were all spawning near Berezino. Not that killing other players is a measure of skill, but at my level it probably is. I haven't even seen who's been killing me in the last few weeks. /rant.

My character was nearly dead from starvation. Good riddance.

Vehicles is the feature I'm most looking forward to. I've accepted the fact that I die a lot due to bugs and lack of skill, but the walk to get geared back up is really getting boring. Even just a bike would be great. I avoid interacting with players when I'm geared because I don't want to spend the next two hours running around trying to gear myself again,

You don't understand why some people on the internet would do something just to make people upset?

Yeah, it's pretty rough out there right now. The good news is that the zombies seem to ignore me with the lag.

I'm not a dev, and I have no influence on them whatsoever. Not sure what you're looking for here. I'm fairly certain the devs are aware of this issue. If you would like to be helpful, you should report bugs using the appropriate channels. Coming here and creating threads with the "I'm mad, fix this" tone, and talking down to anyone not pushing your agenda forward does nothing.

Yes, the devs should fix what bothers you first.

I just run towards NWAF. I try to get a fire axe on the way to I can at least kill some zombies if need be. The loot system is a bit messed up, so you never know where you'll be lucky or not.