anothercynicalbrit

I am not so sure man, i am sure they thought they fixed it, maybe not, we will see

This, also you can stop any bandits or people shooting at you by approaching them and pressing f4

griefwar

This. The game is a game based solely on griefing other players at the moment, there is no survival aspect to the game AT ALL. Now even for an alpha it is hard to comprehend how a game that is supposed to be a survival game has turned into a pathetic mess involving stupid disparities between weapons, unrealistic weaponry (machete and axe) and tons and tons of glitchers. So many people glitching in the neaf i can not remember the last time i went down the airfield without seeing one person inside a glitch who can pop out of an invisible wall and shoot you, in the air control tower glitch they don't even need to pop out, they can shoot through the walls. I understand it is alpha but i do not understand why this game has turned into this. I was saying to my team earlier this game is a laugh for us, we have fun killing others and that is great but it is not what this game was meant to be, it was meant to be a very hard, unfunny and unforgiving game that was extremely tense, a little scary and had decent realism, sadly at this stage of the game it is anything but, that's not to say it wont improve just that it has a long way to go.

open and then shut, they will both shut

I usually say something along the lines of 'back to the coast you go' or 'have fun back at the coast' or 'that was stupid, to the coast with you' you get drift, works wonders.

Svetlo for sure

My group all wear masks just so we know who we are, simply because people like yourself don't wear them making it a lot easier for us to recognize each other. Does that make us bandits, hell no just ask the people we meet. I find that if people are hostile they will be hostile whether you have a mask on or not, that seems like a petty excuse to me.

lol, yes i told him to stand still and fight on the spot, read the OP properly and then come back to me with a thoughtful comment and not this dribble you just came out with.

Uh no. Cornwallis was outmanned and outgunned, op was not. I wish people like you would read the OP properly first before leaving stupid and irrelevant posts. really study the OP, read it 20 times if that is what it takes for you to understand the situation, once you have read it as many times as you need to then leave a comment to me that makes sense and is equivalent to the OP's situation ok.

Going to get your stuff back is not an exploit, it is a part of the game, it needs to be in the game otherwise banditry would be futile. The op did do something cowardly he ranaway when the odds were not against him, read the OP properly and you will see that he got to safety, there was only one shooter, would you have turned back to try and fight him once you were safe or would you have kept running ??

This was one v one

You are just making things up and trying to put words into my mouth, please explain at which point i said to not move and just turn around and shoot, i think you are the one who is missing logic otherwise you would be able to comprehend my posts a bit better. When you stay planted rotating 360, I am wondering if you even read the OP.

Of course the sheep would disagree, they would also disagree if their country was invaded and being run by foreign dictators because they are sheep, This was not a retreat and regroup s, it was a retreat, a full scale retreat and never to go back again, in war this would be called a defeat, you call it regrouping, i call it being defeated, I think this is where we differentiate. Also Every major event that has happened in humanities existence has stemmed from the bravery of certain people, Whether they are good or bad. If you would like me to name a few or a lot of examples where brave people have changed the course of everyone on this forums history you just let me know, i will be glad to. Also 'Military history supports the premise that retreat and regroup is seldom a poor strategic decision.' That my good sir and without being personally rude is the biggest pile of steaming shit i have heard in a very long time. I would love to have a discussion about this in off-topic with you as i could see it would be interesting but we probably should not do it on this thread, mind you it is kind of related to the topic in hand, was running away the correct desicion, i will let the mods decide

When i said flank i was kind of including all of these things you say but i did not explain myself very well, yes i agree a tactical retreat is fine, waiting and trying to ambush the would be bandit is also fine but running away is not fine imho.

I see your point but if you really want to survive comfortably it helps to have friends, friends who would take a bullet for you just as they would know you would take a bullet for them and/or their gear as in this game your gear is you, not friends who run away and do not even try and fight for you. At the end of the day in my opinion the OP is a pussy as he tucked his tail in between his legs and ran, he did try to avenge, help or save his friends, remember his friends may well have been unconscious and could have been saved.

I know as i was too. By the way i think it's the dinosaur noises ;)

I see, you have explained this magnificently. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back little boy, so basically you got nothing right ??

That is called a flank which if you had paid any attention to what i wrote you would know i said is fine, maybe it is hard to read what i am writing on your high horse, try again troll.

So many times i can not count on one hand, read the quotes i have added to that post, i would rather risk my gear to secure the gear of all my friends then to run away and know in the back of my head that i probably could have won that fight, just earlier one of our sqaud members took out about 6 people on his own, The other three of us died without firing a shot, anything is possible if you try.

I am sorry, explain your guess work ??? Bandit and me in the same sentence... Please explain ??

Can't believe the amount of people who are saying he did the right thing, i am not sure what sqaud you or any of these others are rolling with but if one of us is killed let alone two of us we will try and finish the fight that the bandit started, not run away that is to me truly pathetic, flank them sure, but run away, no. Not only are you leaving to keep yourself geared but you are leaving your two 'friends' with absolutely no possibilty of recovering some of their gear or the bandits gear, If you or anyone else really thinks that is acceptible then good luck with your meagre ways, you are not worthy. 'It is better to live one day as a lion then a hundred years as a sheep' 'When cities burn and armies turn and flee in disarray cowards will cry: 'Tis best to fly and fight another day'. But True worriors know in their marrow, When they die and fall 'Tis better to have fought and lost than to have not fought at all' I know which one i am.

Try not to be a loot whore, throw loaded guns at people... i am clutching at straws here, i just cant put a thumb on what you are doing wrong.

You pussy, i find it so funny when people run away from fights especially ones equally matched. There was one of him and one of you, i personally would have used all that time you did running with your tail in between your legs to flank around on this guy and wait for him to loot the bodies, it is extremely rare for someone to leave bodies, most will hide them and as your there might as well check what your victim had on him anyway, if you were to ask me what the number one killer is on dayz it is greed, people wanting more loot. All in all You are a pussy never run from a fight unless you are really outgunned and outmanned (that's just strategy) otherwise you wont ever get better at the game.

Put it this way i would have ran down there while they were talking and lit them both up, you were the equivalent to Jesus in that situation so i would not have a guilty conscience.