I started playing 3 days ago and out of the 5 players I have encountered, only one of them was not hostile. My first encounter was on my second character (ran off a 15 foot drop on the first one). I had ran into the woods not knowing what I was doing or where I was going and I literally ran for 20-30 minutes without coming across ANYTHING. Finally I see some big buildings in the distance and I realize they are plane hangers. I have heard, before I started playing, that you can get good shit at the airfield/fields? idk if there are multiple ones but anyways I sprint to them zealously. After looking around the hangers and the other buildings, I had a mosin and a scope and some other cool shit. I was still very much lost so I msged my friend on steam asking him how do I get back to civilization and he said to go south-east. So I ran south-east-ish for what seemed like a half hour before I reach this little town called Nycta or something I believe. It had dams and a huge dried up riverbed near by. By this time I am very bored and frustrated by the lack of stimulation so I decide to keep following the riverbed hoping to find the coast because coast = people I have heard and I was desperate for human contact/stimulation. I finally see the ocean and I am screaming and cussing out loud to myself in joy. I start running down the road and no more than 2 minutes later, I hear "crack". Someone shot at me and they were close but I had no idea where they were and was in the open with absolutely no cover anywhere near me. I start to sprint and serpentine away to the closest cover dodging 3 more shots and then boom, dead in one shot. I laughed out loud to myself and cursed the divines for their cruel, ironic sense of humor. My second and third encounter was in a police station in some big town. I had come across a police station earlier that day and learned that good guns spawn in there so I had been looking for other ones because the air field is too damn far away imo and I still don't know my way around at all. After looting it, I logged off on the second floor in the room right next to the stair case to go grocery shopping and logged back in like 2 hours later. As soon as I spawn in, I hear 2 grown men singing in faux-women voices over the mic. It was making me laugh so I decided to join in. They said some stuff to me in their girl voices that I couldn't understand and laughed a bit and I did the same. After about 30 seconds of that, I start eating a can of tuna and then I look around the room I am in. All of a sudden, the two guys on the mic go silent. I thought it was very curious of them to do that because they were laughing and singing into the mic relentlessly just seconds ago and then complete silence. I walk out of the room and almost instantly I hear screaming and I am getting punched. I turn towards the staircase and there is one of the guys punching me. I spammed a few shots from my sks into his body (point blank range so I didnt bother aiming) and he collapsed. I started looting his body and then like 10 seconds later I am getting punched again. I look up the stair case and there was who I assume to be the other guy. Repeat of the sks spam into his nuts and he dies too. At this point, I am bewildered and scared because I assumed other people were around and heard the shots so I sprint out of there. This leads me to my fourth encounter. I am running through houses and cover because I am sure someone is watching me. My palms are sweating and I am looking around like a paranoid schizophrenic. I turn a corner of a concrete wall and almost instantly hear two quick cracks. Then, out of some bushes no more than 30 feet away from me, a guy stands up and sprints to the left of me out of fear and desperation. He ran for about 10 feet before a whole clip of sks was shot at him (I was startled and already scared and I have no idea how much shots it takes to kill someone). This leads me to my latest encounter. So I am sprinting away from my latest crime scene like a mad man. Still terrified and paranoid, I start running for the woods because screw towns and cities; it was too tense for me at that moment to be in urban areas. I am running through houses and behind walls and stuff, serpentine every second I am out side. I run into this house and am making my way for the back door and all of a sudden a guy with a clown mask or something sprints in from the back. He, without stopping at all, does a 180 and sprints right back out the door he ran in from. I scream into the mic "DON'T ****ING SHOOT AT ME AND WE ARE COOL JUST LEAVE ME ALONE". I sprinted out the door I came in from, went a different direction, ran by some buildings and kept sprinting for the woods. Didn't stop until I made it a little past the tree line. I hid under a big pine tree, waited and looked around violently in terror for 2 minutes, then logged off. The 2nd through 5th encounter happened earlier today and all in the course of 20 minutes or so. It has kinda traumatized me honestly. I am scared to leave the woods and I creep around everywhere now, always looking around and moving very slowly. This game is very stressful and yet boring at the same time, but I have high hopes for it.