I've been playing a month or so. I've run all over the map, gotten a variety of gear, and been kicked and killed any number of times. The constant unwarned kicks by servers as they reboot is extremely annoying. Once I got reboot-kicked, logged immediately into a different server, and got kicked from that one with some message that I was hacking. ?? Then, I logged into a 3rd server, and was forced to respawn, all my gear was gone. I've mostly been killed by other players who are sniping. Once I got approached by some clown who asked for help, so I gave him food. Then he whipped out a pistol and shot me. Most of the time, I've been sniped from a distance, when there are few players on the server. I seldom carry my weapon in hand so as to avoid seeming a threat. I always run in treelines if possible. I seldom even see anyone. No one has talked to me in game, except for someone that said "I'm friendly" and then cuffed and robbed me and then told me I was lucky he didn't kill me, as he stole the only weapon I had, a fireaxe, and I died from a pair of zombies moments later. Today I went all the way across the map, saw no one, and died from a head shot. It seems like the preferred action on most servers is KoS. I can say that easily, because except for the one guy that killed me with a pistol, and one hacker I ran from who then appeared in front of me and sprayed me with an automatic, I've died dozens of times to people sniping, usually when I have very little gear, or I've got weapons but haven't found ammo, etc. Today was another good example. I worked my way from the n/e end of the map to the s/w, found the air strip, and got sniped. I respawned west of Cherno and got sniped before I could move. Respawned again at Selno, my beginning point. Got sniped there as I ran from a zombie. [sigh] So I logged for the day. 3 sniping deaths, plus the 60 second respawn timer each time. I've yet to run across any player that actually wanted to help or to work together. Although once I saw several players in the distance running together, just before they stopped and shot me. There are a lot of bugs. I've died to zombies in buildings, hitting me through walls, through floors. Sometimes they walk through closed steel doors. Sometimes they're invisible zombies. Sometimes they are zombies that are running away from me, a dozen yards or more, while killing me? I broke my leg by standing still on a building stairway once, then died because I was a fresh spawn and couldn't crawl down 4 flights of stairs and find an axe to make sticks for a splint. It took about 15 minutes to go unconcious for a respawn. I died once on a ship, the ladder i was climbing disappeared, and i fell, and then couldn't stand up, so I couldn't go up stairs, up a ladder, or over thresholds, I was forced to leave the game sitting for half an hour before I finally went unconcious and could respawn. I find arrows and bolts but the crossbows don't allow either to be loaded so they're worthless. I've walked around underneath buildings, not sure how I got there. All of this is expected to be the case with an early alpha release, and one would hope most of them are resolved at some point. The game is interesting in some aspects, and it's a challenge at first to deal with the zombies. But for all the game's interesting points the sniping activity pretty much negates it. I've played on about 40 different servers so far, mostly during US daytime hours, and it's always been the same story.
