ShinySnack

Same as Perez. Once I get really high-end gear as a lone wolf, I purposely put myself in dangerous situations because it's fun.

The reason people don't like saluting or lowering their weapons is because it makes them more vulnerable. What if the other guy isn't friendly and you lower your gun? Then you're fucked.

Check the bathrooms in the barracks. Seriously. I once got into the barracks thinking I was safe only to have some guy pop out of the bathroom a minute later while I was still inside. I don't know if he was a server hopper or camper or something.

I'll start out with my previous life. I had an M4A3 CCO and a L85A2 in my backpack, as well as many essentials. I decided to get rid of the L85 as I was a lone wolf on an all-day server and it was pretty much useless. I went to the NW airfield looking for a sniper. I got shot at, but no one actually hit me. I dash into some barracks, hoping to get inside to more efficiently shoot zombies. Except a friggen chair blocked the way in. Realizing there was no way getting away from the zombies, (I was a bit into the barracks with a line of zombies coming in) I started unloading my M4. This went on for around a minute before some guy popped out of the bathroom and shot me dead. The bathroom. A minute after I entered. I'm not sure if this guy was just afk or camping, or if he was a server hopper, but I accepted death pretty well. It would be refreshing to have a new start, right? Well, I spawn near elektro and decide to head to the barn outside the city for some weapons. As I'm running across the field, a sniper attempts to hit me, but misses around 10 shots. I make it into the barn to find and axe. I flank around the sniper and sneak behind him. I notice he has a coyote pack and I thought I hit the jackpot. I start swinging away at his body and hit him at least 4-5 times. Then he D/C's. wtf. I hit a guy 4-5 times with an axe and he manages to D/C before I kill him? Laaame. I normally wouldn't be too mad at D/Cers but this one made me angry simply because of the equipment difference of me and the sniper. I had only an axe. He had a coyote pack and a sniper. And the only way to avoid being killed by some random guy with an axe was to D/C. Really?

Often, I think of alpha as the "add stuff and don't give a shit about anything but the most major bugs" phase and the beta as the bug-fixing phase. And my experience with the latest patch has loot and normal zombies. It might be server specific.

I just kill everyone who has an sniper rifle on sight. Everyone else I ask "friendly?"

...And I'm very surprised at how little hostile contact I've gotten with other players. I'm sitting in a forest with an M4A3 CCO, tons of ammo, and tons of supplies with 50+ zombie kills and 0 murders. And it's not like I didn't go into any major cities. I went to Chenarus twice and looted the apartments. I went to the Balota airstrip several times. Each time I checked the comms tower for snipers, and there never was one. I went to Stary Sobor and looted all of the military tents no problem. In all of these instances, I do check for snipers and stuff. I'm just surprised that I haven't yet died to anybody besides zombies. I even met a few friendlies in some town I can't pronounce. Maybe it's just me, but this game doesn't seem as bandit-infested as people say. So am I just getting lucky, or is this normal? Also, what are the orange dots on the map? I've been looking on google, but I can't find the answer.