Mccowan

I think if reduce the number of high end weapons and ammo as others have suggested would really help, bandits and pvp is cool but make them work for it for christs sake... Make them have confront who it is there trying to kill. Apart from that the zombies as a whole need to be made more of a threat in general without completing fucking over newly spawned players which no easy task. It's going to take a lot of balancing.

That's a bit harsh, I know there's a lot of threads about this but that shouldn't be ignored as it's clearly something a lot of people have issues with. Tims point seems sensible that it essentially gets bit "grindy" having to spend 2 hours getting shit together after being repeatedly shot by snipers... I'm sure a lot of people would be more happy about dieing if it had been a more fulfilling encounter, not with a player they never even see. I'm not saying there's any obvious solution to this which wouldn't be a detriment to the rest of the game but it's clearly a problem for a lot of players.

Awesome story, I've just started playing the last couple of days and am taking the friendly route, shouting friendly over voice has got me into trouble but I think I'll keep doing it for now. I've had a few choice encounters but this one today was pretty good, Today, just after spawning I was in the need of some descent loot which had drawn me to the fire station in Elektro. As I approached I saw this guy run into the fire station... I stopped and watched for a while and not seeing him again I started shouting friendly over chat and voice, he didn't reply and I thought I'd continue to approach... As I crawled down the hill towards he opened on me, I was hit and bleeding so I jumped up and ran around the power plant across from the fire station... I once again shouted friendly once again got no response, I bandaged myself up and thought what the hell am I going to do now... I knew the fire station had good loot in which was why I was there in the first place. It struck me I didn't have much to lose, I've only just spawned so sod it, Ill go investigate... I looped around a bit towards the station through another building where I picked up my first item, a hatchet. I kept crawling on slowly and cautiously coming at the station from the other side now. I could see the station doors so now was the time and I just went for it. I lept up and ran through the large fire station doors and looked around... Nothing... Maybe he's left then? I started the ascent to the top floor thinking he's gone but maybe he's left something behind I can use. I went up one flight of stairs, found some beans and began to relax a bit thinking the danger was over... I climbed the next set of stairs and then... There he was lying down with a rifle looking over the surrounding area. I instantly reacted and plunged the hatchet into him as he whirled around, I don't know whether he got he shot off but I just kept swinging... I didn't know whether he was unconscious or dead so I repeatably plunged the axe into him, again and again and again... Blood spewing everywhere... After what must of been 15 swipes of the axe I stopped... He was definitely dead... I took all the loot he'd gathered, he must of been playing a while as it was descent stuff and hi-tailed it out of there... I thought to myself, was what I did right? Self defense? Shit, he could of been just as scared as I was... It's a good example of not trusting someone backfiring though. Great game, great game.