FragMonkey

Sigh This game is only "deathmatch" if you continue to hang out on the coast. EVERYONE complaining about bandits hangs out on the coast, dies, and then tries to blame bandits. Get OFF THE COAST. The cost is where all the noobs hang out to pvp each other. If you leave the coast and go inland, you will not have this "deathmatch" experience anymore

Wow is that true? If so, that is the most idiotic decision even made

Most people play with groups they know and communicate through programs like mumble/teamspeak/ventrilo. The ingame system is useless for really trying to play with someone else. some servers list their voip program server info when you join, so that is one way to communicate with people if you don't have friends otherwise

As long as position and gear are saved between servers, no "tent cities" or any kind of held territory will be possible. Too easy to infiltrate the area on one server and then join another with the settlement, where you end up in some advantageous position to steal things

Also, many clans use private servers where they cheat and glitch/spawn high end gear, and then go into public servers.

Unfortunately hacks are the end of many many small games like this. If it isn't dealt with fast, the mod will die

As soon as I spawn I head north and stay low

AFAIK only jeeps and helicopters work in the mod

Please have a compressed day/night cycle. This way, less people will be forced to play in non-locale servers to avoid nighttime, and more people would want to play through the night (which is a whole experience on its own)

The best advice to give to anyone spawning on the beach is to get off it asap. Don't stick around Cherno. Don't stick around Elektro. Head for the hills and keep going inland. If you are getting sniped at spawn, death won't mean much. Respawn and you will likely be placed somewhere else

To take weapons from a dead player you need to look at their body until you get the "gear" option, from here you can see their active gear. To then take a weapon you may take it like any other item, by double clicking the weapon to move it into your active gear (this will auto equip it and swap it for any weapon you currently have in this slot placing the old weapon on the dead person). You can also put weapons into backpacks but beware they take more than 1 slot. How do I get the gear icon? I only seem to see the option to loot their backack