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I don't think sidearms are useless, at least as far as I've gotten (raided airfield for loot - been from Chernogorsk to every town in a straight line to the airfield). I was looking for a M1911 but couldn't find one in Cherno so I kept a revolver I found although I didn't like it very much as it was slow firing. Once I got to Stary Sabor I found a G17 and have used it since and I find it to be very good. It's very easy to headshot with and the recoil is low enough that I can quickly triple or even quadruple tap a zombie before it gets to me. The 17 round magazine is also very nice to have along with the flashlight which I used to navigate parts of the airfield at night. Sidearms are nice; I use them to get easy and discreet headshots against zombies.

I'm trying to play this game without being a "bandit" but it's quite hard. However, I think what makes it hard is that I've been shot at seemingly just for the hell of it. I now just don't want to see another survivor and I'll actually hide from them... I did meet one person who helped me out I think his name was Jji or Jjii. I was on top of a hopsital and I heard someone call out friendly and I hadn't played this game in awhile so I forgot the bind key for VOIP and he shot me. I then remembered it was CAPS and immediately said something about how I forgot my bind key and I really didn't have gear anyways so it didn't matter that he shot me. He then apologized and gave me a blood transfusion and we pillaged the hospital together and I stuck with him. We came across multiple dead players and he let me take an AK-74 off of one the dead bodies that were there before we arrived. As we crossed the street we got shot at and we knew the bandit was going to come around and try to flank us. The bandit went around the walled building we were hiding out at and both him and the bandit shot at each other but the bandit killed him which surprised me because it looked like we got the drop on him and he'd shot before the bandit could respond. I then unloaded half a mag into the bandit and killed him. It was a lot of gunfire and I started getting really nervous after the initial adrenaline rush of the skirmish. I thought about waiting for him to respawn but I felt I couldn't stay there any longer since there were about 50 rounds fired in about 6 seconds so I looted both the dead bodies and ran out of Elektrozavodsk. However it seems like this is a outlier; an exception. Most people just shoot on sight. I've been sniped and shot in Elektrozavodsk multiple times and had one weird incident while trying to loot Stary Sabor someone was hiding among the dead bodies prone and tried to shoot me with an AKM. He missed and I immediately booked it for one of the tents and asked why the hell he's shooting at me. He replied by saying just to kill him and I watched him from the tent crawl towards my tent. I said I could help him, I had morphine and blood but he just kept saying, "KILL ME..", so I obliged because I didn't know if he was trying to confuse me. The only other time I've shot someone was because he startled me as I was looting the apartments, he kept crawling towards my apartment building and I had to make a split decision whether or not to shoot him or not and I ended up shooting him. ...it would be nice if when you saw a survivor you were more thrilled to see another living person as opposed to be scared out of your mind.