After reading all of the posts in this thread I can understand where Op and most of the other posts are coming from. I personally don't have a problem with bandits, when I play alone I do fine to avoid people. The issue comes in when I try to play with friends, not all of my friends are "hardcore" gamers who have put thousands of hours into every half assed re-skinned first person shooter or had military training or understand the concept of hide, I see several posts saying "this is a sandbox game it is what you make it." the truth is the game isn't what you make it when someone else comes along to kill you, or lays in a field somewhere for hours just to snipe unsuspecting passer-by who is trying to improve at the game. If the game was really "what you make it" there would be an option for PVP disabled servers which I am sure would fill up quicker than servers full of pvp'ers. Like I said, I don't mind bandits, getting killed gives me something else to do, I get to find crap all over again, but personally If it was even possible to play this game the way i want and make it what I want, I would play with two rotating styles, One being to kill as many zombies as possible, the other is to play as a medic. Seriously though, have any of you tried to run up to another player while not even carrying a gun offering to give them blood transfusions? Usually it just ends with you getting shot in the face and them taking the medical supplies. TL;DR - The game isn't what you make it, it's what other people make it. One person can't not get shot by bandits just because he doesn't want to play that way.