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and in testing this game, this gentleman has managed to find a seriously broken feature that is further exploited by seriously broken anti cheat measures, at which point he did a pretty good job of outlining just why this is broken. guess what, people get frustrated when they have to waste their time due to broken mechanics. you tend to see that frustration come out in places such as forums. and keep in mind that if it weren't for the die hard testers, there would be no stand alone game coming to begin with. so while i hardly see his post as entitled, i'd say that's worth something.

Sneak up and hope he's afk, while I loot all of his morphine/guns/food/drink. Stay behind him just in case he's looking at his screen. Make sure he has absolutely nothing that he can heal himself with. Maybe even flatten his tent. Then I would shoot him in the leg and break that shit. Bandage him up. And move on with my life.

post that youtube vid! this i want to see!

I wish there was a "Shoot and steal their beans" button

yeah i've found one a good distance north of cherno, in a barn before... confused me quite a bit haha

you have half of the equation!

i woulda ditched everything i had for that mt. dew.....

hahaha i certainly appreciate your honesty! i felt about hte same way the first time I took shots at a player. certainly is thrilling, isn't it?

that's easily fixed by using the logic of, maybe you shouldn't log out unless you are somewhere safe. MMOs do it all the time. Have a countdown to the logout, that way you aren't still physically there when you get to the disconnect.

this would just get ruined with snipers/hackers despite how you try and control it. best done organized with a couple of clans, and not randoms on the forums ;)

gotcha, i was getting knocked unconscious when I would log out and back in (never did it in a firefight, just do it a lot when I'm around something military because it seems to kill the artifacts about half the time) and was told that was the fix and wanted to make sure.... hope he can add something into the mod while we wait for the stand alone.

any idea what that patch was/is?

Yeah, alt f4's pretty much suck total ass. Me and a buddy were firing at some vehicle heading for stary, and of course I see them disappear off the server list once they drive into the town. suddenly 3 people connect at the same time, and before too long we get sniped. pretty obvious what happened. there. there is the starter coyote patrol pack, but the biggest pack in the game is the regular coyote pack (it just says coyote pack, no patrol in there)

Something about charging a sniper from 300m away just seem suicidal :P

if you run through backyards and the such through town, it's REALLY easy to lose the majority of the zombies. but you can generally just use a few pistol rounds to take out the stragglers once you get inside a building, or just go out another entrance and they'll lose aggro slowly walking through the building as you walk away.

I never sneak around anymore, it just paints you as a target. Last time I was trying to be sneaky, I was crawling towards the apartments, and some guy standing straight up comes behind me and blasts me with a shotgun. Since the, I just sprint through town, losing zombies by running through buildings and picking up weapons as I go. As a result, I tend to gear myself up within about 15 minutes (weapons/food/tools). The only thing you really risk is running into someone who also has a gun and getting mowed down, but if you have no gear then it really doesn't matter.

Those "OH SHIT!!!" moments when you are swiftly given a reality check on your own personal safety are my favorite moments in the game, whether I live or not. Good shit!

for sure, i would love to be proven wrong! i'm typically on sunday and monday (the only days i get long stretches of gameplay time) so I'll hit ya up if i remember :P

I'd be totally willing to team up with a survivor if I could ever find one that didn't immediately start shooting on sight, despite my lack of anything but a bandage. But just as you said, I too have not found a single friendly person in this game myself. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a divide between bandits and survivors. To the OP, I know exactly what you mean. I'm not completely sure why I still spend my work days on this forum, because it's all the same crap. I'm all for the bandit aspect of this game, in fact it's what intrigues me the most, but it really does become senseless when everybody is just going to shoot anything on sight. There is no balance between the good and the bad, so it's basically just an open world FFA with zombie obstacles in the mix. Which is fun for a while, but ultimately will kill the longevity of the game.

Haha, that's a great way to take someone out. It's actually the first way I killed someone, too.

amen, elitist just like to validate the size of their peen by attacking people who don't play the way they do. i just use that mentality that maybe if you ignore them, they'll go away.

one intense sentence is more like it.....

hahaha... that poor guy.... live and learn though, right?

And in real life, people are merciless, self serving douche bags. That is always going to translate well into video games. Especially in a game like this. So your only real choice is to accept it and adapt. At least you aren't losing much when you get freshly killed out of spawn.

cool story indeed (no sarcasm). i personally don't dig the idea of using a map in my browser, but that's just because the longer this experience stays as fresh to me and i'm still learning, the better. to each their own i say.