Bandits as opfor

[pulse89 0]

I am surprised no one has mentioned this yet, that I could find using search anyway.

But what about scrapping the morality system, the bandit skin and friendly fire and just having the bandits as "opfor" that you can select at the lobby. It could be set up to be like the Insurgency game mode, where for example in a server of 50, 10 will be bandits while the rest survivors (of course this ratio is just an example).

And as the bandit skin will be scrapped there is still that element of trust/mistrust as everyone will look the same and the person who you've been travelling with for the last 10 mins could still just turn and shoot you in the back.

Thoughts, criticisms, improvements?

[LanceUppercut 7]

why??

[pulse89 0]

why??

Because there seems to be a lot of complaining about the morality system and from my experience the majority of bandits aren't actually bandits but survivors that had to defend themselves and now get shot on sight.

This way people who actually want to be bandits get to be bandits and people who want to be survivors get to be survivors.

[LanceUppercut 7]

why not be a survivor and kill other survivors?

[pulse89 0]

Friendly fire would be turned off so survivors can't kill survivors and bandits can't kill bandits.

[nuttex 51]

Friendly fire would be turned off so survivors can't kill survivors and bandits can't kill bandits.

That'd effectively destroy the entire point of mod.

[mrsherenai 64]

That'd effectively destroy the entire point of mod.

Exactly!

[pulse89 0]

You know what, fuck it. The more I think about it, the more I realise this is a retarded idea as it's essentially what the game is now, with just less defined sides and friendly fire. Delete thread please?

[mrsherenai 64]

Ofc, this mod is based on the idea that you have full control of your development as a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. It gives you full freedom to decide what you want to do and what not. Having 2 factions and friendly fire turned off will completly destroy this point of the mod in fact you cant choose anymore. I mean, even if I am an friendly survivor I sometimes feel like shooting other survivors. For example if im low on food or if they loot the fucking buildings I cleared a second ago. This is simply not given if you split bandits and survivors in 2 factions. Plus that I dont think that the majority of bandits wants not to be abled to shoot other bandits :D

[pulse89 0]

Ofc' date=' this mod is based on the idea that you have full control of your development as a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. It gives you full freedom to decide what you want to do and what not. Having 2 factions and friendly fire turned off will completly destroy this point of the mod in fact you cant choose anymore. I mean, even if I am an friendly survivor I sometimes feel like shooting other survivors. For example if im low on food or if they loot the fucking buildings I cleared a second ago. This is simply not given if you split bandits and survivors in 2 factions. Plus that I dont think that the majority of bandits wants not to be abled to shoot other bandits :D

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True, the thought just came to me because it seems like the game is going the way of two factions anyway. I rarely run into survivors that want to shoot me and it seems that any true bandit never want to help others anyway and any bandit that does is only a bandit from self-defence.

To me at least, the game is taking on a "us against them" mentality of survivors against bandits with zombies being a minor obstacle...or that feeling could just come with being kitted out and being able to take out zombies incredibly easily.

[mrsherenai 64]

You are right by saying it has 2 factions now anyway so the step to divide them in 2 "true" factions is kinda obvious, but the factions now are not physical. Its just your personal attitude. So you always have the chance to switch the sides and I think too much of the current good style will be lost if this changes.