Declared War

[AnOverdoseOfAwesome 1]

Hey guys, how's it going, so yea. This is my first post on these forums... Surprisingly enough i haven't made one yet, not sure why...Anyway...

Me and a couple of friends have a group on a server we play on...and it would appear that an enemy group/clan has declared "war" on us, and i just wanna know what your thoughts are on this. So let me tell you the story.

There is usually around 5/6 of us playing at a time, at the moment there was only 4 of us though. Anyway, we had 2 pickups. 2 people in each, and we were driving through Zelengorsk...As we were driving through, we notice a large concentration of zombies around the supermarket area, and more heading there. We saw a car parked outside the supermarket, a yellow hatchback i believe, we didn't stop to attack these guys as we aren't bandits. We got a slight look in the market, and we spotted around 3 guys, they seemed pretty geared, we got a glimpse of an AS50, and a DMR it would seem. Now as we were driving up the road, allowing them to live, one of the pickups wheels were shot and taken out (with what gun we didn't know) We all immediately jumped out of our cars and opened fire on them, we had 3 DMR'S and an M4A3 CCO. We retaliated and returned fire on them as they opened fire on us first, 2 DMR guys focused on the car and destroyed it within an instance, we then opened fire at them in the supermarket and took 2 of them out, as our M4A3 CCO guy moved up and finished the final guy off. We felt pretty proud of ourselves taking out a troupe that opened fire at us first.

Around 5 minutes later a bunch of guys started raging in the side chat at us that we killed them, after much insults and abuse...You know, the usual banter that goes on between individuals/groups after they engage with one another, they then declare war on us...These were their exact words.

"Well we now declare war on you, we will openly hunt you down, watch the side chat for information on your whereabouts, and engage on your party whenever we say them, regardless of their gear, or the numbers of you. Be warned, this is war."

We don't really want to have a continuous war with these guys, as it was merely self-defense on our part. They shot at us, so in return, we killed their squad, looted their gear, and destroyed their car, they should understand why they got the punishment they did.

What do you guys think? Should we try to avoid them? Should we hunt them down as well? Or should we try to get on good terms with them?

Thank you for your replies.

~Overdose.

[TheDesigner 1197]

I would suggest not over thinking it and just shoot the bastards.

[Goggalor 191]

It sounds like they're a bandit group anyways, so I don't think anything will change, so I say keep playing. If nametags are turned off they'll be just like every other person that KOS. I think they were just being dramatic.

[FlamingDefibs 421]

It sounds like they're just immensely butthurt about dying and want to attempt to intimidate you. And it was a pathetic attempt at that.

Just ignore them when they try to talk to you, and don't pay too much attention to it.

People will think what they want to. Never take much notice of it.

Edited August 29, 2013 by FlamingDefibs

[RabidDiabetic 63]

I'm no expert but if they opened fire on you as you drove by completely leaving them alone, then they already played like they were at war with you. It certainly sounds like they are bandits in which case they should have already been watching side chat for anyone's position because that's how you get kills. Nothing changed about the dynamic there except they are bad AND mad.

[person915 345]

In regards to your profile picture, his dog's name is spelled "Gryphon". I know, some abstract spelling, but Griffin/on (the traditional spelling, I think) would be too cliche.

Edited May 1, 2013 by McCullins

[Acix 132]

Fuck em

[Guest]

I had the same thing happen. Apart from it was 3 of us against 8 of them. We simply made a camp in the far east of the map which was on top of a hill. If you can hold out long enough you will be safe and they will give up. If you can recruit extra guns to help on your server it may be easier,

[TerribleFate 49]

I would suggest not over thinking it and just shoot the bastards.

Quite right, quite right

[AnOverdoseOfAwesome 1]

It sounds like they're a bandit group anyways, so I don't think anything will change, so I say keep playing. If nametags are turned off they'll be just like every other person that KOS. I think they were just being dramatic.

Yea that's the thing, name tags are not disabled.

[AnOverdoseOfAwesome 1]

I had the same thing happen. Apart from it was 3 of us against 8 of them. We simply made a camp in the far east of the map which was on top of a hill. If you can hold out long enough you will be safe and they will give up. If you can recruit extra guns to help on your server it may be easier,

Yea, we do have more people willing to back us, but it has really turned up scale now, they are getting bandits around that server to assist them now, they have set up camps that we have discovered and have saved around the map. I think we will start to raid and attack their camps to show if they try to keep this up they will just get themselves and their allies killed.

[Guest]

Bad idea. Play the smarter game. Study their movements and try to predict their plans. E.g if they are moving to a new town then set up a choke point or get your mates to ambush them.

Do not directly attack. Just harass.

I won't be on for a couple of days but if you wish I can lead some harassment operations with my group for free :)

[AnOverdoseOfAwesome 1]

Bad idea. Play the smarter game. Study their movements and try to predict their plans. E.g if they are moving to a new town then set up a choke point or get your mates to ambush them.

Do not directly attack. Just harass.

I won't be on for a couple of days but if you wish I can lead some harassment operations with my group for free :)

We have been observing them somewhat to a certain extent. We got word that they were moving back and forth from cherno and elektro, the reason was unknown. But we did manage to get the information on their current vehicles they own, though we did not shoot at them, if they knew we knew what vehicles they had we feared they might have destroyed them and searched for new ones.