[Story] FRIENDLY!!!

[Slaughterhouse 16]

So me and my friend logged off in the firehouse in elektro.  I've been fighting this desync issue since last patch and constantly coming into fights where the guy im fighting disappears or my friend.  Making me  a bit helpless without my wingman.  We'd just spawned ran into elektro hit the schoolhouse, and both firehouses.  We ran back to the "inner city" firehouse to see if we could find any action as we both had weapons now.  After a minor firefight i had been wounded by this phasing assailant, and could not bandage myself due to the desync.  But it did let me drop the backpack i was pulling full of a medkit and other gear.  Me partner quickly bandaged me up and we decided the desync was enough annoyance for the night.

 

   After an hour or so i had read about adjusting my ping in server filter to find these non battle-eye servers.  I tried and found a us server with decent activity.  What the hell i'll test this server and see if the desync issue goes away like so many have noted that play in non battle-eye servers.  Here's where it got hilarious.  See i'd been fighting almost impossible fights lately because of the desync, and this time i logged on to test this without my partner.  After a few short seconds in game i hear some footsteps outside the large doors.  

 

  "Yo, friendly in here."  I cried fully expecting the desync to kick in with an enemy so close.  To my surprise a geared gun toting, firemans axe carrying, murderous evil spawn of satan, came blasting at my many cries of friendly.  But whats this?  Im not lagging.  He's still visible.  And apparently a really horrible shot.  The magnum cried to me to let it free!  KAPOW. Elektro celebrated my joy as the sound rang off.  Then again, and again.  Then click, click, click.   He was already down, but the excitement had pulled me in and suddenly i became a trigger happy psycho.  (I had split magnum ammo with friend.  I only had the three shots haha)

 

  Wait he had a motorcycle helmet.  He is still alive.  You gotta be kidding me.  He's getting up.  I quickly jump around the corner pulling out the 45.  Once again i tried to end this fight.  "Friendly dude.  Back up and we cool, you can go."    Apparently "you can go" is the phrase that sends him into a rage, because he reached for his weapon and seeing the shoulder of him around the corner, i knew peace was not an option.  Strafing to my left he came into view.  The 45 clip quickly drained, as shot after shot rang and he still wouldn't fall.  Then finally he dropped again.  Everything was grey.  I had been hit in this firefight.  Blood poured and i rushed to look into my backpack for a bandage.  Wait,  I don't have it anymore.  Panic hit.   Then it hit me.  

 

  I quickly looted his body, ripping the shirt from his dead corpse.  Furiously bandaging myself.  I could hear footsteps.  He had a wingman as well.  And his i'm sure had no ideas of peace with his friends killer.  I made a quick decision to grab the backpack and firemans axe from treasure chest of items that was this guys friend.  Shots rang out from the street.  I quickly sprinted rushing towards the other firehouse.  Luckily he had not been prepared for me to flee.  Or was nervous i was baiting him.  He gave me some breathing room.  I ducked into a shed.  The dirt floor kind that offers no rewards for those seeking treasure.  I hear him walking, then gone.  I calm down and reevaluate.  I rush outside jump the fence and make my way around the residential homes all the while looking for him.  After a quiet minute i decide to chance it and make my way to power plant firehouse.  After looting again he comes firing.  Sprinting once again i lose him in the power plant, and dive under a broken wall.

 

  Made my way up the hill to the watering hole and waited it out confident i had lost him.  Minutes went by me aiming into the sun waiting for a shadow to appear.  Nothing.  Victory was mine.

 

 

Now the reason i wrote this was for one to see if the guys from last night seen it, and say :P

 

The second was to let new players know that this could have went totally different.  I try not to kos everyone i see.  The interactions offer alot more out of this game.  In this particular scenario we and the assailant could have possibly traded some items or worked together clearing out the city.  Held hands and skipped threw the meadow.  But in all honesty the tension came when both where surprised by the other.  Moments like this is where a new player should back off and take cover and offer a peace or decide to leg it.  Hope it wasn't a boring read but hopefully a new player just coming in can see just how quickly things can go sour, and maybe how to survive the encounter.  Btw that motorcycle helmet almost won him the engagement. If your new and you find one.....WEAR IT.

[S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Dust 147]

Good Story and Read.