First interaction after a weeks gaming.

[UnderWoods 17]

Here's my story.  Last night I am playing with 2 other friends.  After about 30 minutes we finally all meet up outside Dolina.  I have an M4 and a .45.  Friend #1 has a shotgun with only 2 rounds, Friend #2 has no weapons at all.  We sacavange for a while trying to find him anything at all.  Suddenly Friend #2 says that there is a guy over there with a yellow rain coat and an axe.  I quickly run over and the guy appears to be minding his own business.  So I leave him alone.

 

After searching the entire town we find nothing for Friend 2 to use for defense.  So he gets the idea of let's go take the other guy's axe.  I figured why not.  (Back story time.  Both Friend 1 & 2 have been playing this game like BF3 thinking they can just run and gun it, only to have been killed multiple times each.  At this point they were both fed up with dying.)  Anyway, we run up on the raincoat wearing guy and Friend 2 starts telling him to stop moving or we'll need to kill you thinking he's not friendly.  The guy eventually stops moving and Friend 2 tells him that we wont kill you if you drop your axe on the ground.  Silence.  He tells him again.  Still nothing.  So now Friend 2 tells him that he has 3 seconds to comply or the guy with the M4 (me) is going to shoot you.  Friend 2 starts counting....1.....2....BLAM!  Friend 1 blows him away with his shot gun.  In doing so he scares the living hell out of me.  When asked why he didnt wait till we got to 3 he replied, that the guy wasnt going to do it anyway.

 

So whoever you are mystery man.  I apologize for not giving you until the count of 3.  If its any consulation, most of your things were ruined beause of Friend 1's actions.  FYI I even suggested that we just handcuff you since I had a pair on me. 

[Korsbaek 1778]

You friends are stupid. Kill them in-game :P

[Baarn 53]

When a person is standing still but does not respond, I always tell them how to use chat and VoIP via chat.

 

Always keep in mind that a lot of people don't know how to communicate in game.

It might also be possible that they simply don't understand you, not everyone talks perfect English and your accent might be hard to parse for non-natives, or your connection might be bad.

It is also possible that their mic is off and they don't know you can't hear them.

Three seconds is really not much time for someone who still fiddles with the commands, sometimes lag and or desync simply don't allow you to react even though you want to.

 

However, I don't want to judge you here, really good that you tried the "talk first, shoot later" approach, just pointing out some things you might want to consider next time.

[UnderWoods 17]

When a person is standing still but does not respond, I always tell them how to use chat and VoIP via chat.

 

Always keep in mind that a lot of people don't know how to communicate in game.

It might also be possible that they simply don't understand you, not everyone talks perfect English and your accent might be hard to parse for non-natives, or your connection might be bad.

It is also possible that their mic is off and they don't know you can't hear them.

Three seconds is really not much time for someone who still fiddles with the commands, sometimes lag and or desync simply don't allow you to react even though you want to.

 

However, I don't want to judge you here, really good that you tried the "talk first, shoot later" approach, just pointing out some things you might want to consider next time.

 

Exactly!  Those are all things I was thinking in my head while this was going down.  I was prepared to move in and handcuff, but the shot rang out and it was over.  I think their concern was that he was on comms with someone else or a group and telling them what was going on.  Regardless, I do like playing the talk first, shoot if needed way better.