Karma

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It seems like Karma is a really big deal for me, if I do something nice, good things happen to me in the game, if I do something bad I lose my character in multiple ways short after it happened.

 

I guess it's a good thing?

Yesterday, I had looted the east of Chernarus, had a big backpack, a magnum and some other stuff. I usually ignore bigger weapons that appear on your back as you will be seen as a bandit in most cases, so all I had was good clothing, a mountain backpack, a magnum and a little food.

I ran from the unnamed town west of Svetlojarsk down to Svetlojarsk itself, on the 100 player server. It was a load of players, and many ran as they saw I was quite geared up. But I had nothing on my back, no axe, no weapon. My magnum was in my jacket.

Unfortunately, but as expected, I was being attacked by loads of fresh spawns, and in my defence I had to shoot all of them that attacked me, but some were nice and communicated with me. 

I met a british guy, he was really nice and he said it's surprising seeing a person with a gun in a fresh spawn town not shooting everyone.

I ran with him down the long road to the shipwreck, then to Berezino. It all ended there because there was someone running with a shotgun shooting everyone, and about 30 freshspawns came running at me starting to punch me as they thought I was the one with the shotgun, since I was pretty much the only geared guy there. Due to the huge amount of players in that small area I crashed, and got killed by them. Luckily, I asked for my new friend's steam name and we played after I died. For doing something good, I was rewarded with a new friend.

 

Today, now, just about 15 minutes ago, I had ran all the way from Solnichny down to Balota to loot, and it wasn't looted, at all, so I got geared up quite fast. I had basically the same gear as when I met the british guy, but this time I had my backpack full of food.

 

I ran back up to Solnichny along the coast, to help fresh spawns and maybe make more friends, or even a group.

At Solnichny I saw a person standing with a SKS on his back, I ran up to him and said, "Hello, you need supplies or anything?". He remained quiet, but said hello with F1, you know the attempt to make a high five animation, but he was all quiet.. I didn't know if I could trust him. I looked to my right and there was a fresh spawn with probably broken legs just crawling towards us. I panicked, I thought the guy with the SKS had shot him or something. I drew up my FNX45 and aimed at his head, and said "Sorry, I don't trust quiet people".

One shot and he was down, but I saw the fresh spawn crawling towards his corpse. I imagined the SKS having no ammo since he didn't shoot me when I first saw him, but the fresh spawn picked up the SKS. I shot the fresh spawn multiple times, but he got my legs, and I broke them. I think the fresh spawn died, but I went unconcious so I have no idea. I tried to wait out, and see if I'd wake up. But after about 15 seconds it said "You're dead".

 

After all, I regret shooting the guy with the SKS. He was probably friendly, and if he had a mic and communicated, I wouldn't have shot him.

I guess Karma got me, and things like these have happened loads of times. That's why I never go full bandit, I know it will never last.

 

Has anything like this happened to you, or is it just me?