Bandit wannabe turned bandit hunter

[akpe 36]

I don't consider myself to be a bandit or a KoS'er. In over 1000 hours of gameplay I have killed exactly three players on sight (none of them freshspawns) and I have held up or tortured zero. I really want to turn bandit for an hour sometime, just for kicks, but usually when I log in with that purpose in mind, I end up playing as a survivor or a hero.

 

Well last night was one of those nights. I decided to log in and find a poor soul to troll just for laughs, plus I had my buddy watching the game on steam broadcast provoking me to kill someone and eat him.

 

I logged in Kamyshovo and quickly got killed by a player. No suprises there. I spawned near Kamyshovo again and run to Elektro, which was completely empty of loot and players. I walked all the way to Cherno where I met a girl while looting. We talked for a bit (btw the phrase "are you actually female?" apparently alienates female players :lol: ), I offered some food and protection towards Balota but she went her own way, a minute before the server restarted. At that moment I knew history repeated itself: no banditry tonight. I quickly switched to another full server, hoping to find some friendly players and tag along.

 

I logged in and started running towards the fire station. While I was looting I heard shots coming from the factory. I quickly scouted it out behind cover, and found my soon-to-be target. He was camping on this building, apparently trying to snipe players.

 

 

(apologies for the size/quality, didn't find a better one)

 

He was hiding in the half-floor between those huge tanks. I could distinguish his hunter's backpack from a distance and, as far as I could tell (erm, hear) he had an SKS.

 

Now, I only had an M1911 with 5 bullets left, an lzh42 shotgun with two snaploaders and 8 more buckshots. Time was running out, I had to leave in about ten minutes, my buddy on the stream was taunting me, so I decided to YOLO it. What the hell, right? Nothing to lose there, even if I didn't manage to kill him, at least I'd try to cause him as much damage as possible. 

 

I quickly run up the stairs on the other side of the building and started sprinting on the small metal corridor towards the roof (to the right of the picture). He noticed me right as I was approaching it, so I quickly took cover behind the triangular sunroof. My heart pounding, my M1911 in my hands and ready to fire, my mind telling me "what the hell did you just drag yourself into?".

 

He came out of the stairs and I immediately unloaded the pistol on him. I hit him only once, and he took cover on the other side of the sunroof. I quickly switched to my shotgun and waited. He then emerged from cover firing his SKS and I shot twice. One round hit him again (his hand I believe) but he was still alive and walking, so again he took cover behind the sunroof. The worst thing is, he did manage to break my legs. Now I was lying there behind cover, bleeding profoundly, losing color fast, and unable to do anything. 

 

Dammit.

 

In the heat of the moment I forgot I had two loaded and ready snaploaders. Instead, I opened my inventory, manually loaded the shottie, and waited for a couple of seconds (which seemed like hours) trying to figure out his next move. I knew I didn't have much time, my screen was already grey, I was only hoping he would do something fast. Why the hell was he waiting? I had broken legs, a shotgun with limited accuracy, he had an SKS and could walk, he could just run around shooting me from 3PP.

 

He actually decided to attack me from the top of the sunroof. It's triangular shaped, so I managed to see his head emerge before he was able to shoot. I fired two more shots towards him as fast as I could, while screaming "you're f***ing worthless mate".

 

I saw his body falling to the ground, his weapon and axe suspended in mid-air. One second later, I was unconscious.

I waited a couple of minutes in case I managed to wake up before I bled to death, but eventually I died.

 

Well now I know. For me, the satisfaction of killing bandits/KoS'ers, even if I eventually die, beats being a bandit myself. By miles.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

... I spawned near Kamyshovo again and run to Elektro, which was completely empty of loot and players. ...

There is always someone hiding in Elektro, always... but regardless, you play the game like I do. You're a survivor who realizes it takes a lot of time and effort to get gear, and your conscience takes over when you want to kill someone. There's a lot of people who can play this game as a true FPS PVP style like you'd play Quake, HL, UT, etc. It's because of the MMO aspect of this game and the setback being killed actually causes someone that I have a lot of trouble pulling the trigger when I have a choice not to. I think there's a lot of people out there like that. I view myself as chaotic neutral for that reason.