New players, read what FRIENDLY means!

[FFrank 18]

Yo, we got about 1000 threads around where newbies QQ because they're being shot at by all other "evil players". Now let me tell you some stories of yesterday.

1) We crossed the coast, got to the water to the right of Kamenka, me and 7 buddies loling and trolling around. Suddenly we see a survivor coming towards us, unarmed, chased by 4-5 zeds. We decide to help him, I yell "hey dude, get over here, we'refriendly, get on the ground, we will help you" over VON. So he does and we save his ass from death. Afterwards he is standing next to us, probably wondering where these 8 guys with AKs, M4s and stuff just came from :D We tell him not to follow us and wish him good luck, then he heads in another direction.

We all felt GOOD afterwards cuz we were HELPING this new survivor.

2) Balota Airstrip. After running into an obvious Ambush near the ATC, I die and lose my 12-day old Char and some nice gear. A few mates are still around but I can't make it there in time to loot my body. The bandits who shot me seem to be gone. We scout the area, suddenly seeing a survivor with an axe. We speak to him, he claims himself friendly, he could've axe'd me but he didn't, so we let him be and approach the hangars, I find a shotgun and then return to the ATC where we met that axe guy. A second guy now seems to be with him on the ATC (dunno if he server hopped there?) but those two are now talking on VON that they don't trust me because they've been shot by others before.

I'm responding: "Get out, I want to see you both laying down. Otherwise I will have to come up and shoot both of you. If I won't be able to, my mates around here will take care of you. Get out now and I won't shoot, I'm not trying to trick you."

They both get scared and keep talking about coming down to murder me lol. Me and my mates decide to leave this place. One of us can't stand to investigate the ATC for a last time before leaving... dumb decision. Those 2 "friendlies" up in the ATC shoot him. Damn you homos.

At least we shot one of them later in the woods, that felt good.

What a newbie can learn from this:

Don't act like a bitch when you say you're friendly.

Don't hide from people after saying you was friendly.

There isn't that much players out there like us, most would shoot you on sight. So if you meet some guys like us who DON'T kill on sight, don't try to trick them. You gonna regret it, be sure about that.

[cragzeek 29]

I acted like a bitch today when a nice well geared guy tried to help me. I didn't want to, but it was a tense situation, I didn't know his motives and he didn't know mine. Last person I met in a similar circumstance was a bandit who attempted to kill me...not on sight, but after we had stared eachother down and I had repeatedly asked him to communicate.

Its hard on us newbies. We have a lotta choices to make and real fast. If I could find the guy I killed today I'd apologize. Maybe it was you and thats why you wrote this post, although that seems highly unlikely.

[FFrank 18]

Meh dude I don't think it was you who killed me. I died due to an ambush at Balota Airstrip where a bandit managed sneaking behind me to take me out with 2-3 pistol shots..

Well yeh, this game is hard for newbies, you're right, especially when trying to survive on your own. Just tried to point out here that some newbies are literally forcing other players to shoot em because they don't behave appropriate.

Don't take kindness for weakness.