Why are there loads of tents in Elektro

[z-layrex 175]

I was running through Elektro today trying to get some stuff before getting to somewhere safer, and there were tents all over the place. There were some in the roads and others in various buildings, with dead survivors dotted all around.

I started hearing noises, so I grabbed the Alice pack i'd found and ran out of the town. What could have happened? Why would people erect tents in the middle of the street and in the hospital etc?

That's one of the things I love about this game, you have so many creepy moments.

[sambody 44]

Hackers. Hackers everywhere.

[lexxer 25]

EZ mode duping.

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

could be a trap, which would explain the tons of dead playes

[Momiji 46]

Tents in the cities are very common traps bandits use, killing players when they stop to loot them, the trap ones are usually in very open areas like intersections or yards.

Be wary of them since the never have loot anyway.

[U.B.C.S. Ravin 326]

The duping bug with tents is back.

Its annoying.

I smell a tent wipe in our future. IMO.

[DemonGroover 8836]

Go have a look inside a tent and see.........pfffffffffffffffttttttttttt.....................You Are Dead!

[z-layrex 175]

I've not seen bandits use the tactic before, sounds like I was pretty lucky, I casually took my time checking out some of the tents too lol.

[killavirus 12]

probably making a cup of tea :/

[Mr Zee 30]

@ OP I've seen this before too, it looked like someone ran through the city with a 'fifty cal' lol, tents everywhere in electra and I went into a house and there were 5 dead people in the room, all fresh players me thinks coz they had no gear.

[z-layrex 175]

@ OP I've seen this before too, it looked like someone ran through the city with a 'fifty cal' lol, tents everywhere in electra and I went into a house and there were 5 dead people in the room, all fresh players me thinks coz they had no gear.

Exactly my experience. It's so weird, it has all the signs of a large gunfight/murder, dead bodies everywhere in the town centre, in strange desperate places, like behind the desk in the hospital lobby, as if they took a last stand there. And then these eerie tents, a couple just in the middle of the street, another in the hospital, another in an apartment with an alice pack there. Yet not a soul around. I grabbed what I could and ran to the forests pretty damn quick.

Edited July 16, 2012 by z-layrex