So where is "safe"?

[jetao2008@hotmail.com 175]

There is only one safe place.. The server lobby.

I was about to say this, damn.

Anyway, going up north makes things more quiet, compared to the big cities like Cherno and Elektro, but it's also not safe.

By going up north, you'll find more geared people, and those are the people that you won't even see if they kill you.

[Sister Fister 25]

So I'm still fairly new, just started a few days ago. Going with the lone wolf style for now, at least until I bump into someone to team up with, which would be very unlikely. I learned pretty quickly the coast is newbie hunting ground. I then headed inland to the north only to find out that's where everyone has great gear and shoots on sight regardless. I'd loved to live off the land and only enter towns I know are safe to enter or at least I know I can handle a firefight, but I can't live off farms and outskirt sheds.

So my question is then, where are some moderately safe areas I can loot until I get all the hunting gear + canteen? I remember seeing a thread about Krasnoskov being a nicer area, but is this true and is there other areas like this?

Also, is Devil's Castle hit up by a lot of people? It's the last castle I have to visit and I'd just like to know what to expect.

It's safe in my warm and inviting arms.

[W1Z22 33]

the safest places are deep in the woods

[herrjon 478]

I was about to say this, damn.

Anyway, going up north makes things more quiet, compared to the big cities like Cherno and Elektro, but it's also not safe.

By going up north, you'll find more geared people, and those are the people that you won't even see if they kill you.

That's the conclusion that I've come to. It took me about 3 tries to finally get to NW Airfield, learning to not include Stary Sobor in my route, and when I got up there, I found 2 dead bodies and what I would guess was a sniper since I just fell over and died while I was still at 6k blood. I still want to do a good solo raid there (I like a challenge) but I should probably wait until I get something better than a Lee with 5 shots and no binocs.

Plan of action based on suggestions is do a Berezino run, hit up the deer stands around it, go to Krasnoskav if needed. Then if I still don't have hunting gear, either stay over there or head west and bounce between Vybor and Pustoshka, depending on what guns I have. Then once I can live in the forest, camp north of the Airfield and super scout out the right time to move in. Hopefully I can get a tent to stash the hunting gear in, so if I do die I can recover.

If that sound really foolish let me know, but I think I know how to travel up north now, it's just the coasts that scare me.

One last question (for now). How benefitial is it to loot a hospital as a solo player? I can't use bloodbags on myself, I seem to find bandage frequently elsewhere, same with pain pills, and last go through I had 3 morphine. Just doesn't seem worth the trouble considering you have to break the glass and draw attention to yourself.

Edited July 19, 2012 by HerrJon

[MikeTupper 68]

I started that thread about krasnostav for the newbies, and its true that the ratio loot/risk is pretty good, but nowhere is safe

[herrjon 478]

I started that thread about krasnostav for the newbies, and its true that the ratio loot/risk is pretty good, but nowhere is safe

Hense the quotes around the word.