Bandits =/= murderers.

[Inception. 9443]

It's quite simple.

One who picks off new spawns with their high power sniper rifles are not bandits. They are merely murderers.

Bandits don't kill their victims unless the act is an absolute necessity.

Bandits rob, not murder.

Etc. I wish people would know these things.

Green Mountain Survivors, I'm coming for you.

[Brudagon (DayZ) 64]

What game are you playing?

[fearz0r 128]

While the definition of bandit is "a robber at gunpoint", in this mod it comes down to the player's feeling/mood at the time. I've seen videos of bandits robbing at gunpoint and then leaving, only to see another survivor with no weapons running across a field away from them, and they've shot him and carried on about their business. No robbery, just murder..

Trying to classify the two in this thread is a little pointless really.