Something to note in PvP

[Daldrath 9]

A lot of people complain about pvp and how seemingly everyone is out to kill noobs in chernobyl and elektro. I'm not here to say people don't grief noobs or say that bandits don't kill without a reason but I do want to point out that just because you didn't see a reason does not mean there wasn't one.

For example, Im not usually a bandit, if my character has any murders or bandit kills it is because I acted in defense but today I spawned in and ran to elektro. Found an AK in the firehouse and booked it to the church. While in the church I found a ghilliesuit. Now I personally have never had one despite searching for weeks so it instantly became a piece of gear worth defending. While looting the rest of the hotspots in the city I came across two other players and decided that in order for me to most safely preserve this character and the chance to use the ghilliesuit I had to kill them if they came within shooting distance. I did. To them it probably seemed like a simple case of douchebaggery where a player with an awesome weapon killed two potentially helpless fresh spawns...but to me there was a reason. So is that still greifing, as some of the pvp sensitive players would put it?

And don't give me that business about asking if they were friendly because out of the tally I've kept less than 10% of players are honest.

[Buffjesus 357]

if you dont want to die

you kill everybody

/end

anyone who says otherwise hasnt lived past the 49 minutes and best gun has been a Winchester.

[bond1971@tpg.com.au 92]

Yep its still griefing, you got your gun and you got a ghillie suit, now get the fark out of dodge so other new people can do the same.

[who8mybacon 4]

the reason why the pvp in this game is so bad is because people in the game see a source of power in their hands and dont know how to control, or theyre just complete douchebags.

[c4mpfire 2]

Its part of the game concept it ain't griefing u did what u had to do to survive

[c4mpfire 2]

If u don't wanna risk a fresh spawn death go north after you spawn or go play a zombie game with no pvp like dead island ..... btw I've only been playing for 3 days I've lost nvg camo suit m4 with grenade launcher from going back to towns/ cities to supply up and having someone run up yelling friendly only to get close and shoot me in the face lol I ain't butthurt just respawned and head up north to gear up again

[Daldrath 9]

Yeah just to clarify I didn't wait in elektro to kill other players, after I hit the church I ran into the hospital and then the grocery store and went north from there. Like I said I spent no time hunting the players but as I ran up by the school to move through to the grocery store I saw a player and he saw me, I simply decided to take no chances to lose the ghilliesuit, I wasn't abusing some "op" piece of gear that allowed me to player kill. I don't think that because i got lucky in finding gear i have a burden of having to then super stealth out so other players who don't stealth bump in to me. The way I see it is I was defending a piece of gear and was put in a confrontation because I didn't adequately sneak, the opposing player was looking for gear and put in a combat situation because he didn't adequately sneak. To him though it probably seemed as if I simply griefed.

My point is simply that don't just assume you were killed for no reason, I imagine that situations like these make up at least some of the encounters that lead to players complaining.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Daldrath

[Lennsik 176]

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[septuscap 42]

Yep its still griefing, you got your gun and you got a ghillie suit, now get the fark out of dodge so other new people can do the same.

How about you be wary of your surroundings and avoid people armed to the teeth? Oh wait that's right you're supposed to be able to just run around in the wide open yelling "FRIENDLY SOME ONE GIVE ME GUN PLZZZZ"