Has Shoot-on-Sight Increased?

[usszim 35]

Seems to me that Day Z just got even more violent with 1.7.2.5. Before, there was a chance of not being blown to bits, but now it seems people are actively picking a fight. Even dudes who say, "friendly!" stare you down a little before blowing your head off.

I'm wearing a bandit hat, so it's obvious why I am being shot, but my brother is a normal dude. Most of the time, he doesn't even have weapons!

It seems like more people are chasing down others to kill them too. Several times I've been in the forest or in the middle of nowhere when some guy randomly pops me. Heck, even in the middle of the night, I stood up for a second and was popped :P.

I dunno, has anyone noticed an increase of aggression? Elektro used to have a 30% chance of not being a warzone, but now it's like the coast from Balota to Otmel is like Baghdad with G-strings.

[Dancingg 27]

More and more people like to kill for fun. Not much reason other than that. With how much duping's going on and such everyone already has good end game gear and just wants to get their murder count high.

Just because someone's skin isn't a bandit doesn't mean they're friendly. Thinking that is just a mistake on your own part if you do that. Lots of bandits farm humanity with eachother to get Hero skin just to lure newer players into their sights.

[KArowd 40]

If you're smart and have a realist outlook on life, you will apply it to a game of this content like I do. People IRL are hard to trust and I think it applies in this game as well. Maybe it is just me tho... :x

[Obscura (DayZ) 33]

If you're smart and have a realist outlook on life, you will apply it to a game of this content like I do. People IRL are hard to trust and I think it applies in this game as well. Maybe it is just me tho... :x

People act differently when theres just pixels to kill

[voodooactual 58]

Mate, I've been playing since there was 2 servers.. I quote the sniper from TF2 -

[dsi24 227]

Of course it has, instead of people questioning whether they should shoot that random or not, they make the decision based off a magical fairytale skin.

[TheDesigner 1197]

People's mindsets in this game are horrible. Almost every single person has a mindset of "Oh, if I don't shoot this guy, he'll kill me", which is most likely true, 'cause that is exactly what the other guy is thinking. The only way to get rid of that is when nethier of you have weapons, which is why most unarmed survivors group up, but once a weapon is invovled, they ethier split up or kill one another. It's ridiculous, change your mindset and it'll do wonders.