Bandit tips?

[miG (DayZ) 0]

Anyone have good tips and tricks on how to be a more effective bandit?

[zxcvbn_ 3]

Get a good rifle and hide out of sight on commonly travelled paths?

[savini 587]

There are 3 or 4 stickied threads all about tips and tricks...for bandits and survivors.

[miG (DayZ) 0]

There are 3 or 4 stickied threads all about tips and tricks...for bandits and survivors.

Are they just located in the general discussion page?

[savini 587]

Er, there are less than I thought. The ones that are up there have some pretty decent info though.

[miG (DayZ) 0]

I was more so hoping for a bandit guide but they will do nicely.

[oilman 72]

Step 1: Be a dick

Step 2: Have a gun

Congratulations, you're a bandit

[tureis 0]

Step 1: Be a dick

Step 2: Have a gun

Congratulations' date=' you're a bandit

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Step 3: Shoot the gun.

[ThatGuy (DayZ) 47]

Start by being 12 years old, you get your high powered rifle or gucci gun of choice, then camp spawn or some other high traffic location, kill people who actually try to survive as they would IRL, take their shit. You don't have to deal with zombies, you always have the element of surprise, and if worse comes to worse you can always fall back to joining groups and shooting people in the back.

Bandit is DayZ easy mode.

Should make bullets so rare on Chernarus that everyone thinks before they fire, so bandits have to actually rob people without shooting. Go the metro 2033 route, and make bullets the currency.

[tureis 0]

Start by being 12 years old' date=' you get your high powered rifle or gucci gun of choice, then camp spawn or some other high traffic location, kill people who actually try to survive as they would IRL, take their shit. You don't have to deal with zombies, you always have the element of surprise, and if worse comes to worse you can always fall back to joining groups and shooting people in the back.

Bandit is DayZ easy mode.

Should make bullets so rare on Chernarus that everyone thinks before they fire, so bandits have to actually rob people without shooting. Go the metro 2033 route, and make bullets the currency.

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Or you can just shoot them in the head and take all their mags.

[rverdi12@gmail.com 5]

make sure you put all your equipment on the ground before you commit any acts of banditry, because you might be tossed into a strange daze which rips your earthly possessions from you so you might make the transformation into wearing desert camo and a head wrap in a broken, post-apocalyptic ex-soviet satellite state while you frag nublords.

[Malaclypse 3]

I'd say, get into it. Stalk your prey for a long time without being seen. If possible, wait for him to go afk or look at a map and rob his pack without him noticing- real bandit skills are stealing without ever having to fire a shot.

Or follow a group around from it's beginning, forming on the sandy shores of Chernarus, traveling inland, finding better guns, ammo, talking to eachother in side-chat about their next move. Watch them find a tent and set up camp, watch them bring vehicles back to said camp in time. Raid it when they leave!

[dut 21]

You don't have to deal with zombies

Not so. Especially if you take the first shot. It's all well and good that you one shotted the dude with the sweet NVG's from 300m away' date=' but now a horde of zombies is running at you because your CZ550 has some sort of zombie mating call muzzle brake.

Bandit is DayZ easy mode.

Hanging out in the most dangerous areas of the map with nobody to watch your back is easy?

[Jynx (DayZ) 44]

Try to befriend other bandits then blow there head off.

[Jamesbiff 4]

Step 1: Be a dick

Step 2: Have a gun

Congratulations' date=' you're a bandit

[/quote']

As ive stated many times, the humanity system is broken, im a bandit because i killed two guys who were shooting at me. Now, because of the way people dont understand the humanity system, ive had to actually start playing as a bandit or just be repeatdly killed.

on topic:

travel north, dont stick around the southern cities, new players are more likely to shoot you on site and its where most players are situated. Plenty of places in the north to get what you need.

Dont travel on roads and pay particular attention to the chat, as a normal survivor rolling into a busy area wont be that much of a worry, but as a bandit youre gonna have to assume they will shoot you on sight.

Play as a bandit, once you become a bandit, it is incredibly hard to reverse the process. As such, if you have the drop on someone, kill them, because they arent going to hesitate for one second to drop you.

Let survivors do the work, if you see them looting an airfield, let them get clear and hunt them down, smoke can help separate them and make killing them less of a risk.

[ThatGuy (DayZ) 47]

You don't have to deal with zombies

Not so. Especially if you take the first shot. It's all well and good that you one shotted the dude with the sweet NVG's from 300m away' date=' but now a horde of zombies is running at you because your CZ550 has some sort of zombie mating call muzzle brake.

Bandit is DayZ easy mode.

Hanging out in the most dangerous areas of the map with nobody to watch your back is easy?

Are you kidding me,

6/10 bandits camp Cherno and Electro with assault weapons or high powered sniper rifles. These are almost guaranteed "first stops" for freshly spawned players (either intentionally or accidentally). I don't know if you've ever actually used your Makarov, but I've been in firefights with bandits at point blank and put a clip and a half into a guy, only to go down in one or two hits from their weapons. Sure it's dangerous, but most bandits don't give a shit. I mean hell you just respawn and run back to your camping ground...

I'll admit I'm overgeneralizing the whole bandit thing based on my disdain for people who act big, camping spawn towns with a CZ, shooting new players who don't know their ass from the signs they can't figure out how to read.

Bandits who head north do have some balls, but considering most places north are KOS everyone who goes north has to have some balls. I'm never sour when I get killed by a bandit in the north, it's a mutual thing, if I saw them first it wouldn't be me back spawning on the beach :P

Malaclypse is absolutely right, you could still get all your goodies without having to kill anyone by joining groups and reaching into their bags, while they are on their person. That takes some real skill, and I'd respect someone legitimately RPing to survive that way.

[oilman 72]

As ive stated many times' date=' the humanity system is broken, im a bandit because i killed two guys who were shooting at me. Now, because of the way people dont understand the humanity system, ive had to actually start playing as a bandit or just be repeatdly killed.[/quote']

This is ENTIRELY wrong, and I'm sick of people using this as an excuse for banditry: If you want to be a bandit, just grow some balls and admit that you're in it for the killing. Having a bandit skin does not mean you're stuck as a bandit.

Case in point, in my last session, there was someone who had -4000 humanity who was in the NW airfield who was explicitly saying on chat that he was NOT a bandit, that he would give a free transfusion to anyone who asked, and that as long as you identified yourself, he would not shoot you. By the time I left the server, he was already in positive humanity.

Like I said: It's fine if you're a bandit. That's part of the game. But then to say that you're being a bandit 'only because the game is forcing me' is just cowardly.

[Panzerfaust (DayZ) 5]

As ive stated many times' date=' the humanity system is broken, im a bandit because i killed two guys who were shooting at me. Now, because of the way people dont understand the humanity system, ive had to actually start playing as a bandit or just be repeatdly killed.[/quote']

This is ENTIRELY wrong, and I'm sick of people using this as an excuse for banditry: If you want to be a bandit, just grow some balls and admit that you're in it for the killing. Having a bandit skin does not mean you're stuck as a bandit.

Case in point, in my last session, there was someone who had -4000 humanity who was in the NW airfield who was explicitly saying on chat that he was NOT a bandit, that he would give a free transfusion to anyone who asked, and that as long as you identified yourself, he would not shoot you. By the time I left the server, he was already in positive humanity.

Like I said: It's fine if you're a bandit. That's part of the game. But then to say that you're being a bandit 'only because the game is forcing me' is just cowardly.

Oh, please.

You've clearly never spent any prolonged period of time away from the coast, I see. If you had, you'd realize that the attitude most people take up there is shoot on sight and if you manage to survive and defend yourself even once you're marked as a bandit.

Just yesterday, I was moving through the forest near one of the airfields up north when suddenly I came under fire near a deer stand I saw. I took cover, located the source of the bullets, and returned fire. The guy I was shooting at looked like he was fresh off of the beach, he even still had the starter backpack.

I fired a few shots at him and missed, he made a break for it to get to another patch of trees and as he did I wounded him. He made it to behind the trees, bandaged himself, and peeked out of cover to shoot at me. I was faster and put two shots into him from my Enfield, and that was the end of things.

I then promptly morphed into a bandit and lost everything in my backpack, only to un-morph back into a survivor and lose everything in my backpack again about 20 minutes later.

The humanity system IS broken, and anyone who's not experienced that firsthand is not qualified to post about it.

[oilman 72]

I was a bandit until yesterday, thanks to a similar self-defence incident, but then morphed back into a friendly after meeting up with some guys who I'd not met before in the north-eastern airfield - oh, sorry, I've never been away from the coast, so I guess I must be getting confused with Kamenka - and experienced the same morphing issue as you. I managed to meet with them because when they got close, I told them, that I would NOT shoot them. Is that really so hard?

MORPHING is a problem right now. A serious one. I never said it wasn't. I completely agree - you shouldn't lose all your gear. But being dressed as a bandit does not condemn you to banditry, and I know this firsthand.

[LondonHyena 7]

How to be a REAL bandit (and not a noob camping pussy)

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Alright, so I have found there are two types of bandit. You have the ones that do nothing but sit in the first coastal towns killing new players for beans and Makarov rounds and scavving anything else they can find. They are dicks, this much I know is true.

The second is the type I am, I don't sit in one place just waiting for people to come, I have a certain system of places I go through for supplies and if a survivor is there too...well. A few pointers below.

1 - Assess your target. In the sense of don't just shoot the first survivor you see, take a second to see what weapons he has slung on his back or in his hands, is it a makerov or something low value like a winchester? If the answer is yes, the chances are they have nothing of real worth on them, the only time you would want to slot someone like that is if you yourself are missing the most rudimentary gear (map/compass). If he has a higher tier weapon, how is he using it? Is he focusing on killing zombies or doing his best to avoid them all together, how distracted would he be if you started firing on them?

2 - Watch your target. You can get a lot of information just by taking a few moments to see what they are up too. If they are slowly moving through town, peeking into buildings you have yourself someone who is either exploring or desperate for something and may be low on health. On the other hand, if they are running through or avoiding contact, chances are they are on the move to another destination and could be tailed. Try not to engage a moving target at distance, as they can easily evade you as you are aiming unless you have an exceptional aiming ability.

3 - Prepare your target. Right, so we have seen someone who looks like they have a good weapon and is scouting around looking for goodies. There is no point in immediately blazing in and murdering him, especially if there are Zeds present. Just following him with your crosshair, see if he's going to be coming up to any groups of zombies or a barrier thats going to require their attention.

4 - Kill your target. This one should be simple, if you have had followed the steps correctly, you've already given yourself a big advantage and have a tactical/situational edge over them. You are prepared for it, they are not. The chances are they will either freeze and drop to the ground like a rabbit in headlights, or evade you. If they evade you have a choice, if the risk isn't too great then by all means chase them but DONT GET GREEDY. If they are in a town with Zeds, dont run the risk of getting a swarm after you, let them go or see if they bleed out. If they are behind heavy cover, dont let yourself fall into an ambush by running straight at them, flank around the target, try to come from the side or better behind if they are camping there.

5 - Relocate! Once you have shot them, kill or no kill, move to a new location. They may have friends in the area, or they might spam your location in side chat along with numerous different expletives. Exfiltrate the point you are in and find somewhere new. If it is in a large town, move to the other end or side of it, if it is the airfield head to another part of it, do not shoot from the same point twice.

6 - YOU ARE A SURVIVOR TOO! If you want to play properly, and not be one of those idiots who kill in the starter towns with little regards for life or death of their characters, play like one. If you need food, try to shoot an animal in the wilderness. Not only is it better for you (the cooked meat), but you will be further away from players who are hunting in buildings for tins of pasta. If you need water, try to refill bottles in a lake instead of having to go looking for cans. You cannot rely on people for help, not until they take bandit skins out, and if you have a name for yourself then you must consider that you are on your own.

So act like you are the last man alive, trust no one, expect none back. You are a cruel survivor, but still a survivor nontheless.

[Jamesbiff 4]

As ive stated many times' date=' the humanity system is broken, im a bandit because i killed two guys who were shooting at me. Now, because of the way people dont understand the humanity system, ive had to actually start playing as a bandit or just be repeatdly killed.[/quote']

This is ENTIRELY wrong, and I'm sick of people using this as an excuse for banditry: If you want to be a bandit, just grow some balls and admit that you're in it for the killing. Having a bandit skin does not mean you're stuck as a bandit.

Case in point, in my last session, there was someone who had -4000 humanity who was in the NW airfield who was explicitly saying on chat that he was NOT a bandit, that he would give a free transfusion to anyone who asked, and that as long as you identified yourself, he would not shoot you. By the time I left the server, he was already in positive humanity.

Like I said: It's fine if you're a bandit. That's part of the game. But then to say that you're being a bandit 'only because the game is forcing me' is just cowardly.

Approaching anyone as a bandit is usually suicide, getting them to trust you enough to assist them is even harder. And he must have been a new player, giving his position away AND telling everyone he had blood packs? he cant have lasted long, not at an airfield, proper bandits would have found him and taken his stuff in no time.

[tuchmaipp 2]

"tips on being a bandit"? really? have you ever played a first person shooter where you kill things? do that. jesus.