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Three Snowshoes
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I picked this game up a few weeks ago on the recommendation of a friend, and quickly got hooked. It took me a long time prior to heading into the Dark Zone. I finally started meeting some people while playing the daily missions, and had added a decent number of folks to my friends list such that nearly any time of the day I hopped on, there were a small handful of people to party up with. I felt better being a bit insulated by 2-3 better, more experienced players. I've gotten to the point where I can hold my own with NPC's, but I'm still a trainwreck when it comes to PvP. I just don't have the experience, and unless you go rogue as a matter of habit and force the scenario, it's just not TOO common. Really, I've been trying to stay on the DL while I build my character up. Even with level 196 armor, full 65% mitigation, and a high resilience to exotic damage...I still get my *** handed to me in a few seconds by most rogues for some reason. Perhaps I just suck, really.
At any rate, last night I had a few interesting encounters that stuck out among the many I've had over the past couple weeks. Our group was in game chat, so proximity voice chat was in play. We came across another group of friendlies and declared that we were non-hostile, and just having some fun collecting loot and stuff. They said that typically they'd have wasted us, but we just sounded entirely too nice and they couldn't bring themselves to do it. I thought that was pretty *******ed swell of them. They were all level 99's while our group was mostly in the 60's where DZ level is concerned. We were able to extract and go on our merry way.
About an hour later, we came upon another group at the library. We had largely anihilated what was there, but still had the boss left. We told them to get some shots in on the boss so they could could get the gold drop, which they thanked us for. None of them had a key, so we also opened the chest. As we left, they asked if they could tag along and we said sure. So we hit up a few other spots, then went to an extraction. They called one in, and we covered them while they loaded up. Then we called ours in. They anihilated us, took our ****, then used our own extraction to ship it out. Then, they sat there and called us all manner of profane things, said they were recording it, and posting on YouTube about just how stupid some people are. Suppose we were.
After many experiences like this, my first thought would be to shoot any player character on site as though they were an NPC. Treat everything as hostile. Maybe that's the point of the DZ. The gentleman's approach just doesn't pay off, in the end. Not even a little. Especially not when they kill you, then race to the nearest safe house or DZ checkpoint and camp it to wait for you to come back out so they can rape you again. While I'm well aware that the DZ is fair game for this kind of stuff, it aggravates me. Maybe it shouldn't. I guess it's the **** talking that gets to me. Maybe the general principle of it as a whole. I don't know. I suppose I don't mind getting merked, but the wolf in sheep's clothing thing is pretty irksome, as is the ignorant **** talking afterwards.
At the very least, the DZ is like a box of chocolates. You meet all types of personalities down there. I think people's behavior in the DZ is probably emblematic of the type of person you're playing against as a whole.