I have been running for a few weeks in the lower DZ either 182 -203 and now 204 - 228, it has been really good with practically no rogue activity, certainly have not been attacked by a rogue just notices there are some around, maybe in the higher end of the DZ.
Today an extraction was hijacked in DZ 1, the Road, thought how unusual, I will go and see. Thought while my build is not great it is very handy in killing NPC's so it is not too bad. I can face the yellow machine gunners and get them most of the way down before having to dive out of the way and pop a heal.
Found the rogue launching his own extraction, threw a grenade, no impact, not a bar lost, sticky bomb, not high skill but still OK, not a sausage, but again no impact, fired with the House, SMG, the rogue walked over, did not pop a booster, no support station, no grenades thrown, no turret tossed out, one micro burst of less than a half second, from full health, survival link popped, to stone cold dead in less than half a second.
Went back out a couple of times to see if it was that quick, well without survival link it was a couple of bullets, dead. One time I launched the fire turret, no impact at all, did not catch fire just walked through it, lobbed a grenade and hit him with the sticky bomb, again fired with the house,completely useless, walked up through this unscathed.
One micro burst of a third of a second and dead, took what I thought was a video snapshot but it did not capture, not in the library. So no real proof but with over a combined 400 levels of DZ experience across multiple characters, I know what is normal and this was definitely not normal.
How sad someone has to come into a low level DZ and use cheats to get kills and monster the agents there, which if you were a decent PVP agent would be easy anyway but to cheat to do it, I just do not see how you could take anything out of it, what kind of friends would he have if it was look at this, me cheating in a low level DZ and getting lots of easy kills. WILLY WONKER and the CHEESE FACTOR.
They not only turn up in lower levels of DZ, these rogue cheaters are all over the place. I have seen many of them, hitting them with 150k riffle in 8k firearms build and not doing any damage, just 0%. it is clear they are cheating in some form. And yes you can kill that heavy machine gunner with a few bullets using that same marksmen riffle with head shots. As far as I am concerned agents that go rogue or doing manhunt in DZ are agents that use cheats, tools, or lag to their benefits for winning fights.
The lower levels are more the areas they will in fact frequent as they will wait and prey on lower level players trying extract this is also due to the increased frequency of players attempting to extract at the lower levels as opposed to a longer wait for victims to arrive at the higher levels.
The worst i have seen recently is a group that will wait at the entrance at the lower levels and will pick a particular player and effectively pin them at the entrance and proceed to repeat the process each time blocking there progression until player gives up returns to the LZ.
This behaviour is disgusting as it serves them of no benefient and only denies the player the ability to play.
I love this game but they really need to address its short comings for the sequel.