When I say “friendly” I wholly expect to be shot at and I act as such until I hear “friendly” in response.
…now those people who say “friendly” in response, and then betray and shoot me in the back… I wish upon them a weekend of constipation followed by a Monday of diarrhea.
I'm very much an aggressive PvPer. I'll hunt down players making noise, shoot on sight, set traps, etc... But I've never lied. That crosses the boundary of just playing a game to being an actual asshole in my mind. If I tell you I wont shoot you, I actually mean it.
I recently got killed at exfil by a guy who played friendly and put his gun away, then shot me in the back while I was calling extract at the terminal. Just filthy. Every game I play just cements in my mind more to not trust anyone
Stay alert at all times. I simply don't let other players walk behind me at extract, I let others do the sequence. If needed I pretend to be scouting for danger.
I have no proof of this but I'm pretty sure that a number of times opportunistic assholes who were extracting with me CHOSE to do it peacefully once they couldn't position themselves for an easy kill.
Over the last 2 weeks I've not been killed once around extract zones. I've taken down a few rats camping, I've waited for others to do their thing first, I moved to a different extract If something was fishy, but the most often just extracted peacefully, often with others.
Yea good tactic. I've also stopped extracting with large groups and just catching the next one. A couple times with groups I've been knocked out just before we extracted which is extra frustrating because they had no hope of even taking my loot, it was literally just so I lose it.
Now I go If you are chill, I’m chill while I have my gun out. Guys purposefully looking for a fight will still probably fight, but someone looking for an easy target will think twice.
Also means I tend to be in a better position to fight back, because I’m ready to fight instead of just declaring friendly and waiting for a response.
It also helps too because adding that sort of conditional also implies why you have your gun pointed at them. Slightly less of a panic if they want to be friendly because they might not just instantly assume you are a rat lying to get them close - they need to confirm the transaction of being friendly in some way, either voice, flashlight, 'Don't Shoot', whatever.
I got downed in Stella Montis and said "Really? This is how you're spending your Sunday afternoon?". He stood there for a handful of seconds before he defibbed me and ran off lol. Fair play.
Had a dude shoot me in the back from afar after taking down a leaper, I called him a dickead and to fight me like a man, damn if he didn’t jump down and said “melee duel?” To which we killed each other that way 😂
I shot a guy who ran through a door in Stella Montis and he said, "Dude, I just spawned in. I don't even have anything yet." I said OK help me get out, and defibbed him. He helped and neither one of us broke the treaty.
what the fuck is wrong with you dude? said the raider in a high pitched voice holding back his tears while finishing his monologue with the I hope your family dies classic. a truly authentic wish for a merry christmass!
Nah but angry Dumbledore was legit terrifying. Like the dude's always calm and wise so to see him with temper was scary and it emphasized that something went very wrong.
Some of the comments I've seen on here make me think they must be talking about war criminals and serial rapists, instead of someone who shot them in a PvP game
I had a guy say exactly this after I dropped him, I followed up with, did it ever occur to you that I’m not friendly and his anger dissipated instantly and he just said “fair”
I had a weird and kind of opposite experience yesterday. I called out asking if a guy was friendly. He kind of disappeared for a bit and I thought maybe he was trying to find where I was. Then after a minute he reappeared and started looting out in the open. I called out two more times, saying I would kill him if he didn’t say anything. He walked up to a container and started breaching it, leaving himself completely vulnerable. I smoked him.
He started saying something as I walked up to him so I said “Oh you do have a mic? I was calling out friendly, did you not hear me?” thinking there was maybe a VOIP issue and he didn’t hear, and I would use my defib to pick him up. He goes “Ya, but maybe I’m not friendly”. I just finished him off
So you’re not friendly, but you’re just going to turn your back and ignore when I said I would shoot? 😂 No idea what that guy was thinking
Reminded me of a guy who ate my tripwire in the locked Blue Gate village room, saw my team pointing a shotty at him and told him that you better leave since we have dibs or we will kill you then proceed to just waltz in as we lit him up
I opened the Dam Surveillance Room and had a quick look around before going in. This guy runs in, stops in the corridor and looks at me. I point my anvil at him and ask him what's up, ready to tell him to buzz off. He's just mute though, so I tell him I'll drop him if he doesn't speak.
Then he just kinda... ran at me so, I dropped him. He didn't put up a fight and never said a word, just let me mag dump him. Had half decent stuff on him too, mk2 tactical and an Osprey 2 and a bit of goop iirc. Such weird behaviour, no idea what his deal was.
Those people are the worst in reality, complete wild cards, with no particular rhyme or reason to why they do things. It makes them impossible to read and learn how to adapt to them. Pure opportunism lol. Those people becoming a majority, or even coming close is 100% of the time the thing that breaks the camels back and turns a games meta into kill on sight (DayZ). For the most part you can quickly identify the difference between a friendly or non friendly player, which is why people bother to do so, but the only solution to getting tired of wildcards is kill on sight.
I mean, when I say "friendly?" it's a question and I accept that one or more bullets is a clear answer to that question, which is why I try to ask it from or near cover.
I swear, friendly raiding is great and all, but you still have to keep your head on a swivel.
Most edgy kids here gloating about killing unsuspecting Joes are so cringe it’s unbelievable. Yall just bad at the game, can only win fights that way. Otherwise, try a duo/squads on Dam or Stella, do let us know how great you are.
I don't brag about killing friendlies but I do get annoyed at the entitlement to think being friendly makes you immune to PvP in a game advertised as such. As if using "don't shoot" means you may enter any building freely looting what you please. I'm here for loot same as you and I'm not interested in sharing or being betrayed later.
Also if you get frustrated when shot, you were too trusting of someone that didn't deem themselves trustworthy.
It's not the game that's the problem. The game itself is great for PvPvE... It's humans that are the problem. We shouldn't have to add guardrails because players are shitty with no morals
People are so entitled in this game. I will run into someone and they say their friendly and assume I am as well. If I don’t say it back prepare for a fight and don’t call me slurs if I kill you. It’s that simple. Goes both ways. I never assume someone is friendly until we’ve spoken.
If you don't say friendly back then it's fair game. I want PVP action but I don't want to kill innocents. Only problem is everyone is friendly in my lobbies. Legitimately >90%. I shot a guy who was struggling with his mic and recharged his shield for him.
Same happens to me 😂 I rained down the power of a thousand toros on this balding monk in a dark corner and he was started screaming bro bro im here for a candlestick lmao I stopped shooting just before he was knocked and gave him a heal.
Downing people that don't or won't fight back isn't my idea of fun
I don't normally PVP unless I'm in Stella Montis, but if I start getting harassed I'll just say something along the lines of, "don't be mad buddy, you're having fun" and it's always good practice to give some praise whether you win or lose a dual.
I've also found doing pure medic builds with no weapons and maxed out mobility on occasion is really fun and a good reset from the sweaty try hard I normally try to be.
It's good fun, people usually get a laugh, and if they kill you, it costs next to nothing to do.
Feels good man, fuck the ARC. We survive together.
Yesterday I had a discussion in this sub with people arguing it was okay to harass people via playstation/xbox pm when you betray them ingame. They called me "piece of shit" for stating that I think in a game it's okay to betray people. You can have different opinions on that of course, but it's really bonkers how the people take the moral high ground and continue to call people "rats" and "pieces of shit".
Raider A - Don't shoot !
Raider B - (says nothing)
Raider A - (comes out and start looting)
Raider B - (shoots and kill him)
Raider A - w-what ??? Are you crazy i said don't shoot !!
Raider B - i miss the point where i approved that sentence
Holy moose on a tricycle! This is a PvP game! just because you've decided you want be all 'buddy raider' doesn't mean I have to give a hoot...I've decided I'm not friendly...same logic.
If the devs intended for this to have specific PvP zones they'd make them. They havent...unlucky punks!
I'm really thinking there was some truth to the reports about behavior influencing matchmaking. Me and my people never fire on raiders (we naively like to RP a more cooperative kind of apocalypse, lol) but we also almost never get shot at either. Could be dumb luck, could be nothing, but it definitely feels like the game is running its own karma system.
I’d personally say you don’t see it all too often- the kind of feeling you get with being unsafe 24/7 like this is really only in extraction shooters and games like DayZ
Yesterday first time ever after 140hours I have been bamboozled. Blue Gate cold snap - I said friendly on mic. The guy is in the same room with me. Didnt shoot but also didnt say anything.
10 seconds later he came back and change his mind.
My team was running by these teams killing each other and after the teams were finishing of the remaining downs, one of them was saying " dude i said friendly! Why did you shoot." Im still in disbelief that after this long people dont understand that its a pvp game and people can kill you at any point for any reason even if you dont like it or understand.
Normally we would have 3rd party that team but we had other things to do.
The only people in my opinion that are the scum of gaming are the ones that yell slurs when they lose, there is no reason for thay kinf of behavior. I have ran into so many people that are so quick to resort to nasty slurs because they lost to pvp and its usually the so called "friendly" raiders after they got downed.
It blows my mind how often even squads in trios will fire on us first, just to all go down and start asking for a "truce", and now they want to parlay, and it was all a big misunderstanding and "c'mon bro we just loaded in!".
It's hardly just the carebears acting incredulous when they get downed.
I'm way less annoyed at people that go straight into shooting than the rats that act like they're friendly for a bit and then shoot you in the back when you let your guard down. Seriously, what is even fun about that?
I’m coming from years of Tarkov, Warzone, Battlefield, anything. When I see movement I shoot so it’s hard for me to stop the impulse, I’m highkey an animal. Though I’m trying to get used to a peaceful life.
It’s not that I want to kill, I just go full auto muscle memory
I dont always say friendly and dont always respond. Meeting strangers and not knowing they'll be cool is part of the intensity. Never got into a fight yet but always have my hand on the trigger if they fire.
That’s why I always have my gun out, no matter how many times players plead to put them away. HELL NAH! If you want to extract with me than get the typing 🤣
I say friendly just because of the damn 5mil. The second I get it. I'm killing everyone on sight. Never again is someone shooting me in the back while claiming to be friendly.
I am generally quite a social player I will always say hello and announce myself to a player unless I see them committing war crimes lol however the other day some console player asked me if I had any shield recharges. I said sure! No problem! And opened my inventory and he sprayed me down with a Stitcher 1. Never again. Absolute scum behavior if you can only kill people like that.
"What did I ever doooo to youuuu" they squeal like it's a personal attack on them. Usually followed by the F word and wishing terminal illness on your family. Lovely bunch.
Not responding to “friendly, don’t shoot” isn’t a response. Just fucking say you aren’t friendly. Why the smoke and mirrors bullshit if you want a fight. I’m not gonna start shit if you are just free roaming and looting or working on a mission like I am 99% of the time because I’m not some sweaty ass cringe lord that can play 5+ hours daily.
So I started saying friendly. And if it goes like 5 seconds without a response I switch to “hey man we can be friendly or we can fight I’m just giving us the easy option” and usually they’ll speak up
My biggest problem with "friendly" is when someone says it to me as I'm in a room obviously looting and they come in and begin to loot the things I haven't gotten to yet.
If you do that, I am 1000% shooting you friendly or not. We can be friendly, but go find your own spot to loot.
In my experience, it's not always clear who the people involved are when someone yells "friendly", especially in close quarters areas like Stella. Since there are no visual UI cues to distinguish who is speaking besides names, you have to rely purely on the audio/directional cues but that can get mixed up when there are a lot of things happening.
It's hard to explain but I'll give an example. Say there's two people (A and B) entering Stella Medical Bay and A yells friendly. What if there's a stealthy PvPer third party (C) who shows up at the same time. So B yells back "friendly" and puts their guard down, lowering their weapon and flashing their light thinking that it's A approaching, but instead its C who just mows him down instantly. B goes "WTF dude? I thought you said you were friendly" and then the whole third party train begins because they heard gunshots and it devolves into chaos.
That's a very condensed simplified example but in actual raids, lots of things are happening at the same time. Like gunfire, explosions, environmental sounds, doors, etc. Things can get confusing.
If you instantly yell friendly back, you are:
A.) Revealing your general position to everyone nearby
B.) Giving opportunities to third parties
So if I'm just playing to live and extract, it's in my best interest to not trust anyone I see. Even if they say "friendly", you have to use your own judgment but should never let your guard down. I also don't know if they are asking if I am friendly or if it's another person they saw in the same area, or if it's just a general announcement to the area without any specific targeted person.
Sometimes I will reply "friendly" back, but other times, I won't respond because maybe I have a pretty good kit or lots of loot I don't want to lose. Plus if I'm just not in a friendly mood or bored of PvE loot runs, I'll just shoot on sight. Especially in night raids, where people bring good loot.
Just because you are friendly, doesn’t mean everyone else is. When I am asked if I am friendly, I always say no. It throws people off completely but I just tell them what is up.
“I am not friendly. I will shoot you if I see you again.”
“Wait but I am friendly, we can team up and be chill.”
I was hiding from a leaper yesterday in a building and this nice man also crawled in through the window to hide in the corner as well. We just stared at each other and he said “kinda bad out there ain’t it” 😂
The interactions with fellow chill people is always amazing
I just don’t talk to anyone when I’m solo running. I mind my own business and do what I gotta do. If you shoot at me, we fight. If you win, you’re just better. If I win, I’m just better. See you next time I see you champ ❤️
I haven’t run into an “unfriendly” in almost a week and a half/two weeks until yesterday,first asshole in two weeks I’ve come across that shot me down while I was looting.
When I say “friendly” I wholly expect to be shot at and I act as such until I hear “friendly” in response.
…now those people who say “friendly” in response, and then betray and shoot me in the back… I wish upon them a weekend of constipation followed by a Monday of diarrhea.
Also let them hit their funny bone and pinky toe like six times a day (each)
May their sleeves slide down while they are washing their hands.
May their pants fall down while carrying something heavy
May their piss stream split in two, both missing the toilet completely.
May he eat hot wings and not wash his hands before taking a piss
May he step on a Lego block when he gets up from bed and when he goes back to bed at night.
May their pillow be warm on both sides, eternally.
May all their outlets be just out of reach...
May all their lights flicker when there trying to read something.
This^ And it be so awkward of an object that it's harder to put down than to continue with pants around ankles
They only wear tank tops and don’t consider hygiene 😔
Then may the tank tops stretch to still get wet just by being in the same room as water
Diabolical curse
And let their floors be covered with Lego's, that they have to walk on, with bare feet!
well shit, this is why I keep hitting my funny bone and stubbing my toe on the doorframe.
I'm very much an aggressive PvPer. I'll hunt down players making noise, shoot on sight, set traps, etc... But I've never lied. That crosses the boundary of just playing a game to being an actual asshole in my mind. If I tell you I wont shoot you, I actually mean it.
I recently got killed at exfil by a guy who played friendly and put his gun away, then shot me in the back while I was calling extract at the terminal. Just filthy. Every game I play just cements in my mind more to not trust anyone
Stay alert at all times. I simply don't let other players walk behind me at extract, I let others do the sequence. If needed I pretend to be scouting for danger.
I have no proof of this but I'm pretty sure that a number of times opportunistic assholes who were extracting with me CHOSE to do it peacefully once they couldn't position themselves for an easy kill.
Over the last 2 weeks I've not been killed once around extract zones. I've taken down a few rats camping, I've waited for others to do their thing first, I moved to a different extract If something was fishy, but the most often just extracted peacefully, often with others.
Yea good tactic. I've also stopped extracting with large groups and just catching the next one. A couple times with groups I've been knocked out just before we extracted which is extra frustrating because they had no hope of even taking my loot, it was literally just so I lose it.
And it's people like you who have the entirety of my respect in this game.
Agreed if you wanna fight and aren’t friendly just say it don’t lie about friendliness
I’ve modified my call outs somewhat
Now I go If you are chill, I’m chill while I have my gun out. Guys purposefully looking for a fight will still probably fight, but someone looking for an easy target will think twice.
Also means I tend to be in a better position to fight back, because I’m ready to fight instead of just declaring friendly and waiting for a response.
"I'm friendly if you are" seems to get the message across
It also helps too because adding that sort of conditional also implies why you have your gun pointed at them. Slightly less of a panic if they want to be friendly because they might not just instantly assume you are a rat lying to get them close - they need to confirm the transaction of being friendly in some way, either voice, flashlight, 'Don't Shoot', whatever.
It's on them to confirm that we are friendly.
I once met a dude. I said friendly multiple times. He didn’t reply, instead he pulled out his gun and started dodge rolling towards cover.
He then had the nerve to act like I was attacking him. Don’t give me that bs, how else was I supposed to interpret that?
I just say no let’s fight if I want to pvp. Couldn’t imagine betraying
LOOOOOOOOL
When someone says friendly I say im not, im coming to kill you and steal your goop.
Gotta respect that. I actually like people like you. Whats the point in hoarding all this goop if I dont get to test it out every now and then anyway
Yeah that's fine, and actually appreciated, but do be ready for being made fun of for saying something so ridiculous as "goop" while being an adult.
Ofc some of us are obviously more adult than others 😁
When I say "friendly" I'm expecting a response in the next 5 seconds. Otherwise the gun is out and I start shooting on sight.
I legit can't when I say 'friendly' 3x - 10x and they say nothing only until I down them and blurt out, "what the hell?!?!"
I fell like a dunce, but how do you emote on console?
Up on d-pad
"iM tRyiNg To dO tHE qUEst!!!!" - me probably
"Oh come on. ON A WEDNESDAY!?"
I got downed in Stella Montis and said "Really? This is how you're spending your Sunday afternoon?". He stood there for a handful of seconds before he defibbed me and ran off lol. Fair play.
Lol
“Goddamnit I just needed that one candlestick!”
-Me, last night
Shoving berries and lightbulbs up my safe pocket because I can't trust a mf
It’s so embarrassing but it’s exactly what I did last night.
I had those in my safe pocket instead of blueprints!
change friendly to "dont shoot"
"Don't shoot!" John Arc Raiders said calmly
The quick chat "dont shoot" is the way
I can't believe you've done this!
For the youngins -https://youtube.com/shorts/DP5Z1M1sbzE?si=vkci8sr_yPb_OJtF
Had a dude shoot me in the back from afar after taking down a leaper, I called him a dickead and to fight me like a man, damn if he didn’t jump down and said “melee duel?” To which we killed each other that way 😂
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LMAO
I shot a guy who ran through a door in Stella Montis and he said, "Dude, I just spawned in. I don't even have anything yet." I said OK help me get out, and defibbed him. He helped and neither one of us broke the treaty.
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to wipe tears or...?
Goon
what the fuck is wrong with you dude? said the raider in a high pitched voice holding back his tears while finishing his monologue with the I hope your family dies classic. a truly authentic wish for a merry christmass!
“I hope your family dies and I hope cancer takes you painfully” said the obviously friendly Raider.
Nah but angry Dumbledore was legit terrifying. Like the dude's always calm and wise so to see him with temper was scary and it emphasized that something went very wrong.
My favorite thing to do when I get got is to say shit like “Your mother is a respectable woman and I hope she’s thriving!”
Or the disappointed dad approach, which is always hilarious. “You let me down buddy.”
First one is amazing. You untrashed your talk
Yeah after you downed him.
I just scream; SMALL PEEPEE!!!
I just boo them. Until they knock me out I'm booing them the entire time.
Ikr, whatever happened to the classic 'your moms a hoe'. Short and sweet.
"I said, whoever threw that trigger nade, your moms a hoe!"
Just act really depressed and dissapointed and say “and on my birthday too…”
I say "I hope you chair's leg will always be a bit crooked and your food always too salty."
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Easiest trial in the game
PvPvE. I am happy that I could help! Not at all!
What's funny is in Tarkov now in voip when people say things like this everyone asks them if they're from arc raiders
I love this game but the fanbase is pathetic.
It's embarrassing, honestly
Some of the comments I've seen on here make me think they must be talking about war criminals and serial rapists, instead of someone who shot them in a PvP game
I had a guy say exactly this after I dropped him, I followed up with, did it ever occur to you that I’m not friendly and his anger dissipated instantly and he just said “fair”
I had a weird and kind of opposite experience yesterday. I called out asking if a guy was friendly. He kind of disappeared for a bit and I thought maybe he was trying to find where I was. Then after a minute he reappeared and started looting out in the open. I called out two more times, saying I would kill him if he didn’t say anything. He walked up to a container and started breaching it, leaving himself completely vulnerable. I smoked him.
He started saying something as I walked up to him so I said “Oh you do have a mic? I was calling out friendly, did you not hear me?” thinking there was maybe a VOIP issue and he didn’t hear, and I would use my defib to pick him up. He goes “Ya, but maybe I’m not friendly”. I just finished him off
So you’re not friendly, but you’re just going to turn your back and ignore when I said I would shoot? 😂 No idea what that guy was thinking
The average Battle Royale specimen in action, neither friendly nor particularly intelligent lol
Schrodinger's Raider
Reminded me of a guy who ate my tripwire in the locked Blue Gate village room, saw my team pointing a shotty at him and told him that you better leave since we have dibs or we will kill you then proceed to just waltz in as we lit him up
I opened the Dam Surveillance Room and had a quick look around before going in. This guy runs in, stops in the corridor and looks at me. I point my anvil at him and ask him what's up, ready to tell him to buzz off. He's just mute though, so I tell him I'll drop him if he doesn't speak.
Then he just kinda... ran at me so, I dropped him. He didn't put up a fight and never said a word, just let me mag dump him. Had half decent stuff on him too, mk2 tactical and an Osprey 2 and a bit of goop iirc. Such weird behaviour, no idea what his deal was.
Those people are the worst in reality, complete wild cards, with no particular rhyme or reason to why they do things. It makes them impossible to read and learn how to adapt to them. Pure opportunism lol. Those people becoming a majority, or even coming close is 100% of the time the thing that breaks the camels back and turns a games meta into kill on sight (DayZ). For the most part you can quickly identify the difference between a friendly or non friendly player, which is why people bother to do so, but the only solution to getting tired of wildcards is kill on sight.
I mean, when I say "friendly?" it's a question and I accept that one or more bullets is a clear answer to that question, which is why I try to ask it from or near cover.
I swear, friendly raiding is great and all, but you still have to keep your head on a swivel.
This - you may be friendly, the other player may not be. Shit l, even you still may not be 😂
I've seen 3-4 people all shout out friendly and group up, then a 5th dude comes out of nowhere and starts utter chaos.
Rule of thumb: Always assume there's a monster lurking in the shadows.
It needs to say in small text at the very bottom
"It was a free kit anyway you asshole."
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Just got gunned down in buried city after someone "helped" me drop a Bastion. It's getting ridiculous. There's plenty of loot to go around
Yeah but some of that loot just happens to be in your backpack.
Most edgy kids here gloating about killing unsuspecting Joes are so cringe it’s unbelievable. Yall just bad at the game, can only win fights that way. Otherwise, try a duo/squads on Dam or Stella, do let us know how great you are.
I don't brag about killing friendlies but I do get annoyed at the entitlement to think being friendly makes you immune to PvP in a game advertised as such. As if using "don't shoot" means you may enter any building freely looting what you please. I'm here for loot same as you and I'm not interested in sharing or being betrayed later.
Also if you get frustrated when shot, you were too trusting of someone that didn't deem themselves trustworthy.
Just because you say friendly doesn’t mean you aren’t going to shoot me when my back is turned.
PvPvE game.
Get over it.
It's not the game that's the problem. The game itself is great for PvPvE... It's humans that are the problem. We shouldn't have to add guardrails because players are shitty with no morals
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r/arcwhiners
Thought this was a real sub and I’m brazenly disappointed
That's just this sub tbh
I HAVE A FREE KIT!
I JUST SPAWNED IN!
I'M JUST DOING MY QUEST!
The best is when they say free kit and you loot them and they were lying
But the other side of the coin is the pure despair you feel when you do put them down and they were actually on a free kit and probably friendly
na free kits can't be trusted
Eh, might get a stitcher and some ammo out of it
"Enjoy the free kit kettle" Bro thats huge its like 4 metal parts or something, i need my metal.
Both sides are cringe. Could you possibly just stfu
Ahaha yes finally someone gets it
This guy gets it. It's a videogame with 0 stakes, chill out and put the loot in the pocket.
People are so entitled in this game. I will run into someone and they say their friendly and assume I am as well. If I don’t say it back prepare for a fight and don’t call me slurs if I kill you. It’s that simple. Goes both ways. I never assume someone is friendly until we’ve spoken.
If you don't say friendly back then it's fair game. I want PVP action but I don't want to kill innocents. Only problem is everyone is friendly in my lobbies. Legitimately >90%. I shot a guy who was struggling with his mic and recharged his shield for him.
Same happens to me 😂 I rained down the power of a thousand toros on this balding monk in a dark corner and he was started screaming bro bro im here for a candlestick lmao I stopped shooting just before he was knocked and gave him a heal.
Downing people that don't or won't fight back isn't my idea of fun
If you want PVP, go to Stella Montis in a squad. Trust
Go play tarkov you'll get to PVP every single round.
I don't normally PVP unless I'm in Stella Montis, but if I start getting harassed I'll just say something along the lines of, "don't be mad buddy, you're having fun" and it's always good practice to give some praise whether you win or lose a dual.
I've also found doing pure medic builds with no weapons and maxed out mobility on occasion is really fun and a good reset from the sweaty try hard I normally try to be.
It's good fun, people usually get a laugh, and if they kill you, it costs next to nothing to do.
Feels good man, fuck the ARC. We survive together.
Yesterday I had a discussion in this sub with people arguing it was okay to harass people via playstation/xbox pm when you betray them ingame. They called me "piece of shit" for stating that I think in a game it's okay to betray people. You can have different opinions on that of course, but it's really bonkers how the people take the moral high ground and continue to call people "rats" and "pieces of shit".
It’s awesome that this game is so friendly but its community is sometimes too positive where it bleeds into being toxic
Raider A - Don't shoot ! Raider B - (says nothing) Raider A - (comes out and start looting) Raider B - (shoots and kill him) Raider A - w-what ??? Are you crazy i said don't shoot !! Raider B - i miss the point where i approved that sentence
More like: petition for the funniest meme I've seen in this subreddit 😂😂😂😂
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Lmao, I usually resort to the friendly route if I need some protection/ have literally nothing.
I'm not playing nice with my good shit.
Holy moose on a tricycle! This is a PvP game! just because you've decided you want be all 'buddy raider' doesn't mean I have to give a hoot...I've decided I'm not friendly...same logic.
If the devs intended for this to have specific PvP zones they'd make them. They havent...unlucky punks!
I'm really thinking there was some truth to the reports about behavior influencing matchmaking. Me and my people never fire on raiders (we naively like to RP a more cooperative kind of apocalypse, lol) but we also almost never get shot at either. Could be dumb luck, could be nothing, but it definitely feels like the game is running its own karma system.
The great part about the game is that you'll never get the chance to be safe. I've never played another game like that
Really? That's like a base principle of at least 50% of games.
I’d personally say you don’t see it all too often- the kind of feeling you get with being unsafe 24/7 like this is really only in extraction shooters and games like DayZ
And metro and STALKER o_O
Idk man I feel pretty safe in my room in Speranza
90% of people who say this shit are people who were going to betray you in a second and are just mad the smoke screen failed.
Lol
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That certainly sounds like a substantially exaggerated percentage.
Needs to be a canned phrase you can say 😆
Hey Raider, Don’t Shoot
This is my motto. I need this as an HD wallpaper.
Yesterday first time ever after 140hours I have been bamboozled. Blue Gate cold snap - I said friendly on mic. The guy is in the same room with me. Didnt shoot but also didnt say anything.
10 seconds later he came back and change his mind.
Pretty much what I hear every time someone is downed by someone else. Usually "dude" is replaced with a slur a lot.
Dude told my buddy he was friendly….. after unloading a stitcher clip into me. Don’t think he knew we were together.
We survived, got distance, got revenge.
Don’t be like that guy, or if you are, don’t be surprised if it comes back to you.
So did the last 3 guys to shoot me.
I vote yay
My team was running by these teams killing each other and after the teams were finishing of the remaining downs, one of them was saying " dude i said friendly! Why did you shoot." Im still in disbelief that after this long people dont understand that its a pvp game and people can kill you at any point for any reason even if you dont like it or understand.
Normally we would have 3rd party that team but we had other things to do.
The only people in my opinion that are the scum of gaming are the ones that yell slurs when they lose, there is no reason for thay kinf of behavior. I have ran into so many people that are so quick to resort to nasty slurs because they lost to pvp and its usually the so called "friendly" raiders after they got downed.
It blows my mind how often even squads in trios will fire on us first, just to all go down and start asking for a "truce", and now they want to parlay, and it was all a big misunderstanding and "c'mon bro we just loaded in!".
It's hardly just the carebears acting incredulous when they get downed.
so yeah, an appropriate image, for sure.
Im more of a "damn man.." kinda guy
T-shirt!
Simplest way to gauge aggression is to give people space, back away after declaring friendly status.
If they keep trying to find you then that means they want a fight.
I'm way less annoyed at people that go straight into shooting than the rats that act like they're friendly for a bit and then shoot you in the back when you let your guard down. Seriously, what is even fun about that?
Well the trick worked for a few weeks now it’s ok to be friendly you can see 5 players being friendly and the 6th is a
I’m coming from years of Tarkov, Warzone, Battlefield, anything. When I see movement I shoot so it’s hard for me to stop the impulse, I’m highkey an animal. Though I’m trying to get used to a peaceful life.
It’s not that I want to kill, I just go full auto muscle memory
I dont always say friendly and dont always respond. Meeting strangers and not knowing they'll be cool is part of the intensity. Never got into a fight yet but always have my hand on the trigger if they fire.
Lol, nice.
Did they say "friendly" too? No? Then you shoot them.
That’s why I always have my gun out, no matter how many times players plead to put them away. HELL NAH! If you want to extract with me than get the typing 🤣
yes!
I always yell “your mother ain’t s#!t!” as I get shot in the back and KO’d
Sure but it has to be pared with "i didnt say it"
Civilization is below ground.
You saying you are friendly does not grant you immunity
Holy shit I feel this in my bones.
This should be some merch!
I say friendly just because of the damn 5mil. The second I get it. I'm killing everyone on sight. Never again is someone shooting me in the back while claiming to be friendly.
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I was friendly but reddit is going to turn me into a shoot on sight kind of player. Why because I can....
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I fixed it for you
I am generally quite a social player I will always say hello and announce myself to a player unless I see them committing war crimes lol however the other day some console player asked me if I had any shield recharges. I said sure! No problem! And opened my inventory and he sprayed me down with a Stitcher 1. Never again. Absolute scum behavior if you can only kill people like that.
"What did I ever doooo to youuuu" they squeal like it's a personal attack on them. Usually followed by the F word and wishing terminal illness on your family. Lovely bunch.
I've had too many people say "friendly" and then shoot me in the back so unless you turn around and start running away I'm going to blast you
Don’t shoot!
Not responding to “friendly, don’t shoot” isn’t a response. Just fucking say you aren’t friendly. Why the smoke and mirrors bullshit if you want a fight. I’m not gonna start shit if you are just free roaming and looting or working on a mission like I am 99% of the time because I’m not some sweaty ass cringe lord that can play 5+ hours daily.
So I started saying friendly. And if it goes like 5 seconds without a response I switch to “hey man we can be friendly or we can fight I’m just giving us the easy option” and usually they’ll speak up
"Wow, seriously? I'm a free kit."
My personal favorite. Like, okay - I'm a free kit too, but you shot me first. Lmao
My biggest problem with "friendly" is when someone says it to me as I'm in a room obviously looting and they come in and begin to loot the things I haven't gotten to yet.
If you do that, I am 1000% shooting you friendly or not. We can be friendly, but go find your own spot to loot.
nice shit croplord!
also i love that logo
In my experience, it's not always clear who the people involved are when someone yells "friendly", especially in close quarters areas like Stella. Since there are no visual UI cues to distinguish who is speaking besides names, you have to rely purely on the audio/directional cues but that can get mixed up when there are a lot of things happening.
It's hard to explain but I'll give an example. Say there's two people (A and B) entering Stella Medical Bay and A yells friendly. What if there's a stealthy PvPer third party (C) who shows up at the same time. So B yells back "friendly" and puts their guard down, lowering their weapon and flashing their light thinking that it's A approaching, but instead its C who just mows him down instantly. B goes "WTF dude? I thought you said you were friendly" and then the whole third party train begins because they heard gunshots and it devolves into chaos.
That's a very condensed simplified example but in actual raids, lots of things are happening at the same time. Like gunfire, explosions, environmental sounds, doors, etc. Things can get confusing.
If you instantly yell friendly back, you are: A.) Revealing your general position to everyone nearby B.) Giving opportunities to third parties
So if I'm just playing to live and extract, it's in my best interest to not trust anyone I see. Even if they say "friendly", you have to use your own judgment but should never let your guard down. I also don't know if they are asking if I am friendly or if it's another person they saw in the same area, or if it's just a general announcement to the area without any specific targeted person.
Sometimes I will reply "friendly" back, but other times, I won't respond because maybe I have a pretty good kit or lots of loot I don't want to lose. Plus if I'm just not in a friendly mood or bored of PvE loot runs, I'll just shoot on sight. Especially in night raids, where people bring good loot.
Just because you are friendly, doesn’t mean everyone else is. When I am asked if I am friendly, I always say no. It throws people off completely but I just tell them what is up.
“I am not friendly. I will shoot you if I see you again.”
“Wait but I am friendly, we can team up and be chill.”
proceeds to mag dump a Venator IV
When people yell 'Don't Shoot' I just reply "Wasn't planning on it"
Seems to work.
lol
Honestly, I haven't seen a hostile raider in like a week and I play daily. Starting to miss running into hostiles.
A guy shot me last night on Stella and got pissed when I downed him and sent him back to the lobby
Where do i sign
Don't be a wimp in a PvP game
This got an audible chuckle out of me
The shitfest in the comments is just icing on the cake
Lmaooo
Game sucks until they make changes and updates on bots health and damage
The things i've done for sentinel firing cores would make god look away.
I was hiding from a leaper yesterday in a building and this nice man also crawled in through the window to hide in the corner as well. We just stared at each other and he said “kinda bad out there ain’t it” 😂 The interactions with fellow chill people is always amazing
What is a server logo
Can we have a separate server for weaklings so we don't have to listen to their whining?
Please do this.
Any else having Server issues right now ?
this shit got 5k upvotes and 200k views, they gotta do it atp
I love it.
I just don’t talk to anyone when I’m solo running. I mind my own business and do what I gotta do. If you shoot at me, we fight. If you win, you’re just better. If I win, I’m just better. See you next time I see you champ ❤️
I haven’t run into an “unfriendly” in almost a week and a half/two weeks until yesterday,first asshole in two weeks I’ve come across that shot me down while I was looting.