Fei-Hung said:
Neodegenerate said:
That's exactly it, the DZ is the pvp area of the game.
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The guys I usually play with (very good friends of mine) love killing each other. Whether it's LC ToO, Gauntlet or Helldivers, they always end up starting a play fight that results in everyone dying. I think that's what put me off the most lol
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If you're in the same group, you can't kill each other.
What you really have to watch out for in the DZ are people baiting you into attacking, which then makes you a rogue agent, and makes everyone want to kill you for the loot you may be carrying and the experience you get for killing rogue agents.
You can tell when an agent is carrying loot in the DZ because they have a big bright bag hanging from their backpack. Loot in the DZ is contaminated with the virus so before you can use it in the rest of the game, you have to call in a chopper at designated extraction zones to have it removed. So you go to these zones and call one in, that's when the real tension begins. You see NPC enemies running around, human agents, some of them have the bright bags on their backs so you know they are there to try and get their goods out, others you see no bags so it's a guessing game of whether they are there to help, or to steal.
The most common tactic by trolls now is to wait until there is about 20 seconds before the chopper arrives, then kill you, then they have a chopper right there so they can extract your stuff. You'll respawn close enough to the extraction zone to meet up with them before they lose their rogue status most likely, but your shit is gone.
Tonight my brother and I rolled up on an extraction zone both needing to extract. We called in the chopper and waited. You always get a rush of other agents coming, and there are always AI enemies who spawn at the extraction zones. Well, these three guys arrive, none of them have bags on their backs, they're almost guaranteed to be there to kill people with loot and steal it. But to our surprise, they help take out the AI bots and my brother and I extract. But these three other guys come in, and one of the original other three who had helped us out, throws out this stun grenade and deafens and blinds all three of the new guys. Well, they assume they are under attack and fire at the grenade thrower. They all three go rogue. They kill the guy who threw a grenade at them but then they are all killed by the remaining 4 of us. My brother grabs some loot one of them dropped and he extracts two bags on one chopper. So this guy literally hit three people with a grenade that slows, stuns, and blinds them, but he did not go rogue by doing that because it actually does no damage. But they went rogue because they fired back with bullets.
About 30 minutes later we are back at the same extraction and we have called in another extract. One guy with no bag is staying behind us, we know what is coming. The rope comes down to attach your loot, the same three guys who had died earlier all start firing on us. My stuff got attached before I died, my brothers did not. One of them kills him, picks his loot up, and extracts it. We respawn, and kill all three of them. He lost some loot but got a lot of money and DZ XP for killing three rogue agents.
It's an extremely unique atmosphere and something that really sets is apart from something like Destiny. You shouldn't be afraid of the DZ. Plus it's the easiest place to get good loot. Just gotta get it extracted!
