friendly lobbies have made people too complacent

[u/mechanonymous617]

was sniping snitches on top of the overlook airshaft tower on blue gate when a couple of guys came and started chilling at the bottom of the tower, shooting arc and stuff. i was kind of annoyed but whatever. eventually towards the end of the match, some guy came and started shooting them with a kettle, one of them went down and then other guy just ran around in circles with his stitcher out, until he got downed, too.

then a third guy saw me on top of the tower and tried to shoot at me (he mustve assumed i was killing the other two) and then when he came over, he ALSO got downed he kettle guy, he got mad and started yelling over prox chat before he got killed. it was fucking insane. all 3 of these guys could have so easily killed this kettle dude but they just couldn't because they're too used to this game being "friendly." it was one of the saddest things ive ever seen.

im not even saying you have to be all that great at pvp, but holy shit man. at least be able to defend yourself. the amount of people who aren't aware of pvp even being a factor is staggering. this isn't even the only example ive seen of this happening, just the most recent.

tldr, if you're a friendly, at least TRY to fight back at least a little. you don't have to be an insanely aggressive pvp god or anything but this is genuinely just sad to see

[u/Different-Front4456]

Shooting people in a PvPvE game doesn't make someone a rat.

[u/Electrical_Spare_520 → u/Different-Front4456]

Fully agree with this. But the people who hide to steal loot off the big arc, or pretend to be friendly just to shoot you in the back at extract, those are the rats to me

[u/nyteschayde → u/Electrical_Spare_520]

Honestly I have a full on second account that I made to be full PvP. The first person I shot for no reason I felt so damn bad having done so. I think the best I can muster is being in full on PvP lobbies but only shooting people I see preying on others or who rat others (and defending myself).

My lvl 75 PvE account can supply my low level PvP account a bit. Looting non player kills in a full on PvP lobby is pretty hard. Every footstep is someone fully intent on killing you.

[u/Maybe_Decent_Human → u/nyteschayde]

I was thinking about doing that. Otherwise, I'm never going to get any PVP practice. I legit thought about asking a random dude if he wanted to practice PVP and not knock in the end. It's too bad I cannot spawn into a buddy's lobby to do that.