How are solo players supposed to play?

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So, I started playing this game, built a small base, far away from civilisation to have lower chances to be raided, took me one week of farming a bunker to get enough padlocks as one lock needs 15 pieces. My base has only one entrance (cave base) and I've put 5 doors with max locks + lock protection only for my base to be raided while I was sleeping in few hours. Went to sleep 8 AM woke up 1PM logged and all was gone.
The 2 closest shops to me are camped by 2 chinese teams (as far as angry people on global chat are saying) killing everyone trying to get to shops, there's landmines allover outside shops, seems like they abuse the car limit and they keep all cars so no one else can have cars (also as far as people are saying on global chat), motorcycles are not spawning for people to use (as far as I know) nor bicycles.
So my question is:
What is there left for me to do? I love the game but I don't really know what to do now as solo player...
Would be awesome with a chance to spawn bicycles or dirtbikes as well so solo players can actually rush to a shop and have a lower chance to be ganked by campers in my opinion.

[Red River]

PvE is how

[CrankyOldMan]

Try a server that has pve areas that protect bases and then have pvp areas for that part of the game play.
They are called 1 of 2 ways pvpve or pvevp the prefix is their main like pvevp is more pve than pvp.
Or just play on a pve server.
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Another way is to not build a base but bury chests.
I have read a lot of players in these forums and on the discord about issues with chests atm so I am not sure.
We have not had any issues on our server like those being reported.

[X]

Originally posted by CrankyOldMan:

Try a server that has pve areas that protect bases and then have pvp areas for that part of the game play.
They are called 1 of 2 ways pvpve or pvevp the prefix is their main like pvevp is more pve than pvp.
Or just play on a pve server.
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Another way is to not build a base but bury chests.
I have read a lot of players in these forums and on the discord about issues with chests atm so I am not sure.
We have not had any issues on our server like those being reported.

PvPvE sounds great, is there any official server like that? I like the idea of being able to fight people but not get razed from the server in a couple hours

[Esteys]

community server will always be the way to go in those kind of games, official server are most of the time a toxic place where cheater can ruin the fun of other without ever being ban, community sever on the other hand has a more chill player base with admin and other fluff like event and proper discord to find other player and so on.

[CrankyOldMan]

The official servers are pvp or pve only there is no mix of the two game play styles.
There is a huge variety of private servers.
You can search for them and actually have various ways to sort through them.
I go for low ping and just read through them.

[FPStewy]

Originally posted by Anonymous:

So, I started playing this game, Went to sleep 8 AM woke up 1PM logged and all was gone.

Welcome to the club, the game is heavily unbalanced when it comes to this and no amount of huffing and puffing seems to make any difference.

The community has complained about this for years. Other games have some sort of protection, like flag or base protection timers where you can only be raided in a 4hr period, or you can't get raided without a dog tag ect...

Let's just say that in 2023 no PvP game is safe from "toxic issues" other games you go in, you live and die rinse and repeat but this game is different it's the perfect frustration for that. You can't spend weeks or months building a base and then poof gone. That's why most PvP servers have 10X loot, max cars and such.

I have a %25 PvP damage server with some PvE Zones with no base damage if you want in those zones, no mines or explosives and anyone that plays has to be on discord with a public Steam profile ect. or gets banned. That discourages most but sorry that's where were at these days in the gaming world.

[X]

Originally posted by CrankyOldMan:

The official servers are pvp or pve only there is no mix of the two game play styles.
There is a huge variety of private servers.
You can search for them and actually have various ways to sort through them.
I go for low ping and just read through them.

Thank you!

[X]

Originally posted by FPStewy:

Originally posted by Anonymous:

So, I started playing this game, Went to sleep 8 AM woke up 1PM logged and all was gone.

Welcome to the club, the game is heavily unbalanced when it comes to this and no amount of huffing and puffing seems to make any difference.

The community has complained about this for years. Other games have some sort of protection, like flag or base protection timers where you can only be raided in a 4hr period, or you can't get raided without a dog tag ect...

Let's just say that in 2023 no PvP game is safe from "toxic issues" other games you go in, you live and die rinse and repeat but this game is different it's the perfect frustration for that. You can't spend weeks or months building a base and then poof gone. That's why most PvP servers have 10X loot, max cars and such.

I have a %25 PvP damage server with some PvE Zones with no base damage if you want in those zones, no mines or explosives and anyone that plays has to be on discord with a public Steam profile ect. or gets banned. That discourages most but sorry that's where were at these days in the gaming world.

yeah it's quite sad as I love this game, if there would be a way not to be removed from the server in a couple of hours no matter how much work you put into your base would be really nice but if you say people are complaining for years and nothing was done then It's just sad, so much potential in the game with some pvpve official servers.
My brother's words when I asked him to play with me SCUM: "why? so I can farm for other people?"
I guess that's the smarter mentality when it come to full pvp servers....

[X]

Originally posted by Esteys:

community server will always be the way to go in those kind of games, official server are most of the time a toxic place where cheater can ruin the fun of other without ever being ban, community sever on the other hand has a more chill player base with admin and other fluff like event and proper discord to find other player and so on.

yeah, I agree
The devs have been very helpful though, playing on official server and had issues there, they came on the server and fixed my issue and whenever I had some questions they did answer and helped out so I'm very satisfied with them, I just wish they did some changes with pvp servers so you don't get erased from the server in just a couple of hours since we need at least 6 hours of sleep...

[xKiCkx]

Hey there OP, as a solo player you will want to keep low-key on the map, somewhere remote once you do decide to build a base, be aware tho those big teams do scout the map in search of bases.

[InDaZone]

Originally posted by Anonymous:

So, I started playing this game, built a small base, far away from civilisation to have lower chances to be raided, took me one week of farming a bunker to get enough padlocks as one lock needs 15 pieces. My base has only one entrance (cave base) and I've put 5 doors with max locks + lock protection only for my base to be raided while I was sleeping in few hours. Went to sleep 8 AM woke up 1PM logged and all was gone.
The 2 closest shops to me are camped by 2 chinese teams (as far as angry people on global chat are saying) killing everyone trying to get to shops, there's landmines allover outside shops, seems like they abuse the car limit and they keep all cars so no one else can have cars (also as far as people are saying on global chat), motorcycles are not spawning for people to use (as far as I know) nor bicycles.
So my question is:
What is there left for me to do? I love the game but I don't really know what to do now as solo player...
Would be awesome with a chance to spawn bicycles or dirtbikes as well so solo players can actually rush to a shop and have a lower chance to be ganked by campers in my opinion.

Wait for BCU locks and try again. BCU locks may actually save gameplay for solo players depending on how the mechanic is implemented.

If you do build a base do not store anything you care about in it. I’ve been raided almost everyday even though there’s hardly anything in the base. Yesterday the base was raided twice. These people are idiots. Like, maybe wait for someone to put loot inside a base before you break in? It’s also amazing how desperate people are to steal vehicles even though you can buy them at the trader. If you stick a vehicle in a base someone will break in within a couple days.

[Deathwhisper]

Please do not advertise Servers in Generel Forum. Feel free to point to our Group/Server Recruitment Sub Forum to show players where to look for Private Servers they can play on. :)

[Famous]

Its not like im telling about 1 specific server, mentioning several low loot servers, so it isnt an advertisement, its an attempt to point players somewhere cheating and alt exploitation is far less. The game is so epic when its fair play. Kinda surprised by this.

[Famous]

Originally posted by InDaZone:

Originally posted by Anonymous:

So, I started playing this game, built a small base, far away from civilisation to have lower chances to be raided, took me one week of farming a bunker to get enough padlocks as one lock needs 15 pieces. My base has only one entrance (cave base) and I've put 5 doors with max locks + lock protection only for my base to be raided while I was sleeping in few hours. Went to sleep 8 AM woke up 1PM logged and all was gone.
The 2 closest shops to me are camped by 2 chinese teams (as far as angry people on global chat are saying) killing everyone trying to get to shops, there's landmines allover outside shops, seems like they abuse the car limit and they keep all cars so no one else can have cars (also as far as people are saying on global chat), motorcycles are not spawning for people to use (as far as I know) nor bicycles.
So my question is:
What is there left for me to do? I love the game but I don't really know what to do now as solo player...
Would be awesome with a chance to spawn bicycles or dirtbikes as well so solo players can actually rush to a shop and have a lower chance to be ganked by campers in my opinion.

Wait for BCU locks and try again. BCU locks may actually save gameplay for solo players depending on how the mechanic is implemented.

If you do build a base do not store anything you care about in it. I’ve been raided almost everyday even though there’s hardly anything in the base. Yesterday the base was raided twice. These people are idiots. Like, maybe wait for someone to put loot inside a base before you break in? It’s also amazing how desperate people are to steal vehicles even though you can buy them at the trader. If you stick a vehicle in a base someone will break in within a couple days.

Yeah its the same reason why on official servers my well hidden cars last a few days before being stolen, vs on a private server with admins, my cars hidden in the same spots have not been stolen once, not once.

Officials are full of cheaters

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Originally posted by xKiCkx:

Hey there OP, as a solo player you will want to keep low-key on the map, somewhere remote once you do decide to build a base, be aware tho those big teams do scout the map in search of bases.

That is basically what I've done, I never chat on global chat, I don't know anyone on the server, built my base in a cave so it's unseen by randoms spawning from the sky. On top of that, I know where the big groups are, which zones, based on them arguing on global chat and went the opposite side of the map, yet it only took 2 days after finishing to be raided and they even took the boxes with them, all small boxes gone all big boxes empty. I almost feel like they do that just to make people quit not to loot something good because about 70% of my loot was materials, rubber, metal, nails, bolts etc.
I understand them taking all weapons and bullets but to take everything?! Solo players have no chance to play pvp servers as we need to sleep as well sometimes and no one raids online, always offline...