official pve server, NPC with firearms.

[may_]

Please fix NPC with firearms on the official PVE server, you can't hear them when they approach and shoot so there is no way to do anything, and they even kill me through walls when I am in the house.

[Chill Canuk]

Yeah, getting insta-killed with no warning or way to defend yourself would be quite annoying to the point of game breaking. The game is still in early access though so you'll have to wait until 1.1 or 1.5 until the game is released and playable. If only they had a player base to test all this out before releasing 1.0.
Negativity aside, I have heard some tactics to avoid/reduce this. Wear headphones, you can hear direction and footsteps sound different then random puppets. Approach POI's and towns like your gonna die. Store the good stuff at base and fast in and outs without looting the whole place. Wear a bullet proof vest, apparently crucial this update. Never run in POI's/towns. Walk/crouch to observe and hear better. Assume a NPC is going to spawn in directly behind or in front of you at any moment. Trying to enjoy a beer while playing? Best not. By the time you get back from the bathroom a puppet has spawned in, sniffed you out in your 3rd floor room by yourself and killed you. Good thing I put negativity aside.

[Sr. Morajsakom]

You can craft a bulletproof vest, much easier than finding / buying one. The other day i survived an NPC who shot me 4 times with SDASS shotgun, my vest barely held and my health was recoverable, although that was with a military vest.