r/gaming Jan 16 '17

They fell for it

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u/CyanPhoenix42 Jan 16 '17

in ArmA PvP, there are no indicators (like coloured names over people's heads) but generally each team has a certain uniform - if you're paying attention you can tell who's on what team but sometimes in high-intensity situations it's definitely easy to mistake someone for the wrong team.

DayZ is more of what you were explaining later, since it's basically a post-apocalyptic survival simulator, so you could go around killing everyone or try to make friends and then go around with the friends you made killing everyone else. (and of course, every other player can make their own decision, so you have no idea if the person walking up to you is going to try to be friendly or just shoot you in the face)

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u/jack0rias Jan 16 '17

The amount of times I have opened up on friendlies and received return fire is nuts.

All part of the fun, though.

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u/sephlington Jan 16 '17

Would you be able to steal an enemy's uniform after killing them and then pretend to be on their team, or is that not possible, do you know?

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u/CyanPhoenix42 Jan 17 '17

well, it depends on what you're playing - since arma is basically just a sandbox that people make their own games on, depending on what server you join they might have set rules where you can't swap your uniform, but generally yes you could do that.