lightingbird said:
Why on earth would you be such a wimp to expect a safety net in a multiplayer game? Personally, I say yes. I expect to get jumped and will deal with it. It makes it more fun.
Because if they want to deathmatch, then go join a death-match game.
I use Free-roam to farm challenges so that I can level up. I'd rather just do that, then have to worry about a group of guys riding in and shooting me when I'm just about to finally get that last deer or something I need to kill. If you just want to kill people, there are
many modes for that.
But these guys aren't doing it to just 'get some kills', they are doing it to cheese people off. They go out, get the best guns right away from around the map (Easy to find, too), and then go hunt everyone else
just to annoy them. Then the problem isn't that they are killing people in Free Roam, then the problem is that they are dicks. They aren't trying to level up (Since killing players in Free Roam gets you next to no XP compared to the hide-out challenges), they aren't trying to complete challenges...they are just trying to be dicks.
The reason, by the way, that I don't start a private room, is because I've actually met some normal people on Free Roam. I ran into this one guy who was in the middle of a hide-out challenge, and I helped him out. The two of us cleared it in no time, we both got XP, and we parted. And we both got a pile of XP!
I've also been in the middle of a hide-out challenge, and some guy ran up behind me, shot me in the back, and ran off. What was the point? I was fighting off NPCs, clearing a hide-out, and he just shot me in the back. He didn't get anything for it (If he helped me, he would have got a bunch of XP), so what other reason could there be? He just wanted to be a dick.
And that's annoying.