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Dark zone is all politics, basically "the only reason we haven't killed eachother yet is because it would be an inconvenience for both of us." It reminds me of the wilderness in the good old days. Awesome end game idea with a lot of potential in the future.

Two Stories for ya: 1. There I was, solo in the Dark Zone. Chilling. Found a named elite and a 5 other players helped out. Me and another guy were solo, and there was a group of 4. Then I here them say "Yo, should we do it?" Then bam, Rogue Agents had appeared and killed the other solo player. I then hid and tried to come from behind them. I failed. Luckily I made it out alive by kiting them into some AI which they decided they would give up on. I went back and found them, whilst they were distracted by other AI. I pulled out my sniper, pulsed, and BAM. One down. The guy who they killed first came back and distracted them from one side and I from the other. They were cornered. Tons of grenades were thrown. Another one down. Then I ran in with my Midas, used Tactical Link, and me and the other guy totally annihilated the last one. His dying words were "Oh shit, they got us!" Once he died, I saw it. The beautiful golden light. He dropped his high end pistol, which I extracted. Win. 2. In a group of 4 with some friends and these guys killed Friend #1. I had some Superior gear on me that I REALLY wanted, so myself and Friends #2 and #3 plead with #1 to not go rogue and get his stuff back(because their rogue had gone away). He says "leave the party, it's gonna happen." We say "you leave the party, you selfish bastard. Friend #2 and I had just reached Rank 30 so going Rogue seemed like a REALLY bad idea. Anyways, Friend #1 decided to kill him. We go rogue, a team of 4 shows up and we killed, THEM ALL. At this point, we were DZ03, with a Manhunt on us, not very fun. So after that there was a big panic and so, we ran north. All the way to DZ06. With players, server-wide, on our asses. By this point I was Rank 31 and Friend #2 had just gotten 30, really not wanting to lose it because Friend #1 decided he wanted to go Rogue. So we find an extract on top of a building in DZ06, and we get up there, ASSTON of LMB. We quickly ran by all of them and held up on the rooftop where there were only 2 ways in; we were cornered. This no longer became about getting the gear extracted safely, this was about survival. We camp up there, whilst constantly under fire. Finally, our Manhunt timers runs out, all but Friend #2, who had just gotten to 30. The new mission, protect him at all costs. We ended getting ANOTHER manhunt on us. Most of the players just decided it required too much effort the continue fighting us and dying. Then the LMB finally respawned and 6 players rushed at us. We were in a pinch, with only 30 seconds left on our second consecutive Manhunt timer. We all ordered Friend #2 to escape down the rope quickly, and he survived. Friend #1 and #3 and I stayed up there. Friend #3 risked his life to save Friend #1 and was demoted back to Rank 35, and I got an error code so I was kicked from the game. I came back, I had 45 seconds on the clock and no one was around and Friend #1 had survived. I too survived. Happy ending for all of us. So you could say, I am most definitely enjoying the Dark Zone.

It's a good base. But needs some improvement. We need some story missions or encounters inside the zone. give us more backround about the DZ and people inside it. Maybe include a whole new faction that exists only in the DZ. Give rogue players a bit more exp for surviving. maybe increase their scavenging for a small period of time. Introduce public events that entice pvp. Best way to encourage more pvp without making it a pvp focused area or shove it down on people who don't want it. 2 ideas that come to mind are uncontaminated drops that refill supplies and also have gear worth fighting over. Best part is you'd be able to use it on the spot rather then having to extract. Second being a special enemy that gets let loose in a random DZ section. game notifies players which section they are in and a hunt ensues. this special enemy will have a higher drop rate for high end gear. and more phoenix credits then average. seeing as how only one person could pick these things however people would fight eachother over the drops.

Those that are lvl 30, please tell me dark zone isnt the only pvp

Had a bag full of purples and a classic ma1 sniper eich i really wanted. Died once i was able to pick it up again. I knew there were people in the building. Tryed to shoot a enemy turned rogue because somebody walked into my fireline. Then i got lucky and was able to run away and never looked back. My heart almost failed.

Pretty cool if you have friends, suicide if you are alone.

The dark zone sucks .. Everyone waits at drop point to shoot everyone and take there loot .. Corny ass hell

Had my first high end drop today (stamina mod). I Matched with randoms and we were in the level 32 enemy area at the top. I insisted we moved down to the lower level to extract but no they wanted to extract against level 32. So yeah we died and some random out of nowhere picked up my loot and that was that. It's not a nice experience.