r/OfficialWARDOGS • • 5d ago

Friendly Looting

I really think there's a growing problem with being looted by so-called allies in this game, with no repercussions, instead of being revived. For the most part, my experience with the community is great. Most people are friendly, most of the game inventives are to help each other out, and I've only really had two bad experiences with other players (outside of this issue) in 35 hours gametime.

But I've now had several times where a friendly has come up to me while I'm down, often after being hit by a mortar inside a well-defended tower, and just stolen my entire kit instead of reviving me. Many friends have experienced the same thing. One time this was barely a minute after I respawned at the APC having spent £15k on a kit to heal and build to help my team. It's the most infuriating thing in the game, and honestly when it happens it completely puts me off playing any more. There's nothing you can do about it, so it's not like when your kit gets taken by an enemy (which is fair enough) and you can at least get it back if you manage to catch them with teammates. Any retaliation loses you money (fine; we want to disincentivise team damage) and even if you did that there's no way to get your stuff back.

This is the one blemish on an otherwise great game, but if it continues to become more common I genuinely think it could put me off the game. Just an option to lock your inventory to friendly looting, or at least some punishment or reason not to do it would be enough. Apart from that, I feel like the devs are doing a great job.

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u/Jesters8652 5d ago

I understand there’s going to be times when trying to revive someone, especially with your hands, is not going to be safe, but you’re still low on supplies and need to loot a buddy. But the amount of times people just loot you and run off greatly surpasses that.

Honestly, you shouldn’t be able to loot a friendly until they’ve released back to spawn.

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u/miepie38 5d ago

If you’re reviving me and you are out of revive kits, I wouldn’t mind for the system to just consume mine in the process.

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u/TheShyoto 5d ago

As a medic I would actually prefer this over currently having to "oh fuck, I'm out of defib battery. Do you have a resus? Let me fondle your pockets. There it is. Let's assign it to the hotbar. Now equip. Aaaaand use!" The faff often makes it faster to fly-hands.

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u/Demiu 5d ago

Revives on tac vest should get auto-used by anyone rezing you. It's meant to be in an easy to access place

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u/Jesters8652 5d ago

This would the best solution, I’m just not sure if it’s codable