u/Forsaken-Ease-9382

This is meant mostly in jest, don’t get too serious.

So I suck at gun battles usually although I find a rare win here or there. I played shootout yesterday and surprised myself with 6 kills to 2 deaths.

It’s bad enough to get killed during an encounter by anyone but it seems that there are Vigor bullies. They are armed to the teeth and hunt me down relentlessly and without pity. Some will ping me with trackers over and over until they find me. Usually they’ll see me seemingly before I see them and either one shot me or just start coming right after me. Even when I hear them or see them they move constantly and aim perfectly. I often don’t even get off a shot.

Last night at Oen I spawned on that peninsula and immediately made my way to the house. A bully in the house made his way right at me! I found a boulder and got behind it but the bully was constantly moving and shooting. I literally was sprinting to keep that boulder in between us, I was hit a few times but then I heard him reloading so I took a potshot and the bully went down with the luckiest of head shots. I looted him and got a gold plated bugle and virtually every consumable imaginable in multiple amounts. Dude was stocked! My first thought was get to the exit as I got a lot of loot. Then there was some pride as he might be watching and wondering how a 20-some kill guy with a AK-M killed him. So I worked my way up the causeway and I hear someone. Then I’m getting shot by what seems like 2 people. Bullies? Not sure but they’re pressing. So I take off further down the causeway and get cover. Hopefully he didn’t see me or won’t pursue. Of course he does and I’m head shotted soon. Oh well, at least I got one of them.

I’m really bad. Played three encounters last night.

First one I was moving along pretty well, grabbed the unexploded missile and some other things. Decided to make a run at the airdrop. Grabbed it and I thought I did the puzzle on time but it exploded and I was near death. Before I could heal, some guy starts shooting at me from behind so I run. He hits me and I’m dead, but I watched him and he looks like he’d never played the game before. He actually had four kills and was listed as threat, but didn’t exit the map and died to the radiation. Looks like he was lost.

Second one I moved towards a building I could hear somebody moving inside. I waited by a window and shot at him with a shotgun but completely missed so I took off and he followed me. Of course we had a little shootout. I got injured. I kept running and he tracked me down to another building where I had the drop on him but again I completely missed and he killed me with the pistol. It was embarrassing.

Third one I was in another building and I hear somebody coming in. I had a machine gun and I shot him up really good. He exited the room, but then came back in at me and I finished him. Then I went to search him and realized he had no weapon or any equipment whatsoever. I killed an unarmed man, barely.

But I still had a lot of fun so that that’s the point right?

Riding the train in France and the lady sitting next to me said her English wasn’t good and my French is zero so I thought we couldn’t communicate. Then I noticed she was writing in Spanish on her laptop so I asked her if she speaks Spanish (turns out she’s from Argentina). We began an hour long conversation, she practiced her English and I practiced my Spanish. It was fun and she told me my Spanish was really good.

I’m L4 in DS and I have been doing crosstalk for a while now and began practicing talking on italki once a week too now for a couple of months