I was playing Island on Saturday, trying to do the Jiri shipyard Satellite dish quest, and I continually got the boathouse/Labs spawns, and before I could even get down to shipyard, I'd get owned by some duo/trio running OP kit.
Massively infuriated, I decided I'd do some ST6 sh*t and run a night op. I had somehow managed to find a ronin and some PVS15s in raid that I was saving in the backroom for my cool guy kits, so I threw that on, suppressed MP5 and FN. I loaded up a 0100-0200 deployment. Pitch-ass black....like, literally cannot even see my own hands. Perfect.
I make it to the guard tower just outside of shipyard and could have gone around, but I'm a man on a mission and I needed the direct route. Two guards, one patrols the road, and one (for some stupid reason) goes up and down the tower stairs. I head tapped the road guard as he passes me by, wait to see if the tower guard reacts- nothing. I wait until the guard makes his way down the tower, and I advance smooth AF towards the 5-ton truck with the box stack in front of it, keeping it between me and him. I'm about 15 feet from the truck, literally crouch-walking to stay quiet, and I start getting shot. For a second, I think it's a player, but quickly realize from the sound and cadence of the shots, it's the tower guard FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN TRUCK, with his SKS. I quickly sprint to grab cover behind the boxes and stay crouched as he is reloading. At this point I am like 20% torso(JPC2), so I quickly pop up to see where he is and go straight back down. Just as I'm about to pop to the right to take him out, he literally starts shooting THROUGH THE BOXES and I'm dead. I cannot believe for one second this is what the devs had in mind, but I seriously contemplated uninstalling the game right there. 🤦♂️