After a couple of years away I installed the game again yesterday and in one session I was attacked by a zombie or burn scarred player who was bullet proof, so I just logged off. I was attacked by another zombie/burned character today. I am leveled up in most trades and just got back in to relax and take SSs and video but have made a trade run and some money fishing. It does suck that someone attacks you out of nowhere, does not show up like regular players do, and cannot be hurt in any way.
I think I'll keep on playing and at the first site of explosions and such, or having a zombie grab me (You do not see them, they just appear) I'll immediately hit the ESC key then online, and join another server.
One thing I'd forgotten about was to immediately hit the L key followed by players in the menu and joining another server if there were players with really high experience points, or quite a few players with higher points than me (If they are not modders, many of them want a challenge of fighting someone with a decent amount of points, but lower than they have) or if there are many players period.
I mainly came back to the game to see it in ultra settings with my new GPU as I had them turned down quite a bit before. Sadly there are cheaters, and I do not get cheating at all, if I don't earn something, I don't want it.
To me going form player to player killing them when they have zero chance of hurting me would be so boring, I can understand buying gold bars to speed things along a little at first, but cannot imagine just not playing the game and creating my own life in it.
Oh well, lol.