ArmSTALKER: Walk in the Dark

I join the server. My character moves strangely, it is a new profile. I walk over to a campfire made outside of the aging brick building that the shopkeepers have turned into a makeshift market in the zone... 4-5 characters are all crouched around the campfire, I assume they are NPCs, I sit down with them and begin configuring my controls.... They are not NPCs. 5-10 minutes later I finish my rebinding, I stand up, dust myself off, and head into the market to do some shopping, and they all stood up... Join