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Sorry? Chernarus is a former soviet communist satellite state. It is not surprising that a lot of old russian tech is there. Since it was produced until 1972, when it was replaced by the UAZ-469, it wouldn't be too unrealistic that some of those vehicles made it into civilian hands. Heck, they even sell russian T-72s and BRDM-2s over the internet for a couple of 10k bucks.

I'd rather like to see those 2 vehicles: GAZ-69 (produced from 1953-1972) and the ZIS-5 Truck (produced from 1394-1955 in different variants, ca. 1 million produced). GAZ-69 Specs: 8 Seats (including Driver) Top Speed: 90kph (56mph) Length: 3.85m Width: 1.85m Height: 2.03m ZIS-5 Specs: 12 Seats (guesstimation) Top Speed: 60 or 70kph (37-43mph) Length: 6.06m Width: 2.24m Height: 2.16m Those 2 are more likely to appear in Chernarus than british trucks.

on public hive ur humanity gains +150 (for heros and bandits) every 10-20 minutes. currently mines at -15k, tho it used to be +15k before my aim in ArmA2 got a serious improvement.

and without a proper scope it's impossible to see ANYTHING beyond 1000m. currently it's already rarely the case you can see further than 1km, the fog will limit ur view range to mostly around 700-800m (in case of bad weather 400-500m) if u get hit by a sniper rifle, you either ran over the open field or ran straight towards him OR just met a good shooter. 2 out of 3 you can prevent, and if you are smart you can also mostly prevent no.3 - because a good shooter will wait for a clean shot.

same problem. doesn't help at all. i suggest playing unofficial maps until they come up with a fix. you know, the basic changes like change of Czech BP, Czech Vestpouch, new models for different mags, barrel roll etc. are also included on some mod servers.

Apart from the fact that a tank has tracks instead of wheels.. where d'you wanna get tank-tracks from? the only for a civilian repairable "tanks" are APCs like the LAV-25. But i think putting a DShKM or PK-Machine Gun on a Ural would be close to OP already. Ural takes a lot of hits before it's going down (in fact, it takes around 12-13 bullets out of a KSVK, which uses 12.7x108 cartridges, therefore even more powerful than the .50 BMG or the 12.7x99 NATO, to destroy a Ural only hitting it's engine block)

Threw a smoke grenade in a sheet-warehouse (the one with the blue doors, industrial med value building i believe), building collapsed, killing the guy inside. Remember: Smoke Grenades, while dealing no actual damage to players, tend to seriously damage buildings, and randomly, cause buildings to collapse.

I'm not the kind of guy that thinks everyone's friendly in DayZ, in fact, i am most of the time doing KoS-style, whenever i play "friendly" for once, i end up getting shot in the back so yeah .. apart from that .. i always get my basic loot (Enfield, AKs, M16A2, M4A1 etc.) from low value military or residential / industrial / farm buildings in smaller towns (exception Balota Airstrip, where most of the time nobody's near, and Chernogorsk, where you can avoid being sniped by some douche before you get a weapon that makes u competitive against his) believe it or not, i've been killed only twice by M107s / AS50s during my play time and got my hands on those weapons often enough, and none of those deaths were on Chernarus (1x Taviana and 1x Isladuala) i don't really mind if they keep the M107 / AS50 in the game, as long as they add the KSVK (zeroing is for people who can't aim)

No only a cannibal as their flesh is most likely not infected. While you would turn into a zombie if you eat zombie flesh. you could add kinda "Book of Eli"-Cannibal-Syndrome. As you eat more and more human flesh, your body tends to overreact on anything - starts freezing / sweating earlier, gets hungry a lot earlier and "normal" food like beans or pasta will not restore all of your "hunger-level", only human flesh is able to do it, needs to drink more often etc. also, to identify wether someone is a Cannibal or not as random player, you could enforce others to lower their gun and stand still - they would be shivering all over the place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUitOC6I3gw 1:47-1:50 and 2:39-2:46

Since we are thinking in outside-ArmA2 limitations, why not add a new 7.62mm sniper rifle? I'm talking about the "HK G3 DMR", sniper version of the G3. Able to hit targets up to 1100 meters, featuring a x3 and a x12 scope-option and a 20 round mag. it's semi auto. it has probably a higher recoil than the DMR. it's firing a 7.62x51mm cartridge (same as the FN FAL, the M14 AIM and the DMR). therefore it should deal around 8,000 blood damage. the "normal" G3 weights 4.38kg unloaded, due to the rather big scope the G3 DMR should be around 5kg weight unloaded, making it slightly heavier than the M14 AIM / DMR. also, since the G3 has been developed in 1950, and produced since 1958 up until today, it makes more sense being found in-game than the modern G36 versions. not to mention the fact that countries like Iran produce the G3 in unknown numbers and export them, it is actually quite possible (as background story) the G3 has been delivered to the rebels in Chernarus aswell. Also i was thinking about adding the GOL Sniper Magnum. Also features a 7.62x51mm Cartridge, weights 6kg and features a 5-round-magazine. It's a bolt-action rifle and the producer (German Gol-Matic GmbH) claims that the gun is incredibly accurate up to 1500m. it is also able to fire .300 Winchester Magnum Ammunition (Lee Enfield ammo) and .338 Lapua Magnum Ammo (L115A2 / A3 ammo). Therefore i suggest the weapon itself is very, very rare, as you can find ammunition for it anywhere (Lee Enfield ammo compatible ftw!)

I don't think the russians gave / give the CDF in Harvest Red their KVSKs. Only SVDs. But let's revise the Harvest Red Campaign a bit (anyone who played it knows about this little story): 1. US troops "invade" Chernarus due to a UN-resolution. Makes it possible some M107s, the US Army designation of the Barrett .50 cal, have been active in Chernarus. 2. After a terror attack on the Red Square in Moscow, at first the US/CDF-forces-friendly NAPA (some militia force hanging around near Novy Sobor / Gorka) are blamed. 3. UN removes the peace-keeping resolution from the US, and hands it over to Russia. "No US Soldier will be within 50 miles of Chernarus after 5:00pm the next day". Russia moves into Chernarus, holding NW Airfield and the territory north and west of it. Makes it possible that some KVSKs have been active in Chernarus, also makes it possible that some M107s have been "lost" / "forgotten" in the 2 Resupply Trucks at the FOB Manhattan, after it gets raided by Chedaki Forces (the evil guys in Harvest Red). 4 [...] So both, the M107 and the KVSK, have some reason to be found in Chernarus. Not the AS50 tho, no british soldiers were in charge in Chernarus, afterall. And i have to correct myself, the scope of the KSVK is able to take out targets up to 1100m accurately (the last "mildot" is for 1100m).

In my opinion the M107 / AS50 really does not fit into the "Post-Apocalypse" DayZ. Not to mention it's oneshot capability. I don't agree with simply deleting those one-shot sniper rifles, but instead replace them with something more "balanced", especially on the range / zeroing aspect. It's not like there is only the M107 / AS50 anti-material sniper rifles in the game, I tried the KVSK sniper rifle a few times in the Armory, and came to the solution this would fit more into DayZ rather than the Semi-Auto M107 / AS50. First, a few facts on the KVSK: - it's a russian sniper rifle that uses a 12.7mm x 107mm cartridge, the only gun so far i know that uses this ammunition. - it's a bolt-action, 5 round-magazine rifle - it has no zeroing but the same scope the SVD uses Differences between the M107 / AS50 and the KVSK: - the KVSK is limited to a scope-effective range of 800m, everything beyond that range is estimation - due to the fact it has no zeroing, it aquires knowledge of how the scope behaves for different ranges, making it practically useless for less-experienced snipers - it's ammo is really rare, since, other than the AS50 or the M107, it's ammunition cannot be found in any other places than heli-crashes and maybe a very small chance of finding it's ammunition in Barracks - it's hearing-range should be between the AS50's and the M107's. it would be a reasonable compromise between the current situation and the "no one-shot sniper rifles at all" point of view. i am curious of what other people think of it.

DayZ Taviana: Random VW drives past my Ural. I follow him (wasn't actually thinking I would get him), he tries to "ambush" me in the next village. I drive past him, stop. He tries to block me. I put the pedal to the medal, push him thru an open field, accidentally manage to drive on his roof. Reverse a bit, push him into a forest into the first massive oak. Well, the tree didn't survive. push him into the next tree, that one didn't survive aswell. Push him into a house at the edge of Sabina, his car starts burning (he got out shortly before that), starts shooting my Right Front Wheel with his Winchester. Shot it 5-6 times, wheel damaged (not destroyed tho). I get out, shoot him with my FAL 2 times, he's dead. Never mess with a Ural driver that knows what his tank on wheels is capable of. And more important: Never stand in the way of a Ural. If necessary, i'm gonna push u 3km far until I find the next massive tree / house / wall that will resist a Ural. A few hours after that, played on a Chernarus 700+ vehicles server. Found an Ural and an Enfield with 2 Mags. Drive through Elektro and Cherno to get to the Balota Airstrip. At the outskirts of Chernogorsk a green hatchback starts following me. I slow down, ram him off the road. He still follows me, i ram him again, into a tree. somehow his car was still working. so i rammed him once again, only slightly this time (he got what im trying to do after the 3rd time), resulting in him (to be exact them) to lose 2 wheels. They ( 2 bandits) get out and start shooting my Urals wheels. Unluckily for them they had a M249 SAW and managed to destroy one of my wheels. Made a roadblock / cover turn with my Ural, got out. Shot the first of them, unconscious. The other one manages to somehow hit my leg thru the 2 rear axis, resulting in my legs broken. Rolled out behind the Ural (that idiot was sprinting towards me), took aim, shot him in the head. crawled to his buddy, said "you decided to mess with the wrong person. not today son, remember that." and executed him aswell. One of them had morphine in their inventory, luckily. Their hatchback also had a spare wheel in the trunk, so i could patch up my Ural again. decided to move off from Balota as i heard a few DMR / AS50 shots aswell as a squad of at least 3 Assault Rifle buddys (counted AKM shots, could be PKM aswell tho, G36 shots and a few STANAG rounds.) returning fire on them (luckily i watched the side chat a bit so i could see a few random notes from a random guy lying around under the collapsed watch tower behind the hangars (if u know what i mean), who said "epic squad fight going on here" etc.. Well. Ural Power!

found this map in the internet when i searched for "Chernarus Plus", dunno how waterproof it is. Chernogorsk will only be a small ass village compared to Novigrad :P

well, since i was killed with all high-end loot one can imagine, by a hacker, i really don't care about my loot anymore. i need like 1 trip to cherno to find my beloved medium-end gear AKM, 1 trip to NW airfield to find a M14 AIM or something (if not, i keep my AKM), 1 trip to NE airfield over devil's castle, and normally you find a helicopter crash on ur way to the NE airfield, and if it's not looted, you practically already have a found ur M107 or ur FN FAL. yesterday i found a heli crash right next to devil's castle (inside devil's castle was also a completely broken Mi-17 with 2 Cans of Mountain Dew in it :thumbsup: ), where i found 2 FALs, 1 with 1 mag, the other with 2 mags. decided to take one FAL for my AKM, shooting nearly 200 rounds of AKM ammo into the heli-crash (despite 30+ players on the server, i mean, i was right in the middle of nowhere <.<), then took one FAL and left my AKM and the other FAL without ammo there. my only problem now, far bigger problem than the amount of time i need to find such gear again, is that i got no weapon on close range vs zombies without aggroing 'em all. FAL is loud, M107 is even louder. and i'm not really in the mood to switch to my PDW every time another grandpa-zombie chases me (those are the most stubborn ones .. one chased me for like 5 km before i got annoyed and shot him in the face <.<)