-Gews-

I would spawn as a sniper every time. :0

You must be playing it wrong... More like spawn, run to Pusta, get hatchet, get food, run to Staroye, get Enfield, shoot deer, build fire, cook meat, camp, run to Dolina, fill water bottle, run to Polana, find tent, raid supermarket, run to Dubrovka, find bicycle, bike to Klen, observe Krasnostav, hide bike, raid supermarket, find helicopter crash, take AKM, scout airfield, sneak through forest, get KOS.

I am :ph34r:

Also here are some wound profiles of a .45 Silvertip hollow-point, standard 230-gr ball and the bottom one is the 7.62x54R. These don't tell the full story but you don't want to be hit by any of them...

Yeah... so that means we should just throw everything relating to realism out the window? Maybe we should have basketball-sized tracers and "scope glare" that's as bright as a lighthouse... while we're at it I'd like some Spartan armor too. No. Just because it will never be perfectly realistic doesn't mean realism is unimportant. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oh, by the way I was sniping in the editor yesterday and put "Object Detail" to "Very High" to see targets at 2,000m. Anyways I joined a server and my FPS was averaging 12-13... I didn't know why until I checked the settings, put "Object Detail" to "Very Low" and it went up to 17-20. I wouldn't get along well with "Very High" Object Detail.

To paraphrase Dslyexci, there is no actual hip firing in ArmA. Your gun is always shouldered, sometimes you just aren't using the sights. I agree though, the problem lies with the crosshairs. I actually prefer using the crosshairs on mid-range moving targets... it's so much easier to track them and your screen isn't jarred by recoil. Crosshairs should be made a lot less precise.

I don't like it and I don't understand it. It fills me with scorn.

Oooooooh, balancing and "nerfing". I hate the term "nerf" so much... DayZ doesn't "nerf"! If something actually needs "nerfing", please just remove it completely, ie tanks or fighter jets or attack helicopters. Sniper rifles are not something that need nerfing. In all my times of playing DayZ I've only been killed by snipers a few times... usually it's some dude with an AK or an Enfield from very close range. Nerf Enfields!

Me speak English. My point was it's hard to have total "immersive realism" because you're not surviving with a bunch of ex-military Chernarussians, you're playing a game with a bunch of gamers. Some games do better in that regard, some worse... I haven't really felt the "authentic" feeling from DayZ or any other games for quite a while now. Simulators obviously seem to do better. To me, detailed flight sims seem by far the most immersive and real-feeling type of game.

I find one of the biggest problems with "realism" is that the people playing are all English-speaking gamers. Not sure how to solve that one...

Ya I wouldn't be able to play at all if this was implemented :(

Lolno, the 7.62x51 might have a smaller bullet but it has 7 times as much energy. Do you hear of anyone hunting elk with a .45 ACP? There's a reason for that. Like Creeper said though, "you hit some one center mass with ether, they're dead"... shows the flaw of the hitpoint damage system, no vital areas apart from headshots.

Like other people have said, crafting a ghillie or camo netting to hide camps and vehicles would be great. The only problem would be "ghillies, ghillies, everywhere" so it would have to be balanced somehow... right now there's no disadvantages to wearing a ghillie.

It's easy bro, took me 5 minutes.

This is why the revolver is "best handgun".

The two most important things are: 1. Make sure you aren't seen. 2. Make sure you see them.

You can shoot through a window with a DMR at that range. It sounds like a hard shot, it's quite possible though, unlike some of those "killed by YOLO at 358M with weapon Makarov". Wait, there was more than one shot?...

I've tried that too, but for whatever reason the Alt+F4 combination doesn't work on my system. B)

How is that ridiculous? Myke Hawke is an experienced survival instructor in jungle, desert, arctic, sea, and urban environments. He is a published author with a bestselling language book and has a survival book due out in spring. Myke is also a motivational public speaker and a lecturer on crisis responses to manmade and natural disasters, including (WMD) Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hawke is the Director of and represents www.specops.com on-camera and in creative program development during media productions. Specialized Training and Areas of Expertise includes, but is not limited to: Special Forces Detachment Commander course - 18A Combined Arms Service Staff School - (CAS3) Officer Advanced Course - Civil Affairs - 38A Officer Advanced Course- Infantry - 11A Medical Service Officer Course - 70B Anti-Terrorism & Force Protection Instructor (AT/FP Level II) Govt. Detention & Hostage Negotiation (PGD/HD SERE 245) Personnel Recovery (JPRA 102) Survival, Escape, Resistance & Evasion (SERE, Level - C) Special Operations Medical Sergeant Course (18D) Special Forces Morse Code & Communications Course (18E) Special Forces Intelligence and Operations Course (18F) Advanced Non Commissioned Officer Course (ANCOC) Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) National Registry EMT Paramedic Combat Anesthesia Advanced Cardiac Life Support Combat Chemical Casualty Care Special Forces Jump Master Defense Language Institute (Russian) Media advisor: security, medical, and tactical Translator Survival and Prepardedness Expert Peacekeeping Advisor to the U.N. Fitness Trainer Aikido Blackbelt & Instructor; multiple other martial arts Expert Marksman Scuba Diver Languages: Advanced Russian and Spanish; Intermediate French, Italian and Serbo-Croation; Basic Turkish, Thai, Arabic, others. Education: B.S. Biology; M.S. Psychology, graduated Magna Cum Laude. I guess you could say Myke Hawke is quite experienced.

Two seats seems a little low... how bout this one? Perfect for squads!

I doubt it, I believe the same thing already happens when you switch skins, etc.

Don't log out to avoid death...

I thought you mean use people's actual names for their characters... trying to pull a Youtube on us!

You can only go into the bus from one side. Get a Ural and ram it out of the way.