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That ship looks fantastic! I love it, very atmospheric. I wonder where it's going to be placed... can't be too far offshore because then it would be underwater. :D In Kaiolohia Bay, Hawaii, there's a rusting ship fairly far off the shore and upright, too.

I wasn't aware there was an 8.6x70mm NATO... Magazine name: 5Rnd_86x70_L115A1 Ammunition name: B_86x70_Ball_noTracer

The sounds aren't great, but some of them are just terrible. For example, if anything, the AS50 should use the M107 sound as a stand-in while they search for a suitable replacement... both .50s with muzzle brakes. I don't know about some of this stuff, i.e. telling the type of rifle by the sound a long-action vs a short-action Remington 700 receiver makes... maybe Doc Savage could pull it off (he could tell the weight of a fired bullet to an accuracy of 1/7000 of a pound by holding it in his palm :lol:) but I don't think anyone else could. I agree with the overall goal of better sounds, DayZ needs some kind of JSRS, the sonic aspect of a game can really add or detract from the experience. Right now bolt-action rifles don't even make bolt-action sounds... :(

I hate how the AS50 is overpowered, someone made a bug ticket on Dev-Heaven about it but it never got fixed... You know what I suspect? I suspect it wasn't a mistake, I suspect someone made a deliberate decision to throw away realism in favour of video-gamey "balancing". It's ridiculously overpowered, check this out: 12.7x99mm, raw damage = 26 14.5x114mm, raw damage = 31 20x102mm AP, raw damage = 40 23x152mm AP-HE, raw damage = 45 AS50, raw damage = 56 Wtf!

The Lapua does the same as an M107, not an AS50. It can't use M107 or AS50 magazines. Still much too powerful for the round, obviously someone at Bohemia simply recycled the .50 caliber damage value. I wouldn't mind if they introduced it to DayZ, but they would need to alter the damage value (it would still be a one-shot kill, but it's the principle of the matter!).

#ClanDrama

I like "Pablos" myself.

It's still as powerful at 800 meters as an M16A2 at point blank, and you can't survive an 5.56 headshot at point blank, so damage shouldn't be a problem. Either the server didn't register it as a headshot, it was some kind of desync, or they were hacking... can't think of many other explanations. Sometimes a bullet ricochets into someone or bounces off their gun dealing low damage but not here... I would just put it down to an unfortunate glitch or error and carry on.

Yup, and with the stock retracted, the M4 is a bit shorter than the L85, so there, you Brits :) An AK with an under-folding stock is shorter than both, anyways. The nice thing about the L85 is the 20 inch barrel which will give you roughly ~200 ft/s higher muzzle velocity compared to the M4, which means the rounds will shoot flatter and will be more likely to fragment at much longer ranges, which is very important.

Huh? New spawns are bambis? I thought a bambi meant a clueless player who's generally terrible at the game and either overly frightened or overly trusting. If a bambi is a fresh spawn, that means I'm a bambi whenever I join a new server or die... dang. Bambi Gews. :( I'm not a great player but I like to think I'm above that...

Bandages > pistol ammo. I never go anywhere with less than 3, preferably 4. Had a bad experience, never again. I thought bleeding already stopped once you got down to about 2000 blood, that's what I read on the Wiki. Correct?

Heh, dat my screenshot, I like. The old bandit skin is the German KSK Scout skin.The classname is "GER_Soldier_Scout_EP1". Not sure if that helps.

I need new headphones too man, mine crapped out yesterday... :( I'll be watching this. I'm unused to paying anything more than nothing for headphones... :ph34r:

You can get globally banned for cyber bullying? Wuh oh, better stop dat griefing, guys... I've even seen people with white supremacist names and clan tags and they seemed to be doing fine, barf. If what you say is true, your key got stolen somehow. Anyways you have to contact Battleye and hope for the best, they banned you.

The only thing I have to add to this is that I hate servers without an !uptime option or a warning before restart... one restarted and killed me while I was in my car. I was mad.

Chernarus isn't Russia. Full-auto AKs would be far, far more common than semi-auto AKs. Look at any recent war in those regions, rag tag groups of fighters with Kalashnikovs and other Soviet weapons.

Agreed, I will shoot most people on sight given the opportunity, but I usually don't see that many people since I almost always stay off the coast in the forests up North. My previous character had 53 days on him and not too many murders. Normally it's kinda nice not to have the bandit skin but when I read the new patch notes saying the old skin is coming back, now I suddenly want it. :D I'm definitely gonna have to kill more frequently.

The OP still hasn't said what new features he's talking about... Some new (or proposed new) features I do not want to see or think unnecessary, others sound like they need work and others sound completely great... I can't just make a blanket statement on "new features" though.

Boxing is sooo boring when you have hatchet (and now machete, phoooah!) fights to the death.

People hate the fake stamina stuff, however my idea was make players have to eat and drink a lot more when they carry heavy loads. They'd have to go loot much more often and would have a realistic disadvantage.

As long as it lands on the wheels, as long as it lands on the wheels... ^_^ Evel Knievel in a Vodnik.

Check it out in the ArmA 2 editor if you're interested, stick any sniper on the map (they all have the same ghillie), then put this line in the initialization field and preview the mission. removeAllWeapons this; this addMagazine "20Rnd_762x51_FNFAL"; this addWeapon "FN_FAL"; this addMagazine "20Rnd_762x51_FNFAL"; this addMagazine "20Rnd_762x51_FNFAL"; this addMagazine "20Rnd_762x51_FNFAL"; It's the FAL's only major drawback (apart from lack of ammo), otherwise I love the rifle, more so than the M14. I'll usually take the M14 just due to the ammo situation, though. Edit, here, look how much of the target would be obscured in the second screen, never mind not being able to see the top of the front sight.

It's okay, but not great, it has iron sights that block your vision slightly and it's 5.56. Better sights than many weapons I should add, but still not the best. 5.56 means several shots to kill. Definitely not "great" when you can have an M14 which takes 2 and frequently knocks people out. I have been killed with a G36C, I had an Enfield, it was about a 200 meter fight. I saw him sneaking up behind me, turned around and fired, missed and got shot, it made my aim start swaying, I fired two or three shots back but missed again due to the shaky aim (close misses I may add). Even though I got killed that doesn't give me confidence in a 5.56 weapon. I still was able to return multiple rounds very close to him. If he had shot me with an M14 or an Enfield I would probably have gone down immediately. It's definitely not bad, it's just not great mostly due to the sights. However you did good dropping the M16A2/M203 for it, that gun has terrible sights and does the same damage. Don't drop a normal M16A2 for it, though.

50-60 players feels empty to you? Maybe it's my playstyle, but 30 players is a crowd... 100-200 would be an absolute nightmare!