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No taming wolves, wolves are freaky. Dog companions is fine. They'd need to work on the animals a bit more, the AI dogs I've tried never seem to sprint, they just slowly lope along, and wild boars go like 5 miles an hour at the most... I want a rancor.

Most freight trains run on diesel, there haven't been any coal-powered trains for quite some time now... the last time I saw a coal-powered train must have been when I was about 8.

Ground vehicles actually can't go much beyond 130 km/h, engine limitation. There are some mods with special ground values or boosters on the cars, though.

Wait, why would there be a ghost train every night? Who's running it? Denzel Washington? I just don't see why trains would be running in a zombie apocalypse... besides, a diesel locomotive would take hundreds of jerry cans to fill up.

Shotguns totally suck in this game, which sucks. First off, they could start with a more realistic pellet spread (as far as I know the large spread is engine thing and can't be fixed by modders), but after that I'm not sure what they could do. The pellets already do a proper amount of damage compared to other rounds. The slugs are underpowered and should do a lot more damage. The underpowered slugs may be a combination of them not being able to penetrate ballistic vests and Bohemia's damage calculations. I don't know why else they would put the damage as low as it is. And also the double barrel sight picture just sucks, no bead or anything and you can't "point" the barrel.

Come on, all ya have to do is hold down a key, it's not like you're actually running the 8km or so to the NWAF, your fingers shouldn't be tired at all. And 8km isn't even that far, I walked twice that much yesterday. :emptycan:

I see what you've done here. $1-upmanship.

Weapons, ballistics, wounding, etc are what I care about the most. I want that as real as possible. I don't really care too much about other stuff as long as it's not too far out there. I don't need my character actually taking several days to die of thirst.

I thought the Enfield was a counter-sniper weapon. :ph34r:

Maybe when you go into combat mode adrenaline could kick in. I'm pretty sure someone would find the energy to sprint if there were bullets headed their way.

I don't want to see heroic Soviet statues of the mods and devs, but I like the plaque idea. Maybe a separate plaque for each? Or one big plaque? Or signs in Cyrillic? I like the food idea best though.

I was wondering about that, thanks for the info.

The OP has a point. I'm also kind of annoyed of people coming into the Bandit Campfire and saying that shooting well-armed players on sight is low and dirty. That's absolutely ridiculous. Apparently we're supposed to hold them up in a creative role-playing fashion.

I honestly don't understand people who would pay more than the full game actually costs just to spawn with a bit more stuff. It makes no sense to me... donations are one thing, pay to win is another. I don't really consider these payments "donations".

I hope it stays that way and all the great can kerfuffle dies down. The complainers do have a point, but it's a really minor one and they should try to look past it. Some of those rants...

Ho hum, yes, it is a problem especially if there are going to be tons of public hives. On the other hand you sacrifice some of the meta-gaming and trading aspects if you restrict characters to one server, although I haven't really missed changing servers when playing on private hives.

Vehicles vs foot. I use vehicles when I find or steal them but consider them kinda disposable. I don't bother fixing them up myself. As a solo player I don't usually need to be anywhere in particular so I don't really care if I have a car or not. Just makes you a bigger target for the most part.

I ain't downloading this just yet... staying on 1.7.6 until I find and document all those cans. Or until servers update. <_<

I wanna know more of the backstory behind this... why was he out for you? :ph34r:

But it makes me feel better. Have you ever had a cup of cocoa? Most people have. That warm, hearty feeling you get from a cup of Fry's™ Premium Cocoa. It's the kind of feeling that brings warmth to a cold winter's eve. The kind of warmth that families share after getting back from the big game. So take off those skates, settle down, and enjoy a cup of Fry's™. It's the Canadian way. (And also enjoy shooting random people in the back and hiding their bodies to piss them off).

Because there are no Superman jumps and you can't kill a guy by throwing your knife over a building.

Testing out the Makarov in ACE is interesting. I fired 8 shots into a Russian soldier from point-blank range and he got down and started firing wildly at me, killing me. But then I tried the same thing on a Takistani militiaman and the Makarov killed or knocked him out in one shot two times in a row (he had no ballistic vest).

Rocket would not have put tanks into DayZ. Tanks are on a whole 'nuther level. Think helicopters are bad? I've watched a single tank completely destroy a huge populated enemy base in Novy Sobor. Kill messages sprang up everywhere like poppies. The church crumbled to the ground. People tried to hide in buildings and fire rockets at it and were promptly gunned down or blown into the sky. Yes, balancing. Some level of it exists.

Gotta say Xianyu, your opinions are a bit too anti-sniper for my tastes... but then again I like sniping quite a bit when the mood strikes me. I don't even really like the M107 that much, I might even prefer to see the .50s replaced by something Russian/European, non-military and in a smaller caliber. Something along the lines of a .300 Win Mag, .338 Lapua Mag, 7mm WSM, 6.5x284, .260 even, I just find them more interesting than the Future Weapons stuff. <_< To be honest I'm kind of bored by the .50 cal military guns and I don't even use them often. They also seem kind of unrealistic because survivors aren't going to be lugging ridiculously big rifles around just for some 1200m sniping. The biggest change I wanna see is ACE-like sniping! If people want to snipe, force them to learn to use the turrets. (Also, ACE sniping is a lot more fun and rewarding, once you try it it's hard to go back).

I want. Testing purposes, of course.