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    20-round magazines for VSS

    They gave it a massive damage buff in 1.06 experimental (seems they do not mind ignoring the weapon's real life characteristics). It does 95 damage, plus 3x armor damage multiplier. Should easily destroy a pristine plate carrier with one shot (in real life, it would penetrate soft armour but be stopped by a hard plate). I don't see why it shouldn't have a 20-round magazine but it is now fairly strong (for better or worse).
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    Documentation

    I think it's safe to say that they will never make a paint-by-numbers for this stuff. It's Bohemia, you have to put in the effort.
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    Russia's Wild Horses

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    no to KoS - dayz cinematic

    Yes, if a player tries to order me around, I will shoot at them. How disrespectful. Eg: "Put your weapon away." no u
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    2mm pinfire derringer

    Novelty weapon. I don't think it could take out bandits, or even chickens, but it may prove useful for memeing.
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    Civilian Semi Automatic Rifles.

    In America some departments might use semi-automatic rifles but in Chernarus these guys already have submachine guns so if they had AKs I don't see why they wouldn't just have proper AKs, or ARs. There's not a good reason to add a new .223 round, the rifles would accept the 5.56 rounds too, and it would not be much less effective anyways (95% as fast as a 5.56). Dexterity was removed from the game. I don't think brand new AR-15 in those tiny civilian cottages would feel right either. Maybe on rare occasion. The game already used to have 10rnd 5.56 magazines, not sure why, those were military loot, I wouldn't have added it in the first place, and now it doesn't spawn. They could have made something like a VEPR 7.62x39 + 10 rnd magazine though. When I read the title I think of things like Browning BAR or Benelli ARGO. But, they already finished the weapon list. And they are NOWHERE close to implementing even all the weapons WE ALREADY HAD, never mind the all those previewed ones like the PKM, the Taser or the rocket launchers. I expect it will be measured in years and that maybe, they may not even manage all of them. So further weapons are essentially out of the question.
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    What do you guys do as solo players?

    I go around looking for people to kill, or if unarmed, to mess with and maybe kill. Sometimes they happen to spot me and speak, and if they sound alright I don't kill them, and we run around for a couple hours. On occasion I have been known to go to lonely places by myself to just explore or test game mechanics. A lot of the time someone else spots me first or outplays me and I am killed and repeat the process. Things that I do not do: -repair vehicles -build structures -fish -hunt -cook -make leather clothing -make stashes of loot
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    one shot death

    Not in DayZ, it's intended to provide protection against 1 full power sniper shot, at least as of May 5th 2019. "Currently ballistic helmet (which is highest tier) saves you from 1 headshot when hit from full power cartridge (.308win or 7.62x54mmR) in trade of unconsciousness."
  9. I agree broadly with most of your points, I don't agree with the notion that the survival gameplay was much better in previous versions. It was not. But I do not like their changes to backpacked weapons, hill running, bullet damage, melee system, and so on.
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    Rescue DayZ by adding Crossplay feature

    They already said no crossplay, there's no plans about server infrastructure etc to support such, and it's not even the exact same game on all platforms. For example, on PS4, large nametags pop up on the screen when someone speaks. This is a Sony requirement. Etc.
  11. I'd be more impressed with a new map rather than using the ARMA 3 maps (and it happens to be the map with the most similar setting and greatest share of the same assets. What about Tanoa, Malden or Altis?) The game isn't even feature-complete and already DLC. Of an ARMA 3 map. Pretty meh. The good thing is that I don't need to buy it twice as Contact DLC, with Chernarus-asset-filled map, didn't perk my interest enough to spend $34.99 on it. And it's a new map, in any case. But I'm more excited for Namalsk.
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    Re-Add Shooting While Running and Falling (and more)

    Some people complain it's unrealistic (lol) and namedrop Call of Duty and such silly stuff. But it's possible to shoot while sprinting in Operation Flashpoint. You just won't hit anything. I don't see a problem.
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    Magazine Families

    In ARMA 3 it's called "magazineWell" and does just that.
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    Update the tutorials.

    The game's control scheme is not a "surprise" meant to be found while playing. That's silly.
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    Ammunition config stats dump

    Ammunition stats for config pretty pictures woo In this thread I'm placing ammo stats which I've calculated, anyone can feel free to use these, airFriction and initSpeed are the focus (objectively quantifiable) but suggestion for damage and penetration as well (not so much). If someone wants stats added for a specific type of ammo, ask. Cartridge___________initSpeed______airFriction______health damage______caliber______mass______AP______Notes 4.6x30mm____________685__________-0.00303____________23_____________0.35x________2 g________0.6________1 5.7x28mm____________715__________-0.00268____________25_____________0.35x________2 g________0.5________2 6.5 Arisaka__________660___________-0.00104____________74_____________na___________10.4 g______na________for Fedorov Avtomat 223 Rem______________884__________-0.00162____________47_____________0.50x________3.6 g______0.8________3 300 BLK_______________716__________-0.00157____________62_____________0.65x_______7.1 g_______0.6_______4 7.92x33 Kurz__________685__________-0.00162____________64______________0.7x________8.1 g______0.7________5 7.92x57 Mauser_______730__________-0.00083___________110______________1.1x_______12.8 g______0.9________6 338 Lapua_____________900__________-0.00066___________209_____________1.5x________16.2 g______1.4_______7 408 CheyTac___________869__________-0.00047___________327_____________1.7x________27.2 g______1.6_______8 12.7x99mm____________853__________-0.00060___________487_____________1.7x ________42 g_______1.7________9 50 Action Express______420__________-0.0026____________58*______________0.9x________19.4g______0.3_______ 7.62x25mm____________450__________-0.0033____________25_______________na__________5.5g_______0.3_______ 50 Beowulf____________545__________-0.0025___________106*______________1.2x________21.7g______0.5_______ 20/70 (TOZ-106)_______360__________-0.0035___________83*_______________0.9___________24g_______n/a_______ 20/70 buck___________330__________-0.009____________16?_______________0.3_________30g__________n/a_______ Notes 1: Comments:
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    How is Projectile Resistance applied in clothing models?

    They mentioned this a while ago after people realized shooting helmeted people in the face did not kill them. The clothing protection applies to the whole of the body part in question.
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    3rd Party sites making profit from DayZ

    The other day on the DayZ Discord I read a claim that DayZRP made a mod which removed gameplay benefits (storage advantage) from purchased items (clothing), allowing them to get approved for monetization by Bohemia, but that after they got approved, they removed the mod, and are once again selling in-game items which provide an advantage.
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    Revolvers and Lever actions

    DayZ 1.0 release: Dec. 13th, 2018 Fireams in initial release: 12 Days since release: 253 Firearms added since release: 6 Average number of days per newly added firearm: 42 There are another 40 ranged weapons left to add, this includes weapons in previous versions of DayZ and weapons that were shown off in developer previews. At this pace adding all the weapons in will take about 1680 days, or another 4 years and 7 months. To be fair, former lead producer Eugene Harton estimated "64 weeks + downtime" to add in 32 weapons, so if we use his timeline, adding all the weapons back should only take another one and a half years (plus downtime). Maybe they will have a bunch come in all at once in some future patch, but so far they haven't introduced them anywhere near that quickly. They have said there will be new weapons every patch. No one knows when a specific weapon will be introduced.
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    tower ladder - fix this plase ..

    The top platform provides a great vantage point for scouting with binoculars. And then someone hiding in the forest shoots you off it.
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    Weapons in 1.04

    But once a weapon is on PC I would expect it to come to console soon after.
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    Weapons in 1.04

    You will not get modded weapons or modding on consoles. It's confirmed there are no plans for such a thing. Microsoft and Sony would not allow it anyways. Even on PC we will not even be getting all the old weapons (the weapons we already had years ago in previous game versions!) any time soon. Look at how many new weapons they've added since 1.0 release. (the answer: since 1.0 dropped, it took 215 days to add back 6 more of the old weapons. An average of 36 days per weapon. There are 40 more ranged weapons left to add. At the same pace this would take 1433 days, or nearly 4 years. Hopefully the pace speeds up).
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    Status Report - July 2019

    I see a lot of people talking about broken bones. But about broken bones: this from Gamescom 2018: "Fractures are coming after the 1.0 and there will be fractures for the legs and the arms." —Peter Nespesny And it's pretty easy to explain breaking your leg. So I'm assuming in the Status Report they are talking about status effects and sickness, and probably the vital organ hitboxes as well (added a bunch of organs... then ended up disabling all of them... oof).
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    Status Report - July 2019

    That was a while ago, though. They no longer promise 5 years. Originally they said: "Bohemia Interactive fully plans on continuing work on DayZ past 1.0 for at least a targeted 5 years" But since that, they have said: "DayZ will certainly continue with very active development after 1.0, I don’t think commiting to 5 years specifically is what we have established as a must, I would think this plan was in place when the expectations for 1.0 release date were slighly more optimistic, but we’re always going for the long tail with Bohemia games. Arma 3 is of course the example to follow." "We may as well happen to support DayZ for 5 or more years after 1.0 - what I’m trying to explain is that it’s not an established goal. As with Arma 3, we will support DayZ for as long as it makes sense to players, as well as from a development point of view."
  24. They improved a bunch of them, but only the ones that were spawning in-game at that time. Since then they've added back some "new" rounds, like 5.45mm, which were not fixed on their first pass. So 5.45mm is an example which still has the old "railgun" properties. But it doesn't matter as much if they don't lose their speed, as right now none of the bullets lose any damage anyways. That's a major factor, missing!! As for their ballistics pass this is what I had to say: The ones they did the pass on (so, not the 5.45mm) act like small arms bullets now, but some numbers are even worse than the previous numbers they had from 0.3X until 0.62. Edit: that's only external ballistics. As for damage numbers, it's not horrible?... there are still some issues... maybe placeholder? But still.
  25. "Advanced health system" What is "advanced" about it? There's 100 health hitpoints. You also have shock and blood. They are also hitpoints. Seems self-explanatory. There are no vital organs active apart from the "brain", which doesn't really count because the head is a "vital organ" in most every shooter. There are no broken bones. "Advanced system that's hard to explain". One thing that (obviously, from my post history) concerns me is this, from Peter Nespesny: "... currently there is no projectile damage falloff with distance or energy/speed drop in new DayZ. I can assure you, it's a temporary situation and both issues are on our to-do list." That was nice to hear, at the time. But he's gone now, and so are all these other important figures of DayZ. So is damage drop-off going to be left out, too? With the health system comments, and backtracking (example: deactivation of their new vital organ hitboxes), I have no confidence we'll see damage drop-off reintroduced. Maybe it will... maybe it won't. And then basically, DayZ would no longer have any "ballistics" worth noting at all.
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