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I'm aware, Dean himself for one. "Military background" is irrelevant. Maybe some of the team is knowledgeable about these things, but there are too many strange things I've seen for me to buy that they are all "weapons experts"... pistols and shotguns zeroed to 100 meters by default, rifles with a 50 meter setting, those are some very odd choices, crazy muzzle velocities, et cetera, and the Mosin has been using "B_762x51_Ball" in the code since day one of release - mixing up 7.62 NATO and 7.62x54R is not a mistake a "gun veteran" would make, or even someone with cursory knowledge...that's my opinion. Hopefully they will get all these things sorted eventually..

The Amur tiger's range is nowhere near Chernarus, it's thousands of miles away, and according to Wikipedia there's only about 400 of them. Tigers in DayZ? Absolutely no way.

I think a more appropriate title would be: DEAN'S server policy - PURE DayZ

AKM before any AK-47s.

That statement is probably true though... it would explain why the 91/30 uses 7.62 NATO...

No it's not, the original design is American, the rights have always been American owned and it's been made in the USA since 1995. IMI was just a contractor. No military has ever used it.

I just want to see normal, average cars, trucks and motorcycles. Customization could come later but I don't want to see the game turned into Mad Max. Random pictures of "normal":

Hopefully... would give people a reason to dump those fire axes and motorcycle helmets for more reasonable tools and headgear, much more depth would be added to the gameplay.

Observation

If you're talking about the FoV slider, ignore the following... What "cheaty zoom" are you talking about? There is no "cheaty zoom". Why do people not grasp this simple concept? It's clear they have not actually tested the "zoom" and haven't thought about it past "your eyes don't zoom in real life! Elf eyes!" News flash! This isn't real life. We need zoom to see things at realistic distances. If you want everyone to be blind as a bat past 100 meters you're on the right track. Second, there is no extra zoom, a 4X scope ALWAYS zooms 4X more than your eyes are capable of seeing. Your eyesight is zoomed out by default. Stop considering it as zooming in, you aren't zooming in. Easy-to-understand graphics:

5.45 is not designed to fragment, it was designed to yaw. Anyways it comes down to the bullet design, not the cartridge, look at the difference between West German and US 7.62 NATO, the difference is all in the bullet due to the Germans using a thinner jacket: With quality expanding bullets in each they would behave more "as expected". One problem is that a lot of the Russian hollow point 7.62x39 bullet have been of pretty poor quality, some were FMJ with a hole drilled in, unreliable behavior. With heavier bullets 7.62x39 is quite close in power to the .30-30. Anyways fragmentation is definitely not the only consideration, it doesn't occur 100% of the time, and gelatin blocks are just that, gelatin blocks...

Maybe: Glock 19, MP5, M9, G36C No: Colt, Ithaca, Winchester, nail gun, Glock 25, Desert Eagle, M24

If it were up to me I'd remove the slider. People can adjust their FOV manually in their profile. I don't know why an in-game slider was necessary.

He is talking about the damage to ballistic gelatin or soft tissue by 5.56 FMJ which yaws and fragments, versus non-fragmenting 7.62 ball. 5.56 FMJ can cause more damage under certain circumstances.

They should remove that ASAP. And I doubt the 7.62x39 would even work with that scope, I posted on this in December: They could fix the zeroing system, but I kind of doubt that would happen - it would be easier just to give it a higher muzzle velocity and make the aerodynamics better (ie copy-paste the 7.62x54R and just lower the damage) then the zeroing would work, but then you'd have a rifle with totally incorrect ballistics, which is terrible. Edit: Maybe they've fixed this issue already, I haven't tried it yet. They were going to do so in ARMA 3, but like I said, I doubt it.

Ugh. Long range scope on an SKS. It's mounted on the bolt carrier. Now I have a headache.

Putrid suggestion. Do you think Universal is going to release a DVD of Hitchcock's "Vertigo" with a "happy ending" option at the main menu? No, the mere thought is awful. If you don't like it, too bad. Some changes are perfectly okay, the game certainly isn't perfect right now, some changes keep the main elements pure. However the game you want has nothing to do with DayZ, it has nothing to do with Dean's vision whatsoever, yes, just thinking about it ticks me off.

1, only scopes and binoculars can zoom. 2, in real life I can see people at 1 kilometer. No one seems to understand WHY they let you zoom in the first place. It's a simple concept. So frustrating.

One word: Suggestions

It takes up less space. There's no other advantages to cutting one down in real life either.

After a couple more months most players will have become comfortable with the stock M4A1s spraying musket-like groups and the people wanting more appropriate dispersion from their weapons will be met with cries of "learn 2 play", "ur supposed to be an untrained civilian" and "this isn't a military simulator, it's a GAME". It's a bit sad..

No it's normal eyesight.

Thread made it onto the front page of the DayZ subreddit.

Yes, they are still available for import. M855 is exempted on the grounds of "sporting purposes". The remaining steel-core 7.62x39 is still available for private sale, importation and FFL sales to non-FFLs are illegal. 7.62x51 is also considered a handgun cartridge by the ATF and 7.62x51 AP is also banned from import or FFL sales. They are just ignoring 5.45x39 and 7.62x54R for the time being, even though "pistols" are being produced chambered for all these cartridges.

I don't need my .357s to be Russian. Tthey could be German (Korth, Weirauch), Italian (Rossi), Brazilian (Taurus), French (Manurhin), American (Smith & Wesson, Ruger), Czech (Alfa Proj), etc, etc, etc. It comes down to what is more common. Citizens in Russia don't buy handguns because they are illegal, so Russian comparisons are void. A .357 revolver is in 99.9% of cases a civilian gun, and in a country like Chernarus, 100% a civilian gun, so they can't be attributed to the local police. Civilians don't limit themselves to locally-produced guns. Besides, many well-known European manufacturers are literally right next door. The big brands will be more common than some locally-produced weapon only made in small numbers.The Colt Python doesn't fit because they are quite expensive and out of production, not just because it's American. The Colt Pythons on Gunbroker right now are going for $1000+ to one at $17,500. They would not be commonly found around Chernarus; the Python's inclusion was a poor decision, a cheaper, more common revolver would not be quite as bad. As for the MP-412, it never even reached the production stage. Stillborn prototype.