-Gews-

And what is this supposed to mean regarding the "Magnum"?

Yes, a true simulation of all thing is not feasible, and perhaps not enjoyable. However simulation of certain things would be very easy to do, if they wanted to. As well, things from the mod, like carrying car engines, were never necessary. Instead they could have simply switched it to smaller engine parts, instead of needing an entire new engine - absolutely no difference to the gameplay, but it satisfies the people asking why their character can carry hundreds of pounds of metal. I don't want to see DayZ abandon realism and go to some kind of arcade-style gameplay. Example, defibrillators... I don't know what these do yet, but I hope they don't magically repair a major gunshot wound to the chest. Etc.

I couldn't care less if it's "overpowered" in a gameplay sense. It's horrifyingly unrealistic, that's the problem. You can't really call it a ".357 Magnum" if you're holding what is basically a 6-shot M16 with insane damage. I want it to actually act like a .357 Magnum revolver. I don't want it just to look like a .357 Magnum revolver.

Did you use a speedloader perchance? Because that should lower the damage by almost 75%.

I'm curious to see what the results were as well.

And so it should be. Especially since the majority of .357 is loaded with some kind of expanding bullet, whereas I can envision FMJ being more common than hollowpoints for the .45 given the setting.

*Sigh* I think people are latching onto the OP's use of "OP" and not focusing on the real issue... If I got things right, the .357 does 1.8x the damage of a Mosin, 3.6x the damage of a .45, and 4x the damage of an M4. That is what I would call "overpowered". It makes no sense and should be changed.

Most certainly not... Why?

The OP is right, because it fires at an incredibly unrealistic rate of over 3,050 feet per second, so it's doing about 3.6 times the damage it normally would, resulting in one-shot kills. They need to reduce velocity to realistic levels, it's not a .300 Win Mag. This kind of stuff greatly annoys me since it's so damn obvious... one look and anyone should know something's wrong when a pistol is shooting way over 3,000 ft/s. Someone actually had to type that figure in.

Increases accuracy a tiny bit

Just saying, this topic is a duplicate of this one: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/160038-sks-a-mix-of-dmr-and-m14/

The FNX's dispersion is something like 3 feet at 20 yards...

Does this occur on pristine long range scopes, or only on damaged ones?

If it's always shooting to the left it's probably an issue with the model itself.

They should model the fact that if you touch off both at the same time, it's not twice the recoil, it's 4x the recoil... it could lead to the stock cracking.

I think the M4A1 has a modified choke

People can't see anything far away on a small flat monitor, and they can't see around them either. Zoom lets you focus on a point (supposed to be normal eyesight) and it lets you zoom out to have a larger FOV. Without zoom people would need very large, wrap-around monitors to better simulate human eyesight. Anyways, the zoomed-in level is regarded as "1x" zoom. In ArmA 3 it zooms less than in ArmA 2 for whatever reason.

And it's ridiculously long, more than 1.5x as long as an AS50. When running the model would clip deep into the ground with standard animations. :lol:

There should be a zoom, there's a reason why it's in ArmA. For those against it, go compare your real-life vision to what you can see in game and then come back. I don't know why when looking down iron sights your eyes don't zoom as much when just looking around normally. It doesn't make sense and was something I noticed from Rocket's streams. The second picture is normal zoom. There's your explanation. The FIRST picture is the one unnaturally zoomed out. That's why in ArmA all scope magnifications are relative to the zoomed IN level.

That reminds me - I did not see an option for bolt-action full power rifles, such as most hunting rifles. I'd like to see a Tikka, SAKO, Sauer, CZ, Remington, etc, in non-military calibers like .30-06, etc. Edit: and more than one type of rifle + ammunition, in that way it would be more rare to find ammunition for your particular weapon, something that could help balance the fact these would be, in game, essentially sniper rifles.

I would like pretty much all of those apart from 3D printed guns, the very modern or old WW2 SMGs (Kriss, Thompson) etc.

Dispersion is pretty terrible but the bullet will only drop about 1 meter at 350 meters, and it will basically behave like a revolving M16 otherwise. I hope it's just another placeholder. Right now it only appears to take the speedloaders though, which are too slow (like the FNX that would mean no chambering single rounds).

Yeah, so basically the new .357 Magnum fires its bullets at over 3,050 ft/s... unless you use a speedloader, in which case it's only about 850 ft/s. Mm hmm. This needs to be fixed ASAP before players start using it en masse, otherwise people will complain about it being "nerfed" if they ever reduce the velocity to the correct levels.

You should be able to make them, but you should also NOT want to be wearing a full-body ghillie suit all the time while running for miles through the hills. Same with the motorcycle helmets I'm seeing everywhere, there should be both benefits, and significant disadvantages.