Chaingunfighter

Considering vehicles are on the list of features listed on the game's Steam page, I doubt arguing against vehicles will do any good at this point. Sure, they'll probably be exceptionally difficult to get working and use, but they will be there. Just looking at the controls, you can see they've got ones for cars, helicopters & planes. They probably wouldn't have ported them over if they didn't intend to use them.

Not without a sling or some sort of implement. Even then, a crossbow is pretty damn large and using one alongside a full-sized rifle seems pretty odd (Although hunters will do it, occasionally).

That's the huge problem, even a pristine, "fully-upgraded" M4A1 still shoots worse than a Brown Bess musket that was broken in half and filled with cement. I wouldn't be surprised if you tried to shoot someone point blank with the gun and the bullet travelled back through the barrel to avoid actually landing on target.

Meh. Balota is actually pretty low-traffic right now, I've only ever seen two people there on full servers since they moved the spawns to the far east. Everyone seems to stick to Berezino and Elektrozavodsk now (I still don't see too many people in Cherno). I will admit that it's odd to find Staroye, which is like a 10 minute's walk from the coast (with stops at cabins and houses along the way) completely unlooted (including the police station), but I doubt that removing Balota's tents will do anything. If at all, you'll see even less people traveling that far and thus the entire of the west will be completely vacant.

"anti-game" You're funny. Bohemia makes firearms? I wasn't aware of that. Besides that, we don't need them to add everything that's realistic, for the sake of realism. I'm an advocate for it, but that doesn't mean I want them adding shit/piss or full-on nudity/sex systems. Not that that has anything to do with crossbow bolt vs 5.56x45mm damage, but still.

They need to add graffiti of Che to the inside of the broadcast tower. Now. Have everyone drop everything and work on it.

I find the view on a clearer day with max draw distance to be beautiful. The place isn't too creepy to me, at least no more so than anywhere else. The only weird thing I've ever seen there was some guy screaming "Viva La'Revolucion" into his mic while firing his FNX-45 into the air, and then jumping off after running out of ammunition.

MP5K is the next SMG, as per the files in the new experimental version.

It wouldn't make any sense, and what if you were playing with a group? Should you really have to find your group every single time you guys want to quit? What if your game crashes/power goes out, should you lose all of your progress? Also, combat loggers would essentially get a free pass to safety by having this.

The 1911, a crappy gun? I doubt it. By today's standards, maybe, as there are better handguns out there, but the fact that it was the U.S. military's handgun of choice for 74 years (not to mention still seeing use today) sort of negates what you said. Then again, a lot of people seem to think the US military has terrible equipment, so, I guess I could be wrong.

I don't think you'd be branded at all in real life besides gaining notoriety, but this is because of the large communications systems we have set up and the sheer amount of people who use them. In reality, though, you're not going to get a cattle-prod mark on your forehead right after you've killed someone. Sure, people might begin to recognize you and the news and police would be on the lookout, but that's all gone in DayZ. If people want to hunt down a killer, they have to use smart tactics. If someone was able to identify them before, then it helps them, but it's not like we have satellites, CCTV cameras, helicopters/planes (as of yet), or millions of citizens on the lookout for them.

That's why we need realistic bullet mechanics, and the SVD along with its magazines and attachments need to be acceptably rare. Even though there's no real situation I'd ever take a Mosin over an SVD, it's not like the SVD is going to be available 24/7 and you can handload ammo into the Mosin vs requiring a magazine for the SVD which may be very difficult to find. If they add grenade/rocket launchers, you can (pretty much) be rest assured that they will be rare and ammunition be even rarer, so "spam" will be entirely worthless if you even managed to get enough to do that. Also, launchers like the M72 LAW can only be fired once, meaning that screwing up removes you of a very valuable weapon. We probably don't need any launchers until vehicles are added, though (except maybe the underbarrel grenade launchers, since they've already finished those)

Mainly, but if they were going to use the "US supplied chernarus" then we'd likely see a few modern weapons. Obviously Russian/eastern weapons would be the majority of weapons, but there are quite a few perfectly fine and even necessary western weapons. I really want an RPD in the end, for whatever reason, it's just a cool gun.

Yeah. I do like more pistols, but they need to focus on making more guns of categories we don't have. Hopefully in the end we can have like 10 variants of every type of gun.

It is implying, I was the one who said it; I know what I meant. And I'm not saying having a gun with damaged parts is a strech, I'm saying finding a completely pristine gun with a ruined stock is sort of odd. I meant on the extreme level. It'd be just as odd to find a completely ruined M4 save for the handguard which is still pristine.

They released three damn pistols in the last update (plus the engraved 1911). We've also got a P-1 coming soon. Do we really need more pistols right now? How about some more shotguns/submachine-guns or even just non-guns.

I was just implying for your specific scenario. I don't actually think there is a need for that kind of thing, but simply that it's kind of a stretch to use that to justify an almost entirely pristine gun save for the ruined stock.

Arma 3 has volumetric clouds, not arma 2.

True, but it'd have to have blood on it, and a bullet hole in it. Also, since you can't actually bludgeon zombies with a weapon as of yet, it would be odd, I wouldn't really associate it with that.

Akimbo Bananas would be too OP, nope. (Yes, must have feature)

True. I do like the idea of having guns whose parts having varying conditions (Although it would be very odd to find a pristine M4 with a ruined stock.) What I'd really like is for guns to spawn with attachments already on them, albeit more rarely (or without certain base parts)

More bolt-action rifles/semi-automatic rifles compatible with scopes. Just have the scopes themselves be rare.

Exactly. But Chernarus does have a military that would've been supplied by the US military after the war with the ChDZk, hence M4A1s and HMMWVs. They could pretty easily justify adding an M16A2, Beretta 92FS, M249, M240/M60, and maybe an M79 or M72 LAW with that. However, I'd like a Tokarev TT-33, Makarov PM, AKS-74U, RPD/RPK, PKM & RPG-7 alongside their American counterpart.

Don't know we should worry about these spawning rates with new guns on the lineup soon and obviously plenty more in the long run. The spawning isn't even based on a percentage total of 100%, it just rolls based on all of the values entered. For example; {"weapon_akm","weapon"}, {"weapon_m4a1","weapon"}, {"weapon_mosin9130","weapon"}, {"weapon_sks","weapon"}, {"weapon_blaze95","weapon"}, {"weapon_ruger1022","weapon"}, {"weapon_izh43","weapon"}, {"weapon_ak74","weapon"}, {"weapon_aks74u","weapon"}, {"weapon_deathray","weapon"}, {"weapon_bananapeel","weapon"}, would be tied to; {0.04,0.01,0.05,0.04,0.03,0.05,0.06,0.05,0.03,100,0.100} Yes, I took this directly from the config, nothing edited.

I'd be fine if they had both an M4 and M4A1, but I'd prefer we get both rather than them changing it, if they do anything with it. The reason the AK-74 sucked in the mod is because its damage was not meant for the blood system that DayZ had, as well as the fact that the ironsight version was pretty poor even with zeroing and, as you said, too uncommon ammunition. The standalone's durability is a huge factor that will probably lead to the AK-74 being used over the M4 (although the M4 is quite reliable and the AK-74 is not known for durability as much as the AKM). But I think you take rarity too lightly. Sure, the super persistent server hoppers will eventually get what they want, but the fact that not only the gun itself is more common, but also extra magazines, optics/custom parts, and 5.45x39mm ammunition, will mean that you'll have a lot more people using it. Would you rather have a basic, damaged M4 or a heavily modified AK-74M with a GP-25, Kobra Sight & Suppressor?