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1a/b: Once again it isn't game logic if something actually exists in real life and you're straying back into the opinion/conflation trap. 2: You don't need a full shop to make modifications. Of the previous modifications I listed only trimming material off the BCG would require an actual machine. Buffer spring: Stretch it out by hand and trim a few coils off with a pair of wire snips. Buffer: Use a hammer and punch to drive out the roll pin and dump out the reciprocating weights. Gas block replacement: Use a hammer and punch to remove old gas block and replace. Gas system/barrel replacement: Same as above but also use wrench to remove barrel nut and swap barrels. Gas port: Use a hand chuck with drill bit to open up the gas port in the barrel. (Note: While I would prefer a drill press, with care it is entirely feasible to do this with manual tools.) Hammer spring: Bend and/or trim legs with wire snip. 3: Watch the video a few more times. If it wasn't functioning reliably the cyclic rate wouldn't be steady and uninterrupted. It would be erratic in timing, sluggish, and show evidence of short-stroking/being under gassed. 4: Again stating what other players will or wont do is your opinion and has no actual bearing on what actions they will or would like to take. 5: No. And just off the top of my head is a wonderful Russian round: 9x39mm.

1: So you have zero actual experience with these systems but feel confident enough in your lack of knowledge to make sweeping judgements about what is "realistic" or not. 2: You're conflating your opinion with mechanical reality and are attempting to impose it on others. If one desires to eliminate as much of the sound signature as possible then modified ammunition is a necessity. That it is accompanied by a set of drawbacks is the simple reality of getting the sound signature to that minimal state. 3: That other people, obviously including you, do not understand all of the problems, and benefits, that are inherent to subsonic 5.56mm being fired in an unmodified gas system is not "video game logic." The proper term for that is ignorance. Video game logic would dictate that it behaves in a specious and assumptive manner without regard to fact, a concept which has most obviously gone out the window with the last couple pages worth of commentary about the real world dynamics of this sort of technology. 4: So what if it doesn't cycle? We already know it will do that. The rifle becomes what is known in firearms parlance as a straight pull bolt action. Then again if any sort of gunsmithing gets added in that could easily be correct by, oh I don't know: replacing the buffer spring with one of less weight, reducing the buffer weight, milling the bolt carrier group of excess material, switching from a carbine length gas system to a pistol length system and possibly reaming the gas port to a larger diameter. Oh, and even if the rounds are only as powerful as a makarov... IT WILL STILL KILL YOU! You want video game logic? How about trying to argue the point that "well X is less powerful than Y when it replaces Z so it shouldn't be included..." when it doesn't freaking matter how powerful X, Y, or Z is, because all three will still kill you. ETA: Oh hey, 10 seconds on google and what do I find? Subsonic 5.56mm that will reliably cycle an unmodified M4 action. (Video at link.) http://www.ebr-inc.net/556Subsonic.html And other ammo made intentionally to not cycle. For the uninitiated, the only difference between these two is the bullet weight, and choice/amount of propellant used. http://www.ebr-inc.net/556UltraStealthMatchSubsonic.html

Electroplating is fairly complicated compared to the usual method of bullet production, which is swaging and annealing. Copper jackets are cold formed (swaged) and then annealed as necessary resoften the metal (copper and brass work harden, so you need to anneal it between some steps to keep it from splitting). Once you have the jackets you just press in the lead core and do any final forming such as the ogive if it is a base forward formed jacket. Another alternative is to make cast lead bullets and crimp on a gas check. Gas checks are small copper cups attached to the base of the bullet that keep the hot gases from eroding the base of the bullet, or cutting around/through one side of the bullet which would result in severe lead deposits in the barrel (this happens primarily when you try to push the velocity of cast lead above a certain point.) One easy source for crude gas checks would be to cut up old soda cans and use a circular punch to stamp out discs of aluminum, and then use a punch and cup to stamp them into shape. Finally, a century old tech to improve simple cast lead bullets is ye olde paper patch. Doesn't get much more field expedient than that as it was being actively practiced on the American frontier in the 1870's. Some helpful videos on the personal manufacture of bullets and the use of cast lead in a modern rifle cartridge. For a full cycle of field expedient player made ammunition components I'd suggest the following: Bullets: made from cast lead that can be recovered from numerous places, large batteries, wheel weights, old piping, et. Bullet gas checks or jackets (necessary for higher velocity rifle cartridges): can be made from copper tubing, spent .22LR cases, aluminum soda cans, etc. Black powder propellant: made from charcoal, sulfur and potassium nitrate (salt peter) each of which can be easily obtained or made. Primer: Again the cups can be recycled old primers or stamped out similar to the gas checks, only smaller. Actual compound to load them would be fulminate of mercury (mercury itself obtained from things such as old thermostat switches) which has been made since the year 1800. Casing: Reused old casings. I'd suggest there be a chance of loss of a portion of the cases during resizing unless annealed first. Cases work harden from the action of being fired. An unannealed case could be expected to last 4-5 reloading cycles while annealed cases have lasted 20+ times.

I think you're misinterpreting the use of the word "premium" here. He's talking about carefully manufactured ammunition that is held to careful tolerances and thus produces superior consistency and accuracy. The more common term for this is "match" ammunition, as in good enough to be used in competition shooting, or matches.

Have you ever, you know, actually shot a suppressed firearm with both super and subsonic ammunition?

Edit: Nevermind, someone posted the same vid before me while I was elsewhere.

An absolutely fair point. Best chance in obtaining them would be hand loading them yourself. Second to that would be gun stores with a comprehensive ammunition inventory and a distant third would be the armories of specwar type commands.

That you are turning an M4 into a straight pull bolt action firing the equivalent of a .22WMR is neither here nor there. It, will, still, kill, you! Would anyone of you care to volunteer to be shot with a 77gr. .224" caliber projectile moving at 1,100 FPS? ETA: Okay, maybe I'm being a bit too much of a dick. Yes you have the above problems. The benefit is the lack of supersonic crack (so you don't rile up the cannibal natives) and you have the added benefit of not needing to pack an entire additional weapon system. You'll be giving up weapon range, and penetrative power (you can forgot about punching through helmets and ballistic vests) but with just a change of ammo and you now have a highly covert weapon for picking off those pesky obstructions to your looting, aka zeds. Or the particularly unaware survivor. *shrug*

And it will still kill you.

I can post videos of 5.56mm ammo, but this one does the best to show the difference between supersonic and subsonic ammo being shot back-to-back.

Already been reported (repeatedly) on the bug ticket system.

What about dividing the current inventory slots down further, so 1 current slot = 4 new (smaller) slots? This would probably allow greater variation in item sizes without needing to completely overhaul the current system.

Hmm, regarding depth of objects. With a 2d plane you only get to set an object's height and width, but objects are 3d. The solution I came up with was setting their "width" in game based on the object's circumference. Thoughts?

Great points with the modularity of load bearing equipments. Molle and Alice is pretty much world wide standards now, but even going back to the most basic of load bearing gear, the belt. You start with a heavy duty belt. That's nice. Probably helps keep your pants up when running from the zombies. Now you add a holster to the belt. Pistol needs some mags, so now you add some magazine pouches to it. Be nice to carry some snacks so you add a small butt pack. Hmm the belt is getting kind of obnoxious now what with the added weight, tends to slow you down, so you add some suspenders to it, and voila, you have a load bearing ensemble. Belts or vests, some are hard stitched and can't be changed, such as a fly fishing or camera man's vest. But more and more the police and military gear allows for modularity and customization. Attachments really only limited to the available "real-estate" on the belts and vests. The only practical limitation for you as a person is the weight you're willing to bear, so remember, pack mule you ain't, and you might just need to be able to run from the zombies.

Bullets don't knock you down. If a person falls down it's generally from being shocked or startled at being shot. If a bullet had enough energy to push someone over it'd also have enough energy to knock over the guy who shot it. Equal and opposite reactions and all that, Sir Newton was a real buzzkill man. As to helmets, the ones in game, ACH's, will stop grenade fragments, point blank shots from a pistol, and glancing rifle rounds. They are roughly the equivalent to NIJ level IIIA. No, we don't. We learned well from those few morons in Mogadishu who did. You Fins really should stop doing that, even if it's only in training. (American military here, '02-'08.) And no the ceramic plates aren't destroyed after 2-4 shots from a 7.62x39mm. Citation.