overdosed (DayZ)

There are no sure spawns for the mosin. You can try all the usual places - military bases, airfields and bigger towns. Though its substantially rarer than the m4 you should be able to find one easily after server restarts.

You can say the same about not staying at the coast, and avoiding the roads. To my knowledge theres no tactic that can fully help you avoid danger. About that loading sound though, thatll be helpful. Although ive heard it several times in the past few days and after assuming that theres someone around me I immediately entered combat mode and cleared the area around me but every time to no avail. Its probably still global like zombies and soda cans.

Just wondering is it possible to take both rifles with you? I already tried putting 1 in my backpack but it wont let me, and yes i have the biggest backpack. Also tried taking it into the melee weapon slot but it still didnt work. If you cant you really should be able to. Im pretty sure that the fire axe is just as heavy and cumbersome to carry as an M4, if not even more as its weight is not evenly distributed. I guess there should be some restrictions like not being able to carry a second weapon if you have an lmg(though thats still in the future) or something else deemed too heavy or powerfull enough on its own.

If you put the weapon thats in your hands on your back when you switched weapons instead of dropping it, then I wouldve assumed its not a bug, but the way it is now its just too gimmicky and not at all realistic or logical.

Ah, so I guess its just an unintended gimmicky bug. Not really worth it then.

Thanks, but one more thing, or two I guess, which slot does the second weapon take and do i have the drop my melee weapon.

Found a pretty friendly dude after about half an hour. We scavenged a bit and then he went offline, nothing interesting. My second encounter though was some serious fun(atleast for me as im a first timer with dayz). After spending a full day without dying and visited some villages, 1 big city and 2 military camps i headed to the airfield(already had a fully modded mosin and a pistol with enough ammo to kill atleast 2 servers worth of ppl, and a good amount of food and medical supplies) there managed to scrap up a fully modded m4 with a silencer, flashlight and an acog and since i didnt really encounter anyone after about half an hour of scavenging around the place i got cocky and decided to check out the air control tower like the idiot that I am. And again like the idiot that I am I used my flashlight to look around the top floor when someone just peppered the place with automatic fire. I immediately went prone and got to the second floor. After I was out of immediate danger I secured the first floor and closed the doors. Then I spent 5 minutes patrolling around the windows and talking trying to locate the guy, but didnt have much luck. Finally i got tired of waiting around secured the exit and went of at full speed towards the woods through the firehouse. The guy didnt try to chase me. I guess he wasted all his ammo on the first unsuccessful attack or just didnt want a direct confrontation with his sneak attack failing like it did.

Because when I spawned(totally new to dayz, zero map knowledge) I ended up making a full circle and got back to where I spawned wasting like an hour, because there arent enough street signs to help navigate without a map and because for some reason you have to collect map pieces to get the full map and they are rare as hell. Only managed to find one for a full day of playing with the same character after visiting 4 villages, 2 cities, 2 military camps and the airfield. And the piece that i found pretty much described the area that ive already gone through in my first hour while making that full circle. If you want realism you should be able to find a shit ton of maps at every gas station and store and atleast one map at every second house.