DexD5

As he said, it is relatively useless against filtering out people speaking in the background, music in the background. Non omnidirection mics and quiet rooms are most likely what you are hearing, noise canceling only works up to a point. The more aggressive it is, the more it cuts from the sounds you actually want the mic to be picking up.

Doing it out doors is best. Walls can swallow up items, dropping containers on anything other than the ground floor is bad too, it falls straigh through most of the time. There is also almost always a lag. If you drop it, stay where you are and wait upto a minute, 99% of the time for me it shows up. As others ahve said you can also put cases in your hand to take things out.

Not sure if trolling or just stupid but either way, I might bite. Would love to come forcefeed some bambis disinfectant and rubbing alcohol.

I think this make it a lot more immersive and realistic but there is no possible way to implement this. Even if you force direct chat on all the time, people will just specify a different default input for DayZ to use. It will have the opposite effect, people will actually disable their mics for dayz so they can continue to have private chat on TS, Mumble and Skype. DayZ/Arma 2 doesn't support stereo inputs either so some people like myself could connect their mic to the other channel (arma engine only takes one channel) and programs like mumble mixes stereo inputs to mono, so everyone on mumble could still hear them. Not allowing DayZ to run while these third party applications are running won't work either. Apart from obvious software workarounds, People could use another device. Most people have access to smart phones, tablets. Mic's with a built in mute button are cheap that some people could get for use with dayz. I think people who want this experience only have the option to play on a private server where this is a rule and you only allow trustworthy players into the community. You will obviously get some breaking the rule, but it will cut it down a lot.