kingochaos

If the military have em, they do belong, the problem was that not every grunt carries a 50, a ksvk should be in there too. for that matter m2's(obviously not really portable, but in arma you can break em down, into tripod and gun, and two people can transport em. This stuff is there irl... its bread and butter stuff o the worlds military... so are flir scopes for that matter... hell i can buy em from my local gun store.. inspite o the bleating on these forums that they dont exist irl :lol: And yes, bad ass moutain hats and pipes ahould definatly be there too! The problem was with duping, and they spawned to commonly to start with.

Its actually pretty easy to fly any o the choppers without tail rotors in arma... yah just gotta get enough forward momentum that air resistance o tail off sets torque of engine, to take off with a stuffed tail rotor, yah just get altitude, you will be spinning, then drop throttle while diving til yah doing around 60 then start increasing throttle again, and leveling, landins are a little more tricky, but still easy enough

yah gotta make the swap, from back pack to inventory, not the other way around... other wise they can evaporate ;) (so click the weapon in back pack across to inventory, not from inventory to back pack)

I did a quick google of makarov muzzle velocities of the pm makarov, all the standard loads are subsonic, and should work silently in a suppressed pistol... It shouldnt make one iota of difference between sd and normal mags.

you can fire supersonic rounds out of a silenced weapon... and vice versa. Suppressors work with both, but it reduces the noise with subsonic rounds a lot more, truth is pistols are only just verging on supersonic (9mm) depending on load, so most rounds would still work fine with a silencer. I remember years ago, when people werent making suppressors for large calibre centre fires, the silencer used to mess with the accuracy, but id say this has something to do with the shock wave and baffles, and dosnt seem an issue with modern ones, must have allowed for the greater pressures from supers. (although ive seen an sks blow a suppressor to bits, with the baffles being rattled outta alignment.) So for a comparrison with rifles, a .223 (5.56mm) sounds like a .22 when suppressed firing supers, or a .308(7.62mm) sounds like a .223. ill edit in the why... a suppressor works like a muffler, it traps the gas as it leaves the muzzle, through a series of baffles, slowing its release, greatly reducing the boom, from the expanding gases, however if the bullet is still supersonic, it will still crack as its breaking the sound barrier, but it is still a lot quiter.

My ole 75lb eastern eagle can smash a broad head through a goat skull just fine(@ 30yards... IRL with a broad head, with a bodkin, piss easy).... i wouldnt bank on it with say a buffalo/ cow, nor will some rifles... but human, hell yes it would, the chance o deflection is increased, it could glance/ graze, but hit square, they will smash through a skull no problems at all. Yes, you can make bolts/quarrels/ or arrows or what ever you want to call em outta wood.. they need to be thicker than alloy, and thus heavier (ive heard o carbon fibre arrows smashing on release with an 80lb bow, so F that, id only use em on a lil target bow) remember, its mass times velocity squared, my bow set at 55lbs will throw a lighter arrow just as fast, as when at 75lbs, but it can throw a heavier arrow at the same speed with more energy... they dont compare to high powered rifle o course. But they sure as hell have the kinetic energy to penetrate skulls, im not guessing. Edited in, you shoot for the shoulder when hunting, with rifle or bow, because it is a huge target, youve got the heart and lungs, lots o major blood vessels, and the shoulder blade will be smased also, meaning it aint going far, the brain can be harder to find than yah think with head shots, but if yah shooting an animal from behind, with a bow, back o the neck at base o skull is ideal(with a rifle, yah can just send a round from its back side out its brisket, but the ball joint is still the best shot to take in my eyes)... and an arrow will punch right through from there.

At first i liked the idea o this patch... But id have to agree with the thread op... It has made it rather mundane... But on the plus.. Or another negative (im undecided) wasteland has seen an influx o players. (the increase in hacking a holes seems disproptionate to players. ;-)

I think you would find... if we are talking realistic, after about a day with the power off using a blood bag would be a gamble... several days suicide(if it hadnt totally congealed) Its living cells... organic, it would rot... and pouring rot into your veins, would kill yah liver and kidney, give you septicemia, and kill you rather quickly... its not like freeze dried noodles in a bag eh.. So nothing wrong with the infection chance IMHO. edit in... its still not "realistic", but its a game, there is no way in hell you could use blood bags that have been sitting at room temp for any amount o time, period. I like the infection chance thing, just cause it makes antibiotics more valuable... we take em for granted... but just a sore throat without em will give yah scarlet fever, a jaw abscess is potentially fatal... i like how these changes bring antibiotics more to the fore.

They actually had a lot o this stuff you are complaining about in a way earlier version(the Z behaviour and spawn, about 1.6, maybe later 1.5's, originally the only way to loose a Z was kill it, the evading was added.. dont recall what version exactly)... you wont be alone in your complaints when its released ;-) last time the forums filled with threads complaining about it, they put in a hot fix and reverted it back very quickly... i dunno, i didnt mind that much, it just meant it was suicide to play in day time servers.

I think it may be you.. there are servers that are laggy, and they can be frustrating to play on, so i generally change servers... But as a general rule, someone running a much greater latency, is at a huge disadvantage, in my experience, in every online game ive played.

Yea good idea, slung SA80 style across front, i even sling my hunting rifles this way IRL now, cause its so fast to bring up, even when riding my bike on the farm... Its realistic for sure.

Bang bang bang bang bang click.. "IM FRIENDLY, IM FRIENDLY"

So Germans still need hax even with the rail gun? :)

Had a rabbit chasing after me (i was on a push bike) after i shot a guy outside novy sobre, the rabbit was yelling over side for me to stop... i didnt, then my legs broke.. but i was still riding the bike, but i decided to stop be fore getting insta killed, he asked me why i killed the dude yada yada, i gave some BS excuse, he then offered to grant one wish o free gear, excluding vehicles, i asked for a coyote back pack and i got it >:( BAD KingOchaos taking gear from hackers :( This would be around june i think, at the time most creative hacker id seen

Dunno, a sledge hammer will kill a cow, dunno how much success you will have at skinning and gutting the bugger with it... maybe your axe is too blunt :D

yea they are, got better ballistics than a .50 though... awesome cartridge.

I dont have an issue with there being high end military gear available... there is plenty o evidence that there was international military intervetion/aid at the out break, so its not inconsistent... butend o the day, i aint allthat worried either way... i do however think that people may be surprised to find that in ex soviet block countries, they do drive other cars than lada's,they have heard o optics, probably... I have 7 or 8 hunting rifles... everyone has a scope... all but my lil m10 22 out hit a 7.62... scopes are cheap and common, soft nose rounds make BIG holes... take a .270, its 1000fps faster than a 7.62, its flat shooting out to 500, but looses punch faster past that compared to 7.62, but if we are being authentic, this should be a 1 hit gun... as would most hunting rifle, roundd combos... so if yah want mid last century wea ons, call em that... hunters are killing animals up to 5 times our size, and a lot tougher than us to boot.

I rekon a compound bow... a long bow made o yew, is a mission to use( i do a lil bow hunting, but have no illusions that i would have any great ability with a 120lbs long bow)... i suppose you could make it so you could make em, havnt seen much yew in game though :D

I remember playing around with an old breach loading flint and percussion cap carbine that was at an old farm house when i was a kid(from maori wars, nz)... It had a bayonet that was about 2 and a half feet long, with a double serated top edge, it was F'n MEAN! It would have been over .50, apparently it loaded paper like cartridges, but could also be used as a muzzle loader(it did have a rifled barrel) Everything about it was awesome, solid as a club, the bayonet was like a bloody short sword, there would be no walking away from that after it put a hole in yah!! something like this would be awesome! The old guy there also had a .303 from boar war (i know wrong spelling, war in s africa toward end o 19th century) that stood about 6 feet long :-) and irons that wound out to 2000 yards... some o those old weapons are just kewl :thumbsup:

Ahhh, some people get PTSD, more people get like a combat anxiety? i dont think they are the same thing. Most soldiers arnt F'd in the head, despite what Hollywood may have you believe... but things can trigger their fight or flight response a lot easier than other people is all. (car back firing, catching quick movement out the corner o yah eye etc.. gets their hearts racing and reaching for a rifle that isnt there, gets it going faster) This isnt a disadvantage, it just means their natural reactions are more highly tuned to deal with violent confrontations.. so i think making it so its a disadvantage, is unrealistic. Our urbanized and sanitized societies, are pretty sheltered from the harsh realities, o what really can, and does go on in the wider world, everyday. The people involved in this stuff still function, their reactions are tuned to deal with their reality.. its generally only adjusting back to safe quite sanitized civilization, that it can be seen as an issue.

Surviving the other players is, part of survival, what you want is to play a scoot n loot. like the fallouts etc. IRL, when society has broken down (somalia, congo, sudan, lesser extent east timor etc) Society fragments, resources dwindle, and law dies... banditry, murder rape and mayhem become the norm, driven by need, and greed. Sure, groups band together, but its to screw over the next group, or defend against another group (gangs, militia, rebels, all the same thing, they are in it for personal gain... thats the reality, of what happens, its well documented. (and a hell o a lot more brutal than any thing that goes on in dayz obviously) The freedom in dayz see's the same thing happen, driven by the same things, paranoia, and competition for resources, just on a lot smaller scale.

it would kill you quickly and painfully ;)

Why would someone do this... To get yah kit when he has nothing to loose... was it stupider running to the aid of an unknown and putting yah self in that situation, or him attempting to take advantage o yer kindness? How is this going to change in standalone?

Axes are pretty effective with the blunt end as a weapon... i think the bluntingas razor was explaining wasmore to do with its ability to gather wood (a blunt axe will still cut wood just fine truth be told.. not as quickly as a sharp one is all, and make no difference for splitting.. but this is a game, so i aint really fussed either way personally.) The weak part o an axe is the handle o course... if yah break that they are useless, and theyre easy to break if yah over swing.. soo that imo should be what can be wreaked on em. but i aint fussed either way.

You can give yer self IV's, we used to do it(same army as rocket, a few years earlier) in east timor, be doing patrols in 45+ C with 60+ kilo's on yer back( worst than patrols, would be clearing a village or such in body armor), Its a lot easier to bag yerself before yah unconscious, than have to bag yah mate when hes fitting on the ground... not blood o course(you would die within minutes id imagine, it being in that heat for any time) But saline bags. junkies IV themselves all the time. The trick with trauma kits, is the needles have a catheter, so once yah find the vein, yah push the catheter up it, so even moving around it wont pop through the side and collapse the vein.