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I agree. If you can predict your loot just by locking at a building that's a bad thing. Of course you should be able to have a general idea (Military base -> military loot ; appartment house -> food/clothes) but you shouldn't know that there will be a basic rifle on the shelf in that particular creme and green building.

As awesome as the fixed loot spawning is, I hope it won't lead to a overflow...

Currently the M4 has enormous bullet spread. As people already stated, at the moment only magpul parts seem to help.....

Well, if this is true I'm very happy, sneaky or not.

My knowlege of guns is pretty limited, but I'd prefer an eastern european gun, bonus points if it is an older one. A few have been mentioned already. For example the Skorpion or the pp-2000. Someone also mentioned a ppsh-41 and while it would be rather silly, It would still be pretty damn awesome :D

Pretty much my feelings. I do like the MP5 in FPS games, but for some reason I think it does not really fit into dayz.

Honestly, I'd love that. It might not be as fitting as other guns, and the gun nuts will surely want something newer. But still... It would be epic, I loved this gun so much in Red Orchestra!

That's exactly why it is boring. It can be found in nearly every game. And while it indeed is rather common, I'd still prefer a distinctly eastern weapon.

I really hope it's no mp5. It would be pretty boring and bland. I really am hoping for an eastern smg. Preferably an older one.

I suppose hunting will be super easy in the start. With animals brainlessly standing/walking around. I do agree though, it should be somewhat of a challenge, else it would probably achieve the opposite of what it is supposed to do and make survivng easy and dull.

Longer lasting corpses would be great. It would definately increase the immersion to see the remains of the less fortunate survivors and it would also make looting player corpses less suicidal. Sure, there will be exploits like flygamer pointed out, but I think it's worth it nonetheless.

I agree with OP. Thanks for the effort! :beans:

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When i started playing Dayz, I met a bunch of people who did exactly that. Server hopping / duping etc. . Of course playing with them was not really fun so I quickly quit the group. I gotta add that these guys were real pricks though. Not only did they server hop and dupe, they also used to befriend people to shoot them in the back 5 minutes later. I don't think exploiters are necessarily bad people, but usually they also are pricks.

I actually caught myself doing this once or twice. It really made me question my sanity :D

Good idea. Making it a toggleable option will give people the choice wether they want or don't want it.

That is definitely true. I killed and got killed this way a lot. I gotta admit, when I first played SA (never played the mod) I was really surprised that 3rd person was so popular. Actually it even surprised me that it was there at all. First person seems much more natural to me (especially in this kind of game), and even if I play on a reg-server I mostly stay in first person. I wonder what makes people prefer 3rd person though. There can't be that many people who suffer of motion sickness :D

Nationalist morons are everywhere. So they will also be found in video games.

Well, when I wrote "old russian stuff" i was refering to the more civilian type of loot, since OP made it sound like automatic weapons are very common among civilians. Of course the military would have more modern weapons. About UN forces and their weapons, sure let them be there. Personally I do think the game would be more immersive if those high grade weapons were kept very rare. I am not a gun nut either so I don't care about some fancy guns a collector would drool over. I don't even know what a Sa-58 whatever is :P edit: Junk loot is a good idea in my opinion. After the apocalypse there should be a lot of stuff lying around. But most of it might be useless. Also, am I the only one who likes the wool coats? I think they look terrific. I agree on the zombie aspect though. It's pretty game breaking at the moment, and i hope for it to be worked on with high priority.

Really? Not enough "cool looking guns" are your biggest concern? This game beeing in alpha means that core features are beeing implemented: Zombie behaviour, Health, survival..... Guns are just the icing on the cake. Plus, I don't even see how there are not enough weapons. They just added 4 new guns in the latest patch, and an Ak and the p38 are anounced. There are plenty of guns (on the way). Also: How are the current guns not "cool" ? The current guns are pretty cool: a bolt action rifle for sniping, a m4 (unrealisticly acting as smg :D ), a shotgun (whats more awesome than a good ol' shotty in a zombie apocalypse?) .22 peashooters... This game is not set in america, but in a country in eastern europe. It makes perfect sense for a majority of the weapons to be old stuff from the russian army. I doubt you would find lots of modern and expensive western guns there. Additionally, older weapons fit the gritty apocalypse setting way better than some shiny fresh-out-of-factory guns.

OP has a valid point, although he is unable to make a constructive thread out of it. I can't think of a reason why you would add random insults to your post except of beeing simply malicious or immature...

Starting of today, I shall call it N15!

Yep, the police station weapon loot seems pretty awkward. I'd expect pistols (and mags for them, pls :) ) to spawn there, and not military rifles or hunting shotguns.

I also noticed this. Places were loot used to spawn were empty. I encountered it rather frequently, especially in the brick bar/café building.

Well, the dispersion may (hopefully) be just a stop-gap feature. I hope it gets replaced by sway over the developement. However, i think dispersion would still be a cool feature on damaged weapons.