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There are plenty of servers that convincingly fake status messages.

1. Third party comms are here to stay, as is the simple expedient of playing with people in the same room. The in-game comms simply stink anyways; I've never, ever been able to understand a word anyone is saying through them. 2. There is enough variability in hardware to make gamma adjustments necessary, plus the whole thing about varying brightness levels in the room your monitor is in. Proper design of materials and shaders will preclude exploiting gamma anyways. 3. This is very easily fixed. A bigger problem than all of this is the rampant server hopping. That's easily addressed with private hives.

This is not really feasible for technical reasons. Adding one new car or statue or house costs the same as adding 100 of that thing. It all has to be on your hard drive, plus loaded into memory at some point while playing. There is plenty of variety already, and reasons to go places or avoid them. If you don't know them yet, maybe you should work on learning them.

You do realize that it generally takes much longer than 1 hour for dawn and dusk to resolve, right? How the hell are you supposed to have a 1 hour cycle? Do you live in a cave? Do you even go outside? This would also remove a lot of elements in regards to navigating by the sun/stars. Deal with it.

There are plenty of ways to do it - I've been on the receiving end of some of them. And no, buildings do not need work for "gameplay purposes"; they need work to make them functional and believable buildings. Screwing around with architecture to fit someone's notion of good gameplay in a game like this is silly, and misses the entire point.

First round hits out to 950 are definitely doable with the Mosin if they stand still long enough.

Some of your complaints are valid - furniture affecting accuracy, lol - but others, not so much. Virtually any of these optics with the exception of the russian side-mount stuff should be mountable on virtually anything else. Whining about a lack of drilled/tapped holes for rings on the Mosin? Get out of here.

Yeah, but this won't work once they actually get zombie spawning working. Much of the challenge in navigating in the mod was avoiding zombie infested areas and various other hotspots.

They do, but that doesn't mean they'll grow on trees, or that the ammo will. Case in point, look how many people here have never so much as touched a real firearm. A lot of people are like that, and they won't have the faintest idea where to find a weapon or what to put in it during a zombie apocalypse. Making a bow is not all that hard. It's a legit survival skill even in a modern setting. I don't really see what the OP is griping about. There have been a number of times I've had to use much more primitive skills IRL than are available in-game. All we're doing right now is running around looking for cans of beans.

With some patience and multiple attempts with the hold-breath key, I landed a hit from 940m last night. (edited to add - from a standing position) Seriously guys, he was coming right for me. I had to do it!

I actually like how the original Operation Flashpoint handled a lot of the irons. I also wouldn't mind seeing proper focus on the front sight post when using the "hold breath" key for seriously aimed shots. With a pistol, pretty much everything other than the front sight should be out of focus. With a rifle you get the same thing, but to a lesser extent due to the longer sight radius. What we have in-game is pretty much nothing like actually aiming a firearm with irons.

I think the current meta for obtaining food is silly anyways. I much preferred the mod. A key point to hunting, though, is that you're not going to be able to have 40 people running around shooting wildly at things to eat them. It's going to require paying attention (to spot the animals) and discretion so that you don't get whacked while doing it. A huge part of the latter will be proper preparation - knowing where you can safely hunt, navigating there, bringing enough water and other things you need, etc. Cities are already a deathtrap. Not sure why we need to reduce food in them. Hunting > bean searching, by a wide margin.

2 days, found 2 pristine LRS's and a pristine FNX sight. Needless to say, I'm now paranoid.

No need. Hunting, vehicles, and non-placeholder zombie spawning will address your concerns. The Mod already demonstrated this.

Best way to get a handle on range until we get military scopes/rangefinders is to use this to create range cards for your firing positions.

You shouldn't miss even with a can of beans for a stock. Even 200m is spitting distance for a rifle. The M4 with the proper furniture, no bipod, and any of the sighting options seems to perform close enough to OK that you could just blame it on the wind and call it a day.

Performance and 3d vs non-3d scopes should be a non-issue. Games have been doing that for a long time.

I've been back for a week and, and every other day I see someone acting like they have the old ESP nonsense from the mod.

Honestly, private hives would support any sort of gameplay that anyone wants. I'm not too worried about it.

I'm in favor of letting you do this for the shotgun, but understand that you'd lose the unfired shell. It's going to eject along with the spent one in the other barrel. The SKS and Mosin should be able to be easily topped off, though.

He would have died eventually. I'm not sure what you're expecting - instant death from 1-2 non-headshots?

You can just take the buttstock off entirely and still shoot just fine. This whole thing about weapons attachments on the M4 affecting accuracy is idiotic. The only thing that would really make any difference is adding a free-float handguard, and even that would be minor in game terms. Most military M4/M16's clatter and wobble because the upper half doesn't fit firmly on the lower half, and you can still hit man sized targets at 500m with irons. Changing the stock means nothing.

That's not all that hard if you're willing to fling potshots at a pig you see 400m away. Sport hunting has ethical concerns that are totally irrelevant in DayZ. The main difficulty with hunting is going to be not giving away your position or attracting zombies.

It is due to the limitations of how FPS games are displayed on monitors. Read my post again. Our current irons are decidedly unrealistic, because it's like aiming the rifle with your head quite a ways back from the sights. Only an idiot aims like that. The "zoomed in" irons aren't zoomed in; they're normal. It's the regular first/third person view that is zoomed out.

Why? The unnatural element here is the non-zoomed default state. Making objects appears as large as they would in real life requires a very limited field of view. The default field of view is zoomed out in order to balance apparent size and monitor resoution while trying to make up for a lack of peripheral vision. Having a regular "hey let's look over here" zoom-in as we do now, plus a bit of zoom on irons, is perfectly fine and not unrealistic at all. Personally, it annoys me when I'm using, say, M4 iron sights and they're freakishly tiny compared to real life. That rear aperture should take up a good half inch on your screen if you're shooting nose-to-charging-handle, based on typical distance to a PC monitor.