q.S Sachiel

cool or cold? I fire if threatened. Otherwise it's flee.

It would appear you lack a sense of humor sir. I apologize if my aside insulted you or whatever religious sensitivities you may hold, and i urge you not to derail the topic further. As another aside, people seem to think that balance is some kind of communist system where everything gets brought to a single point of equality. Balance in general means that a particular avenue is not more or less attractive. This means that there are tight corners for shotguns, long open fields for longarms, and plenty of things to shoot at with automatic rifles. 'Balance' can be acchieved more wholly (IMO) by developing the world and gameplay mechanics, rather than just tweaking the weapon statistics. That said, if we get railguns that do 9000+damage and turn gunplay into something akin to *sense of humor required* then i'd be kicking up a stink. But the AKM is not some god-gun imo. Then again, i'm the guy who ran the Kar98 in DoD and the like :o) TBH i have only used the AKM and was quite disappointed that there was no alternate (semi-automatic) fire modes available. I definitely enjoy the 75 rounds, and there are situations where automatic is useful, but for the most part, it's just a bigger badder sks with a clumsier, more unwieldly feel to it. Also, isn't Chernarus 25x25km^2? Im counting the squares in dayz map theres like 15x15 yeah, but damn does it take a long time to jog 15k... average walking speed is like 4k/h. eat more beans!

It's not an approximate, afaik it's just a cumbersome reticule, due to a cheap purchase from a now dead previous owner. I think the devs want a degree of uncertainty involved, so rather than give you a top-of-the line model, they've given you a dodgy cheapo model that's good for 'approximating' range if you get the hang of it, but it should still give the actual range at point of laser intersection, +/- whatever error (if they have coded error in). You can get a better idea (if only slightly) by using it but you're not going to be able to toggle the man down to the meter unless you use a little nouse and have a steady hand / know where to pip him. I chalk it up to realism and they're making you work for it. Not worth it? don't carry it and learn to estimate distance, even if you gotta pop off a shot or two first to guague drop.

Just hold the target in the centre? Worst comes to worst you could always just take a guess that it's either the 375mark or the 1000m hinterground?

yep.

I've killed more people with my SKS than the bubonic plague did, ten times over. Just saying. But you're correct, eastern bloc automatic rifles have no place in an eastern european setting, one where a military force has been active over the course of a campaign to quell a civil conflict. You make me think of superintendent Chalmers from The Simpsons: Superintendent Chalmers: “Thank the Lord”? That sounded like a prayer. A prayer in a public school. God has no place within these walls, just like facts don’t have a place within an organized religion.

Yeah would have been seagull? private shard i'm surmising.

Yep I refer to them as schools. They may be something else in the code. Police stations are the yellow buildings with the octahedral spire and a central spiral staircase. Fire stations also have quite some nice equipment and weapons/ammunition and are bulky buildings with big red metal doors and an internal square staircase that goes up three floors through large open windows.

I'm holding out for it to die in Beta, whenever that rolls around... but even Arma3 is a nasty little number at times, though leagues ahead of DayZ

my dream is that in gold, we'll have a lot more zombies shambling and moving about (particularly in urbanised areas). In this scenario (and many others) telling friend from foe isn't as easy as a shoulder check. People have enough trouble with distinguishing friend from foe when wearing uniforms, let alone civilian/informal gear...

just like i expected (cherno)russian toilet paper to be solid and traditional

I'm not sure if it's just head sway, but it may not work in 3pp?

zombies can transcend time. Alpha here means 'start' not 'pinnacle of success' just btw ;)

I believe Bohemia bought up Dean's idea which started as a 3p mod on their software Arma3. AFAIK it's a wholly owned property of BI.

Oh more young'ns :) I see you in my mind's eye, frolicking down the street, picking up zucchinis and thinking you're the luckiest man in the world. Then someone comes and breaks your legs with a steel pipe and you're forced to roll and crawl to the nearest multistorey appartment and throw yourself from it. Hope you enjoy DayZ, and take every encounter with a human as an extremely risky and potentially life threatening experience. Enjoy :) Ah yes, and as per above, check out the key bindings in the options menu, everything you will ever need is in there.

You can expect at least 1 more wipe - the day before DayZ goes gold. Could you imagine the sweet sweet tears on this server, day1, of people complaining that all they can find is a strand of hair, while everyone else has rawcket lawnchus?

Would have been more helpful if you got a shot of the player list, server information, time date etc... Otherwise this is more a show and tell ;) Good thing he didn't see you though huh. And what's with your camera/editing? Really strange sway and zoom going on there... Kichi should be here shortly to tell you where to put the information if you have it, or just look at the post below this.

Yeah, fill it with something like wool or nylon twine and make sure you drill small holes in the front / sides. If it's a pressure vessel it will probably just amplify the sound, and although it's probably not going to be strong enough to restrict gas flow, the explosion of the bottle may be dangerous as i think he found out ;). For a .22 you probably only need a little kid's juice bottle or something. OK yes you're correct on a more semantic level. But i'd say that a hydraulic shock absorber works in a similar fashion to a pneumatic hammer, but of course there are differences. The take home message is that the two both change the direction of flow and rate of escape / expansion of the gasses released due to propellant combustion, which is one of the main sources of sound released due to weapon operation. The two items are not co-compatable. Watch the suppressor video, it pretty much rehashes everything we've said together, and the revolver note at the start is directly applicable to why the two will not work in tandem.

Mossberg Ionising Shotgun i do believe. Guaranteed to kill and cook your chook on the spot or your money back.

i never said it was blue, please don't put words in my mouth. brb gonna meme the shit out of this post tho... Edit: Hey guise, I put the photo up a while ago of this cute dress i bought for myself. I really like the colour - white and green - but my room mate thinks it's gold and pink!!! I KNOW RIGHT? Am I going crazy? I'm sure it's green and white!?!?!

A suppressor acts in a similar way to a compensator, as BigMike said. The two do basically the same thing, only a suppressor will capture a greater amount of the gas/prevent a violent escape meaning it should actually lend to greater control than the compensator. This does however mean that your damage should decrease due to the force being restrained, but I'm not sure if DayZ applies this at the moment. I know Arma3 does for sure. Just sayan. A shotgun choke modifies the spread/pattern of the shot, it doesn't have a substantial effect on power or gas release. It's more a physical barrier than a pressure regulator. http://www.briley.com/understandingshotgunchokesabriefexplanationbybriley.aspx Choke: edit- site prevents linking, google choke: first hit. Suppressorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_brake Muzzle Break/Compensator breaks are more intended to alter / reduce the muzzle flare (flame out of barrel) once fired, but again: by dispersing the gas pressure escaping from the barrel, you are reducing the force that propels the round. To give you an example: Consider a steep hill with a river flowing down it. A large rain event occurs causing the river to swell, move rapidly, and entrain sediment into it as it travels towards the distributary. While moving, the sediment in suspension is moving about the same speed as the water: very fast. Now the river is slamming into the open body of water that receives river. The volume of the open water is massive compared to the confined volume of river water. Once that river hits the ocean/whatever all that fast moving sediment will fall out of suspension and get dumped almost immediately into the basin of the open body of water. All that energy is being dispersed rapidly in all directions, where before it was being concentrated in one direction, so the force must decrease in the direction it was traveling slowing the particles. (reduce energy = reduce heat + sound + light etc..) This is analogous to the gas escaping the barrel carrying a round or shot.

Given the sheer amount of mouthwatering froth in the first 2 pages of this post... Can we please agree that the PTRS should be introduced as the DM/SR :) I know that when i want to kill flies i use a sledgehammer, why should DayZ be any different. Also, this is an example of a '30s rifle that had a bipod... being a 30's weapon doesn't mean squat. They had Gatling cannons at/before the turn of the century (not milennium).

This has been discussed before (not saying UTMFSE) but: practicality: confirms you're finishing off / healing the correct player prior to committing to the act realism: everyone looks pretty identical for the most part in DayZ, being distinguishable only on kit + basic character qualities (mostly hidden by kit anyway). If leaning in to help someone as close as you are to check their pulse, you'd see their face and would be able to identify them as a unique individual.

The mod allowed it, and you could before a certain patch, many many many moons ago. I doubt there's any bipod mosins still rocking about but you never know, what with the odd sleeper and such... But yeah, doesn't have any rails to support the bipod. It's a flush stock, sorry brah. Also, i've shot a .308 and .223 from a sled many a times while sitting. There is still sway don't you worry... DayZ is sometimes rather generous tbh when given to sway, as much as i like the cs point and click, this is a simulator at heart.

To give in to the old trope of criticising your 1 forum post may be wrong but.. either there is interest or there isn't, and if there is, people either swarm to your area to trade (and attack traders) or you end up the group picking off the traders when they've got some good stuff... I call foul.