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I don't have any issue at all finding armament. The key is that I don't expect to have a gun and ammo in my hands and be clad in military camouflage with a ballistic helmet at all times. Plus, if you know where to look...stuff really isn't that hard to find.

It's a solution for everybody who plays on private shards servers. And that's me and all the smart people.

Translation: I've grown accustomed to weapons and ammunition being extremely plentiful and easy to acquire in all places and times. Now that I can't, this game sucks.

Yes there is. Private Shard servers. Where you can't server hop for the best gear without competition. Plus, you have to find both a magazine and the matching AK for it. In the weeks that I've played exclusively on private shard servers, I have come across a single Kalashnikov report in the distance. Just one.

It's really hard to see the problem with such tiny images.

1. Not necessarily. It depends on how long it took for people to become infected, and seeing as most of the looting you'll do is based on private homes and such, it's very believable that canned food is still around. Besides, Chernarus doesn't seem like it has an extremely thick or dense population. Plus, the density of items can now be changed at will by the developers, and persistence is the ultimate goal here. Item rarity and spawning isn't finished yet. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. Your character can't find a stick in the middle of the woods. You aren't possibly going to be able to find an ashwood stick on an ashwood tree. Don't be ridiculous. 6. Yes.

They will add the ability to top off internal magazines later in development. Don't worry. But to be fair, everything that you have posted has been discussed in the past at great length. If every assault rifle had a magazine in it loaded up with thirty bullets, that would be way too much firepower to get your hands on at one time. Finding an automatic assault rifle isn't supposed to be easy or quick. It's not supposed to happen often. The more rare that high powered weaponry is and the difficulty it takes to acquire it...the more value you place on your character's life.

I would really, really like Hicks to give his two cents on this topic.

You will find an immense amount of help that you can sift through if you search the forums for your answer.

If a zombie goes through the wall or a door and you die, then you are clearly standing there and allowing it to kill you. Zombies are not dangerous; they are a nuisance and a player detector. Pro Tip: If you walk out of the room when the zombie comes in the room, it will have a more difficult time hitting you.

It's only a shame that the fifty player private shard servers all seem to be 3PP...I never play in Private shards because of server hoppers ruining the gameplay. But I prefer 1PP...I just can't have everything, I suppose. ...oh, well.

I see a great deal of DayZ related content that got me to thinking...there sure do seem to be a great deal of clans and people who treat DayZ like ARMA. Allow me to explain... So many of these clans are "sniper clans" and such. They so often all seemed to be geared up fully in all their videos, there's very little actual surviving and such that I see with these groups. I won't accuse them of all server hopping or using private servers, but it makes me wonder...what's the point of so many of these clans if they are all taking such an obviously military style approach to playing a survival game? Everybody seems to always have automatic weapons, full camo gear, assault vests, helmets...everything you could ever get. I think this is a detriment to the community in a way. I'm glad that players are banding together and having a social experience, but I simply fear that they are doing this for the wrong "reasons". I used to play with some people, but stopped after I learned that they all server hop for gear and then run back to Elecktro or Cherno to deathmatch all the time. As common as this seems to happen, I wonder how many other clans do the same. Hopefully, as survival is iterated upon and stressed more and more, we'll see less of these fully militarized units moving around the map or camping in cities. I'd like to see more emphasis placed on smaller groups being mobile instead of large immobile squads. Hopefully, persistence will be implemented in a way that encourages scavenging and mobility around the map.

Okay.

Currently, you do not need pants to be waterproof. Only the jacket and the hat matter. If you are soaked and you put the gear on, your player is still wet, but you will dry out over time and will not get any wetter unless you go swimming or run around in a pond.

To be honest, the whole reloading system needs to have changes made to it in lots of places, most of which I am certain that the Devs know about already. But being able to chamber a round before you insert the magazine is a good suggestion, though I don't think it's going to be a very high priority one. Instead of this, I'd like to see them give different animations to reloading weapons with or without rounds already in the chamber. So if I have a Makarov with a bullet left in the magazine and I want to reload, the animation would be faster since I don't have to pull back the slide and chamber a bullet since there's already one ready to go.

Using melee weapons should be the highly risky, but highly rewarding as well. Hitting somebody in the ballistic helmeted head with a baseball bat will still really hurt them. A player with a gun should still be very wary of ambushes and sneaky players. Do this by... 1) Making ammunition far less common than it is currently, making players opt for melee combat in certain scenarios for the sake of conserving ammunition 2) Give player characters momentum and weight 3) Have bladed weapons inflict bleeding with reliability, and have blunt weapons have a higher rate of fracturing. 4) Have the lengths of melee weapons determine their arc of swing, and inhibit using such weapons in small spaces

I don't think this is a bad idea, so long as it's nothing excessive.

The only item that has that functionality so far is the Zucchini.

What it looks like is somebody is tryingto run DayZ at their Windows XP work computer.

You'll have to wait for persistence to finally be finalized, where hopefully every place on the map doesn't give either too much or too little loot, and all areas are worth travelling to for scavenging.

I didn't know users were complaining about them.

Thanks for clarifying how many inches are in two feet.

The Mosin with a PU scope is my favorite weapon in this game. As an owner of a 1927 Mosin myself, it just feels sorta "right" to have on in the game. I normally opt for the PU scope over the LRS when I do have a Mosin for the sake of historical accuracy. When sniping because a thinking man's game, I'll start doing it. I don't really ever "snipe" in DayZ, but I'll wander around towns and stay out of sight and line up my shots and just be patient. We talk about sniping all the time, but when I think about it...probably 80% of my player kills are within the range of...oh...maybe 40m?

This thing you have suggested is a good thing.

Well, it doesn't look like there are any apples on that bush down there. Maybe that's just a juniper bush or something.