Sike (DayZ)

PSO scopes generally have their own range finders. Shoot enough zombies with one and you will probably become an expert at finding distance. This is why I would rather not see it. It will become the omni rifle.

Confirmed.

Who is talking about ballistics vests? Are you daft?

I really hope skype wih a standalone artist isn't a paid position.

I think your post count is high enough to warrant an award.. You don't need to continue raising it with stupid garbage.

I'm sorry I had no idea you were Russian special forces. Like hell it can't penetrate a hard plate. With standard issue hardened steel or tungsten it can make swiss cheese of hardened 1/5" steel at 100m. Of course this could be carefully planted Russian propaganda to strike fear into their enemies but I doubt it. Also there is no armor penetration in DayZ? I guess I'll start wearing my motorcycle helmet to defeat snipers now. How is the AK the paper that cover's the VSS' rock?

"most players" are scavengers going building to building getting hacked to pieces with axes and peppered with shotguns. That is because getting a scope, a rifle, the ammo and finding the right target is alot harder than running amok through a town and jumping at everything that moves. That has nothing to do with what we are talking about though. Nobody needs to stand still when you have 10-20 rounds of fully supressed and highly accurized lead at your disposal. For as long as you have ammo and as long as your target remains in your line of sight the fight is going to be completely one sided. Hell your target will be lucky just to find out what is going to put cover between him and you. Not to mention your standard 100m fight is still going to be ruled by a VSS in full auto as long as he isn't completely outnumbered.

Actually the VSS round can penetrate a steel plate a 500m. So ontop of being able to participate at what is currently max range sniping it can also make armor obsolete. Also there is the feature that makes the VSS compactable and able to be fitted in a suitcase. Do I see high capacity vest compatability in the future? Maybe. I honestly can't see this gun not becoming OP as fuck.

So you were just really lucky?

I was under the impression the devs wanted to cut down on omnipotent snipers. Now they are introducing a permenantly silenced, pinpoint accurate, and full automatic one? Talk about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fan wank. AS Val would be much more appropriate if you want to go down that road.

Forgive me I was born in the 90's. What the hell did I just watch?

I'm not doubting that you did but I was talking about a single engine Cessna and how it would go down in a realistic scenario. Since there is no actual difference between roads and someone's field that they plowed other than texture you can essentially make anything your runway no matter how ridiculous. Hell you could land an airplane in 5 feet of water and notice no discernible difference going off ARMA2. My argument in a nutshell is this game could handle helicopters since their interaction with terrain is very limited but can't handle airplanes in any way that will satisfy even people with the most limited knowledge of physics.

Why can't I compare this game to others? GTA games like San Andreas have a map roughly the size of Chernarus (or South Zegoria I'm told). In fact it is actually smaller and that game even has jets. The thing is if you want any semblance of realism you're not going to be taking off with single engine Cessnas in the open fields. If you needed to make an emergency landing you might put one down there but you're not going to get it back up, not without a huge accident. You're either stuck to the airfields or those rare stretches of road that aren't on the coast where even just a mild breeze is going to push you into a mountain. Trust me I'm a private pilot with 80+ hours experience in operating a Cessna 172. Without some serious skill and luck that is not even feasible. As for the likelihood that there are cropdusters laying around I highly doubt that. The region where all the farms are is around an airfield and if you know anything about airfields it is that flying your crop duster around it is highly dangerous and illegal not to mention there is a military base just to the south of it and any flyover could elicit a some serious consequences. None of the farms are big enough to require a cropdusting anyways. Moving on you said a Cessna makes more sense than any other aircraft (I'm assuming you're talking about military choppers). All I am going to say about that is if I had one and my homeland just turned into a warzone I would have picked it up and got out on day one, military helicopters would have been in the area for a much longer time. As for seaplanes I have no experience with those and if they are just going to be used to cruise the coastline they sound pretty useless. So moving back for a second lots of the people who are advocating for airplanes want them to require a large amount of repairs. Something very difficult to do, for that you would need to be an actual mechanic to know how to accomplish it. I can't even begin to tell you how ridiculous I think it is you have to go around scavenging through farmhouses and industrial buildings looking for specific engine parts and the specific windscreen you need. You say I can't reference other games? Fine, but that is straight up video game logic right there. Lastly "more than half of the dayz community has already voiced their opinion that they want planes and even choppers" is a cherry pick. 100 people isn't the entire DayZ community. I want to keep this poll up and going up until Q3 before we start reaching conclusions like that.

Did you even need the windscreen? Couldn't you just go into third person view in the mod?

I don't really know what game you guys are playing that you think it is a good idea to have airplanes. Maybe in Grand Theft Auto it makes sense to hijack a plane and cruise to your destination for 2 and a half minutes because that game is centered around near mindless entertainment where if you're made to try to accomplish something for more than 5 minutes you will probably feel like turning the game off. That is probably why they introduced fast travel after GTA SA. Chernarus isn't that big. Going from the most southwest point on the map to the most northeast is 20km. Going the top speed of a standard single engine Cessna you can make that entire trip in just 4 minutes. Don't get me wrong, going from Vybor to Berizino in under 2 minutes sounds tempting but it just removes all the challenge. Additionally there is limited space to land. The only areas flat enough to take off and land are by the airfields and you are guaranteed to get ganked the moment you land at any one of them so while it may sound like a good idea to play around with one it really isn't.