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It's got an extremely long way to go if it wants to be one of the best games of the century. Like, an impossibly long way.

I think making guns hard to get would only serve to enlarge the gap between clans/large groups and the individual lone wolfs (which is already big since most casual individual players don't have suppressed M4's and a thousand rounds w/ ghillie suit and so on). The big groups have a bunch of people all looting and sharing their stuff. The game would suck at that point, you'd have big groups running around with guns while the casual lone wolf player gets slaughtered without even being able to fight back with semi-equal force. If there are going to be guns in dayz they have to be readily available to all.

yyeahhh but how many blazer rifles would realistically be laying around? I see them a lot in Chenarus. There were like 6 million M1's manufactured so it's not a super rare gun, can't imagine Chenarus would have a lot of them but this a video game after all. As for .30-06 or 7.62 nato, in military spec they are almost identical ballistically.

I want this in dayz:

Yeah being able to layer clothes would be awesome. Like a t-shirt, then a hoodie, then a raincoat.

I've never even been spoken to, just murdered on sight for the most part. One time I came face to face with a guy, he had a rifle in hand and I had nothing in hand. I decided to hold my hand up in a "hi, whats up" kind of gesture (I don't have a mic), he didn't shoot me so I assumed I managed to find a chill person, so I continued my looting. Went in a shed, came out the other side still unarmed because I didn't feel like being in a gunfight, the dude was there waiting. We stare at eachother for a little bit, then he shoots me in the face. Cool dude, you shot a unarmed person while you were fully geared and didn't need any more loot. Must've been awesome.

yep. I for one feel that the KOS in dayz is a insight into what would happen if a zombie apocalypse type thing actually happened. The friendly people would get taken out by the evil/desperate, other friendlies would hear/see this happening and become unfriendly in response, leaving only the evil/desperate/friendly-turned-unfriendly people. Would not be a nice place to live.

I am extremely cautious of every player I meet in game. Even the fresh spawns, I'll never turn my back to them or do anything that moves my gun out of hand. Heroes trying to help me are likely to get a bullet in the head (or more realistically, a bunch of buckshot evenly distributed, haha). I don't need your help, I need you to fuck off and leave me be. People acting overly friendly/helpful make me even more skeptical. It's a damn video game, it isn't hard to succeed at. If I run into 4 zombies as a fresh spawn I'm done for, I'll take my licks and try again. Don't need a self proclaimed hero to intervene.

Yeah it needs to be so bad that the sight of another human is a relief, you should want to find and team up with each other.

I don't have a microphone either. Hasn't ever been an issue, nobody has ever hailed me. They either shoot me or make hand gestures, which is what I do. I'll make a heart with my hands, if they return it then they are chill (in my experience anyway).

Last death was through walls/floors by a couple decked out COD wanna-be's. Got one of them w/ my sawed off when he cockily barged around the corner expecting a dead body and likely ruined all his stuff.

Yeah I've seen a lot of this too. Players completely decked out in gear who are basically playing COD in dayz. I don't even get satisfaction from killing them because I know they likely have buddies or a tent somewhere where they can gear back up immediately. When they kill me I've got hours of looting ahead of me to get back to where I was, unless I get lucky.

Yeah but they only work on rifles that most of us never see...

I know where to find guns and ammo and axes... do enough looting and you'll figure it out too. The coast is usually barren from fresh spawns picking it clean, gotta head inland. Also, choice of server is the biggest variable, some are just picked clean and there is nothing around, others are chock full of stuff, just depends on your timing.

Yeah it's not easy to do, but people do it (mostly people who use garands in competition). I was just saying that it is a "thing", mostly it would be easier for the developers and the players if it used the same ammo as the mosin and blaze 95.

Yeah I've been playing for around 140 hours and I've never come across an assault rifle. ANY rifle beats not having one, I've made some seriously long range shots with the blaze 95, I LOVE the iron sights on that thing. The repeater is super useful, don't know how anyone could call it useless. .357 ammo is plentiful so it's a no brainer, it along with the magnum. Shotgun shells are common too which makes any shotty a force to be reckoned with. The issue with wielding a shotgun in cities for me is that the streets are very long and open, sometimes you have to be able to take a survivor out who's way down the street and shooting at you.

The mosin is pretty good since it's ammo is widely available. I've made kills in close range and long range with it, although in a perfect world you'd have a sawn off to clear buildings with. When the M1 garand shows up it will be the gun to have outside of the rare military ones. I hope they either make .30-06 ammo widely available or just make the garand use the 7.62 ammo the mosin rocks. It would be semi-legit because M1's can be converted to the 7.62mm round in real life and ballistically they are almost identical.