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Heres my thought on it: Fixed radio position: You can broadkast to all who have walkie-talkies across the entire map. Walkie-talkie: You can communicate to anyone within say 20km or so (were talking crappy civilian versions, maby military versions could have more range) No walkie: Direct communication only (25 meters i believe)

Protective vests =/= bullet proof vests... The protective vests that most military units in the world currently use are meant to protect from shrapnel, not direct bullet fire. Equipping all soldiers with actual bulletproof vests would cost way too much. And i also happen to know that alot of soldiers dont even use the vest simply because its bulky, heavy and very hot during warm days. (ok, i can only speak for swedish, danish and US military here, but it seems to be the trend)

This is interesting and kind of goes with my way of thinking. First of all' date=' is it even realistic to be able to retrieve arrows? It doesn't seem like it unless you shot the arrow and it hit nothing but softly came back down onto the ground. With this I provide an alternative. Since it's not realistic to be able to retrieve arrows (just assuming so), arrows should come in stacks of 5-10 or something like that and actually stack in the inventory. When I thought of this I immediately thought of quivers but then realized, how realistic is it to find random quivers hanging around? SO, with that I came up with the idea that you should be able to get leather (from cows) and some sort of string, maybe from certain plants or trees and be able to make a quiver that holds all your arrows so that you can have way more of them and have them take up way less space, this way you follow the reality of not being able to pick up the arrows and it makes the crossbow much more useful. I personally think it's kind of ridiculous that it takes more than 1 arrow to kill something, at the same time it is somewhat realistic I suppose, depending on where you shot. It's only ridiculous because the reload time is painful... So with this quiver idea, that is much less of a problem since arrows would take up such little space. [/quote'] Were not talking wooden arrows here, these are solid metal bolts or made of carbonfibre, they dont break all that easily, mostly because they are meant to be reuseable (target practice and the likes).

The .45ACP is usually subsonic to start with, so it is a very easy caliber to use supressors with (no need for special ammunition and so on) As for the original topic, yes it seems some weapons can use different mags (the MP5SD for example can use the M9SD mags apparantly) whilst others cant. I dont believe this to be an engine limitation, but rather a sloppy design. Basically the internal information of each weapon has a list of what magazines it can use, and some have a logical choice (like the G17 being able to use most 9mm magazines) and some just have their own specific one with no others added (like the M1911) Im not so sure that Rocket can change this without some major overhauling, but it probably wont happen anytime soon anyway since there are alot of other things to deal with in the game first.

Right, because that oh-so-lovely skin really stopped bandits from sniping me right? Seriously, the ONLY thing this did was make people not work with anyone who had bandit skin and shoot them on sight. Didnt matter if that bandit skin was "earned" by shooting survivors in the head for their beans, or from defending yourself from other survivors trying to take your beans (but not being branded "bandits" yet). I actually got a bandit skin from exactly that more than once. And i was usually summarily executed by some survivor not far after that (since i kept playing like i had earlier, trying to help people out and generally being a nice guy), most of the times accompanied by a "you get what you deserve bandit scum" comment. No, bandit skins didnt work as intended and needed to be reomved. Just because you lost your "kill-without-regret" card, doesnt mean the bandits won or anything like that. It just means that you have to judge people on their actions instead of their looks.

I think most crossbows have relatively simple red-dot scopes. There is no magnification, but that doesnt matter, because youre not going to snipe with a crossbow.

There are no names on hardcore servers already, and were doing just fine there...

Right, well thats good news :D so it will only be direct chat then? what range is that?

Ok, so im gonna ask here since A: i only play DayZ, no other ArmA2 mods and B: i havent noticed this when playing around with the editor and C: i figured that there are alot of old ArmA2 foxes around here that know what theyre talking about and might have seen or experienced this before. These are the artifacts im talking about: I get them both day and night, and they are VERY annoying, especially if you happen to be in a firefight... Taking forever to upload for some reason...

I tried changing "texture memory" to default, and so far its worked... heard something about using the "flush" command as well, but i dont know how to get the console out...

Yeah, its actually kinda silly that you cant ban/kick someone for spamming chat in other languages since they could (in theory) break some of the other bannable rules but you wouldnt know, since you dont speak the language. He could be racist as hell and you wouldnt know it since its in russian (or whatever, but we all know its mostly russian being spammed in the english servers)

Thats pretty much how i play it... Also, dont forget rule 7: always make sure you are in a wooded area hidden from sight when you log out of the game, you dont want to log back in risking someone else seeing you.

The clip is now up... took forever, but finally up, so now i can go to bed.

Theres always the cinematic screenshots thread: http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5489

I agree with the OP

TPV is about as gamey as it gets... and this is an anti-game, so it should go...

Right, so lately ive gotten really sick and tired of the russians running around on the english speaking servers spamming the chat with cyrillic text all the time instead of using english like the rest of us (non-english) do. So i went on the Russian servers, more or less just to spam their chat with swedish (yeah, im petty that way)... but i found that the russian servers are like the wild west... everyone is shooting everyone and nobody ever seem to work as a team... its crawling with bandits. So what i do now, each time i restart or run low on loot, i just pop into one of the russian servers and start killing other players to take their loot. I usually try to either avoid players altogether or I try to cooperate with them as much as possible... usually. But on the russian servers its every man for himself, and noone ever tries to team up with you, even if you run into a fight where they are being swamped by zeds, they still try to shoot you before they shoot the zeds. So now i just go to the russian servers for easy loot :D

One would think so, but it seems that the russians (yes, im generalizing here) play this game like it was call of duty multiplayer... Hardly any sneaking or tactics, more or less just run at the nearest survivor and kill them... Having spent most of my time on the other servers either avoiding or stalking other players (to determine their intent and if they can be trusted) it seems i can easily kill most of the people i meet on the "iamrambo" russian servers...

I would love to see some server countdown like 30 secs' date=' you can DC if you want but your char stays in the world... hate it when i see some one chased by zombies or about to die to a bandit dc and go straight to a new server, or wait 5 minutes and come right back... [/quote'] Ooooh, i love it when they wait 5 minutes and come back... becasue i usually wait for 10 minutes when i see someone DC :D That way i can shoot them in the head when they come back, and they cant DC from that :P