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I am for authenticism to an extent... and I think it's not authentic to not have female or even child zeds, both should be added but simply to enforce some ethical thinking about your actions and how it will influence you and the way others react to you killing zeds at all should have a negative impact on your humanity at least when you kill them for no reason (read: kill idle zeds) that penalty should definetly be much harsher for children and maybe harsher for killing the opposite sex. Justification for zed killing penalties? Easy: What if some doctor were to find a cure for their infection/disease being able to fully reverse the effects of it and you killed like 1000 potential human beings with like 300 of them being kids wouldn't you in a real-life scenario think twice about doing so? I most certainly would and would not kill any zeds at all other than for self-defense reasons and even that wouldn't be easy because they didn't choose to engage me they just have to because their sickness makes them be commanded by their instincts. On the other hand this game is open and sure a lot of people wouldn't give a f*ck. Still mass murder should have a psychological effect on you/your character/for other to see/ psychopaths often suffer from mental illness maybe so should people with very low humanity? E.g. seeing zeds/other bandits that aren't there (a.k.a. paranoid hallucinations) causing you to shoot and giveaway your position putting yourself at risk for no apparent reason. Even if I like the idea it might have pushed it a little bit too far still you guys get the idea.

i do know that everything you say is correct and didn't thoroughly think about the simple fact that an experienced sniper actually really can guesstimate pretty accurately still those weapons aren't OP because they got thermals they are OP because the game mechanics make using them too easy. Don't ban the weapon fix the problem that is making it OP.imagine the need to actually do real life snipe preparations having to work together with a spotter or needing 30 seconds to setup a snipe on a standing target (most targets move quite a lot in that time) and being required to constantly re-adjust makes even getting a half-decent torso shot on a 500m distance a REALLY hard thing to accomplish (when done without spotter) and even with a spotter there is a lot of room for error edit of edited edit: I personally regard the DMR as the most OP weapon in the game the second alt-f4ing gets fixed you can heavily spam it; it has a 20 shot magazine; simply fire test shots to guesstimate the right angle to shoot since you got 20 tries the odds of basically luck shotting someone are extremely good... + as long as hueys exist a way to take them down needs to exist or they become insanely op a 5 man squad can shoot like 30 mags on it and hit like 70% of their shots without taking it down and whoever tells me he can consistently hit a target with any sniper that moves at 100+ km/h (hell even up to 250km/h) in semi erratic patterns (read: kill the pilot) is simply talking bullshit. A .50 cal shot at the rotor however is very well possible and a very consistent way to balance choppers. Sure there is a rocket launcher in the game but man... i mean... let's not start with talking about how inconsistent THAT thing is.

So here is a little brainstorming done by me on how to fix the heaviest issues the game currently has ignore some of the bullshit in it which is probably not true to full extent but is me theorizing due to changelogs; interviews and other happenings in and outside of dayz. Here is the CTRL+C --> CTRL+V repost of my original brainstorm. The AS50 TWS weapon along with the m107 tws did exist in earlier versions of the game they were removed in 1.5 with rocket saying that they will come back at a later point as part of a quest/mission system that will be implemented at some point in the future. Those will then be the reward for finishing that mission. They weren't too strong (opinion) but they were too common due to duping. Basically 80% (guesstimate) of the players had this because they get into the system but since you can loot kills never get out. Here is some reasoning as to why those weapons are not considered too strong:(at least in a world where it cannot be duped/cheated etc.)The weapon is useless without a rangefinder it cannot be zeroed with something called mil.dots because it has none and the given dots follow no player known pattern. Therefore (again in a cheater free world) getting this weapon + a rangefinder should be like a 1 in 100.000 players happening. Problem is as time progresses those weapons will still become inflationarily often as can be seen with high-end weapons right now. The cheater problem is getting worse not better and basically noone has anything worse than l85s + as50 (maybe even TWS) + perfect gear ghillies coyote backpacks and all. There are a million ways to inflate the amount of high-end gear currently in the-game but only like 10% of it finds it's way out. This has as of now broken the game to a point of no return.Getting them out of the system could easily be achieved by making weapons unlootable or giving them a limited life span. (read: after for example 50 shot magazines the weapon will destroy itself) There is only one actual solution to that problem: Fix the hacker issue (read: disable 99% of the duping/hacking methods and keep it that way [1% always finds a way past the system]) Purge the database completely and force everyone to start from scratch. Reduce high-end loot spots+spawn-rates drastically AND make them impossible to actually grind (server-hopping etc. by only spawning those at truely random places [read: heli crash sites]) and find a way to actually get them out of the system. (e.g. limited life spans as stated above)

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@dev0 I was referring to the general "noob" who regards stuff as overpowered for the simple reason of it having mechanics he misses the skill to counter. I personally regarded you to be a part of those which I strongly apologise for after reading your response. Still my oppinion on the weapon will always stay the same. If you think it is overpowered you probably don't know yet which assets of your skillset need to be improved in order to cope with the strengths of it. Since it has no wallhack there are existing counters to thermals a.k.a. hiding behind objects. There is only one thing that -for me- is a valid point on the weapon being overpowered it has no direct counter mechanic other than itself. Heat signal hiding suits therefore seem like a really good idea. @Menny It's unique, has cool optics, feels innovative in a rare way, it's a strong scouting tool, it's authentic since it does exist in real-life.

/yawn Not Pk-ing anything south nof Stary and have been punished often enough for it, so much for noob-one-hit-killer destroying coasters/electroers/cherno/berezinho etc. etc. spawners I don't. Imho every single weapon that's in OA also should be in dayz but that's just my oppinion continue whining about modern weapons in a game that plays in modern mil scenarios you guys are just scared by power that's all edit: before i forget... how does calling people that negatively affect my attitude towards a REALISTIC game pussies make me younger would love to know that despite me probably being older than anyone else ITT well w/e guess i'll just have to write my own mod which will be a rip-off of rockets pretty good game simply featuring every weapon in the game which only people with balls will play! oh and btw. I play this game for the weapons featured nothing more, nothing less and arma is just not the same.

QQ more please your tears only feed my desire for it to be re-implemented

2 long 2 quote. Your oppinion is very well explained and has some pretty good calls i simply don't have the power of will to write a Wall-Of-Text to counter it. So ok let it be OP. The AWM/AWP has been regarded as OP by a shitton of players of CS1.3-CS:S guess what? It was never removed. The Guidable Rocket Launcher in HL was regarded as OP: never removed The Spy in TF1/2 regarded as OP. Never removed/fixed Legendaries in WoW: OP/Still In and the list goes on and on and on the day the L85 gets removed permanently over the m107 tws getting re-implemented will be the day I'll stop playing this game. just my 2 cents

Inb4 whining about how INSANELYWTFBBQISOSICKOFIT op the Thermal on the L85A2 AWS is: It isn't and I won't even bother to explain why! Has been well explained all over the Forums. I'd love to see the m107 TWS in the game again and since the deplementation notice of it was: will be gettable through achievements or side-missions. Is there any timeline on when those/the weaponw ill come back? Because unlike a lot of other players (pussies) I'm missing it. If you whine about it well gtfo watch some tits or s.th. Any mods/devs willing to give a statement on that? If not I'd at least love to see any information on the near future plans of the game, because it is definetly going in the right direction but the things that are important to folks despite stableness is well: content, which sadly is provided rather slow.