Reloading makes you a Vegas sign

[kaffaljidhma 1]

Date/Time: 6/19/2012

What happened:

Every time I reload the crossbow, 3 bars are added to my sight meter, and correspondingly cause zombie aggro. This may have been happening since 1.7.1.1, but I verified it in 1.7.1.4.

Where you were:

Crawling on grass, inside houses, pretty much everywhere

What you were doing:

Fighting zombies.

*Current installed version:

1.7.1.4

*Server(s) you were on:

Tarkovsky, Clam Bake

*Your system specs:

Not relevant

*Timeline of events before/after error:

Was silent and prone, shot my arrow, reloaded, had 4 sight bars for 2 seconds, then was back to 1

[Maniac302 (DayZ) 0]

I've been having the same thing. Also happens when I reload my M1014 shotgun.

[castun66 20]

One of the updates made reloading the crossbow very visible, it's not a bug.

[americanman1243@yahoo.com 1]

What's the purpose of making reloading a crossbow more visible? It's not that crazy of a process and can be done more silently than reloading a gun.

[kieran.thorpe88@gmail.com 12]

also looting is almost impossible in towns as crouching to access the menu is basically like screaming IM HERE COME GET ME!

[castun66 20]

If you have your primary weapon out, you can access loot piles without having to stand up, as well as other actions like eating and drinking. I think it's just a limitation with the Arma2 engine, although hopefully they can fix that in a beta patch.