Pistols with magazines ?

[skyzzo14 4]

My first post here and a little suggestion:
When you find guns you don't find magazines in it just ammo (I always find guns in police cars) and that's pretty annoying because if you chamber a pistol you only have 1 ammo and if a player runs at you with a baseball bat and you shoot him you must shoot him in the head to kill him but it`s pretty hard because he is probably strafing and if you manage to shoot him in the chest he will not die, just bleed out and then you have no more ammo and you must chamber the pistol again and while you do that he kills you...I remember my first time when I found a pistol and some ammo I was so happy I thought: Great now I can defend myself against other players that might attack me and guess what I see a man running to me with a fire axe I asked "Friendly ?" he didn't said anything and started attacking me I ran for a while I put my pistol in my hands aim at him while he was running to me and I start to spam the left mouse button because I thought the pistol is semi-automatic and I have ammo in it but hell no I just shot him one time and then there were no more bullets and he knocked me out, took my pistol and finished me.
So my suggestion is when you find a pistol (not m4 or other guns) there is a big chance that you find a magazine in it now it`s just a small suggestion tell me if you like it or not :)

[doublebrain 255]

Has been suggested before I think. But whatever. Its something that makes me a little angry that the devs dont manage to do this because it would make pistols actually usefull..

I mean come on they just need to make the pistols spawn with a mag just like other guns spawn with their stuff.

It makes sense. It makes pistols useful. Just add it to the game.. pls.. pretty please.

 

Beans for this suggestion.

[sabre05 351]

I don't understand your problems. I'm currently running with a P1 with 2 magazines and a CR75 with 2 magazines on my Hardcore character and a magnum and an FNX with 2 mags on my normal. They're piss easy to come by. Also other guns don't come with anything with them other than AKMs and M4s with their butt-stocks and guards. 

[Atom Quark 437]

I remember only having the .22cal pistol with one round chambered.  It was so fun and exciting trying to survive with it.  Made the game fun having to rough it out with limited resources.  Boring as hell to find all you need at once.

Edited July 10, 2014 by AtomQuark

[zeeabo 92]

My first kill in this game was with a chambered 1911. Just putting it out there, maybe it's not about how many bullets you have loaded but how you use them? Be conscious of the fact you only have a single round chambered instead of attempting a pistol spraynpray. Be conscious of the fact you'll need time to reload between shots.

 

That said, I do agree that maybe 60% of pistols should spawn with mags- either empty or only 1-3 bullets, not full.

[nettles 396]

Not everyone loot farms military areas, so not everyone will have access to a pocketful of magazines.  I'd like to see guns spawn in variable conditions with a possibility of being partially loaded with magazines in varying condition.  As it stands, all guns spawn in pristine condition, leaving the gun-cleaning kit useless unless you get whomped on.  So basically, it'd be nice to see more randomness.

[VonHabdekeiten 38]

Game is easy as it is, no need to make it easier by spawning everything you need together.

[Rigor Mortis (DayZ) 141]

I was always annoyed that pistols didn't come with mags in them - not because it makes the game harder, but who the hell drops a mag out of a pistol, then runs 5 miles with the empty gun and drops it?  I'm not saying that ALL pistols should start with mags, but I think most should have a mag in them.

Edited July 11, 2014 by Rigor Mortis

[zeeabo 92]

I was always annoyed that pistols didn't come with mags in them - not because it makes the game harder, but who the hell drops a mag out of a pistol, then runs 5 miles with the empty gun and drops it?  I'm not saying that ALL pistols should start with mags, but I think most should have a mag in them.

 

You're thinking of it the wrong way, I can't think of anyone who would drop a mag then run 5 miles to drop their gun at a different location.

From a more immersive standpoint, maybe another survivor has already been through the area.. already had a pistol but wanted a spare mag so ejected the mag leaving the gun behind?

[Rigor Mortis (DayZ) 141]

You're thinking of it the wrong way, I can't think of anyone who would drop a mag then run 5 miles to drop their gun at a different location.

From a more immersive standpoint, maybe another survivor has already been through the area.. already had a pistol but wanted a spare mag so ejected the mag leaving the gun behind?

 

That's possible... but every pistol everywhere?  That's why I'm saying that _most_ should come with a mag, but they could still spawn some without.

[zeeabo 92]

That's possible... but every pistol everywhere?  That's why I'm saying that _most_ should come with a mag, but they could still spawn some without.

Agreed, as in my last post prior to the one quoted I feel 60% of pistols spawning with magazines would be decent, at least temporarily until the balancing is done in earnest.

[TiggyPooh 134]

You should feel lucky the developers didn't add pistols dismantled in parts... or maybe I just gave them another idea how to make your DayZ even more tedious.  ;)

[Rigor Mortis (DayZ) 141]

You should feel lucky the developers didn't add pistols dismantled in parts... or maybe I just gave them another idea how to make your DayZ even more tedious.  ;)

 

Sometimes I wonder if they're trying to make us hate this game lol.

[-Gews- 7443]

Strange thing is that the best pistol seems to have the most common magazines... sometimes I've found more FNX mags than I could even use... and in the same span not a single mag for any of the other pistols...

[skyzzo14 4]

I don't understand your problems. I'm currently running with a P1 with 2 magazines and a CR75 with 2 magazines on my Hardcore character and a magnum and an FNX with 2 mags on my normal. They're piss easy to come by. Also other guns don't come with anything with them other than AKMs and M4s with their butt-stocks and guards. 

I don't usually go to an military base because I just started playing the game and I am afraid I will die so I go to Gorka (I think this is the name) or other small cities and loot the police cars there I find pistols (FNX45, 1911 etc.) but there are no magazines just the pistols and you can only shoot one time with a bullet chambered into the weapon, that makes the weapon almost useless because someone with an axe can knock you out easily because one bullet can't kill a man only a headshot but as I am beginner I can't aim very good so he kills me. So I suggest making pistols spawn with a mag

[doublebrain 255]

Strange thing is that the best pistol seems to have the most common magazines... sometimes I've found more FNX mags than I could even use... and in the same span not a single mag for any of the other pistols...

 

Yea thats the point. The more guns you add, the more different kind of mags you will find. And with a bunch of more pistols there will be so much pistol mags you will only find the once you dont need and pistols will get useless as hell.

 

I also had that one moment when I killed somebody with just the chamberd bullet (-> zeeabo). But I want pistols to be a usefull weapon and a good alternative to Mosin and AK. By spawning most pistols with a mag they would get some balance and not be hell worse than M4 and SKS.

[Rigor Mortis (DayZ) 141]

I don't usually go to an military base because I just started playing the game and I am afraid I will die so I go to Gorka (I think this is the name) or other small cities and loot the police cars there I find pistols (FNX45, 1911 etc.) but there are no magazines just the pistols and you can only shoot one time with a bullet chambered into the weapon, that makes the weapon almost useless because someone with an axe can knock you out easily because one bullet can't kill a man only a headshot but as I am beginner I can't aim very good so he kills me. So I suggest making pistols spawn with a mag

There is a valid argument for starting most pistols with a mag in them (as previously discussed in this thread) - some people are just elitist and want to keep the game as hard as possible regardless of realism... probably so they can keep killing bambis in Berezino

[evulclown@gmail.com 191]

It is seriously stupid, people keep their pistols with a magazine in. Make the occasional one empty if you want. This is compounded by the fact that loot bugs into the floor / unreachable places and magazines are near impossible to spot.

[fing24 36]

I would agree that some pistols should come with magazines. Especial after visiting 46 police stations and not one pistol mag of any kind in one of them. Lots of pistols its a shame they are all a waste of time. I think the devs have it the wrong way round. I'm sure there are more magazines to be found in the real world than guns not the other way round as in dayz sa.

[UltimateGentleman 355]

I think all weapons should have a small chance of spawning with a mag in them, like a 5-10% chance(perhaps varies between weapons)

 

With varying ammo too instead of every clip being full.

 

It would be a nice touch for realism, finding a mag with 3 rounds in it. Obviously someone died fighting off zombies in the initial invasion.

It would also be cool if we could find guns with mags with 1 bullet fired, right next to the dead body of someone who committed suicide.

 

 

There's so many little things like that they could do which would give a great feel to the game, you can walk about for hours and not even realize it's a landscape where everything pretty much died one day. It's more of a wake up and everyone is gone kind of world than a zombie infested one.

So I hope they put some attention to these kinds of things.

[lelmat132 6]

Yeah, I agree. I actually think all weapons should have some percentage of spawning with magazines, pistols having a higher percent chance whilst assault rifles should have a lower percent chance. Also, weapons that don't have mags should have a chance to spawn with bullets loaded inside.