What's Y'all's Ideal Gun Load Out?

[Devtryak 2]

What's your ideal gun load out? For my back slots mine are an AKM with the dark wooden handguard and buttstock with a suppressor and a Kobra sight, and it has a drum mags in it and 3-4 spare drum mags, then I like an SKS with the scope, a bayonet, and 40 spare tracer rounds, tracers help with sniping. For my 2 holsters I like a CR-75 with no attachments and 3-4 spare mags for it, then we have a MK2 for supressed zombie killing at it's finest with 3-4 spare mags. Oh also for my pistols I like to carry loose spare bullets. Now tell me y'all's, and you can add as many guns as you want and you can include the little details like what buttstock you like to use.

[nemorus 281]

Sporter with a full banana mag, sniper scope and bottle silencer. With that i can topple any goon squad out there - they'll never know what hit'em.

[Devtryak 2]

  On 2/27/2025 at 5:08 PM, nemorus said:

Sporter with a full banana mag, sniper scope and bottle silencer. With that i can topple any goon squad out there - they'll never know what hit'em.

Might I suggest the VSS and the MK2? They're very quiet guns and the VSS hits hard.

[nemorus 281]

Amphibia is too loud. People use it to "quickly" deal with infected and alert any players in like 100m vicinity towards them. VSS has some horrible eastern optics, hence val with its rail is better, especially on modded. Both of these require kinda rare AP bullets though, because normal ones are a bad joke.

[Devtryak 2]

  On 2/27/2025 at 5:40 PM, nemorus said:

Amphibia is too loud. People use it to "quickly" deal with infected and alert any players in like 100m vicinity towards them. VSS has some horrible eastern optics, hence val with its rail is better, especially on modded. Both of these require kinda rare AP bullets though, because normal ones are a bad joke.

That's fair

[Riddick_2K 186]

  On 2/27/2025 at 5:40 PM, nemorus said:

Amphibia is too loud. People use it to "quickly" deal with infected and alert any players in like 100m vicinity towards them. VSS has some horrible eastern optics, hence val with its rail is better, especially on modded. Both of these require kinda rare AP bullets though, because normal ones are a bad joke.

From what I've tested, 9x39 normal & 9x39 AP do the same damage... at least to bears, which is what I test from time to time.

 

[Devtryak 2]

  On 2/28/2025 at 8:07 AM, Riddick_2K said:

From what I've tested, 9x39 normal & 9x39 AP do the same damage... at least to bears, which is what I test from time to time.

 

The fact that you casually tested that on bears says something about you, and it's that you're skilled

[Riddick_2K 186]

  On 2/28/2025 at 1:24 PM, Devtryak said:

The fact that you casually tested that on bears says something about you, and it's that you're skilled

Actually I do the tests with DCOM (DayZ Community Offline Mode), I would never go and do this type of test on public servers... if that's what you thought. 😉

I also have 2 servers, one Vanilla and one modded, but it's still more convenient and practical for me to use the mod and its "micro-tool" for administration... the features of the game are the same (always the same game) and to simplify the test I go off the map (because the bears can't leave) and try shot by shot until the bear dies and I do the calculations ammo by ammo, weapon by weapon.
When I read about changes to weapons, ammo or the bear, I update the statistics.
However I also hunted the bear on public servers with my game doll, but only when I was sure of the weapon and the ammo...
Now that they've poisoned the bear's meat they've ruined the pleasure of hunting for me... 😠
They're ruining this already bad game more and more... 😔

[Riddick_2K 186]

And... to answer the original question in the thread:
I'm talking about Vanilla servers, obviously.
I always try to get to this weapon setup by default.
*) AWC Amphibia (MKII), because:
> Silenced by default... when you repair it you only use one step of the Kit to repair the pistol and silencer that are integrated.
> The .22 rounds are enough to kill the Z with a headshot... almost all of them. For the others, I can use the one at the next point.
> The .22 rounds are quite common and the boxes are 50.
*) Desert Eagle (Deagle), because:
> The .357 is the most powerful pistol round in the game. You could even hunt bears (like in real life), then they nerfed the .357 and boosted the bears and it's no longer good... but it's still a good round, with the hunting scope, you can use it for that too, or for the more "protected" infected.
> It's automatic with 9 rounds in the magazine and 1 in the barrel. With a spare magazine in the quickbar, you can quickly have 19 rounds available.
> It has a pistol silencer, quite common to find and repairable
> Pistol scope for general use and hunting scope for, indeed, hunting.
> In the city you can find the ammo boxes without going crazy... not too common, but not rare either.

NOTE:
> If I find a belt and holster it's better...
> The Longhorn, being a single shot, I don't even consider it.

In the back
1st Slot: Always a melee weapon. I used to use a Sledgehammer (powerful and it numbs), now that it has become a "mountain weapon" and you can't find it in the workshops and shipyards of the south (when we talk about "authentic" game), if I don't feel like going looking for it I "make do" with a "Negan Bat" (from the movie Walking Dead, a baseball bat with barbed wire).
2nd Slot: depends on what I find.
At the beginning I look for at least a 12 gauge double-barreled shotgun (only buckshot, which should still be the most powerful shot in the game; 4/6 shots against a bear) that I cut short as soon as possible (and put in the backpack) and, looking well, I aim to get at least a Saiga (Vaiga) with 2 magazines of 8 (the minimum for hunting a bear currently). If I find the 20 magazine, I celebrate.
This is my basic (long) weapon, since I don't do "manhunting", but only animal hunting or extreme defense.

For the rest... it needs a separate discussion.
> The 7.62x54 is a great shot (6/8 shots against a bear), but you only find single-shot weapons... they are not battle weapons, neither for attack nor defense (although, in video games, you can also find "phenomena" who fight with this type of weapons... I think only because it is a PC video game... maybe someone even with a "little illegal help", otherwise you don't fight with weapons like that. Surely not in reality).
The SVD (VSD) is semi-automatic (not great, but better than the manual shutter), but too long and uncomfortable, with magazines too small and ... I hate Russian optics. 😕
> Then there is the .308 (7.62x51 approximately), also a good shot (8/11 shots for a bear).
But it is still a hunting caliber ... apart from the FAL (LAR), but it is also quite long and uncomfortable with small magazines and only a plastic silencer (the serious ones are only found in the gassed areas: too much work to risk not finding anything ... Tried for fun a few times and then, often, with the administration tools to see what you find in the gassed areas: almost never anything useful, they look like helicopter crashes, a fest of bullshit).
At least it has western sights (I only use the ACOG 6x), but everything else is negative.
> The 7.62x39 (11/12 shots for a bear), the classic AKM, not bad, but now (if nothing has changed lately) it is very rare and only in gassed areas. Very rare silencer and for gassed areas like it and Russian sights. Quite common ammo, since they are considered "hunting".
If you are okay with its original sight and you can find its silencer, also good and versatile.
> The 9x39 (normal & AP: 11/17 shots for a bear [I don't know why this delta, tried several times... normal & AP same results]).
For me, only the AS-VAL (SVAL) with 30 magazine and 6x ACOG sight is worth it... it is not an exceptional ammo but the new 30 magazine compensates... and the integrated suppressor and the western sight increase its value considerably.
Sore Point: quite rare ammo to find.

> The 5.56x45 (9/17 rounds for a bear. Here too a notable delta... huh ?!?)
I think it's the most versatile ammunition there is... not too rare, quite powerful, even if not exceptional, but with 30-round magazines that you find without going crazy you can easily take down even a bear.
Unfortunately, the best weapons (automatic, with magazines with at least 30 rounds, western sights and serious suppressors...) are extremely rare to find... and they change them often.
I don't know about the 1.26/1.27 (I'm a bit behind), but for the 1.25:
*) M14 was in gas zones, they moved it to the Military Crash. I haven't seen one for a long time anyway.
*) AUG-A3 (AUR-AX) was for the Military Crash and they moved it to the Gas Zones. In fact, I don't see it anymore, unfortunately.
I don't know about the others, there's always something missing...

With my basic SetUp (MKII, Deagle & Saiga) I can get by well for everything. The Saiga is great for short-range defense and for bears... but it can't be silenced in any way, and it makes a lot of noise... only in case of extreme necessity... With the Deagle I can get by for hunting (which I haven't done since they nerfed the meat) and for short/medium-range defense (with the normal or hunting scope).
However...
In case I can't find a Saiga (not very common)... to abandon the double-barrel shotgun, I'm starting to evaluate an AS-VAL with a 30 magazine and a 6x ACOG scope... a bear will go down anyway and it's silenced (the only problem is the ammunition, which is very difficult to find). Or, if I find it, an AUG-A1 (AUR-A1)... it has a poor, but not terrible, scope (double, even if ugly), not too big, 30-round magazines that are good for a bear and with improvised suppressors you can get by a bit. I'm not convinced, but maybe it's better than a double-barreled shotgun, if only for the 30 5.56x54 rounds that, if used well, can be better than (just) 2 12-rounds.

This is my current thought.
Then, like everything else, it's just a matter of personal choice/taste. 😉

[Judley 20]

Tundra and ak74 is a realistic setup because ak mags and ammo is common. But tundra and m4 is the ideal scenario 

[KA-74USER 52]

revolver, mosin , no backpack or plate carrier,  no second rifle as much stamina as possible

internal mags means less repair kits used

my playstyle almost always sees players before they see me, so one shot kill potential is big

the higher damage means less ammo needed to be effective and having more stamina has protected me more than any armor ever will. if your taking hits you already lost lol. 

being able to retreat, rotate and chase players has gotten me alot more kills than staying in one fighting position would have done for me. 

basically in mmo terms, i favour a glass cannon build. on official of course