FAR too much ammo?

[Izziee 128]

As I've said a few times in recent threads, I stopped playing for a couple weeks with other priorities. However, upon playing today and after messing about I thought it time to gear up a character.

head to Elecktro and pick up a few things. Upon scouting around, I grab my pistol and find a bunch of ammo. MP, M1911, Revolver ammo etc. Next room there's a box of MG ammo, 100 rounds. Then I find a 200 round box, some more pistol ammo and an alice pack. After 5 or so minutes, I've filled up all my belt with ammo and the alice pack is FULL of all pistol ammo. I end up clearing it all out for M1911 and managing to fill up almost every slot again (I had to drop some all the time for some morphinex3). I found can after can of pepsi and then once again, some more boxes of 100/200 round MG ammo.

I wasn't playing long, 10-15 minutes or something. It got too much in the end so I started popping off zombies all over the place, yet I still could not stop finding ammo. Also I had 6 water bottles (3 full) and I must have seen 5 knives in total.

Then I saw a couple of dead players, looted some stuff (military flash light? Never seen that before, is it new?) and went to get to a high point to log out and once more there were satchel after satchels of pistol ammo.

What's going on? Is this normal? Before it could take a while to fill up your bags with ammo. There was so much it started to make me feel a little uneasy as though it wasn't suppose to be there, except for it was in usual spawning locations.

Has Rocket increased the drop chance or what? I think it's a little excessive tbh, but whatever, as long as it's legit I guess I don't mind so much, still, the machine gun boxes were disturbing me, I've not often (very occasionally) found these anywhere other than deer stands, military zones. I'm aware that someone may have dropped one or two (though, I'd assume your personal loot would override the spawning after a while) but there was so many boxes of it. 7-8 100 rounds and 5 or so 200 rounds..in different locations all between the hospital/supermarket and area surrounding those.

[sausagekingofchicago 4711]

Its not always like that.

Edited October 4, 2012 by SausageKingofChicago

[Izziee 128]

Its not always like that.

That's my point, I've NEVER seen it like that. The thing is, I forgot to mention this was over two separate play through's. I stopped to go to the shop for some smokes and when I came back I changed server and it was the same.

I don't know if it's been changed or not since I've not been here the last couple of weeks but this is far from what I'm use to. I kitted myself up so quickly I didn't know what else to do. I fired off some rounds to try and draw some people to my location but no one came and I logged after refilling my ammo...again.

[Izziee 128]

Oh I also forgot to mention

I found a crowbar as my first weapon, I picked it up and got some strange coding appear in the middle of my screen (don't remember what it said, but it was 4 maybe 5 lines of text in a black box). The crowbar didn't equip (It was in my primary slot on invent screen but I couldn't pull it out or reload) When I drop it, it floats in the air. I pick it up a second time, get the same issue. I drop it and leave it, move on, and there's another item that did the same thing, can not remember what it was but it wasn't anything good, maybe a can of beans or something.

Then, later on I got an error message (like the no weapon.cfg thingy) that said something about no pink sunglasses.

Are both of these normal? I've only used a crowbar once or twice a long time ago, and I'm a bit worried about the pink shade thingy since I hear hackers just plant clothes on you or something :P

But yeah, these normal bugs?

(Games so weird since I last played, and tbh, I've also been turned off a bit after reading how many hackers there are getting people banned. I'm not dumb enough to pick up an item I know isn't in the game, but I'm picking up regular items from normal spawn locations and freaking out now)

[noobfun 87]

As looted some stuff (military flash light? Never seen that before, is it new?)

nope its a fancy red torch, much harder to spot at night then the usual spot lights you spawn with

[Chandler (DayZ) 14]

Well look at it this way-- with the nerf to many weapons, especially sidearms, you're going to need all that ammo now.

Long live spray and pray?

[zorg_dk 30]

Yes, there's too much ammo, and too much food lying around.