Whatta hell they have done to pistols?

[murhis 4]

I read some complaints about the revolver and colt being useless now. So I wanted to test this myself and my jaw literally drop on the floor when I figured out you actually need to shoot 4 bullets to the torso for a kill. I didn't test this in DayZ itself, but I assume the weapon damage is exactly same on the vanilla Arma(player vs player wise), so I tested this on a weaponrange map where you can shoot dummy soldiers. See it yourself!

Four .45 ACPs to upper torso... That's just ridiculous.

Edit: It was before 1-2 shots to torso.

Edited July 28, 2012 by murhis

[testsubject81 6]

Maybe it simulates body armour better now. ? I don't know... but the survivors seem to be wearing body armour so pistol shots to the torso should not always be lethal.

[GrantJohnson 2]

From an ARMA 2 patch:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/x7ek1/weapon_damage_nerfs_in_arma2_162_full_details/

[COGTHEUNDEAD 2]

hurm.... getting rid of 45acp ammo to make way for ....rocks and tin cans lol

[BennyLikesIndians 4]

Maybe it simulates body armour better now. ? I don't know... but the survivors seem to be wearing body armour so pistol shots to the torso should not always be lethal.

Don't try to make sense of this it was an accident put out as a patch for Operation Warhead NOT to balance the damage or make it more realistic.

Also INB4 lol can't get headshots please suck less

[murhis 4]

hurm.... getting rid of 45acp ammo to make way for ....rocks and tin cans lol

LOL second that!