Axe should be secondary weapon?

[silvrhand 9]

Can we please move the axe as a secondary weapon, there are times that I would like to be able to quietly deal with a zombe but switching primary weapons in any meaningful time is sometimes problematic. Shooting with your primary weapon since 1.7.2.4 is like ringing the dinner bell, so that's not really useful anymore.

The zombie hordes are a bit much in 1.7.2.4 the pistols are so weak that if you get a zombie horde it's almost useless, and using your primary weapon will continue to spawn horde after horder. Moving the axe to a secondary weapon seems like a useful option for us.

I don't want to lose the zombie hordes cause they definitely are now a risk to dying, but I want to have more silent options other than my primary weapon.

Thoughts?

[Skully (DayZ) 6]

lol ya axe/crowbar as secondary would be awesome, as silent sneak up killing machine. ;p

[FunkyHermitCrab (DayZ) 95]

Make the hunting knife a secondary melee weapon.

Side note: I personally think this patch has made the game harder... WHICH IS GOOD. Zombies need to be harder to kill.

[Element47 2481]

I support the OP suggestion.

pulling the hatchet from your belt shouldnt be different from pulling a pistol from its holster.

also, keeping 10 free slots in your backpack just to be able to use your hatchet if the need arises is kind of.. counterintuitive.. of course you could drop your primary to the ground everytime you want to equip the hatchet, but then you need to stay in place otherwise you might lose it.

add two-handed luberjack axes and i agree those go into the primary slot, but the hatchet as a tool should be more accessible.

[thisisbleep 32]

It would be nice, but no it should not happen because it would be too powerful, it can 1 hit zombies and players and is silent with unlimited ammo. If this happened people would stop using handguns.