As50 hate

[Neek (DayZ) 53]

Found a camp last night while cruising around in a tractor.

Various guns. Of those, 2 as50's including the one i already had.

Loaded everything onto the tractor but then got shot and killed.

An hour later i decided to run back and see what was left.

Whoever killed me left everything but the 2 as50's

I'm sure i heard the guy say 'cheater' over direct comms as i lay dieing O.o

[Sgt.Asshat 607]

I'd shout same lol

[XDARKNESS192 20]

hahaha

[Neek (DayZ) 53]

He left 2 m4 CCO SD's and anibiotics. And the mountain dew i had lol

[FUBBMisery 3]

Lucky he didn't want that stuff.

[DrunkPunk 159]

i woulda ditched everything i had for that mt. dew.....

[KField86 237]

It's due to the ridiculous amount of scripters getting the AS50 TWS into the game now that every time someone hears an AS50 being fired, they automatically shout "HACKERS HE MUST HAVE TEH THERMALZz!!". It honestly seems everyone and their brother use the AS50 now. I've actually swapped back to an M107 because I was tired of shooting the same gun as every other kid. I'm never going to get a shot past say 1100 meters anyway(longest confirm kill was 1051m with an M107 as well), so the extra range of the zeroing doesn't matter too much to me. The only thing I miss about the AS50 is the lower recoil between sights, so target re acquisition takes a little longer for that follow up shot...but with rangefinders, it usually only takes me 1 round to put someone back on the coast. Plus, the M107 just sounds so proper for a .50 cal when it's fired. That satisfying large caliber rifle sound. The boom-CRACK.sound, idk it's hard to explain. I go deer hunting so, in a county that allows both shotgun(slugs) and rifle use. You can immediately tell the difference between a 12ga being fired and a rifle getting fired. A shotgun just has this BOOOM sound. Where as a typical .308 caliber rifle has this crack that follows the boom. Lol, I'm getting sidetracked.

TLDR: Sometimes I really think the M107 is a better rifle in this game. It's a loud son of a bitch, but it's as accurate if not more so than an M24(what I believe is one of the most accurate weapon systems in the game) out to 1000. Don't believe me? Download the shooting range mod, put a target out to 1000 meters. Take 5 shots with the AS50 and 5 with the M107 with the rifled zero'd to 1000. I guarantee with the AS50, zero'd to 1000, you're not going to hit where your crosshair is a couple of times and you'll have to compensate manually. That was my findings over a couple of hours of testing. Plus I prefer the extra zoom being the right mouse button over the numpad + and - with the AS50. Different strokes for different folks. I love both guns to be fair.

Edited August 8, 2012 by KField86

[Neek (DayZ) 53]

Solid arguement. Although your TL;DR was almost as long as your inital post lol

I still got 2 m4's and a shit load of ammo so i'm not that fussed