Weapon Stats on Day Z DB/Wiki are wrong?

[andrewmont 91]

I'm confused - I've been looking upon comparisons for all the guns in the game and their stats. According to the wiki/DayZdb zombies have about 4400 blood and the M1911 and Revolver do 1389 damage, it states that it kills zombies in 3 body shots but this is bullshit as in game it's only 1 shot. So where can I get reliable weapon statistics? Undoubtedly if these are wrong other weapons will be too.

I do have a weapons chart that says M1911 and Revolver do 4500 damage which seems more likely but why would the wiki and the DayZdb be putting up clearly wrong stats?

[tsandrey 379]

Every weapon is a one-shoot headshoot! However, it does take 2-3 bullets to take down a Zombie with the M1911(and most other pistols)! It's stupid, but we won't go into that waters..

[dannyboy (DayZ) 4]

its not wrong your just hitting close to the head.

[puppetworx 474]

Neck/upper-chest often counts as a headshot for some reason.

[sostronk 334]

The revolver and M1911 only one shot if its the head (or near "enough" to the head). If you shoot them in the torso or limbs it will usually take 2-3 rounds.

[andrewmont 91]

I've been using the M1911 a lot and every time I shoot a zombie unless they're far off it's a 1 hit kill. I'm talking a lot of body shots as well and they all drop in 1 shot... sometimes shot them in the legs and then 1 more will finish them off. I don't understand how I could be magically the only person that has 1 hit kill revolver and M1911. Suppose I can't be complaining though :L

[sostronk 334]

Must be hax.

[andrewmont 91]

Yeah hacking in my sleep then having no recollection of it :L Either that or just poor hit detection, could just be that torso is for whatever reason a 1 hit kill as well with these weapons.

[sostronk 334]

Try going for groin shots. Most of the time I get these its 2-3. You should be able to see it hit. But yeah the rego is a bit messed up, chest shots can work like headshots.

[tet5uo (DayZ) 22]

What the hell? I've never one-shot a zombie with any pistols unless it was to the head.

You can give them 4-5 shots to the body often and still not kill them.

[enforcer1975 1111]

I shoot Zeds in the chest with the 1911 up to 30m and they drop after one hit, beyond that they might need a second hit. This gun and the revolver which is even effective beyond the normal pistol range are the only pistols i know of that can accomplish this, that's the main reason i refuse to use any 9mm gun even if it has a flashlight like the G17 unless there is no other weapon available at that time.

Edited September 22, 2012 by Enforcer

[Delta Smoke 01 765]

I one shot zeds with the m1911 and revolver 9/10. These are not headshots. I have never noticed a decline in my revolver.

[Tigger (DayZ) 24]

You must have a old version or some weird installation that doesn't get properly updated by arma2 beta patches. Or you are not updating and playing on servers that don't check compatibility or are old. There was a update about 2 months ago that changed .45cal damage to ~1400 from 4500.

[enforcer1975 1111]

You must have a old version or some weird installation that doesn't get properly updated by arma2 beta patches. Or you are not updating and playing on servers that don't check compatibility or are old. There was a update about 2 months ago that changed .45cal damage to ~1400 from 4500.

You must have bad aim...servers must do a version check and since the version where the damage was nerfed was ages ago it's impossible to have a too old version because the server must have the newest patch installed according to the rules.

[sostronk 334]

You must have bad aim...servers must do a version check and since the version where the damage was nerfed was ages ago it's impossible to have a too old version because the server must have the newest patch installed according to the rules.

There are plenty of servers that are well out of date.

[andrewmont 91]

I play on different servers all the time including private ones sometimes, it's nothing to do with them. Clearly not me though since DeltaForce and Enforcer have the same thing I do. This is just weird tbh how pistol damage varies for people.

[10bag 22]

There was two guys I used to play DayZ with, both on the same beta patch and DayZ version. One of them could one-shot z's with a revolver or M1911 every time, and the other one (and everyone else I play with too) has the nerfed .45's.

Some people can indeed still one-shot with the .45's. Something's up.

[puppetworx 474]

That's really weird. I remember talking about this with people at the time of the nerf (which comes from the ArmA 2 Beta patch, not DayZ). The M1911 used to one shot zombies but after that update it took many bullets. A lot of people stayed on the older patch in order to keep the one shot ability and expecting the DayZ devs to reverse the nerf.

Examples:

http://dayzmod.com/f.../page__hl__nerf

http://dayzmod.com/f...ed-weapon-nerf/

My current character currently rocks a revolver and has killed 429 zombies (299 headshots) I can tell you conclusively that for me non-headshots with a revolver do not kill with one shot (unless they're high upper chest/neck).

Edit:

That second link has the answer. The nerf was not it the Beta update as I said but in regular update from 1.60 to 1.62. Those of us who have the game auto-updated by Steam etc. cannot one shot zombies, those who have not auto-update and are still running 1.60 (which the beta patches still run on) can one shot zombies.

What.

The.

Fuck.

Edited September 22, 2012 by puppetworx

[andrewmont 91]

Edit:

That second link has the answer. The nerf was not it the Beta update as I said but in regular update from 1.60 to 1.62. Those of us who have the game auto-updated by Steam etc. cannot one shot zombies, those who have not auto-update and are still running 1.60 (which the beta patches still run on) can one shot zombies.

What.

The.

Fuck.

I update using SixLauncher. So shouldn't I be getting the 3 shot kill?

[Inception. 9443]

The M1911 and revolver don't kill zombies in one body shot...only one headshot.

This changed some time ago due to an update on Arma's side.

[puppetworx 474]

I update using SixLauncher. So shouldn't I be getting the 3 shot kill?

No, let me clarify.

DayZ runs off of a hybrid of code and data from:

1. Arma 2 (BIS stable release, current 1.11.86734)
   
2. Arma 2: OA (BIS stable release, current 1.62.95248)
   
3. Arma 2: OA Beta (BIS beta release, latest version 1.62.97239)
   
4. DayZ Mod (independent alpha release, latest version 1.7.2.6)
   

If you have a Steam version of the game Steam will auto-update the official releases for you (1,2) - though this can be disabled. If you have a non-Steam version you have to manually update official releases. DayZ Commander and Six Launcher only update the OA Beta and DayZ Mod (3,4), they do not update the official releases from BIS (1,2).

DayZ uses the OA Beta engine files (3) alongside data from the official releases (1,2). If you have the old OA release (1.60.87580 instead of 1.62.95248) you will still be able to one shot zombies with an M1911 and you will still be able to one shot players with a Lee Enfield.

[killcamike 8]

It's Wikipedia; if it's wrong, fix it.

And it's not wrong, anything is a 1-hit headshot on zeds.