You can have my .50cal when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[TheSalamander 79]

Friends, countrymen, bandits.

Take a good look gentlemen:

She's seen you through many long nights, and many mornings long in coming. When the darkness closed in around you like a velvet blanket, her thermal white sight kept you safe and slew the jealous enemy trying to raid your campsite.

I don't ask for a lot of things in life, but I do ask for this:

I want my beans.

I want my Huey.

I. Want. My. Fitty. Cal.

So if you think as I think, if you feel as I feel, then I ask you to join me in rejecting the Redditors and the casuals who say that if we just de-militarized the game, it would be easier. If only we took out NVGs and military weapons, and equipped everyone with double barrels and Winchesters, then the game would be perfect.

Since when has DayZ been about what's "fair" or whats "easy"? I'm all for balance. That's what the standalone is going to address in the short term: item spawns, zombie spawns, hacking. Those are the things that are screwing with your playing experience, not high-grade military gear. If Rocket removes that (which I don't for a moment believe he will), the motivation to go inland will largely evaporate.

If a piece of enemy equipment causes you trouble, your first instinct should not be to remove it, it should be to alter your strategy. As the game goes standalone, Rocket is going to come under a lot of pressure to do things like this. He should resist that pressure.

[Dunkaroos 12]

I agree with you, although I do not use any .50 cals I think that it's ok if someone else does. I think most people are just frustrated at the wrong things though. The military weapons are not the problem in the game, it's the duping and hacking of them that are the real problems. It seems like so long ago I would be super excited to see an M14 or CCO SD but now it seems like everyone has them and can never lose them.

On the other side, the duping can ease the frustration of being killed by a hacker because you know you can just go get your stuff again and again.

The standalone should take care of these issues and return the game back to how it was before all of this stuff started happening. The sooner they release it, the better it will be for the rest of us.

[IncognitoNico 71]

I totally agree with you have some beans

Edited September 25, 2012 by IncognitoNico

[Bear8u 9]

I absolutely agree. I love to use both the .50 cal' that are currently in game. I am proud to say that i am rather good with them to. I also get killed tons of times and we all rage and say shit, but some people just decide to take it to the forums and change the game rather than change the way they play, in which i mean possibly more stealthily or cautious.

As some of the guys above me have said, this game was never meant to be a fair. It was an experiment and we are the lab rats. Rocket made this as wide open as he could so that everyone could do what they want and how. That's what makes the game that much more fun. One second you are hunting boar the next you are killing zeds and after that you might have attracted a few bandits.

Leave all the military grade weapons but if needed make them rarer. I'll be playing this mod no matter what changes come next.

Edited September 25, 2012 by Bear8u

[Sticker704 121]

Challenge accepted. :)

Joking aside, agree with you 100%. Nothing more to say.

[Derpy_Hooves (DayZ) 4521]

Agree, Agreeeeee! Though i like the possibility you throw out a challenge!