What I've noticed recently is that especially in big deathmatch towns on the coast the game nearly feels like CoD or Battlefield. A major aspect of this are the running-animations in my opinion.

I think that therefore the sprinting with a raised gun-animation should be removed (in real life you'd surely fall doing that), the newer sprinting with a gun in lowered stance-animation should be revamped back to the old one (it's a bit slower) and the new sprinting animation should be changed back to the old one (who the hell runs like that?; the old one seemed much better and much more realistic).

DayZ doesn't need to try to be and shouldn't be like CoD or Battlefield, at least movement-wise.