Shooting out of a vehicle

[Bullseye471 3]

At the moment you can't do anything to defend yourself while being shot inside a vehicle except for driving away or running the guy over (what is kinda hard). In my opinion the passengers should be able to shoot out of the vehicle. It shouldn't be too easy though, the accuracy should be bad or you just don't have much space to move your gun around.

[Jox (DayZ) 11]

yeah i like the sound of a restricted view angle, im pretty sure the standalone will evolve and these things will come.

or just get a humvee etc in a private hive :)

Edited January 17, 2013 by Jox

[jayman9696 14]

Maybe the passengers could duck down and the driver could to but this would restrict your view

[beastoverlord 574]

I think that you should be able to kick out the windshield, and drive with one hand while firing a sidearm with the other. I think it would be pretty bad-ass.

[jayman9696 14]

I think that you should be able to kick out the windshield, and drive with one hand while firing a sidearm with the other. I think it would be pretty bad-ass.

do you have any idea how hard it is to kick out a windshield?

Its near impossible, especially while driving

[Jox (DayZ) 11]

thas what the hatchet if for. lol

[Snilex 40]

Yeah we want some Die hard ghettoblaster action in DayZ! Ain't no body comin' out alive on my mofuckin' turf in Elektro. That's ma hood!

[Bullseye471 3]

Yeah we want some Die hard ghettoblaster action in DayZ! Ain't no body comin' out alive on my mofuckin' turf in Elektro. That's ma hood!

All ya had to do was follow the damn train CJ! xD

[Rekli 995]

my opinion is this is not GTA

[TIC 1050]

During the Expo for Day-Z, Rocket did a Q&A and one of them was about shooting out the car.

Q(Audience Member): Playing through a large group of players and there's always a question that comes up through all of us is when were in vehicles like for instance when we found another group of people with vehicles and we get into a nice car chase and a time that it really ends is that someone screws up like crashing into a tree or a blockade but in the Standalone are you looking into implement shooting from vehicles like you're a driver sticking a pistol out the window or a friend going through the sunroof. Are you thinking of implementing things like that?

A(Dean Hall; Rocket): Well I know with ArMA 2 there has been some community made mods and this is one of the -- Ordinary thing of ArMA 2 is that they have all these fantastic mods of which DayZ is just a small part. One of the mods shooting from vehicles; there are some real technical issues with it and I can't remember whether it was ever on the ArmA 3 list -- I'm not sure, I'll have to look at the press releases on that but it's not on the list of things to do at the moment but I think we want to look at vehicles a lot that'd require some code time to do it but it's definitely not on the list of things for the initial release. We just have to be realistic like the hacking and the duping. If we don't fix that, it doesn't matter how many awesome stuff we can put in. I think this is something we should look at once we fix the basic problems because I see vehicles at least until we get this uber player construction that we want done. The vehicles will be in-game content. Until we get that end there won't be best things that we want.

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Edited January 17, 2013 by TIC321

[beastoverlord 574]

do you have any idea how hard it is to kick out a windshield?

Its near impossible, especially while driving

While driving, yes impossible. While stopped? Not that hard.

[Clumzy (DayZ) 377]

my opinion is this is not GTA

Well, your opinion is right. This is not Grand Theft Auto. If you think that is a good reason not to put this feature in the DayZ standalone, though, I would have to disagree. Do you think that a passenger of a vehicle, or even a driver, would consider their firearm useless in a car chase because "this is not GTA"? In a life or death situation, I don't think most people would decide not to shoot at their attackers out of a car because they're not in a car chase video game? I've seen a video of a police officer leaning out of a car with an assault rifle, and I've heard of soldiers shooting out of helicopters with M4s. I think this is a feature that would be amazing in the standalone, as well as jayman's idea of being able to duck down at the cost of reduced visibility.