Vehicle Gun placements and mountable machine guns

[JC the MC 5]

If your played Arma II, you know that some versions of vehicles have a variety of weapons on them. I think you should be able to, if you have the certain gun, to "attach" it to the vehicle and make it one with a gun emplacement.

Example include:

-The Offroad being able to be upgraded with lets say an LMG and some scrap metal. You can, for scripting, just swap it out for the Offroad (DShKM)

-HMMWV to the HMMWV (M240) with an LMG and scarp metal

With mountable machine guns, you can add tripods to the game (its in arma 2) but preferably not take a backpack slot and make you able to mount machine guns anywhere. When you mount machine guns they will be recoiless but take time to set up. These can be used to defend bases against bandits.

Please leave a comment and yeah thanks

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

I like it! A suggestion I haven't really seen before, too!

[JC the MC 5]

been playing vanilla arma 2 and getting inspiration

[Sutinen 635]

What if the guns got their belts from the vehicle inventory? If you place two M240 belts in the vehicle, you could use those for the gun.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Maybe not just LMGs/HMGs(if thier added) but also the assault rifles. Be something of a jurry rig setup and better than nothing. IE you ducktape a AKM to a Monopod in the back of a Ural. Yeah you'd have to reload more often (unless they added different clip styles, not sure if an RPK banana or drum clip could fit into an AKM but something along thous lines).

Not sure how the vehicle customization will work but say you could customize cars like: cutting a hole in the roof of a skoda and mounting a machine gun up there. Adding on some parts you could make an Improvised armor box to defend the gunner a bit better and put steel plates over the windows. Maybe for a military UAZ you have to remove the roof and sides in order to mount and use a machine gun on it.

[JC the MC 5]

The LMGs are more suitable because vehicles with those type of attachmentsalready exist. Assault rifles are not mounted in any vehicle

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

The LMGs are more suitable because vehicles with those type of attachmentsalready exist. Assault rifles are not mounted in any vehicle

I mean it fully as a jury rig setup. And one company has mounted a remote control M16 with a betamag clip ontop of its vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thata a lot more sophisticated than my idea and yes LMGs are better suited to be mounted weapons but still, use what you've got. I mean shit the Syrian Rebels were stealing rocket pods from downed helicopters and mounting them on their technicals and firing the damn thing with a jumper cable and car battery

[dayzplaya34 0]

I`ve been thinking abou this idea before, I completly agree with you. I think it would be nice to eventually have a variety of vehicle mounted weapons, like the Mk19 or possibly a TOW launcher.

[m.w. vindicator 880]

I agree with BigMike. Whenever The devs get around to doing vehicle customization (I thinking they were planning on tackling that this fall after Dean gets back from Everest), I would love to see all sorts of jury-rigged upgrades and sidegrades. Attaching armored plates to increase durability under gunfire, but reduce kilometers per liter of gas and reduce speed.

A mounted machine guns still have recoil, it is just more controllable.

As for static guns, I think this would actually work. I am opposed to most "add big weapon so I can be 1337" threads but I actually like this idea. I suggested it a long while back. I would like the parts to build a stationary gun. You could find a tripod, the gun, and ammo separately

[m.w. vindicator 880]

I`ve been thinking abou this idea before, I completly agree with you. I think it would be nice to eventually have a variety of vehicle mounted weapons, like the Mk19 or possibly a TOW launcher.

Why would a TOW launcher be a good thing for DayZ. You aren't going to be fighting T72s and M1A1 Abrams! Da fuq are you thinking!?

[dutch_miller 159]

One of the few good ideas I've seen in this forum, and I've seen a lot. I'm all for customization within defined limits (no TOW's!).

[-Gews- 7443]

IE you ducktape a AKM to a Monopod in the back of a Ural.

Lol?

Why would a TOW launcher be a good thing for DayZ. You aren't going to be fighting T72s and M1A1 Abrams! Da fuq are you thinking!?

And it's flawed. Completely useless except for vehicles. I got a near-direct hit on an unsuspecting guy with one in Wasteland, literally a foot away, he was uninjured and I heard him shout "whoa! that thing almost got me!" and then laugh about how unrealistic it was.

I mean shit the Syrian Rebels were stealing rocket pods from downed helicopters and mounting them on their technicals and firing the damn thing with a jumper cable and car battery

You know what I wanna see? Land Cruiser J70, or J75. I don't even care if it fits the setting, it's just so damn cool. :D

While the devs are at it, they should add the PKM to the game.

[JC the MC 5]

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