[SA/Mod] - Blowtorch/Portable Welder, Nailgun & Flame Spray

[Draco122 412]

Simply put, two weapon ideas that could potentially be added into DayZ Standalone and the mod itself.

Three weapon ideas to lay out on the table, two weapons which are improvised via tools and another which is a craft-able weapon that can be crafted by players with the appropriate components.

• Nail gun - The Nail gun is a construction tool re-purposed as a improvised pistol, it fires Nails from a 40 round "clip" style magazine and would commonly spawn in industrial loot spawns. The Nail gun is fairly silent but short ranged and does relatively meager damage (less than 9mm weapons at 889 blood) and is only truly effective versus Zombies with a head shot. The other downsides are lack of a sight and only useful at short ranges.
  

In terms of the following weapons, the Blow Torch and the craft-able "Flame Spray", the way I had envisioned these weapons is that they act like a short ranged automatic weapon. They'd have 10,000 uses but each "shot" is fairly weak, to counter-act this, the weapon fires extremely quickly at this short range, removing X amount of blood per second for all the time the target is within this range.

In addition, due to these tools/weapons propellant being gas, it doesn't catch foes on fire, instead it would probably deliver a pain status effect on players.

As most melee weapons are effectively treated as short range firearms in the mod, these weapons would function similar but instead with a automatic function over a "semi-automatic" function.

• Blowtorch/Welder - The idea behind the Blowtorch/Welder is an alternative repair item for Vehicles, it effectively allows you to spot weld together damage on a vehicles hull, restoring the vehicles hull to a better condition. It doesn't instantly repair the damaged hull instantly like you get with scrap metal and a toolbox but it can be used to quickly repair a damaged hull. It can also be used as a short ranged weapon that takes the sidearm slot, it has 10,000 uses and acts like a close range flamethrower, doing minor damage at an extremely fast rate of attack.
  

• Flame Spray - The idea of the flame spray is a craft able weapon that takes the sidearm slot, it consists of an aerosol can (like a deodorant/hairspray or pesticide spray can) and combines together with a lighter (or potentially matches) to create a short range flamethrower. It would behave similar to the Blowtorch/Welder but would be a dedicated short range weapon.
  

[barrett_killz 229]

I think there's no sense suggesting those here, you should wait for the standalone forums to be opened and suggest it there, because early alpha won't give us all these things. They didn't even add the multiplayer client.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Unless you're using 4+ inch roofing nails, a nailgun won't penetrate deep enough to cause enough damage to the brain, and even then that's questionable from anything but short range and multipul headshots. Also the type of Nailgun, they have 'tethered' ones that require an air compressor, there's battery powered ones that have a mini air compressor built in, neither are very silent. Co2 Canisters might do the 'silent' trick. There's also nailguns that use .22 rounds as the driving force, not quite at all. Despite the shit you see in the movies almost all nailguns are required to have safeguards built in that prevent them from being used as an actual gun (although they are for the most part bypassable).

I do like your welder/blowtorch Idea, however that and the flame spray as a weapon against anything but players would be a bad idea. Set someone on fire, yes they will run around and scream and try to put themselves out. Now give that person bathsalts, PCP, Meth, steroids, and a slap to the balls, THEN set him on fire. You now have someone on fire with little to no sense of pain trying to kill you.

[Chaingunfighter 917]

Nail Guns are not very good weapons at all, they only have any power up to 4-5 feet away, after which they will lose almost all momentum and drop to the ground (Coming from some guy who's used one to help renovate his parent's house). Most nailguns also require batteries or air compressors to even shoot, so you'd be carrying around a heavy one or batteries, which would make it completely impractical for anything other than a slightly longer than melee range weapon that needs constant maintenance. Nailguns are hardly silent, they are quieter than most firearms in SOME cases but they can be loud as shit, trust me.

[EDIT] Ninja'd by BigMike.

Edited June 16, 2013 by Chaingunfighter

[LegitOldSchool 261]

Nail gun as a weapon, lol, obviously comes from someone who never used one in real life.

"Wow! What's that weapon in your hands?"

"It's a friggin nail gun!"

"And what's that huge thing on your back?'

"That's the compressor."

"It makes an awful lot of noise"

"Yeah I know, but isn't it cool though?"

"Well it's pretty useless since you have to be plugged in for the compressor to even work, the compressor itself is huge and heavy, plus it's as loud as a car engine..."

"Yeah but man, I can shoot NAILS!"

"Yes you can, if they get in melee range and you can manage to drive one through a Z's brain, I guess"

"... but DUUUUUUUUDE, it's a friggin NAIL GUN!!!"