Lack of an Authentic World

[Disgraced 1123]

OP' date=' do you mind if I request your thread get moved to Suggestions? I think it would do better there. And for the record, I support your idea to change a lot of the US weaponry to Russian counterparts.

I'd be willing to make a Russian counterpart model and texture for every US weapon there is in the game.

Edit: Disgraced, you realise the AK-107, the AK-GL, and the AK-PSO are all in the game already, right? In fact, the only gun he listed that isn't, to my knowledge, is the SA58. And that's a gun I've always wanted to model and texture :D

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Perhaps those weapons did not have the desired characteristics.

I'm sure that rocket chose weapons for a reason. He would have known far better than any of us what was available in the game....

So still kind of a moot thread.

[Izziee 128]

To be honest, who gives a crap anyway? Sounds to me a Russian is getting upset.

Well, here's the deal! Don't like it? Make your own mod.

I LOVE this game and my OWN opinion is that Russian guns pretty much suck, I would much rather have another countries. Before all the AK fanboys come out the wood work, it may be one of the most widely used guns, but that's for a reason and it's not because it's a great gun. It's very few mechanical parts, cheap to make and very robust, with that said, I'm not rolling around in mud and I'd rather take an M16 of any variation over an AK. They look better, sound better, more accurate and faster fire rate. Won't even get into the rounds.

As for it being in Russia, do you REALLY think that if this were in America (for example) you would ONLY see American guns? Do you really think in an apocalyptic FANTASY no one else would have any involvement? If I put myself in characters shoes and found myself with an M16A2 (Actually don't know the full list of guns in the game, so I'm throwing random examples) I'll certainly not question where it came from.

It's a game, not a real life situation. If you think you can do better not a single person is stopping you from creating your own mod.

It's also in Alpha stage, by all means, make a suggestion, but don't throw your toys out the pram.

[wulfenrider@msn.com 14]

As has been stated before, at this stage of development I am sure that actual game play mechanics and balancing are higher up the list than fluff for the background story...you might even see the country DayZ is set in changing.

It also depends how far down the authentic and realism route you want to go with these things.

If you want to go to full realism, then you would be spending a great deal of time, cleaning some of your more modern western weaponry after crawling through the mud,rain, saltwater and gunked zombie than would really add to the game.The MP5 variants spring to mind here in being infamous in needing rigid cleaning and maintenance.

There should be a huge bias in Soviet weaponry and vehicles in the games present setting but in the grand scheme of things, just wait till they get around to it.

[FUBAR1945 2]

Totally agreed. Them made RUS weapons more findable. Like SVD, AKs and such.