Tactical sling

[velyse (DayZ) 22]

Sometimes it is prudent to have two types of primary firearms on your person, As you probably know, right now you can actually do this, if you have one weapon on a sling on your back, you can pick up another primary firearm into your hands.

This can be pretty cumbersome, a little glitchy, and risky (maybe the loot doesn't drop? Bye bye rifle)

 

I'd like to propose the option of a tactical sling, perhaps as a wearable item, or a weapon attachment. Right now all weapons have a default built-in sling, where it's slung over your shoulder. This is fine for rifles and the like, but smaller more combat oriented arms should be able to have a CQB style sling. These can be configured many different ways but the most practical is over the shoulder, across the chest, and under the arm, with one point going to the buttstock of the rifle. This would allow you to release the weapon and it would swing to your side, your hips. 

 

This is a bit cumbersome, but would allow one to "hold" a rifle at all times, have on on your shoulder, but also allow you to go handsfree to eat, drink, melee, handcuff, or just switch to the other rifle for longer-range engagements. 

 

In the mod we used to be able to put a primary in our backpack, and swap them back and forth, certain weapons could not fit in a pack (high powered rifles, for example.) Same idea with the tactical sling, some weapons should not be able to use this sling, like the FX45 won't go in a chest holster, nothing but a small battle rifle could use a tactical sling.

 

perhaps it would be possible to design it so that if the tactical sling is hanging (weapon dropped) the user would not be able to run, just walk. This would solve some balance issues, you wouldn't be able to just let the rifle hang, grab your long rifle, and sprint across the countryside. Another negative is that the rifle would still need to be in hands to be unencumbered, like the current situation, you can't just drop it, magically throw it on your back, and fist-sprint across the countryside.

 

TLDR;

Ideally, the tactical sling would allow you to do exactly what we're able to now, without the weapon actually dropping to the ground, it would effectively add a second "weapon slot" for a specific type of weapon, and when hands-free you would be forced to walk, no running, no sprinting.

Switching to hands would be, hopefully much faster. no long animation to put the rifle on your back. This could also be useful for drawing a pistol. 

[TedZ 424]

+1 Support and beans, great idea, i'd like a tactical sling.

[velyse (DayZ) 22]

Thanks, not really suggesting something overpowered like some double primary shit a-la CoD. Carrying a second primary would have a real penalty, being unable to hands-free sprint anywhere would put you at a severe disadvantage if you needed to escape.

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