Fail To Feed/fail To Eject On Semiauto/auto Weapons Suggestion (Long)

[TomJeff 12]

I'm pretty sure this is already on the agenda, but these are my thoughts on the subject:

 

SemiAuto and Auto weapons have a change of improperly feeding and ejecting ammo in real life. The causes are myriad, from poor magazine fit or spring to mistimed gas ejector to internal parts misalignment and others. The solution to the less severe of these problems is to pull back the extractor manually, which ejects the current object in the round, and chamber another round.

 

I think this can be simulated in DayZ rather easily. Every gun and every magazine has a condition. This condition is directly related to the chance of a "failure". For magazines, "Failure" is always a FTF/FTE. A FTF/FTE in game terms is effectively the same as running out of ammo, your gun goes click no matter how many times you press LMB even if there is ammo in the magazine. To fix this, you press reload, and on your scroll wheel menue all reload options are replaced with "clear jam". This makes the players hands do the racking animation already ingame when reloading, just now the removing and inserting magazine animation. This subtracts one bullet from the magazine currently inserted in the weapon.

 

Thats the most reasonable way of simulating it.

 

Additionally, weapon condition ALSO affects chance of FTF/FTE. However, I think there should also be a secondary, smaller chance, related to a weapon's condition, that the weapon will become "ruined" ie: a jam so bad that racking the slide won't fix it. Such as a stovepipe, or internal explosion. I think this chance should vary for each gun for each condition, which certain firearms being inherently more reliable as they become worn (ie: ak47 vs m16 would have different "ruined" chances)

 

I think that absent battle damage, regular wear and tear should not "ruin" any firearm. Only the mechanism described above.

 

Furthermore the "ruined" mechanism should affect bolt action and break action guns as well, just with different odds. (yes serious problems can occur to even break action shotguns and mosins, its exceedingly rare and hard to without serious intentional mishandling, but possible. Particularly stovepiping after the barrel becomes clogged with mud.)

 

Discuss.

[TomJeff 12]

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really? no thoughts on this?

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really? no thoughts on this?

[TomJeff 12]

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really? no thoughts on this?