Fireworks and Flare gun

[Chawktah 43]

Just thinking that there should be Fireworks when the whole throwing psysics is completed. Was thinking about using fireworks, such as those little smoke ball things, or larger smoke makers for cover and distraction... Could have larger rockets for night time signals and a way to daze enemies. Same Idea with the flare gun, as they would light up an area and help see enemies. Would also draw in zombies with the noise. Could use the whole fireworks thing to add lighters and what not, maybe delayed fuses or use the rope as a combination to extend the fuse time. You could really add lots of things to make the Night time more interesting and tactical. Smoke and louder firecrackers in the daytime to move around through cities and what not. 

[wejyoung 39]

This would be amazing!

This should be really easy for the developers to implement, too, as flares are basically the same.

[blackberrygoo 1416]

Ya definitely a fun idea for down the road a bit .

[mickbotson 0]

I agree, flare guns would be great. Especially if they were a one-hit-kill for bandits. Light'em right up tehehehe

[TheHuntsMan87 194]

flares would be interesting as there good for showing locations to finds...a nice feature would be to hold the flare and scroll function to start waving the flare to signal people, friends etc

[Valadain 270]

I agree, flare guns would be great. Especially if they were a one-hit-kill for bandits. Light'em right up tehehehe

 

Flare guns don't kill people. But it would be interesting to have them be one-hit-screw-the-hell-out-of-your-gear guns. Would make a good bandit-killing-new-spawns deterrent. Start people with a flare gun with one shot.

[JKS-Alex 79]

Road flare and flare gun has already been confirmed so let's just wait to see how they works ;)

[bobotype3334 160]

Flare gun yes, fireworks no. Just loose gunpowder will do.

Flare guns and flares should have a spawn of their own, almost exclusively, on the wrecked boat, as a reason for Survivors to head over there looking for shinies, and should also be a bit of a rarer spawn elsewhere on the map. Maybe those airdrop marker coloured smoke flare things could be at air bases.
 

Edited April 4, 2014 by bobotype3334

[DMentMan 707]

flare guns, thats the thing i was most in dayz, and vehicles, but flare guns would be SO AWESOME!

[Draco122 412]

Flare guns don't kill people. But it would be interesting to have them be one-hit-screw-the-hell-out-of-your-gear guns. Would make a good bandit-killing-new-spawns deterrent. Start people with a flare gun with one shot.

Actually they do though normally most die from severe burns and unless it's a headshot it won't be an instant kill, but it will inflict some serious damage at close range. Look at these videos and you'll see why!

 

 

 

[Barokker 30]

great idea. 

I want to skyrocket.

[Valadain 270]

Actually they do though normally most die from severe burns and unless it's a headshot it won't be an instant kill, but it will inflict some serious damage at close range. Look at these videos and you'll see why!

 

 

Ok, didn't think I needed to qualify, but apparently so.

 

A flare gun will not in any sense of the word, reliably kill a person. It might kill a person, given just the right circumstances, just as punching someone might kill them in the right circumstances. Which, translated to video game, means non-lethal. The burning aspect was what I was referring to with the "ruin gear" bit. That I think might be a better deterrent than making it lethal unrealistically.

 

You should watch your videos again, they really only become more dangerous when you step up to the more specialized flares, that apparently require a steaming robot head to shoot.

[OrLoK 16182]

 

If it has Arma 3 lighting then absolutely YES!

 

Rgds

 

LoK

Edited April 4, 2014 by orlok

[haven923 65]

And you could disassemble them for fuses, black powder, and other goodies... plus here's to disassembling the flare gun cartridges and making a pocket shotgun...

[hassan030 22]

Trip flares could be fun as well. They would function as some sort of forward warning system around your base or looting area. See for example this Czechoslovakian NO 2 trip flare. More on Lexpev, which is also the image source. 

 

Edited April 6, 2014 by hassan030