Flare Guns & Riot Launchers

[Draco122 412]

Something I think feels amiss is Flare Guns in DayZ.

 

Say for example you come across the lone ship wreck in the North East or have been skulking around for loot in one of the coastal towns/cities and you happen to stumble upon a flare gun. It would be common in a sense that it would be an ideal location to find one.

 

So...

 

How would a Flare Gun work in-game?

 

Well their primary use would be for night time, fire a flare into the air and let a red/white flare slowly drop to the ground until it extinguishes itself. It would be an alternate method for lighting up an area for a brief time.

 

It could also function as a poor mans pistol and could possibly inflict a new damage type "burn" damage on hit. It certainly wouldn't kill on one hit but it would certainly mess up whoever got hit with it. Plus seeing a bright red or white object flying at high speed at them at night might make it difficult to see the shooter.

 

Two examples of Flare Guns I could see in DayZ:

First up, the Orion Flare Gun, pretty common worldwide and while usually available in 12 Gauge Flares some models come with the larger 25mm flares which are brighter, last longer and are typically more powerful. Could be found most commonly in Fire Stations, Industrial Buildings and sometimes rarely Residental.

Second up, is the H&K P2A1, while not as common as the Orion, it is certainly is used more by Military outfits. Something akin to a Military Issue flare gun. Fires 26.5mm Flares but some models do come in 25mm calibers. More of a Military spawn type flare gun, perhaps more common.

 

Lastly, something I thought would be an ideal weapon for Police Stations and could also function in with the Flare Guns, is the idea around a police issue riot launcher. Take this weapon for example, the RGS-50M.

It can fire a variety of different rounds from less-lethal rubber slugs and buckshot, smoke, Tear-Gas, Flares and even FRAG grenades. The Rubber Slug and Buckshot rounds should inflict purely knockdown and knockout effects when used, smoke and tear gas should inflict a blurring effect (of which tear gas is the longest to recover from), Flares do much in the same way than those of Flare Guns but have an extremely bright white flare, Frags should be extremely rare for their intense power they hold. In my opinion, the RGS-50M should be an extremely rare drop in Fire Stations and Military locations.

[cj14 189]

I like the flare shit idea, road flares or flares guns

[AnyoneInCherno? 187]

Certainly seems reasonable, beans to you

[DMentMan 707]

flare gun and flare would be awesome. Don´t forget the taser gun.