slingshot

[Romzzy 4]

1: easy to make

2:stealthy

3:can be deadly 

4:you can find rock anywhere

5:good weapon for starting players to feel safer

6:oh yeah and its civilian class weapon !

Edited February 10, 2014 by Romzzy

[Geckofrog7 1168]

Do you get a damage boost for being Balearic?

[dangitman 7]

Just in case you don't know about slingshots vs zombies check out Joerg Spave's The Slingshot Channel. I think he is the greatest slingshot zombie killer ever. LOL

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

I don't think it's a good weapon against zombies guys (talking about the average user)...if apocalypse started tommorow,would you have a slingshot as a weapon of choice? I honestly don't think it's a good idea because it lacks leathality and it's not practical.But if implemented when it comes to zombies let's make it a weak weapon capable of rendering them unconcious if you headshot them.But not with the first shot,and with a low propabilty rate.Am i unfair?

[Romzzy 4]

I think ira lethal enough my dad hunts deer whit à slingshot!!!

[Romzzy 4]

And i real life, finding à slingshot in real life id more probable than finding à gun (well here in canada lol )

[DMentMan 707]

i don´t like this idea.

[irishroy 1347]

 

 

 

 

like this..?

[Malibuz0r 14]

Don't ever bring a slingshot to a gun fight ;)

[carcinovich 156]

Slings take considerable skill to use, if you want to actually hit twenty feet from your target. 

 

I'm just not feeling it. We live in an age of smokeless gunpowder. There are million things more readily accessible. It just seems anachronistic and unnecessary. 

[carlom5 0]

In case you don't know the slingshot is a very effective weapon... a good rock can smash an head and an metal helmet too. Roman used slingshot during battle. Altough is really difficult to aim correctly and it requires a lot of traning to be really usefull.

[irishroy 1347]

Roman used slingshot during battle.

But before that, Hannibal used slingshots and smashed Roman heads.

[doublebrain 255]

Slings take considerable skill to use, if you want to actually hit twenty feet from your target. 

 

I'm just not feeling it. We live in an age of smokeless gunpowder. There are million things more readily accessible. It just seems anachronistic and unnecessary. 

 

A simple slingshot?? Well you need a little bit of skill and training but as we can use weapons like we had training with them why cant we use slingshots like we trained with them in the past? I used to have a slingshot when I was young and I could hit stuff with it. Its realy not as hard as people say in this thread (at least not much harder than using a weapon as I said..)

[dangitman 7]

Here is mine. And yes I do shoot arrows with it. Sorry if the image is too big.

[majo 23]

I like the idea of slingshots and agree that they can be deadly on shorter distances.

 

When they manage to add bows I hope they can also add the slingshot.

I'd like to see way more crafted weapons than guns and rifles, which can just be picked up somewhere. These should be very rare.

[burrowski 1]

I make my own slingshots as well. I would love to see them in game.

 

[Jokeysmurf 4]

I would LOVE to be able to craft a scrap slingshot. It would go along nicely with the bows and other created weapons that could be more common than most guns. (not that bows are confirmed to be craftable.... I think...)

[cywehner1234 582]

Its quite pointless in my opinion. Who would start his game saying, OH I want a slingshot so it only takes me 50 hits to kill someone!

[Jokeysmurf 4]

Its quite pointless in my opinion. Who would start his game saying, OH I want a slingshot so it only takes me 50 hits to kill someone!

you obviously haven't seen what a good wrist rocket with steel shot can do at close range

[blackberrygoo 1416]

This would definitely be a great idea for dayz standalone. I could see being a fresh spawn , immediately finding or creating a backpack and then making a slingshot right after so he could at least knock bandits down for a second or two to get away or disarm the guy .

Edit : spiked ball bearings (dunno if that's the word) can definitely kill if hit In the eye , which would also go for an awesome animation . After getting hit in the eye your character could die or at least go blind .

But IMO I don't think it should be easy to kill someone with it , it should be more so for knocking down opponents , so at medium ranges if you were to peg a bandit In the head he could have a 20% chance of being knocked back / down .

Edited February 22, 2014 by Grapefruit kush