Home-made Shotgun + Modified Flare Gun

[Draco122 412]

So with 0.53 it introduced the Flare Gun and some new melee weapons, one of which was a Lead Pipe. It got me thinking, could we perhaps add the element of crafting a basic shotgun from the Lead Pipe?

 

Here's the basic idea:

 

The player will need the following items:

• 1x Lead Pipe
• 1x Hacksaw
• 1x Wire
• 1x ScrewDriver
• 1x Ductape

In order to make the home-made shotgun given the name "Pipe gun" the player will need to do the following:

1. Combine the Hacksaw with the Lead Pipe to create Pipe Sections
2. Combine the Hacksaw with the Screwdriver to create a Screwdriver head
3. Combine the Pipe Sections with the Screwdriver Head to create a Pipe Gun base
4. Combine the Pipe Gun Base to the Wire and apply the Duct Tape
5. Load a 12 Gauge round into your new Pipe Gun.
6. Optionally combine some additional pipe sections with wire or duct tape to make a Pipe Gun w/ Improvised Grip which will remove the weapons delay.

When using the "Pipe Gun", there is a delay before the weapon actually fires and the player will use their thumb as a crude sight to aim the weapon. The delay can be removed by adding some pipe sections to the weapon while having Duct Tape or Wire in your inventory. It will create a Pipe Gun with an improvised grip.

 

Additionally I had thought about ways of using the Flare Gun, now I'm not sure what caliber the Flare Gun is in-game but if it's a 12 Gauge Flare Gun I think the Flare Gun should be able to take 12 Gauge Buckshot, although using it will degrade it rapidly. It will become ruined with only 4 Shots, requiring a player to use 3 shots and then a repair kit to bring it back to a worn status.

[Conrad_The_Comrade 577]

For that whole shotgun thing, is this even possible? Like... I'm legitimately curious... (Like possible in reality, not in game)

Edited February 4, 2015 by Stryker7x

[Chaingunfighter 917]

For that whole shotgun thing, is this even possible? Like... I'm legitimately curious... (Like possible in reality, not in game)

 

With just this stuff?

 

No - far from it. Oversimplifying it wouldn't make it worthwhile, it'd just end up being really redundant and unrealistic, and were you to really need a realistic amount of (improvised) parts it'd be almost completely pointless to attempt versus just looking for an IZH-43 or some other gun.

 

Plus even if it were possible these things would be horrendously inaccurate, have no aiming sights whatsoever, and be prone to fall apart any second. Improvised firearms are cool but they're meant to be used in an environment where there are comparatively fewer firearms available, and for the most part they're built as "temporary" weapons that you use to acquire better ones, not long term solutions. Not to mention that having every single one of these improvised designs appearing the same would just be bad - they wouldn't really feel improvised to the same extent because they all look the same.

 

Crafting weapons (or combining stuff with weapons) should be limited to melee, bows, explosives (IEDs, molotovs, etc.), traps, and maybe some careful additions to weapons, like the ghillie gun wrap.

[slippery gypsy 107]

.22 zipgun would be more likely but i doubt it will ever be implemented due to lack of use 
a 12 gauge shell used on a spear for hunting would be far more usefull or likely