Weapon attachments/ Weapon Parts

[LoG Steppenwolf 4]

I was thinking about two things.

First you could let players only find weapon parts of the high tier Weapons.

For example for an AK you need to find the 3 AK parts and combine them.

This way good weapons would become more rare, because at the moment a fire station is an garantee for a good weapon. So you can add a little bit more stress and make automatic rifles more valubale.

You also would force players to trade. At the moment there is no real need to trade with others. With weapon parts there would be. Because even if you shoot 5 guys only one or 2 would have weapon parts and even than it would be probably the wrong part for you. Od course this could lead to many ambushes for weapon parts or betrayl, but i think that´s what makes Dayz interesseting.

Pistols on the other hand should still be found complete, because they´re mainly anti-zed weapons and a basic instrument of survival. And they´re quite small so i don´t think you should split them.

Of course you still could spawn some complete Weapons. But they would be very rare and only on special locations (barracks etc.).

Second i was thinking about weapon attachments. So if you find a CZ in a barn, it will have no scope, but only iron sights and you have to search for the scope. Same thing with suppressors, red dot sight, stocks etc.

It would add more variety to the weapons.

I´m not to familiar with tha ARMA2 Engine, so i don´t know if that´s even possible, but i think it´s something worth thinking about.

[zorisx 7]

Weapon attachments would be great. I think parts should be found for very unique weapons like the L85 Thermal and the M240 or M249 as well as sniperrifles.

[DevilDog (DayZ) 455]

I don't know about the weapon parts thing. It really just does not make much sense. Why would random parts be all over and no full weapons? I think maybe if they added in weapon wear and tear and you could just replace certain parts, that would work.

I love the attachments parts though. No M203s in the game, but M16s and launcher attachments. No silenced weapons, but instead silencers that you can attach to weapons. Mount scopes and acogs/redots, NVG, Thermal scopes to any weapon with the right rail/rings ect.

[thePCGamer 0]

ArmA 3 will have attachments system. I hope DayZ will be ported to the ArmA 3 engine.

[deathbot20 1]

I like the Idea of Attachments, But the weapons being in parts is just not logical, maybe some weapons could be missing parts and you would have to like make a decision of do i want to take this gun but need to look for parts or hold out for a nice full weapon

[20thCenturyGamer 16]

Weapon attachment is a good idea but weapon parts ... Ew no thank you

[radivmoe 47]

i like the weapon parts idea, but only if you could find partly assembled weapons. the explanation would be that people would either destroy certain parts of a weapon, or assembled some before death.

and what do people mean it would not make sense? you can get gun parts, and almost all assembled guns would be looted earlier. so... GUN PARTS!

[-Gews- 7443]

and what do people mean it would not make sense? you can get gun parts, and almost all assembled guns would be looted earlier. so... GUN PARTS!

Well, you're not exactly going to find the contents of a Brownell's catalog scattered around Chernarus.

[m00tley 50]

Gonna leave this video here, but i'm not posting the video because of the way the weapon customization works on this game, but because of how many options you have. Would be great to have so many options on the SA.

Edit: I guess you should find assembled weapons, but be able to disassemble them, only take the part that you want, and them be able to make your own weapon. Of course you can't take parts of an AK74 and put on a M4, but you may want to take one of the pieces of this AK74 and use it in your own customized AK74.

Edited January 22, 2013 by m00tley

[radivmoe 47]

Well, you're not exactly going to find the contents of a Brownell's catalog scattered around Chernarus.

yeah, but if you came across a gun, and a pile of gun parts in a desperate situaton, what would you pick? i would pick the gun personally, and that leaves only the gun parts.