Weapons.. Yes, another one of these threads.

[Parrin 1]

First off, why is it that 90% of the weapon suggestions consist of NATO weapons? *cough* cod kiddies..

Anyway, I'm going to keep this nice and simple, as I'm pretty sure you've all read enough on here about them.

We need more 'eastern' weapons, so I was thinking..

SKS (7.62x39mm, should be able to have the ability to convert 1 AKM mag into 3 10 round stripper clips, and vice versa)

Mosin Nagant (7.62x54mm, very common eastern rifle and found all over the world, I'd guess in a post Soviet country they would be rather common and easily obtainable)

KAR98 (It's german, but they're still found all over the world)

TOZ 78-01 (.22LR, not so powerfull, you would have to tag someone 2-3 times to kill, however you have the advantage of being really queit.)

And some Air rifles.. - All 3 of these are break barrel, so there would be a rather long animation of breaking it, placing a pellet in and then bringing the barrel back up, however ammo would be common and in rather large amounts, wouldn't really do nothing to a player except piss him off, though it could be used for hunting chicken/rabbit(Sometimes there's no need to kill a whole cow, if you only need 1-2 pieces of meat), a single headshot would kill a zombie at minus 75 metres and would be dead silent to a zombie.

BSA Meteor (Really common rifles here in the UK, not sure if any went east, .22 pellet form, quite powerful for what it is and they were and are still really cheap, I own a early one.)

Relum telly (Hungarian rifle, available in both .177 and .22 I beleive, I own one in .177 form and it's a rather nice gun, again really cheap and common, even over east.)

Lukznik 87 (Polish rifle, again really cheap, but accurate and easy to find)

Oh and just because it should have been in anyway, M1911 supressed, it's one of the most widely distributed sidearms all over the world, you can't tell me a few people wouldnt have silencers for them? Hunting purposes etc, plus as stated in a post by someone else, there would be no need for 'SD' ammo, as the M1911 does not require subsonic rounds.

Opinions?

[KnT47r 51]

This so did not need it's own thread...

Yes more weapons would be good, even if they're similar (AK variants etc) it's good to have choice

[Deviant (DayZ) 43]

I would be happy with removing/super nerfing the spawn of high-tier military grade weapons, and adding more "conventional" weapons, such as SKS, Bolt action rifles especially.

But air rifles? really? I don't think so.

But this gets me thinking, .22 would be excellent, especially as low-tier weapons. Yes, it's not powerful, but more common would be nice.

Not a fan of the suppressed weapons, but maybe as high tier loot.

Also, what KnT47r said. We need a big Weapons-to-add thread.

Edited July 17, 2012 by Deviant

[TheTigger 34]

I like the idea of Military guns and ammo to be less common and more civilian weapons. Such as a .22, and more pistols.

[Parrin 1]

I would be happy with removing/super nerfing the spawn of high-tier military grade weapons, and adding more "conventional" weapons, such as SKS, Bolt action rifles especially.

But air rifles? really? I don't think so.

But this gets me thinking, .22 would be excellent, especially as low-tier weapons. Yes, it's not powerful, but more common would be nice.

Not a fan of the suppressed weapons, but maybe as high tier loot.

The air rifles could maybe be the solution for spawning with a weapon, it wouldn't effect players if you shot them, unless you was point blank, even then it would just leave you with a hole in your flesh haha.

But yeah, LMG's need removing completely and MAYBE place an RPK74 in (75 round drum mag, 5.45x39mm so could use AK74 mags), weapons like M4A1, M16 etc need their loot spawns nerfed a hell of a lot.. NATO would be all over it like a fly to shit, but weapons in the AK-100 series should be more the common in the military camps if I'm honest..

I wish the DayZ team could have a word with Vilas, to allow for some of his weapons for his Eastern weapons pack to be used..

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Edited July 17, 2012 by Parrin

[aversionfx 63]

I'm totally on board with the SKS. As for air rifles and .22 caliber weapons, I'm not so keen. The air rifles would be almost completely worthless because players are wearing pretty heavy clothing, and because I think they would only irritate zombies.

.22 would be okay, I guess. I can't really imagine any situation where a .22 is going to help you much. And to be honest, I don't want yet another ammunition type in game. It's already annoying finding Makarov ammo when you don't even want it when you're unarmed.