Should armed vehicles be added to Dayz?

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

Should Lightly armed land/sea vehicles be added to Dayz as super rare vehicles? For example:

-Technicals (civilian pickup trucks with a machinegun in the bed)

-UAZ with a DSHKM (.30 cal MG)

-Humvee with a M240

-Boats with MG's

The way I could see it working is that armed vehicles have additional parts to be repaired, in addition to hull, wheels, fuel, and engine, it could also have "gun". Two new parts could be added in as well (both would be rare), without both of these parts applied to the vehicle, the gun won't fire. These two parts would be:

1.The gun itself. In ARMA 2, there are already mounted guns in bags as items and you could add them to Dayz as items that go into your inventory for 6 slots or more, then with a toolkit you could repair a vehicle's gun with it. For instance, a Humvee with an M240 will require a mounted M240 bag to repair its gun, and a UAZ with a DSHKM will need a DSHKM bag.

2.A special ammo box item for vehicles. For example, it would be an item that looks like the weapon boxes from vanilla arma 2 that take 6 slots of inventory space, and are titled "Vehicle Ammo Box". This would have to be applied to an armed vehicle (not needing a toolkit, its just reloading, no tools required) to give its gun a limited amount of ammo, and when the ammo runs out another box will be needed. This will make using an armed vehicle difficult due to needing a rare item to replenish ammo.

I think this could work. Do you?

[komoter226@yahoo.co.uk 59]

I was thinking of that as well.

Would be epic to drive around in these and raid camps :)

[Frissy 31]

Absolutely not. I'm sorry but it just shouldn't be added.

[M O N S T E R 599]

The newest in Coast-Killing technology.

-MONSTER

[BearGravy 53]

I don't think so, because once someone finds it Cherno or Electro or even the NWA will be under constant fire, people would abuse the power of it, and because rockets are extremely rare as well it would be impossible to take who ever is driving it down. Now if they made it to where you have to build it from ground up, and only one of the vehicles you are talking about are in one server per vehicle, and it has it's own parts which are extremely rare, then yes I would say it would be fine.

[Lumberjack (DayZ) 60]

Not something I,d like to see.

[Apelo 26]

It is a nice idea that I have thought about myself, however considering that many big 'clans' often dominate and hoard vehicles it is likely they would get hold of one (or more) anyway, quite quickly. It is definitely an interesting mechanic against zombies however for me it ends there.

Against players (extra resistent glass and I assume wheels) would mean that the person in said vehicle is practically invulnerable and above that now has mounted guns. There is hardly any potent anti-vehicle weapons out there also, and who will want to actually shoot at a vehicle that will seconds later be able to stop and shoot them back - not to mention be faster then them.

Also, where does it stop? Why not just bring tanks into the game and give everyone rocket launchers?

My thoughts is simply give the ability to shoot out of windows with a massive accuracy penalty.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I'm not against the idea of couple of rare low powered armed vehicles (not a 50 cal on a pick-up - In Arma those were bloody brutal) but it's just a case of balance.

[osiriszoran 33]

i couldnt imagine you would be able to shoot anything while moving considering bullet time and registering hits is down right laughable at times. Last night i unloaded 30 rounds of AK fire into a guy with a hatchet 15m in front of me with every bullet hitting(blood spurt out with each hit) and he just turned around and ran away. lol what?

Edited July 26, 2012 by osiriszoran

[resident_leeonheart@yahoo.com 32]

I like to see that Battle Bus from Land of the Dead.

[Beanus 61]

I like to see that Battle Bus from Land of the Dead.

Damn dats a cool bus!

[m.w. vindicator 880]

Minor correction. The Dshkm fires a 12.7x108mm bullet. This is more comparable to .50 BMG (12.7x99mm NATO) not .30 cal. A fifty caliber weapon would WRECK. The M107 can two shot a vehicle in the engine block. Now imagine a heavy machine guns firing at the same vehicle. IT would be up in flames in seconds. While I would like armed vehicles i think they would be VERY powerful

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

please refer to my "OMFG TANKS" thread to see why i disagree. but light armor? maybe. it would promote playerkilling,though.

[Shepuz 10]

inb4 someone rides down the coastline in a fully armed bmp.

[evkol001 34]

Yes I want armed vehicles in game. but as extremly rare.

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

As an Arma player I don't personally find "technicals" on the whole much of a threat, yes, they can lay down heavy fire but are very susceptible to damage/gunner kills.

So, for me, I would be happy to see limited light armour on the field.

No Vodniks though, they are just evil.

Rgds

LoK

[Afgoo 114]

If the vehicle allows for a relatively visible gunner which could be shot. That way the gunner would always be in danger of a sniper and snipers would maybe focus on that rather than noobs for a little bit.

[Jaime (DayZ) 13]

I think it would make zombies even more trivial. If we go down that road we'll end up with Arma2 vanilla + AI's with odd skin textures.

[Aira 22]

Since it would only be used to kill players... against it.

[osiriszoran 33]

They should add Zeds driving lightly armed vehicles. infection just got real.

[v1ktor 59]

Everyone has their opinion and we all come from different fps types. I for one would LOVE to have armoured vehicles added which would be impossible to penetrate with normal shells. This would make group play much more valuable because you would now be able to drive to cherno hospital, raid it, and drive away unharmed.

Machine guns on a humvee would also be cool and useful as that would add an advantage to those with a vehicle (atm you cannot fire out of a vehicle)

[C4SINO (DayZ) 20]

I don't think it would work as you would need to carry ammunition some how, and it'd be hard to keep a good amount of ammo for a MG to have any use

[Robert512 12]

I don't see any problems with a BMP-2 Ambulance, its armoured, its amphibious, A mobile first aid station. Now that would something to work for.

[Hetstaine 10852]

no armed vehicles. World of Tanks.

[solidsnake808 6]

nah