Should armed vehicles be added to Dayz?

[Kar98 27]

Cool idea but it would be taken by clans instantly leaving 99% of us with nothing and them with another vehicle. If you made it easy to kill, basically a ute with a gun on the back then I could see it being ok, but something like a humvee would be way too OP

[Mister_Meatball 5]

I would only support it if you could find the unarmed variant in the wild (if you cannot already). You would then have to find an m240 or equivalent weapon and then attach it. This would keep the sense that you are cobbling these vehicles together. If the weapon is not in the world a junk version could be added that only works when attached to said vehicle.

[ENSLAVER 21]

Mad-Max style cusomized cars would spring up all over the place after the apocalypse given that working parts would become scarce. I am sure eventually some survivors would mount weapons on their vehicles and armor to defend against zombie hordes, too bad it would mostly be used for PVP in DayZ.

It's a good idea, but they would need to take a lot more work to fix than normal vehicles.

Edit: For future "standalone" speculation, modular vehicle customization? Customizing a bike with a minigun? Yes please! Also, bus with flamethrowers.

Edited July 27, 2012 by ENSLAVER

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

Why are people SOOOO against Military gear and PVP? Its a survival game I got it, you guys said it a million times. What's your idea of survival? Everyone being lovey-dovey friends? Killing zombies with their pure friendship? No, PVP is part of survival. Its should be supported but have its pro's and con's.

And people's logic against armed vehicles? You keep saying "No armored vehicles!", I never suggested armored vehicles. I suggested technicals, MG UAZ's, and Humvees with M240's that have exposed gunners. They are not bulletproof, they are not armored, and they are by NO MEANS tanks. These Car's MG's would also need ammo boxes that would be rare, so it wouldn't be possible to camp the shore with seemingly unlimited MG ammo, you would have to be conservative with ammo as always.

And to people saying armed vehicles, and even military gear in general, is "unrealistic" are ,honestly, fucking morons. How is assault rifles, snipers, combat shotguns, LMG's, and SMG's and armed vehicles being present in an eastern european region with multiple military installations "unrealistic"? Like I implied, its because some people are mad that the game isn't full of completely trusting, generous carebears. Wanting that in a "zombie-survival" game? THAT is unrealistic. PVP and banditry have their place, deal with it, if you keep getting killed by it (I have MANY times), just deal with it.

[Dymoxide 1]

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.

How is it impossible to take it down? All you have to do is shoot the tires and GG...........

[trauma.au 14]

Just look at what people did with the last lightly armed vehicle in game. There is your answer.

[Hetstaine 10852]

I think it is just that a lot of people have had their fill of games with vehicles with weapons hanging of them, they dont want dayz to take this direction. I know i dont :) Not saying it is unrealistic to be able to put a vehicle like this together when you are on a map that has military installations...i just think it would start to take away the feel of what dayz is.

If things like this are implemented then of course people are going to clamour for more hardware as cars sit outside of Cherno or wherever just strafing away..what ? thats not gonna happen ? My ass. They will just be pvp tools and that is all, of course you will be able to kill zeds with it..but who the hell is gonna waste the ammo on them ? Very few. It will be like watching Black Hawk down with a side order of Zombieland. Not that i wouldnt want to watch that movie..i just dont want to play it.:)

[Sixteen18 15]

Armed vehicles wouldn't be as bad as sniper rifles.

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

Very few. It will be like watching Black Hawk down with a side order of Zombieland. Not that i wouldnt want to watch that movie..i just dont want to play it. :)

Why in the hell would you not want to play that? Why do you pacifists hate PVP so much?

[Albatros (DayZ) 40]

>OP mentions armed vehicles and even list Technical's and UAZ's as examples

>Everyone thinks he means BMP's and Tanks

What the fuck is wrong with people that post here.

The UH-1H already has two M240's, so I don't see why it'd be a problem for other vehicles to have weapons mountable.

[snafuu (DayZ) 30]

There are guns and there are vehicles. Congratulations, you now have armed vehicles. What's that? The game doesn't support firing out of your vehicle? That's a shame, but I'm not going to say it shouldn't. I mean, good luck hitting anything, but why not? Just don't add anything that's hard to kill.

If you think a dude in a truck with a machine gun is a significant problem, you actually haven't played ARMA... or so I would think.

[FrankDaTank1218 (DayZ) 41]

Hiding in the bushes unseen while having a clear shot at an armed vehicle like a Humvee/M240 is arguably an easier kill than some on-foot infantry who can easily hide, scatter, and hit the deck/go prone.