Reconsidering available weapons

In this topic I would like to list weapons that are already in the game that should either be banned or available.

If you do not agree with one or more reasons to ban a gun, please discuss in the comments.

A first category of bans would be anti-materiel rifles. This category consists of:

BAF_AS50_scoped
PMC_AS50_scoped
BAF_AS50_TWS
PMC_AS50_TWS
ksvk
m107
m107_TWS_EP1

The second category is launchers. These weapons are concerned:

Javelin
Stinger
Igla
M136
M32_EP1
M47Launcher_EP1
M79_EP1
MAAWS
MetisLauncher
Mk13_EP1
BAF_NLAW_Launcher
RPG18
RPG7V
SMAW
Strela

The third category is weapons that have night vision optics. That bans these weapons:

AKS_74_NSPU
FN_FAL_ANPVS4
BAF_L85A2_RIS_CWS
M110_NVG_EP1
SVD_NSPU_EP1

Similar to night vision optics, these guns have thermal optics:

AKS_74_GOSHAWK
M110_TWS_EP1
M249_TWS_EP1
m8_tws
m8_tws_sd
SCAR_L_STD_EGLM_TWS
SCAR_H_STD_TWS_SD

Last but not least I would propose banning these two vanity weapons:

AKS_GOLD
revolver_gold_EP1


After these bans we have a nice list of weapons at our disposal to use.

Colt1911 [M1911]
revolver_EP1

AA12_PMC
M1014
Saiga12K

AK_107_kobra
AK_107_GL_kobra
AK_107_GL_pso
AK_107_pso
AK_74
AK_74_GL
AK_74_GL_kobra
AKS_74
AKS_74_kobra
AKS_74_pso
AKS_74_U
AKS_74_UN_kobra
RPK_74

G36a
G36C
G36K
G36A_camo
G36C_camo
G36_C_SD_camo
G36_C_SD_eotech
G36K_camo

BAF_L110A1_Aim

BAF_L85A2_RIS_ACOG
BAF_L85A2_UGL_ACOG
BAF_L85A2_RIS_Holo
BAF_L85A2_UGL_Holo
BAF_L85A2_RIS_SUSAT
BAF_L85A2_UGL_SUSAT
BAF_L86A2_ACOG

M16A2
M16A2GL
m16a4
m16a4_acg
M16A4_GL
M16A4_ACG_GL

M249_EP1
M249
M249_m145_EP1

M4A1
M4A1_Aim
M4A1_Aim_camo
M4A1_AIM_SD_camo
M4A1_HWS_GL
M4A1_HWS_GL_camo
M4A1_HWS_GL_SD_Camo
M4A1_RCO_GL
M4A3_RCO_GL_EP1
M4A3_CCO_EP1

m8_carbine
m8_carbineGL
m8_SAW
m8_compact
m8_compact_pmc
m8_carbine_pmc
m8_holo_sd
m8_sharpshooter

MG36
MG36_camo

M4SPR [Mk 12 Special Purpose Rifle]

SCAR_L_CQC_CCO_SD [Mk 16 Mod 0]
SCAR_L_CQC
SCAR_L_CQC_Holo
SCAR_L_CQC_EGLM_Holo
SCAR_L_STD_EGLM_RCO
SCAR_L_STD_HOLO
SCAR_L_STD_Mk4CQT

AK_47_M
AK_47_S

Sa58V_CCO_EP1
Sa58P_EP1
Sa58V_EP1
Sa58V_RCO_EP1

huntingrifle [CZ 550]

DMR

FN_FAL

BAF_L7A2_GPMG

M14_EP1

M24
M24_des_EP1

M240
m240_scoped_EP1

M40A3

M60A4_EP1

Mk_48
Mk_48_DES_EP1

SCAR_H_CQC_CCO [Mk 17 Mod 0]
SCAR_H_CQC_CCO_SD
SCAR_H_STD_EGLM_Spect
SCAR_H_LNG_Sniper
SCAR_H_LNG_Sniper_SD

PK [PKM]

Pecheneg [PKP]

SVD
SVD_des_EP1
SVD_CAMO

Sa61_EP1 [Å korpion vz. 61]

LeeEnfield

BAF_LRR_scoped_W [L115]
BAF_LRR_scoped

Makarov
MakarovSD

bizon
bizon_silenced

glock17_EP1

M9
M9SD

MP5A5
MP5SD

UZI_EP1
UZI_SD_EP1

VSS_vintorez

Note: because I have used the classnames to describe the guns it might not be readily apparent which gun it is.

Do people agree with this approach of making more weapons available for DayZ Sahrani?
 
Personally, I think getting a hold of those that have made custom weapon packs, such as the RH one used on Celle, the models and sounds are good, the gun variety is nice, lots of pistols and SMGs and would replace the flavorless default list of weapons used in the game.
 
Personally, I think getting a hold of those that have made custom weapon packs, such as the RH one used on Celle, the models and sounds are good, the gun variety is nice, lots of pistols and SMGs and would replace the flavorless default list of weapons used in the game.
My aim with redoing the weapon bans is to introduce more content, using data that is already present and does not require to be added on. Furthermore, I am sure a lot of DayZ players have never used the newly introduced weapons and therefore I think that this would be a great change.

That said, I wholeheartedly agree with you on adding custom weapon packs.
 
Overall your list makes sense, it's pretty good!

One thing I really got into doing for Celle was blocking almost all the default DayZ weps in the Anti hack. This way its like 10 times easier to auto strip people of hacked in gear (cuz its usually default dayz shit).
 
If servers run a night cycle it would be nice if there was at least one or two very rare loot NV guns allowed,ok maybe not the sniper rifles but i don't see it a problem if both the Ak74 and FN fal NV guns where possible spawns in game, again it is down to choices for the server admins to make and there player base and to not have one person or a groups choice enforced on them because they think it is how the game should be played. If you ban all NV guns then i really don't see any servers wanting to play at night, I have our celle server with a full day/night cycle only because i make NVG's easily accessible and we have street lights and house lights on too. Now i don't know if Sahrani is going to have the electrical grid working as it has been talked about but if not then i can't see anyone wanting to have a night cycle in there servers if those guns and no lighting are in game.
Choices are a must for server admins and if we are not given some choices that don't actually affect how the map plays it imo will hinder the maps success if choices are taken away from us before we even start.

Back to weapons, I love the RH weapon pack that is in Celle and think those guns would be a great addition to any server if at all possible.:D
 
Well, weps don't necessarily have to be banned out, they can simply be left off the loot table so admins can edit them in if desired. Also, street/house lights are great, but so are full moons, they help a shitload making it pretty unnecessary for NVGs imo.

One thing I'd like to see is perhaps a very rapid day/night cycle built into the map, something like 3 or 4 days in a 24h period.. So players from multiple regions of the world can experience both.
 
Actually I would be fine with just not banning anything (after reading the replies in the other threads) so that server owners can adjust loot tables with what they want.
That said, I would like to see the weapons listed above to appear the in the loot tables for some more diversity :).

About the nights, I actually agree with Manatee. In my experience the nights are playable and adding NVG or NV scopes to that would throw off the balance. Without them everyone is impaired in an even fashion.
 
Most players will not even entertain the thought of playing on a night cycle server without the possibility of NVG's, though personally i think there is enough light as long as full moon nights work correctly and server admins have access to make it so and along side the streetlights/houselights it does make the night time experience more fun. But still from speaking to a lot of our player base over the last few months if i ever suggested a night cycle on some of our servers the large percentage always say as long as you give us NVG.o_O

I think it would be best to just not ban anything and give the server admins the possibility of adding in items with the loot tables that way each server can be different and give a different playing experience for it's players. Not everyone always wants balance,some servers still have As50's/M107's in and others do not (like ours) but the most important thing we all have is the choice to decide.
 
There is only one thing I would like to add: I still think it is the responsibility of the mod makers to ensure that not every fire station and every barn is littered with AS50's and rocket launchers.
 
My playerbase is the opposite, they hate NVGs, they love night time play with all the diff lighting options, for some reason they like it more than day ;)

I really do hope they add as many gun packs as they can get a hold of into this even if they don't make it into the loot table... Because the arma sniper rifles are really bleh, looking for more low end types cz550/m24 style, same for the shotguns/smgs available... kinda limited.
 
I personally don't like using NVG when we have great lighting options in the town areas but sometimes in Celle if the full moon nights don't work as planned or at certain times of night it is pitch black in the wooded areas and unplayable without NVG's.

The only guns i would always insist on banning would be the .50 cal's to try and enforce some kind of skill factor when shooting at a player for a kill.

I really do like the RH packs of guns but other than that i have not really looked into what is available but the RH gun packs cover pretty much everything i would like to use in game.
 
My players have fallen in love with the RH weps, but I have an extreme distaste for anything with Thermal sights/ scores, outside of NVGs.

I struggle to modify the loot tables (never successfully made a change that worked) so having AS50s, M107s, and Thermal sights in the loot tables would force our community not to use this map.

Celle loot tables are the best of any map. I'd prefer to see similar weapons.
 
Exactly, Celle has a great set of custom weapons, I love it. Do note - You can add the masterkey pellets/slugs to the loot piles since Graz forgot to do that.
 
Yep! That was the first/ last time I tried to put something into the loot tables, lol. Good guess, how did you know? lol
 
Had not previously noticed this thread somehow. I will go over it in more detail in the next week, but our weapon changes are locked in for this release, there will be changes on the next version, but for now it's set in stone...

ALL the changes are in the bans, and loot tables, so if it's unbanned it will spawn and so will it's ammo. In the future we are going to re-work the loot tables a bit more to help reduce the military loot in non-military areas.
 
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