I did say that the battering ram should be useless against all locks from the code-lock and above, and can only be used on a wooden door. Keeping it as a melee weapon would be kind of bad because the way I set it out is that it would be an epic-rarity spawn in police-grade locations.
I also stated that it should be single use as to balance it. Say you’re raiding a base, you could save it for a door that you know good loot is behind. Or you could get lucky and find a bunch and hope that they all have wooden doors.
I can see where you are coming from with the damage against structures mechanic, and, a bit unrelated, but I think if you light a base on fire it should burn most of the items if they’re not in say, a locker. Like real fire.
Or we can simply use Sledge Hammers, Camp Axes, Fire Axes (they’re basically built to break down doors), and Battering Rams. All of these can be used to break down wooden doors. Battering ram being the slowest, but highest in damage. The hammer being in the middle, and the axe being the fastest but does least damage (still decent amount of damage, just not as good as the others)
I personally do not think a battering ram should be added. Here’s why.
Sledge hammers and other melees like it could be used to break wooden stuff, but they should be balanced by the fact that they can break (i.e animation plays where the head of your sledge hammer breaks off).
A battering ram couldn’t really do that. You can’t just break the handle of of a ram.
I also hope for more building tiers in 4.0. There should be at least four tiers total.
Make camp axes do low damage
As for fire axes, simply make them more rare.
They aren’t overpowered as they would require a bunch of swings and make a lot of noise in the process and at the same time encouraging people to use metal doors if available
actually fire damage could be balanced, usually if theres a wooden base, theres wooden crates, so maybe if something is made of wood and is burned down, all the items in it would be destroyed.
With a low population server, you won’t find wooden doors. Because everyone would have the oportunity to build metal doors by that time since it’s less risky to go out.