I came up with a Concept for unturned 4.x: randomly generated guns (inspired by Borderlands)
before i start i have to say english isnt my first language so expect some grammar/spelling issues
the idea is like this, Every gun is made out of 5 (or less parts), these parts cant be taken of or adapted (like attachments) all the parts together are the gun. the gun starts out with a base and gets build around it. stats are based on what kind of parts the gun has. lets say you get ‘‘eagle’’ a base, lets say it has 100 range 20 damage 30 fire rate 40 recoil etc (these stats are pretty random) you could say the stock adds -10 recoil and +20 range and the barrel +10 damage and +40 range. (you also could assign the gun fully random stats only based on what rarity the gun has) the name of the gun is decided on the base +a a random word. so for example the base is called timber and the added word could be wolf or snake or dragon, you name it. then the gun would be called timber-dragon or timberwolf or thunder-snake. the gun could have camo aswell. i think a cool adition to that could be that the camo is based on the rarity of the gun. a common gun normaly has a pretty lame black or wooden collor but if you find a epic skin there could be a chance it has a woodland camo or a desert collor (no flashy neon collors though)
The parts:
the base, the base is the start of every gun, the base decides what type of gun it is (for example sub machine gun assault rifle etc) and every other parts is based on the base (so if you have a shotgun you wont get a sniper barrel etc)
stock
front barrel (this is the barrel that is directy mounted to the gun and can be extended by the end barrel
end barrel
iron sight (this is the only part that can be taken of butnot on all guns )
here is a little (shitty) example of how you can imagine it! ,do keep in mind all these guns are using parts from other ‘‘types of guns’’ wich should not be the case in the final product every type of guns should have its own collection of parts
This would be an interesting concept, but I think I would rather see it in a mod.
Plus, the basic mechanic of removing parts from guns and adding them to other ones is already added. For example, you can take the long barrel off a sniper rifle and put it on an assault rifle, in exchange for it being heavier, or you could add parts to a pistol to make a carbine. You could also find random parts in a gun store.
In my prev comment, I just wanted to inform you that this theme has been discussed before. Now I’m going through analysis in your post:
Parts should be named according to their specifications and the guns that they’re compatible with, e.g. a NATO 5.56 barrel, wich would fit for these guns:
Eaglefire
Maplestrike
Heartbreaker
The forementionend barrel also having it’s respective variants, such as heavy and/or long barrels (etc.) of the same caliber, therefor the same guns.
Names of guns should rely on the overall system that makes it unique apart from others. However, as gun renaming could be applied for custom names on guns, this should be totally regardless of which parts are used.
Camos should be applied on guns totally regardless of their rarity. Either way, there should be camos rarer than others, but once discovered/learned, those should be applied to any desired gun.
it would be better if that happens if you have parts to make guns so if you have scrap metal and some others you may get somekind of maplestrike-fusilaut
Technically not too late to throw the current systems in the trash, but this defeats the purpose of the revamped attachment/component system, and would take things like ability stats in a different direction.
Personally, I’m not in favor of your idea, I’d rather just play the Borderlands franchise.
Bulldog that takes nykorev mag, has a lot of range with a shadowstalker mk.2 barrel, a vertical grip, 16x scope and an adaptive chambering. I liked your idea too.
Seems like a good concept to me, I mean why not. Can’t use real life names for weapons anyway, and this Timber-Dragon example kinda hypes tbh, not to mention that it’s realistic (this will become the new keyword for everything) that during an apocalyptic scenario such as the one that we are going to be thrown in, survivors will try anything in their possibilities to build up an usable gun.
Also, I don’t think that the wallmart will be open, so forget a full build m4a1 x)
