Now I am aware that this isn’t technically a bug, however I feel it inhibits this gun enough that it deserves some amount of recognition.

Long story short, the LAR’s damage and ballistic values are noticeably outdated and powercrept in contrast to other existing 308. Winchester guns and especially the DMR.

Now, I am not suggesting that you give it the same stats as the DMR as that would both illegitimise the DMR and other 308. weapons, and generally be unrealistic (considering that the FAL sacrifices a small amount of propellant gas for its gas operated system and probably has a slightly shorter barrel), however, upon using it in game, comparing it to the DMR, and then comparing it on the WOBO tools website, I noticed that it has an unrealistically worse bullet velocity, damage per shot, bullet drop and damage retention over range.

Frankly, for a supposedly unapologetic and unforgiving game such as DayZ, I find the statistical contrast between it, other 308. weapons but most particularly the DMR because of their mostly comparble firing capacity, far too arbitrary and also inhibiting to the LAR.

So my ultimate suggestion and conclusion from this is that the LAR should get a buff to its damage, bullet velocity and therefore bullet trajectory and damage retention over range, to be in the middle of how it currently is and the stats of the DMR, if that makes sense.

This would ensure that the DMR still has a logical slight advantage in pure stopping power and range, but that it and other 308. weapons would not become powercrept by the LAR being buffed.

So again, forgive me that this isn’t technically about a bug, but I most definitely feel that the mighty LAR is significantly powercrept for the aforementioned reasons.