New Revolver:
I'm a fan of this idea
Dirty & Damage seperate:

I've had similar ideas, here's a simple way we could make your idea happen in the current engine:

• Dirtiness increases chance to jam

  • clean gun = shouldn't jam

• Jams roll to cause damage to the gun (doesn't always damage)

• Guns can be jammed because of dirtiness or damage

  • Guns jammed by dirt will jam and unjam like regular

  • Once a gun is jammed because of damage, it will jam every shot virtually and be difficult to unjam

• Clearing jams takes a random amount of time, re-rolls each time the clearing jam animation is initiated

  • pressing the reload key (same as charging the firearm) instead of holding it delivers a smack that reduces the longest possible time, but damages the gun slightly

  • using the gun melee and contacting a solid object, or entity, can help clear the jam too, damage goes to buttstock (like in vanilla)

• A gun cleaned with a weapon cleaning kit clears the jam

• Guns can be stripped to parts using screwdriver

  • each time the gun is stripped it damages the gun, and the quality of the parts is the quality of the gun

  • for realism, gun could ruin on the first strip, providing parts that are same quality of gun before gun was stripped

    • This would be even better if, ruined guns could be repaired with parts to the level of the parts, yes it may allow players to keep their guns slightly better condition by dissasembling and reassembling their guns, makes sense

• pristine parts kits can be found for "special weapons" like M4 in dynamic events or gas zones, giving these weapons new purpose to be found

  • reduce rarity of pristine parts kits or parts kits in general for other weapons

• weapon parts kits use retextured model of weapon cleaning kit, sillohette of weapon on it, description references weapon

• weapon cleaning kits can be improvised

  • fat / gasoline + disinfected rags = improvised weapon cleaning kit

• general weapon repair kit can be improvised

  • screwdriver + electric repair kit = improvised weapon repair kit

  • only can repair a weapon to damaged status, but clears "damage" jams

Thoughts on jamming:

Weapon jamming is too predictable in the game, if you have a damaged gun, you're expecting it to jam, and planning accordingly.

I think that weapon jamming needs to become more random, and not necessarily more rare but less predictable.

• (Maybe: periods of high frequency jamming, and eerie arcadian smoothness)

This would be good for the game because it would allow players to make "emotional" mistakes.

You are no longer expecting the gun to jam, you know it could jam up badly but you don't know it will or it won't so you push that guy instead of playing it safe. Your gun jams on the peek and now you either run or pummel him with your fists when he rounds this corner.

Thoughts on the LAR:

It has terrible grouping, you're an expert, should the LAR be grouping in 0.3 meters at 200 meters?

Last time I used it in the game, the shot never landed on the reticle and only would land about 0.3 meters away from the reticle in a totally random direction.

Not within 0.3 meters, only 0.3 meters away from the reticle.

FALs in real life In good condition, even with moderate wear will get 3-4 MOA at 200m. Using M80 ball rounds.

(Which is about 6.4 - 10 inch dispersion, again depends on quality, the shooter, the conditions, stance, etc etc.)

this is a bit higher than even a a decent bolt action rifle. (Higher MOA = less accurate)

As for your thoughts on jamming.. sadly a lot of what you mentioned isn't really.. "real"

Jamming can come from a variety of factors in real life, a bad magazine lip, dirtiness, bad ammo, and a damaged firearm are typically to blame.

A poorly manufactured weapon is much more prone to jamming as well.

By the way, smacking plastic stocks against something is more likely to break the stock than anything, or damage it. Wooden stocks are much more reliable to not suffer major damage, but regardless it's not a good idea..

For the most part, the Devs do actually have a pretty decent system for jamming, even at pristine there should always be a 0.0001% chance of jamming...

But the take away I liked from your comment was the randomness in un-jamming time. It could be quicker, perhaps longer, depends on the jam. Sometimes in real life the magazine needs to be removed and more extreme measures need to be taken. But this is also a game, so I think just randomizing the time perhaps based on the weapon quality would be a better way to implement that.

Like a badly damaged weapon has a 40% chance to take 5-8 seconds longer kind of thing.

adding to this: those "unjammable" weapons in game currently, should all have a chance to have a malfunction too, just not as high as semi autos or auto matics.