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Thread: Pistols vs Assault Rifles

Matsushida
Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:42 am
#1

Hi everyone , I was sitting at the AH cantina the other day , and there was a small group of pistoleers sitting there "whining" about the fact that this game is not "realistic" and that in real life , a rifleman would never shoot as fast as a pistoleer...


Okay , I must say I am no military expert , and I have already completed my (very short) military service for my country , but one thing I do know... assault rifles ARE faster than pistols!

I have no idea what they were talking about , but if I shoot a target with a Beretta , even with one of the semi-automatic models , I will never get the same rate of fireas I do with a... let's say... M4 or an AK47! (pretty standard weapons , every terrorist seems to own a Kalashnikovso everyone here should know the rifle...)


Why do they KEEP WHINING that WE are too fast?! Look... I understand that inside SWG they need to be fast in order for the game to be "balanced" , but saying that we are too fast?! We are riflemen for God's sake... of course we are fast! We use assault rifles!


Honestly , I must say that I see myself more as a Soldier and/or Hunter than a Sniper (I am also a Ranger), but I would really love to see some REAL sniper rifles in SWG! THEN, and only with THOSE rifles I would agreeto a "speed cap" , heavily decreasing our speedbut moderately increasing our damage and accuracy , like a real sniper.


Pistoleers... flame away! Even though I would much rather read some decent and constructive replies to my humble statement. I'm not claiming that I have the answers to SWG'sproblems , I really don't... but one thing I do know for sure , pistols are slow!



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Svenholio
Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:38 am
#2

Totally agree with this, and the annoying thing is been repeated like a thousand times, but those dummy pistoleers dont get it!



The AK47, as you mentioned, can fire up to 600 rounds a min real life. Now, relating RL to a game is very difficult, so lets compare this to say the E11 repeating blaster in Star Wars. These are fully automatic weapons, i.e. you hold that there trigger down and you can fire as much as you want, stop when smoke is coming from the gun housing .


There is no way we fire to fast, and we sure as hell dont need no stinking speed cap. Yes, pistols in the Star Wars universe can fire out to our distance, but at no way near the same accuracy, thats not taken into consideration in this game. Thats what we should be discussing, a big reduction to pistol accuracy.





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