Bullet ballistics

[LordDB]

I have a qualm about the external ballistics in this game. I find it really hard to believe that bullets drop so much in 10-20 meters. I guess this is tied directly to bullet speed, but even the slowest of projectiles (grenade launcher) should be able to make it clear across, say, Arena2. Perhaps there could be a "realistic ballistics" option that ups the speed of projectiles. I think a factor of 2 would suffice (I'm pre-compromising with the folks that scoff at this idea)

I know that flatter trajectory is the appeal of some weapons, (ruger 77, barrett) but the fact remains that these weapons do increased damage. If anything, in the "realistic ballistic" mode, spread the damage margins between these two weapons and "all the others"

What say you?

[iDante]

Its just because its a game, in real life you wouldn't even see any of the bullets. It adds fun to them, soldat is in no way based on real life.
Edit: whoa, 500th post.

[Sytrus]

Congrats iDante!^^

And yes, of course this is a game. You couldn't even see the bullets, Dante said it already. Just modify your own weapons.ini and make the bullets dang fast - this would result in the fact that every bullet kills: realistic.

[Eagles_Arrows]

'Ey, why not?  Since it's just an option, I really have no problem with it.  Although, one can achieve something like this easily by modifying the weapons.ini as Sytrus said.

[Lord Frunkamunch]

Or you could mod the speed really high and get the power so that a headshot kills and everything else is a 2 hit kill...

...OR set the bullet style for a normal gun to 14 so the bullets are invisible regardless of speed...

...Or both...

[Avis]

Here, I made this a few weeks ago.
Almost every spec is kept as realistic as possible:

The absolute damage values were calculated to match with the 1.3.1 ones, so the AK74 f.e. still does 18.08 damage at 0 meters

(But imo, this is only fun with R/S Infiltration or some tactic stuff like that)
If you want the pure realism:

[LordDB]

Thanks guys, maybe it was real obvious to dig into weapons.ini, but it didn't occur to me. Avis, I'll give it a try!