What video games have taught me about guns!

[Vangelis]

Originally Posted by Zombees

9. Guns can be used to club enemies repeatidly.
Offender: Halo started it, the rest followed

Call of Duty 1 was big on putting that into the 'realistic' games, mind. Your drill sergeant even carefully sounded out that 'this is called a may-lay attack' as if the concept of hitting people with an object was some secret new combat technique that had just been developed. Then again, CoD4 showed us that the SAS wait until just before a new recruit is ready to go on a mission before checking if he has two working arms ['now, try switching weapons!'].

Originally Posted by MT2008

All guns eject from the left side rather than the right, because if you can't see the brass flying in front of your face, it's not as cool.

Or, if they get that right, the ejector has to do something equally bizarre instead. In this instance, totally ignore gravity.



This also shows another rule; in the future guns will look like modern guns [or in this case WW2 guns], only with 80% more stupid. In about three hundred years' time they'll have the technology to rotate an MG42's barrel shroud by a full 90 degrees. Imagine what other things they can revolve slightly

Originally Posted by Gunmaster45

You HAVE to chamber the weapon everytime you draw it or pick it up.

Chambering when you pick it up just about makes sense; confirming the gun is ready to fire and not jammed tends to be a smart move in combat. But then in most games there's no such thing as a chambered round or jam anyway.

Also, another rule; if you have two magazines attached together and flip them over to reload, you can continue doing this forever without either becoming empty, as long as you're holding bullets which were in entirely seperate magazines you picked up from elsewhere.

[ManiacallyChallenged]

I learned how I could jump on a medical kit to heal my gaping chest wound.

But about guns, I was falsely informed by older games that pistols are more accurate than rifles.

This was presumably done so they wouldn't completely suck when balanced against rifles, but still. I grew up assuming that because the PP7 was more accurate than the KF7 Soviet(Goldeneye, my first real shooter) that all rifles and handguns worked that way.

[Alcatrazz]

Slides will retract automatically upon pressing the magazine release.

To reload, pull out the magazine and immediately put it back in.

Shell casings will disappear after several seconds.

[Gunmaster45]

Well some REALLY cheap guns (like the Nambu Type 14) do drop from slide lock when the magazine is removed. I doesn't have a slide lock lever being pushed up by the follower, it is just held up by the follower itself. At least, that's what I figured after handling my dad's for a while.

[Alcatrazz]

I meant that they will lock back right after you press "reload"

[Gunmaster45]

I got you. I was thinking how in Medal of Honor: Frontline they show the slide drop from lock back after you drop the magazine out.

[Excalibur]

Well older FPS are like that when you press the reload button, it shows the gun with a slide lock. Recent guys over the pass few years corrected that and some even stop racking the slide or charging handle during mid mag reloads

[S&Wshooter]

7. Sniper rifles ALWAYS kill a man with one shot, even if the bullet hits the man's foot.
Offender: Any online game that features a sniper rifle

You apparently have never played Battlefield 2, where you have to shoot someone twice in the head with a 7.62x54R to get a kill

[Mandolin1]

In Batlefield 2, the semi-auto sniper rifles are all junk, IMO. M24/L96 is the way to go.

[S&Wshooter]

How do you get the other sniper rifles? I can only use the SVD and the M24. Do you have to play online to get the upgrades?