Timeline for Any advantage to the .223 mag?
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 15:16 | comment | added | jammypeach | @LucasLeblanc yeah there is an odd disparity at play where you can have any number of big (and very loud!) weapons but few situations where you can use them without being marked down. Also you can run out of suppressors very quickly in the early stages before developing better ones. To satisfy that itch I like to call in a tank supply drop outside a big base and blow it up in free roam mode. Calling in a support chopper for the task is also fun :) and I do see your point about penetration - it's a trade-off and depends on use and situation so horses for courses :) | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 14:30 | comment | added | Lucas Leblanc | @jammypeach Targets aren't particularly hard to aim at for me in this game, so hitting a soldier in an area that will critically wound or kill them isn't a problem. The penetration is much more important, in my opinion. The scavenging ammo part is important, but I don't use my sniper rifle -that- much. I do wish that the game had a few missions where you "go loud," sort of like the Kojima rescue mission in Ground Zeroes. As it is, the heavy weaponry only gets used during boss fights and side ops for me. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 7:34 | vote | accept | DrakaSAN | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 at 4:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/TheArqade/status/648710000085499905 | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 at 0:29 | answer | added | jammypeach | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 0:19 | comment | added | jammypeach | @LucasLeblanc exactly right, however there is an advantage to using assault rifle ammo with a sniper rifle - you can slap together a sniper assault rifle that will do much higher damage than an assault rifle firing the same rounds, and you can refill your ammo (and carry much more) from the dropped weapons of common soldiers you kill. The penetration is a good trade-off because it's still higher than what the assault rifle would give you, and the damage doesn't go down. it can be useful in some circumstances, especially close quarters where you need more punch but less spray n pray. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 18:37 | comment | added | Lucas Leblanc | Most of the different weapons you will research have unique components to add to your customization repertoire. Not all of them are useful, especially if you start researching a particular weapon's tree from the beginning late in the game. You can use the UN-ARC's 20-round magazine with the SVD knockoff because they are the same caliber, for example, but you will lose all of the penetration that sniper rifle rounds get, which arguably defeats the purpose of using a sniper rifle. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 18:32 | history | asked | DrakaSAN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |