Give up on the Thompson?

Give up on the Thompson?

The 10mm SMG is already like a doodad'd up MP5k, so I doubt they'd put that in the game.

On that subject, did you jack up the sensitivity? If I'm level 1, and a deathclaw attacks me, I might not even be able to turn around fast enough to kill it.

Are you're weapons going to move with you? You know, how in Call of Duty(hate referencing it), You will point the weapon barrel a different direction every time you look left or right, to see more of the gun. On that subject, did you jack up the sensitivity? If I'm level 1, and a deathclaw attacks me, I might not even be able to turn around fast enough to kill it.

Although I don't know much about firearms, I'm excited to see that Sawyer cares a lot for them.

You're welcome to ask anything you want over in the nut thread. Come by anytime. You do check us out every now and then, don't you? We're a no pressure thread, gunnoobs included.

I don't know about that, but even in Fallout 3 your gun bounced up and down as you walked.

So in New Vegas were geting hollowpoints, +P, hand loads ect. If you are a gun enthusiast as I am tell me if youre happy about a game actually knowing a thing or two about firearms and not just think they know everything there is to know from other video games. A good example of guns in games that work nothing like they would in real life is the shotgun in just about any game ever. In most games shotguns are only effective at up to 10 yds. while in reality, they are effective up to 30 yds. depending on type of shot, barrel length ect. So yeah, its just nice to see that they actually put some thought into there guns......
And if you dont recognize the terms at the start of this post, then ill explain them.

Hollowpoint: A round that is hollow at the tip, rather than rounded, it concaves inward. This causes the bullet to mushroom and near quadruple in size on impact with the target, doing massive damage.

+P: Plus Pressure, bassically means more gunpowder= more powerfull round.

Hand Loads: Any round that is home loaded, with certain tools. The empty/used shells of a round are taken and fitted with a new primer, bullet, and gunpowder. So basically with the right materials in New Vegas youll be able to make your own ammunition.

@ Dev's (Sawyer or whoever), are all the SMG's going to be announced before release or some we will haft to find out about ourselves when we play the game?

The compact grease gun is freakin cool, it is but id be nice to have some kind of HK SMG like a mp5 or something on those lines. The .22 SMG that has been announced is not exactly very tactical but I believe it is the only SMG that has been announced that is held like a rifle. So like a mp5 would be held like a rifle ingame & not like the compact grease gun for example.

That M2 record with a machine gun is suspect. An M2 .50 Browning is a single shot/full auto weapon. The effective range is 1800 meters due to barrel length and bullet weight. I don't count it cause you typically can see clearly at that range without a powered scope. But you cannot fire full auto very well with a powered scope because the recoil throws off scope shadow. Means that you are reducing effectiveness with the weapons primary function. But I guess from a pure numbers perspective, it's the best weapon to get that distance for back in the 60's.

/rant

It's just a small rant. The weapon can range that far accurately. But using it as a sniper rifle is really only useful as a fun thing. The M2 is far too heavy and large to be practical for a normal snipers needs for maneuverability. It's why the M2 is usually mounted on trucks or in gun towers as a defensive weapon. So, in combat, a .50 could be used to engage that far, but it's impractical to do so. There is no real way to control the recoil either. Even on a stand bolted into cement or a tank, the weapon has got a kick. But I love it, thing destroys people hiding behind brick, walls, trees, ect.

mid-low caliber revolver, like a 10mm

If by caliber, you mean power of the round, 10mm is practically a magnum load. The FBI had to stop using them because of overpenetration and excessive recoil. If by caliber, you mean diameter of the round, it is the same as a 40 S&W which is a step below a .45 ACP. ALSO, 10mm is an auto-loading round, not typically intended for revolvers. There are revolvers that shoot 10mm, mind you, they just aren't very common.

more like something that uses a caliber more common then a magnum round but more powerful then the pea shooter .38 revolver in Fallout 3

you just said SMGs just so you could hear more on the tommy gun.

I can see through your guise. Nice try.

are you seriously JE Sawyer?