Could never understand the logic

Like Kratos can kill a god but struggles opening a chest

You can’t really make a video game that only has good logic regarding all of its gameplay mechanics and features, because that would in most cases be utterly boring.

With gunplay, developers have long figured out that there’s an insane difference in player satisfaction depending on how the gun works. The sound, the range, the effect when you hit an enemy, the recoil, the rate of fire. There’s a system to all of it when it comes to making it satisfying.

There are also things like player expectations. There’s a reason why in every shooter you find guns and ammo lying around everywhere, even when it makes no sense. Not to mention others stuff. Like why does this random closet have a box of bullets. Why does this trash-can contain money? Why did someone throw away a whole candy bar? Makes no sense.

Like, players expect that a Shotgun is a weapon that does massive damage close range, and does literally nothing at high range. When in reality, a shotgun, depending on the ammo, can be equally devastating at ranges far, far greater.

But players have certain expectations. Because the gameplay is often better off for it.

Basic logic isn’t good enough. You need to go beyond that.

It *was* a pretty powerful pistol.

The Magnum just weighs a couple hundred tons, so it has immense recoil, obviously.

All games operate on dramatic logic, which is why all demands and claims for realism are horseshit.

if held completely still wouldn’t a lot more forces be applied to the pistol itself, making the metal weaken and break? the recoil transfers some of those forces to your muscles or suit pistons or whatever. kind of like dry firing a bow, where the pistol wants to climb up but when it can’t move those stresses are put on certain cross-sections of the metal device. if he wants to pick up any weapon, his suit has to compensate for material malleability

It’s almost like it’s a video game or something.

Can’t dual wield human rifles

Tbh, recoil control is leverage and not strength.

Game Mechanics =/= Reality.

Can fall from orbit and survive. Can’t take a grenade

A lot of people don’t understand that pistol recoil is actually really fucking harsh.

I was visiting an acquaintance in Ohio a few years back, and I got to shoot almost every single gun in his absurd collection, which included a civilian-model [Armalite AR-50](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-50) anti-materiel rifle (and if you’re a non-American whose head is spinning at the concept of a “civilian-model” anti-materiel rifle… yeah, yeah. Yeah.)

The recoil on the AR-50 was… surprisingly manageable. The ideal way to fire it is lying prone on your stomach, but you can sort of squat and rest the bipod on a flat surface and the recoil won’t rip your shoulder off. Recoil isn’t really an issue with the AR-50 anyway, because it’s a single-shot bolt action – your first shot won’t meaningfully affect your second unless you somehow fuck it up so badly you de-zero the sights.

I found the same was true of his Mosin-Nagant, his “Frankenstein” AR-15 (he’d assembled an AR-15 with each part coming from a different manufacturer just to see if it worked) and the three pump-action shotguns. In fact, every single longarm he had was incredibly manageable, except for the M1 Garand, which damn near broke my shoulder, but I’m told that’s “just an M1 thing.” Years later I still can’t decide whether the *ping* sounds better in real life or in films.

The pistols, though? Now *those* fucked me up. The pistols were *hell*. Every single one (except the Glock, strangely enough) felt like it was going to rip my hand off. There’s a reason they teach you to shoot them two-handed – you *need* the other hand to absorb some of the kick.

“Big gun, big bullet” doesn’t automatically mean “more recoil,” because the bigger and heavier the gun is, the more force is needed to overcome its inertia. The AR-15 was, I’d say, the most manageable gun I fired – I barely felt any recoil at all, largely because it was a large gun with a (relatively) small cartridge.

The Halo M6 fires 12.7×40mm. That’s fucking huge, and the gun is *tiny*, and the recoil of firing it is a massive burst of force compressed into a very, very short moment. Flipping a tank, by comparison, is a relatively consistent application of force over several seconds.

I couldn’t understand how the pistol was better than the default assault rifle in the first game.

Do you not remember how overpowered that thing was

you know what no i cant unless the armour is programmed that way to be more fair? Maybe future rules of engagement?

He knows what to expect with the massive tank and prepares in advance, the little recoil tricks him? Who knows!