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Suggestions / weapon damage due to use
« on: October 02, 2013, 01:39:10 pm »
Testing this feature brought to my memory some discussions in Wasteland 2 forums about this issue. In Underrail, weapons get damaged after short use. Is this realistic? Obviously not, I have some basic military training and I have seen an AK-47 shoot from morning to afternoon in hands of barely trained people. After a day of work, an AK still can fire perfectly. Hell, you can even put an AK in mud and it still will fire (havent tested that myself). Also, I have at a home a machete, which has been in my family of 3 generations. I cut very hard bones with it, trees, whatever, and my grand-grandfather used it much more than I do (bones where widely available during his times and some of them even had meat!). The blade is in good conditions and seems that I will pass to my descendants at some point.
But, in the game, you shoot 2 rats and your pistol is damaged! Stab somebody and have to go back and get some expensive tool to repair the knife.
Item destruction is logical for armors. Armors get pierced during battles. Weapons dont, they are steel and some of them are made to last and endure severe battle conditions and management by inept people that, under more peaceful circumstances, you wouldnt trust them nothing more complex that a stone. It may seems realistic, but believe me, it is not at all.
But, in the game, you shoot 2 rats and your pistol is damaged! Stab somebody and have to go back and get some expensive tool to repair the knife.
Item destruction is logical for armors. Armors get pierced during battles. Weapons dont, they are steel and some of them are made to last and endure severe battle conditions and management by inept people that, under more peaceful circumstances, you wouldnt trust them nothing more complex that a stone. It may seems realistic, but believe me, it is not at all.