bring down the lethality

[Sgt Barker]

By changing two settings i was able to successfully play the game as it should be played. I hate the fact that every fire shot hits its target. I dont believe this to be true in a urban enviroment.

Every shot doesn't hit. There's just a lot more shots going out, so more hit.

The volume of fire put out by modern weapons – M16s & AK47s – is a quantum leap over the what was put out in WWII. When you know what you’re doing it simply IS more lethal now a days.

That’s the caveat – you have to know how to exploit them. A veteran doesn’t ‘spray and pray’ when targets present themselves at 50 meters. Controlled, aimed fire is the order of the day, usually in semi-auto or 3 round burts. With a standard 30 round magazine that’s a LOT of aimed shots going down range. Even without adding a SAW into the mix you’re just not going to get even 20 yards in the open against people who know what they’re doing.

The WWII battle field was nothing like that. Most automatic weapons fired pistol cartridges; 50 meters is a long way to be accurate with those. Even more so in full auto fire. At any rate most of the fighting’s being done with rifles, many times bolt rifles. The squad/platoon level automatic weapons were devestating, but that’s key. They were allocated, special. Most of the people shooting weren’t using them.

At any rate by making the forces in the game be unskilled with their weapons, and maybe even making the weapons be worse (whatever the ‘poor weapons’ means), the game simply puts people in the situation of decades ago.

By changing the settings you create a situation akin to a less modern environment. Which begs a question…