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Raist Soulforge
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Posted - 2013.07.13 16:57:00 -
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has it not dawned on any of you guys what LAV actually stands for?
Those blasters can likely shoot right through that Light Armor.....or your back seat, or your doors/roof/windshield for that matter (if you had them). Take a 50 CAL or something like that to an old Ford Festiva and watch the devistation.
As for any kind of anti-armor/anti-vehicle weapons....what makes you think your suit/flesh is impervious to their explosive power?
Really guys....think these things through a little more. |
Raist Soulforge
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Posted - 2013.07.13 21:13:00 -
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Stinker Butt wrote:Raist Soulforge wrote:has it not dawned on any of you guys what LAV actually stands for?
Those blasters can likely shoot right through that Light Armor.....or your back seat, or your doors/roof/windshield for that matter (if you had them). Take a 50 CAL or something like that to an old Ford Festiva and watch the devistation.
As for any kind of anti-armor/anti-vehicle weapons....what makes you think your suit/flesh is impervious to their explosive power?
Really guys....think these things through a little more. how can you compare an lav to a ford festiva? maybe more like a hummer. it's bugged. I know because I abuse it myself. I'll keep abusing it until it's fixed.
absurd example to show the flaw in the complaint.
These are, after all, light armored vedhicles, not heavies.
Regardless, a common 50CAL can cut through light steel plating from a reasonable distance--up to 3/4 inch of it if I remember right. Armor peircing rounds can go through thicker plates. Even a 30-06 round can cut through light plate.
The point is that if a sniper rifle can cut through a car, jeep, or a common Hummer's outer walls quite easily. One should expect a freaking turret using raounds with at least the same ballistics ratings and such could cut through and hit the driver, even more so if it's an explosive munition and the cab is opened up (no roof, w/s, or doors).
[Edit:]
quick googgle found a youtube where a guy was testing 30-06 armor piercing rounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYH8ap1TDo
Brief description on the video:
Quote:Published on Jun 21, 2013
Testing 30-06 Armor Piercing military surplus against Steel, Concrete, Hardened AR500 Plate, and other materials. The ammo used in this video is 1942 manufacture 30 caliber M2 AP US |
Raist Soulforge
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Posted - 2013.07.14 04:21:00 -
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Stinker Butt wrote:Fact is, it's bugged. It's not bugged with sniper rifles or any other type armor piercing weapon you speak of. Only blaster turrets. you can shoot the tire and it will still kill the driver.
You are the first person to specify a scenario where they are assured the hit was to the LAV and ONLY the LAV. Even so, are you absolutely sure it was specifically just a straight armor piercing round?
Ever notice how in movies and such, people shoot a tire on a jeep with a pistol and it flips over? No one ever openly questions that. Just an amusing thought that hit me. But, on the other hand, a vehicle running at high speeds that gets it's suspension suddenly shot to h3ll by a large round is likely to get you killed or severely injured when it crashes, so though you may not be seeing the full animation of such a scenario, the result could just as easily be the same in the end.
Don't have the specific stats on the blasters in Dust atm, but you are talking about super-heated 20 to 80 CAL rounds, fired at high rates....they should wreak havoc on a lightly armored vehicle, and anything sitting in it (watch what those 70 year old 30 CAL bullets were doing to steel plates and such in that video for a reference). There might even be some splash damage involved here--especially if you are talking about larger rounds that may splatter/shatter on impact, or they may even be using explosive rounds. Watch what happens when you shoot at the ground or a wall--there's often something more going on there than just a straight armor peircing round.
Then, there are the missle launchers as well.
Everyone else has been talking about being hit by weapons that could actually pass through the LIGHT ARMOR and hit the player, or have been hit by munitions that do splash damage. Have to remember that you are at times around 60% open in those things (more if in the gunning position). Really only your legs have a decent chance of being protected when sitting in the driver seat--just on a horizontal plane, your upper body is open to roughly a 200 degree radius, your head even more open, and that's not including the vertical.
One even noted their SUIT was registering damage before dying, so THEY were getting shot at more so than the LAV. I myself have managed to score headshot kills with both an SMG and an AR when a LAV was trying to run me down--and no, that isn't conjecture...I heard the gong indicating the head shot.
Just saying, provided similar weapons/scenarios were in place, these kinds of things could kill you in real life--or at least gravely injure you. |
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