On maps with doors players tend to spam the doors and sometimes the walls their share too. However most players don’t know that they are wasting ammo with many of the guns.
I performed a test with BlueBall (thanks for the help mate) on Rio just to check how much punch the weapons have. The test was very simple. We went through all weapons and we shot at the door and the wall next to the door below. We stood at each side of the wall to record any damage of piercing bullets.
Pistols
Only the Desert Eagle had enough punch to get through the wall or the door. With any other pistols you may as well be using a straw as a peashooter, so save your ammo!
Shotguns
Don’t bother! It was a total waste of ammo with both types of shotgun.
SMGs (Sub Machine Guns)
The Steyer TMP and Mac10 have as expected no punch at all. One would think that the MP5 or P90 maybe could penetrate the door, but they don’t. When we had gone through all the SMGs it was clear that none of the guns can penetrate the door or the wall.
Rifles
Both the Colt and the AK punch through the wall and door and inflict heavy damage to the enemy. The heavier alternatives of the Aug and Sig, together with all the sniper weapons, also cut through without any problem. The new additions to the rifle family (the Galil and Famas) also have the required punch to kill through walls or doors. One point to note is that the AWM is the only weapon that is able to go through two walls and do damage.
The Para also penetrates the wall and door without any problem, that’s if you can control it to an extent where you can actually hit what you are aiming at!
High explosive grenades also inflict damage through both walls and doors.
As spamming is not allowed on our servers it may be a bit contradictory to post this but it is good to know. If you have a silenced colt and shoot through a wall/door/box you will be able to hear if you hit a player (if you are close enough). This is the only weapon you can do this with though.
summerblue.net has some download maps for testing this sorta thing.
Nice post guys.
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Bump.
Reminder: SMGs do NOT shoot through doors. Save your ammo. 8)
QuoteOriginally posted by Dr Sadako@Feb 9 2005, 11:14 AM
Bump.
Reminder: SMGs do NOT shoot through doors. Save your ammo. 8)
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But sometimes the sound of someone shooting will stop people coming through and delay that rush long enough for the three and four pence to arrive. And when that happy events occurs we can all have a jig. :D
Not only that Sn00ksy but its amazing the number of times people will poke their hear round round doors/corners just because they hear firing, a few shots onto a corner will often intice someone out of hiding that was there.