12-01-2011, 09:08 PM
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Suppressive Fire In Video Games
Suppressive Fire In Video Games
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What happens in real life is very different to in video games. In real life a person with a tripod mounted M249 machine gun firing down range at a person behind cover can pin that person down, because an M249 fires roughly 13 bullets a second in a very small (relatively speaking) area - and when you're gambling with your life those are odds you just don't take.
In a video game you're gambling with a short down time and a shot at a new vehicle, so hell yes you roll those dice. You figure out where the gunfire is coming from using very basic triangulation, have a quick look down range at where your attacker is and you fire a few bullets at his head.
Suppressive fire isn't about shooting targets - it's about pinning them down - so in a video game both players have to then acquire a target and then fire. These statistics aren't what you'd call 'scientific', but in a game where both players had the same level of skill, and the same chance to hit one another (based on the accuracy ratings of their guns) the odds would only slightly sit with the person already firing their weapon. In other words, sticking your head up in your average video game gives you about a fifty/fifty chance of killing the guy with the machine gun.
Which turns the concept into risk management - do you think the person on the other end of that machine gun is as good as you are? If they are, you flip a coin and stick your head up. If you're the average first person shooter player though... of course they aren't. The odds are totally in your favour. If you made a mistake, what does it matter - you've got a 12 second wait and a chance to change your load-out.
STICK. YOUR. HEAD. UP.
Well no more, sucker. Battlefield 3 is finally addressing the concept of suppressive fire to the series in an effort to keep things real. When suppressed your vision blurs and your combat efficiency gradually reduces to zero - essentially, you're forced to move.
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