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Sacrificing realism for game balance (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 40 points 8 months ago (10 children)

In real life they're mounted to vehicles.

AFAIK, you can thank the 1987 movie Predator for the idea that someone could walk around with a minigun as a personal weapon

Now I'm going to have to go watch that movie again. Not only was it so influential that it introduced the idea of miniguns as human-portable weapons to games, it's the source of this meme and what's not to love about a movie with Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Technically, it could be done. Someone did the math from the scene in the movie Predator. He could carry a weapon that heavy, including the ammo and batteries. It would be about 40kg for the gun and 25kg for the ammo. That's very high, but not absurd, as long as he's carrying almost nothing else. It could fire for 45s without running dry. And if you limited it to reasonable bursts of say 3s, that ammo would last a while.

    It's not practical, but it's possible.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    OTOH, if you're trying to create an outpost near the enemy lines, maybe it makes more sense to have a soldier carry the minigun you want to use at that outpost through the jungle, rather than risk using a vehicle to deliver it.

    A soldier lumbering through a jungle with a big weapon is a target, but a helicopter making a delivery, or a truck making a delivery is going to be a much bigger and more visible target with fewer things to hide behind.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The beginning of that movie always takes me out. So they fly in on a helicopter, there are 3 visible helipads (well, 2 and then sand) in a line and they land on the one to the right (from the water perspective).

    They get out, get in jeeps, drive for a few seconds to the left side of the helipads driving onthe ocean side and then get out?! Movies used to just do random shit for vibes and logic could go to hell.

    I mean, 2 of the jeeps go somewhere else but it's just Arnold and the driver in his.

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