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Sacrificing realism for game balance (media.piefed.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Hmm, I wondered so I looked up some prices. Retail ammo costs for 7.62x51mm (used in the M134 minigun) costs about $1 USD per round. In the movie Predator, the gun fired at 20 rounds per second. So, that's $20/s or $1200 per minute. But, as soon as you start looting enemy bodies, you're not the one paying that cost.

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

    Oh, prices are going down. Can it really just use any 7.62x51?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    No idea. It would make sense though. It would be strange to use a standard NATO round specification but require special versions of that round. There's nothing about how it works that suggests it should need special bullets. The rotating barrel and firing mechanism are different, but otherwise it's just a machine gun.

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