Sigh.
It was banned for warfare because, much like the deployment of the NNSA, it's basically cheating. And I guess it's more humane to make your enemy suffer with a less-effective round, apparently...
It's perfectly legal in any gun-friendly country, few of them left that there are, and often required for hunting, as using anything less could wound and not kill, extending the suffering of your game.
For the uninitiated or link-shy, these are basically hollowpoints with plastic tips to improve external ballistics.
Nope, the teflon coating is to increase muzzle velocity, and decrease barrel wear and heat. You almost never see them in military/defense loads, usually they're only used for hunting/target ammo (IE, the Barnes XLC).
Well, I don't really see how they could cram a 50-70 gov't into a .50 AE pistol, but whatever floats your boat.
To prevent the proliferation of further rage on this forum when it comes to firearms, I'm gonna give a quick lesson on weapons, completely free of charge:
1) Bigger does not necessarily mean better
,it means that It will hit you so fricking hard because the initial force caused by the gun is much bigger,and also if it is HOLLOW POINT,AND I MEAN HOLLOW POINT,it WILL rape you. I'd rather be shot with a .50 AE than a 5.56x45mm. The reason? Expansion.(
Are you **** kidding me?!?!,Did you know that the AE.50 is WAY more "bigger" (because it holds more powder in a smaller "vaina"),the joules fired from that weapon are like 1600 or 1800,the joules from the 5.56 are like 1400 or 1600!)
A hollow- or flat-point .50 AE, being larger but considerably slower, would expand by roughly
(roughly?!) 50% on impact, and penetrate to maybe 13-15". Please don`t get me wrong, it would still be a lot of damage, but as far as small arms go, it IS amazing.
(so you would like to be shot with a 5.56x45 round than a .50 AE...I would say that you never fired with a gun,neither saw one in real life (not in movies or TV),DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF WOUND THE HOLLOW-POINT DOES?PLUS BEING A .50 AE?!?!??!,Please I beg you stop watching some crazy-*** TV show or wikipedia,and suggest you to enter the army,buy REAL weapons magazines,and/or join a body-guard training course..)
The much faster and lighter FMJ 5.56 round usually has a thin jacket, deep cannelure, and rearward centre-of-gravity. When it impacts, it will yaw and essentially tear apart, sending jacket fragments and bits of lead into your target, making a
fairly impressive wound channel.
(50% of penetration...now change that with a .50 AE,add some Dark Talon hollow point bullet and you got yourself a mini-flesh shredder)
Furthermore, it's a round considered varmint-tier compared to other rifle rounds, yet still very effective within reasonable ranges.
Even then, if I had a pistol, I'd still eschew the .50 AE (it's a ridiculous round) and go for something more reasonable, like a P14 in .45ACP or S&W model 1006 in 10MM auto, so long as we're fantasizing. That brings me to another thing...
2) The desert eagle is a terrible weapon. I still cannot wrap my head around why it's included in so many video games; probably because it's just expected.
It's unreliable
(wrong,its from israel!,what do you think when you post?), overpowered(
wrong,did you know that are 3 versions of the desert eagle and one that uses 9mm and is smaller?), monstrously heavy(
so what do you expect from a 44. magnum dude?), and the ergonomics require gorilla-sized hands. No one takes it seriously, except maybe rappers and 13-year-olds. The only thing going for it is accuracy and power, the former being not terribly important in combat pistols
(that "accurracy" thing is so fricking UNREAL,there is no such thing as the accuracy,the accuracy is determinated by the shooter,I think that by "accurracy" you mean recoil...), and the latter being matched easily by a good defensive load of a better, non-gigantic round.
The only quasi-worthwhile version is the .357 Magnum, which is just as heavy and huge, but with less recoil and a cheaper round. It's still just as unreliable and, being in .357 magnum, prone to rimlock.
Sorry, it had to be said.
3) If you can think of an ammo type, it probably doesn't exist.
There are maybe four basic types of bullet: flat point, hollowpoint, FMJ, and armour-piercing. Among those, there's roundnose, spitzer, boattail, ballistic tips, hydra-shok, VLDs, tracer, etc. All that really matters is there aren't any explosive or incendiary
(the "tracer" uses fosfore (fosforo,in spanish) so how the **** do you think it ligths?..plus it`s like HOT metal...combine that with your 5.56x45 round and you are ****) or whatever kinds outside of collector's ammunition and gun show oddities, at least not small arms calibers (save for .50 BMG rifles
AND 7.62x51).
So, throwing the suspension of disbelief aside, here's my recommendation for realistic ammunition types that would please casual gamers and IRL shooters alike:
Pistols:
FMJ: Plentiful, with normal damage, but a damage bonus against large or armoured enemies (if there are any in the game) due to greater penetration.(
CANT SOMEONE GET IT STILL?!?!?!,because they are large they dont wear armor,LOL,FLESHpound,why the **** do you think is called like that
?!, the only thing that the FP has is those...cuffs (esposas,the thing that are in his hand) and a chest-plate...nothing else)
Flat point: Slightly rarer, higher damage, bonus against large enemies.
Hollowpoint: Rarer still, high damage,
BETTER BONUS against
FLESH enemies.
Hydra-shok: Like hollowpoint, except better and rarer.
Also, to reflect reality, the Handcannon would come only in flat- and hollow-point, and jam every three magazines.
(still dreaming huh?,I wanna see you shooting a 44.....and see how it jams)
Rifles:
L2A1 ball/FMJ: Medium damage, normal agaisnt EVERYTHING
L1A1 tracer: Same as the above, but allows
BUT ALLOWS ENEMIES TO BE SET IN FIRE OR BURN FOR A WHILE (45% CHANCE), or something.
Mk. 262 Mod 1/Open-tipped: MORE damage agaisnt EVERYTHING! (less penetration, more expansion
therefore more flesh damage
....). Little bit rarer than regular ball ammo.
Yes I realize this
WILL BE the most realistic game in the world, but someone's gotta represent
(me) the gun geeks.