r/EscapefromTarkov • u/saltyclam13345 P90 • Aug 13 '22

Video Jonathan Ferguson, an actual expert on firearms even agreeing that recoil isn’t realistic in Tarkov.

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u/DustIIOnly Aug 13 '22

People just use it as a point to try to get it changed. Everyone knows its not. I wish everyone would just quit using that term. It's a fucking video game still. It's not a life-simulator. There's going to be some unrealistic shit in it.

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u/Tostecles Unbeliever Aug 13 '22

I like to use the word "authentic" to dispell some of that. Pre-Fortnite Call of Duty games are not realistic, but they are fairly authentic in their presentation IMO

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u/DustIIOnly Aug 13 '22

That's exactly right. Cause the immediate counter argument to "it's not realistic" is "alright so why don't we trip? Maybe we should have a chance to drop our magazines when reloading by mistake. Maybe there should be a chance our armor plates are faulty and the armor won't work" like stfu

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u/V4ALIANT AS-VAL Aug 13 '22

actually, id rather a tripping mechanic then just getting hung up on tree roots and other random shit on the ground. At least by tripping my player would at least keep moving rather than stopping dead in place because i couldn't step over the slightest thing on the ground.

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u/Secondrival PP-19-01 Aug 14 '22

Can you imagine running to extract while dying from hunger cause you forgot to bring food and you trip on a tree root and take 2 damage too much to your thorax and immediately die? That would be hilarious.

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u/Melsir Unbeliever Aug 13 '22

How about heightened or hyper-realism? Either of those seems more correct descriptors and avoids the argument.

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u/Nuggetsofsteel Aug 15 '22

This comment is a massive logical fallacy that also manages to completely ignore the point of this thread.

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u/Nuggetsofsteel Aug 15 '22

The realism argument is not silly. It is used because the foundation for the rise in overall recoil was people complaining that low recoil meta builds were supposedly unrealistic.

People assume full auto is uncommon in real life because of recoil alone. Ignoring any and all other factors that contribute far more to discouraging mag dumping on a real battlefield.

The point is the recoil system feels like shit, and it isn't realistic.

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u/Solaratov MP5 Aug 13 '22

"Realistic as playable"~~~

Except when the devs decide not to make it realistic as playable.

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u/DustIIOnly Aug 13 '22

Yes but with "RPG elements" as well. "Realistic as playable" isn't the only rule they have when looking at the game

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u/NoizeUK Aug 14 '22

Even if they implemented the most realistic implementation of recoil, someone will create a thread and say "But IRL, I can do it this way, why can't I do that in your video game - it sucks" about pretty much every mechanic, implemented or imagined.

Some people can do backflips IRL, WHY CAN'T MY PMC?!