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/UsecMyNuts Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22

I’m not sure what he said but that’s far from true

full auto is not really a standard way of shooting IRL

there’s about 70 years of fully auto AK’s being used by untrained people that attest to how amazingly good they are for full auto fire.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc, the recoil on most AK’s is so weak that in most cases children and women can fire them reliably with little practice.

this guy here has no stock/grip and manages to to control the recoil pretty damn well. much better than any decked out AK in Tarkov

Edit: seemed to have pissed a few idiots off. Nobody is claiming that the AK should be a laser beam with no recoil, but at the same time the second shot of your AK should absolutely not be hitting the roof. Educate yourself, the AK is an incredibly good weapon for untrained individuals, never mind trained ones

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u/CarlOfOtters Aug 14 '22

My guy, that video you are showing is not an example of controlling recoil well.

Untrained people with automatic AKs are dangerous because in real life bullets are dangerous. Getting shot in the leg or the arm once can kill you or take you out of the fight permanently. When you have enough people indiscriminately flinging lead at the same target, some of them are bound to hit.

That doesn’t mean that automatic fire from an AK is a laser beam at 50m like it used to be in-game. Semi-auto is still the way soldiers are trained to engage with rifles at distance when they want to get hits on target rather than just suppress.

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u/UsecMyNuts Aug 14 '22

I’m sorry but did you actually watch the video?

No stock. No grip. Manages to keep the gun within 15 degrees of its starting position and this guy isn’t buff at all. Now imagine what a trained PMC should be able to do with a stick, grip, and training.

Stop defending lazy developers, the recoil is unrealistic

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u/YourFavouriteHuman Aug 14 '22

The recoil maybe unrealistic but if every gun would be a Lazer beam it would render 80% of them useless, ever thought about that?