(by which I mean the ammo was more varied in 1, guns magically changed over the past 4 years)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
people have standardized ammo so it's easier to loot their enemies' corpses, of course
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
As I've said in the past the ammunition issue is sort of weird, because while you could plausibly have black powder as a semi standardized propellant the bigger issue would be forging bullets and the guns don't act much like black powder weapons.
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I don't really see a good reason why they'd revert to black powder weapons in this setting, they're pretty clearly just using up stores of pre-existing ammunition (of which there's a lot, and which keeps for decades if stored properly)
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It's comparatively easy to manufacture if you have horses, which communities clearly do?
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But then you'd have to make new weapons from scratch to use them, or dig them up from an antiquarian - almost all modern firearms would be useless
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Couldn't you use the black powder with modern cartridges just using the inferior propellent instead of modern propellent? I mean it'd lower muzzle velocity but for at least one gun you're manufacturing non-standard ammo for on the spot anyways.
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The primary reason for the invention of so-called "smokeless powder" isn't the lack of visible smoke but the lack of particulate fouling it leaves behind (the smoke is just the part that comes out of the gun) Smokeless powder is what made the concept of an autoloader feasible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
A black powder weapon can't be semiautomatic or automatic, and it needs to be built to allow the smoke to escape and to let you clean out the chamber after every firing You can tell an old black powder revolver because of the "nipples" on the cylinder for that purpose
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Good point. Of course honestly automatic weapons seem inexplicably uncommon in this world, despite being *extremely* common or easily obtained through modification in the US.
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It's a gameplay choice, the Fireflies in 1 have a ton of them and Joel wanting to get his hands on them is his whole initial motivation
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I'm aware, it's just a pretty transparent gameplay thing, though honestly they'd also be pretty bad choices tactically in a world where ammo's relatively scarce.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Honestly if they do another entry in the series I'd like it if they adopted the Metro thing with pre-war firearms and ammo and other such items being valuable as currency for traders.
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