Why so few shooters games with ammo customization?

[Norfleet]

Five Seven IRL has great penetration against armor. In many games, this is complete ignored.

In real life, this is barely relevant, anyway. If I empty a mag into you, armor or no, you are going down. You might survive as a result of having armor, but the fight is now over. Since real life is not a video game and you don't generally derive massive benefits from actually killing anyone, this is good enough. If you really want a kill, finish them off with your bayonet.

[WaterMage]

Even real life is not as picky about ammo types as you might think. You don't really need armor-piercing ammo to fight armored opponents

You are assuming that in RPGs, we only fight human opponents and people are using Kevlar armor, when in reality, in New Vegas, I don't think that 9mm will do any damage against a heavy armored supermutant, against a deathclaw, etc.

[Stack of Turtles]

Even real life is not as picky about ammo types as you might think. You don't really need armor-piercing ammo to fight armored opponents

You are assuming that in RPGs, we only fight human opponents and people are using Kevlar armor, when in reality, in New Vegas, I don't think that 9mm will do any damage against a heavy armored supermutant, against a deathclaw, etc.

I guess it depends what a heavy armored supermutant even is. Is there any lore on this that clarifies what they are actually made out of and everything?

[J-12]

That was a feature since Fallout 2, which was broken and any special ammo was identical to regular one due to executable bug, at least on release, restoration mod packs the fix for that.

But not ammo. With modern Fallout games, FL:NV allows you to use incendiary, slugs, coin shots, and tons of types of ammo in your shotgun.

[J-12]

Honestly the feature of different ammo types in videogames is waste of time and code for developers and overall kinda stupid, players always will float towards the meta which is highest DPS options. Unless it changes gameplay with the weapon entirely (i.e. Payday 2 shotguns) or we talking about some mil-sims where it's justified to have it, it would be smarter time management for the devs to work on other polishing other content in their game.

[rusty_shackleford]

Worked fine in underrail but again ain't nobody got time for that in a real time game.

[Norfleet]

Even real life is not as picky about ammo types as you might think. You don't really need armor-piercing ammo to fight armored opponents

You are assuming that in RPGs, we only fight human opponents and people are using Kevlar armor, when in reality, in New Vegas, I don't think that 9mm will do any damage against a heavy armored supermutant, against a deathclaw, etc.

At that point, you're not going to get better damage by switching to a different type of 9mm round. You're gonna need an elephant gun.

[WaterMage]

At that point, you're not going to get better damage by switching to a different type of 9mm round. You're gonna need an elephant gun.

IMO a .338 LM armor piercing is more than enough at dealing with such threats. This can pierce even armored vehicles.

[Norfleet]

IMO a .338 LM armor piercing is more than enough at dealing with such threats. This can pierce even armored vehicles.

That's not actually a good thing if your goal is down an animal, though. Punching through the animal leaves most of the damage on the table. Also, neither of these things is being loaded into your 9mm pistol.

[WaterMage]

Well, if I'm in FNV universe having to take down a super mutant, I think that .338 LM AP would be good for it. If the mutant is unarmored, then "hollow point" would be better/

[Xenich]

only time I cared enough to swap ammo was in underrail because it was turn-based

That is where I would see its strongest use.

Though, playing a sniper game where you can make custom ammunition for special scenarios would be interesting, but the game would have to be slower paced, more of a "hitman" style.

[Tweed]

Even real life is not as picky about ammo types as you might think. You don't really need armor-piercing ammo to fight armored opponents

You are assuming that in RPGs, we only fight human opponents and people are using Kevlar armor, when in reality, in New Vegas, I don't think that 9mm will do any damage against a heavy armored supermutant, against a deathclaw, etc.

*Crits you in the eye for 198 points of damage*

PSSH, notin' personell kid!