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Miniguns are too weak. Very little damage.
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For a long time it was just too inaccurate (used to have large spread). Now they are very accurate but still have spread (In a good place now).

Only a few days ago did I realize the bullets themselves dont kill enemies in 1 shot as they should. 7.62 is the same as the marksman rifle and it usually kills enemies in one shot to the torso.

To give a good visual demonstration I just recorded myself shooting the guns on the airstrip.

As you can see I placed one-shot range targets beside careless civilians and opened fire. It is obvious how weak these bullets are behaving. I dont think they need their spread change nor explosive rounds (as that is unrealistic). They simply need to kill in one shot, as they should in ARMA.

I have included a youtube video of this.

Details

Legacy ID
605452174
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Balancing
Steps To Reproduce

Load a pawnee and fire into densely packed civilians.

Additional Information

http://youtu.be/jZpj4zG5tEo -- In game demonstration

http://youtu.be/-_eCWDwGdYc -- Real life demo. Hard to see but the sudden lurch when they open fire is way more than I expected.

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20080720/NEWS/807200334/-8216-Neither-us-expected-get-out-alive- -- This is a good article about a single AH-6 taking on 5-6 anti-air trucks in iraq. Gives an idea of the *potential effectiveness*.

Event Timeline

ataraxic89 edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
ataraxic89 set Category to Balancing.
ataraxic89 set Reproducibility to Always.
ataraxic89 set Severity to None.
ataraxic89 set Resolution to Open.
ataraxic89 set Legacy ID to 605452174.May 7 2016, 4:37 PM
StJimmy added a subscriber: StJimmy.May 7 2016, 4:37 PM

Well that looks very bad.

AD2001 added a subscriber: AD2001.May 7 2016, 4:37 PM
AD2001 added a comment.Sep 9 2013, 4:51 PM

And they also need more spread.
/upvoted

Bohemia added a subscriber: Bohemia.May 7 2016, 4:37 PM

I've been playing a lot as a CAS pilot on the pawnee and when you run out of 'Hydras' and have to switch to the minigun it took me around one minute to kill a simple infantry unit.
Two reasons for that , the very low damage of the minigun and the fact the helicopters controls in ArmA3 are awefull, since the helicopter move too easily the crosshair just dance around the target making it untouchable while in ArmA2 helicopters controls were smoother making easier to aim correctly.

Added real life video in Additional Info.

Did you have extended armor on? Is on by default. Go to CONFIGURE -> GAME -> DIFFIULTY -> Extended Armor -> Disabled.

It's not extended armour. They do the same amount of damage as a 6.5 round. The RoF for the miniguns is extremely low and this combined with the pinpoint accuracy (#0001834, #0001747) they have makes them pretty useless.
The RoF is tied to the framerate (#0009828) so unless they add more shots per frame or add some splash damage they are always going to be terrible.

I did not ProGamer. However, should civilians even have "extended armor"?

Every unit I think has it when it's enabled though I usually play with it off so I am not exactly sure. Try testing without extended armor enabled though. Frame rate and rate of fire are definelty issues for these weapons.

Kirill added a subscriber: Kirill.May 7 2016, 4:37 PM

All 5.56 and 6.5mm in game have low powerful. Kill somebody after penetreiting wall - mirrical!

http://youtu.be/gK7sMGJJftk

They fixed it. They appear to have added a small amount of splash damage. It works as you would expect now.

It still needs some tweaking, the splash is a bit too big and quickly demolishes buildings. While its not entirely unrealistic for bullets to break a building down its a bit too fast. In fact its easier to destroy a building with the minigun than it is with the rockets.

I dont know if its possible but it would prefered to do different damage to building classes than it does to people classes.

Lazyman added a subscriber: Lazyman.May 7 2016, 4:37 PM

Sadly adding spash damage doesn't fix the underlying issue the miniguns have and creates the problem that you reported of being unrealistically powerful against buildings.
BI has to make them less accurate and have a realistic rate of fire: from what I could test, the miniguns on the AH-9 have a _combined_ rate of fire of around 1400rpm and with good FPS (50ish).
That means that each minigun has a ROF of around 700rpm, which is nowhere near the minimum of 2000 that those thing can reach, and even farther than the maximum rate of 6000rpm, and that's when the game doesn't slow down, reducing the ROF we already have.

What about going back to the Arma 2 fix: http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=15519 until Arma 3 can have the engine limitation fixed?