{"id":3848,"date":"2022-06-13T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostgamer.news\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2022-06-26T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T20:07:30","slug":"sniper-elite-5-effective-range-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostgamer.news\/sniper-elite-5-effective-range-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniper Elite 5: Effective Range & Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Testing muzzle velocity and it’s impact in the game? Easy<\/a>. Testing damage, and determining what actually impacts.. Well.. Damage upon impact? That one was a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let’s get into how I reached my conclusions before I actually share them with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Determining effective damage in Sniper Elite 5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alright, so I’ve already eliminated muzzle velocity<\/a> as a contributing factor to damage. That was easy, or so I thought. As I was testing various rifles in numerous configurations trying to determine the “Sweet spot” of damage (and getting what seemed to be odd results) I thought.. Maybe muzzle velocity does impact it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, no, it doesn’t. I slapped on some match rounds on a rifle configuration I was questioning, and got the same results I’d get without them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was testing targets at ~200m, ~365m, and ~415m. My goal was to determine what damage was needed to take out a target with a limb shot at Sniper Elite (hard) difficulty – limb shots are the lowest-damage locations to hit, so knowing which rifles will guarantee a kill anywhere on the body is going to be important once I start putting together rifle reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I had a configuration of a Kar98 that was giving me fits. At 155 damage it’d kill the target at 200m, but at around 300 or so it started to not unless it was a body\/head shot. 159 damage? No problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I switched to the m.1903. This rifle, at 152 damage, is a guaranteed kill at all tested ranges on any part of the body as far as my testing shows. That’s interesting; it has less damage than the Kar98 config that was failing. What was the “X” factor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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