Magical Instant Bullets

Unreal Tournament weapons: Part 3 12 minutes Welcome back, my new and regular readers alike. I’m doubling down on Unreal Tournament this week, following on from last week’s discussion of the Flak Cannon. If you need to get up to speed on Unreal Tournament (UT) you should read my previous posts on the game: Firstly on the Rocket Launcher, then the Flak Cannon. Today we’ll examine the Sniper Rifle with our usual pedantic criticism. Although the Sniper Rifle is one of the least sci-fi of the UT weapons, its effects are less plausible than the Rocket Launcher and the Flak Cannon. We’ll go through what these implausibilities are, as well as the reasons for them. This ties into how video games are designed and built: dissecting weapons like the UT Sniper Rifle allows us to take a look under the hood of the game and get an insight into the choices and limitations facing designers, especially with older games like UT. As always, if you enjoy this post, I would appreciate if you shared it w ... Read full article.