Forum:Realism of Weapons

There is always one things that continues to enrage me. Yes, I admit I do my fair bit of quickscoping, but i dont use weapons that are 50 caliber in real life! The Barrett 50cal is a weapon that is capable of destrping a car in one shot, so why is it used in a similar way to an MK14 by some players? This is not realistic which is why I believe Call of Duty as a whole is losing so many players to Battlefield 3 etc!

Another side to this is the frag grenades, in real life these explosives are capable of utter devastation of a room, so how can you move to another window and not even get a slight damage to your overall health? In a realistic war situation, you'd be splattered all over the walls (or what was left of them).

There are other weapons I could mention but then I'd be going on forever. So my question is, does this make anyone else as mad as me? I'm a sucker for contextual accuaracy in films, games and tv shows and have seen the true firepower of these weapons etc in documentaries, so im not just talking a load of rubbish.

The Barrett 50cal's bullets are huge in comparison to an assault rifle's bullets, as is the rifle itself! There is no way someone can line up a shot and shot it in under a second from sprinting, with that sized round, without accidently shooting one of their team mates on the other side of the building!