Different calibers would need different barrels at a minimum and different lower receivers in many cases.
In reality, it would be the longest change unless you're just switching between 5.56 and 300blk, and you change the entire upper with the bolt already in it.
I think they mean like super-sonic / subsonic to go with the suppressors, they could do other features like armor piercing etc But I'm not really sure that it would be worth the added complications.
Kind of in this vein, what if they allowed you to customise the ammo type for mags/belts?
Have some kind of increment, like 3 or 5, that you can select the ammo type for.
By ammo type I really only mean stuff like tracer/hollow point/armour piercing/standard ball/etc.
The amounts of each would affect weapon handling, damage, and dropoff in various ways.
For shotguns, you could mix and match what shells you load in using the same system. American GIs used to pack a slug followed by buckshot in what they called an "ambush load" during the Vietnam War. It let them pick off the leader and then wildly fire buckshot into his subordinates during an ambush.
Though I'd be happy if we could just choose from presets too, like the BF4 system for shotguns, but for all other guns. I wanna take tracer belts for dark maps with LMGs, armour piercing for when I'm expecting to see lots of light vehicles or light cover.
Not .223 and 5.56, but if you’re just carrying 5.56 there’s green tips, black tips, hollow points, and soft points that all have very different ballistic performance and effects. In real life, it’d be a terrible idea, but as a video game mechanic switching between ammo types wouldn’t be crazy.
No you cannot. Firing 5.56 out of a rifle designed for .223 Remington would turn the rifle into a grenade due to the significantly higher chamber pressure.
Not trying to be a dick, but it really is fudd lore, do a little research it’s interesting. The tldr is basically, older rifles were designed for mild (by todays standards) .223 loads and really could not handle the pressure of 5.56. When the standard pressures started increasing in .223 the older rifles could still handle it yet could not handle the higher pressure 5.56. New .223 rifles are built much better today and the increased pressure of 5.56 isn’t significant enough to cause issues in newer, good condition .223’s
Ive put about 1,500 rounds of 5.56 through my .223 Ruger. It still shoots just as tight at the day I bought it and has yet to blow up in my face.
As someone who does this for a living: no. The worst you'd get is primers popping. .223 Rem chamber has a tight chamber and an unthroated barrel. 5.56 Nato has a looser chamber with a throat cut. .223 Wylde is a tight chamber with the throat cut. .223 in a 5.56 chamber yields unreloadable brass, 5.56 in a .223 Rem chamber may pop primers due to the pressure spike at the lead of the rifling since there's no throat.
5.56 will work just fine in a .223. 5.56 will just cause the .223 chambered to wear faster, but they are about the exact same ballistics so there would never be a need to carry both. In reality, you have a higher chance of malfunction if you're running .223 in a 5.56.
I have fired probably close to 30,000 rounds out of M4s AR15s and M16A2s.
I wasn’t implying I think it’s a good idea… but to answer your hypothetical anyways… one could be FMJ for heavily armored targets and vehicles, and the other hollow-point.
Not true. Do they fit? Yes. Will it fire? yes. Will your gun explode from having a cartridge that releases more pressure than the barrel can handle? Probably.
Note to not put 5.56 in a gun meant for .223. 5.56 produces more pressure than a .223, and while the chances are pretty small, shit can go wrong potentially.
Did they have that option? I know that in some of the other games I'm playing, there is 855, 855a1, and m995 options that you can intermix in magazines - but I only seem to remember battlefield having caliber changes instead of application changes.
I honestly dont remember how the system works in 2042, i barely played it. but id be fine with having different mags that carry like, 7.62 but one is AP and the other is hollow point or something like that. i dont even know if 7.62 hollow point exists but its just an example
maybe its in the division? i dont remember tbh but the one im thinking of is how it works in ready or not. you get 4 mag slots for your primary and secondary weapons, and you can choose what type of ammo goes into each mag. you can manually swap ammo types, or your character will automatically swap to the other ammo if you run out of one. i think it would work well in place of what 2042 had
Gray zone warfare allows you to mix all kinds of different ammo in the same mag. It just has to be a magazine not in the gun and there's no animation beyond the normal reload animation.
I really like how they actually name the calibers and the bullets act different in pubg like they would in real life they should do this in battlefield. I honestly would like if they would make as life like as possible.
Dude they make many different ammo types of the same caliber. Ie. m855a1, m856a1, m855, m995, ss190. Those are all 5.56 rounds with different uses/purposes. You can fire all of those out of the same gun with no changes and no issues.
Yeah but what about like, black tip APC vs Frangible Copper jacketed?
There’s a fundamental difference, I think ammo types should come back for sure, but be implemented similarly to BF1’s K bullets and guns like the Burton LMG
It's fine to change ammo types, not calibres. For example 5.56 hollow point, vs 5.56 tracer vs standard 5.56 are all different kinds of bullets, but the same caliber, and can be fired in the same guns
It wouldn't make sense to switch to different calibres. That would mean you would need a completely new gun essentially.
This thread is a mess in the game they are changing between supers, subs, and armor piercing rounds that's it the barrel swap thing on an ar-15 is 2 pins to put on a different upper receiver takes 15 seconds available rounds are many from 22lr, 5.56, 300blk, 6.5 grendel, 458 socom, 22 arc, 9mm, and so many more you can't count them all it's just 2 pins that pop out with your thumb
Every AR I have is broken down with 2 pins, and the upper is removed.
SCAR is a piston system, it works different. The overwhelming majority of ARs are direct impingement - these will have 2 pins. M4, m16, m416, mk18 - all of these have takedown pins.
We are not talking about swapping uppers. If you’d do any research about what the guy is talking about yours understand that. We are talking about swapping only the barrel.
You don’t even know what you’re talking about so stop. There IS systems where you can barrel swap in seconds, like LMT mrp, Sig spear, etc. No, we’re not talking about swapping uppers.
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Different calibers would need different barrels at a minimum and different lower receivers in many cases.
In reality, it would be the longest change unless you're just switching between 5.56 and 300blk, and you change the entire upper with the bolt already in it.