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Re: What is your favorite weapon?
Posted By: Mark LevinDate: 12/21/03 11:06 a.m.

In Response To: Re: What is your favorite weapon? (MaxX)

: I always keep a running count of how much ammo I have in my head...so I never
: get any bad suprises.

This thread prompted me to look into something I'd always wondered about but never bothered to actually investigate: Exactly how much ammo can the Alien Weapon hold? I went straight to the source (literally) and found line 594 of weapons.cpp:


rounds_given= trigger_definition->rounds_per_magazine/2 +

(global_random()%(trigger_definition->rounds_per_magazine/2+1));


This selects a number of shots anywhere between the number of rounds per magazine in the physics model and half that value. The default Infinity model gives the AW 2000 rounds per magazine, which means any given weapon would have between 1000 and 2000 shots in it and some weapons would last up to twice as long as others.

I have a gut feeling this isn't over yet, though, since 1000 rounds is the equivalent of 19 AR clips and would let the AW fire continuously for over a minute and a half (it takes 3 frames for the firing animation to cycle). Since this never happens in the game, there must be something else going on, but I haven't found it yet.

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What is your favorite weapon?Starship Security Officer 12/17/03 3:08 p.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?Steve Levinson 12/17/03 3:23 p.m.
           Re: What is your favorite weapon?Starship Security Officer 12/17/03 4:05 p.m.
                 Re: What is your favorite weapon?Starship Security Officer 12/17/03 4:09 p.m.
                       Re: What is your favorite weapon?Tasnu Arakun 12/17/03 11:59 p.m.
           Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/18/03 7:58 a.m.
                 Re: What is your favorite weapon?Starship Security Officer 12/18/03 1:50 p.m.
                       Re: What is your favorite weapon?thermoplyae 12/18/03 2:26 p.m.
                       Re: What is your favorite weapon?deathmonger 12/18/03 2:31 p.m.
                             Re: What is your favorite weapon?Neoptolemus 12/18/03 3:57 p.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?deathmonger 12/17/03 4:46 p.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?CATS 12/17/03 8:12 p.m.
           Oops, a little adding to my previous postCATS 12/17/03 8:18 p.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?ukimalefu 12/17/03 8:33 p.m.
           Re: What is your favorite weapon?Starship Security Officer 12/17/03 8:46 p.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?Mista_B 12/17/03 8:58 p.m.
           Re: What is your favorite weapon?Steve Levinson 12/18/03 6:31 a.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?Johannes Gunnar 12/18/03 6:32 a.m.
     Re: Dual Shotguns. Period. *NM*MaxX 12/18/03 7:09 a.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/18/03 7:46 a.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?elliott 12/18/03 8:04 a.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?HamburgerBoy 12/18/03 10:26 a.m.
           Re: What is your favorite weapon?- 12/18/03 2:54 p.m.
                 To easily exhausted of ammo. *NM*thermoplyae 12/18/03 4:47 p.m.
                 Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/19/03 6:25 a.m.
                       Re: What is your favorite weapon?elliott 12/19/03 7:39 a.m.
                             Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/20/03 8:20 a.m.
                                   Re: What is your favorite weapon?Mark Levin 12/20/03 8:41 a.m.
                                         Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/21/03 8:05 a.m.
                                               Re: What is your favorite weapon?MaxX 12/21/03 10:14 a.m.
                                                     Re: What is your favorite weapon?Mark Levin 12/21/03 11:06 a.m.
                                                           Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/24/03 8:48 a.m.
                                                     Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/22/03 8:15 a.m.
                                   Re: What is your favorite weapon?D-M.A. 12/22/03 11:55 a.m.
                                         Re: What is your favorite weapon?the Battle Cat 12/23/03 6:08 a.m.
                                               Uhhh, I didn't imply that I... ehum eh... *NM*D-M.A. 12/23/03 6:45 a.m.
                                                     Re: Uhhh, I didn't imply that I... ehum eh...Starship Security Officer 12/23/03 7:32 a.m.
                             Re: What is your favorite weapon?Tych-Psych 12/20/03 6:37 p.m.
     Re: What is your favorite weapon?rampancy 12/18/03 4:30 p.m.



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