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In the real world bullet collisions are definitely not trivial. Video games do a laughable job at modeling the ballistics of projectiles. They don't even accoun

In the real world bullet collisions are definitely not trivial. Video games do a laughable job at modeling the ballistics of projectiles. They don't even account for bullet drop. When was the last time you saw a bullet do this in a video game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc If you do some light reading on "terminal ballistics", "experts" can't even agree on the lethality of bullet designs, especially in handguns. People love to assume their models are accurate when they are usually educated guesses with gaping holes. Ballistics is no exception.

thatguy0900 7y ago
https://youtu.be/cix07R1vlhI https://youtu.be/cix07R1vlhI Arma 3 is the most advanced I know of, accounting for bullet drop and speed loss when passing through different objects with different caliburs
- gallexme 7y ago
  Project reality, squad even more advanced with wind and smth about earth rotation I forgot the Name of it There's also the ace3 mod for Arma 3 which makes bullets behave more real
  - kanaba 7y ago
    The Coriolis effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force
SmooL 7y ago
There's actually many games that account for bullet drop! The article talks about this, but off the top of my head there's PUBG, and any game that involves a bow and arrow as a weapon.
nine_k 7y ago
First time I actually saw the bullet drop was the original Quake more than 20 years ago. Set the FOV to some narrow angle to give yourself a sniper sight, go to a long corridor, take a nail gun, shoot horizontally along the length of it. You will see how nails end up below the aiming cross. If it were a rounding error, the nails would end up randomly distributed the aiming cross. Alas, shotgun did not sport the same effect IIRC, though the hit of every individual pellet was accounted for separately.
magicalhippo 7y ago
Video games in general do a poor job, but there are some exceptions. The Delta Force[1] for example did bullet drop 20 years ago, as well as Novalogic's multiplayer game Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising from 2004 which also supported up to 150 players per server. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force_(video_game) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Operations:_Typhoon_Rising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Operations:_Typhoon_Risi...
ErneX 7y ago
Some games do model bullet drop.
Thaxll 7y ago
Battlefield one of the most popular FPS has been doing bullet drop from a while. https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Projectile_mechanics https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Projectile_mechanics

thatguy0900 7y ago

https://youtu.be/cix07R1vlhI https://youtu.be/cix07R1vlhI Arma 3 is the most advanced I know of, accounting for bullet drop and speed loss when passing through different objects with different caliburs

gallexme 7y ago
Project reality, squad even more advanced with wind and smth about earth rotation I forgot the Name of it There's also the ace3 mod for Arma 3 which makes bullets behave more real
- kanaba 7y ago
  The Coriolis effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force

SmooL 7y ago

There's actually many games that account for bullet drop! The article talks about this, but off the top of my head there's PUBG, and any game that involves a bow and arrow as a weapon.

nine_k 7y ago

First time I actually saw the bullet drop was the original Quake more than 20 years ago. Set the FOV to some narrow angle to give yourself a sniper sight, go to a long corridor, take a nail gun, shoot horizontally along the length of it. You will see how nails end up below the aiming cross. If it were a rounding error, the nails would end up randomly distributed the aiming cross. Alas, shotgun did not sport the same effect IIRC, though the hit of every individual pellet was accounted for separately.

magicalhippo 7y ago

Video games in general do a poor job, but there are some exceptions. The Delta Force[1] for example did bullet drop 20 years ago, as well as Novalogic's multiplayer game Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising from 2004 which also supported up to 150 players per server. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force_(video_game) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Operations:_Typhoon_Rising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Operations:_Typhoon_Risi...

ErneX 7y ago

Some games do model bullet drop.

Thaxll 7y ago

Battlefield one of the most popular FPS has been doing bullet drop from a while. https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Projectile_mechanics https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Projectile_mechanics