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Suhiir said:I've been seriously considering a 5 to 10 point morale boost for USMC units (they have a base 80 now to the Army's base 75).
And I know a good many (non Jarheads) will be unhappy with the tweaks to weapon ranges and accuracy I plan. Official US Army policy is that the M16A1 has a max effective range of 460m, yet every Marine is required to qualify yearly at 500m. So my USMC OOB will have a Weapon Range of 9 to the standard 8 for the M16A1, and 10 for the A2 & A4.
Little changes like that will give a more unique, "Marine" feel to the OOB (I hope).
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And this is why Andy said we are very reluctant to take end-user changed OOB's and why he said doing so has caused us to be "bitten in the bum too often" and why there is zero chance of this mod ever being considered as an "official" OOB. We've been trying for the past few releases to purge the game of all the little things like this that crept in to the OOB's over time. However, have fun. That's what MOBHack for
Don
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Actually since ya'll said you have no interest in a modified OOB I'm going a lot further then I'd originally intended with some of my changes. I wasn't planning to change weapon data or ammo loads at first.
I'm sure someone will ask "Why change ammo loads?".
Simple, US Army doctrine calls for Suppressive Fire (lots of shooting in the general direction of the bad guys to keep their heads down and disrupt their aim); whereas USMC doctrine is Aimed Fire (shoot at someone or something specific). Army doctrine leads to cases like what happened in Grenada in 1983 - they ran out of ammo and had to borrow more from the Marines. So to represent this I'll be increasing the ammo load for M16's from 90 to 105. Why 105 you ask, simply because the standard ammo load for a grunt is 7 x 30 round magazines = 210 rounds and 105 is half that.
I'm sure not everyone will agree with all my changes, but since its never going to become "official" I figured I may as well make some that make sense (to me anyway) and give the OOB have a "Marine flavor".