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Explosive ammo


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Almostnasty

I only use explosive ammo as a deterrent when I find myself in the middle of a shootout I never signed up for. I’m far too lazy to constantly craft a stock of special ammo, so I try to use it sparingly.

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DentureDynamite
On 6/26/2020 at 11:56 AM, yeezy203 said:

I only use it as anti-griefer tool that's about it. Then again, I'm not a PVP person.

Same here--it can help even the odds a bit, especially if the griefing is being done by more than one person.

 

I have no problem at all refilling the fat though; have made a mental note of all the sources for it in freeroam. :)

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Buddy Hightower

So yesterday I was out doing treasure maps and i come across a rival moonshiner random event.

It tells me go to their location and destroy their moonshine equipment.

I see it on the map and go over there.

As I get there I see that the event is down in a valley of sorts - I was somewhere near Tumbleweed at the time.

From my spot I could see them walking around and I noticed what looked like the equipment.

So I thought, well hell, just pull out the sniper rifle, load an explosive round, and blow it up from here.

Boom - mission complete, your cost of mesh has been reduced....

Awesome

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Ronin Ogami
On 7/26/2020 at 4:39 PM, aurther61287 said:

I love making people waste a ton of e rounds on me in slip.

No, e rounds on slip is just stupid. Incendiary buckshot (followed by a good sidearm hosing), that's how you deal with SB.

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aurther61287
On 7/27/2020 at 7:46 PM, Ronin Ogami said:

No, e rounds on slip is just stupid. Incendiary buckshot (followed by a good sidearm hosing), that's how you deal with SB.

Agreed but most arnt that smart I've seen people waste tons of e rounds not realizing they are missing. Hence why I said I love making people waste them on me.

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OREOBOREALIS

i hope they just remove this explosive rounds sh*t or make it rare small amount thing. Its stupid and unrealistic

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4 minutes ago, WapitiWarrior1899 said:

i hope they just remove this explosive rounds sh*t or make it rare small amount thing. Its stupid and unrealistic

But they won't. They don't have a clue about pvp. They have managed to ruin just about every pvp activity in RDO. Showdowns now seem to be in perpetual 'special edition' mode where you don't get to use the guns you have bought and have to use rusty knives instead. Then they ruin free roam events by having dailies that involve taking explosives into them. Lots of people join them for the first 2 minutes to get their dailies and then leave. By then you've been blown up half a dozen times and lost all interest. There is no wonder that people who enjoy pvp random start fights in lobbies. It's the only place you can get to fight under normal conditions with normal weapons.

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1 hour ago, WPCatfish said:

I...and to ruin a Legendary Sun Gator.  Oops.

Same thing here! But it was a "me or him" situation and I decided it would be him. I was surprised at how quickly I selected the explosive rounds! Maybe I am getting better at this game!

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DentureDynamite

^^ I goofed in the other direction last night--couldn't figure out why NPCs I was shooting with my bow took so little damage... turns out I had "small game arrow" selected. lol *facepalm*

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29 minutes ago, DentureDynamite said:

^^ I goofed in the other direction last night--couldn't figure out why NPCs I was shooting with my bow took so little damage... turns out I had "small game arrow" selected. lol *facepalm*

I did that with the Varmit rifle, trying to see if I could sedate an NPC.  Didn't have sedative ammo loaded though.

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DentureDynamite

Would using explosive rounds with a Rolling Block rifle always result in a one-shot kill at say, 80-100 in-game yards?

 

Just curious if anyone knows; I got two solid shots (with hit marks) on a griefer recently, but only the second shot killed him.

 

I was under the impression that one solid hit (non-headshots) from explosive ammo would result in a one-shot kill? Especially as there was only two seconds in between the shots, so very little time for him to "tonic" up.

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3 hours ago, DentureDynamite said:

Would using explosive rounds with a Rolling Block rifle always result in a one-shot kill at say, 80-100 in-game yards?

 

Just curious if anyone knows; I got two solid shots (with hit marks) on a griefer recently, but only the second shot killed him.

 

I was under the impression that one solid hit (non-headshots) from explosive ammo would result in a one-shot kill? Especially as there was only two seconds in between the shots?

They may have been using some mod which prevented the first shot kill. Many griefers I've had to deal with have some "illegal" thing like a mod they use to make them tougher to beat or even invincible. Not surprising really considering the childish mindset it takes to go around screwing with people who do nothing to you. Those people somehow feel it's some great victory by cheating to accomplish it.

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DentureDynamite

^^ Thanks! That might also explain how he was able to get a pretty darn good headshot on me (in reviewing the video, very little time to aim) with an improved bow at medium distance.

 

I'm also pretty sure he teleported in (rather than randomly spawned in) as there were absolutely no players around until I suddenly saw him within a few feet of me up on a small mesa area outside of Tumbleweed.

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3 hours ago, DentureDynamite said:

^^ Thanks! That might also explain how he was able to get a pretty darn good headshot on me (in reviewing the video, very little time to aim) with an improved bow at medium distance.

 

I'm also pretty sure he teleported in (rather than randomly spawned in) as there were absolutely no players around until I suddenly saw him within a few feet of me up on a small mesa area outside of Tumbleweed.

You can tell a lot of times cuz they appear and their horse isn't there.

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bonafidebaconbit

Personally see no issue. Everyone can use them. If it wasn’t explosive rounds, it’d be something else people would be complaining about.

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15 hours ago, bonafidebaconbit said:

Personally see no issue. Everyone can use them. If it wasn’t explosive rounds, it’d be something else people would be complaining about.

What I find funny is people who gripe about those of us that use explosive rounds on griefers, especially noobs who want to screw with people. I keep one rifle loaded with it at all times specifically for the occassion. Don't whine about it. If you start s*** for no reason you better accept the result.

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On 6/26/2020 at 9:32 AM, Lemoyne outlaw said:

 then the guy told me that he has a video of the whole thing. and that he is going to show the internet how bad i am. i just laughed. eventually i just left the game.

 

 

So threatening to show a video of how "bad" you are is supposed to prove what for him? Psht. Some people. lol

On 6/26/2020 at 11:10 AM, CosmicBuffalo said:

Tracking arrows are for npc bounties....they are a good way to get dailies gold, but they really are not worth it unless you do dailies.  Tracking arrows do less damage than other arrows.  All they do is give a green trail when you are in eagle eye.  They are pointless in every situation other than doing dailies.  They require a scent gland to craft.  Good luck farming muskrats and skunks. 

Muskrats are found around waterfronts. They're usually not hard to find unless there is a spawning issue going on.

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CosmicBuffalo
5 minutes ago, StyxTx said:

So threatening to show a video of how "bad" you are is supposed to prove what for him? Psht. Some people. lol

Muskrats are found around waterfronts. They're usually not hard to find unless there is a spawning issue going on.

This post was made during the no animals period.

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On 10/2/2020 at 11:47 AM, CosmicBuffalo said:

This post was made during the no animals period.

Sorry. I rarely notice dates on posts. My bad.

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Lemoyne outlaw
1 hour ago, StyxTx said:

So threatening to show a video of how "bad" you are is supposed to prove what for him? Psht. Some people. lol

i was not even bad. i was just being ganged up on. he just wanted to think that he was better than me. some of these people are stupid.

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On 9/21/2020 at 2:56 PM, DentureDynamite said:

^^ I goofed in the other direction last night--couldn't figure out why NPCs I was shooting with my bow took so little damage... turns out I had "small game arrow" selected. lol *facepalm*

I watched someone do this on a live stream while trying to get a bow headshot kill daily in a showdown.

He couldn't figure out why it wasn't working and started getting really frustrated.

I thought the arrowheads looked a little odd, he finally noticed during the setup for the second showdown, because obviously the first one didn't get the daily done.

Everyone had a good laugh.  :lol:

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Sentinel Driver

Unrealistic and only used in online when tryharding in showdowns

I would have excluded it from the game altogether

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Lame and unrealistic.

 

Ruins the whole western gunslinger vibe

 

I could understand maaybe having it a limited ammo type deal or have it only work on NPC's, but thats about it.

 

It makes any pvp shootout event automatically unplayable. IDK why it's in the game, or why its only accessible to higher level players who clearly wouldn't even need it. And even if it were accessible to all, we didnt buy an old western game to run around with rapid fire grenade launchers 24/7. Just silly.

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