Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
On this thread at the BIS feedback forum Chad "Briareus" Nicholas speaks about the new effects of burts in Fallout3:
<blockquote> Something like this is what's in the game. So using guns that use a higher volume of ammo may end up hitting a target in the legs, torso, and arms, or the torso, head, and arms, and eyes, or ... and so on, and on. This gives bursts a better chance to cause the same effects that called shots do, you just don't get to choose which areas/effects are hit.</blockquote>
Edit: Later Damien "Puuk" Foletto added this bit:
<blockquote>In FO1 & 2 there was a chance that an unaimed shot could hit a leg, arm, eye, etc. This was usually the result of a critical hit, sometimes it just happened to hit "there." In burst weapons, as Bri stated, since bullets are flying all over the place, the odds of hitting a random appendage or eye, etc., increased without having to have a critical.</blockquote>
<blockquote> Something like this is what's in the game. So using guns that use a higher volume of ammo may end up hitting a target in the legs, torso, and arms, or the torso, head, and arms, and eyes, or ... and so on, and on. This gives bursts a better chance to cause the same effects that called shots do, you just don't get to choose which areas/effects are hit.</blockquote>
Edit: Later Damien "Puuk" Foletto added this bit:
<blockquote>In FO1 & 2 there was a chance that an unaimed shot could hit a leg, arm, eye, etc. This was usually the result of a critical hit, sometimes it just happened to hit "there." In burst weapons, as Bri stated, since bullets are flying all over the place, the odds of hitting a random appendage or eye, etc., increased without having to have a critical.</blockquote>
