Guns During game.

[bruinbeer]

When you shoot during the game, the gun will look worse and worse after each shot. but will the accuracy be messed up after a while?

[TrustyJam]

When you shoot during the game, the gun will look worse and worse after each shot. but will the accuracy be messed up after a while?

The fouling system is still being developed, but I can tell you we at least currently have plans for changing the reload time as well as chance of misfires (requiring the player to place a new cap on the nipple) based on the amount of fouling.

- Trusty

[Maximus Decimus Meridius]

will there be a option to fix it?

Fill hot water in or the 2nd but not so effective option piss in it?


Would be very realistic. I know they did it in the Napoleonic Era but i dont think that it changed over the years

[Josy_Wales]

Would be great if you could blow down the barrel or where you put your percussion cap, to reset some of the fouling. You can in a way roughly compare it to changing barrel on your machine gun when it's overheating in RO2.

[[RG]Chewie]

A cleaner bullet was the prescribed method but not sure how well they worked....

[thomas aagaard]

Would be great if you could blow down the barrel or where you put your percussion cap, to reset some of the fouling. You can in a way roughly compare it to changing barrel on your machine gun when it's overheating in RO2.
Blowing down the barrel is a good way to get a cookoff when you pour the powder of your next shot... since it give any embers still burning more oxygen.

This is why you never remove the spend cap during loading until after your loaded the powder and bullet.

Suggest the devs look into period information on this... to rule out moderne errors.

The danish army did a test in midt 1850ties where they fired 90 shots in one go. (34 seconds used on average for for loading and shooting each shot)
And the report say that loading the last shot was just as easy as loading the first shot.

But that was with a "Tap riffel M/1848" (a french rifle musket using this system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabine_%C3%A0_tige) and that system was rather effective with each round cleaning the bore of powder from the shot before it.
(this is also why the rate of fire is a bit slower than what can be done with a rifle musket using the Minie system, since you needed to tgive the bullet 2-3 strong "taps" to set the bullet properly.)

This can naturally not be transferred to the main civil war arms since they where based on the Minie system... but it do show that some periode weapons and bullets did very well in this area.

Some study of the cleaning bullets might be relevant... if they where actually issued during the campaign.

[A. P. Hill]

Its also a good way to shoot into your mouth and scare the bejesus outta ya. ;)

[[RG]Chewie]

Some interesting info on the Williams patent bullet (what i was referring to as the cleaner bullet)
http://touchthepast.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-williams-patent-bullet.html
Maybe we could also have a key to use our cone picks.

[FanaticDK]

As an experienced black powder shooter, I can tell that fowling is only an issue after a lot of shots.

With my minie rifle I can usually get off about 20 rounds if I run a patch through it every 3rd or 4th shot before it gives me issues.

With my 1851 Navy I can usually get off 4 cylinders before any real issues.

Honestly in the field all you really need to do is to run a patch. That's probably the best you can do.