Primary Assault Rifles...Which does the most damage?

[757>norva<]

Originally Posted by PatsFan250

It's the M14 or the M60 because they both take the same ammo.

So does the AK-47 and the RA-14 7.62mm

[757>norva<]

Originally Posted by The_Doodler

It's funny to see how the most powerful weapon (in this case assault rifle) from SOCOM 2 is a weapon from around 1956. it was developed to replace M1 i think (WW2 rifle) but only lasted from '56 to 1960 or something like that and then came the first version of the M 16. was barely used by the US Army (m14 has the shortest life record for a rifle used in the US Army. compare it to the M16/car-15 family, about 40 years)

hmmmm...... if the M14 is that accurate and powerful, maybe the US should have sticked to it for a bit longer and hold the M16 production for later, and then the US could have done better in Vietnam :? anyone thought about that??? i wonder why the M14 lasted that long.

The fire rate is to fast and makes it inaccurate and you waste bullets, you want a slower fire rate allowing you to bring the weapon back down to become accurate. This is why the military makes the m16 single and 3 burst to conserve the bullets and actually hit your mark

[Deathmonger]

So it makes sense why the M14 is the best assault rifle for Socom II. In real life, any bullet really does the job, but the M14 fired really fast, had a short clip and was powerful but had such a kick that other guns would be better. In Socom, it doesn't matter because its not that realistic to have such a kick that real people have with that gun. Just is the same for the M60, no real person could run around with it auto and keep it in his hands. But if Socom was that realistic, it wouldn't be as much fun.

[marble man]

The M-14 was suppose to give the user, the hard hitting single shot of the M-1 Garand, but the need for a auto was also there. The hardiness of the M-1, was there, also. (It was the answer to the lighter weight, of the M-1 and the auto fire rate, of the B.A.R.) And because of the recoil, single shot was supposed to be used more, than auto. But the jungle firefights in Vietnam, turned the avarage shooter, into the "spray and pray" type. They ran out of ammo fast. With the M-16, more ammo could be carried, which was the main concern. Needless to say, the M-14 is a harder hitting weapon. And used right, it'll knock down more bodys, than the M-16, at a longer distance. And up close, for that matter. I think Socom does a good job, of showing that. That's why people, that really know how to use it, do so well. And, FYI, I believe the Marine grunts used the M-14 till the late 60's. My Buddy was killed, by a sniper, while carring one.