Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4957813-20140510034158/@comment-4485275-20140608183542

This is an anime, so yeah, some rule of cool is definitely called for. Do you mind showing me the design?

My counter-arguement towards the whole "Magazines are expendable" thing is that yes, real life magazines are expensive to replace, and most troops don't actually drop them, they have special "Drop Pouches" where they put their expended mags. They're built to be cheap, not because they're all really expendable, but because the less we spend on that, the more of the budget we can spend on other gear. It's corner cutting, it happens.

A CQC situation where something like an PDW (it's like an SMG, but with rifle-caliber rounds) would work even better.

The firing chamber problem isn't the gun exploding, but rather, the ejected brass, which tends to either tend more designing so that it'd go down or forwards, once again, adding more parts compared to a standard rifle, or makes it only usable by people of one handedness. The Ergonomics I mentioned are simply that it's far less intuitive to go behind one's domainant hand than to go in front, which is why most firearms have the bullets go right in the grip, or in front. A bullpup, by nature, has it behind, requiring a more complex reload. Balance, is usually solved by making the rifle heavier on the front, making a bullpup actually heavier, and thus lose it's CQC edge. It's once again, non-intuitive to balance between one's shoulder and arm instead of the two arms. And since the grip-hand is the fulcrum of the whole thing, when a muzzle climbs due to fire, gravity pulls it back down in a conventional rifle, while a bullpup would be pulled further up, and require manual re-adjustment.

I'd have to agree here, but once again, it's a fictional series. This is why with conservation of detail, if monty wanted to say "The average hunter would use a internal magazine on a rifle" then he'd have done so, but he hasn't. While handing burden of proof is usually the ground of assholes, I have to say right now, it's on you to prove that in vytal, it's better to use an internal mag.

I mentioned stabbing, where he'd be thrusting the gun downards, such as in his landing strategy, i'd be likely that there's a risk of the mag hitting the tree/grimm/grunt/cardin's jerk face. But i'll concede he likely just swings it all the time.

The Trailer's non-canon on her personality, and it's more a showcase for her being a badass. I'd have to say that her fighting style is part of being a badass.