Pistol sound bug?

[jimnms]

When equipped witht he long slide and no silencer, the gun still sounds silenced. Anyone else getting that?

[Xcom]

What's your sound card? Is it by any chance onboard RealTek?

[jimnms]

SoundBlaster Audigy2

[dogma.irl]

Are you sure you dont still have low velocity rounds!!

[jimnms]

Yep that was it. That's still a bug IMO. Low velocity ammo wont silence a gun like that.

[dogma.irl]

how is that a bug???? your givin an option to use bullets that have a low velocity which does reduce sound...

[jimnms]

I take it you don't know much about guns. So called "low velocity" ammo only reduces the sound by using a less gunpowder so the bullet is sub-sonic. The .45 cal. round is already subsonic, so low(er) velocity ammo would reduce the recoil, but it wouldn't reduce the sound that much.

Sub-sonic rounds are usually used with a silencer to reduce both the sonic "crack" and the "boom" of the exploding gunpowder. If you fired a supersonic round out of a rifle with a silencer, you would still hear a the "crack" as the bullet breaks the sound barrier.