SWS Pulse Rifle Caliber?

[edaw1982]

I was curious, as to what possible caliber the Pulse Rifle of Dead Space would probably use, considering it talks of 'ultra low caliber rounds' and a maximum magazine capacity of 175 rounds.

The usual suspects for future small calibers seems to be between 2mm to 4mm, but I was wondering what your thoughts on the matter are.

[Vendetta]

It used a special "fuck all good at killing necromorphs" calibre.

The achievement for using only the plasma cutter was a sensible recommendation not a challenge....

[edaw1982]

It used a special "fuck all good at killing necromorphs" calibre.

The achievement for using only the plasma cutter was a sensible recommendation not a challenge....

Touche.
It is a surprisingly crap weapon for being an actual weapon instead of a re-purposed mining tool.

But I guess the game-designers wanted to get away from the whole 'Space marine' thing and give you a reason to use those mining tools whilst emphasising the engineer aspect.

[Venator]

It used a special "fuck all good at killing necromorphs" calibre.

The achievement for using only the plasma cutter was a sensible recommendation not a challenge....

Touche.
It is a surprisingly crap weapon for being an actual weapon instead of a re-purposed mining tool.

But I guess the game-designers wanted to get away from the whole 'Space marine' thing and give you a reason to use those mining tools whilst emphasising the engineer aspect.

To be fair, it's probably pretty effective on targets that aren't immune to pain and shrug off anything but multiple dismemberment.

It's like the situation of low-calibre rounds on heavily-drugged-up nutjobs, just turned up to 11.

[Starglider]

The achievement for using only the plasma cutter was a sensible recommendation not a challenge....

To be fair, the line gun was pretty good, one-shot on the standard enemies and effective against the small crawling things where the cutter was a pain. The contact beam was borderline for much of the game but quite useful in some sections. Everything else, not worth the inventory space.