Sugioh

The question is whether the current noise/power level balance makes sense and whether it currently fills the intended role or not. I don't think any sane person denies that it was too quiet and powerful in 1.5.7. Rather, we just find that with the decreased (and more sane, honestly) power level, the new sound level it generates is extremely disproportionate. After all, both the 1911 and Revolver fire considerably more powerful cartridges that make much more noise in the real world, yet the winchester is louder than either by a large margin in game.

If one is going to rely on the realism argument, it should be noted that when we're near the lunar minimum the game is extremely unrealistically dark at night. I don't know how many of you have experience living far away from civilization, but your night vision becomes quite considerable after a little time in the darkness, and even on a moon-less night starlight makes seeing fairly easy if there isn't any bright ambient light (nearby city) to prevent your eyes from adjusting. Perhaps a fair compromise would be gradually decreasing the darkness the longer you go without seeing anything bright (flares, chemlights, muzzle flashes, etc) and setting the maximum darkness to be a bit lower so night is generally more realistic. I'm not asking to be able to see as well as you can during the day (although again if you're outside at night for a few hours, the difference isn't as huge as you might imagine), but the absolute blackness you experience without using a light source now is quite ridiculous.

I'd really be interested in seeing what the radius is for all the different weapons, but since the Winchester was what changed... how does it compare to the enfield's aggro radius now? Is the Enfield 125 too? Or 150 like the CZ550?

The damage changes seem reasonable (possibly too much, -25% might have been better), but the thing is definitely too loud now. It was unquestionably too quiet before but now it seems as loud as the enfield, which doesn't make sense given that it is a much lower powered round.