Realistic Silencers

Firearms professional here. While certain specialty suppressors have slowed down bullets before, they are an exception, not the rule. Additionally, in general suppressors will slightly increase the velocity of your bullet, but not really enough to make a difference in most cases.

As for velocity and damage?…Yes, velocity absolutely adds damage in real life if we aren’t changing any other parameters. If you take a 45 grain 22 caliber sized bullet and shoot a watermelon (or small animal) with the velocity of 1200 fps, it will poke a hole in it. If you take that same bullet and speed it up to what other hunting calibers may run at, say 2800 fps, that same thing you shot will literally explode because of the difference in energy. I’ve seen this with firsthand experience.

As for suppressors only being effective with subsonic ammo…this simply isn’t true. I’m not saying this from a quick google search or reading from a magazine, I’m literally saying this from in person experience shooting multiple suppressors in multiple firearms with different actions and calibers. Yes, subsonic is quieter, and so is bolt action, but you will notice a significant difference in sound profile, recoil, and even less shockwave coming out of the end of the barrel from most rifles even without subsonic ammo. They are still loud (standing next to a rifle with a suppressor will still hurt your ears and require ear protection in most cases), but if you could hear a regular rifle from several blocks away, you wouldn’t even be able to tell if you were hearing a gunshot or not (if at all) if a suppressed rifle was fired.

There’s a lot of partial truths floating around on the internet about guns so I thought I would add a little input since I spend all day every day with them.

You’re literally talking about one firearm that’s not in this game. And yeah the only reason the MP5SD was designed that way was so NATO could continue using the same 9mm 124gr rounds they already have in abundance. Higher damage, well higher velocity means higher energy and if the energy is transferred into the target ideally for example with good hollow, soft point or just good ole yaw which 5.56 and .223(not in this game without mods I know but the M4 is and the devs too lazy to add another caliber) are known for then yes higher velocity will equal higher tissue damage. If the bullets over penetrate as with FMJs and they “sail right through” then yeah they’ll do less damage. With pistol calibers this all negligible at best rifles a little so. Personally it’s 2023 no one has an excuse to be ignorant with firearms and stupid movie and videogame tropes need to die. Realistic firearms in games balance themselves and I can suspend my disbelief for John Wick killing hundreds of henchmen but him and Common queefing at each other in a crowded subway is cringey AF and ruins the movie.

Depends on the firearm in question as well as the type of suppressor being used…its usually just easier to nerf the gun in games to make up for the huge advantage that making less sound has so it doesn’t seem overpowered.