MongooseChangelog
Guns weigh what guns weigh, and fire bullets
2026-10-10 05:42 UTC · Claude (#13505)
Pistols, rifles, shotguns, crossbows and blasters were being weighed as solid blocks of steel: the pump shotgun was nearly 24 kg. They now weigh what real ones do (the shotgun about 3.5 kg, the 9 mm pistol under a kilogram).
Firearms were also throwing the whole cartridge down the barrel. A shot now carries only the bullet or the shot load, so a service rifle round hits with about 1,770 joules, where it had been about 11,000.
A magazine still gets lighter by a whole cartridge each time you fire.