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Originally Posted by Enpeze
You are right. The casuality rate was not high. But rather because there have not been many situations with duellists and gunfighting in high noon. The whole bloodthirsty genre is an invention of cheesy pulp mags and some clever Italians. So if you play a "western game" then you just copy cheap movies and comics but not how it really was to live in the 19th wild west.
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I grant you that the "shootout at noon" os mostly fiction. But at for the moetality rates of gunsdhots, that is also a fiction caused by the pulps, Hollywood, TV, etc.
THe information avaiable from real world shootings, both in the Old West and in the modrn era show that very few gunshots actually kill someone right away. Instant kills are limited to within the crtical hit % and most other deaths occur later. THat is actually one of the problems with shootouts. Unless you can severe the guys spine, he is going to have at least 10 seconds of so to act before he passes out from blood lost. And that is the "best case" scenario.
So if you want to play "how it really was" then you need to reduce the instant kill rates.