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This gun was amazing in ArmA 2. There was a roleplaying mod called Takistan Life where you could be the UN peacekeepers/Pakistani military/rebels/civilians/terrorists. The UN players were all very pathologically-driven police impersonator-type guys who took it very seriously. Vehicle checkpoints, airport and city defense, enforcing traffic and drug laws- they were some of the most insufferable nerds I've seen in a game.
The Saiga-12 was like a machine gun blasting buckshot across the entire screen. I'd fuck with UN players by sneaking up to their checkpoint and destroying an hour's work between a dozen players in seconds. It could blow up an entire convoy, down most aircraft, and there was no escaping it because I could light up every tree in a forest with one magazine. The only thing in the game more broken was an anti-aircraft tank with four AP autocannons, but Saiga-12s were so cheap that I could outfit the entire terrorist and civilian factions with them. The VOIP screeching was beautiful.
There's a bunch of Russian vids on youtube where they use these things in IPSC style matches, it looks like soooo much fun
I had arma 2 during one of it's free game weeks way way back when and played when giantbomb I think it was organizing games. I never played on those rp servers because I just assumed it was frumpy nerds power tripping.
That's what made it so great. ArmA 2 roleplayers were so serious about it. The only kind of trolling I like doing is making someone mad at video games and then repeatedly saying "Why are you mad at video games? Stop being mad at video games" while they get madder. Nobody is more vulnerable to that than milsim goobers treating it like it's the actual military.