How much does each minigun round cost?

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How long do I have to fire in order to waste $200,000 and get the Heavy Industry achievement?
 
Maybe you should watch the Meet The Heavy video!
 
Each round costs $200 each, as the heavy says in his video.
 
So his math was horribly off when he claimed $400,000/12s, then.
 
So his math was horribly off when he claimed $400,000/12s, then.
What? Your math is horribly off.

Rounds cost 200 dollars each.

Gun fires 10,000 rounds per minute.

That's 2,000,000 dollars per minute.

12 seconds is 1/5 of a minute.

2,000,000 times 1/5 is 400,000.

:|
 
$400,000 for 12 seconds
$200 per bullet.

$400,000 / 12sec = $33,333 /s

33,333 dollars per second
divided by
200 dollars per bullet

166 bullets a second.

I think my math is flawed, now.
 
You didn't have to involve the cash to find bullets per second...

10,000 rounds per minute divided by 60 is 166.66... rounds per second, as you calculated correctly.

I may or may not be aware that you may or may not be joking around with your needlessly complicated math.
 
All you have to do is sit in spawn and unload the rounds, and then when you die, you get the achievement.
 
I wasn't aware the Heavy stated his gun shot 10,000 rounds per second, thus my complicated math. Either way, the Heavy lied to us and I feel a little betrayed by our Russian comrade.
 
Erm. Where did he lie? It's 10,000 rounds per minute.
 
I must have the shitty version of the gun then, that only fires about 20 rounds a second.
 
Hmm that's true, I didn't realise that.

Sounds like an error by Valve, or maybe they just suped it up to a more realistic minigun rate of fire for the purpose of the video.

Edit: Worth noting though that the minigun fires 4 bullets per 1 ammo count in your HUD. That's about 80 rounds per second, still half the rate of what was stated in the video.
 
I just tested the rate of fire in game and it turns out you fire about 9.48 rounds a second. It is true, too, that you fire 4 rounds for every 1 ammo count, so that's about 38 bullets a second.

So if you fire 800 rounds in 21 seconds, then you need to fire continuously for about 26.25 seconds

OR

If the game doesn't count the 3 additional bullets, you need to fire for about 105 seconds.

At least, that's how the math turns out.
 
Here's what you do: Fire until you run out of bullets, or stand near an ammo crate when you do it and just bind fire to a key and put something on it to hold it down. Come back in 10 minutes.

Seriously, all you have to do is fire a shitload of bullets, this isn't that complicated.
 
It takes like 3 effing ammo clips to get it. Sit in ****ing spawn and shoot and then go to the cabinet and reload and repeat several effing times.

It's not rocket science.
 
Everytime I get through about three complete clips the computer crashes.
 
All you have to do is sit in spawn and unload the rounds, and then when you die, you get the achievement.
You don't have to die, the achievement will go off when you get it. You can do it without sitting in spawn BTW, I did it defending a point next to a dispenser. Standing on the Cart would probably work too.
 
I got it on Defence on Badwater, stand near a dispenser, keep them back, win.
 
All I did was stand by an ammo cupboard or w/e they are called and kept shooting. You don't have to die to get the achievement; whoever said that is a retard.
 
You stand on the bomb in pl_badwaterbasin and shoot like theres no tomorrow.
By the time you get to the last cp, you'll have it.
 
You don't have to die, the achievement will go off when you get it. You can do it without sitting in spawn BTW, I did it defending a point next to a dispenser. Standing on the Cart would probably work too.

Mine dinged when I died which is what made me think that's how you get it.
 
You actually shoot more bullets then you think. Aim a minigun at a wall, and shoot 1 "Round". Amazingly, there will be about 4-6 bullet holes.

And to get the achievement, just shoot 10 full clips of minigun ammo.
 
Does the achievment have to be gotten in one life?
 
Each minigun round costs 2100 MS points.
 
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