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Guns Firing Underwater
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In fiction, guns can be practically drowned in water and still fire accurately, if not a little worse for wear. It doesn't matter who's holding the gun — The Hero or the Big Bad, they can still fire completely accurately, despite the fact that Guns Do Not Work That Way. In Real Life, this trope can vary. Most guns will jam or misfire when people discharge them underwater. It's not the gun itself that is affected (well, not for the first time, anyway) — it's the ammunition itself. Even if the gun is somewhat water-resistant (and that's a big somewhat, given that the barrel of a gun is essentially a giant hole), the primer of the ammunition is not. Besides the possibility of the primer being waterlogged, the gun's inner workings could also end up corroded by the water, and attempting to fire a corroded gun is a Very Bad Idea. A gun may work one or two times when fired underwater, but in the long run, water will seep into the gun or wet the crucial parts of it, making it completely useless. And then there's the actual water pressure itself, which means the bullet won't go very far. However, there are some guns that have been designed to work underwater. These include the Heckler and Koch P11 pistol and the APS Underwater Assault Rifle. Also a case of Do Not Try This at Home, because guns are not intended to be fired underwater. Shooting a gun filled with water or wet ammunition is probably not going to end well for you or anyone around you. And shooting a gun underwater with air in its barrel is even worse, because the gun can explode. Subtrope of Water Is Air, because the bullets will still work fine — though they just won't travel very far. Spearguns designed for fishing underwater are also common in the hands of divers and underwater Mooks. |
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In Might and Magic VII, the closest thing to a gun is the only weapon that can be used underwater, though being Lost Technology Ray Guns it can probably get away with it (it is a bit more odd that you can't use spears). Conversely, the underwater area in VIII imposed no restrictions at all, but being the Elemental Plane of Water it isn't quite working on the same rules as normal water to start with. | |
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Tested by the MythBusters. Even if a gun does fire, the water will slow a bullet down to nonlethal speed in short order. | |
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Half-Life: One of the advantages of the Glock (the game's starting handgun) is the capacity to fire underwater. It is one of only three weapons (the others being the crowbar and the crossbow) that can be used in such scenarios, and this characteristic carries over to its equivalent in Half-Life 2, the USP Match. | |
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Alter A.I.L.A.: In the Underwater Facility, you can fight enemies while underwater - and the battle screen doesn't reflect the battle being under water. This means that you can use all the regular weapons that you'd be able to use normally.note Like Shotguns and such. | |
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Not conventional guns, but in Star Wars: The Clone Wars blasters are shown being used underwater during the Battle of Mon Calamari, as are lightsabers. Somehow the energy doesn't dissipate into the water until it hits a target. | |
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Metal Slug, from 3 onwards, introduces underwater levels, and all your weapons works fine while you're beneath the surface. You don't get the Flame Shot in underwater stages though, but it's still possible to die via Man on Fire even in such stages. | |
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Pathfinder: Firearms can't be used underwater unless protected with specific magic, and even then, shooting through water imposes a stiff penalty on the weapon's accuracy. Early ammunition is ruined outright by exposure to water. | |
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Super Robot Wars: Most of the mechs' projectile weapons work underwater regardless of how these actually function in the canons of the works that are crossing over. Gameplay and Story Segregation applies, of course, but sometimes these can also be handwaved by the Minovsky Physics or Magitek involved with a particular series. Subverted because, depending on the installment, there might be some penalties to the damage output and/or accuracy of these weapons based on their terrain ratings (Gundam beam weapons in particular used to deal nothing but Scratch Damage if used underwater, though later games buffed them to a more standard damage reduction). These ratings can be improved through upgrades, ace bonuses, or items, if these features are present. | |
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In Black Lagoon, Revy gratefully takes an APS Underwater rifle from Balalaika, who used her military connections to the newly restructured Russian military to acquire it. She notably uses it during the Das Wieder Erstehen Des Adlers/Die Rückkehr des Adlers story when the APS is used against Aryan Socialist Union forces raiding a wrecked U-Boat. | |
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Lethal Weapon 4: Martin Riggs kills Wah Sing Ku by shooting him point blank with an assault rifle after throwing him into the water. | |
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Sea of Thieves: All the guns is the game fire perfectly fine underwater, made more egregious by the fact that they're all powder weapons and shouldn't even be able to fire because the ammo is wet. | |
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Shoot to Kill. FBI Agent Stantin shoots the killer during an underwater struggle at point-blank range, avoiding the bullet diversion problem. | |
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Justified in Death in the Water with the krakken, an underwater shotgun. The weapon is a high-tech piece of hardware meant to function in the deepest trenches. | |
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U.S. Marshals: While a pistol is not actually fired underwater, Sam Gerald makes mention of Glocks being capable of doing this as one of the reasons he loves his sidearm. | |
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The climactic fight of Mindhunters downplays this: the heroine and the Serial Killer Big Bad both pack Glocks and both shoot at each other while struggling underwater, but while the Glocks shoot all right, the bullets just lose all of their velocity the moment they leave the barrel. The two of them are then forced to keep the guns out of the water and the fight then becomes a test to see who can hold their breath the longest, with the stakes of the loser being shot the moment they have to emerge. | |
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Player Unknowns Battle Grounds: The player can swim through the water and their guns can fire as though nothing happened. | |
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Call of Duty: Ghosts: This is a Justified Trope. As for the underwater missions "Atlas Falls" and "Into the Deep" Logan starts of with the APS Underwater Rifle for obvious reasons. | |
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Shadowrun: Averted, as there are rules for how bullets work underwater (generally, they don't) and there are a few weapons that have been specifically designed for underwater combat, including a carbine. | |
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Team Fortress 2: Many of the weapons will work underwater, except for Pyro's flamethrower, and the flare gun. | |
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Justified in X-COM: Terror from the Deep. Since most of the fighting is done underwater, the X-COM soldiers use weapons specially designed to be used underwater. Some weapons only work underwater (for example, the torpedo launcher), while others work both under and above water. | |
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Guns won't work underwater in Deus Ex, so you'll want a melee weapon for dealing with critters in the sewers. | |
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Delta Force's standard guns won't fire underwater, which is a nice touch considering how little time players will actually spend swimming. The second game introduces a pistol and an assault rifle specifically for underwear combat, but they're notably inferior to standard guns. | |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: John Wick and a Mook fall into a pool during the battle of the Continetal. The mook tries to shoot Wick, but the bullets do not reach him and he shoots the mook point blank instead. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: The train's weapon is a large cannon, but deals with underwater segments by firing torpedoes instead. | |
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Claire and Franklin are trapped in a leaking "hamster ball" under water. Owen fires his gun at the ball to help them escape, and it actually works until he gets hit by a blob of lava and drops his gun. | |
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In Jon Sable, Freelance, Jon's .357 Magnum pepperbox — a Swiss-Army Weapon — can fire underwater; usually firing steel spikes like a miniature spear gun. Justified as this is a gun specifically designed to fire underwater, being based on a prototype weapon designed for the Navy SEALs. | |
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Played with in Blue Planet; most modern guns use electrically-ignited binary propellants and work just fine underwater, or can be made to with a minimum of fuss. (Corrosion's a problem, but it happens on land too.) That being said, water pressure does horrible things to external ballistics; range penalties pile up fast, on top of a penalty for being underwater at all. | |
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Red Ocean downplays the trope, but it's still there in stages where you need to go underwater to access a different part of the terrorist Underwater Base. Your guns can't fire underwater (though underwater areas never contain enemies) and as you surface in areas with enemies, your firearms can somehow work perfectly without clogging issues, despite being underwater literally seconds ago. | |
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Terraria: Multiple types of guns can fire underwater with no difficulties. Flare Guns can fire underwater fine, as can the minishark, which fires musket balls. | |
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