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Lots of military shooters will kill you with one or two bullets. I've thought that what would really make a shooter "realistic" would be if players who get shot are maimed (rather than being able to run and jump just as well at 1% health as 100%). But who knows whether that would actually be fun.

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Arma 3 does that. If your legs are hurt you still can move and the walking animation is the same, but the speed can be close to zero. if your arms are hurt, you cant shoot straight anymore. They also have a way better (whatever that might mean) visualiation of pain and dying than other shooters.

"Escape from Tarkov" is also praised for "feeling" realistic, but I can't say much on that.

All of that started with a mod for Quake 2 called Action Quake. You could break your legs by falling or bleed out, and had to bandage, that kind of thing. It was the predecessor to Counter Strike, which in turn birthed a lot of modern shooter mechanics.

I used to play Action Quake 2 for years pretty seriously. Looking at the gameplay videos of it now it looks so much like a pre-pre-alpha version of CS:GO still to this day.

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