DeuceMojo said:
Oh, well if it was posted on Teh Internets then it must be true. :lol
There are, in fact, two somewhat time-consuming but otherwise conclusive ways you can confirm the data as reported on, say, this website:
http://denkirson.xanga.com/715966769/modern-warfare-2/
The first way is to shoot someone with a gun, alt-tab out of the game, navigate to your %modern warfare 2%\Main\games_mp.log file, and look for yourself.
Since I suspect most of you don't have the PC version, what this file does is keep track of every shot, grenade, turret (etc.) and chat item that you see in a game (if you don't see the shot, it's not recorded in the logfile, but if you do -- even if it's not yours -- it is). It updates perpetually and as you're playing. It's in plain text format; anyone who navigates to that folder will see that file.
An example line looks like this:
0:51 D;011000010116dfdd;10;allies;Fugu;0110000102dc6643;5;axis;ToxP| Welshy;famas_acog_mp;56;MOD_RIFLE_BULLET;torso_upper
Gives you a timestamp, your name, the gun you were using, how much damage you did, what type of bullet you were using who you hit, and where you hit them. In this case, someone hit me (while using stopping power) in the upper torso for 56 damage. That'd be 40 x 1.4, much like these charts say. Considering this log file is absolutely
huge, it wouldn't be difficult to easily get every gun's damage from this.
It also gives you a lot of other neat pieces of information, like how the game treats pistol bullets and P90 shots the same in regards to bullet penetration.
The other way (the method with which I am less familiar) involves using an extraction tool to get at the plaintext document that lists weapon damage. If it's anything like CoD4, it's in the .iw# files somewhere.
