First to clear up a common misconception, in Call of Duty 4 bullets will travel forever through the air until they exit the map or hit some sort of object (Enemy Player, Wall, Car etc). The amount of damage a bullet does change while it goes through the air. The best way to explain this is with an example, so lets take someone firing an unsilenced MP5. The bullet begins with a damage value of 40. It continues to hold the damage value of 40 until it hits 750 units of length. At 750 units the damage value begins to drop off until it reaches 1000 units of length where it reaches it’s minimum damage value of 20. So if the bullet from an MP5 hit a target 2000 units of measurement away it would do 20 damage. To give you an idea of how long a unit of measurement is the knife has a maximum range of 128 units to hit a target.

The range and damage a bullet does in Call of Duty 4 can be changed by other factors too, silencers, hitting walls and bugs in the game. Let us know in the comments section if you have any more questions about bullet range in Call of Duty 4.

Lets do a quick example to show how would would use this chart. Say we shot a single round from our M4 Carbine with a damage value of 20 before it hits any surfaces. Our M4 Carbine with “Medium” bullet penetration than encounters a wall with the size “Small”. Using our chart we see our bullet damage has been reduced by 35%, leaving us with our final bullet damage of 13 when it hits the flesh of our unfortunate target.

Keep in mind all these numbers assume you are shooting at the wall straight on. If you shoot at the wall from an angle it will further reduce the damage the bullet does, because the bullet has to travel through more material. So if our M4 Carbine bullet wasn’t going through the wall straight on but instead at a 20° it would only do around 7 damage. Furthermore if that bullet went through at a 45% angle it would only do around 2 damage. So how can I use all this information practically in a game? Besides choosing weapons and perks this show us that is important to shoot straight through a wall for maximum bullet damage, not at an angle.

Lots of confusing numbers and concepts so please go to the comments if you have any questions.

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