🚨 Officers,
In the spirit of one of our previous posts, where we presented our current roadmap and provided some intel on the ability of suspects to shoot at SWAT officers through doors, we would today like to discuss a different feature of SWAT Commander — swapping ammo types.
We'd like to encourage our officers to pay closer attention to a certain option native to the equipment configuration screen, where you can specify the different weapons and pieces of equipment with which your team will be deployed on a single-player mission or specify the equipment for yourself as you join a co-op session.
You can access this screen and modify your equipment loadout either directly from the main menu or while you're configuring your selected mission.
Fig. 1 — SWAT Commander's equipment screen, the cursor is highlighting the weapon attachment configuration option
In this screen, we find all options for configuring your personnel's equipment — the main weapon, the sidearm, their attachments found under the cog icon (fig. 1), special devices (Tactical Mirror, Injector, Ballistic Shield, etc.), grenades, and armor.
One of these configuration options tends to fly under the radar and it is the option to swap out your standard-issue full metal jacket ammunition.
Fig. 2 — AP and JHP ammo now selected on the Equipment screen, weapon stats affected
It's important to note that you can, for all your weapons, replace the JHP ammo with the amor-piercing (AP) and jacketed hollow point (JHP) rounds. Why? Because, as you can see from the stats in fig. 2, they affect your weapon's capabilities significantly.
While offering little armor penetration, JHP ammo boasts increased damage and stopping power, best utilized against unarmored targets for extra effectiveness.
Conversely, AP ammo boosts your weapon's armor penetration but it does not increase its ability to dish out damage.
All right, if there are clear benefits to using the alternative ammo types, how do we know when to use which one?
Fig. 3 — The mission briefing screen, focused on the text 'Details' tab
By studying the mission's briefing of course! The briefing considers a text description of the mission on which you're about to deploy, the timeline of events, and the dossiers of suspects you will encounter in your effort to complete its objectives.
This information will serve you well in selecting all of your officers' equipment, including the ammo type as you make your judgment, based on the type of suspects you'll encounter and the armor they'll be wearing.
With the mini-tutorial concluded, we'd now like to present you with a sneak preview of our upcoming Customization Update.
With it, SWAT Commander will enable you to modify a wide range of properties that affect your playthrough of a mission, including the weather conditions, the type and number of suspects and civilians, their behavior, and many more elements.
We'll have more details at your disposal when we're ready to roll out the update.
We're eager to find out how you complete your missions once you can modify so many of their various aspects. Stand by for further updates!
Over and out,
SWAT Commander Team