Why are precision rifles so hard to use?

[Gryphon]

For some reason I'm having a much harder time landing shots with precision rifles compared to other single shot weapons (pistols, sniper rifles). There somehow seems to be more sway and less responsiveness at comparable handling attribute values.

What am I doing it wrong?

[ImHelping]

Basically they were given awkward call of duty gunplay to hold them back from being headshot machines to make the most out of their higher base damage/headshot multiplier without a lot of extra fuss. Counting on people declaring gorilla arms being incapable of holding a gun more steady than my real life noodle arms "Realistic recoil"

The devs want to give the appearance of "Trade offs" without actually letting you make the most of it. "Okay so semi-auto without a billion damage like a sniper rifle. sounds great for more general use-why can't I put a scope on it? Why does it kick ass hard/harder than a burya I fire one handed?... Why are people screaming at me to git gud/use pay2win recoil control cybernetics I already beat the fight."

Basically pick your poison for anti accuracy with the tech precision rifles. You have the one that kicks more wild than a burya or MACHINE GUN with a ♥♥♥♥ sight. And the one with a good built in holo sight with less kick but shoots in a 5 burst circle pattern to spread out the damage and add a slight risk of pellets missing skull at range. (I THINK there is a 3rd one now? The issues with "Ease of killing trash" mean I keep going back to long range tactician shotgun headshots and pretending it is a tech rifle)

"Hmm, the boss is hiding up on a ledge trying to peek over it and snipe down at me."
*literally pulls out an LMG to headshot Boris more easily than a tech rifle*

[Avy]

"Precision" rifle is worst precision weapon in game
Srsly the moment I found that scope can't be equipped, I started insta salvaging all of them.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Avy:

"Precision" rifle is worst precision weapon in game :drlivesey:
Srsly the moment I found that scope can't be equipped, I started insta salvaging all of them.

If you went all the way down the cool shooting tree there could be a case to be made for the star burst pattern tech precision one at least (not entirely ♥♥♥♥ built in sight). Deadeye working on Revolvers, snipers, and precision rifles for a guaranteed headshot crit while focus lasts.

But you would probably still be better off with a revolver, yeah.

[Beldar]

Precision rifles honestly have no teal place in the game as is. You would think that they would be great for a sniper/cool stat build, but they really are worse than revolvers for sniping. I actually haven't even been using sniper rifles anymore. I just use a silenced pistol for sniping and then a revovler for combat.

[galan]

What's hard about them ? I basically only use 2 weapons Widow Maker (Achilles) and Breakthrough (Nekomata). Oda was a breeze on Very Hard.