Why does snake keep aiming his weapon?

[BulletCap]

When i press L1, he seems to just stick to the aiming animation unless i press O, in which case everything goes back to normal. Is this a known bug from the collection, or is it something that can be changed?

[M.E.R.C. Ravin]

have you tried not equipping you're weapon?

[BulletCap]

Originally posted by M.E.R.C. Ravin:

have you tried not equipping you're weapon?

ah yes, why play the game at all, right ?

[neon.wir]

This happens in MGS2 as well. It has something to do with unequipping the weapon while auto-aim is active, I think. For whatever reason the game locks you in to the auto-aim mode and in FPV it just has your gun raised all the time. Haven't found any way to prevent this, but ways to fix it I've figured out are to press O, L3/LS, or fire the weapon. Unequipping it doesn't do anything to revert it back to normal.

[M.E.R.C. Ravin]

Originally posted by BulletCap:

Originally posted by M.E.R.C. Ravin:

have you tried not equipping you're weapon?

ah yes, why play the game at all, right ?

as rob in metal gear stupid said "you got camo" you dont have to kill or put ppl to sleep alot of the time you can just move from place to place IN THE OPEN as long as you have good camo. if u dont have a weapon equipped you can look around in 1st person its up to you on how to play but u asked "Why does snake keep aiming his weapon?" im telling you, Dont have a weapon equipped if you want to look around without a gun getting in the way.

[melta]

This thread is funny, but harps on real life too. Sometimes aiming in the jungle IS overrated.
A real MACV SOG operator named John Stryker Meyer recounted how he would often point shoot in jungle firefights, and didn't care for optics even though he had access to them. He's written a number of books about his military career during the Vietnam war, and has done some video interviews too.

[BulletCap]

Originally posted by M.E.R.C. Ravin:

Originally posted by BulletCap:

ah yes, why play the game at all, right ?

as rob in metal gear stupid said "you got camo" you dont have to kill or put ppl to sleep alot of the time you can just move from place to place IN THE OPEN as long as you have good camo. if u dont have a weapon equipped you can look around in 1st person its up to you on how to play but u asked "Why does snake keep aiming his weapon?" im telling you, Dont have a weapon equipped if you want to look around without a gun getting in the way.

but if i'm making this thread in the first place is because i had a weapon equipped, and this particular thing happened to me and given the current state of this collection, it might have been a bug but in fact i happened to find out, no thanks to you buddy, that's it's an XBOX controller thing. So thank you very much for your input, there was however a person whose answer was much better than yours and is already marked as the right answer.

[punished fiddle]

It's a bug, originals worked fine

[Talos ESP]

Originally posted by neon.wir:

This happens in MGS2 as well. It has something to do with unequipping the weapon while auto-aim is active, I think. For whatever reason the game locks you in to the auto-aim mode and in FPV it just has your gun raised all the time. Haven't found any way to prevent this, but ways to fix it I've figured out are to press O, L3/LS, or fire the weapon. Unequipping it doesn't do anything to revert it back to normal.

This did not happen in the original game, it is a bug present in the HD Collection and the Master Collection. For some reason that I don't know, the game keeps the aiming when you unequip the weapon while aiming and re-equip it, which causes numerous problems, not only in the final bosses but also when controlling detained guards

[Wild Dog]

It's a perk of being a game that was made with pressure sensitive buttons in mind from the OG PS2.
It's present in pretty much in every release of the game that's not either on PS2 or PS3

[neon.wir]

Originally posted by Talos ESP:

This did not happen in the original game, it is a bug present in the HD Collection and the Master Collection. For some reason that I don't know, the game keeps the aiming when you unequip the weapon while aiming and re-equip it, which causes numerous problems, not only in the final bosses but also when controlling detained guards

I'm very aware it was not present in the original game. I'm not sure if you're saying that because you think I was implying it did or what. I can also confirm it wasn't present in the PS3 release of the HD Collection. It seems to have come from the 360 version according to another user. Really unfortunate.