How to hold your breath when sniping?

[someguy216]

I figured theres gotta be a key somewhere for this? the tranqualiser is not very good without it.

[Morgian]

There is no holding your breath. You need the two augs in weapon handling (left branch) to keep your gun steady. And the second branch, too, if you like to go full auto.

[Crito]

Well there SHOULD be such a key, I much prefer that gameplay mechanic over some type of "augmentation" for steady sniping. Can we do it in a mod?

[[FOAD]Iron]

I think the only game that did that was Far Cry (I think?).

[drc]

and fallout 4

[Crito]

I think pretty much all the games which are heavily focused on sniping have some sort of hold breath/steady shot key that you press.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Christopher:

I think pretty much all the games which are heavily focused on sniping have some sort of hold breath/steady shot key that you press.

Deus ex isn't heavily focused on sniping, and the one actual sniper rifle in the game that functions like one would is among the worst weapons you could possibly use.

If you want to be a superspy cyborg assassin man with a degree in snipercology, invest in the appropriate augs.

[Crito]

No, I just wanna be able to fu@#ing HOLD STILL for a moment, like a NORMAL person can if they focus and hold their breath! If it takes concentration, and I can only do it briefly, that's FINE! If I have to lay down, that's fine too. What I don't want, is to have to spend gobs of "Praxis" poings and move way the hell up some "Augmentation Tree" just to do about the first thing anybody being trained in BASIC sniping ability would learn: to take a breath, hold it, focus your concentration briefly totally on the task at hand and steady your aim.

I'm no "super soldier", not an expert at sniping, I'm not even a soldier at all - but I've shot my friends AR15 and I can hold my aim steadier than the guy in this game even WITH the first level "Aug" - drives me nuts the way the gun moves around like he's trying to aim at some fly rather than what I WANT to aim at.

[Syd Khaos]

Originally posted by Christopher:

No, I just wanna be able to fu@#ing HOLD STILL for a moment, like a NORMAL person can if they focus and hold their breath! If it takes concentration, and I can only do it briefly, that's FINE! If I have to lay down, that's fine too. What I don't want, is to have to spend gobs of "Praxis" poings and move way the hell up some "Augmentation Tree" just to do about the first thing anybody being trained in BASIC sniping ability would learn: to take a breath, hold it, focus your concentration briefly totally on the task at hand and steady your aim.

I'm no "super soldier", not an expert at sniping, I'm not even a soldier at all - but I've shot my friends AR15 and I can hold my aim steadier than the guy in this game even WITH the first level "Aug" - drives me nuts the way the gun moves around like he's trying to aim at some fly rather than what I WANT to aim at.

You have no real concept of firearms.

First of all an AR15 is a medium range, medium stoping-power weapon. It is not suitable for anything that could be considered sniping.

So YOU can hold you buddys AR15 more steady than Jensen can ingame.....these things are so far apart they should not even been compared.
You were probably in field or at a firing range shooting at a paper target.
Kinda worlds away from what is going on ingame.
Do you honestly think you could keep your aim so steady when also trying to tuck behind cover, roll out enough for a clear shot......the whole time being fired at???

You say you are no soldier at all, so I can assure you that is infact a whole different world in an actual combat situation. I can tell you this from experience as I serverd little over 6 years with US Army Airborne.

You also have to consider you are comparing a fleash and blood shooter to a cyborg. Jensens torso, arms, even his lungs are all mechanical. That he would not benifit from typical breathing techniques for distance shooting is realistic.
Snipers and DMRMs can benifit from these because they are fighting things like shortness of breath (form running and such) and adrenaline. Whereas Jensen has mechanical/CPU based system to manage these things for him. Cyber lungs that would always moderate breathing rate. System to filter out adrenaline past a certain point and so on, and so on.

[VectorM]

Originally posted by Christopher:

Well there SHOULD be such a key, I much prefer that gameplay mechanic over some type of "augmentation" for steady sniping. Can we do it in a mod?

Upgrading yourself for it IS a gameplay mechanic, what? Making it so you press a button would make the augs rather pointless, like the radar ones. Don't like dealing with unsteady aim? Upgrade. Don't want to? Too bad, deal with it. It's kind of the point.

[Jagdwyre]

Originally posted by SydKhaos:

Originally posted by Christopher:

No, I just wanna be able to fu@#ing HOLD STILL for a moment, like a NORMAL person can if they focus and hold their breath! If it takes concentration, and I can only do it briefly, that's FINE! If I have to lay down, that's fine too. What I don't want, is to have to spend gobs of "Praxis" poings and move way the hell up some "Augmentation Tree" just to do about the first thing anybody being trained in BASIC sniping ability would learn: to take a breath, hold it, focus your concentration briefly totally on the task at hand and steady your aim.

I'm no "super soldier", not an expert at sniping, I'm not even a soldier at all - but I've shot my friends AR15 and I can hold my aim steadier than the guy in this game even WITH the first level "Aug" - drives me nuts the way the gun moves around like he's trying to aim at some fly rather than what I WANT to aim at.

You say you are no soldier at all, so I can assure you that is infact a whole different world in an actual combat situation. I can tell you this from experience as I serverd little over 6 years with US Army Airborne.

Yet you're convinced you can't "snipe" with an AR15 and say arbitrary things like "medium stopping power."

You may have served but that sure as hell doesn't make you a firearms expert.

As for weapon handling in the game, a first person RPG set in a fictional futuristic setting, I think some contrivances for the sake of gameplay can be forgiven.