Impossible to shoot straight?

[Indrid_Cold]

I dont know what I am doing wrong but I am getting fed up with this game to the point of giving up (and I HAVE played about 10 hours)

I got sent on a mission to kill some super mutant. sneak up behind him, fire from about 5 feet away with the cross hairs right in the middle of him, fire for about 5 seconds until he throws a grenade at me and one shots me, and I hardly hit him.

I am playing on "easy" so I seem to be able to get shot multiple times and live, but regardless at almost any range I have like a 1/10 chance of any shot I take hitting the target no matter how I aim. I even miss when I am literally toe to toe with someone.

I am resorting to dropping the gun and simply running up to people and beating them with a club, which does a LOT more damage than shooting does - but isnt this suppoed to be a shooting game?

[Timeraider]

What are you shooting with.. sniper rifle from the hip?

[Toothy-Jones]

what gun are you using...

[Authun]

Sounds like your shooting fromt he hip, which means the problem is that you aren't aiming.

[The Spirit of Jazz]

Troll

[Noodlesocks]

what weapon and are you shooting from the hip?

[Indrid_Cold]

machine gun, pistol, laser, shotgun, pipe gun... and always when "aiming". (I have an xbox controller plugged into PC, so when holding down left trigger)

I wish I was trolling, but I'm pretty much ready to give up.

[Authun]

Originally posted by Indrid_Cold:

machine gun, pistol, laser, shotgun, pipe gun... and always when "aiming". (I have an xbox controller plugged into PC, so when holding down left trigger)

I wish I was trolling, but I'm pretty much ready to give up.

If you were aiming there would be no crosshair to place over anything, you would have either iron sights or (insert mod sights here) which are guaranteed to hit whatever they're targeted over, unless you're trying to use iron sights on a pipe gun to snipe...

[Indrid_Cold]

I like to play from the third person view, and there is a target of were I am aiming. I put that target in the middle of bad guys chest and most times it misses however close I am

[Legion]

Originally posted by Sathas:

Originally posted by Indrid_Cold:

machine gun, pistol, laser, shotgun, pipe gun... and always when "aiming". (I have an xbox controller plugged into PC, so when holding down left trigger)

I wish I was trolling, but I'm pretty much ready to give up.

If you were aiming there would be no crosshair to place over anything, you would have either iron sights or (insert mod sights here) which are guaranteed to hit whatever they're targeted over, unless you're trying to use iron sights on a pipe gun to snipe...

Not necessarily. ADS doesn't stop the gatling laser or minigun (without the tri-barrel mod anyway) from having a pretty wide projectile spread, and the recoil from most weapons requires you to re-aim inbetween each shot or a burst of fire. The only weapons I have found to be almost completely accurate while ADS are the assault rifle, plasma rifle, and the laser rifle with the quantum gyro mod.

However if the OP is very close to his target he should be hitting it regardless of what he's using while ADS.

[Mav]

Even while ADS your weapon is not going to be 100% accurate.

But if you're 5 feet away there's no way you're missing your shots. Even if you're not ADS, and your crosshair is on the middle of an enemy, it should hit.

And firearms do more damage than melee with mods. Something else has to be up with your game.

[Legion]

Originally posted by DatGrunt:

Even while ADS your weapon is not going to be 100% accurate.

But if you're 5 feet away there's no way you're missing your shots. Even if you're not ADS, and your crosshair is on the middle of an enemy, it should hit.

And firearms do more damage than melee with mods. Something else has to be up with your game.

Well, a Super Sledge can do over 1000 damage per hit, and doesn't require ammo :P

I think it may be up to the OP using 3rd person to aim instead of 1st person.

[Authun]

Originally posted by prometheus.mh:

Originally posted by Sathas:

If you were aiming there would be no crosshair to place over anything, you would have either iron sights or (insert mod sights here) which are guaranteed to hit whatever they're targeted over, unless you're trying to use iron sights on a pipe gun to snipe...

Not necessarily. ADS doesn't stop the gatling laser or minigun (without the tri-barrel mod anyway) from having a pretty wide projectile spread, and the recoil from most weapons requires you to re-aim inbetween each shot or a burst of fire. The only weapons I have found to be almost completely accurate while ADS are the assault rifle, plasma rifle, and the laser rifle with the quantum gyro mod.

However if the OP is very close to his target he should be hitting it regardless of what he's using while ADS.

Granted, but he mentioned the specific weapons he's having trouble with and all of them are ones that (at the range he states in his OP) are in fact completely accurate.

[Legion]

Originally posted by Sathas:

Originally posted by prometheus.mh:

Not necessarily. ADS doesn't stop the gatling laser or minigun (without the tri-barrel mod anyway) from having a pretty wide projectile spread, and the recoil from most weapons requires you to re-aim inbetween each shot or a burst of fire. The only weapons I have found to be almost completely accurate while ADS are the assault rifle, plasma rifle, and the laser rifle with the quantum gyro mod.

However if the OP is very close to his target he should be hitting it regardless of what he's using while ADS.

Granted, but he mentioned the specific weapons he's having trouble with and all of them are ones that (at the range he states in his OP) are in fact completely accurate.

Indeed. I think this may be a PEBKAC issue. The OP stated that he plays in 3rd person, so that's what I'm going with.

[Mav]

Originally posted by prometheus.mh:

Originally posted by DatGrunt:

Even while ADS your weapon is not going to be 100% accurate.

But if you're 5 feet away there's no way you're missing your shots. Even if you're not ADS, and your crosshair is on the middle of an enemy, it should hit.

And firearms do more damage than melee with mods. Something else has to be up with your game.

Well, a Super Sledge can do over 1000 damage per hit, and doesn't require ammo :P

I think it may be up to the OP using 3rd person to aim instead of 1st person.

How can you do over 1000 damage with your sledge hammer? Is that even possible without using console commands?

[Authun]

Originally posted by prometheus.mh:

Originally posted by Sathas:

Granted, but he mentioned the specific weapons he's having trouble with and all of them are ones that (at the range he states in his OP) are in fact completely accurate.

Indeed. I think this may be a PEBKAC issue. The OP stated that he plays in 3rd person, so that's what I'm going with.

After reading that post, yep. I've tried ADS with third person and it's only slightly better than hip firing and always shoots to the right.