How to Hold Breath with Sniper Rifle

[HairballHacker]

Is there a way to hold breath when aiming down the sniper rifle scope so as to reduce the drift of the crosshairs?

[Desiire]

Hold down sprint while not moving. Voila!

[Jolyne]

Originally posted by Snowii:

Hold down sprint while not moving. Voila!

You can also you this trick aiming with any weapon.

[Ighten]

gives you a little zoom as well with other weapons

[Jolyne]

Originally posted by Ighten:

gives you a little zoom as well with other weapons

Basicly you focus harder.

[dunadan]

Note that you can tweak how much the fov is affected using these two commands.

cl_ads_fov_scale
cl_ads_weapon_fov_scale

[Donoghu]

Seems like, currently, there's a hidden "Breath" meter which is being drained when you run or hold your breath (shift by default or the "run" key if you changed it). Once drained, it takes a while to fill up and when it's depleted, you can't hold breath anymore.

The drift of the weapon is also affected by how much "breath" is left. If you run or hold your breath for too long, you'll have a short while where the drift will be faster/heavier.

For this last part, I'm not sure as it comes from a bit of testing, but when under fire, I noticed the breath either doesn't restore or restore slower. (When the character you're playing is shouting "♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥!") It came to a point where I could only hold my breath with the sniper for about 1 sec for almost 1 min while I was constantly under fire.

[Armfelt]

So after debating with a lawyer about some business details for a while last week, I cannot, not, be a smartass, and I have to say, how the bleep would you hold your breath with a sniper rifle? would you hold it better without it? stick the barrel your mouth and hold it?

[Armfelt]

Originally posted by Galaxitus / Donoghu:

Seems like, currently, there's a hidden "Breath" meter which is being drained when you run or hold your breath (shift by default or the "run" key if you changed it). Once drained, it takes a while to fill up and when it's depleted, you can't hold breath anymore.

The drift of the weapon is also affected by how much "breath" is left. If you run or hold your breath for too long, you'll have a short while where the drift will be faster/heavier.

For this last part, I'm not sure as it comes from a bit of testing, but when under fire, I noticed the breath either doesn't restore or restore slower. (When the character you're playing is shouting "♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥!") It came to a point where I could only hold my breath with the sniper for about 1 sec for almost 1 min while I was constantly under fire.

it's organic

[ImUrBoss]

hold left shift while ADS

[HairballHacker]

Originally posted by Armfelt:

So after debating with a lawyer about some business details for a while last week, I cannot, not, be a smartass, and I have to say, how the bleep would you hold your breath with a sniper rifle? would you hold it better without it? stick the barrel your mouth and hold it?

You win.

Thanks everybody.