Magnifiying optics

[[NOMD] Chozo]

Anyone feel they’re borderline pointless? Even the high end scopes magnify by maybe 2x at the most.

[Dabjulmaros]

Im not sure if thats a bug or something but i could swear the deafult scope in the rifle the cultist snipers carry is the same as the most advance scope for the .50. I was really expencting a lot more zoom from it. At least a 10x. But in all fairness for what i have seen so far there arent many places where you could use it at its full potential.

[darthsaber89]

Well i mean you could have a gun for hire fly a helicopter to a place have it hover or circle and snipe from there. I would like to have at least a 5x zoom

[Dabjulmaros]

Originally posted by darthsaber89:

Well i mean you could have a gun for hire fly a helicopter to a place have it hover or circle and snipe from there. I would like to have at least a 5x zoom

get a gun for hire to fly a heli? My guns for hire are so dumb i doubt they even can eat their crayons on their first try. I can't trust them to dress themselfs. I refuse to get on a heli piloted by the AI. Except Boomer. Bommer is the bestterest of boys.

[[NOMD] Chozo]

Good to know I'm not alone in this. xD

Yeah, even the 'variable zoom' optics, i click between the settings to make sure I'm actuallly zoomed in. It's hilariously bad.

[GamerTeah]

I took mine off. I hate them.

[Frosty]

its super annoying having such a ♥♥♥♥♥ scope. It's clearly at least a 20x scope on the high end stuff

>.<

[JR101-Apotti]

All the scopes in the game appered to be pretty useless to me, so I made a small experiment. I aimed at the same target with different scopes and took screenshots. After this I measured the scope magnification from the sceenshot images. Now it appars that the game developer have messed up badly. The game has really crappy low-magnification scopes, which have tubes, reticles and in-game descriptions meant for high-magnification ones.
For example, the in-game "LONG RANGE SCOPE" has 2.8-4.2x variable magnification. This is pretty hilarious, since that scope has similar shape and reticle as a real-life scope which has 3.5-25x varaible magnification.

[[NOMD] Chozo]

Originally posted by JR101-Apotti:

All the scopes in the game appered to be pretty useless to me, so I made a small experiment. I aimed at the same target with different scopes and took screenshots. After this I measured the scope magnification from the sceenshot images. Now it appars that the game developer have messed up badly. The game has really crappy low-magnification scopes, which have tubes, reticles and in-game descriptions meant for high-magnification ones.
For example, the in-game "LONG RANGE SCOPE" has 2.8-4.2x variable magnification. This is pretty hilarious, since that scope has similar shape and reticle as a real-life scope which has 3.5-25x varaible magnification.

The probably did it more so for optimization reasons than balance. Scoping is almost instant, so they nerf zoom so the engine doesn’t have to work as hard to render stuff far out

[JR101-Apotti]

Originally posted by NOMD Chozo:

The probably did it more so for optimization reasons than balance. Scoping is almost instant, so they nerf zoom so the engine doesn’t have to work as hard to render stuff far out.

Yes, this is quite likely. However, I would have strongly preferred that the game would have as realistic equipment as possible. Now it feels like the in-game shopkeeper had played a bait-and-switch scam on me. That is, instead of selling me a high-end rifle scope, the shopkeeper sold me airsoft toy scope in expensive package.

[DmAnd]

why even use the sniper rifle and scope when you can use the same scope on a LMG

[bgray9054]

Ya I was a little disappointed by the high end scope not having more magnification.

[randir14]

Originally posted by Kain:

why even use the sniper rifle and scope when you can use the same scope on a LMG

Because the .50 caliber rifles can kill anything in one shot except armored enemies who take 2