Sniper - Bullet Drop/Scope adjustment

[Grayson]

I like the efforts the developers have put into building a realistic experience for those who like the feeling of strategy and playing conservatively as most soldiers would operate.

One thing that bugs me is that at 400m I can still easily headshot a player without adjusting for range or aiming above or below target if the targets range is not dead on the site. Battlefield V gets a little closer to this feeling. Any untrained person can put a site over a target and click a button, but if we're going for realism I think this needs to be addressed for the sniper class.

I apologise if this has already been posted as a discussion point, I did a quick search for similar posts and nothing popped up.

Kind regards

[JimboIncinerator]

AT 200+ I do aim high to adjust for bullet drop (and lead target) so not sure how you are hitting at 400 meters while not compensating. Only thing i can think of is if you have significant elevation over the target.

[e-Raptor]

Originally posted by JimboIncinerator:

AT 200+ I do aim high to adjust for bullet drop (and lead target) so not sure how you are hitting at 400 meters while not compensating. Only thing i can think of is if you have significant elevation over the target.

Same here, putting a headshot at 300+ with the sniper is hard when compensating and not having a reference of where your bullet fell most of the times.

Ironically I have more luck with headshots in regular weapons beyond 200+ meters when talking about compensating the weapon.

[-=< Du RocK >=-]

Originally posted by JimboIncinerator:

AT 200+ I do aim high to adjust for bullet drop (and lead target) so not sure how you are hitting at 400 meters while not compensating. Only thing i can think of is if you have significant elevation over the target.

Same here! I'm a Rank 9 Sniper myself (almost 10) and I always had to compesate for shots around 200m and beyond. I really don't know where he's getting this uncompensated 400m shots from. But I know that, by default, the game forces you to compensate for such distances.

[Grayson]

Thanks for responses, I did have elevation from a second floor window so it isn't really an adequate test as you've pointed out, that would be an obvious factor that I didn't think of. Thanks for that suggestion. I've not played a public game yet as I wanted to get used to the controls and understand some of the mechanics before getting battered, so tests have been done on a spun up training server. Even at elevation I would expect bullet drop to be higher at that range - perhaps the training server default does not reflect public settings. Not being able to adjust the site seems limiting.

[JimboIncinerator]

My biggest grip is the scopes do not have MOA lines in them so hard to remember how much to offset at X distance.

[ChaosGPT]

Smells like BS, at 400m you are aim wayyy over the targets head to land a hit.

[Skymox]

Maybe you played with the american sniper rifle, which has quite a ridiculous x2 scope.