Aiming difficulty

[Mr Fraggle (UK)]

I have no idea why but I cannot seem to get my head around how to aim in this game. Even at
over relatively short distances I cannot seem to headshot yet it really should not be that hard.

Whereas I appreciate the wind can play a part it should not matter over short distances and I find the dotted white line that curves away when looking down the sights puzzling as I cannot decide what it is suppose to represent?

If anyone has any tips for this old gamer I would appreciate it.

[Xysio2]

Man it's not a real life but only a game.

I remember playing games in 80' and 90' when there weren't any tutorials, guides and the game's loading time was 5 min or longer. And I didn't complain about it.
Now you have every possible information available and still there are a lot of people complaining.
What's wrong with you ppl?

[Azra]

If its not your game, its not your game, maybe come back to it later. Coming from games like Ghost recon where you at least need to account for bullet drop makes wrapping my head around this easier, but its relatively easy to understand. your Q and E keys adjust your zeroing, so you can zero in closer to a value, say a target is 134m away, you can zero your scope to that closest value and adjust for wind, pull the trigger, easy kill. For moving targets its a bit more difficult. Ive beat the game and done a few of the 3 star challenges, so i know how frustrating the game can be. As far as having to restart goes, when you go into the menu, DO NOT select "start contract", that forces you to restart, instead, go back to the main menu and simply press continue, i made that mistake once as well, but figured it out.

[Silver]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Xysio2:

Man it's not a real life but only a game.

I remember playing games in 80' and 90' when there weren't any tutorials, guides and the game's loading time was 5 min or longer. And I didn't complain about it.
Now you have every possible information available and still there are a lot of people complaining.
What's wrong with you ppl?

We dont live in the 80's or 90's anymore maybe you do?
But we have movede further on in gaming and can and should expect more.
And i agree what i have tryed of the game so far the aiming is to difficult and unpredictable.
Gives us a little dot that shows us where the bullet lands just like in the previous games.

[Mr Fraggle (UK)]

Uninstalled, after finding that I needed to take into account the direction of the wind to take out an enemy that was only 50 metres away, this is just plain silly.
Now being bored by Terminator Resistance. lol.

[Professional Mr. Phann]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Silver:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Xysio2:

Man it's not a real life but only a game.

I remember playing games in 80' and 90' when there weren't any tutorials, guides and the game's loading time was 5 min or longer. And I didn't complain about it.
Now you have every possible information available and still there are a lot of people complaining.
What's wrong with you ppl?

We dont live in the 80's or 90's anymore maybe you do?
But we have movede further on in gaming and can and should expect more.
And i agree what i have tryed of the game so far the aiming is to difficult and unpredictable.
Gives us a little dot that shows us where the bullet lands just like in the previous games.

Then what's the point of the ballistics? And how can you say it's "unpredictable" when the game literally shows you the bullet arc?

[Dragon]

Looking through the answers, I never saw the word 'intersect'. In that your actual cross hair is defined by the intersection of the horizontal distance lines and the falling, vertical white 'wind' line.

Assuming your scope is zero'd at 000, you'll see that the 1st orange distance line is 100m. If your target is 100m out, put that line on them, and watch for the white line. Adjust aim left/right so that the target is in the crosshair created by the 100m distance line and the white wind line.

Hope that helps.

[Deuterium the Sentient Mattress]

On more than one occasion my bullets seem to have gone straight through enemies, or even hit them in the neck or upper body and done seemingly no damage at all.

[Huck Farris]

are we playing a different game than the OP? Man, it's not that hard or are you just plain stupid? You are making this evil white line out to be more than it is. Obviously if you are close to an enemy you don't need to pay attention to it. Use your brain. It's obvious you need everything laid out for you so you can beat the game with ease instead of actually earning it. We live in the age of entitled brats, this OP proves it. Doesn't understand something right away, so he throws tantrum and uninstalls. Nice. It's your money to waste, go ahead

[Huck Farris]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Xysio2:

Man it's not a real life but only a game.

I remember playing games in 80' and 90' when there weren't any tutorials, guides and the game's loading time was 5 min or longer. And I didn't complain about it.
Now you have every possible information available and still there are a lot of people complaining.
What's wrong with you ppl?

amen

[Sensitive_Onion]

50 meters in the game generally doesn't drop much in most areas of the game, but it's still not a straight shot. that's the length of basically half a soccer field, not across the dining room. The farthest distance used in normal shooting competitions (not sniping) is less than half of that.

[Apocolyptica]

Just amazing how inadequate the tutorial is for this.

[Cujo]

Simply range the target, adjust to the range or as close as you can, wait for the dotted line to show you how "off" from center you have to aim. Hold your breath, put the wind dot over the head, fire.

You don't put the center crosshair on the head, you put the white dot on their head where it meets the distance. If you range properly, you can use where the wind dot meets the x-axis line and almost always hit. Sometimes with extreme shots the lack of fine tuning range (300 goes straight to 400 instead of 325 or 350) can cause you to have to wing it a bit, but it's not that bad.

I almost never have to adjust for distance at anywhere south of 75 meters. Only at about 100 does wind actually become an issue. After a while snap shots become second nature and you start being able to "quickscope" without holding breath at close range.

Standard deviation for a 10 mph wind at 100 meters is about an inch off sights. That lines up within reason with the scope on screen. I don't think it's unrealistic to have to adjust for wind at close range, considering how little you need to adjust.

[GOGO]

I love this game....can't wait for contracts 2 to come out...It took me a while to aim just right at first but once you get it wow bad guys don't stand a chance....you need to practice in the tutorial over and over and you will get it....In the tutorial they don't shoot back...LOL...Key is to aim with the dotted drip....sometimes at the top of the drip sometimes a little bit down the drip ....PRACTICE.....Good Luck

Diposting pertama kali oleh Mr Fraggle (UK):

I have no idea why but I cannot seem to get my head around how to aim in this game. Even at
over relatively short distances I cannot seem to headshot yet it really should not be that hard.

Whereas I appreciate the wind can play a part it should not matter over short distances and I find the dotted white line that curves away when looking down the sights puzzling as I cannot decide what it is suppose to represent?

If anyone has any tips for this old gamer I would appreciate it.

I love this game....can't wait for contracts 2 to come out...It took me a while to aim just right at first but once you get it wow bad guys don't stand a chance....you need to practice in the tutorial over and over and you will get it....In the tutorial they don't shoot back...LOL...Key is to aim with the dotted drip....sometimes at the top of the drip sometimes a little bit down the drip ....PRACTICE.....Good Luck

[periquitoasesino]

Uninstalled . I know how aiming in sniper ghost warrior 3, in sniper elite 3 and 4 but I don´t know how to do it in this game.

I miss a lot an option for aiming like in sniper ghost warrior 3

A very poor tutorial.

[Brian Boru]

Diposting pertama kali oleh GOGO:

Key is to aim with the dotted drip....sometimes at the top of the drip sometimes a little bit down the drip

This.
I'm new to sniper games, but got this after some trial and error.

1—use Q & E keys to get the distance setting as close to the target distance as possible.

2—use the curving dropping white dotted line to aim with. That's your wind compensation line, so you must have it on your target. The top of it where it comes out of the X axis will do if step 1 distances are a close match, otherwise move a small bit up or down off the X-axis—but keep the white dotted line on the target, that's key.