Point Shooting With Laser Pointers (UPDATED - ADAM UPDATE)

A short guide on how to best utilize canted sights and the laser pointer attachments to achieve accurate point shooting in Ready Or Not.

What Is Point Shooting?

To put it simply, point shooting is the aiming and firing of a gun without the use of the sights. This is helpful in reflexive defensive situations or close quarters combat, in which one does not have the time or space to acquire a proper sight picture, instead relying on their intuition to hit their target.


An example of point shooting from Wikipedia[en.wikipedia.org]

In Ready Or Not, "point shooting" differs from "hipfiring" in that the player is still holding RMB or their preferred aim key.

How Do You Enable Point Shooting In Ready Or Not?

In order to enable point shooting in Ready Or Not, one must go into the "Options" menu. From there, click on "Controls," and enter the "Interaction" subsection. Near the top of the list is a control named "Toggle Canted Sight." Initially this is unbound, so bind it to any key of your choosing (I currently have it bound to "O").



Apply the settings, and, if done correctly, while aiming your gun, you can press your selected key to "cant" the weapon, tilting it to the left.

Where's My Sight? Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Laser

So, you've enabled canted sights, but so far, this has just made things worse. After all, now you have no sight picture!


Your shots will land... here-ish. But how can you ensure you know where they're going?

This is where the laser pointer comes in. While the flashlight is arguably the most versatile "Overbarrel" attachment, the laser sight finds its niche in sightless shooting. Head to a weapon bench or your locker, click on your currently selected weapon, and click "Modify Weapon." From there, open the "Overbarrel" subsection, and apply the "Laser Pointer" attachment.



Turn the laser pointer on the same way you'd turn on the flashlight, and you'll be point shooting in no time!


Now you know exactly where your shots will land!

Sight Picture Comparison

So, canted sights are cool and all, but how do they compare to a conventional Red Dot sight? Let's take a look at a couple comparison images.


Top: Sight picture using the Micro T2 sight on the GA416. Much of the target is obscured by the frame of the sight and by the gun.
Bottom: Sight picture utilizing the point shooting technique with the laser sight. Much more of the target is visible.



Top: Sight picture using the RMR Dot sight on the G19. The pistol and the operator's hands obscure much of the target. Also note that the reticle is lost against the man's white shirt.
Bottom: Sight picture utilizing the point shooting technique with the laser sight. Much more of the target is visible, and the dot is not lost against the shirt.

NVG's and IR Lasers

In addition to standard laser pointers, weapons in Ready Or Not also feature the ability to equip IR (infrared) laser pointers, for use solely with night vision goggles. With the laser on and NVG's equipped, there is a bright visible "beam" as well as the dot of the laser. This makes it quite clear exactly where you're aiming, but of course the drawback is that the laser is only visible with NVG's equipped.



Top: Sight picture utilizing point shooting with an IR laser and night vision goggles with the GA416. Note that in the case of the GA146, the IR laser attachment takes the form of the AN-PEQ laser mounted on the top rail, which obscures about a quarter of the sight picture of the Micro T2.
Bottom: Sight picture utilizing point shooting with an IR laser and night vision goggles with the G19.

These screenshots were taken with "Green Phosphor" NVG's, though there is an option to switch to "White Phosphor" if you choose. I have found that in the case of point shooting the option chosen makes little difference.

What About Recoil?

"What about recoil?" is a question I immediately thought of once I started firing my pistol at the test range. "Surely, if the gun is tilted left, wouldn't the recoil start to rise to the left instead?" I thought to myself, so I did a test. I went down to the shoothouse and fired two full magazines at the wall; one with point shooting, and one with standard sighting. I concluded that canting the weapon, at least in Ready Or Not, has no noticeable affect on recoil.


Left: A full magazine fired without recoil mitigation with standard sighting.
Right: A full magazine fired without recoil mitigation utilizing point shooting.

Drawbacks

Of course, nothing is perfect. While point shooting can be highly effective in close quarters, it suffers from serious drawbacks at range, where one cannot see the laser being projected. Additionally, the laser tends to "disappear" in bright areas or on bright colored surfaces; intuition can still carry you through this, but in these situations I recommend hitting your "Toggle Canted Sight" key once more to bring your standard sight back up.


The laser's on... but where'd it go?

So What's The Big Deal?

I chose to create this guide in order to hopefully draw attention to a sort of hidden feature in this up-and-coming game. Somewhat recently, New World Interactive added a dedicated point shooting grip to their game, Insurgency: Sandstorm, which I am also a fan of. I hadn't even considered sightless shooting beyond hipfiring before then, but this point shooting grip opened my eyes to the world of possibilities brought by laser pointers, and I was delighted to read one of Void Interactive's patch notes stating that any weapon with any sight could now be canted.

In my opinion, point shooting is far less cumbersome in close quarters than standard sighting, giving you a much greater awareness of the area while aiming. This is especially useful in such a CQB-oriented game as Ready Or Not, as the situations where point shooting is useful are incredibly common.

I sincerely hope you enjoyed learning about this neat feature. Happy point shooting!

[wallet sized wildfire]

Well it only took me almost six months, but this guide is now up to date as of January 26th, 2023!

[wallet sized wildfire]

@76561198192726397 I can certainly see this being true in real life, I most definitely would not like to have a laser pointed at my chest. If this is true in-game (I have not tested it), that's super sick, and shows some serious attention to detail from the devs

[76561198192726397]

laser pointers also scare people and make them surrender which is the reason tasers have them irl even though theyre fired from point blank. it makes you psychologically realize that a gun is pointing at your body.

if someone refuses to surrender in the game (at least civilians with lower morale and no weapons) and you turn the visible laser on and put it over their body this alone will sometimes make them surrender. because ai cannot see ir lasers its sometimes better to take the visible one for its fear factor.

this is their secret utility which imo is even more useful than actually trying to use them to aim.

[wallet sized wildfire]

@|-ICE-| Charlie I think it was automatically bound to one of the side keys on my mouse, but you should be able to bind it to any key you like from the same menu you bind the "toggle canted sight" option (likely in the "equipment" or "interaction" sub-menus in the controls menu)

[Charlie]

What is the button for flashlight?

[見字飲仙地水！！]

haha cat gif haha

[wallet sized wildfire]

This guide is currently partially outdated, as the new update changed the weapon attachment interface. The guide will be updated when I find the time, but all other information is still accurate :)

[Skin Fry]

you can also put canted and ads on the same button and turn the toggle off. This way you switch between aim type every time you aim. So you would ads, then canted, then ads again. Aim twice to stay on same aiming action.

[averlanche]

great work!

[I Am The Law †]

thanks a lot!