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ryanaldoblanco
AN-94 and FAMAS however???, I've wondered they can't be that bad in real life and if for some reason they are, Do they want their soldiers to be at such disadvantage?
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It's because they've accurately modelled the sights but they can't replicate how they work because the bending of light rays isn't simulated. In real life they work like pinhole cameras and give the shooter a deep depth of field, meaning the target is sharply defined through the sight which helps their accuracy.

I use the holo sight on everything except bolt action rifles and sometimes CQB weapons. On the bolt actions I use the 8x because I find anything higher is useless as I never engage targets from that sort of range and anything less isn't quite enough, also I'm so used to them that changing the scope will upset my aim, it's taken me ages to be able to guess the appropriate aim on the first shot so I'm not about to change now! As for carbines and PDWs, I tend to use red dot sights more than holographics because speed is more important than accuracy most of the time.

I just remembered last night on one of the AM maps, my squad set up on a rooftop and annoyed everyone enough to make them an obvious target. I decided to join them and had a snipe-off with someone on another rooftop nearby who had managed to make himself invisible yet he could still shoot at me. Fortunately he wasn't very good, but a scout chopper took him out before I got a chance... I'm still bitter about that.
 
I use the US Holographic Sight on nearly everything. The US Holo gives a less obstructed sight picture than the US Reflex with the benefit of a touch of zoom and also eats up less screen real estate compared to the Russian Holo.

I really should probably play with the Kobra Sight instead. I was achieving a bunch of headshots a few days back with a Kobra sighted AN-94. It would probably make sense to switch back to the Kobra instead of continuing with the switch to the US Holo. Aside, I switch weapons too often; I just unlocked the US Holographic for the AN-94 a few days ago. :ouch:

The exceptions is mostly only sniper rifles; the SCAR-H can work very well with an ACOG. I have not used the M417 in quite some time. But the last time I used the weapon, I used the combination of the ACOG and Laser Sight. For whatever reason, the ACOG/Laser Sight equipped on the M417 works pretty well. I think it may have to do with the laser sight projecting a dot on target; it seems to make aiming easier than with just with the chevron.

On bolt action rifles, I use the 8x. The crosshair and mil-dot combination on the 8x is the way to go. A while back I did some Googling on how to become a better bolt action equipped Recon player. The primary thing that was holding me back was bullet drop. I was horribly inconsistent on judging bullet drop. During my Googling, I stumbled upon a Google spreadsheet that has all or nearly all of the bullet drop information for each weapon and scope combination. Needless to say, I am now much better, still not very good though, with bolt actions because I have a much better idea on how much drop to dial in.
 
Anyone willing to squad up with me so I can finish the CO-OP missions?

The Paris hostage one is really annoying me as everyone I team up with thinks it is fine just to try and do it on their own and shoot everyone as soon as they see them. Naturally resulting in the hostages getting killed and me failing.
 
Brett
I use the US Holographic Sight on nearly everything. The US Holo gives a less obstructed sight picture than the US Reflex with the benefit of a touch of zoom and also eats up less screen real estate compared to the Russian Holo.
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I do this as well. I love that sight.
 
Markaz Monolith is becoming a pain to play conquest around now. So many people jump out of choppers onto the roofs of those skyscrapers and are such a pain since you can't take them down. The tanks are too overwhelming too IMO. 2 on each side is 1 too many, I just feel I'm constantly fighting a wave of tanks which I don't enjoy too much. Epicenter is fantastic though and the crossbow? AWESOME :D.
 
Done the CO-OP :).

Yes the crossbow is handy. With the balanced bolt you can snipe despite having a shotgun as your main weapon. 👍
 
Has anybody else wondered why they never made it so you could unlock the 6x scope for sniper rifles? I swear if they did that I'd be using it most of the time. Maybe they though it would be too versatile..
 
neema_t
It's because they've accurately modelled the sights but they can't replicate how they work because the bending of light rays isn't simulated. In real life they work like pinhole cameras and give the shooter a deep depth of field, meaning the target is sharply defined through the sight which helps their accuracy.

I use the holo sight on everything except bolt action rifles and sometimes CQB weapons. On the bolt actions I use the 8x because I find anything higher is useless as I never engage targets from that sort of range and anything less isn't quite enough, also I'm so used to them that changing the scope will upset my aim, it's taken me ages to be able to guess the appropriate aim on the first shot so I'm not about to change now! As for carbines and PDWs, I tend to use red dot sights more than holographics because speed is more important than accuracy most of the time.

I just remembered last night on one of the AM maps, my squad set up on a rooftop and annoyed everyone enough to make them an obvious target. I decided to join them and had a snipe-off with someone on another rooftop nearby who had managed to make himself invisible yet he could still shoot at me. Fortunately he wasn't very good, but a scout chopper took him out before I got a chance... I'm still bitter about that.
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Good point i understand what your saying, The thing that makes them a pain in BF3 is the lack of peripheral vision, As in game your likely to run into more than one enemy at a time. This is probably less of an issue in real life and the absolute accuracy of a seemingly "restrictive" sight is more important.

Taking this int account, Most forces run with optics nowadays anyway.


UK - ACOC (SUSAT).
US - ACOC & EOTECH HOLO.
RUSSIA - PSO series.
FRANCE - SCROME J4.
GERMANY - Integrated dual 3.5 &1.0 Magnification sights.

Etc.
 
ryanaldoblanco
Good point i understand what your saying, The thing that makes them a pain in BF3 is the lack of peripheral vision, As in game your likely to run into more than one enemy at a time. This is probably less of an issue in real life and the absolute accuracy of a seemingly "restrictive" sight is more important.

Taking this int account, Most forces run with optics nowadays anyway.


UK - ACOC (SUSAT).
US - ACOC & EOTECH HOLO.
RUSSIA - PSO series.
FRANCE - SCROME J4.
GERMANY - Integrated dual 3.5 &1.0 Magnification sights.

Etc.
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Yeah, but they couldn't just give everyone optics to begin with, it would be too fair on the new players! I remember dreading having to use a new weapon with iron sights, none of them are as good as anything with optics so your K/D would dip. Fortunately it's pretty easy to unlock the first optic so whatever.

Tonight I unlocked the explosive and balanced bolts and the scoped Xbow, I haven't tried the latter and had no idea you could use whichever bolt you wanted while playing, I figured they'd be fixed like the M320 and M26 ammo so that's really cool. I think I may well start using the Xbow with the Assault and Recon classes, I think Support needs C4 and Engineers need a launcher. I managed to disable an MBT with four bolts earlier on, that was fun because he had no idea where I was, and the balanced bolt is great too. I still haven't tried Talah Market but the DLC was probably worth it for the Xbow alone!
 
ryanaldoblanco
SCAR's have very usable irons in my opinion.

AN-94 and FAMAS however???, I've wondered they can't be that bad in real life and if for some reason they are, Do they want their soldiers to be at such disadvantage?
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IMO the SCARs' sights (both of them) have fairly obtrusive iron sights. Yet for some reason I love the AN94's :D
 
Finally unlocked the xbow and.... I suck monumentally with it :lol: I love playing Scavenger though, probably more than regular TDM.
 
Yes, scavenger is a lot of fun.

Make sure you unlock all the bolts for the crossbow as well; the initial bow is terrible in my opinion... only for close/close-medium range.
 
Just went 109-76 :drool:

Never thought I'd ever see 100, or even over. Gotten 99 before and 90's previously but I jumped up and was like YES!
 
Hey, only 109? :sly:

With ~200 ping I got this a while back:
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Daniel
I'm guessing it was 500% Metro or Grand Bazaar :sly:
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Thats kinda of what i was thinking i just wondered because he's only just reached that many kills and it's usually pretty easy in the 500% games (apologies for sounding arrogant there, i can't think of how to word that without it sounding arrogant:lol:)
McSoap
Hey, only 109? :sly:

With ~200 ping I got this a while back:
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Nice! Ive had like 160ish once but never anything like that although I've never been against a 23 person team:crazy:



I shot my first helicopter pilot in mid air today:D
 
II-zOoLoGy-II
Make sure you unlock all the bolts for the crossbow as well; the initial bow is terrible in my opinion... only for close/close-medium range.
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For sure, right now I'm still working on that. Hopefully when I get the balanced I'll start liking [by that I mean stop sucking horribly with] this thing more... or the HE bolts >:)
 
Slashfan
Just went 109-76 :drool:

Never thought I'd ever see 100, or even over. Gotten 99 before and 90's previously but I jumped up and was like YES!
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109 is good, in any ticket match.

76 is not good, in any ticket match.
 
cphbullet
Nice! Ive had like 160ish once but never anything like that although I've never been against a 23 person team:crazy:
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Yeah, it was on a 48 slot server.

Had quite many 140 - 170 kills rounds, and a handful above 200.

cphbullet
I shot my first helicopter pilot in mid air today:D
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Congrats!

It's always great to have a sniper rifle (or whatever weapon) and pick down that pilot!
Specially if the chopper is full of other players, and they don't get out before it's to late. :lol:
Oh the trolling in BF3 never gets old. :D
 

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