Sniper Rifle Accuracy Varies Wildly

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Originally Posted by Insanityplea

I can kill things that are just inside my FOV. Tested it earlier after reading this. I waltzed over to Sutro Tower and got close enough to see a patrolling DM Enforcer, then walked back til he faded from view, then stepped forward slowly til he reappear and 1shot him in the back of the head with a Frontier Repeater (merchant sold, unmodded). I repeated this with every mob I possibly could at the place and not a one DID NOT die.

So either im bugged or your bugged.

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did you add a scope to your rifle by chance?

Nope. Iv done it with scope on as well. And in relevance to this thread scopes do seem wanky and usually mess up your aim.

Not only missing with a scope mod, I've noticed with other weapons with a magazine mod, I often have to reload many times before I get more ammo.

Man I thought it was just me and that I was terrible with sniper. Glad I found this thread :D I just don't find them reliable enough to bother using, perfect shots get huge numbers but it's just not an effective weapon in my experience.

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Originally Posted by Mayo

Not only missing with a scope mod, I've noticed with other weapons with a magazine mod, I often have to reload many times before I get more ammo.

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It's not the magazine mod that does it, it happens to pretty much every gun where you're stuck in the reload cycle where it just eats your ammo. It's terrible in pvp, and it just blows in pve. Hope they fix it.

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Originally Posted by Stormsoul

Noticed several of the vendor-sold rifles had a "-0.30 Accuracy" on them. Like it was some sort of buff, lol.

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yup. this is an example of the worst possible way to mix stat-based play with skill-based play.

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Originally Posted by Darkfyre

yup. this is an example of the worst possible way to mix stat-based play with skill-based play.

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Ironically, -0.30 is the buff.

+0.30 makes you less accurate.

Scopes are borked.

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Originally Posted by Dwane

Every snipe rifle i used had 100% zoomed accuracy. Only issues are lags.

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its not the sniper is the MOD ! its the scope, you have to play sniper WITHOUT SCOPE at the moment to have no problem
and its 100% bugged for some scopes, so either you not use them, or aim so bad you not see difference ^^

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Originally Posted by Ensu

Ironically, -0.30 is the buff.

+0.30 makes you less accurate.

Scopes are borked.

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wtf???????

Hey just so you all know, the actual problem here is that the accuracy stat is broken, it is reversed. A LOWER accuracy is actually better, that's why you see some weapons with -0.30 accuracy and that's counted as a buff. Adding a scope to ANYTHING is in reality reducing your accuracy. If you don't want to trust me, you can confirm this yourself by buying any two shotguns with differing accuracy stats and looking at the cone of fire yourself. The difference going from a 7.0 accuracy shotty VS a 20 accuracy shotty is staggering.