When do you zoom your weapons?

[davelisowski]

Re: When do you zoom your weapons?

I pulled those from http://wiki.bf2s.com/weapons/

Could be out of date(?).

[Eddy01741]

Re: When do you zoom your weapons?

You may want to double-check the datestamp on that file because it is not the one in the 1.3 patch. There is no devModZoom line in the USLMG_M249SAW.tweak file in the 1.3 patch (meaning it defaults to 1) and the stance modifiers are also wrong. Your file appears to be from the 1.12 patch. (I have the objects_server.zip from 1.12, 1.2, and 1.3 on my PC.)

You sure? i updated to 1.3, is this the right directory: C:/Program Files/EA GAMES/Battlefield 2/Mods/bf2/objects_server/USLMG_M249SAW

You may want to double-check the datestamp on that file because it is not the one in the 1.3 patch. There is no devModZoom line in the USLMG_M249SAW.tweak file in the 1.3 patch (meaning it defaults to 1) and the stance modifiers are also wrong. Your file appears to be from the 1.12 patch. (I have the objects_server.zip from 1.12, 1.2, and 1.3 on my PC.)

Hmm, interesting, teh date stamp says 2005, which is WAY pre-1.3, ok, something is screwed up, wht the hell is wrong with my tweak file?

EDIT: yea, my stuff is out of date, G3 still has min dev of .5, which shoulda been fixed.

[TrenchDigger]

Re: When do you zoom your weapons?

Zoom and actually aim for the head. I have found this to be very effective. Especially with one-shot kill headshot weapons. The F2000 is great for this.

The F2000 is great for that. I use zoom all the time. It takes no time to use, since it's right next to my fire button and i have 2 fingers on the mouse. One on fire and one on zoom. Works very nicely in any fighting situation.

[XPrivateXRyanX]

Re: When do you zoom your weapons?

I'll zoom in pretty much all the time even in Close Combat its a habit of mine as well. But when an enemy surprises me when they come from around a corner I usually will just use the crosshair since I wouldnt have enough time to go to the iron sights.

[Bubas]

Re: When do you zoom your weapons?

Ah, okay, thanks for posting the info (I CBA to have looked it up at the time :p ). See, the deviation mod when zoomed is what you're looking at, which is 1 for the support guns (all other guns have a number of lower than one, meaning you gain a deviation/accuracy benefit in from zooming), and the recoil mod for zooming is .5, meaning it will recoil half as much when zoomed than it would unzoomed.

Edit:



It doesn't add anything, those are modifiers (if it helps, think of them as multipliers). So basically, if a gun has a deviation of .5, for example, and a deviation mod of 1 while zoomed, it would have a deviation of .5 (.5 x 1) while zoomed. If, on the other hand, it had a deviation mod of .8 while zoomed, the total deviation while zoomed would be .4 (.5 x .8). So a recoil mod when zoomed of .5 means that you take the base recoil for the weapon and multiply it by .5 (essentially dividing it by two). Basically it means it has half the recoil when zoomed than it does when unzoomed.

~Wolfgang

Now the numbers make some sense.
Revert to Zooming mode.