Inspired by "The hard facts about bf2 Aiming Reticule" by Verzili in the BF2 tips&tricks forum
Often I find myself in a situation where, despite aiming perfectly, every shot fired misses. After playing about with the guns, I found out that the ironsights are not all lined up correctly. With some of the guns, you would end up firing over someone's head at a distance, even though your sights were dead on center-mass. This gives the feeling that some guns just don't register hits, or that you're "firing blanks".
You can test this out yourself. Get a misaligned gun like the G3 and aim it as pictured (Atacama Desert, US Spawn, next to the AA cannon), fire once and note where your bullet hits. It's clearly not where the front sight is.
^If you aimed exactly at that spot, your bullet would hit the very top edge of the roof.
Important things to keep in mind when looking at these screenshots:
- Every gun, when sighted in, sways. The tip of the front post moves in a circular or slightly figure-8 pattern. These screenshots were taken with the front post at the highest point of sway, thus putting the 3D ironsights closer to the true center, where the bullet comes from.
- The crosshair I have overlaid is a portion of the GOL Sniper Magnum's scope which i cropped and colored in photoshop. The center of the cross is black to show a more accurate "true center". It is not a hack, overlay, or cheat of any kind. I do not see the crosshair ingame.
- The screenshots were cropped and enlarged 2x.
- In my opinion, the ironsights aren't misaligned to compensate for bullet drop. One reason I believe this is that the bullet drop is not dramatic enough at even extreme engagement ranges to warrant such a large gap between the bullet origin and 3D ironsight. It also doesn't explain why only some of the sights are misaligned and others are fine.
The Goods:
ASSAULT:
AEK-971
XM8
F2000
STG.77 AUG
AN-94 AKBAN
M416
M16A2
ENGINEER:
9A-91 AVTOMAT
SCAR-L
XM8 SMG
ASK-74U KRINKOV
UZI
PP-2000 AVTOMAT
UMP-45
MEDIC:
PKM
M249 SAW
TYPE 88
M60
XM8 LMG
MG36 Note: I darkened the red dot of the scope and made the cross more transparent for better readability
MG3
RECON:
M24
TYPE 88 SNIPER
SV98 SNAIPERSKAYA
SVU
GOL
VSS
M95
ALL KITS:
RED DOT Note: the red dot "jitters" around a lot so it was difficult to get a perfectly centered screenshot. It is, indeed, perfectly centered.
4X ACOG
THOMPSON
M14
G3
M1 Garand
M9
MP-443 GRACH
M1911
MP-412 REX
M93R
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