Cobalt Monkey
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.10 19:13:00 -
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You can make your scope dead still if you crouch and click L3 between each shot. Give it a try.
You can about match those scores with a Forge Gun, but it does take the right circumstances. Can vary pretty wildly. For every 15-2 I get I'll probably have some 8-3's or even a 3-8. Vehicle hunting can be very high risk. When you eat half a tank per shot, that tends to make you a priority target for them.
There are two types of Forge Gun. The normal which charges up a shot after a couple seconds, and holds it ready until you release the trigger. The Assault variety charges up and fires the second it's done charging. More raw power, but requires expert timing to know when the shot's leaving the gun, how fast it will move when it does, and where the target will be when it gets there.
But either one shakes like blazes in addition to the weapon's slight spread. You can snipe with it, technically, but in my experience it's not that reliable. I've never crouched with the thing, so I'm not sure if that would help.
See, the gun is not meant to be anti-infantry. It even only does a couple hundred splash damage. The shaking is supposed to ensure that you only aim for things the size of a bus. Yet, it can hit a human. What's more, it seems to do so with about the same accuracy completely regardless of distance. Whether you're 5 feet away, or just an orange chevron peeking out from behind a tower. It's luck whether or not you hit anything that isn't a vehicle, but if you do it's most definitely a one shot kill.
The thing is, it's almost never a good idea to do so. If they're close to you, such a thing is a last ditch effort if you're low or out of your secondary weapon's ammo. If you don't hit, you're pretty much dead. Against snipers it can hit, but it's better used as a scare tactic, and even then only if you're not seeing any vehicles. That couple hundred splash damage isn't so inconsequential to low health suits that snipers usually have, and if it gets them to stop aiming at whatever they might have been going for, so much the better. Bottom line is that you should never just expect an infantry kill, only hope.
Again though, that's in my experience. I can hit a speeding dropship even after it passes beyond the draw distance, provided it doesn't change course significantly afterwards. But a human is pretty much a spray and pray. |