They sway is mostly to prevent quickscoping- crouch and wait a little bit to make the swaying stop. I believe either sniper rifle operation or sniper rifle proficiency also decreases the scope sway.

Ever try standing up and shooting a gun with that long of a barrel on it? You aren't going to be able to hold it steady enough to snipe like that.

Skilling up removes some of that sway, if I remember right. Definitely don't want to make it easier for snipers. I can't snipe for ****, but other people are able to head shot me out of a moving vehicle. I think it should stay like that.

The last thing snipers need are easier kills. Once crouched the scope doesn't move after one second and there is no bullet drop. I would love to see some bullet drop in the future.
At least then we could finally get a few rivers coming off the mountains from the blueberry tears.

If you can't navigate moving out of cover and switching in and out of crouch, you should probably wait in the MCC for the adults to finish capturing objectives.

EDIT: "You" is not OP specifically.

Your going to complain about a weapon that has no bullet drop and is basically an insta hit weapon dealing extreme damage..... no. Level it up and enjoy red line sniping with the rest of the blue-berries.

I specifically said that wasn't referring to you.


There are very few reasons for standing and sniping. It seems to be intentionally discouraged by the game mechanics as a balance for the fact that if you put your targeting reticle on an enemy's face and pull the trigger, they'll instantly die.

If my team is getting eaten by snipers, I'll go countersniper, so I do it a lot. If I could stop the sway while standing, I would have a ridiculous advantage. You seem to be working on the assumption that there's a reason why we should be able to stand and fire our rifles but I haven't seen you give one yet, other than crouch-walking out of cover being tricky. It's fairly trivial to stand, move, crouch again and wait a second to line up your shot. If the window of opportunity is too small for that, you have to learn to compensate for standing sway and attempt the shot standing, but it's not supposed to be an easy way to fire.

The Sniper Rifles skill reduces scope sway by 5% per level. Won't remove it entirely, but it can make a difference.

The only way to completely eliminate scope sway at the moment is to crouch down and hold still for a second. When you do this, the scope will be perfectly still.

If a sniper wants unhindered aim they need to make themselves vulnerable in the process, which seems to be pretty intentional game design