The Iron Sights

[Charging Handles Forward]

Currently, I find the iron sights extremely difficult to use because I cannot easily distinguish between the rear sight blade, the front sight post, and my target. Widening the rear sight aperture and coloring the front sight post so that it stands out obviously from the target and the rest of the metalwork would fix this problem quite well.

[Oleg]

Originally Posted by Charging Handles Forward

Currently, I find the iron sights extremely difficult to use because I cannot easily distinguish between the rear sight blade, the front sight post, and my target. Widening the rear sight aperture and coloring the front sight post so that it stands out obviously from the target and the rest of the metalwork would fix this problem quite well.

Up the resolution, for me ISs are perfect.

[Yoshiro]

Moving this to suggestions.

[Lt. Winters]

Originally Posted by Charging Handles Forward

Currently, I find the iron sights extremely difficult to use because I cannot easily distinguish between the rear sight blade, the front sight post, and my target. Widening the rear sight aperture and coloring the front sight post so that it stands out obviously from the target and the rest of the metalwork would fix this problem quite well.

I sometimes have this problem with the SVT40 in the warehouse on stalingradd or any other dark places but thats the only time.

[The_Cook]

Eh.... that's how the sights were in WWII bare metal
Got to work with what is issued to ya
Be happy they shoot straight

[Avenger]

Get a pair of 3d glasses.

[Murphy]

To quote Richard B. Riddick from the game "Escape from the Bucher´s Bay":
"I play with the hand that´s dealt. And then I cheat."

[Theodrake]

Originally Posted by The_Cook

Eh.... that's how the sights were in WWII bare metal
Got to work with what is issued to ya
Be happy they shoot straight

I've fired real WW II rifles and the human eye can easily distinguish the sites from background noise. When using a computer we don't have the same resolution in game we have in real life. So devs must make decisions on how to provide a realistic feel. Having the rear site, front blade, and target and merge into a single blob distracts from the realistic feel.

[akd]

Originally Posted by The_Cook

Eh.... that's how the sights were in WWII bare metal
Got to work with what is issued to ya
Be happy they shoot straight

The effect in game is not at all like what the eye actually perceives. Some are worse than others, particularly the G43 with it's nearly perfect neutral gray front post.

[Charging Handles Forward]

Originally Posted by Theodrake

I've fired real WW II rifles and the human eye can easily distinguish the sites from background noise. When using a computer we don't have the same resolution in game we have in real life. So devs must make decisions on how to provide a realistic feel. Having the rear site, front blade, and target and merge into a single blob distracts from the realistic feel.

Exactly! I own two M44 and two M91/30 Mosin rifles, and the rear sight blade on every one of them appears wide enough to fit two or three extra sight posts in while being narrow enough to allow me to align the post and the top edge of the blade with the target with great ease. The game needs to model this effect or it will continue to make iron sight aim artificially and unrealistically difficult.

[MoFo]

widen the rear sight apeature(sp?) and darken the front sight post. the sights on all the guns were blued just like the gun, no bare metal here, no grey/silver/shinyness.

of course this is just an opinion

[[CiA]Stiletto]

Agreed, front blades need to be nice and black (or really dark gray/blue...which is not within the gamut of standard RGB colorspace, so it should look black).

[Reise]

Yeah, I agree with this. I run the game on a fairly low resolution (1152x864) and I do sometimes find it difficult to see where my sights are when aiming toward particular similar-colored objects.

[Colt .45 killer]

if a soldier in combat felt nessecary he might grind down the back of the sight abit so you saw the silver of the bare metal...until it rusted that is,.,,.

[Reise]

Yeah, then he could grind it even more hehe.

[akd]

Originally Posted by Colt .45 killer

if a soldier in combat felt nessecary he might grind down the back of the sight abit so you saw the silver of the bare metal

That would make the sight much worse.

[[CiA]Stiletto]

Originally Posted by akd

That would make the sight much worse.

Truth. "White" metal on a gunsight makes sight picture acquisition almost impossible.

[fOgGy]

I have recently noticed that the IS when its moved around while your static is not fully animated. For those of you that have played the Call of Duty series will know what I mean.