I've just been watching some videos to whet my appetite for HoS. Just a quick question about the sniper rifle scopes; why are the reticule lines so thick?
This was a niggle of mine from RO:OST. I'd always felt that the lines were far too thick and that they made aiming somewhat cumbersome. Indeed, I always found that aiming the sniper rifles was sometimes a matter of trial and error; I could never quite work out exactly where the aiming point was.
I've just been watching this: YouTube - Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad [Part II]
The scoping system looks fantastic, really is so much better than what other games have to offer. But the reticules still seem very very thick; the top of the central aiming post seems almost not to have a point to it. Won't this make precision aiming incredibly hard?
Were the rifle scopes of the day really subject to such thick reticules? Living in the UK, I've only ever used air rifles they had very fine, precise cross-hairs. The same goes for pictures I've seen of scope reticules. It just seems odd that they should be so thick, as I always felt it obscures a lot of the sight picture.
Also, will both German and Russian rifles use the same cross-hair layout with a single vertical post and two horizontal? That's purely a historical question, I've always wondered if they were the same, or if there were also traditional cross lines reticules.
tl;dr - Educate me about WW2 scopes
This was a niggle of mine from RO:OST. I'd always felt that the lines were far too thick and that they made aiming somewhat cumbersome. Indeed, I always found that aiming the sniper rifles was sometimes a matter of trial and error; I could never quite work out exactly where the aiming point was.
I've just been watching this: YouTube - Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad [Part II]
The scoping system looks fantastic, really is so much better than what other games have to offer. But the reticules still seem very very thick; the top of the central aiming post seems almost not to have a point to it. Won't this make precision aiming incredibly hard?
Were the rifle scopes of the day really subject to such thick reticules? Living in the UK, I've only ever used air rifles they had very fine, precise cross-hairs. The same goes for pictures I've seen of scope reticules. It just seems odd that they should be so thick, as I always felt it obscures a lot of the sight picture.
Also, will both German and Russian rifles use the same cross-hair layout with a single vertical post and two horizontal? That's purely a historical question, I've always wondered if they were the same, or if there were also traditional cross lines reticules.
tl;dr - Educate me about WW2 scopes
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