Melonfish wrote:
Actually last night i decided to head out on my own as BPT sniper, there were about 5 of us on at the time and the others were playing hide and seek with each other.
took the hk417 with MRCO and SDS scope with a kestrel.
i have no idea what i'm doing...
well i tell i lie i was pretty nifty with the MRCO, i hit the hills with the watch towers to our NW, took out a few sentries then as i was crossing to another watch tower came across a spetz unit (they had AKSU's with silencers so i'm assuming they're spetz) and managed to catch them together and quickly dispatched them, then took out the guy in the tower.
then it sort of went wrong, sitting in the tower sniping down on the outskirts of the town i couldn't find my arse from my elbow with the SDS scope and the kestrel, i had no idea what i was doing and missed about every shot.
i still have a lot to learn methinks with sniping
Aiming from a higher(or lower) position is a bit tricky compared to a straight shoot.
To make a long story short(wont go into to much details): Lets say you are in an open field and see a person 300m in front of you, you just zero at 300 and shoot. Easy enough.
Now lets say you are up in a tower and see an enemy in the field and rangefind him at 400m. You cant zero at 400, cause you will overshoot your target(the bullet isnt dropping as fast as a straight shoot)
So to solve this problem you need to know at what angle you are shooting.
Angles values:
10 = 0.98
20 = 0.94
30 = 0.87
40 = 0.77
50 = 0.64
60 = 0.50
70 = 0.34
80 = 0.17
90 = straight down
Here is a simple equation you need to use.
"rangefinder range" X "angle value"
So in this example lets say you are shooting at an angle of 40 degrees. You take the 400 that you found using the rangefinder and multiply that by 0.77, and with some quick calculations that is roughly 300m. So you range you rifle at 300 and shoot.
This might sound a little bit over complicated and after you have been playing for a while you learn how to do these adjustments on the fly.
