How can I look through sights of mounted machine gun?

[Bulldog72 10]

E.g. if I am gunner in a M2 mounted on a humvee or something the field of view is somewhat strange and useless for aiming through the sights.

I mean sure I can aim using the green HUD crosshair but I'd like to look through the real sights of the mounted machine gun... and I'm pretty sure I saw some videos where ppl actually do look through the correct M2 sights to aim.

How?

[11aTony 0]

Optics key (default "V")?

[Baraka 10]

You can change the weapon view with some guns.

Think it´s "/" in the number field by default. You can have a look in the options to find it if i´m wrong.

edit: ok / was very fail.

[dmarkwick 261]

Might be the numpad 0/ins key.

[Bulldog72 10]

AH!

Yeah that's it - optics key.

For some reason I had only "Sec Mouse Btn" binded to my optics; this does work perfectly switching the view if using a rifle but for some reason it does not work if I am as gunner in the M2; there it does exactly... nothing.

Adding an additional bind "v" for optics mode fixed it now, ty.

[kylania 567]

V = step over by default I believe. I use 2nd Mouse Button or Numpad 0 to Optics myself.

[Archosaurusrev 12]

As said before, numpad 0 is default.

[dukenukem. 10]

Any idea why right mouse button doesn't work for this function even though its bound to the same function? Weird...

[Archosaurusrev 12]

Any idea why right mouse button doesn't work for this function even though its bound to the same function? Weird...

No idea.

For a long time, I thought you couldn't sight down the MGs....