Grantman

None of these things remedy the fact you can shoot effective tight groups without needing to look down the sights once set in position. Take the constructive criticism with some dignity and get it fixed. I'm just an average joe who recently tried the game and bothered to point out the short fall, not some embarrasingly blind fanboy. You bet I'm outa here. When Bohemia fix this basic shooting 101 issue I'll buy their game. No business get's anywhere by ignoring their consumers. Unlike yourself Bohemia has taken constructive criticism as I've read from the reviews of OFP and Arma 1. It's a good thing for business that you don't represent the company, clearly.

As I said, putting the game on expert setting removes the hud but does not remedy the fact that you can shoot perfect groups without looking down the sights. A feat at home in a dream world or some arcade. I'm not going to make my turning and viewing sloppy to try and simulate a basic reality. Even that still wouldn't work once settled into a position. Shots should be spraying every which way. Expert setting doesn't remedy this at all. It merely removes the aiming dot which doesn't stop you approximating your first shot to get on target with nicely grouped successive shots anyway. It's such a mind numbingly basic fundamental requirement of shooting it's inexcusable to get it wrong. Yeah it's a game but it's touted as a simulation and it certainly has quality simulation specs... Not being forced to aim down the sights is tantamount to a driving simulation where cars can't lose traction. I can hardly believe this. The rest of the game may be epic but when something so fundamental isn't enforced it really goes down the toilet big time for me. It annoys me so much I bothered to weed out this forum and actually say something about it. You can cover all manner or variables and get your engine humming nicely but for goodness sake put the wheels on properly. I'm disgusted that something so simple could be hashed up so badly. Needless to say I doubt I'll be playing this game. Thank goodness for demos.

I downloaded the Arma 2 demo yesterday. One of the first things I noticed after starting basic training and beginning the firearms training was the ability to shoot just as accurately without looking down the physical sights as actually looking down them. On recruit, normal and veteran difficulty you have a HUD showing the aimpoint regardless of whether you're actually aiming or not. On veteran you don't see the aimpoint, but when firing the gun still shoots in the same spot regardless of whether I'm actually looking down the gun's sights. I own firearms in real life so I was curious to see how they handled in a first person sim. The only sight picture that is going to give me a usable result is when I'm genuinely looking over the irons or through the scope, not a view where I can see a bit of barrel poking out on the right side of the screen with a little HUD aimpoint showing were the shot is headed. Veteran doesn't do it for me either as even without the aimpoint the shots are landing just as accurately albeit when shooting you may not be so sure where the first shot is going to land without the hud. Not being forced to aim down the sights in order to shoot accurately is a tremendous turn off for me. Aiming over the sights is shooting 101. To not force something so fundamental and basic ruins the experience for me at ground level.