First of all, i'd seen a post on another site that definitively proved the existance of bullet drop. So, adjust your aim at extreme distances right? The two events that happened to me seem to contradict with this information and i'm just trying to figure out an explanation as to how they both occured.
These aren't made up stories to incite, "Oohs," and "Aaahs." They are completely true, and still baffle me.
1) On Karkand, I was in the red box car nearest to the water crossing. I was alternating between covering the Train Accident flag cap and watching the opposite side of the river. By chance, I noticed two soldiers on top of the roof at factory. He had climbed to the top of the chimney and parachuted down onto the roof to crouch and fire on the flag. I took a potshot at him; I could only see his silhouette but I was easily able to lay the crosshairs on his head. One shot, and he died. I assumed it was a headshot, but that didn't make sense to me. I remembered the flag marker at Factory said 152m. Give or take a few meters, the guy was still 150-ish meters away especially when taking into account that he was at a higher elevation. Maybe he was already damaged? Possibly. But at such an extreme distance, wouldn't the bullet have dropped below his body (remember, he was prone on the roof).
2) On Karkand again, at the beginning skirmish zone (between Hotel and your Artillery Flags as USMC) I was on the little hill on the right. I had the M95 and had noticed it was finicky with aiming. I saw someone drop down where the threshold was in the wall (on that street where you get a lot of skirmishes). Basically, this was a short-medium range encounter. What I did was I aimed below the dude's head (About 0.6cm below his head) and I got a headshot.
The first would lead me to believe that bullet drop had no effect or had a negligible effect. The second just avoids my comprehension persistently. I read that you have to aim a little lower at short distances to account for recoil, but recoil occurs after the bullet has left the barrel, not before.
So yeah, sniping is tough, but it's a lot of fun. I was initially mesmerized by the brute force of the M95. It was my first unlock. However, I wasn't dazed by it's wondrous glass-penetrating abilities, but rather I had seen it in movies. One was Tremors where the thing shot through about seven walls, three barrels, and still bored through an engine block. And the other was in some movie with Navy SEALs in it. They had the sniper equipped with the M95 and some thermal imaging equipment mounted on the picatinny. The guy shot through concrete walls where enemies were hiding behind. Needless to say I knew this was Hollywood making glorified action scenes, but the gun had to be powerful.
To cut a long story short, it's definately not all it's cracked up to be (in BF2 anyway) and now i'm faithful to the M24.
These aren't made up stories to incite, "Oohs," and "Aaahs." They are completely true, and still baffle me.
1) On Karkand, I was in the red box car nearest to the water crossing. I was alternating between covering the Train Accident flag cap and watching the opposite side of the river. By chance, I noticed two soldiers on top of the roof at factory. He had climbed to the top of the chimney and parachuted down onto the roof to crouch and fire on the flag. I took a potshot at him; I could only see his silhouette but I was easily able to lay the crosshairs on his head. One shot, and he died. I assumed it was a headshot, but that didn't make sense to me. I remembered the flag marker at Factory said 152m. Give or take a few meters, the guy was still 150-ish meters away especially when taking into account that he was at a higher elevation. Maybe he was already damaged? Possibly. But at such an extreme distance, wouldn't the bullet have dropped below his body (remember, he was prone on the roof).
2) On Karkand again, at the beginning skirmish zone (between Hotel and your Artillery Flags as USMC) I was on the little hill on the right. I had the M95 and had noticed it was finicky with aiming. I saw someone drop down where the threshold was in the wall (on that street where you get a lot of skirmishes). Basically, this was a short-medium range encounter. What I did was I aimed below the dude's head (About 0.6cm below his head) and I got a headshot.
The first would lead me to believe that bullet drop had no effect or had a negligible effect. The second just avoids my comprehension persistently. I read that you have to aim a little lower at short distances to account for recoil, but recoil occurs after the bullet has left the barrel, not before.
So yeah, sniping is tough, but it's a lot of fun. I was initially mesmerized by the brute force of the M95. It was my first unlock. However, I wasn't dazed by it's wondrous glass-penetrating abilities, but rather I had seen it in movies. One was Tremors where the thing shot through about seven walls, three barrels, and still bored through an engine block. And the other was in some movie with Navy SEALs in it. They had the sniper equipped with the M95 and some thermal imaging equipment mounted on the picatinny. The guy shot through concrete walls where enemies were hiding behind. Needless to say I knew this was Hollywood making glorified action scenes, but the gun had to be powerful.
To cut a long story short, it's definately not all it's cracked up to be (in BF2 anyway) and now i'm faithful to the M24.