Alright, I did search, and I did find some information about using the sniper rifles such as bullet drop. But I've also read posts that said shoot in front of the person while they are running, shoot behind them, put the target right on them, yadda yadda yadda.
Anyway, my accuracy is piss poor if I'm not close and aiming at a stationary target. I get the rare moving target kill but not often. But that's not what this is about.
What I'm more concerned about is long range shots. I almost always miss them. Occasionally I get them, but more often than not I let off four or five shots all without a hit then I get pegged in the head. Obviously some of this can be chalked up to the fact that I'm a noob to the game, I only got it less than a week ago. But I'm encountering so many situations where it seems impossible to miss, and I miss multiple times in a row.
Sometimes I am just above the target to account for bullet drop and I hit, sometimes I do it and I miss. Sometimes I have the target dead on their head while completely stationary and I hit, other times I miss. Sometimes I have the damn target right square on their heart and there's no hit.
It's testing my patience, as I'm coming off of playing a lot of LAN CSS where if you have a rifle aimed at someones head and fire, it's a head shot plain and simple.
But it seems completely irrelevant where I aim at times in BF2 because sometimes the shot will hit there and sometimes it won't, regardless of them being fat stationary targets or not.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong. People score lots more rifle kills than I (I've totally blown thusfar) and I can't quite nail it down. What factors are involved? Obviously having a gun sight on someone isn't the full story because I miss plenty when my targeting is dead on.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Anyway, my accuracy is piss poor if I'm not close and aiming at a stationary target. I get the rare moving target kill but not often. But that's not what this is about.
What I'm more concerned about is long range shots. I almost always miss them. Occasionally I get them, but more often than not I let off four or five shots all without a hit then I get pegged in the head. Obviously some of this can be chalked up to the fact that I'm a noob to the game, I only got it less than a week ago. But I'm encountering so many situations where it seems impossible to miss, and I miss multiple times in a row.
Sometimes I am just above the target to account for bullet drop and I hit, sometimes I do it and I miss. Sometimes I have the target dead on their head while completely stationary and I hit, other times I miss. Sometimes I have the damn target right square on their heart and there's no hit.
It's testing my patience, as I'm coming off of playing a lot of LAN CSS where if you have a rifle aimed at someones head and fire, it's a head shot plain and simple.
But it seems completely irrelevant where I aim at times in BF2 because sometimes the shot will hit there and sometimes it won't, regardless of them being fat stationary targets or not.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong. People score lots more rifle kills than I (I've totally blown thusfar) and I can't quite nail it down. What factors are involved? Obviously having a gun sight on someone isn't the full story because I miss plenty when my targeting is dead on.
Thanks for any help you can offer.