Decrease the size of the m1 Garand sights and have a historically accurate Thompson sight.

[full hearth]

I think that the M1 Garand sights should be just a little more smaller to be more accurate to real life. I don’t think that it should be exactly like the sights in real life since it would be way to hard to aim (especially on consoles). Also I have no clue on why the Thompson sights are the way they are. In one of the first few trailers of the game, the sights were accurate. I don’t think that changing of the sights would be game changing.

[subtle knot]

Even if they made the sights accurately, the sight picture wouldn’t be accurate, because they wouldn’t be functional (edit: peep sights work by having your eye closer to the rear aperture than depicted in game, so the entire (30° of?) screen should be filled with the sight picture, like a scoped view, more or less; and you’d need to line up the rear aperture and front post so the correct “sight picture” formed)

Edit: people already complained about the more accurate sights, so here we are with a bigger/half aperture

Edit: nito’s response includes depth perception and parallax in relation to sight picture, which is true; and a rear aperture diameter less than the pupil will affect depth of field and focus, making the target look sharper while focused on the front post

[full hearth]

“the sight picture wouldn’t be accurate, because they wouldn’t be functional” Could you explain what you meant by this?

Edit: I think that the size of the sights of the M1 Garand and the Thompson sights should be like the photos of gameplay in the infantry reveal trailer.

Another edit: I can’t upload the images because of slow mode, but here’s the link to the trailer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYK7W0lM8uE

[young granite]

Gonna steal his thunder while in slow mode.

Iron sights are designed with depth perception in mind. You look down a gun with 2 eyes at 2 different angles, so the sight is designed to account for this. Plus a human can lean into the gun at different angles
A videogame, however, projects the weapon onto a flat 2-D screen where there is no depth perception nor fine head control. So it doesn't look like a sight really would.

This is why many weapons in videogames have these flat iron sights that are barely usable, like this games m1891 or cod4's scorpion smg. Those are sights that sights that work fine in real life but terrible when flattened