Optics pack

[hollow lantern]

In the one of the more recent streams about Emerald Coast, Jaxy said scopes were difficult to handle because of draw distance and technical limitations. This feel like an excuse. Multiple scopes have already been implemented with various other weapons, the crossbow and drilling are great examples of this. To be totally honest, the Hudzik's Galileo scope feels like a reskinned hyperion using the reticle from the helios scope. The Argus scope is horribly overpowered and shakey.

The Falcon (drilling) 3-9x44 scope was added in a weapon pack fairly recently, if it was reskinned to fit the rifles, it would be an amazing change of pace from the Hyperion. It uses a plain reticle more suited to hunting than the Hyperion's mil-dot, traditionalists would love this to be on their rifles.

A lower powered scope, similar to the base game Ascent 1-4x24 would be great to have in heavily wooded environments. In most of Emerald coast the Ascent is my preferred scope because it's not overly strong. Still, a 2-7x32 scope would be a huge improvement without being overpowered for the thicker forests.

The Argus 8-16x50, is massively overpowered for almost any reserve, not to mention it's hard to use at medium distance and useless close up. A simpler scope would be a huge upgrade. A 6-12x44 would be great for longer distances and not suffer nearly as much shake while still being fairly reliable up close.

A personal gripe is the mil-dot reticles used in the hyperion and argus. Mil-dot is fine for target shooting and some people just like it more, but the reticle used in the Ascent scope and the Falcon scope is more traditional for hunting scopes. Maybe, in the same way the rifle has three customization options, the scope could have two: one for the reticle, and one for the metal finish of your choice?

As a side note to all this, everyone seems in agreement on it, so why are the tritium sights not a permanent mount on your rifle? It should be a regular upgrade

This is an example of scope reticles offered by Leupold

These are examples of lever action rifles like the two models in game, using a scope mount forward of the action to fit a larger scope or modern sight. Lever action rifles seriously need to be reworked, aside from being completely obsolete, they are not restricted to one type of scope

The next item I'm bringing up is the mounting position of scopes on other rifles in the game. Particularly the M1 Garand and Solokhin MN1890, both of these rifle use a mount forward of the action and yet there's no difference when ADSing from any other rifle. the red dot sight is particularly bad on any weapon, its just not meant to work like that.

The suggestion here is to and option to mount the scope forward on the other rifles in the storage locker (not something you can change in the weapon wheel) This is to off the player a different perspective, typical of what Jeff Cooper popularized as a scout rifle. the lever actions I posted above are technically scout rifles as well.

This is a scout rifle offered by Mossberg in several calibers, among them the .300 Blackout round, a cartridge with good mid range ballistics for animals that would be in the 2-5 classes

This rifle is offered by Ruger, as their Gunsite Scout Rifle, chambered in .308

[fickle estuary]

This is a fantastic idea for sure (The Argus kind of sucks anyways)

[hollow lantern]

Here's a screenshot of the red dot sight in use, showing how zoomed in it appears on the 12ga pump action (looks the same on all the guns, including pistols, which is awful) The second picture is the Marksman Exakt sight on the Strecker (granted this is the only sight it can use) which is positioned right and offers the full field of view a red dot should

Also, what's the point of the rail if the red dot mounts behind it?

[frosty widget]

That's an excellent idea, we really do need this. I think it would be great if they rebalanced the binos too, as the 7x42 Apexview is more like a spotting scope than a binocular, really overpowered.

[hollow lantern]

As a foot note, I'd happily buy a scope for each weapon individually if it meant they could be customized. Tritium sights should weigh 0.10 units and be a permanent attachment since they only fit one weapon.

[half narwhal]

the lever action guns need 4 x 8 scopes as well same with the night vision scope. also for the crossbow it needs a rifle scope with cross hairs

[hollow lantern]

It actually is a 4-8, what the lever guns need is a good buff and a mounting option like the M1 garand and Solohkin, then it could use all the scopes for rifles

[half narwhal]

yea like I want all the guns to use the argus

[hollow lantern]

here's hoping EW gets the hint that we want new scopes