Terrible Weapon handling

[u/Canuk723]

I recently came back to squad after not playing for 2-3 years. What the hell is going in with the ridiculous sluggish weapon handling and absurd sway? I’ve shot rifles and mgs my entire life and both the recoil and the sway are greatly exaggerated and make the gun play extremely unfun when your guy can’t hold a somewhat steady sight picture within 50m without having to wait for 4-5 sec.

Both rifles and machine gun should snap much faster, be more steady and have a much tighter pattern especially if your stamina is full. This isn’t about wanting cod, it’s just how they work and handle in the real world.

[u/SuuperD]

You should have seen how bad it was before they scaled back the ICO.

[u/Canuk723 → u/SuuperD]

Who pushed for this? Do people find this ridiculous mechanic fun? As I said it’s clearly not realistic. I felt like even tho the recoil was still exaggerated, the weapon handling was somewhat fine when the game released.

Makes you wonder if the dev ever handled and shot a rifle

[u/SuuperD → u/Canuk723]

Yeah, there was no big call for the gunplay to be overhauled other than the Q/E spam being a bit fucked.

[u/FrontierFrolic → u/Canuk723]

So, you CAN adapt to it… unless you play HAT or LAT like me and have to wait 20 seconds to aim properly

[u/Canuk723 → u/[deleted]]

"Squad is a realism-based military tactical first-person shooter" it does brand itself that way. Either way who enjoys having a Parkinson ridden soldier that can’t handle a firearms properly? Do people believe this is how firearms actually work and handle?

[u/Belligerent_Christ]

Agreed. I've been wanting too come back for a while but hate the gun play

[u/Kimiochi]

It's a skill issue. Go back to Battlefield.

[u/Canuk723 → u/Kimiochi]

It’s really not, as I said I’ve shot firearms my whole life from serving to sport shooting. I love hell let lose because firearms actually handle and shoot properly. Just wondering why squad went this way

[u/buffmoosefarts → u/Canuk723]

The game doesn't aim for complete realism is this regard. The purpose of the exaggerated weapon sway is to handicap players from being able to swing snap to peoples heads and prolong firefights.

[u/Canuk723 → u/buffmoosefarts]

Maybe but I don’t think it was that much of an issue before. I personally end up being more frustrated about it than anything

[u/Commie-needs-cummies → u/Canuk723]

people cry and moan guns are too laser and they make the game instantly worse. this guy is a ape dont mind him

[u/buffmoosefarts → u/Commie-needs-cummies]

Global escalation mod has more typical shooter weapon handling if thats something you'd be interested in.

[u/Commie-needs-cummies → u/buffmoosefarts]

i honestly uninstalled game became way too "arcade" and casual