![]() ![]() When I zero my rifle I adjust until I can hit a 1” square three times without adjustment. ![]() On a longer shot you have to compensate for the amount of drop your bullet will fall as it travels to your target. These don’t make for a fun gaming experience, so they’ve dropped this aspect, but bullet-drop is alive and well. In the real world, a longer shot requires detailed study of wind conditions as there are often multiple wind shifts and speeds between you and your target. In a desert there are a great deal of real-world factors that can affect a shot, and many of them are represented here, such as long spans of open sand, canyons, scrub brush, and little cover. Sniper Elite III centers on a theater that hasn’t seen a lot of representation – the North African conflict. When I saw that Sniper Elite III was going to try to capture weapon ballistics and sniper tactics more accurately, I knew I had to see it for myself. During training I was told to never be captured because soldiers are killed, but snipers are tortured to death. We wait for a very long time for the perfect shot, we fire, we relocate, and we devastate the battlefield. In point of fact, snipers are anything but campers. Sniping in just about every shooter gets the short end of the stick, and most of the gaming public decries anyone using a rifle with any sort of range as a “camper”. ![]() 50 caliber sniper rifle, deployed to locations with a lot of sand and a lot of forest in the war on drugs in the 1990s. I’ve spent countless hours behind the scope of an Barrett M82A1. Fast forward to today and we have 505/Rebellion’s first foray into current-gen consoles and PC with Sniper Elite III.įor some backstory, I was a combat controller for the 823rd and 819th RHS unit of the United States Air Force. The first title was released on the original Xbox, with a follow-up hitting two years ago telling an alternate version of the storyline presented in the original game. I can’t honestly tell you why I’ve never played a Sniper Elite game. ![]()
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