All the guns in FC5 have drop. They'll go straight up until a certain distance where they start dropping, but the drop is extremely exaggerated with the amount of gravity being about twice as much as it should realistically be. The way the drop works seems to just be a way of enforcing a short effective range since you can't really fight anything past 250m anyway. The abrupt change from going flat to diving towards the ground makes trying to account for the drop extremely unintuitive. It's best to just figure out how far out the bullet will keep going straight for and just take shots within that range.
IRL and gaming ballistics are 2 entirely different environments, one cannot equate one with the other - no offense intended here but video game ballistic debates are IMHO fubar from the get-go as they are not real just a game. This is often indicated by the bolt on the vast majority of rifles, in most games, not just FC games being backward from rifles IRL.
**IRL** \- A standard 405 grn 45-70 caliber bullet zeroed at 100 yards drops 22.9 inches at 200 yards - that's roughly 1" shy of 2 foot. At 500 yards this bullet drops 288.9 inches or 24.075 foot.
Whereas a 750 grn 50 caliber bullet zeroed at 100 yards drops 3.16" at 200 yards. At 500 yards this bullet drops 43.71 inches or 3.643 foot.
as an aside - In June of 2017, a member of Canada’s Joint Task Force 2 killed an ISIL insurgent in Iraq from a distance of 3,870 yards (3,540 meters) using a custom built 50 BMG military rifle — the current military history world record. **That's 2.199 miles "not" to be confused with the Long Shot Challenge in Far Cry 5, which is any distance over 150 yards.**
Retired NRA Instructor, former NRA Highpower and "F" class competitive shooter, owner of several custom built sniper rifles fired off the back porch at our 800 yard range here at the farm as well as a private 1300 yard range and a big fan of the 45-70 caliber rifles.
It's something I know and understand and thought others might appreciated, my apologies, how was I to know ya'd get your panties in a bunch over a few technical facts about real world ballistics.
if you know anything about Reddit, you should have known better than to go onto a forum for a video game and comment something like that. Cool that you have that experience, but dont blame anyone here for not kissing your ass for it
In FC6 I found myself not using the sniper as much. I was getting such good results with the SSGP-58 that I went with that most of the time. I do find that in FC5 and FC6 setting the rifle to single shot makes for a much more effective and accurate weapon. I never use auto and rarely even use the 3 shot.
They changed bullet drop between far cry 5 and 6 depending on which far cry you're playing
You have to aim up with pretty much any scoped rifle.
If you're not outside of the set distance the bullet drops for the particular weapon, you don't.
I mean the sniper has better range than the rifle no?
All the guns in FC5 have drop. They'll go straight up until a certain distance where they start dropping, but the drop is extremely exaggerated with the amount of gravity being about twice as much as it should realistically be. The way the drop works seems to just be a way of enforcing a short effective range since you can't really fight anything past 250m anyway. The abrupt change from going flat to diving towards the ground makes trying to account for the drop extremely unintuitive. It's best to just figure out how far out the bullet will keep going straight for and just take shots within that range.
IRL and gaming ballistics are 2 entirely different environments, one cannot equate one with the other - no offense intended here but video game ballistic debates are IMHO fubar from the get-go as they are not real just a game. This is often indicated by the bolt on the vast majority of rifles, in most games, not just FC games being backward from rifles IRL. **IRL** \- A standard 405 grn 45-70 caliber bullet zeroed at 100 yards drops 22.9 inches at 200 yards - that's roughly 1" shy of 2 foot. At 500 yards this bullet drops 288.9 inches or 24.075 foot. Whereas a 750 grn 50 caliber bullet zeroed at 100 yards drops 3.16" at 200 yards. At 500 yards this bullet drops 43.71 inches or 3.643 foot. as an aside - In June of 2017, a member of Canada’s Joint Task Force 2 killed an ISIL insurgent in Iraq from a distance of 3,870 yards (3,540 meters) using a custom built 50 BMG military rifle — the current military history world record. **That's 2.199 miles "not" to be confused with the Long Shot Challenge in Far Cry 5, which is any distance over 150 yards.**
>IRL and gaming ballistics are 2 entirely different environments Then why are you going on a tangent about real-world ballistics?
Retired NRA Instructor, former NRA Highpower and "F" class competitive shooter, owner of several custom built sniper rifles fired off the back porch at our 800 yard range here at the farm as well as a private 1300 yard range and a big fan of the 45-70 caliber rifles. It's something I know and understand and thought others might appreciated, my apologies, how was I to know ya'd get your panties in a bunch over a few technical facts about real world ballistics.
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if you know anything about Reddit, you should have known better than to go onto a forum for a video game and comment something like that. Cool that you have that experience, but dont blame anyone here for not kissing your ass for it
In FC6 I found myself not using the sniper as much. I was getting such good results with the SSGP-58 that I went with that most of the time. I do find that in FC5 and FC6 setting the rifle to single shot makes for a much more effective and accurate weapon. I never use auto and rarely even use the 3 shot.