Scoped Rifle usability

[Empiro]

For a manufactured weapon that requires advanced optics, I definitely agree that it seems out of place and weak.

There's really nothing advanced about putting a scope on a hunting rifle. Maybe it could have reduced penalties for no-sight due to the actual advanced optics on board. It would make it a nice gun for actual sniping when you don't have guys with 100+ accuracy for the ^2 rifles.

[Juku121]

There's really nothing advanced about putting a scope on a hunting rifle.

I mean, it could be an advanced scope, something like this. But the in-game performance of the weapon really isn't even close.

[Empiro]

Right -- so that's why I suggested that the scoped hunting rifle could distinguish itself perhaps by having reduced penalties from no-sight.

From a gameplay balancing perspective, it would work well to justify using the rifle on occasion. From story perspective, the question would remain about why you couldn't add the scope to any of the other sniper rifles.