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Explains how to properly use the misunderstood AutoAim feature and makes targeting body parts from afar (outside VATS) possible.
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Name: Auto Aim Explained and Properly Applied
Version: 1.0
Date: 20/12/2008
Author: otm
**UPDATE**
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Testing revealed (yay!) that auto-aim also works when in sniper mode. A long as the name of the target shows up on the screen (in red letters) u can shoot him anywhere! O.K. now huury up and cripple everything in sight!!!
Btw, the update concers the autoaim explanation, not the "mod" itself (well, duh!)
Description
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Explains how to properly use the misunderstood AutoAim feature and makes targeting body parts from afar (outside VATS) possible.
Auto Aim Explanation (You MUST read this!)
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It is a common event in vanilla Fallout that one targets a target's specific body part only to see his projectile being directed somewhere else (usually the target's torso). This feature is known as Auto Aim. This event naturaly causes people to try and get rid of it, thinking that disabling it will cause the projectile to go where the
cursor is pointing.
This, however, proved not to be the case, as the projectiles where then shot completely off target. That is because auto aim's job is to allign weapon
fire with the cursor.You might have noticed that sometimes, when your hostile target is pretty far, the cursor doesn't become red until you approach within a certain (small) distance.
This change in color actually signifies that auto aim is activated (red cursor). When auto aim is activated, YOU CAN TARGET A SPECIFIC BODY PART IN ANY CAMERA MODE. Try it and see for yourself. The frustrating part on the gaming aspect is the activation distance for Auto Aim is pretty small, meaning you have to get pretty close to target a body part.
All this mod does is to tweak the game setting AutoAimMaxDistance from 1800 game units to 6000. This means that the cursor will become red at 3 times the distance, enabling you to do that nifty headshot :P
Known Issues and Conflicts
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None that I know of. Should be compatible with anything as long as it doesn't tweak Auto Aim.
Mods such as "Accuracy Tweaks" conflict because they tweak autoaim. If you delete the gamesettings which include "AutoAim" in the other mod however, it will work like a charm.
I use Accuracy Tweaks myself in that way :)
Notes
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* It is obvious that it is extremely easy to increase the distance to 100000 if you want;)
* This mod DOES NOT tamper with VATS!! After all, it only changes a single gamesetting.
* I can't say I'm a big fan of auto aim myself, but it seems to be essential when shooting in 3rd person. While auto aim does all the goodies we described above, if you aim for a target and the target moves, auto aim will still cause you to hit him, even if you aimed elsewhere. Working on a fix for that ^_^
Have fun shooting stuff!!
Version: 1.0
Date: 20/12/2008
Author: otm
**UPDATE**
----------
Testing revealed (yay!) that auto-aim also works when in sniper mode. A long as the name of the target shows up on the screen (in red letters) u can shoot him anywhere! O.K. now huury up and cripple everything in sight!!!
Btw, the update concers the autoaim explanation, not the "mod" itself (well, duh!)
Description
***********
Explains how to properly use the misunderstood AutoAim feature and makes targeting body parts from afar (outside VATS) possible.
Auto Aim Explanation (You MUST read this!)
********************
It is a common event in vanilla Fallout that one targets a target's specific body part only to see his projectile being directed somewhere else (usually the target's torso). This feature is known as Auto Aim. This event naturaly causes people to try and get rid of it, thinking that disabling it will cause the projectile to go where the
cursor is pointing.
This, however, proved not to be the case, as the projectiles where then shot completely off target. That is because auto aim's job is to allign weapon
fire with the cursor.You might have noticed that sometimes, when your hostile target is pretty far, the cursor doesn't become red until you approach within a certain (small) distance.
This change in color actually signifies that auto aim is activated (red cursor). When auto aim is activated, YOU CAN TARGET A SPECIFIC BODY PART IN ANY CAMERA MODE. Try it and see for yourself. The frustrating part on the gaming aspect is the activation distance for Auto Aim is pretty small, meaning you have to get pretty close to target a body part.
All this mod does is to tweak the game setting AutoAimMaxDistance from 1800 game units to 6000. This means that the cursor will become red at 3 times the distance, enabling you to do that nifty headshot :P
Known Issues and Conflicts
**************************
None that I know of. Should be compatible with anything as long as it doesn't tweak Auto Aim.
Mods such as "Accuracy Tweaks" conflict because they tweak autoaim. If you delete the gamesettings which include "AutoAim" in the other mod however, it will work like a charm.
I use Accuracy Tweaks myself in that way :)
Notes
*****
* It is obvious that it is extremely easy to increase the distance to 100000 if you want;)
* This mod DOES NOT tamper with VATS!! After all, it only changes a single gamesetting.
* I can't say I'm a big fan of auto aim myself, but it seems to be essential when shooting in 3rd person. While auto aim does all the goodies we described above, if you aim for a target and the target moves, auto aim will still cause you to hit him, even if you aimed elsewhere. Working on a fix for that ^_^
Have fun shooting stuff!!