What Is Point Shooting?
To put it simply, point shooting is the aiming and firing of a gun without the use of the sights. This is helpful in reflexive defensive situations or close quarters combat, in which one does not have the time or space to acquire a proper sight picture, instead relying on their intuition to hit their target.
An example of point shooting from Wikipedia[en.wikipedia.org]
In Ready Or Not, "point shooting" differs from "hipfiring" in that the player is still holding RMB or their preferred aim key.
How Do You Enable Point Shooting In Ready Or Not?
In order to enable point shooting in Ready Or Not, one must go into the "Options" menu. From there, click on "Controls," and enter the "Interaction" subsection. Near the top of the list is a control named "Toggle Canted Sight." Initially this is unbound, so bind it to any key of your choosing (I currently have it bound to "O").
Apply the settings, and, if done correctly, while aiming your gun, you can press your selected key to "cant" the weapon, tilting it to the left.
Where's My Sight? Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Laser
So, you've enabled canted sights, but so far, this has just made things worse. After all, now you have no sight picture!
Your shots will land... here-ish. But how can you ensure you know where they're going?
This is where the laser pointer comes in. While the flashlight is arguably the most versatile "Overbarrel" attachment, the laser sight finds its niche in sightless shooting. Take your gun to the weapon bench, open the "Overbarrel" subsection, and apply the "Laser Pointer" attachment.
Turn the laser pointer on the same way you'd turn on the flashlight, and you'll be point shooting in no time!
Now you know exactly where your shots will land!
Sight Picture Comparison
So, canted sights are cool and all, but how do they compare to a conventional Red Dot sight? Let's take a look at a couple comparison images.
Top: View through the M5B sight on the ARN-18: Much of the target is obscured.
Bottom: View utilizing the point shooting technique with the laser sight: Almost the entire target is visible
Top: View through the RMR sight on the G19: The frame of the pistol obscures the bottom half of the target
Bottom: View utilizing the point shooting technique with the laser sight: Again, almost the entire target is visible
NVG's And IR Lasers
In addition to standard laser pointers, weapons in Ready Or Not also feature the ability to equip IR (infrared) laser pointers, for use solely with night vision goggles. While this is a novel feature, personally I have found it to have little practical use; while one can use the standard laser pointer with NVG's on or off, the IR laser pointer is only visible through NVG's, making it useless in brighter environments. Additionally, the IR laser has a strong illumination effect. This is useful for illuminating a target in near or total darkness, but only serves to obscure the operator's vision if the light level is any higher.
Top: A target viewed through NVG's with the standard laser pointer
Bottom: The same target viewed through NVG's with the IR laser pointer
What About Recoil?
"What about recoil?" is a question I immediately thought of once I started firing my pistol at the test range. "Surely, if the gun is tilted left, wouldn't the recoil start to rise to the left instead?" I thought to myself, so I did a test. I went down to the shoothouse and fired two full magazines at the wall; one with point shooting, and one with standard sighting. I concluded that canting the weapon, at least in Ready Or Not, has no noticeable affect on recoil.
Left: A full magazine fired without recoil mitigation with standard sighting.
Right: A full magazine fired without recoil mitigation utilizing point shooting.
Drawbacks
As the saying goes, nothing is perfect, and this is true for point shooting as well. While it can be highly effective in close quarters, it suffers from serious drawbacks at range, where one cannot see the laser being projected. Additionally, the laser tends to "disappear" in bright areas or on bright colored surfaces; intuition can still carry you through this, but in these situations I recommend hitting your "Toggle Canted Sight" key once more to bring your standard sight back up.
The laser's on... but where'd it go?
So What's The Big Deal?
I chose to create this guide in order to hopefully draw attention to a sort of hidden feature in this up-and-coming game. Somewhat recently, New World Interactive added a dedicated point shooting grip to their game, Insurgency: Sandstorm, which I am also a fan of. I hadn't even considered sightless shooting beyond hipfiring before then, but this point shooting grip opened my eyes to the world of possibilities brought by laser pointers, and I was delighted to read one of Void Interactive's patch notes stating that any weapon with any sight could now be canted.
In my opinion, point shooting is far less cumbersome in close quarters than standard sighting, giving you a much greater awareness of the area while aiming. This is especially useful in such a CQB-oriented game as Ready Or Not, as the situations where point shooting is useful are incredibly common.
I sincerely hope you enjoyed learning about this neat feature. Happy point shooting!
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789115254
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