Project New Weapons(Hephaestus)

[Faustie]

It's happened partially to accommodate the new update. In the past, it was only mildly unfair that third-person allowed players to exploit shooting in two ways (looking through props and around walls and shooting with 0 accuracy penalty and recoil), and we left it in because, while it was an exploit, to be honest the weapons ironsights sucked and shooting would be impossible.

However, the new weapons all have improved ironsights, and there are around 10 optical sights available, and also a laser sight and various stability mods. People who exploit third-person now have a major advantage over people who use first-person, as they can get all of the benefits of these mods simply by going third-person and abusing an exploit. We haven't removed third-person shooting, but we have removed an exploit; third-person shooting is still perfectly viable at close range, which is where one would be most likely to hip-fire. We cannot keep the third-person exploit without removing the mods, as it creates a highly unfair situation. If you're upset that you can't exploit a system for your own advantage any more, then tough; the super-accurate crosshair was never intended to be that accurate, something I noticed when looking through the code and seeing it half-finished.

It's also worth noting that a couple of the weapons behave differently in third-person, which would ruin the balance and make certain weapons perform far better than others. This change fixes that.

In any semi-legitimate shooter, they would fix an exploit such as this that allowed players who chose a certain item/firing mode/camera a clear advantage over those who didn't. In that same case, there would also be many people who whine that they're no longer allowed to abuse a bug for perfect accuracy at the expense of those who play first-person or spend large amounts of cash on mods.