Forum:Recoil

I've read somewhere that recoil reduction does not affect scoped weapons such as assault rifles and sniper rifles, instead this is reduced by 'sway' reduction. Is this true? As this would strongly discourage me contining my solier, as I'm playing him as a sort of special-ops character. I almost always use my scope, and the soldier, having several recoil reduction skills made me think that it was an incredibly accurate class, efficient at all ranged. I hope this is confirmed false, as if it were ture, it would certainly defeat the purpose of the infantry skill set for players looking to play as an infrantry unit.

However I have personally found certain things that contradict this speculation, such as the Lady Finger being the gun with the least recoil I have ever used with its scope (as well as being the most accurate), hopefully due to the +47% recoil reduction! I am well aware of the recticle circle guideline inside the scope which affects accuracy, but this is a different matter altogether.

Sorry if my question sounded 'noobish' or its too much to ask someone to test it out (as I am infact a noob, my highest level is a 32 Siren, without access to much variation of weapons). I'm enjoying my Soldier at the moment, but he's quite a few levels off getting the particular skill I require to test this out. I hope someone can help me with this, because otherwise I may quite my beleoved soldier and move onto my Siren to save myself the time. After all, why would you use a Rifle over SMGs for anything other than accuracy and versatility?

Thank you all very much in advance for any feedback.


 * ~Epicer