Kordos said:
Victrix - nice post.
You don't mention why you use the ACOG. Is it purely for the bling, or is there some implicit modifier to hip-shooting that the ACOG gives?
Ah, I didn't spell it out - basically, because you're never scoping, you don't *need* a red dot. As a result, why not use an ACOG? Your damage is pure crap at a distance due to damage falloff, but at the distances you'll be using it at, it doesn't matter much. Plus, typically, the targets you do pick out with it are snipers or M16 users, and if there is something more satisfying than killing a red tiger M16 camper with an ACOG'd skorpion or mini uzi, I don't know what it is. Extra bonus in Sabotage, where players frequently watch killcams. You can hear their screams of disgust from a mile away.
This setup, for me at least, occupies a curious space. I've found that it generally dies to the usual up-close culprits (shotguns, double tapped p90s on full auto, general spray and pray smgs, or that god damned m16 killing you in one shot, etcetc), but, at close-medium to medium range, it shines. You kill quickly, you're accurate, and most importantly, you're fast and mobile.
It's generally an awkward distance for most guns - most people quickly bring up their sights at that distance, and while you can be hit by the usual fire-scope-continue firing (and you will die to this), it isn't a given that your opponent is perfectly accurate, whereas shooting from the hip while tapping is dead easy - keep your crosshair on center mass, and your target tends to fall over.
Plus, at worst, up close you're a skorpion or mini uzi spraying, which isn't half bad - though I've found I tend to taptaptap even at pretty close range, just because the ammo conservation is so awesome, its great to finish a fight with two dead bodies and enough shots to finish a third without reloading, vs the usual mini uzi BRAAAAAAAAAAAPT click click faceplant.
You're not going to win any fights coming up in the open against someone behind hard cover with the barrel of their AR pointed at you, but you will win a lot of fights while moving around from place to place, which is generally what I use SMGs for. If I want to cover an area or fight at a distance, that's what ARs or LMGs are for.
Of the two, the Skorpion is stronger up close (highest damage at close range of any of the guns iirc), weaker at a distance, and the ammo capacity, while less of a liability tapping than normal, is still a bit painful. I generally prefer the mini-uzi, both due to ROF and clipsize, but both worked well when we tested them.
Something else funny - I've found I get MORE headshots shooting this way than I do aiming. Headshots with SMGs in a practical timespan are a bitch, unless you're willing to accept deaths to whiffing their head completely. A funny side effect of hip shooting is that the spread *helps* you quite often, as a stray bullet impacts the head. For reference, I don't think any of my SMGs went over 25 headshots on my way to 150 this run, and the mini uzi was around 50 by the time I had it capped on this prestige.
was pretty happy with that one. And offcourse a carpet bomb of 11 in total. Got killed right after the fifth kill, did a good bomb run (5 kills) right after it another one 6 kills 