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Cheese9Man's avatar
3 years ago
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Mythbusting the laser sight myth

Almost all of us thought that you can’t see enemy laser sights (because this is what Respawn said) and what people were referring to when they claim they saw a laser was Vantage’s ult. Well apparently you can see enemy laser sights but it looks like a red stick extending from your gun and will most likely not give your position away.

Screen shot from skeptation (video below).

Skeptation confirming the myth

Mokeysniper didn’t do his research well this time (still love his videos though). 

  • KelRiever's avatar
    KelRiever
    3 years ago

    If you are hiding, the laser sight does tend to stand out.  It's silly but I have to put away my smg with site when I'm scoping out enemies or often they seem me first.

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  • @Cheese9Man

    But FR all the people who think every Vantage on their map is a guy with a laser sight SMG are pretty funny! I feel like fewer than 1% of the game's players read patch notes.
  • KelRiever's avatar
    KelRiever
    3 years ago

    If you are hiding, the laser sight does tend to stand out.  It's silly but I have to put away my smg with site when I'm scoping out enemies or often they seem me first.

  • pandareno1999's avatar
    pandareno1999
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @KelRiever It could possibly be better to just ignore them until you find a purple one. I use hipfire on SMGs quite a bit, so I'm picking up anything that improves it a bit, even if it is still not as good as last season's default hipfire.

    Also, if they can ever get it working properly, you can customize your laser sight color to lessen its visibility. Currently you can customize it, but it will soon return to the default red, just like custom reticles did when they were introduced. I have not yet explored all of the options, but I think you should be able to make it black or some other color unlikely to be noticed, just like a custom reticle can.   I want to customize mine so that it is less intrusive to my view on screen.  But you bring up an even better reason.

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