05-24-2015, 06:03 PM
(05-24-2015, 05:46 PM)Icowom Wrote: Considering their doctrines reliance on precision firepower even to the individual infantryman level. Do Avail troops have access to optics, of either worn, interfaces, or even surgery grafted that overcome their somewhat poor depth perception, and light level adjustment?
I've seen concepts of 'sniper goggles' on the mod page and the Nexus forum itself, but it seems trivial to take augmentation steps further than ever before.
It'll sure allow them to get the jump on newbish enemies thinking that all they needed to do is keep their distance~
To an extent. It's easy to over-think the optical aspect of warfare and aiming guns. (The sniper goggles arn't something I created. Their combat helmet already have equivalent systems installed)
The Avali arn't highly visually orientated. So while their combat helmets and stuff DO have optical systems (magnification, vision modes, heads up displays and stuff), they would also have a lot of audio-cues; virtual 3D sounds indicating waypoints, enemy positions, their weapon's orientation spacially, how close a target is to their line of fire etc.
Visual augmentations are possible but I have doubts whether the Avali brain could make that much use of the data since they just don't think greatly in terms of vision. And most of that same information could be communicated perfectly well through auditory routes (including aiming a weapon!).
Nonetheless, an Avali sniper with proper targeting wargear will wreck your shit with the best of them