How do you aim?

[WITCHCRAFT]

3rd person, always, no exception. Sticking to one option only makes it easier to internalize arrow ballistics and 3rd person has obviously the advantage of showing whats going on around you. After some time you wont notice the reticule offset anymore.

This was pretty much exactly what I was going to post. I always use third person in ranged. The extra field of vision offsets the "penalty" of having to adjust your aim. If you do it for even 1 gen, you will adjust to the offset "wrong" aim that third person provides. I feel that it's actually easier to keep the aim on your target when the reticule is above them, instead of obscuring them.

I rarely go to first person if I am reloading behind a wall. It lets you see through the terrain if it is thin enough. This is not an exploit or bannable.

[Moncho]

May I ask what is your build, Moncho? Or is it a secret? 

It is no secret, I have used 2 throughout a few gens:

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Strength: 15
Agility: 21
Skills to attributes: 2
Power Strike: 5
Shield: 7
Athletics: 5
Power Draw: 5
Weapon Master: 7
One Handed: 110
Archery: 141

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Strength: 18
Agility: 18
Skills to attributes: 2
Power Strike: 6
Shield: 5
Athletics: 6
Power Draw: 6
Weapon Master: 6
One Handed: 101
Archery: 135

Both quite viable, the second one to get even more close and personal even when shooting, and the first one to keep distance and mobility.

With the 15/21 I usually use horn bow, some arrows, military cleaver and knightly kite shield or heavy round shield while wearing medium armour (mail hauberk, straw hat, leather gloves and some boots like rus cav), and with the second one I change between the kit above and rus+arrows+cleaver+buckler.

With these builds you feel slightly UP (compared to 18/21 (or 24) pure builds), but it is quite fun

[poikakoira]

cant aim well couse im pussi and wanted to be realman

[Hirlok]

3rd person most of the time (note that I still use the old client, so no advanced FOV control)
+shift-key'ing gives me enough zoom, just in case I want to hit a specific ass instead of doing the right archer thing:  firing into crowds of melee whiners ;-)

1st person only, if I am trying to shoot through a small window or something like that. Or for intense lulz and epic deaths.

I like a lot shooting at moving people far away, and I have a better feeling for leading etc. in 3rd person.

Plus my battle awareness is crap anyways, so in 3rd person I do not get murdered THAT often by some melee pussy sneaking up to me...

[Zox_Fury]

I never aim cause i'm not able to aim anything correctly : A player , a bot or a tree no way whatever my choice first or third person. Sometimes i succeed to aim accurately the sky hit box or a wall but not more.

That s why i don't play a lot archer.

[Umbra]

Personally i use 3rd person with maxed out FOV, i like to have as much battle awearness as i can. When i am a defender on siege on the walls i use 1st person + shift key, im more accurate that way