On mouse and keyboard for Halo Infinite, I prefer to use “toggle to zoom” instead of “hold to zoom”.
However, hold to zoom seems superior especially when using the sniper, as you can quickly unscope as soon as you let go of the zoom button.
With the sniper, the zoom levels are:
unscoped → 5x zoom → 10x zoom
When using toggle to zoom, I don’t know how to unscope quickly from the 5x zoom level.
I have tried, switching weapons twice, zooming in twice, and meleeing to exit the zoom, but none of these options are as fast as the hold to zoom option! Surely I am missing something?
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we controller players double tap the switch weapon button to descope faster
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Either switch weapons or melee
I tried the double switch weapons and melee to zoom out but it is slower than what the hold to zoom users can perform.
Hold to zoom users can instantaneously zoom out when they let go of the zoom key.
Whilst toggle zoom users have to double switch weapons, or zoom in twice to zoom out which both takes about 1/4 of a second. Melee is even slower I believe. I love this game and the Halo series, but there needs to be some urgent quality-of-life updates and a higher level of overall polish. All these small annoyances do add up, and newcomers to the series perhaps won’t be as patient.
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In previous games, holding the zoom button after going to 10x would allow you to go back to 5x on releasing, but the extra pressure at 10x always threw off my aim.
Not sure if this is in Infinite. Haven’t tried it cause there aren’t many scenarios where 10x is honestly necessary.
You can actually bind it on PC I know that much. There is an option to zoom out instead of zoom in further. Look in the button bindings.
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This controller player didn’t but will do in the future, thx for the tip!
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I just click twice or swap weapons to de-scope, I don’t know if there’s a way to simply press one input and get back to normal view from 5x tho
btw you can also melee faster by swapping weapons a split second after you throw the punch
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If you want to optimize for “unzoom speed”, hold to zoom is the better option. Otherwise, you have to double zoom, melee, or swap weapons to get out of zoom quickly. That’s just the way it’s always been.
Yeah this behaviour is really annoying and disadventageous for players who use toggle zoom.
It would be better to bind “change zoom level” to separate button while zooming like in apex
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I think this is a good suggestion, however the current implementation of change zoom level is that when you are 5x zoom , change zoom level would go to 10x zoom.
Should be a button to zoom out, or some other mechanism to zoom out.
I think I found a solution here. The sprint action descopes, and you can cancel the animation almost immediately by pulling back. On controller, flick up on the movement stick, click to Sprint, and immediately flick the stick back to center. Takes a minute of practice to get it fluid, but it’s a near instant descope with no noticable Sprint animation. Plus it kinda feels like your pulling the scope down from your eyes, which is nice and intuitive.
Hi, good thinking, this is a sort of situational workaround but guess this is better than nothing.
If you sprint on keyboard and move forward slightly it will descope you.
I just mash my thumbstick. It’s a habit I learned in the days of H2 SWAT and Shotty/Snipes. I didn’t realize I was even fast until someone in my party overheard me quickly scoping/descoping a Sniper or BR more recently and asking if I was using a scroll wheel or a keybind. Nope just mashing the stick.