Forum:Cant zoom in with sniper rifle

Today i have encountered a problem with New Vegas im level 23 and when i was about to snipe a deathclaw i couldn't zoom in it would show up this pip boy looking thing and on the bottom it showed a button with the letter B but it doesn't do anything, it's making me upset that i cant zoom in with a sniper or any other gun with a scope. So does anyone know of a way to solve this if so please tell me. Also would it be because i have level 100 in guns?

It doesn't matter what your gun skill level is. Non of the scoped weapons have a zoom feature in either FO:NV or FO3. It's a feature that, for some reason, Bethesda didn't feel was very important. Hopefully, this problem will be addressed in FO4, if we all complain about it loud enough to Bethesda.--Ryker6120:15, March 20, 2011 (UTC)~1:14pm 3/20/2011

Ryker's response is yet another failed attempt at helping. I'm assuming its when you zoom, there is a picture of a terminal or something. This occurs randomly for no reason. The other day, I zoomed in and had a crazy pink horrifying picture of textures when I zoomed in with any of my scoped weapons. I fixed it by simply saving the game, turning off my system (ps3) and then reloading. It's just some random glitch that occurs, very strange. No clue what Ryker was trying to get at... I'm assuming he thought you meant if you could zoom a sniper from 1x to 2x then to 4x and what not. That feature can be done through mods though...--OhMyParry 23:41, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

I've heard about the glitch and OhMyPerry's solution is the way. I too wish the scopes had a zoom feature. I'm guessing if the game was PC only it would use the mouse wheel to zoom the scope. I hope someone can clue me in here; I heard any PC console command will wipe out Steam community achievments. Will installing a mod do the same thing ? Squalor 14:10, March 22, 2011 (UTC)