"Hip shooting is nothing more than panic fire. But in INF it has become a method of attack! Not to mention, it just makes scoped weapons all that more convenient. They can use a weapon for sniping, and for cqb.
One rule of gaming is to not put useless feature in a game. If they make hip shooting more useless than it is (i'm sure even you could fire from hip and hit something under 20 meters) then they should just disable it completly (or unable you from firing). But i've read a few places, and heard from a friend in the Canadian army that hip shooting is used : when charging (you suppress your opponement until you can stop and make some accurate shots) and when the enemy is so close that accuracy don't matter (well you can call it panic fire, but it remain deadly and effective at close range). Would you feel it to be realistic if you could not line a single good shot on someone right next to you from the hip? Personnaly i would find it REALLY lame as i'm a crack shot from the hip in RL.
One rule of gaming is to not put useless feature in a game. If they make hip shooting more useless than it is (i'm sure even you could fire from hip and hit something under 20 meters) then they should just disable it completly (or unable you from firing). But i've read a few places, and heard from a friend in the Canadian army that hip shooting is used : when charging (you suppress your opponement until you can stop and make some accurate shots) and when the enemy is so close that accuracy don't matter (well you can call it panic fire, but it remain deadly and effective at close range). Would you feel it to be realistic if you could not line a single good shot on someone right next to you from the hip? Personnaly i would find it REALLY lame as i'm a crack shot from the hip in RL.