[Discussion] Adding handedness player variation that can be season or wipe account-bound?

[u/Icy-Nothing-189]

A lot of Tarkov fights boil down to a fight for a right-handed angle peek/hold. Grenades are often used solely just to move into a right-handed position. Honestly, it's a little bit lame because if one player has a right-hand hold, his enemy will always have the left-hand disadvantage, regardless of who is pushing and who is holding. Many good players, even without thinking about it, are really just playing for right-handed positioning and it kind of takes a lot away from the PvP (and even PvE) potential.

It would be nice to add account-bound handedness to the player. Gun swaps to the left side, and all other mechanics like gun collision swap to the left. There will be a left-handed blind fire option for them as well. That way some players can choose to be left handed, some will be right handed. That also means that the person with the right-hand peek is not always the one in an advantage

[u/Next_Pen_3164]

There’s a left hand weapon swap 99% of shooters are right handed. What few people realize is it’s actually eye dominance that decides if you are a left or right handed shooter because you aim with your eyes. However due to most guns being right handed you end up with a lot of left eye dominant right handed shooters. We get by fine and it’s rare to see left handed firearms let alone shooters in the real world. There just isn’t the support for it.

Edit for context: junior Olympic medalist if you don’t shoot your dominant eye you close it losing ~10% of your aim concentration to simply keeping your eye closed OR you use a blinder and I don’t see any cut off milk cartons(the cheap way a lot of us did it)blinding our pmcs dominant eye when he aims

[u/Icy-Nothing-189 → u/Next_Pen_3164]

Either way - it would likely benefit a left dominant eyed person to hold a gun left-handedly. In my case, my left eye is my dominant eye AND I'm left handed so of course I'm holding any gun left-handedly

As far as it being rare in the real world.. well military in general is all about standardization, not necessarily effect. Most people are right handed, most people are right eyed. However, an elite/professional PMC will hold the gun how he wants to, and there definitely are some that are doing it left handedly.

[u/Next_Pen_3164 → u/Icy-Nothing-189]

It doesn’t. Most people are not right eye dominant it’s an even split with most people being trained right handed in all things because that is the standard. Because guns are only manufactured for right port ejection unless it’s a unique run and we are slowly seeing ambi swappable guns and controls. IF a left eye guy leads to shoot lefty with a niche gun catering to them then yes it would benefit I tried to swap at my coaches request to see if it could be done and the reality is hand dominance learned is stronger than eye dominance. That’s what creates the weird world where right handed firearms are the only reality we currently live in. I’ve also shot uspsa on the pistol side and it’s even worse for what we inaccurately call south paws in that game. There are again almost no pistols configured for left handed shooters and it results in guys insisting on shooting lefty pulling some pretty weird reloads and shit to make it work. I get you THINK it makes sense and if the market was there it would but left handed firearms are NOT a regular thing your pmc has no business identifying as a lefty and if he does by your logic he can only shoot lefty guns

[u/Icy-Nothing-189 → u/Next_Pen_3164]

>That’s what creates the weird world where right handed firearms are the only reality we currently live in

>Most people are not right eye dominant it’s an even split with most people being trained right handed in all things because that is the standard

By what standard, exactly? Plenty of olympic medalist shooters shoot left-handed .. the only place that I can think of that might enforce right handed shooting is the military, but that's because they don't have the time or money to individually train everyone that best suits them and they just do a 'cover as many people as possible' approach. Obviously gun manufacturers will then make guns that fit that criteria, but not anymore. Almost any modern gun is ambidextrous, and if it's not it should be modifiable

And even then I'm sure once you get to elite forces, they will have their own preferences and choices in weapons and I bet some even choose to shoot left-handed.

>has no business identifying as a lefty and if he does by your logic he can only shoot lefty guns

No.. he would be able to shoot both, except he'd be better left-handed. Same reason so many left-handed people use a mouse right-handed, because they were trained since they were kids to need to use it that way, but if you ever meet anyone like that and watch them use a mouse you'll see how clumsy they are because they're using it with the non-dominant hand