Scopes have struck me as set up a little weirdly, with most weapons having a limited selection that makes them not very flexible, and then the Short Scopes zoom in so little that they don't offer much over Reflex Sights. And despite requiring a high level of research, Recon Scopes just don't zoom in as much as they should, and that zoom is inconsistent between weapons too.

So, I decided that I'd fix all of that. I've added Short, Medium and Long Scopes to all weapons with scopes that were missing them, along with Recon Scopes for all zoom levels, so there's now more options for what zoom you have for a scope, and Recon Scopes are more worth the investment. All the exisitng Recon Scopes were changed into Short Recon Scopes, as they are most similar to Short Scopes in the base game.

To give some more freedom, a weapon's range will now increase along with each tier of zoom level, meaning that some weapons are now more viable as sniper rifles, or at least better able to be used at more than close range. I've also unified and increased the zoom level for scopes, so Short Scopes will always be 4x zoom, Medium will be 6x zoom, and Long will be 8x zoom. Short Scopes finally feel more distinct from Reflex Sights.

For anyone that prefers the zoom levels as they are in the base game, there's an optional plugin that changes them back to be closer to those, but I've still unified the zoom levels for them, so Short will be 2x, Medium will be 4x, and Long will be 6x.

There's also another optional plugin that swaps some of the scopes models out for ones that I felt looked better. This is very subjectively, so some people may disagree with my changes, hence why it's an optional plugin. Generally, I went for scope models that were unique to the weapon, that I felt fit the weapon better, or ones that are a more traditional scope instead of the model with multiple lenses on a dome at the front.

The weapons with scopes added are as follows:

• AA-99
• Beowulf
• Breach
• Bridger
• Drum Beat
• Equinox
• Grendel
• Hard Target
• Lawgiver
• Maelstrom
• MagSniper
• Negotiator
• Novablast Disruptor
• Old Earth Hunting Rifle
• Orion
• Razorback
• Sidestar
• Tombstone
• Urban Eagle
• Va'ruun Inflictor
• XM-2311

Here is a longer list with all of the weapons and the scopes that have been added:
Thanks to this mod, the Old Earth Hunting Rifle can have its scope modified now, and the Sidestar now has scope options as well. The recipes for Short Recon Scopes have been adjusted to make them available with at a lower level of research to account for the Medium and Long Recon Scopes, and the crafting requirements are hopefully suitable for that too. Their descriptions now say how far they zoom as well.

Along with all of that, I've also added the cut Equinox Iron Sights that existed in the files but wasn't implemented, and made a number of changes to other sights as well.

Those other changes are as follows: