Aside from that they serve no purpose and aren't worth wasting your carrying capacity on them. The only use binoculars have is to let you zoom in for a closer look at female characters' sexy bits. But these are redundant if you're carryig around most scoped rifles, since you can see and snipe. You can see farther than VATS can key up in case you wanted to scan ahead. Is there any use for this item? I can scan enemies far away with v.a.t.s if I want and the binoculars do not zoom that much anyway.

Okay, then the page needs to be edited because it says that they do. Most weapons with scopes, especially guns like the Gobi Campaign scout rifle and Ratslayer are better. Their only use is to scan for enemies too far away to be perceived.

Binoculars do not enable the player to discover a location from a distance.

For example, I stood directly next to a location without dicovering it and surveyed it throught the binoculars, as well as pressed about every button on the controller. Is there any specific way you need to aim at a location in order to have the location uncovered. So far the only fix I have found is to exit the game completely and re-enter. It occurred when I added a silencer to a varmint rifle already equipped with an extended mag and a night scope. It seems every time you look through a scope or attempt to pick a lock, it results in this screen once the bug is active. The bug described on the main page, where a blank hack screen appears when you press zoom, is not unique to the binoculars. It's sort of the same deal as with explosives, as a weapon it /must/ have a condition in order to avoid breaking the engine (probably), which has unintended consequences. If binoculars had an attack, that would be weakened by the condition.

Presumably they can be broken by being shot, this is unlikely as players aren't likely to wander into combat with binoculars equipped.

The binoculars appear to have a condition just like a weapon would, does the condition actually have an effect on them? 152.22.0.252 18:39, Octo(UTC)

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