I've noticed that if I aim in 3rd person, the shot goes far to the right of the aiming reticle on screen. In first person w/ iron sights, it's dead on accurate. This is the first time I'm trying out Hard Mode. I'm not sure if that's connected but I didn't have the same problem in casual mode months ago when I'd last played.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

I believe this is an issue with the 3rd person view more than anything.

To test, just launch the game under Easy or some other setting and see what happens.

As I remember it, those who like to play in 3rd have to adjust their aim points because of this. Which is why I never played in 3rd person in this game.

I had loaded the save several times and it kept doing the same thing. I exited the game to post here and when I got back in it had stopped. Apparently it was a glitch that I needed to restart the game for.

It may still be a bit off, but it should work now as intended