Detect and Ranged Attacks

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Originally Posted by Refplace

You are correct in that base Detect is not a passive ability and so a momentary glimpse. However earlier questions were do you need Reflexive, to turn it into a useful targeting ability and IMO the correct answer was given which is no.
Base Detect requires that pesky Concentrate maneuver, however you can get around that by one of the following.

• Compartmentalized Mind or Altered Time Rate - granting you an extra maneuver so you can target then shoot in the same turn.
• Reduced Time, +20% (p. B108) or Reflexive, +40% (Powers, p. 109) which effectively includes a level of Reduced Time. Either means its a Free Action to use Detect, allowing you to sense then immediately shoot.
• Attacking a stationary target.

You'll need Precise, +100% in all cases to make a typical physical attack though. Precise is required to learn the distance and Targeting makes that more exact by effectively adding as a rangefinder. Not that +3 bonus on Aimed attacks is similar to using rangefinders from High Tech or Tactical Shooting.

This seems like a good and wholesome answer.

If I’ve understood you correctly, reflexive is not strictly necessary to get around the one-second concentration maneuver problem in the sense that it isn’t the only way to do it, but it is one way to do it.

Thanks a million!