Well, it is not really a bigger zoom...
As mentioned before, the factor depends on your Field Of View (FOV) setting.
The UT standard FOV is 90 degrees. Zooming to full range with this FOV you have a max zooming factor of 8.3.
I play with a FOV of 110 degrees which gives me a wider field of vision (20° more
). you can alter your FOV by typing "fov x" in console (for x the number of degrees, <90 gives you a smaller zoom-like FOV, >90 gives you a wider FOV, but don't go too high, or you would see the game with fish eyes
).
Online this works only, if the server allows it. And some server tools like UTPure have settings which can also prevent FOV changings. E. g. this UTPure has no, loose and strict FOV setting. When strict enabled, it disallows you to use the scopes of the chaos weapons.
It is included in UTPure, because this FOV changing could be abused for cheating, example: you could bind "fov 30" on a key and could use this key to zoom with every weapon just by pressing this key. It is stupid, but some people have done that.
Decreasing the FOV is also the way how all these scopes work.
In my case with a FOV of 110 you can zoom to a max factor of 10.1. But this 10.1x factor is the same as a 8.3x factor with normal FOV of 90, you can test this offline, with max zoom in every FOV the target in the scopes are not bigger as with lower of higher FOV. So you have not really a higer zoom, only a higher number on screen.
When you increase your ingame FOV it works like a little zoom-out, that is the reason for this "X10.1".
I think I will keep Deus on the opposite team from now on... ROFL... j/k
