Poll: Snipers?

[ucciolord1]

Love em'.
This is why.

 

[Chaos Theory]

I love how you stand so beutifully still

 

[BabySinclair]

I usually either counter-snipe or stealth around and unload into people's backs and then disappear again. I hold that if the game's 1v1 I'll fight you openly, otherwise I'll eschew that and try to assassinate people.

 

[Korey Von Doom]

Snipers are generally useless and contribute nothing in a team oriented game

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

All i need is my trusty Gewher 44 an M1 garand and a good amount of sunlight and plenty of bodies.

 

[JohnTomorrow]

Sniping isn't something to diss. Sometimes a decent sniper can be the lynchpin to victory.

The problem is that sniping is hard to pull off in most games to the newcomer, who would then shun the sniper as someone who is a cheapskate, not able to 'play the game proper'. However, who is the guy who covers your ass as your run down the street, moving from cover under fire?

Notice how, when a sniper comes into a game, he is usually the quickest to be eliminated? This is because he strikes hard and fast, can move with stealth, and can be devastating when used properly. Not only that, but it takes a cool head and steady hands to snipe. Its not a spray-n-pray role - you must be deadly accurate, literally.

People groan when Wastelands or Derail comes into play, because it is sniper heaven. This is because those people don't understand the proper way to play these maps. You must use stealth, keep a low profile, blend in with your surroundings. It shouldn't be about getting the highest score - it should be able feeling the thrill of lying prone for a few minutes, waiting for your opponent to slip up - and punishing him for it with extreme prejudice.

People say snipers are campers, associating 'camping' with 'dog turd'. But, again, these are the type of people who run around wildly, not checking their surroundings, making noise like a wild rhino in a glass warehouse, expecting people to rush into their sights. This is not how you would fight in the Real World, why do you do this in a game? Because it is fun to rush blindly in as a hero - and the sniper is there to put you in your place.

Btw, bunnyhopping in MW2? Just a better headshot challenge.

 

[Mikaze]

I try, but it just seems so useless of MW2 when the most accurate weapons are actually assault rifles and there aren't any maps big enough for the range of the sniper rifles to come into their own.

 

[Crazyjay]

i love to snipe. i do it atleast half or more of the time i spend playing a game, i suck now though, used to be really good.

 

[MR T3D]

snipers are generally pussies whom sit back and try to shoot people whom do not see them at that time, often due to a lack of ability to see at range without a sniper weapon.

 

[Kollega]

I take up the scoped rifle every now and then - but only if game has head-essplosions upon headshot. Otherwise it isn't worth it.

 

[Deus Encarmine]

Well... they are a key aspect of any team game, but some guys are straight pissin' me off. The guys who choose one place and camp there for the duration of the game; I mean, what's the point? Everybody knows where you are, you're going to get knifed the umpeteenth time, get out of there. But what's worse is the guys who suck, and have a K ratio of say... 2:25, and still play as a sniper. Sniper is a very powerfull class, and not everyone knows how to play them ( I mean really well ). But you know that they have hit rock bottom when you head-shot a sniper with an assault rifle. The game I'm reffering to is Day of Defet: Source. So, in conclusion, I don't hate the sniper as a class, but I'm not fond of 12 year olds playing as one( there are exceptions, of course).

 

[snow]

When I was a strategist for my clan back in my cod4 days. I always made sure to have a sniper in a critical position. My clan thought I was insane for just having LMG's in my strategies.. That is of course till they saw them in play!

I wish my laptop screen wasn't broken...

 

[Dwarfman]

In the real world nobody likes snipers. Afterall whats to like about someone who can kill your buddies but is either too far away or too well concealed for you to retaliate.

Inthe real world everyone want a sniper on their team for the same reasons as above.

 

[xavierxenon]

I like to snipe, though its a shame it takes so much skill to kill someone with one hit.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Sometimes I snipe if it is suitable.
Really, I am indifferent.
Although yesterday there was this one guy that somehow knew where people were... he jumped past an upper-story window of a building, and while he did so he turned in mid-air and fired a single blind shot that ended up as a headshot on our last team mate.
I don't mind snipers, but if things become like that, they can go to hell. Not snipers, but the ones that end up doing suspicious things like I mentioned.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I watched Enemy at the Gates once, and in the following weeks I aped it in TF2 and COD4

I pwned, suprisingly enough

 

[oppp7]

It depends on the game. In Counterstrike snipers are overpowered because they can kill people with a body shot in 1 hit, even if they have armor. In Borderlands I felt that the sniper kinda sucks because eventually all the machine guns got almost as strong and shooting heads is easy at close range in combat.

 

[Crazycat690]

Well, I snipe in BF:Bad Company, that's nice, it's so much better cuz of the big maps, that's how sniping should be in a game, not like in MW2 lol.

 

[teisjm]

I like sniping, and i have absolutely no problem with others sniping.

I think people who hate snipers are whiny bi.., and they prolly rage about most other weapons as well as long as they're on the recieving end of it, "OMG tubefag" "knife-fucker" "akimbo-n00b" "rusher fag" "camping scum" etc. the list goes on, and no matetr what you do, there'll always be someone ready to tell you what a n00by tactic/weapon that was cause it pwned his ass.

If you can't handle having your ass handed to you every once ina while, don't play online multiplayer, it's that simple. Stop blaming tha playa weapon, blame the game is it really is that imba. But honestly, if one guy repeatedly pwns you with 1 weapon, he coudl prolly do it with others as well. You're just too full of yourself to realize that it prolly has something to do with your own skill level as well.

 

[Devious Boomer]

I play sniper in the Battlefield games for the very fact that my allies are never around to help and the team ends up scattered all over the map. It usually doesn't end well when it's me v 3. I also end up raging a fair amount at all the frequent spawn deaths.
Besides, picking off people with surgical precision is always great fun and rather cathartic for all those unavoidable deaths and unhelpful teammates.