Solution for too many online snipers.
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A good sniper is always a good thing to have, on either side. If it's yours, it means you have a buddy covering you from another, usually better vantage point.
If it's not on your side, it makes combat more interesting. I don't know about the rest of you, but I actually constantly pay attention to how open I am at any given time. Cover is your friend.
Now spawn-killing, that's a different matter and not related purely to snipers. Also, if you're pinned down by snipers, which is a very real and very dangerous occurrence in actual combat, it's yet another interesting obstacle to overcome, and almost certainly calls for teamwork to overcome the situation.
If it's not on your side, it makes combat more interesting. I don't know about the rest of you, but I actually constantly pay attention to how open I am at any given time. Cover is your friend.
Now spawn-killing, that's a different matter and not related purely to snipers. Also, if you're pinned down by snipers, which is a very real and very dangerous occurrence in actual combat, it's yet another interesting obstacle to overcome, and almost certainly calls for teamwork to overcome the situation.
Nope, because then I wouldn't play the game. I stopped playing CSS because every second game you join has banned the AWP and the Scout. If you are good with a gun, then why should you be put at a disadvantage... As a sniper class (and only a sniper) I know the hate associated with it. I always get people complaining that I'm hacking or are using a modded controller. People just don't like being beaten by a class they can't play as.
If it's a camping sniper, I get annoyed, any other kind I'm fine with. I'm a rather terrible sniper in the first place though, I have gotten headshots with a regular SCAR shot in through a window on the opposite side of the map on Derail, because I decided to shoot at the windows, and have gotten a multiple headshots with rocket launcher on MW2, both of these by just assuming they're there. Snipers aren't hard to kill, you just need to think of what you would do in their situation, and imagine where they are.
I tend to flank the enemy and attack from behind, and then my team closes in on them from the front. Not the best idea in Hardcore mode though.
I tend to flank the enemy and attack from behind, and then my team closes in on them from the front. Not the best idea in Hardcore mode though.
The games I play and have heard complaints about snipers on;Jnat said:
Modern warfare 2 (rarely play this I should say)
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Battlefield Bad Company 1
Halo 3
Earlier PC Battlefield games
Gears of War
Any there that take your fancy?
Slightly off topic but still...XinfiniteX said:
Being called a hacker is so stupid, I was really good with the sniper on Gears of War and people starting saying I used the blue tack trick.
Also I was playing some battlefield game on PC and people starting saying I had auto aim on because I kept getting headshots...
They just can't handle being killed by someone better.
Most snipers get killed while relocating, and even more get killed by staying still so they're not really a problem.
The exception to this is probably Bad Company 2 because the bushes and other greenery in that game are the best cover there is, they disguise your location and most often cover your muzzle fire.
The exception to this is probably Bad Company 2 because the bushes and other greenery in that game are the best cover there is, they disguise your location and most often cover your muzzle fire.
Best way to take out a sniper is with a tank.
Tank beats everything, though, so there's a balance issue.
Well, no, missile pod and Spartan Laser destroy tank.
Then the sniper takes out the Spartan Laser easily.
There's nothing wrong with snipers. What is a problem is the player not countering them right.
(Halo was used as my example here, but if we're talking a more contemporary game, swap out "Spartan Laser" with "RPG" and the same logic still applies. If it doesn't have a tank, swap that out with stealth class, or grenade flushing.)
Tank beats everything, though, so there's a balance issue.
Well, no, missile pod and Spartan Laser destroy tank.
Then the sniper takes out the Spartan Laser easily.
There's nothing wrong with snipers. What is a problem is the player not countering them right.
(Halo was used as my example here, but if we're talking a more contemporary game, swap out "Spartan Laser" with "RPG" and the same logic still applies. If it doesn't have a tank, swap that out with stealth class, or grenade flushing.)
Good game for those who are annoyed by snipers
Transformers: War for Cybertron.
The way that game plays eliminates camping almost completely, and severely limits snipers. There are a few, but not many, and they're few because it doesn't work well.
Transformers: War for Cybertron.
The way that game plays eliminates camping almost completely, and severely limits snipers. There are a few, but not many, and they're few because it doesn't work well.
Question about that game. Does its killstreaks include anything as game-breaking as the nuke from Modern Warfare 2? The potential of that when I saw the customizable killstreaks is the primary reason I'm not entirely sure I want the game.obliviondoll said:
Oh, I like that. Shotgun free maps.Thunderhorse31 said:
I'm constantly getting killed by shotguns. They come up behind me while I'm sniping and kill me in ONE SHOT!! Can you believe that bullshit?
Double post. In answer to your question, no. The killstreaks are largely useless.Miles Tormani said:
A simple solution, play TF2 and have fun instead of playing a griefing engine masquerading as a hardcore FPS.
Ok I have no problem with having too many snipers, it's an old rule of gaming and other things: if you hate too many snipers on the other team, remember that your team can have "too many snipers" as well. Don't get me wrong I hate the cheap deaths in TF2 because generally I won't see a Sniper until it shows the freezecam shot after they've killed me. Makes me go "Oooooh, that's where I was shot from." They're pretty good though, because they can kill most members of the opposing team with no damage taken.