Anyone finding the sniper rifle accuracy not what it should be. I mean I have the cross hair right on people and I will miss. When people are running I try and lead them only to find that I need to aim on them for me to hit them. Anyone else seeing this?
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I think there are some weird bugs in the game that make sniper rifles miss when they shouldn't. I've noticed some nasty clipping stuff, where a sniper at a higher elevation will have his upper torso clearly visible over the edge of a top of the building, but be impossible to hit. -
My god - did you discover this all by yourself? You didnt get help or anything? Cause im pretty amazed you managed to find it.Comment
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I take it from your sarcasm that this is a known bug and will be taken care of in patch 1.03?Originally posted by KaltagestaComment
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Infact the sniper bullet drifts downward... aim a little higher over longer distances.Comment
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its a known bug but I doubt it will ever be taken care of as to many people would complain when the start getting taken down by an unseen sniper.
Its sad really that thay have to take a sniper rifle and hamper it in this way just to appease the masses.Comment
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i seem to be encountering the opposite. i can be sniping and only my head is sticking out or a very small portion of my body, but yet people are killing me with m16s on burst from 200 yards away.Originally posted by xRandoMx
i also think there is a problem with bullets and walls. so supposedly only high caliber weapons, like the tanks machine guns and hummvee machine guns can shoot through some types of walls.
i've been shot through walls by m16s and other types of guns. not just thin walls but brick walls and crates.Comment
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The sniper rifles are pretty accurate so long as you're trying to hit a still target. When I snipe I'll only take the shot if the enemy is somewhat close and they are not moving at all. Trying to hit a moving target in this game is close to impossible unless they are running directly at or from you.Originally posted by porscheComment
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I know. All I do is snipe and give cover to my teammates. But it is frustrating to try and give cover to your squad, when you cannot shoot them or should have shot them but they kill one of your guys in your squad instead. I shot one guy 4 times in the chest and he was running down the street and he did not die. If you play the American side though you can kill people with one shot more often.Originally posted by donniebComment
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Originally posted by Wynterheart
That isn't the opposite, that is a gun that is working as it should, where as the sniper rifles don't... which I guess *is* the opposite, lol.
The rifles are already significantly hampered by reload, zoom out, weak damage, etc., is a shame they also have to be plagued by unexplained poor accuracy in some/many situations.Comment
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[QUOTE=Wynterheart]i seem to be encountering the opposite. i can be sniping and only my head is sticking out or a very small portion of my body, but yet people are killing me with m16s on burst from 200 yards away.
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This is also another very frustrating thing. Guys with machine guns are more accurate than a sniper gun. A guy with a maching gun can be far away and hit you more times than you can hit him, especially if you miss your first shot.
The whole purpose of sniper guns is to take one shot and get one kill. Thats the point of a sniper gun and its just not realistic game play.Comment
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There is a random factor with all of these shots. So someone with a similar deviation while scoped (or ironsights) will be more effective. They can fire 5-7 bullets by the time you fire two. Thier odds are increased greatly.
A map like Karkand or Sharqi a sniper can be a deadly weapon. A map like Kubra Dam or Oman .. the vast openness of the map makes playing a sniper pretty frustrating.Comment
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there should be clear cut advantages and disadvantages to the sniper rifles aswell as better accuracy.. such as a Dragunov shouldn't have the accuracy at range as a M24, but since the M24 is bolt action, it should have a more powerful scope.. -shrugs- my opinion..Comment
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It was better to be a sniper on BF1942 than it is now on BF2. I found to be a sniper on BF1942 to be very accurate. So accurate I used to just aim for peoples heads and not worry about. Now, I find myself just trying to hit a guys chest because thats the biggest target.
Side note....looking for a clan or squad that actually uses squads with headphones. Was on last night and we had a squad of 6 and really worked as a team with headphones. Made the game so much better to play, much more fun and realistic. I would take the high ground and be the eyes for the squad and help my squad from afar when they would raid a flag. It was a lot of fun. I play from 8pm to 1am. I didn't want to stop cause I got a taste of what the game should be played like all the time.Comment
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Look mate, and I've said it before in other threads as well relating to other weapons, its just a matter of getting used to the bloody thing! spend your 5 hour stints on the same server, using only the sniper rifle, and you'll be surprised how much better you are with it by the end! It's not realistic, sure, but that might have something to do with it being a GAME! You just gotta accept that and move on, then you'll learn to work within the constraints of the weapon and become more effective as a result.Comment
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