Weapon abilities??

[YETTI]

I know we are all well into BF2, and loving it!, but something has to be done to the weapon stats. I know modern body armor is tough, but it is laughable that it can withstand a hit from a Barrett Lite, as these weapons were introduced as anti-armor rifles, ie- they can take out lightly armored vehicles, planes, helicopters and the like. Also, the magnification of the Scopes on all the sniper rifles needs some tweaking, as all of them have an effective kill zone of 750 metres plus! The M24 is slightly better than the other two, ranging out to about 1200 metres, then the Barrett, at a whopping 2500 metres! Any decent sniper should be able to put a round into a head sized target at 500 metres, but the scopes dont allow this to happen, let alone a good sniper taking down a man at 2500 metres. If this can be changed in the game, all well and good, if not, I will still continue to play this allmighty fantastic game. Well done.

[Zagashi]

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I know we are all well into BF2, and loving it!, but something has to be done to the weapon stats. I know modern body armor is tough, but it is laughable that it can withstand a hit from a Barrett Lite, as these weapons were introduced as anti-armor rifles, ie- they can take out lightly armored vehicles, planes, helicopters and the like. Also, the magnification of the Scopes on all the sniper rifles needs some tweaking, as all of them have an effective kill zone of 750 metres plus! The M24 is slightly better than the other two, ranging out to about 1200 metres, then the Barrett, at a whopping 2500 metres! Any decent sniper should be able to put a round into a head sized target at 500 metres, but the scopes dont allow this to happen, let alone a good sniper taking down a man at 2500 metres. If this can be changed in the game, all well and good, if not, I will still continue to play this allmighty fantastic game. Well done.

The farthest you can see character, with 100 % view distance is 535 meters, after that they simply dissapear, as they are no longer being rendered..

[alkajazz]

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Uh its called balancing. if the 50 cal would kill in one hit everytime, i bet you would bitch about how it kills in one hit.

[H2Yo]

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Also as we know this game is an arcade style FPS, As Alkajazz said, it's all about balancing. If you were to make everything realistic, the balance would be given the arse...

[YETTI]

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Yeah, fair call, I didn't know the limits of rendering, so that makes a bit more sense, doesn't help with the weak scopes but!

[YETTI]

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As for you alkajaz, did you read my whole note?? I was pointing out how REAL weapons behave, not the imitations in the game, and I feel a bit let down that after all the pre-release hype over how "real" the in game weapons would be, they fail to live up to what the developers quoted. Yes it may be balancing, but keep it 'balanced'. I doubt you have ever fired a real rifle and know how it behaves, but to those of us who have, the differences are quite marked between real and game.