Did 1.03 fix the SNIPER or what??

[yig]

Re: Did 1.03 fix the SNIPER or what??

Yea it seems 1.03 definitly fixed something with the snipers. I was playing Wake07 and got 4/5 kills with the sniper in like 30 secs... That's good news since I'm gonna unlock the kit. (~13000 pts, and got promoted 3 times!).

[Geekybiker]

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well then you suck, snipers are underpowered and if you get capped everytime well you just suck, you may want to consider moving instead of waiting for tanks or whatever.

Yup, they are underpowered at least compared to real life. But they work right now in terms of game balance. Didnt say I get capped by snipers all the time. Just that they are annoying. In general getting shot at, especially one-shotted isnt a fun gameplay experience.

If they made the sniper weapons any more effective they would have to make it require actual skill to shoot too. Breath rythmns, windage, drop, etc. Right now its point and shoot with a weapon that is more like a laser than a rifle.

[mark128]

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DethSHoot you have the same weapons as me lol

[histoplasmosis]

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Dude its a 50 cal. armor piercing round moving at 2300 feet per second. That is pretty much as close to a lazer weapon you can get to begin with. Military snipers can hit kill shots at 2000 meters with that weapon. And yes thats over a mile. Its extremely nerfed in the game.

With UAV's etc.. pointing out where a sniper is I think they should make it one shot kill in torso or head. Leg arm hit boxes should be the way it is now two shots. Kind of like counter strike. People still over come the AWP whores in CS

[Yellonet]

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Simple question.
Did 1.03 fix the underpowered sniper? Has anyone tried it yet?

You wouldn't be saying that the sniper rifles needs fixing if you had tried the MG's
I can kill with the sniper rifles fairly easily
But the MG's...... OH THE MG's! .... they're only effective at 30-40 meters

[Geekybiker]

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The point being gameplay>realism.

And also that sniping in the real world is a highly skilled position. Not so in the game where you always hit where you aim. Go out to a rifle range some time and fire at the 200yrd mark with a head sized target. A fairly descent rifle is already deviating ~2" (sub MOA) by that point and thats without worrying about user error or wind.

Not saying that sniper rifles arent extremely power, just there are reasons why they cant be so in a game.

[Yellonet]

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Dude its a 50 cal. armor piercing round moving at 2300 feet per second. That is pretty much as close to a lazer weapon you can get to begin with. Military snipers can hit kill shots at 2000 meters with that weapon. And yes thats over a mile. Its extremely nerfed in the game.

Have you heard of something called ballistics?

With UAV's etc.. pointing out where a sniper is I think they should make it one shot kill in torso or head. Leg arm hit boxes should be the way it is now two shots. Kind of like counter strike. People still over come the AWP whores in CS

CS has a lot of cover.

As I said even before BF2 was released I think that adding realistic ballistics and weapon sway and such realistic features for all weapons would have been really good for this game. Then you would have to have some skill to become a good sniper and they would not have had to nerf all the weapons.
It would still be hard to hit, even harder to begin with, but with training you would have become better, as it is now you can practice all you want, the random nature of the weapons will still make you miss :|:

[Lasher Dragon]

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The only things I can think of that I would like modified for the sniper is the really iffy accuracy when firing at a target significantly above/below your elevation, and as mentioned being able to disarm and pick up my own claymores. Otherwise I like it. The random miss chance can be irritating, but I think it would be much worse if they were 100% accurate all the time. Everyone would snipe.

[histoplasmosis]

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The point being gameplay>realism.

And also that sniping in the real world is a highly skilled position. Not so in the game where you always hit where you aim. Go out to a rifle range some time and fire at the 200yrd mark with a head sized target. A fairly descent rifle is already deviating ~2" (sub MOA) by that point and thats without worrying about user error or wind.

Not saying that sniper rifles arent extremely power, just there are reasons why they cant be so in a game.

With a 50 cal sniper rifle I can shoot a quarter at 200yds. 200yds is not very far. Taking a 2000yard shot is a different story.

The problem being that when someone mouses over one of us snipers they get our name in huge red leders to know where we are at. Regardless of how impossible it is to see us from the bush. So the guns are underpowerd in consideration with no armor and we can be spotted regardless of camoflague jsut by someone mousing over us. OR a UAV.

Just annoying anyhoot dl is down time to install cya fools on 1.03

[SAS_Andy_McNab]

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I made a silly mistake when I unlocked the shotgun weapon for the anti-tank. At the time I did not realize that I had the option to unlock the other weapons, anyway can I ask EA to change it to the sniper rifle and show mercy on me or am I just going to have to take it like a man.

PPS. How the hell are people Master Sergeant already (150000 points)

[jdrou]

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I made a silly mistake when I unlocked the shotgun weapon for the anti-tank. At the time I did not realize that I had the option to unlock the other weapons, anyway can I ask EA to change it to the sniper rifle and show mercy on me or am I just going to have to take it like a man.

PPS. How the hell are people Master Sergeant already (150000 points)

1. The DAO-12 kicks ass
2. The new patch has drastically reduced the requirements for all the ranks so you will probably get another unlock very shortly.

[SAS_Andy_McNab]

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Sorry about last thread I've just been reading on this site and found out like you said the new patch has drastically reduced the requirements for promotion. I'm very happy to get the weapon unlocks but that must be a bit of a bummer I think for all those people that have worked hard to get to Sergeant and used to be clearly ranked above the rest.

[CommanderD]

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Hmm I wonder whatt I will be like with the M95 that im going to unlock with my 3 avaible unlocks?

[imported_Animalmother]

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its ALWAYS been no more than 2 shots. After u shoot, hold the mouse button down to see if the hit indicator pops up. Most people just suck at aiming and think they actually hit them wihtout knowing for sure. And the m95 was always 100% accurate except for bullet drop.

[SAS_Andy_McNab]

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Anyone know what rank I will now be with 8500 Global Points, am still downloading the patch. :laugh: