The fear for the real snipers comes from our mortality.
In a game where you can just come back to life and go bash the snipers brains out, that fear is greatly diluted and all that is left resentment towards the "camper who got lucky".
Snipers to an extent require one to remain undetected and/or out of reach. In their infinite "wisdom" DICE made their scopes be beacons of intense light to show where the shooter is (unless they are quickscoping).
People can easily shoot back at them too.
I'd be happy with there being no sniper rifles in the game except ones you can pick up at control points but from the sounds of it it sounds like there could very well be 128 snipers on a team across every class.
@Noodlesocks128 snipers would be insane! haha.
I try to stomp on snipers as much as the next i suppose. But snipers have taught me to move with cover better throughout so many games played. Much of my current semi adequate overall stealth of movement can be attributed to avoiding sniper fire day after day on the familiar maps.
Movement focused on minimizing your exposure to the horizon, using the cover of buildings, rocks, holes, trees and the surrounding terrain. Its ok to stop in cover and take a look around. And smoke is fantastic for moving with cover as well.
Anyways, yeah snipers.
@Noodlesocks wrote:I'd be happy with there being no sniper rifles in the game except ones you can pick up at control points but from the sounds of it it sounds like there could very well be 128 snipers on a team across every class.
Another thing that makes the idea of pickup only Sniper rifles a better idea than main class weapons is that as class weapons, the sniper rifles are embarasingly unreliable to kill target that do not stay still to pose for a headshot, resulting in lots of hitmarkers.
I would be 100% in support of sniper rifles being powerful pickup only weapon that could rip a hole at someones torso if they hit
Depending on how ammo resupply works, how about just limiting the ammo a sniper can hold. I don't mean for snipers to have just 10 rounds before having an arduous resupply task/trek, but something that would stop snipers just camping and just random pot shot firing. There zero wrong with a good sniper or 3 in a team, it's having a useless 2 dozen that's the issue.
That would kill the game for me.
