Sniper bullet trail should be removed !
Hi, Sniper scopes already have glint. Sniper weapons cannot kill with a single hit to the body from any distance. It already has enough disadvantages. Sniper bullet trail should be removed. Also, it...
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The point I'm trying to make is not about glint, or bullet trail, it's about having the right balance and availability of choice to the player.
You should be able to remove bullet trail by selecting specific ammo, but then there should be a downside to maintain the balance. That downside should be reduced damage so that you can only have a one hit kill on headshots with that ammo.
We don't need people camping the outer sides of the map who can beam people with one shot in the body from across the map and meanwhile remain completely undetected to me or my team. Scope glint is one part of detection, sound is another, but if suppressors are used and the sniper is positioned on the side of me or in my back I won't see the glint and then a tracer would be the only clue. As Chris_Hawkner correctly describes, if you land your shots you already have your reward by means of a kill. If you miss you should not be further rewarded by keep taking pot shots without revealing your position in some way.
If tracers is the best way to do this remains debatable, but there needs to be some kind of discouragement to keep people from camping the same spot without consequences.
Exactly. The trails are just another form of the tracer which we've used for years as is. Discourage missing, discourage shots into crowds/squads. Focus on getting the perfect shot on a nice lone but key target. That or like idk shoot the guy in a crowd and then leg it to a new spot unless you wanna get utterly nailed by the hornets nest you kicked.
Just means less camping in cheese spots and makes it more accessible and balanced. On accessibility the system kinda helps there too to an extent. Deaf folks and the like now have a much better visual indicator that they are shot at by a sniper instead of having to rely on the crack and report of the bullet going by. I'm pretty hard of hearing so I at least can crank the volume to compensate but for the full deaf homies this can be a lowkey godsend especially when any sounds they could hear may get drowned out by the combat noises as is.
