4 years ago
Snipers! Your thoughts
Are you like me that there are a lot, I mean a lot of Snipers, snipers who are able to run and kills you with sniper rifle, Snipers who can see you even if you are in a hole from 1 mile away and Snip...
The various sniper nests are what really makes me question the designers. Half your team on Fao Fortress thinking they can control the map if they're all in the fortress with a sniper rifle. It wouldn't be so bad, but it's almost a rerun of what happened on Operation Mortar in BF4.
I love quickly running a horse out to the edges of the map and looking for snipers out in the open. On hills, ridges, behind ledges, etc. Once you find them, its usually only a matter of time before you'll kill them. Start by running them over while they are prone, or if they get up and try to run, you can sword them or run them over. If you they are in cover that you can quite get to, you can throw grenades or use the rifle to flush them out. A sniper's best defense against the horse is probably taking cover in a building but if they cant get to that kind of cover,,they'll die. The second best defense for them is maybe having a trip wire out for the horse to run over. But the trip wire, you can grenade away or even if you dont see it, it wont completely kill the horse unless you run over two at one time. And the horse when damaged can basically auto heal so you have to put out a lot of damage real quick to kill the horse and one sniper or even three snipers usually cant put out that kind of damage. Two or three assaults or supports on the other hand? Be careful.
I have done a dodging dance with some really good dodging snipers where you are trying to trample them or melee them and they keep dodging to the side shooting at you all the time with their pistol. Usually you just heal in between and keep chasing them around until you get them, but every now and then a really good dodger and with really good aim will kill you. I always want to take my hat off to those when they do it because its not easy at all as a sniper to take out a horse.
I've two issues. Not necessarily just BF1 related.
The only gameplay issue for me is the aim assist for the infantry and carbine variants. This is mostly just this game because the sweet spot making ohk with body shots really doesn't go with aim assist snapping to the body.
The other issue is definitely not just this game but the class really does just attract the worst(support is getting there thanks to bfv). When you load into a game and see many more scouts than medics you know you've lost. Heavy defeats are always accompanied by positions 20 and down on the board being scout heavy and obviously if they are that low you aren't even getting the benfit of spot flare spam.