The Case for a Sniper # Cap
Most of us dread the lone snipers camping off in the distance trying to amass a high kill count. And we experience that in Operations for both attackers and defenders - you often find your scout team...
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Thank goodness for attrition so that scouts don't camp all day - but that's more of a temporary fix, like applying bandaid to an open wound. I do see that many players via posts on this forum are saying that scouts are still OP. That may be because of the now, non-random shot distribution.
Going back to one of my original points, I think that a sniper # cap wouldn't have a major negative feedback post launch. To test this theory, DICE / EA can literally promote this idea via special servers like we have with "Friday Night Battlefield". You'd obviously name it something else that makes it very clear. You can see how popular it is compared to other servers. You'd also have to advertise this on the main page so that people see it.
A sniper limiter is desperately needed in bf1. In the bfv alpha and beta, it hasn't seemed so bad but it's very early days. Really there just needs to be far more server controls for admins and mods like there have been in previous titles. Why they ditched them for bf1 is a complete mystery to me. Class caps, weapon caps, ability to kick or ban players, vehicle caps...all this type of stuff should be available for people to customise their servers the way they want to.
