BF2S Forums Sniper Idea

=FDX=VEga wrote:

How about the ability to distinguish between the enemy Squad Leaders and Squad members? In real life one of the most important roles of the sniper is psychological warfare, part of this is their ability to pick out the leaders from the regular grunts and kill them without them ever having a chance to retaliate.
If you put your crosshair over an enemy soldier (perhaps within certain distances) you should get a warning of some sort if they are a squad leader, the ability for a sniper to be able to deny the enemy a mobile spawn point would be very useful and entirely fair in my opinion.

Opinions?

I also have lots more ideas for the expansion of the snipers role (too many people insist that snipers are 'useless' when in my opinion they are very important)

No way man! cause then nobody wants to be a squad leader anymore because yur then allways the first one todie since ur that mobil spawnpoint..

Not to mention the fact that all the dead squadleader has to do is leave the squad and then rejoin again and he is able to spawn with his squadmates.

I agree that the sniper should have to identify the squad leader themselves but its not exactly feasible with everyone running different systems with different graphics settings. I also realise that you can leave the squad and rejoin when the new squad leader is selected but i still think it's a good idea, the squad system has a lot of advantages but no disadvantages, surely there should be some for the purpose of balance.

I can't wait to get the new sniper and hope it's not the M82 that everyone has been saying it will be, i'd much rather have a silenced sniper rifle (something i thought the special forces expansion should have had as standard) or a more accurate semi-automatic (perhaps an MSG-90 to keep with EA's Heckler and Koch fetish)

Another idea i had was for the Laser Designator, i think it could be integrated into the game and used to paint targets for the SU30 and F15's laser guided bombs, this would offer the advantage of the guy in the jet not having to wait for the target to be painted by the jet's own Laser Designator, and just having to line up the shot. I think this idea would add a great extra team role to the sniper, they could prove crucial in the preparation of a base for an attack - spotting infantry and vehicles, killing the infantry and lasing the vehicles for a jet.

I think the idea is only apealing to snipers My view on this is: leave it like it is. As a squad leader you have enough trouble dealing out orders and generally try staying alive so the team mates can spawn on you. If you would be a special target would make it less attractive to become Squad-Leader and might even spoil the squad-system.

I don't think it will hurt the squad leader system if the distance at which you can see that they are a squad leader is limited (like i said in my first post) If a sniper can only see this within 100m then i think its perfectly fair, maybe everyone won't choose to shoot the squad leaders first but they should certainly be given the choice. I personally prioritise my targets when i am a sniper, if i see an enemy squad 100m away i will shoot snipers first, then the guys with assault rifles, and if i could see who was the squad leader i would shoot him before everyone else, cos otherwise they'll only keep appearing. What are peoples opinions on my Laser Designator idea? I think its pretty faultless whereas the Squad Leader idea has a few flaws.

Nice Idea m8

kill them all. thats the plan.

oh and when im sniper i actually can see the difference in the leader and the rest. its the way the pwople walk and guard the main. if a guy is crouching down waiting and a support spawns on him the guy is the leader.

I know that in real life snipers hunt mainly for the officers, but your idea doesn't sound very interesting to me.