BF2S Forums Whats your sniper accuracy?

51.76%

The#1Spot wrote:

mines 65.81 and im 15th overall in the world

That's pretty impressive... if you look at accuracy only.

Kills/time better reflect how effective one is as a sniper (taking shots as they come to you versus taking the sweet shots only, where your accuracy then becomes a reflection of your innate ability). Yours is 17.

My main account's is 26.4 (acc. 48%); my sniper account's is 33.4 (acc. 52%). I have two other accounts where it's 35.4 and 37.5 respectively (both with accuracies above 60%).

But I'm only a mid-range player, let's have a look at a few good snipers; I think all of these guys are in the sniper nobility but once you pass 50 you're into royalty:
the_black_rat(ss) - 41.8 (46.26%)
dont_be_ss - 43.7 (39%)
EntertaineR_06 - 45.5 (41.53%)
tahadar - 45.5 (52.28% )
Chillin&Killin - 46.8 (45.75%)
churnedfortaste - 49.3 (44.65%)
Clean.Sweap - 52.9 (45.64%)
AzN_Cowb0y - 57.1 (57.55%)
Nyte - 58.3 (59.96%)
G.J.Ingram - 60.4 (49.81%)
ChikyuuShoujoArujuna - 65 (49.26%)

Accuracy is important but it doesn't say much by itself.

~30%

I take high risk shots. Still working on hitting what I can see.

Todd_Angelo wrote:

usmarine2005 wrote:

Wrong.  It says you are a sniper.  Period.

Who me?

In response to this.

"Accuracy is important but it doesn't say much by itself."

when it updates it will make me about  69th in the rankings i am happy with that.   
                Sniper Rifles      99:47:36      1,361      1,181      1.1524      62.49%

59%  Around 350 rank...

ANd setting up a Sniper Account strictly for the purpose of padding accuracy is lame...

I'd like to see Chuy make it so we can sort the accuracy list for people with over 100 Hours in the Kit..

Last edited by Impaqt (2006-07-15 08:42:32)

My best is at 45.84%.

But thats going up from what it was. I'm working on it.

44.42%

usmarine2005 wrote:

That may be true Todd, but unlike a lot of people in the sniper community, this is my original and only account.  I can say the same about prone spamming and bunny hopping or clay spamming, which is what a lot of these guys use to get kills, which has nothing to do with being a sniper.

Marine, we always dont see 'eye to eye' in posts...BUT 1000% MUST agree with you on this one beyond a shadow of a doubt. In the 'old' days, rofl, first 1/2 year of BF2 things were much different. Those very few of us that were actually fulltime snipes, Sniped like Gentlemen. When Sniping started to become not such a 'dirty' word a sudden influx of Assault/C4/Med junkies brought thier habits (crouchpronecrouch, hopping like an idiot, chucking clays like tic tacs) and absolutely killed the art of scoping and replaced it to more an art of what can i do to ensure no-one can hit me, high points, etc etc. The ONLY time you'll ever see Books or I jumping etc. is to get over an object. Concealment and tactics is what should be keeping a snipe alive, NOT some fast fingers and graphical glitches. Books and I are both on our original accounts as well.

These days I rarely even get a chance to scope anymore:( But It's for the best:)

Last edited by [GDC]SinnFein (2006-07-15 10:04:20)

apparently mines 43.59.
Which im not too pround of.

usmarine2005 wrote:

As long as you don't jump around like an idiot running down the middle of the road, instead you wait for a good shot.......you should be proud.

Agreed.

usmarine2005 wrote:

That may be true Todd, but unlike a lot of people in the sniper community, this is my original and only account.

What's first or only accounts got to do with anything I said above?

I was making a point about accuracy within the context of effectiveness; you don't like it, fine, we can see that (saw it before, the last time I brought it up too) you don't have to, it's just one way of looking at things. There are other ways of measuring sniper skill, the most obvious being high KDR. But one thing you don't do is judge it by accuracy only; check the accounts with 100% accuracy with the sniper rifle for a clear reason why!

Some people have the temperament for playing the stand-off game that would tend to result in high KDR, some don't, but neither approach is wrong, they're merely different ways of playing. A 'combat sniper', even a really good one, won't have a great KDR, but that's not in the least surprising because he's right in the middle of the battle most of the time. His KDR is lower but his flag caps, assists and defends are higher, waaay higher than the stand-off sniper. There's a good chance the different styles of play could balance out in terms of usefulness to the team if you get the right type of player doing each... and surely playing the way you play best is actually best for your team? Assuming one cares about the team's objective: winning.

Anyway, as far as the first account thing goes, for many of those in my list it is their first account by all appearances (having a Purple Heart making it exceedingly likely, even without guesswork based on signup date).

usmarine2005 wrote:

I can say the same about prone spamming and bunny hopping or clay spamming, which is what a lot of these guys use to get kills, which has nothing to do with being a sniper.

Say the same as what?

Prone spamming, in various incarnations, is not something I condone (especially the full-on exploit which snipers can't really do to begin with) and it's not something I do. The good news is that prone spamming has been partly sorted out in 1.4 (not sure if it's just in the no-vehicles mode).

Bunny hopping is a fact of life in any online shooter! I'm sure as hell going to try to make myself harder to hit if someone is shooting at me and I'll jump a bit and jump while going around a corner, I've done it since UT and Delta Force v.1 and I'm not going to stop now!

Clay spamming is a very loaded term but with the clays in their current incarnation they can be used in more than one way. I don't use them in the way I presume you mean but I do use them as a means to help take, and then defend, flags as much as possible; if that's spamming in your book I'm sorry but opinions vary. The fact that I only have basic explosive ordinance on both this and my main sniper account should also help support that I don't 'spam' them by any real standard

As far as these having "nothing to do with being a sniper" well, that's your opinion. If you take it that the role of a sniper (in the game) is to kill the enemy as much as possible while dying as little as possible then in that way a sniper that goes 40 and 9 has actually done better for his team than the one that goes 30 and 0, even before you factor in the other aids to the team that the first has likely provided that the second can't have.

BigmacK192 wrote:

[GDC]SinnFein wrote:

Concealment and tactics is what should be keeping a snipe alive

I whole heartedly agree. I was sniping today, moving stealthaly, and I got 15 kills, and 0 deaths on Mashtuur. The other sniper on our side, I don't remember his name, was jumping, running, claywhoring, etc.

Needless to say, his K/D for the round was less than spectacular.

I think its sad that so few snipers in the game actually follow the history of "how its done".

15 and 0, that's great (not being sarcastic). But I got these playing the other way:
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