BF2S Forums Has the Barret been effected by new patch?

Seems fine to me ... and i have alot of hours with it.....  if anything it feels alittle sharper? Have they increased its velocity? feels like im having to lead less atm...
Or maybe people just keep running into my scope?
I take the M95 over the m24 just for the oportunistic kills on vehicles / smoking helos and jeeps etc ( i have my expert sniper and about 99% of it is with the m95)

There seem to me to be places which bug an enemys hitbox's so i generally dont try HS if i feel its not likely to hit (such as an enemy lying on an extream slope or manning the fixed MG positions unless they are firing in a steady stream), i take a body shot and finish with the pistol.

Has your sensitivity changed in controlls? Or are you using different Video settings as when i patched mine got reset to default .. .check these are consistant and try again!

Also i find that somedays are better than others.... no idea why but one day i will be picking off full sprint deflection shots at like 90% and others i go to about 20%

Kuda

chitlin wrote:

barrett does more dmg than m24

no it doesn't http://ubar.bf2s.com/kits.php#sniper

seems like they fixed it a little i seem to be hitting 1 shot kills more often....... but thats just me

i swear i seen somewhere max barrett dmg was 300+ i guess headshot and m24 200+ headshot but oh well ...

ronin1942 wrote:

seems like they fixed it a little i seem to be hitting 1 shot kills more often....... but thats just me

If someone is sprinting and you hit them in the body with the M95 you will get a one-shot-kill, this seems to work with the M24 as well provided the target is not wearing body armor.

I seem to be more accurate with the M95 this time around, so whatever they did I am glad. Regarding the damage from the m24/m95. The barrett really does more damage, you can prove this by shooting the explosive barrels/fuel tanks. Takes two shots with m24 to destroy them, but only one from m95. However, when shooting armored infantry, the armor takes 100 of that damage (even the armorless people seem to have this -100 factor) and the rest of the damage (95) is why they are left with 2 bars of health. (Unless it's a headshot).

I'd like to make a point about the accuracy of these sniper rifles real quick though, which I discovered by using my Razer mouse in the lowest setting possible. At this setting, I could literally move the mouse the smallest amount possible on screen, which makes for deadly accuracy and simple aiming. I'm sure you all noticed the difference in widths of the crosshair lines in these two sniper rifles. At longer distances, the M24's lines pretty much covers the width of one whole unit of movement possible (if that makes sense). The M95 covers more, however, the hit area is probably still the same as the M24.

So what does this mean?? Basically, moving that tiny amount to the left or to the right with the M24 is the difference between a hit and a miss. This is even more complicated on the M95 since the crosshairs cover a wider range, but the point of aim is still as thin as the M24. So you could effectively have your target within the cross hairs of the M95 and still miss your shot becuase of these minute differences.

My suggestion is to use M24 as much as possible when hunting down infantry. Practice with the M95 to figure out where exactly your crosshairs need to be in order to score that hit, but I hope this helps some of you understand why you can be aiming dead on with the M95 and still miss that shot.

The Barrett seems fine to me.

ayb wrote:

chitlin wrote:

barrett does more dmg than m24

no it doesn't http://ubar.bf2s.com/kits.php#sniper

...so that's why a body shot with an M24 takes out less than half your HP, and the M95 takes out all but 2 bars?  Sorry, stats aren't accurate.

I play with the m95 because...

I didn't play with the M24 for long, and so I've been playing with M95 since I had 1000 points.  Now, I tried the M24, but it seems like it gains it's bullet drop at about 80 meters.  The M95 doesn't seem to have it for at least 125 meters or more.

And to the people said they get 1-shot kills with the M95 by hitting someone in the chest:  SHUT THE HELL UP!  THE PERSON HAS BEEN DAMAGED, AS YOU CAN'T GET A 1-SHOT FULL ON A FULL HP GUY IF YOU HIT THEM IN THE CHEST!  You aren't a miracle worker, he'd been shot before.

not sure if its correct. but in the UBAR it even says the m24 accuracy is "Very High" while the m95 is only "high" accuracy.

The patch seems to registar hit boxes a lot better i get a ton more head shots with the barret now and thats pretty much all i play with. I dont think the guns changed just hit boxes registering much better.  Is there an offical way to find out though?? did ea release path details anywhere?

in bfhq it lists m24 as high dmg very high accuracy and berrett as very high dmg high accuracy..

somehow i doubt ea put that there not being true *gasp* i think perhaps bf2s is wrong

..i swear i recall a dmg list saying that the highest dmg is berrett like 380 dmg but the dao being like 80 x 6 projectiles + point blank being the absolute highest dmg possible with a weapon ...

Out of interest.... anyone know who the best sniper is? GR or otherwise..... im like 250 G.R so i wanna know who my hitlist should makeup

Kuda

Played with m24 for the first time in a while yesterday..... damn.it.owns.infantry.on.karkand!!!!
I got up on the building at the square with a medic squadmate and must have been like 40-5 by the end of the round.