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it makes sniper pointless

Mk 11 Mod 0 with no scope just iron sights and silencer is a great weapon, stick your mobile spawn point in the enemy spawn and this makes the sniper class worth playing.

dtacs wrote:

UK|Hooligan wrote:

Mk 11 Mod 0 with no scope just iron sights and silencer is a great weapon, stick your mobile spawn point in the enemy spawn and this makes the sniper class worth playing.

You must be doing it wrong if Recon isn't worth playing to you, or you're just really bad. SV-98 rapes at any distance if you know what you're doing.

Its a boring kit normally, people hiding behind a rock in their spawn, now you can sneak around to them and keep spawning next to them.

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

I fucking love scope glint.

You must not have been very good at the previous titles.

jord wrote:

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

I fucking love scope glint.

You must not have been very good at the previous titles.

Whats wrong with it? Teaches you to be a better sniper and not sit there playing easy mode.

dtacs wrote:

jord wrote:

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

I fucking love scope glint.

You must not have been very good at the previous titles.

Whats wrong with it? Teaches you to be a better sniper and not sit there playing easy mode.

It doesn't do anything other than confirm the current trends in FPS gaming, and that is catering for 15 year olds with ADHD. It wasn't hard to discern where a sniper was in the previous games if you had a modicum of intelligence and a half decent grasp of the map layout. Having a big visual indicator when you aim at someone in a class that's main purpose is stealth is some of the most retarded logic I've seen in a game for some time. I don't know who has been sitting around the DICE office and suggesting such bullshit as giving the medic class a support light machine gun on bc2, or making the only available map in the beta a map so linear I may as well be playing that CSS custom map that was just a big room with a few walls on the bf3 beta but they need to be fired at. Not fired. Fired at with a SVD, then they can realise it isn't hard to figure out where the shots are coming from before they die.

Last edited by jord (2011-10-01 02:16:34)

The class isn't supposed to be stealthy, its supposed to stay out of the fight at long range. I went 50-8 with the SV-98 by continually moving. To be frank, the changes to sniper make it a significantly more challenging class, and more satisfying when you actually do well with it.

Also, you know that Caspian Border is a playable map in the beta, right?

Yep, which includes changing position. Imagine in BF3 there was no scope glint and no smoke trails of rounds. That would make finding a sniper practically impossible considering the level of detail in textures and geometries. Open areas between points of interest - IE the Metro park - would become uncrossable by other classes, since snipers have no worry about giving away their location when firing.

I still say muzzle blast dust signature would be fine - no pre-warning, gives away their position after they've fired.

Apply it to all guns when prone, SMGs laying down support would be easy to spot, Sh!fty can shoot and scoot, everybody wins.

So does that flashlight affect your deviation or some shit?  I had a guy rush me a couple times with it, and I know I was trained right on him and he just ran straight into and through my fire, down a narrow corridor, like nothing was happening.  Fucking retarded.

the flashlight is pretty stupid.

dtacs wrote:

The last thing this game needs is more dust.

Would still be less gay than sniper scope flash.

Every player in DF-BHD had binoculars, that evened things up vs snipers.

The only thing's that are rage inducingly annoying me are the fact that it's hold to ADS and crouch and the fact I keep falling through the fucking world everywhere and have to spend 45 seconds jumping just to get on the surface again.