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killertojo42
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Posted - 2014.02.12 09:11:00 -
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Summ Dude wrote:I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned here and there around the forms, but searching didn't turn up anything specific, so here goes. I think a very interesting feature to add to Sniper Rifles would be the ability to tag enemies. So basically when you have an enemy in your sights, you can press some secondary fire button (probably L2) to tag the enemy, effectively lighting him up like an active scanner would. Only let the tags last significantly longer than a scanner would, but balance this by only giving the sniper a handful of active tags that he can have available at one time (say maybe 3-6). Potentially increase number of active tags with gear level (although I know everyone rails against creating a bigger gap between STD and PRO) and/or add a skill to the SR to increase active tags available.
I believe this would help give snipers an actual team-based role on the battlefield. And giving them WP for the intel assists would actually encourage them to actively help out their squad, so we have less snipers just sitting in one place the whole match trying to do nothing but rack up kills.
As if active scanners weren't bad enough, for this to be active scanners need to be removed first
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killertojo42
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Posted - 2014.02.12 11:45:00 -
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Summ Dude wrote:I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned here and there around the forms, but searching didn't turn up anything specific, so here goes. I think a very interesting feature to add to Sniper Rifles would be the ability to tag enemies. So basically when you have an enemy in your sights, you can press some secondary fire button (probably L2) to tag the enemy, effectively lighting him up like an active scanner would. Only let the tags last significantly longer than a scanner would, but balance this by only giving the sniper a handful of active tags that he can have available at one time (say maybe 3-6). Potentially increase number of active tags with gear level (although I know everyone rails against creating a bigger gap between STD and PRO) and/or add a skill to the SR to increase active tags available.
I believe this would help give snipers an actual team-based role on the battlefield. And giving them WP for the intel assists would actually encourage them to actively help out their squad, so we have less snipers just sitting in one place the whole match trying to do nothing but rack up kills.
Are you asking for a spotting system similar to battlefield games? Because if you are than active scanners would be near useless unless everyone was underground and scanners scan abilities should be reduced by things such as buildings or hills
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killertojo42
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Posted - 2014.02.12 12:28:00 -
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Summ Dude wrote:killertojo42 wrote:Are you asking for a spotting system similar to battlefield games? Because if you are than active scanners would be near useless unless everyone was underground and scanners scan abilities should be reduced by things such as buildings or hills Never really played Battlefield. But anyway, I don't think Active Scanners would be useless at all. Like I said, they still have the ability to scan as many people as they can fit in their scan radius, whereas a sniper could only have a handful of tags active at the same time.
Ok you need to play as a battlefield sniper and see how easy it is to scan a whole team
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killertojo42
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Posted - 2014.02.12 12:50:00 -
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Summ Dude wrote:killertojo42 wrote:Summ Dude wrote:killertojo42 wrote:Are you asking for a spotting system similar to battlefield games? Because if you are than active scanners would be near useless unless everyone was underground and scanners scan abilities should be reduced by things such as buildings or hills Never really played Battlefield. But anyway, I don't think Active Scanners would be useless at all. Like I said, they still have the ability to scan as many people as they can fit in their scan radius, whereas a sniper could only have a handful of tags active at the same time. Ok you need to play as a battlefield sniper and see how easy it is to scan a whole team Did you....read my original suggestion? The SR's tags would be hard capped at around 5 or so.
There's suggestions and then there's how CCP would screw it up, I'm imagining a scenario where CCP actually does something with your idea
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