I would support this as long as it is more active than Battlefield spotting. Seriously in that game you just spam the SPOT button and you light up an entire team.

A limit on number of spots doesn't really add any active use to sniping. You will just spot and move on to the next target.

However I would love if you ADS and spot, as long as you keep them in your scope they stay lit up. Will give a nice way to impart a little bit of strategy. Saying things like hey there's several guys heading your way and then spotting the lead guy would really aid a squad.

Because it would give them a more established team-based role; one that tends to be associated with being a Sniper.


It would be useful if you saw a squad of reds moving towards your squad. You could quickly hover over the enemies and tag them all. Or tag enemy sniper positions or a Scout moving too quick to snipe.

I see no reason this feature couldn't be applied to vehicles.

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.

First off nothing is to fast to snipe, in fact its really fun to snipe drivers, and not sure if you have seen, nothing is really quick in this game and if it is, it will get nerfed for good reason. From my understanding of what was being asked it sounded like a hand held tracker gun, you know like the one in battlefield 2 or 3. The tracker red dot that is need to lock missiles on that is what I thought was being talked about and some cheap I hit R2 your all tagged junk. If that is what we are talking about then, No its not needed pick up a scanner and do something with your match.

souldnt the sniper just kill the targets to be useful?

You'd think so, but apparently that's not enough for some people.

so because you equip a light weapon you get to have special abilities? sounds unbalanced, make it an equip maybe but souldnt the sniper just kill the targets to be useful?

Headsets aren't nearly as efficient as just lighting up a target.