excillon
Nova Corps Marines
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.03.05 21:55:00 -
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Snipers are dead in this game. Only a few of us still do it. I'm not even going to get into the lousy scopes, **** poor hit detection, redlines, etc. That's all been done. What I'm curious about, and the biggest area of concern is the total lack of contribution to the squad, mainly because of the very nature of sniping itself. Some ideas, and please contribute if you have more to add:
1. Make it so only snipers can scan. Require it so that the scan requires line of sight from the rifle, so snipers can't just scan a blind section. They must have visual contact of the enemy forces. And have the scan duration only last so long, and then a fair cool down period. Also tracker rounds that could be fired onto vehicles would be cool.
2. Give snipers better areas to take shots from in the map, so we don't see redline abuse.
3.Increase the WP for everyone depending on range of kill (not just snipers). Don't do it until the range on the CR and RR are fixed though. For instance, a kill at 0-50 meters, 50 points. 50-100, 60 points, 100-200, 70 points, and anything longer than that 80 points. Those numbers aren't solid, just a reference. Also add a headshot bonus of 10 per kill. I think it's fair that a 550M headshot should be worth 90 points. It's not like it would be game breaking, snipers don't usually get that many WP anyhow.
4. Snipers can hot drop vehicles for team mates in the map, provided they have them in their inventory. For instance, I could call in a LAV or HAV/DS for a squad mate half way across the map if needed. If they take possession of the vehicle, give it a 10 point "deployment" bonus.
Just some small, realistic easy fixes. I have some other ones, but they're more ludicrous and not really feasible at this point. But something has to be done, it's been overlooked for far too long.
Mainly I'm curious about other's ideas. |
excillon
Nova Corps Marines
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.03.06 09:38:00 -
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Delta 749 wrote:All of your suggestions lead me to believe you stay on top of a tower sniping all day
The two things the weapon class desperately needs are a significant head shot bonus and variable zoom on the scopes
Also get off those towers man, there are tons of good sniping spots all over, I cant tell you how many people Ive popped just from setting my nest in a dip in the ground rather than someplace high up where Im silhouetted against the sky
Lowland sniper is like the spanish inquisition you know
Actually I don't tower snipe. I know better, I'm the guy who cleans them off the towers. 90% of my sniping is done at ground level as well. It works for me, I guess. I take no greater satisfaction than taking a guy off a tower when he sticks his head out just a little too far.
Of the 3 I posted, I like the range bonus for WP the most. I think it's fair, since snipers only kill and don't do much else. No hacks, no reps or logi work...and half the time they don't get as many kills as the heavies on the ground. |