Snipers.... Snipers everywhere!

[jerrygotnoname]

It kinda gets annoying when everybody uses snipers and nobody uses machine guns.
No more great and long fights, no more lots bullets.
Just spawn, 1-2 seconds later , Bang! .. you drop dead if you are unlucky  .

Where is the fun in that?

Why not make barretts only shoot when the player stay still?
or only insta-kill if head shot..

by doing so the following improvements, sniper players dont just fly around and shoot players anywhere, even in the feet. because they will now, land down, stand still or crouch, and then aim for the head. Snipers are meant for support not for offensive. Thats what the zooming in are for, they can scout ahead.

if thats not possible, then I dont think this game will attract alot of new players, because when they play online they die immediately then they rage quit. so better name this game "snajper" not "soldat".

sorry about this post ... its just that every time I play and join a server all of them are using barretts and when i spawn... bang! . I know this wont get implemented, but I just want to get this thing of the my chest. . Are there any servers without barretts? 

[13th_account]

There's some tweaks being made in the upcoming version to make binking Barretts more reliable. So autos and semi-autos will have a greater edge against them.

And in this game Barrett is meant to be an offensive weapon. Yes that doesn't make any sense, but this game is in no way supposed to be realistic.

[Rotem]

"There's some tweaks being made in the upcoming version to make binking Barretts more reliable. So autos and semi-autos will have a greater edge against them."
that's exactly the problem with the snipers in this version. you shot with the steyr or whatever auto weapon straight 4-5 bullets on a guy with a sniper but it wont make it harder for him to kill you... that's very annoying.

[Clawbug]

Yet if they miss they are dead. If they have an auto too, depending on their skill you might drop dead with almost 100 % certainty in most 1v1 situations agaist them.

[jerrygotnoname]

only if they miss, and its rare! especially with old pro's.
and most snipers move and fly while sniping which are hard to hit.

[Bonecrusher]

Yea I had to add weapon limit script to my servers cause players were raging

[Izzy Rose (PL)]

I think making Barret working like LAW isn't good idea. After all it is quite challenging weapon especially in small areas and distances. I think better idea would be... hmm, I don't know...
Maybe our big sniper rifle should make player running slower, falling down faster? Look at the weapon-gfx. It is really big. The only bigger one is Minigun.

However you look at this matter, let's think for a while - Ruger is intended to be offensive rifle. It is smaller, faster and only 2 times less powerful.

Collecting second Barret as the secondary weapon makes the player running tank.


Oh my god. What am I talking about... I'm just a barretard and an acrobat in one...
I have even my taunt - "I'm the tank! Get out my way!"

[NamelessWolf]

My suggestion would be to make "realistic mode" the standard weapons mod, so that you really have to look for it if you like games where only Barret M79 and LAW can kill reasonably fast. In the lobby filter you could fill in a box for "abnormal mode" or something, which would be the current "normal mode".

[13th_account]

The problem with that is that realistic mode and its WM is utter shit.

* 13th_account puts on flame suit =)

[STM1993]

I miss the days when pubbers weren't ALL using Barrett or M79, without missing. And I miss the casual INF games I played in 1.4.2 even though it was theoretically Barrett heaven.

The problem with that is that realistic mode and its WM is utter shit.

Actually... I kind of agree. It is completely dominated by the same few weapons(Ruger for instance) while other weapons are complete rubbish(Deagles,MP5,Minigun), and the falling damage system feels sloppily done especially when combined with the effects of poly bounce. I do, however, like the field of vision concept.