What's with the sniper class?!

I swear, every single multiplayer game, you see snipers prancing about having sniper wars with other snipers.

Now, don't get me wrong. I appreciate the guy who targets the medics/flag carriers/etc first (props to those who can pick off Uber-ready medics in TF2!). Awesome job. But do movies like Saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates really inspire people to play such a boring/insignificant class?

*Yeah, I just came out of a 3 hour long final, I'm tired*

 

People seem to believe sniping takes more skill. IMHO, it takes just as much as an assault class. You spend most of your time camping with a sniper

 

Ha, I'm one of those snipers... guilty is charged.

I only snipe on 2Forts map with capture the flag, that map is made for sniping and camping.

 

Well snipers kill other snipers really fast, so usually you wanna pick off the other sniper first, which leads to sniper wars. And I play sniper because of the pew pew.

Edit: Fatman, people say that because you really only get 1 shot to get the kill, anymore and you lose the person during reload or they see your missed shot and run away. Whereas assault you have a little bit more leniancy, you don't need to get the tiny dot onto the moving tiny head. Not saying that assault is easy, just a bit easier.

 

I do both. Depends on the game as well. In MW2 theres semi-auto snipers which ruin the fun of being a sniper

 

@OP, I'm often "that guy" in games like DoD, TFC, TF2, and a few others I've probably forgotten - maybe you've yet to see a good sniper, but I can assure you the way I play is anything but boring/insignificant and have many times held down an entire team as "offensive" sniper.

It's the pinnacle of FPS skill because there's rarely room for error; twitch-skill at its best. Although this may change with the game (i.e. auto sniping, or rocket jumping) and other classes/weapons have their merit, usually the line between a good sniper and failure is pretty thin that only those players with greater ability can truly succeed at it. For the record, the poor sap who spends an entire round nestled in some obscure location and pings off maybe one or two lone stragglers isn't succeeding.

 

I do hate those that just stay in one place. But the moving snipers or the "front-line" snipers I have to put my hats off to them.

Moving sniper vs moving target = harder skill. IMHO that is.

 

Snipers are best at killing other snipers and the other sniper is probably the highest threat to you. If you dont kill him he will kill you right before you get that headshot on X class.

Basically since you mentioned TF2 I always kill any other sniper first and then go for the ground troops, unless I am using my bow, then I move with the ground forces.

 

i agree with this post whole heartedly. i am a really aggressive offensive player, so a campin class does not fit my preference or play style. for that reason i don't play many sniping classes. when i did play them tho, i was a very aggressive "rushing/offensive sniper". my favorite sniping experience has to go to AWP'ing in CS 1.5 and 1.6. u put an AWP and a deagle in my hands and u just let me loose. i would rip thru entire teams and then get bored and shank the rest of the match. i remember me and one of my good friends (R.I.P. - died in iraq) would try to out do each other's shanks. there was some mighty fine shankin back in our primes i might add. i was drag shotting, quick scoping, and no scoping just by feel. man i miss those days

games like tf2 really kill the sniper class for me. they tend to limit the snipers movements, speed, and/or game play to where they are turned into a camping class. the bow really helped the sniper class in tf2, but by that time i had pretty much already moved on from tf2. my favorite tf2 class was the battle engineer.

 

I like snipers simply because i love the fact that they can pick off people from long ranges; given that though; they really do take some skill to use well depending on the game. Headshots aren't the easiest thing to do on a moving target.

 

I like sniping, but I only play single-player, so I don't get to do it very much...

Any recommendation for single-player games with good sniping opportunities?

 

i like sniping cuz im blind... so without a scope i can't kill people...
plus aiming with + is so much easier for my eye especially when the target is bigger

 

The thing that annoys me with the sniper class in tf2 is that it is the first class noobs always play. Especially when im playing payload those snipers noob are always on the bottom of the list in score and contribute nothing to pushing the cart or defending it...

 

I guess I'm what you call a battle sniper. In TF2, I don't camp battlements, and I go for snap-headshots rather than fully charged body/headshots. It definitely makes you more useful to your team and gets you more kills. In MW2, I stay just behind my team and make use of good cover rather than specific camp spots (roofs, windows etc.)

 

Hey agus, there were a few games released, about a year~2 years, where you take the role of a sniper. I didn't look too much into it because the graphics seemed subpar compared to cod4/crysis.

"Sniper Elite" and "Sniper: Art of Victory" are 2 of them.

 

Man this makes me want to load BF2 and grab my trusty L96A1...

 

Well, I am not a sniper in many games as I just dont like it.
But some people do like it... its a game... let them enjoy it...

 

Consider this....if your side didn't have snipers....who would be suppressing the snipers on the enemy side when you are rushing from your base and who would the enemy sniper be concentrating landing their shots on?

Its not really a war, its just another assistance class...which is what I believe they categorize it in TF2.

Then you'd have the assault sniper, which does that suppression on the move with the assault team, but that's a different story.

 

in modern warfare 2, they encourage sniping by making the sniper rifle lightweight (thus increases foot speed compared to assault rifles).

so when i build a class around a secondary weapon (powerful shotgun, lets say), the sniper is an obvious choice because it is the lightest primary weapon group (tied with the smg, but that doesn't matter because it is a shotgun class, so the sniper is a more applicable alternate anyway)

 

It really depends on the game. I think the best example of sniping being a very difficult skill with is BF2. While there are alot of snipers, they by no means are getting "free" or cheap kills unless with the Claymore which is just a crucial part of setting up a proper sniping position anyways. I do wish that BF2 and other games in particular did limit the number of players in a certain class like some BF2 mods do - namely the Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality mods, however, in a properly balanced MP component of a game, sniping has it's moments and other classes/weapons have theirs. One game where I think sniper rifles are almost pointless except in a couple situations - Call of Duty 4. Best sniping experience - BF2 (not to mention the most difficult). Why? First of all, the game is balanced so that a single shot from the most powerful sniper rifles (the bolt action ones) CANNOT kill a person with full health in one shot unless it's a head shot. The two semi-auto sniper rifles take 3 shots to kill a person. Second, the game has a basic velocity and rudimentary ballistics system. Trying to hit a moving, and maneuvering target possibly a few hundred meters away is difficult, even with a semi-auto rifle. These skills you don't gain easily, they take time to develop. But thanks to the balancing in BF2, you'll never find one class to be overwhelmingly better/worse than the other if you consider all the different aspects to the game, every class has a purpose with strengths and weaknesses. Of course, certain maps and environments in those maps will put a class in particular favor but you can't expect the game to be overly unrealistic.

 

Very few games nowadays have proper twitch run and gun gameplay of the type you used to see in games like Quake, so as the gameplay has slowed down naturally you see an increase in people playing sniper classes.

I just don't find the run and gun gameplay in most modern FPS games to be compelling enough to want to do it all the time, so I keep a sniper loadout handy where I can.

 

Personally I find the sniper class a lot of fun, especially if you're playing team games. Being a sniper can be a pivotal part of how a battle goes, IF you're decent at it in the game you're playing, as you can help eliminate players bottlenecking areas of the map, and most decent snipers won't sit in one place the entire game, they'll often be moving about trying to find a better vantage point, or keep up with the game and avoid becoming an obvious target (once you've found a camper you can often eliminate them before they see you again!)

Even COD4 benefits from snipers, especially in competetive play, back during a tournament with my old workmates I was the team sniper, and sometimes I was able to eliminate half the opposing team before the rest of the team make contact. Most teams without proper team layouts including a sniper didnt make it past the first round. We got into semi-finals.

It's all in the context of the game, situation and map! (and in competetive play, planning!)

 

Call of Duty 4 has some good twitch moments if your loadout corresponds to speed, like using a submachinegun and having the long duration sprint Perk.

 

Lol. 10char

 

me snipe= epic fail !
me noobtube= Everyone die!

So i am not not a fan of sniping or snipers...

 

sniping is awesome, it takes skill for 1 shot 1 kill, not just spray and pray, why waste 30bullets to kill 1 guy if you have the skill to waste 30bullets on 30people? clean and cut, its awesome on mw2, thermal scope with a heartbeat sensor

 

Depends on the game.

Battle Field 2, took more than one shot at center mass to kill

Cod series is almost the same.

Real life, Center mass= kill shot.

Alot of games dont have acurate bullet ballistics and/or weapon ballistics so most of the time it does take more than one shot to kill in a video game.

I understand what you are saying and i completly agree.

I hate it when some a hole comes around the corner with a p90 or w/e and sprays a million rounds without aim. Or some how kills me with a m9 from 100m away.

you can have your full auto uzi pos but my m14 is better.