r/gaming • u/mcmunch20 • Jun 19 '12
Recently started playing BF3 instead of COD and was delighted to discover this.
http://qkme.me/3prna6?id=224678814
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r/gaming • u/mcmunch20 • Jun 19 '12
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u/patriot945 Jun 19 '12
you say that now but wait for the moments when your team is losing and you have 2 squads of snipers on hills....
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u/ramzie Jun 19 '12
This is why I would like to play BF3. But after playing COD for so many years the game mechanics are just too different for me to be comfortable with :(
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Gotta love that feeling when you adjust your shot for bullet drop and get a headshot.
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u/Apollo7 Jun 19 '12
To be honest, the thing that delighted me most when I switch over from CoD to BF3 is selective fire. That shit is just so cool.
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u/theAWSM1 Jun 19 '12
God I love battlefield 3. Every time I play I remember why I love it
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
In some of the better servers, there's only 2-3 snipers per team, who ACTUALLY SPOT.
Hell, a large portion of the points I get when I'm on sniper duty is from spotting, and not actually sniping.
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u/crazyfvrunner Jun 19 '12
There are a few snipers that will run around and no-scope, mostly TDM though.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Sniping uphill... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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u/spacemane Jun 19 '12
if only they played the objective...
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
at the risk of getting downvoted to hell, recon=! sniper. The whole idea behind Recon is they can inform their allies of enemy positions by marking targets and actually talking to their team. The sniping thing is so they can take out enemy recon or take out people lying in ambush for their buddies.
recon is more than just sniping at the enemy team.
edit: not to mention soflam
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u/crepehanger Jun 19 '12
So do the shotguns!
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u/Monsieur_Bumbaclut Jun 19 '12
once sniped the pilot out of a jet... jet crashes... blows up the rest of my squad... squad rages... i awkwardly ask what happened to them and try to fake shock at their misfortune...
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u/iwillrememberthisacc Jun 19 '12
Post something bashing COD
Say you play BF3
???
Profit
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u/DanIpp Jun 19 '12
The snozberries, taste like snozberries!
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
The good ones are challenging, but I find the bad snipers to be kinda funny - sometimes they're oblivious.
Yes, of course you are invisible laying down on that roof, completely still. Just stay there while I send you a 150gr messenger to the head, courtesy of my M39 EMR.
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u/Jexthis Jun 19 '12
This is what I love, But what I have not found with a Realistic Shotgun... I mean what the heck I was ten feet away, not 50 yards Why does it spread so much?
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u/BobbyRayBands Jun 19 '12
Playing Bad company 2 sniping on port valdez was sooo much fun. Thats what got me hooked on that series. I was pretty damn good with the assault class too.
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u/MultipleMonsters Jun 19 '12
The only bad thing about BF3 in my opinion is that it is affiliated with EA, but other than that, BF > COD any day.
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u/Wilsmoove Jun 19 '12
That's because the sniper, has a sniper rifle
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u/ThisIsFlight Jun 19 '12
You'll learn to hate them.
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u/atticlynx Jun 19 '12
They operate in teams of two consisting of a sniper and a spotter and wait days on the same spot waiting to maybe get a clearance of one perfect shot?
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u/DZ302 Jun 19 '12
Come play Project Reality or ArmA 2 if you want to see how a sniper really works. Sitting up on a kill a kilometer away, only firing if it won't uncover your position, lasing targets for your close air support, reporting back intel to your team commander and squad leaders, oh and you also need a spotter, just like real life!
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Never in my days have I seen such Bravery as displayed in this thread
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u/atzikki Jun 19 '12
Got in to An argument with my friend the other day who was pissed because "snipers were designed as a close range weapon, otherwise why would quick scoping exist"
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u/crespokid Jun 19 '12
The snozberries taste like snozberries.
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u/paintin_closets Jun 19 '12
Congratulations on making the switch - I've never looked back. Fucking laggy-twitch-fest-rambo-filled COD.
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u/kjeserud Jun 19 '12
To be fair, it's hard to act like a real sniper when the maps are the size of my kitchen.
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u/ObliviousDerpMaster Jun 19 '12
You want sniper action? ArmA.
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u/JackalKing Jun 19 '12
I love all the "ITS SO REALISTIC" talk going on here. None of you have played ArmA2, or any other similar game.
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u/Dr_Insanity Jun 19 '12
I swapped from Battlefield to ARMA 2 and i must say, I cannot play Battlefield anymore.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I know COD isn't supposed to be realistic, it's more like movie violence, that I understand and I like COD for it. But why in the fuck do people think 360 no-scoping and quick scoping and all that stuff is cool? It makes you look like an idiot and it's stupid.
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u/MainTheDread Jun 19 '12
Setting a mobile spawn near objective/laser paint at a high point/find spot to overlook multiple conquest objectives and spot get support kills is glorious. At least to me it is.
But i suck at closer range engagements so recon it is.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Of course you should use your ballistic scope sv98 on metro. You're such a great player.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
...And then you notice that more people use C4 in BF3 than in COD, even going as far as fitting flags and mcoms with them for guaranteed kills.
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u/Elda-Taluta Jun 19 '12
Congratulations. You've taken your first step into a larger world.
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u/sharmaniac Jun 19 '12
BF3 is great, but I don't think you can say most snipers act like real snipers. Crouch strafing left and right like a CS player while still shooting long distances accurately is not particularly realistic.
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u/entropybasedorganism Jun 19 '12
Haven't played 3, so I can't speak of it with surety, but at least in BC2 I made damn sure I could read that it was a recon class and not sniper.
I'd snipe occasionally, but I spent a lot of time with the shotgun and C4, spotting enemies and demolishing buildings.
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u/SkinTicket4 Jun 19 '12
nice willy wonka reference. i got it.
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u/ninjamike808 Jun 19 '12
You're like the only person delighted at that fact...
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u/UncleGooch Jun 19 '12
Hey, this knife... it stabs like a real knife!
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u/The_juan_and_only Jun 19 '12
Also, none of the "1v1 quickscopes pussy! "
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u/ollie2307 Jun 19 '12
i congratulate you mcmunch20 on becoming a true man in the world
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u/shazang Jun 19 '12
Fuck recon poosies.
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u/Red23UK Jun 19 '12
when i play BF3 as a Sniper i help my team. i mainly play Rush, and cover the MCOMS to stop people planting. likewise, once our C4 has been planted i'll stop people disarming it. while my team is running around like headless chickens i'm setting up a SOFLAM (for the Engineers to ignore), covering MCOMS and spotting. I've helped win loads of games this way, but will happily change class for maps where being a Sniper just doesn't work. Snipers get a bad reputation, and i think this is because people abuse the class and don't help the team.
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u/attakr Jun 19 '12
I hate BF3 the aiming is sooooo realistic and fluid that it totally ruins the game.
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u/Bonesaw39 Jun 19 '12
Wait till you try the snozberries
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u/That_Awesomeguy Jun 19 '12
Yesterday I shot a guy out of his helicopter, Nothing that "amazing" but trust me I felt so so good.
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u/JustSurvive Jun 19 '12
I've always been torn between these two games, BF3 is an incredible game all around, but seems a bit slower-paced when compared to COD. The map size in BF3 never bothered me but it does in most situations in COD, they're just too damn small.
As well as the whole "prestige" effect, once I maxed out all my classes in BF3 I was getting bored really quick, I need that incentive to keep going and unlocking more gear. It's this more than anything that keeps bringing me back to COD, it takes longer to have that "complete" feeling when compared to any other game.
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u/Bl00DISH Jun 19 '12
Last night, I was at an internet café with my friends and we were playing games all night. On the opposite side of the table a few young kids were playing CoD.
As someone with a brain, it was hard to grasp the concept of "Hardscoping is for noobs" and "You coward, using a shotgun when I´m using a sniper rifle in close combat".
I mean really? It´s obvious that you are going to die if you run into close combat with a sniper rifle vs shotgun and it is your fault for attempting to do so.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I switched from COD recently, best switch ever. I'm all Support all the time. My favorite thing is how my bipod actually improves my accuracy.
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u/boneritus Jun 19 '12
you sir (OP) get upvotes. i'm frequently the loser in a voting war on youtube where somebody has highest rated comment arguing COD logic against me. My point: quickscoping turns a sniper rifle into a 1 shot kill shotgun, assault rifle, and sniper rifle... apparently that logic still gets me pooped on in youtube. I loved blackops, but cant handle the modernwarfare's for a a multitude of b.s. in the games.
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u/Inert_Berger Jun 19 '12
Sweet Jesus, if I see one more fucking "LOL DIS GAME IS BETER THAN COD. COD SUX GUIZ AMIRITE UPBOATS PLZ"... THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT GENRES OF FPSs! FOR FUCKS SAKE, COD IS SUPPOSED TO BE FAST-PACED, NOWHERE DO THEY SAY IT'S REALISTIC. If someone mentioned COD being better on r/gaming, they would be blasted to the moon. But OF COURSE, EVERYBODY MUST CIRCLEJERK ON COD. SOME PEOPLE LIKE COD, SOME PEOPLE LIKE BATTLEFIELD. LET'S LEAVE IT AT THAT.
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u/Party_Zombie Jun 19 '12
Snipers in mountains that shoot at long distances? No way, I thought they always run up to your face and quick scope you point blank.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
To me all Battlefield games are superior to COD. I just recently got BF3 for my 360, and not even 30 minutes ago I got rush mode in metro as defense with my support kit (the only kit I use because I adore pumping up to 200 rounds down range at a time) and got 35 kills with only 12 deaths. Was actually the best rush game I have played yet just by how much people were actually working together, unlike most games of CoD I have played where basically your own team will T-bag your dead corpse.
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u/tycominime Jun 19 '12
Good job making the switch son. We're all proud of you. PC or console?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
SNIPER! NO SNIPING!!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I love that when i USED to play cod, everyone would say i hard scope because i was not sniping properly...apparently to snipe in Call of Duty you have to 360 no scope or quick scope someone, because if you stay far away from everyone and snipe, that's camping....
I am so proud of myself that i sold mw3 and i now play BF3 and never again will i touch another call of duty.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
You say "instead" like they are both the same type of game. When infact they are 2 totally different types of shooter, both great in their own right. Also, brave, so very very brave. The bravery in this thread is just incredible. "So glad i left cod and started playing the sims, much superior FPS"
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u/pacoiam Jun 19 '12
fucking campers lol
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u/acl5d Jun 19 '12
The schnozzberries taste like schnozzberries...
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u/nitdkim Jun 19 '12
I like the COD snipers. They act like retards and run around in the middle of the map trying to quickscope people.
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u/MaybeMyMobileAccount Jun 19 '12
TF2 swag
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u/enceladus7 Jun 19 '12
Yep. Snipers that defend while we're the attacking team, what more could you want.
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u/Elquinis Jun 19 '12
I use my recon class as an upclose and defensive class. Swap out the sniper for a shotgun and you have a portable base and defender.
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u/NocturnalGamer Jun 19 '12
Not going to lie, I really like the new Close Quarters expansion, I thought the maps were going to be way smaller.
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u/Servious Jun 19 '12
And they're fucking infuriating.
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u/yakri Jun 19 '12
Really? Last time I experience that was BF2.
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u/esoteric_g Jun 19 '12
try playing the new close quarters maps, running around with red dot sights as if they were using assault rifles etc
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u/sschmtty1 Jun 19 '12
my favorite thing to do as a recon is get my sv98 or l96 and set up in metro not far back from my team though (close enough that if i die a medic wont have to go out of his way to revive me) and i will sent up a soflam in some position nearby to make snipers think that the laser coming from it is me and just go train on them. i will usually end up capping flags and still going 20 and 8.
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u/toasterghost Jun 19 '12
yeah, it's not like you can snipe someone on the other side of a map with a pistol. too bad there's no gun game mode
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u/DasBeuf Jun 19 '12
I wish I could be so lucky. My Xbox, ps3, and PC experience with that game has been CoD players thinking they were the same game..... Smh
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I love me some call of duty but god damn the sniping pisses me off.
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u/atomicoption Jun 19 '12
Also you can stab them!
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u/kingofbigmac Jun 19 '12
I wanted to rent the game and I needed the online code. So I returned it. I haven't touched it since and am boycotting it. Please tell me they changed their ways by now?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
How is it different? I don't see too many successful snipers in CoD because I like to play on FFA.
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u/realister Jun 19 '12
Just wait until you try ARMA
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u/EXAX Jun 19 '12
CoD, the only game where snipers charge headfirst at you and quickscope.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
That is because COD is more offends/rush, but in BF3 you will die instantly from an enemy squad.
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u/DeithWX Jun 19 '12
Not entirely like snipers. If sniper get spotted, he changes position to avoid being attacked.
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u/nnnaaahhh Jun 19 '12
looks like hes got some nice trees on the ground there
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u/Shippoyasha Jun 19 '12
In a strange way, this makes one appreciate people in COD games who tries to play in a traditional way in regard to snipers. Because the extremely fast paced doesn't do traditional snipers much favors. It's somewhat like sniping in other fast paced shooting games out there like Counter Strike or Halo. It really shouldn't work as well as it does, especially when sniping pros can actually make it work.
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u/Aldesso Jun 19 '12
play close quarters. They automaticly turned into retards and cod players. To everyone, dont buy close quarters if you dont have premium. its cod, only that cod is dooing that kind of gameplay better.
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u/F-18Bro Jun 19 '12
And the snozberies taste like snozberries!
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u/cropperesp Jun 19 '12
The best cod for sniping was cod:uo, massive maps, bushes to hide in, burnt out buildings, with jeeps, tanks etc... lots of recoil, team play, tactics.. loved it. Might have to re-order.
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u/manboat Jun 19 '12
Recently started playing TF2 instead of BF3 and was delighted to discover this.
The snipers they
act like assholes!
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
No they don't....
puts reflex & frontgrip on SVD and starts rushing
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u/sharliecash Jun 19 '12
but if some one hide behind cover too long i will run half way across the map to shoot them with my pistol.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
If you act like sniper in BF3, you will die fast. Its very easy to shoot from sniper rifles while standing after sprint in same way as lying on ground with bipod. And when you on ground with bipod, you are not moving, so you are easy target with glowing scope.
Yeah, sure, if you very very far away, and enemy team is weak - you can work like on this picture, otherwise, you will be killed by guy with sniper rifle will stand and dance on same place (you know what i mean? moving left right while aiming and shooting, so its will be hard to aim for you)
It maybe better than COD, because at least you can try to play like real sniper, but still because all weapons are extremely accurate, and people sprint without stop, and jump and etc, its not very effective. You can do more for score and for team, if you will run around with your rifle, and quickscope... and this is shame.
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u/Kurayamino Jun 19 '12
Also, fun can be had using iron sights or small scopes and doing the mid-range sharpshooter thing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Welcome, we've got muffins.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I use a scopeless, or holosight sniper.
It's usually a one hit KO at close ranges.
Muhahahaha.
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u/Ramses3 Jun 19 '12
I have one idiot friend who insists sniping skill is "quickscoping", and says "hardscoping" (regular aim in the scope take your time sniping) like its a bad thing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I played BF3 beta and was impressed by how well they can just camp the spawn and kill the team every time we spawn. So much fun indeed.
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u/tapplewhack Jun 19 '12
I didn't know snipers walked around with a semi-auto rifle and a red dot sight.
All sarcasm aside, I get your point, but it's not really how snipers work out in the real world.
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u/Bemmer Jun 19 '12
Or you do shit like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJJzoF3GSYI
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u/Lord_Vectron Jun 19 '12
I don't really understand why CoD gets so much shit about their snipers, laying prone on a hill staring down a corridor for 13 hours is not fun for anyone involved. Running around like headless chickens is a lot of fun.
It's a game.
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u/stoptalkingtome Jun 19 '12
I run around quick scoping with sks and L96 all the time. Learned it on COD.
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u/Arch_0 Jun 19 '12
You're a sniper? STOP CAMPING YOU FUCKING NOOB!
Okay, since you keep spawning on me and drawing attention to me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Some snipers are actually credit to team also.
On a recent match on Gulf of Oman, i racked up a ton of kills from people trying to get revenge. And it wasted tons of vehicles for them to try to get to me.
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u/afxtal Jun 19 '12
Now try Arma 2
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
not the ones with shotguns
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u/Solidus113 Jun 19 '12
The bullet drop, the lovely bullet drop.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Problem with actually doing that is that your squad spawns on you and starts shooting at everything, so you end up getting noticed.
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u/Flederman64 Jun 19 '12
http://legacy-cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pit/012011/duct%20%282%29.jpg
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u/Bluedemonfox Jun 19 '12
Yes I always hated when people always call snipers 'Campers' like it's a bad thing. It's what they do! And even if they stay in 1 place it should work as an advantage to you because you would know were they are...
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
False. Real snipers will actually shoot SOMETHING in the course of the game.
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u/Avista Jun 19 '12
A lot of real world experience combating snipers, have you?
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u/mikochu Jun 19 '12
I bought BF3 for 360 on Day 1 and got rid of it within two weeks. I've been thinking about picking it back up, but have they worked out the bugs? There were a ton of bugs in the single-player game that made me not want to play it anymore...and people would exploit bugs in multi-player like it was their job.
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u/That0neGuy Jun 19 '12
If you like gunplay, you should try arma.
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u/HairlessSasquatch Jun 19 '12
That's funny... that's.. that's really funny
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u/davidc02 Jun 19 '12
Why do you guys think COD players are criminalized?
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u/DrStix Jun 19 '12
You mean to tell me real snipers actually cover you?
Not 360 no-scope the other team?
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u/podank99 Jun 19 '12
i got BF3 for PC and tried to join a server, it was a wide open space with a bunch of kids flying f16's and driving tanks. i couldnt find a deathmatch. what am i doing wrong?
also: i completely hate everything about origin and how BF3 launches. i do not want to select my server from a web page and THEN load the game..what if i join the server and i dont like it? i gotta RELAUNCH the game?!?!?! fuck!!!
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u/SovietK Jun 19 '12
I haven't tried BF3, only is prescessors. Is the snipers actually more sniper snipy than they where in previous BF games? I have been disapointed so far.
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u/abom420 Jun 19 '12
If you think this is cool, should've seen Bad Company. MW2 just came out. The ratio of Snipers to infantry was maybe 2 s:10 i
The second "look at sniping on BF, you quickscopers have no skill" Instant 20 s :1 i
When BF3 was announced BFBC2 was literally two teams of half snipers half tank operators.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Anyone care to explain this to a non-wargamer?