I remember having a lot of discussions in the past about snipers with people like Dio, so for the benefit of everyone not in the Beta (as I am and have been for the last month or so) I'll give you a rundown of the Bolt Driver.
1) The Bolt Driver is its own cert. Yes, this is public info, but I wanted to say it. You spend 3 cert points for the sole purpose of getting one gun.
2) Bolt Drivers have 5 bullets per clip. Each clip is the size of a 50-round clip for a Cycler or some such. For those who want a translation, you can't carry much ammo.
3) Bolt Drivers have a pretty slow reload. It's single shot, so after every bullet, you reload.
4) The cone of fire for the Bolt Driver is extremely large until you crouch and not move at all. And that includes looking around. For the most accurate, pin-point shots, you need to be absolutely still.
5) My favorite part - when a Bolt Driver fires, it leaves a tracer behind it. The tracer disappears quickly, but if someone is looking in your general direction when you fire the gun, they will know your exact position because of the big white line extending from you to your bullet's point of impact.
6) Oh, and yeah, we all know how damaging it is. In Agile it'll drop you to about 25 health and 75 armor. So 2 shots is fatal. I think Reinforced can survive 3 shots. MAX armor, don't even bother, you're not going to kill it. And as was stated before, Standard and Infiltration suits die instantly.
Anyway, those to-be snipers out there are probably looking at this and feeling kind of disappointed. If you're sort of pissed at how snipers work right now, let me tell you that I dislike snipers in virtually every game due to how imbalanced they are, but I think they're awesome in PS because they're balanced, and they take a lot of skill. It's very similar to using a Scout sniper rifle in Counter-strike, minus the headshots of course. If you're skilled, you'll get a lot of kills. If you're just some wannabe "leet dood" who thinks sniping should "pwn" everyone, you're going to be fodder for Infiltrators and sneaky guys with mini-chainguns.
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2003-04-12, 05:58 AM
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