Sniper tracers

[Ravon Dark]

Drop this now.. no more friggen flaming sniper topics.

also remember most people in transit will be in APC's or aircraft, so if anyone is in light body armor int he open they are either attacking or defending a base... times when you cant really complain if your shot...

it's not like people are gonna be sniped running to an enemy base...

and only the VERY best snipers would be able to snipe you of of a buggy, and if they do, /bow down in respect, for you've been touched by 'God'

[Hamma]

See this thread on snipers:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/f...=&threadid=617

I think most has been covered there.

[Vimp]

sniper wannabe. lol.
Snipers usually snipe (in games), because its fun. Only being alowed to snipe based on wether your good at it or not would be a silly concept.

As far as tracers I would be in favor of a flash but also the shot should never be a single shot to kill if they are full health or else it becomes unbalanced. Only weopon that should have a full tracer stretching from sniper to target would be a sniper rifle that is energy based. A balistic type solid weopon should at the most have a tracer that only stretchs a certain distance behind the actual bullet.
Both a flash, and/or partial tracer would give indication of the direction of the sniper but not to his specific location and distance.

thanks hamma =)

[Medicine Man]

I think its funny when these conversations come up. People want their games to be real as life, but they also want their anti-gravity tanks and jet packs as well. What the hell, its a game.

[Incompetent]

DiosT, im going to say something and you tell me how stupid it sounds.

They should take the sniper rifle out of PS. The only people who snipe are skilless n00bs who need to learn how to fight.

Now you know what you sound like to everyone else. Not a flame but you need to really step back and look at the game, your playing vs people, people are not cannon fodder for your enjoyment. Your not supposed to be able to kill 3 people if you assault a full squad, your supposed to end up a corpse like anyone else who would do something that stupid.

(edit: sounds better now, and no that is not my opinion on snipers.)

well... even when we get the technology for anti-grav tanks, I still think the human skull is still gonna be about the same strength, and thus, still as suseptable to exploding when hit with a high velocity high power sniper rifle.....


seeing someone shrug off 2 direct head shot w/o a helmet on from the most powerful rifle in the game = more eye-opening then... well... anything i can think off.. which is what people seem to want...


People.. Guys in LIGHT armor are like... Computere geeks! I don't know many people with titanium skulls!!!


MOST people(including YOU), are gonna be in medium armor, and will live through at least 1 shot, if not 2(not counting misses), people in LIGHT armor MIGHT be medics, hackers, or combat engineers, but i think most of them can get medium armor too...

Oh, and pilots.. BUT, Pilots are protected by their Vehicle!!



In 80% of combat cases, a sniper willneed to make 2 hits to kill someone, that's not too unrealistic....

And only people in the light armor will die in a single shot, but people in light armor, out in the OPEN, will be VERY small, people in light armor are the SAME people that are likely to hide in APC's all the way up to the enemy door, MOST people who expect ANY kind of combat are gonna be in medium armor, and thus able to survive 1-2 shots from a sniper....