Originally Posted by Hamma
It's quite apparent that you just hate snipers and want to remove that playstyle from FPS game
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I don't hate snipers.
And I don't want to remove their playstyle from the game.
I appreciate them. When I was hit by one, I knew it was either move now or die. Being sniped in PS had exactly the same effect as being OSK'd, except it didn't run up someone else's kill count at the expense of the vast majority of the other players.
They had a very positive effect on the game without being capable of OSK's. They can suppress an area very well without having godlike OSK capability.
Snipers should not have OSK, and neither should anyone else, against anything in their class. This to all classes. Planes, tanks, MAXes, infantry, and anything else.
I will say it again, so some of those earlier posters who haven't even read anything in the entire thread before posting can be referred to it, again: OSK's from a heavy class, such as MBT's, even multiple kills are to be expected. I marvel that anyone could claim to have read this thread, where I stated that, then say that I don't want that in the game. It is completely appropriate.
But one cert tree in the any class, whether it is planes, tanks, buggies, infantry, or anything else should not have OSK ability on anything that is at or above their class.
To make this obvious enough that it will also be obvious that someone has not read this thread before jumping in, shrieking and gibbering that I don't want no one no where to have no weapons ever, for anything, or whatever the next rebuttal will will be, here it is: One Shot Kills are to be expected from MBT's. Even a light tank, if it hits you with its main gun, should expect a OSK. But anyone else?
Remember, they removed the instagib capability of mines on MAXes. Partially because other classes of infantry, including, laughably, cloakers, could take a mine hit and survive.
I don't think there were many people unsubscribing from PS due to no snipers having OSK capability.
I will say it yet again, so it will show just how ridiculous it is for people to tell me what I am saying, when I never said it:
OSK"s: Okay from higher-class vehicles to lesser classes of vehicle or soldier. A hit from an MBT should down a mosquito, if it has the appropriate ammo selected. A hit from an MBT should have the splash, if appropriate ammo is selected, to kill any infantry that isn't in MAX armor, in one shot. A direct hit from an MBT should kill a MAX, or, at least, or bring it extremely low on health and armor.
Flails could OSK multiple people, including MAXes. I don't know if they could OSK any full-health vehicles
And no OSK's from any infantry to any other infantry, regardless of whether it's a MAX, cloaker, HA, or whatever.
However, if one is so in love with the idea of OSK snipers, then, if he is being rational, and not just a sniper fanboy, he should be okay also if the tables are turned and others can OSK snipers, assuming they can even get close enough to do so, but snipers can't OSK others. Isn't it enough to be able to hide far from the front and strike from afar? That isn't good enough? To have more range than any other anti-infantry man-packable weapon in the game?
When something is only good for a very small percentage of the playerbase, then it isn't something that needs to be in the game. According to T-Ray, it isn't likely that a game will cater to the colorblind, though there are probably fewer snipers in PS, as a percentage, than there are colorblind people in the potential playerbase. If they don't bother to cater to as large a percentage of the population as the colorblind, why would they cater to snipers by giving them an ability no other infantry have, especially when catering to the colorblind would not have a negative effect on balance?
And who says all sniper shots will be long-range? Snipers never use their weapon in the same room as their adversaries? All that matters is that the person, like the people in Schindler's List, sit still for a second. We want a game where everyone has to run ceaselessly? That is a GREAT augmentation to gameplay? So, snipers can OSK someone with a headshot, but HA's can't? MAX's can't? Not balanced.
Infantry OSK's are not balanced. Not for up-close, not for cloakers with uber-knives, not for MAX's, not for anybody. Giving OSK to anyone may be what some of you regard as being necessary to attract more people to the game, but they thought that about the BFR's, too.
Punishing people for standing still is punishing someone anytime they have a lag spike, which is more of an exploit than some wonderful improvement to the game.
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