MAX vs. sniper - Page 2

Warborn · 2003-01-01, 08:10 PM

Originally posted by Toimu
Put Reinforced Exo-Suit on a Sniper, and give him Bolt-Driver and some Anti-Vehicular Missile, he should be ok. But still, a Anti-Vehicular weapon wont do much damage to infantry (MAX).

But anyone getting hit by a missile will take cover, or run.

Best way to kill a MAX is with a MAX or tank.

Which leads me to my next point: Sniper rifles should be restricted to Agile armor only, to prevent the above sort of lameness.

FraBaktos · 2003-01-01, 08:11 PM

Somehow I think an anti vehicular weapon would damage a max, I mean Hammu said they were like walking tanks. But maybe im wrong, I dunno.

Warborn · 2003-01-01, 08:15 PM

Well, yeah, an anti-armor missile will hurt a MAX fairly well I imagine.

Hamma · 2003-01-01, 08:24 PM

^ Correct, antiarmor/vehicle work well against them

FraBaktos · 2003-01-01, 08:30 PM

So if you think about it, it would be a good strategy to snipe a max, lure him in close, and BLAST HIM WITH A ROCKET!!!! It would make you invincible!! except if a cloaker came up right behind you.... and stabbed...

Sandtaco · 2003-01-01, 08:43 PM

Or the fact that that's almost impossible to do.

Navaron · 2003-01-01, 09:26 PM

or a nuke. We need nukes and jet packs. And prone. And beta.

Point is, you don't kill deer with bb's and you don't kill MAXz with a Bolt Driver. The way this game seems to be shaping up - every unit has a disadvatage and advatage, so you have to travel in groups - so the sniper could weed out the MAXs escorts, opening it up for an anti tank missle.

Warborn · 2003-01-01, 11:45 PM

It's a giant game of paper-rock-scissors.

Toimu · 2003-01-02, 08:35 AM

SmokeJumperPS just call me at home, and told me this new stuff about PS....

1) Infil suits can carry bolt-drivers.

2) Bolt-drives can 1 hit kill everything, even tanks. Bolt-drives are lock on target now. They are also full auto with the highest RoF in game. They can shoot threw trees, ground, and walls. You can see threw trees, ground, and walls with them. You can zoom in unlimited amount with a bolt-driver also. Bolt-drivers also have instant hit bullets, that explode and do 1 hit kills with splash damage in a 1 Km area.

3) Prone is in.

Hamma · 2003-01-02, 08:59 AM

(lies)

Unknown · 2003-01-02, 01:39 PM

You forgot to mention that you got into beta, right?

That is a good point though, will snipers be able to carry anti-vehicle weapons? I think not. Not too long ago Dave commented that if you had a bunch of snipers bugging you, you could hop into a mosquito and tear them up, as bolt drivers would do diddly squat against vehicle armor. That leads me to believe they wouldn't be able to carry anti-vehicle weapons as secondary...

FraBaktos · 2003-01-02, 01:44 PM

If the snipers are good, they could shoot the driver while hes driving the harasser.

oosik · 2003-01-02, 01:49 PM

A bolt driver can be carried by reinforced armor, so the reinforced armor could also have an AV weapon in the second rifle holster. Or if you are TR, a mini-chaingun with AP ammo. So it looks like if you want to be a sniper, better carry some extra gear. Also, how much inventory space do the bolts for the bolt-driver take up?

Furio · 2003-01-02, 03:11 PM

Personally I think hitting any infantry in the head with a bolt driver even a max will do SIGNIFICANT damage. It shouldn't be enough to kill him but it will do damage enough because theres not much armor in the head. It will likely be a bit like TFC when a sniper shoots the HW in the head.

Dragoon412 · 2003-01-02, 04:21 PM

It's just going to be a balancing act of getting the power of the bolt driver in harmony with the armor that can tote it and the degree of skill required to use it well. If one out of every hundred wannabe snipers out there actually has the skills to reliably put a bullet through my head from a couple hundred meters, I wouldn't have any problems at all with the bolt driver packing a nasty punch. But if the bolt driver winds up being some rapid-fire hitscan piece of crap so that every lamer that gets his hands on it can put a round through your head, damn, I hope the thing is gimped to the point of being useless.

It's also be rather obnoxious if snipers could carry rocket launchers and the like... I hope they'd be limited in their choices of weapons, regardless of their armor. Afterall, it'd be really tough to line up a steady shot when you've got a rocket launcher strapped to your back...