SamFancyPants252 said:
Sniping? Overabundant? Don't be silly.
sorry, just had to. Anyways, don't know, from what I hear, MW2 just has a lot of people who use snipers as a sort of a one-hit-kill short-range weapon. Personally, I like playing a sniper in games cause I like stealth and everything that generally comes with playing one, finding good spots, repositioning etc.
But I only ever use it as a short-range weapon if I'm forced into close range (someone comes at me), and even then I tend to switch to a sidearm, though apparently, MW2 seems to have an over-effective sniper rifle, in other games it tends to take a bit of time to zoom down the scope and if you're not zooming in, it's just imprecise as hell to balance out the relative strength of a shot a sniper rifle has to other weapons (because frankly, IRL you could use the sniper quite fine as a short range weapon, but IRL an AK47 wouldn't need to hit you 5 times to kill you so it's all about balancing gameplay, not realism).
