Poll: Should sniper rifles be able to kill people in one bodyshot.

[Lucane]

How about vastly reducing accuracy with Sniper Rifles when firing from the hip? it's a little unfair if they can run around a corner and put one bullet in your gut by lining up a dot on your chest with full motion movement too if with other weapons you might need several shots into them.(I'm aware that only works well one on one.) I mean they have the Rifle wobble when your scoped in most games now with wobble reduction when you kneel or go prone yet aiming form the him is perfectly centered?

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Perhaps if they made a hit box for the heart, otherwise I can see how people would have issues with it, though the starting sniper rifle in BF3 is total bull, 3+ body shots to kill someone, no no no no no

That's to prevent noobs from camping, believe me, that was my first strategy when I started but it didn't work.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Perhaps if they made a hit box for the heart, otherwise I can see how people would have issues with it,

this, and only this. and that'd be one SMALL ass hit box to

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Dear God people, the obvious answer is that it should be conditional. No one design decision can apply to every type of game, this should be obvious.

 

[Pandalisk]

In a game like RedOrchestra any shot is a oneshot kill, so noone cares, god i love it so.

 

[Amgeo]

I'm mostly going by TF2 here, but I feel that playing as the sniper would be too easy if just hitting instantly killed the target in one shot, not to mention the fact that it would be a lot harder when playing as any other class. "Oh, there's no one around, I guess I'll just move five feet from the spawn point over to that bit of cover OHGODTHEYSHOTME!"

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

If you hit them in the heart, I think so. Anywhere else, no. We are talking about guns with ridiculous power, range and accuracy, after all.

 

[Slayer_2]

I hate snipers, and think all snipers should be removed from games... Yes I'm a bit biased towards this poll.

 

[oppp7]

Where's the maybe? In some games where realism is the goal it might be ok, along with other games where it's not too big a deal (TF2). But in others it would be a serious breach of balance (Halo).

 

[Funky Flump]

I think Snipers being a one shot to the body is fine, because generally most military sniper rifle rounds should kill with that, if im correct.

But the problem is the amount of versatility they have, if thats the right word. Being able to run and jump and be as effective and quick at close range, as a sub-machine gun wielding class, but having a one shot weapon is not right.

If your going to make your sniper rifles one shot to the body, make the player slower, and make scoping in times a bit longer too, the CS method of scope going from hip to eye, with perfect alignment every time in under a second isn't the right way to go about it in my opinion.

Im not army, I dont have a large experience in fire arms, but I know they are heavy! And getting the scope right takes a little bit of time. So to an experienced soldier it will be easier but still, not as easy as most FPS games make it, I mean firing a high powered sniper rifle just after running could break your shoulder!

TL;DR Make snipers less mobile and easy to use. Then yes!

 

[Xmaspast]

Perhaps if they made a hit box for the heart, otherwise I can see how people would have issues with it, though the starting sniper rifle in BF3 is total bull, 3+ body shots to kill someone, no no no no no

So agreed. That thing was completely bullshit.

 

[Savryc]

No but this IS a sniper rifle after all. One body shot shouldn't kill you but it should be enough to seriously fuck you up.

 

[orangeban]

Good grief no, snipers are overpowered already in shooters. At least you need some semblance of skill to hit a head with one now, but even I can score (the occasional) bodyshot.

 

[jonyboy13]

That... Depends on the game. Generally it should have body armor to prevent the one shots.
In TF2 you can only body shot when fully charged Scout, Medic, Sniper and Spy, which is quite balanced. Most weapons reward headshots.

Again, it really depends on the game and it's the developer's job to balance it, talking shit about people who use it is stupid.

 

[Psub Xero]

It completely depends on the game and the way developers want to go with it. In all of your examples you can only kill in one body shot if the enemy is on low health, so it isn't a one shot kill. And it does not undermine the skill as a lot of people say as it is. In some games it is way harder to get kills with the sniper rifle compared to other weapons if one shot to anywhere doesn't kill. If a sniper rifle does kill with one shot to anywhere on the body it is only because of balance.

 

[drosalion]

Depends on the game imo. Something like Counter Strike yes absolutely, something like Battlefield absolutely not.

It should have nothing to do with realism, and everything to do with the metagame.

I'm basing my opinion off the competitive side of things, due to having competed in Counter Strike since 2005. In a game like that having the sniper require 2 shots to kill in a body shot would make the gun absolutely useless, and there would be no viable sniper left in the game competitively. As they are currently, the sniper rifles in CS are all underpowered if anything.

 

[Thaius]

Stuff like this is a matter of balance over realism. Sure, a single shot with a sniper would likely kill instantly in real life, but that just makes the weapon cheap and annoying. It makes more sense to make headshots kill immediately, since they take more skill and precision to pull off, and body shots just damage a lot. I like how Halo does it; single headshot kills, single bodyshot takes down shields (so another headshot with pretty much any weapon will kill). That's good.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

*EDIT*
Nevermind, someone else already made the point I was trying to make. And they said it better. So EDIT, ignore, move on.