I bought the new Medal of Honor game recently (well, bought is a bit incorrect, I traded in some old games for it) and while playing online it would appear that the completely ridiculous "I'm sniping, and thus good at the game" mentality has carried over from Call of Duty.
It's difficult to overstate how much worse sniping makes the game right now - snipers have next to no recoil, no or incredibly tiny amounts of idle sway, are incredibly accurate, are unaffected by bullet drop and anything above the first sniper rifle (which you can just spam with near-100% accuracy anyway) kills in one shot to the chest. And, to top it all off, if you shoot someone aimed down a sniper scope it barely affects their ability to aim at all - you can be shooting somebody and they can still kill you with a single shot as though the multiple injuries to their face are not actually an issue to them.
Due to the overpowered nature of the sniper class in Medal of Honor, around 50% of every team will be playing it. This means that around 50% of every team will be sitting in the back of the map doing utterly nothing productive and just making the game less fun for everyone involved. And, to make things worse, they're convinced that it proves that they're good at the game. As a result of the high quantity of camping sniper players, it means that everybody else is also forced to camp, because if they move out they get shot and killed almost instantly. This slows down the game to a ridiculous degree.
In objective modes, your 50% sniper team composition will have you crushed time and time again by anyone with the brains to realise that sniping isn't the most skilled way to play the game. The majority of people will just ignore the objective to sit on a rock somewhere and rack up the kills (usually also an incredibly low number).
While I'm sure that DICE will actually come out with some sort of solution to this (since they're one of the few companies who actually seem to fix their games) I'm interested to see what the Escapist community thinks about the issue.
Somehow or other I don't find it fun to be repeatedly killed by somebody who is utterly convinced that they're xxixIZixziIX l33t pr0 XxzxXIt while they're actually playing by far the least skilled class.
Oh, and, as a note, please can those of you with nothing to contribute to the discussion (i.e people who will just post OH I GUESS MEDAL OF HONOR IS SHIT THEN DURR or people who're simply posting to insult a game they dislike) please refrain from joining the discussion. And if you haven't actually played the game, please don't state opinions on the game borrowed from others.
It's difficult to overstate how much worse sniping makes the game right now - snipers have next to no recoil, no or incredibly tiny amounts of idle sway, are incredibly accurate, are unaffected by bullet drop and anything above the first sniper rifle (which you can just spam with near-100% accuracy anyway) kills in one shot to the chest. And, to top it all off, if you shoot someone aimed down a sniper scope it barely affects their ability to aim at all - you can be shooting somebody and they can still kill you with a single shot as though the multiple injuries to their face are not actually an issue to them.
Due to the overpowered nature of the sniper class in Medal of Honor, around 50% of every team will be playing it. This means that around 50% of every team will be sitting in the back of the map doing utterly nothing productive and just making the game less fun for everyone involved. And, to make things worse, they're convinced that it proves that they're good at the game. As a result of the high quantity of camping sniper players, it means that everybody else is also forced to camp, because if they move out they get shot and killed almost instantly. This slows down the game to a ridiculous degree.
In objective modes, your 50% sniper team composition will have you crushed time and time again by anyone with the brains to realise that sniping isn't the most skilled way to play the game. The majority of people will just ignore the objective to sit on a rock somewhere and rack up the kills (usually also an incredibly low number).
While I'm sure that DICE will actually come out with some sort of solution to this (since they're one of the few companies who actually seem to fix their games) I'm interested to see what the Escapist community thinks about the issue.
Somehow or other I don't find it fun to be repeatedly killed by somebody who is utterly convinced that they're xxixIZixziIX l33t pr0 XxzxXIt while they're actually playing by far the least skilled class.
Oh, and, as a note, please can those of you with nothing to contribute to the discussion (i.e people who will just post OH I GUESS MEDAL OF HONOR IS SHIT THEN DURR or people who're simply posting to insult a game they dislike) please refrain from joining the discussion. And if you haven't actually played the game, please don't state opinions on the game borrowed from others.
