Sniping

[Fatalis67]

not if you have good snipers. Thus I prefer down the street sniping to cross country. If you get good snipers on your team suddenly all those people in your blind spots fall over dead and the mini gun keeping you behind cover stops shooting you. GOOD snipers are a credit to their team and help bring down fast moving or well covered enemies. UNFORTUNATELY we are few and hard to come by so most of you know our bullet spamming kill greedy eight year old cousins.

Agreed, on the rare occasion that a sniper joins a team and understands his role, the team's effectiveness skyrockets.

so im guessing ur the guy i snipe from a mile away cause ur charging at me with some sort of close range weapon arent u?

I compliment the maturity of your response.

 

[Composer]

not if you have good snipers. Thus I prefer down the street sniping to cross country. If you get good snipers on your team suddenly all those people in your blind spots fall over dead and the mini gun keeping you behind cover stops shooting you. GOOD snipers are a credit to their team and help bring down fast moving or well covered enemies. UNFORTUNATELY we are few and hard to come by so most of you know our bullet spamming kill greedy eight year old cousins.

Agreed, on the rare occasion that a sniper joins a team and understands his role, the team's effectiveness skyrockets.

so im guessing ur the guy i snipe from a mile away cause ur charging at me with some sort of close range weapon arent u?

I compliment the maturity of your response.

huraay for sarcasm!

 

[Estocavio]

I like using sniper-esque tactics with Shotguns. I dont really like snipers though.

 

[fanklok]

There was a line somewhere saying that sniping contributes nothing to the team, scenario time.

It's and 8v8 King of the Hill game in Ultra Mega Fun FPS Game, you and 5 of your team mates move onto the "hill" and start racking up points and two members hang back with Sniper Rifles. The other team starts moving in to kill you 6 and take the hill but your snipers start picking them off and by the time they make it there there's only 2 of them left. So what could have been a lengthy struggle is turned into target practice. Saying snipers do nothing for the team is dumb. If they do it right they make defending points way easier by thinning numbers so you guys up front have an easier time.

And you get bonus points for distance shots.

 

[Lim3]

Nothing gets the heart beating like a snipe off; when u and an enemy sniper see each other, and its a race to line up the head shot and squeeze the trigger. Rush and you miss the shot. Take to long and you get shot.

 

[LordMoose]

Everyone wants to be the elite sniper, sitting in a bell tower with lots of beautiful cover and line of sight, muttered lines from the bible and/or silly one liners as you pick off men one by one.

 

[KiruTheMant]

Its one of the Circles of gaming,Snipers,Comabtters,and Heavyer's

As said,Heavyers take turrets,Rocket launchers,grenade launchers,and the mill of your heavy shit and kills EVERYONE in the general battlefield,these are a Snipers Prey,as most guns don't adjust in time and your slow with em.Your doomed otherwise.

 

[Scythax]

I enjoy sniping, particularly on BFBC2, because especially in that game it does actually require a modicum of skill to pull off that 300+ markman shot on the poor pleb 3km's away. Adjusting for target movement, projectile drop over distance, leading the target as they run, and combining all that to pull off a perfect headshot, gives one of the most satisfying feelings in first person shooter gaming.

Sniping in Modern Warfare though, is a whole different kind of challenge; a challenge to stay alive. Because of killcams, any person you kill with your magic boomstick which hits instantly, terminally and 100% accuratly, knows exactly where your scraggy arse is, so the challenge is to find the balance between a good hiding position, a healthy ammount of kills, and the ability to move from place to place without being seen, heard, and more importantly killed...
My very first nuke in MW2 was with my trusty Intervention on Wasteland, Hardcore Headquaters, from using that very same tactic set, and believe me, no other way feel quite as satisfying.

 

[War Penguin]

I see the appeal for snipers but I'm not too much of a fan. I'm more of a shotgun guy.

I think the idea of dealing damage and causing confusion is what makes people grab a sniper. Like what many other people said, there's a certain exhilaration to it.

 

[Slayer_2]

Snipers are cowards. Come out and face me with a fair gun, instead of worrying about your K/D ratio, and getting easy kills.

 

[Siberian Relic]

For myself, it's filling a niche on the team. I like the range, setting up sight lines, guarding a position (not the same as camping in the corner of a heavily-trafficked hallway). I'm nowhere near the sort of quick-draw snipers we see on Youtube. I peer down-scope or sit still and keep my eyes open for movement, but I also do my best to keep an eye out ahead of my teammates for enemies, picking them off and/or passing along intel. I'm actually enthused when I can successfully pass along intel for someone else that results in a successful survive and kill.

I guess I'm more recon than just sniper.

 

[Lacsapix]

I have more respect for an sniper that puts a hole between my eyes then a machinegun sprayer that kills and the surrounding area

 

[Superior Mind]

I like sitting back, carefully lining up a shot and taking a dude out in one shot a lot more than rushing at him with bullets flying in both directions hoping that his heath bar runs out before mine does. It's just a matter of preference, different strokes for different folks.

 

[Jfswift]

Honestly? I do it out of necessity. I need a scope otherwise I get shot by the other guy with the scope. I don't really enjoy sniping, personally I like sneaking around the map like a ninja and knifing people (heh, or die trying).

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

Watching your prey, that's what they are at this point, move around, unaware of your presence and then BAM, a quick shot to the head. The loud, ringing noise still lingers ever so slightly in the area. A guttural cry that causes anyone who isn't you to panic.
Everyone, without even thinking, scatters like roaches in the middle of an illuminated kitchen. Doesn't matter where they go, any cover is good cover at this point, but they don't want to stay there. You're there.

Wow, you really put thought into that one, but not quite as much as my next paragraphs.

But sniping is actually quite good fun is you know WHEN to shoot the target.
It's not a problem of where, we all know to aim for the feckin' head, but few know the actual proper timing of a good shot.

Some really good ones are when they're just about to go either prone or into cover, so they think that you've been watching them for AGES, and they freak out and get worse, presenting easy targets.
Another is through heavily-camouflaged areas like woodlands, same reason as above.
The most fun, however, is just before they kill a teammate, nick your flag, or plant a bomb.
Nothing pisses them off more than getting within spitting distance of the objective and copping a well-placed bullet to the face.

 

[SilentVirus]

Because if snipers in games were in any way realistic, they wouldn't be fun, so game developers just make them like any other gun, except that it's a 1 hit kill. Why wouldn't you use it? There's no downside whatsoever.

I don't use them because I have a sense of honor when I play a multiplayer game. Getting sniped sucks. I hate it and I know alot of other people do too. I don't want to do to others something that immensely pisses me off when done to me. Also, I'm a team player. I love to work with my teammates and win. Sniping contributes nothing to the team, which is why it fucks over so many Bad Company 2 matches. If the game requires a team effort to attack and seize an objective, having 8 of 12 people sitting in the mountains at out spawn ruins the fun. Snipers only help themselves.

A sense of honor in a video game?
Snipers do a lot more than help themselves...

 

[Rhymenoceros]

Personally I use them because I'm actually quite good with them. Plus as other people have pointed out some things give you a great sense of satisfaction. For instance once on Derail on MW2 I got 32 kills with the bolt-action Intervention. My brother was watching and after a couple of kills he started counting headshots. Of my 32 kills at least 21 were headshots. That gave me a lovely warm glow inside. And I'd just like to add that unless the whole other team is sniping I don't mind getting sniped myself if it was a good kill-many a time I have stood up out of my chair (a rare occurence) and said bravo to the man who has just headshotted me from the other side of the map. Although I do hate being killed bby the people who use the M21 and just spam the trigger.
Anyway. wall-o-text ended.

 

[Denizen]

Shotgun is my favorite weapon too. I rarely use the sniper because I go up close and personal. Even in games where you are able to strategically choose your weapons (like left 4 dead 2), I use the shotgun to get rid of hordes, tear apart special infected with the spray of pellets and have gotten good at influencing the pellets to kill special infected from far away. That last part is hard to explain but from what I have found out is that crouch-jumping and firing at them allows the pellets to fly into their face.

Even more fun:

Going towards them seemingly like you're taking their time and watching them miss then killing them with a melee attack.

Example: Team Fortress 2 as a spy.
I love torturing and taunting snipers with my knife and if they use the razorback, i headshot them with the ambassador and finish them off with a shank or shank them to death from the start.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I tried to be a sniper, but I can't shoot for chip. I instead do either more flanking style gaming (call of duty SMG's or Scouts), or support roles (Medics or Engineers), or heavy gunners (Call of Duty LMG's or Hevay Weapons guys).

And besides, I am pretty sure we don't need a Filth sniper on the team anyway.

 

[Yoshimota]

Watching your prey, that's what they are at this point, move around, unaware of your presence and then BAM, a quick shot to the head. The loud, ringing noise still lingers ever so slightly in the area. A guttural cry that causes anyone who isn't you to panic.
Everyone, without even thinking, scatters like roaches in the middle of an illuminated kitchen. Doesn't matter where they go, any cover is good cover at this point, but they don't want to stay there. You're there.
These moments of pure excitement are worth the slow, tedious routines of waiting.

That's why I feel compelled to anyway.

Now I'm not a compulsive Sniper, but I do like to snipe every now and then, and I think this sums it up pretty darn well.