Re: Cool Sniper Addon (with video demonstration!)

**Long Bow** · 09-15-2008, 11:17 AM

I actually stumbled upon this mod this weekend and spent some time building my range cards. I thought since I'm part of a recon IHS I should at least have some sniping/DM abilities? Regardless it was great fun using a custom range map to figure out what's what with the different rifles. The SPR is craptastic. I literaly couldn't hit a target at 500m (went through several clips, could hit the 400m target fine, eventually I walked up range just to be sure the target wasn't bugged - it wasn't

) I tried it out in some simple missions and for the first shot it's great. After that it helps at range because you don't have to compensate so much but adjusting on the fly was not a good option. Overall I think it's a handy mod to help but I don't see it being really usefull for most of what I encounter. With troops moving quickly and closing the distance on my position it wasn't used in a precise way, more of a "dial in some distance for optics - fire and compensate - distance reduces -dial back the range for optics". Like I said first shots were great and very handy, after that it's a matter of lots of shooting (as per usual).

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I am a person who likes to play the infantry role. I like a challenge (self imposed or mission imposed), I want tension in game. I want to have a squad that I need and that needs me to be succesfull. These are similar sentiments to Jex and Beta et. al. I like to win but I want to earn it or at least loose in a hard fought battle. What ever combination of kits and equipment are used but still meet all these criteria, will make for a memorabile mission. Thats all I want.

**tHa_KhAn** · 09-17-2008, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by Long Bow

I am a person who likes to play the infantry role. I like a challenge (self imposed or mission imposed), I want tension in game. I want to have a squad that I need and that needs me to be succesfull. These are similar sentiments to Jex and Beta et. al. I like to win but I want to earn it or at least loose in a hard fought battle. What ever combination of kits and equipment are used but still meet all these criteria, will make for a memorabile mission. Thats all I want.

Amen. As mentioned before, it's not about the realistic use of the tools available, it's about how that use affects the group as a whole.

**tHa_KhAn** · 09-17-2008, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by Sc[ + ]pe

ArmA is a fairly-realistic combat simulator that unrealistically portrays powerful tools in such a manner that it is easy for skilled players to abuse these tools and rob fun from the other players.

I think a better way to say it is that ArmA missions that include these tools are limited in their ability to balance fun for the group and still have those tools do their job in a realistic manner. ArmA is realistic and people argue using these tools is realistic and thus it should be free reign. I challenge those same folks to create a realistic patrol mission where the enemy never shows. ArmA fully supports this kind of operation, yet I don't see people lining up to make these types of missions even though they are very realistic.

**NKato** · 09-18-2008, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by beita

Exactly my thoughts.

I don't dislike snipers. I dislike it when a player who doesn't know how to BE a sniper takes up the role and uses it as a "killing platform". Same goes for tanks, APCs, combat/transport helis ... etc. etc.

This is why I enjoy operating an Abrams tank with two AI crewmen in Evo servers - especially when there are player squads with their feet on the ground in city streets. I'll often be providing support from afar, but when it's REALLY a rough fight, I'll go in and provide direct fire support for our infantrymen at point blank range.

For me, nothing beats the rush of blowing away an enemy armored vehicle in close quarters urban combat, to protect the infantrymen you're covering.

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