I should point out that the sniper rifle can be insanely destructive against poorly trained enemy infantry in real life. The only difference is that in ArmA2, the Ai don't take cover behind trees very often (although I've seen them do this on occasion) and don't immediately head for cover when being engaged by a sniper. However as mentioned above, THEY DO hunt you down with flanking and that is VERY realistic. I do this on TVT. When I hear that tell-tale single shot of an enemy sniper rifle, I tend to make it my personal mission to hunt that bastard down by flanking and coming up on his rear so I can whisper to his ear "EAT THIS SNIPER" as I double tap his head.

However with that said, yes snipers do make life easier. So does artillery and air support. But if replicating real life combat is the goal, then you need some snipers on both sides. We've had missions with some REAL nasty enemy AI snipers that wiped out entire squads of our players.

Hopefully in the ACE2 mod, the AI officers (or others) will pop off smoke grenades automatically when taking fire. That is standard procedure when taking sniper fire and it IS effective especially in urban enviorments. In open areas its effective depending on wind direction/speed and how many/type smoke nades are thrown.

But on missions like Ia Drang I got a record 52 kills. I played it with Dredge commanding the other night and we won it without the RECCE team and honestly, it was more enjoyable without the sniper because we had to work much harder to obtain a victory. What I would recommend is that for every mission that has a DMR, they replace them with a M24 bolt-action rifle. This is MUCH harder to get massive kill scores with as its slow to reload each round. With it, a sniper really has to think like a real sniper and make each hit count. So high scores with that rifle are truly EARNED!

Just a suggestion.


Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>