Poll of the Day > I love sniping but i hate it in games where it isnt the focus.

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A good example of this is borderlands. They have cool sniper rifles in the games, however I hate how there really isn't a stealth aspect to it. The second you fire at an enemy all the others some how know exactly where you are.

Makes you won't what's the point of even having those sniper rifles in the first place.

not all sniping is assassinations

I am terrible at sniping always

i like explosives, because they explode

hypnox posted...

A good example of this is borderlands. They have cool sniper rifles in the games, however I hate how there really isn't a stealth aspect to it. The second you fire at an enemy all the others some how know exactly where you are.

Makes you won't what's the point of even having those sniper rifles in the first place.

Yeah I don't understand games that have sniping like that. I mean most of the time enemies don't even render in at the distances where you'd normally be sniping from.

Sniping in video games is fun. I used to love coming home after college and going on rampages in Vice City. The Modern Warfare sniping level was very fun too. I have 2 of the sniper elite games, but never played them.

I'm guessing they have hard platinums.
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I was playing GTAV and stumbled into a mission where you were stealing from the government some top secret alien thing and in the middle of the mission it switches over to Franklin to snipe targets on the boat and it was the worst but thankfully over quickly.

beats random stealth sections and escort missions.

hypnox posted...

A good example of this is borderlands. They have cool sniper rifles in the games, however I hate how there really isn't a stealth aspect to it. The second you fire at an enemy all the others some how know exactly where you are.

Makes you won't what's the point of even having those sniper rifles in the first place.

It's a co-op game, you have one class that is good at sniping and 3 others that prefer to fight up close and personal. The idea is that the other 3 distract the enemies while you snipe them. Same concept as in games like Diablo: Melee classes distract the enemies while ranged classes shoot at them from afar. Which is appropriate given that Borderlands is copying that style of game.

You are complaining because you are playing a co-op game single player.

Dont most of the sniper skills work with pistols as well in borderlands? That way you can get a few headshots at a distance and then switch to pew pew to mop up the rest

Bad Company 2 had pretty good sniping mechanics for a non-sniper focused game. Had to adjust elevation for distance. Nothing too fancy, but more than point-and-shoot

hypnox posted...

A good example of this is borderlands. They have cool sniper rifles in the games, however I hate how there really isn't a stealth aspect to it. The second you fire at an enemy all the others some how know exactly where you are.

Makes you won't what's the point of even having those sniper rifles in the first place.

That's exactly what would happen in real life, though. It's kind of hard to disguise the incredibly loud boom a sniper rifle is going to produce, so after your first shot all of the enemy are going to be alerted. Then it's mostly just a question of figuring out what direction the shots are coming from, finding cover, and potentially flanking.

It's why snipers tend to either focus on high-priority targets and then scoot, or act as part of a larger operation where the enemy are occupied with other things so can't focus on finding the sniper.

Games where you enter perfect stealth and can pick off an entire army one man at a time without anyone knowing you're there are way more unrealistic.

As for games like Borderlands, the point of a sniper in games like that (or Destiny, or Halo, or whatever) is that you're still shooting from a greater distance with a weapon that does significantly more damage than most other guns. So you can fire off a few powerful shots and potentially take down a number of enemies before they rush you, at which point you're switching to your back up close-quarters gun, which encourages a degree of strategy.