Honestly, I´d happily trade the overpowered snipers that we have today if sniping was as it was in the golden age:
- Larger maps which means actually having long lines of sight.
- No scope glint (the last one that didn't have it was WW2)
- Ghost perk is always on (so you can stealth snipe). Staying put as a sniper is important sometimes. (Sure, some use it to camp in corners, but it's a sacrifice that I, am willing to make)
- Flinch in snipers is high, but it is as well in every other gun.
- Range damage is the same at all distances (for consistency's sake)
- Slower movement (Stop jumping and stay put so I can shoot you damnit!)
In all seriousness I'd gladly have bo1 snipers (and if you know how they were when they launched you know) if we had maps in which we could actually… snipe.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I know that snipers are overpowered… for a certain type of playstyle. That is, to use them as a glorified shotgun or just holding a single "sniper lane". I know they are easy to use, I have a higher K/D with them than any other type of gun. But the thing is… it's not fun to me. Getting a quickscope doesn't compare to getting a longshot to an unsuspecting player.
If you notice, all the nerfs that sniping has had over the years (scope glint, etc) have been to traditional sniping, whereas quickscoping has been boosted. Don't get me wrong, I know why they did this: if we had larger maps or no scope glint with the sniper rifles that we have now, they'd step up from overpowered to unbeatable: A gun that's good at short, medium and long ranges. That's partially why we can't have large maps anymore.
So I wish sniping was as it was in the golden age, where traditional sniping was a viable playstyle. What do you say? That I could go to Battlefield for long range sniping? Or Ground War in MW19? But in COD 4 to MW3 I could snipe fine without having to play any of that!
It was a viable playstyle back in the day! I have proof! Look at this post from mw3 back in the day! https://www.reddit.com/r/mw3/comments/x6eq0/guide_to_sniping_no_quickscoping/
SEE?! Traditional sniping WAS a thing! It's even a well voted post! DON'T gaslight me! It's not just a battlefield or Ground War thing! And now if there's something of a large map like Miami they take it out because it was "too big for 6v6"! Have you played Seelow?! Or Array!? Or Derail?! And when they brought Zoo back they mutilated it!
It's THEIR fault. The QUICKSCOPERS fault. Because of THEM, they had to nerf every other type of sniping. WHY do we listen to them?! They threatened Vonderhaar with death threats when he nerfed the DSR-50! They're ANIMALS! That BO1 developer that nerfed quickscoping was RIGHT!
Put the straitjacket away I KNOW I'm right! THEY took real sniping AWAY from me! NO NOT THE INJECTION AGAI