This Counter Strike: Source sniping demotivational poster was never wrong. snipers pretty much ruin every online FPS game. “feel like a player without actually joining the game” it reads.
This Counter Strike: Source sniping demotivational poster was never wrong. snipers pretty much ruin every online FPS game. “feel like a player without actually joining the game” it reads.
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Sounds like a skill issue
True. An FPS without Snipers would have Fun go up, and Rage go down, and Devs wouldnt have to balance around a weapon one shotting people.
I don’t know, I love going on a mission to find, flank, and fuck up the enemy snipers. Sometimes I win and sometimes I lose. Or I counter-snipe.
Battle bit had snipers I didn’t mind they were hard to snipe with and when you died to one it became a fun game of hunting them down to insult them over voice chat.
The devs know they could not only put up a sign like this but actually remove snipers from their game if they feel like, right?
People complaining about this since Quake had the grapple hook.
Love that I haven’t played shooters in a decade and people are still haunted by me 🤣
I’ve never found snipers to be a particularly relevant issue in my +20 years of gaming. They’re highly situational. Once you get to close the distance they can’t do jack shit.
The only fps where snipers aren’t a curse is battlefield 1.
Agreed. Snipers in practically all games end up being a complete mess to balance around, it’s usually better to just not have them.
It’s always funny when people get mad at snipers camping from distance. Like thats whole point of being a sniper.
That’s why playing snipers feels the best
I love being sniper at “Insurgency Sandstorm”
It takes time to practice aim, find good position and be good at it.
Varies on type of shooter for me. I enjoy it in a battlefield with large maps and vehicles. But sniping ruining COD for me. Any game that is run and gun but you can be 1 tapped is no fun for me.
Memories of 2Fort4 in the OG Team Fortress for QuakeWorld.
I love playing as a sniper. It’s a higly skill based style. With most weapons you can get kills by just shooting from the hip in the enemy’s general direction but if you kill with a sniper you probably knew what you were doing
Actually roaming the map as a sniper to find chokepoints or provide backup is good.
Camping is dumb. Even the best snipers know that repositioning is a thing.
Cope. Might as well take the shotguns out as well cuz they make close quarters battles trivial too
The problem with snipers is that its never fun at all to get one shot from some random point halfway across the map. Its just not fun.
I remember playing Valorant a few years ago (beta and actively until that French agent guy) and there was a weapon called The Operator which was a one-shot even if you hit the torso, so you didn’t even need to aim for the head. Yes it was an expensive weapon but basically 0 skill involved.
And the guns in general ruin the encounters by being part of the game
Buddy i play tf2, and even i can tell this is absolute cope
Like how ranked got worse after cod decided to remove snipers.
It honestly depends on the game. CoD is one thing. Arma is another. Just chilling with your buds planning how to approach an objective, thinking you’re safe for a moment, only to have a shot whizz past is chilling. Suddenly you’re scouring wood lines and vantage points trying to triangulate the little shit. OperatorDrewski has vids showing the absolute ruthlessness of coordinated sniper squads hitting unsuspecting teams.
I think snipers depends on the game.
In a tactical shooter, like CS? Where you have team coordination and PLENTY of utility to outplay the sniper? Plus sightlines short enough that you can contest the enemy sniper with hell, a DEAGLE if you need to and come out on top, alongside no specific member of the team being more important than the others? Sniping is fine.
Sniping becomes almost broken in games like TF/ and Overwatch when the game is “protect the medic,” and you just lose a fight when the medic dies, because of how low risk high reward sniper is. Widowmaker is especially rough because you can’t even stick to her if you do get the drop on her, because she can just zip away. Of course, characters being exceptionally hard to hit compensates a bit, but a good Widow really just makes the game unplayable, because you just have to understand you will never have a healer.
Realistically the only good counter for a Widow is well… Widow, and at that point if you’re just worse than the other guy it’s GG.
I think sniping is also annoying in very long-distance games like Battlefield or battle royales, because in those scenarios there was no counterplay. The counterplay was knowing a sniper exists and not revealing yourself, but if you had no idea the sniper existed, you couldn’t do anything. Sure you could ALWAYS play like a sniper was around, but that ends up not being fun for you OR the sniper.
SnIpErS rUIn EvErY oNlInE fPS!!!
Everyone stop playing snipers, OP doesn’t approve.
True, snipers can be frustrating.
My favorite part of old team fortress was tricking the enemy snipers as a spy. Dressing up as the other colors only worked sometimes. But dressing up and walking backwards away from our base? Fooled them every time.
We don’t play the same game. Counter strike is not running to the opponent camp and making frags. Sniper is core element of the game. You have to learn how to live with that.
Good snipers know how to help the team from afar.
Yeah, see this is why the CZ-75 is your secondary to your AWP. “If he whiffs this shot I can take him in that corner.” You miss, they rush and then blaow, pocket AK.
I heard sniping is a pretty good job, but challenging
Comp ruined FPS games.
Boo hoo cry me a river… if you lose to a sniper you just dont know how to counter it, plain and simple