Making sniping a little harder

[MGreenwald 49]

Im not sure if rocket would be able to implament this but it would be fantastic if wind would be a factor in sniping. Not only do you have drop to consider but you also have to consider the bullet traveling left or right.

[peke_kantsi@hotmail.com 36]

Would require pretty useless modding and alotta of work. Just remove zeroed .50cals and replace them with ksvk and other sniper rifles that are lower caliber.

[RapturJesus 90]

Theres this thing called lag. Maybe youve heard of it. It makes it hard to hit things sometimes.

[Robert_merello 2]

Would require pretty useless modding and alotta of work. Just remove zeroed .50cals and replace them with ksvk and other sniper rifles that are lower caliber.

Yes... why would you take a sniper rifle with 5 shots to kill zombies? bring with Saws and you could kill 200 more zombies or considering we are at the russian province kalashnikovs.. not only is it unrealistic to bring with those but it is stupid to have 1-hit kill rifles in this game. Edited July 27, 2012 by Robert_merello

[Bailey (DayZ) 7]

To much work for a little idear. And the bullet would have to start be affected by wind at it's latest. Im no gun expert but a bullet shooting out at however fast that go, I dont think wind could do make.

[Colditz 54]

I agree, seeing how Sniper Rifles can make the game extremely easy for people to play and provoke a "Let's hunt Survivors!" kind of playstile, sniping should be made harder. The ArmA2 modification ACE show's excellently how it's done. I don't think it'd be hard to implement a feature where wind would affect the bullet trajectory/speed. But imho, I agree with you, sniping needs to be harder, most people spend their time on towers/ in bushes waiting for other survivors.

[euryale 72]

so what. If this is implemented it'll take 4 bullets to kill you instead of 2. (or 1 in some cases)

[ivan keska 39]

I agree sniping should be much harder in game because I've owned a precision rifle and have shot targets out to 400 yards it's not something anyone can do, because wind does play a factor, the round does to, how you control your breathing, and more. Also I'm guessing the ammo being used by the precision rifles and sniper rifles in game is ball ammo which is a terrible round to use when sniping.

I think they should have a way to control breathing and also get rid of the zeroing feature until you have to zero the rifle your self also have different quality levels of ammo since that makes a huge difference. Plus a way to support the rifle thus giving stability well aiming, unlike now where you don't make use of a bipod, wall, sand bag, or other things. Maybe there stuff from the ace or project reality of mods that can be used.

Also carrying a 50 cal rifle is insane in this game because if you've ever just held on in your hands in real life, you'll think "i hope i never have to carry this thing around for more than a mile" because the gun is heavy and the ammo does help one bit.

[Frozen (DayZ) 144]

Would require pretty useless modding and alotta of work. Just remove zeroed .50cals and replace them with ksvk and other sniper rifles that are lower caliber.

zeroing on .50cals is fine, but what i`d like to see that m107 and as50 were replaced by barret m99, approximately same shit, but its a single-shot rifle, in arma its means 1 cartridge per mag, and they can be refilled via relog. and issue with amr rifles is solved.

[Baelethal 102]

I'm not a great DayZ player. I'm not really a marksman. I don't dare even pick up a sniper, because I know that I'd be garbage at it. It's not my thing. However, I don't believe sniping needs to be any harder, per se. Sniping is "easy" because you're giving them a stationary target to shoot at. I've been hit on the run once in game. I gave silent props to that guy. It was a solid shot.

Most "snipers" I've met in game truly aren't that great unless the target is sitting perfectly still or is moving in a manner that's extremely easy to track, and even then you need to accommodate for bullet travel time.

There are known "sniper holes". Know where they are and where you are in relationship to them and route accordingly.

I guess I don't really feel that sniper rifles need to be changed. Sure sometimes they're a little bit cheap, but it's all part of the experience. Better luck next life?

[noobfun 87]

Also I'm guessing the ammo being used by the precision rifles and sniper rifles in game is ball ammo which is a terrible round to use when sniping.

why would you think military sniper rifles that use 30-06 and 50.cal rounds would somehow now be using ball shot like 18th century muskets?

I think they should have a way to control breathing

like hold left mouse? .. oh wait thats already in game so we need another way besides left mouse or instead of left mouse?

also get rid of the zeroing feature until you have to zero the rifle your self

you do have to zero your self, i think you mean range the target yourself .... step out of the lame servers and into vert/exp servers and you have to do this anyway using mil dot calculations, map referencing or range finders

Plus a way to support the rifle thus giving stability well aiming, unlike now where you don't make use of a bipod, wall, sand bag, or other things.

no it just works off your stance

Also carrying a 50 cal rifle is insane in this game because if you've ever just held on in your hands in real life, you'll think "i hope i never have to carry this thing around for more than a mile" because the gun is heavy and the ammo does help one bit.

and yet people do carry them, not only do they carry them they also often carry a secondry rifle and field kit

basically just turn off auto ranging and map way points across all servers then at least people would have to learn about ranging to use them effectivley