Barret M Sniper Rifles Acceptable?

[CAS_117]

I'm pretty sure I've heard of .50 cals being used on personnel. I forget where exactly.

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

Yeah, it could be done. We just don't need/want them in PR.

Originally Posted by CAS_117

I'm pretty sure I've heard of .50 cals being used on personnel. I forget where exactly.

As a Canadian, I'm assuming that you know the longest range kill in history was performed by one of your fellow countrymen (he was using a .50 cartridge weapon).

[CAS_117]

Yeah I remembered just after I posted.

[Zeno]

norway uses the M82 as a common sniper together with nm149 (that is being replaced with hk417)

dont see why its so hard to have the rifle ingame

[master of the templars]

Originally Posted by Zeno

dont see why its so hard to have the rifle ingame

Its the mentality of 12 year old kids who play PR that ruins it for the rest of us, anything that's .50 caliber attracts noobs like you would not believe.

[Zeno]

i dont see why we should sacrifice reality just because some random kid likes a gun

[@bsurd]

there are so many vids in the net where .50 cal snipers are used against human. I saw vids were army ppl said it is used more often because it did a great job against hideing ppl.

But this disscussion is so old in PR, i think these kind of rifles never bring it back to game.

[Professor]

The game is better without Barret or KSVK

[[R-DEV]Ninja2dan]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Jaymz

PLA

Modern Firearms - M99 / M06 anti-materiel / sniper rifle
Modern Firearms - M99B / M06 anti-materiel / sniper rifle
Modern Firearms - 12.7mm AMR-2 anti-materiel / sniper rifle
Modern Firearms - 12.7mm JS 05 anti-materiel / sniper rifle

Middle-East

Modern Firearms - Steyr .50 HS sniper rifle (Iran has received shipments of these)

As you can see from Jaymz' post, those weapons are listed as "Anti-material" rifles. There is a reason for that designation, instead of "Anti-personnel" rifle.

Originally Posted by CAS_117

I'm pretty sure I've heard of .50 cals being used on personnel. I forget where exactly.

Originally Posted by Zeno

norway uses the M82 as a common sniper together with nm149 (that is being replaced with hk417)

dont see why its so hard to have the rifle ingame

Originally Posted by @bsurd

there are so many vids in the net where .50 cal snipers are used against human. I saw vids were army ppl said it is used more often because it did a great job against hideing ppl.

In reply to everyone saying they are used against personnel, I'll point back to my own previous comment:

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Ninja2dan

The rifle is obviously capable of engaging personnel, but when you compare it to other sniper weapons, it's largely inferior.

While these weapons are capable of anti-personnel use, they are not designed with that role in mind. Using such weapons against personnel is an uncommon situation such as extremely long range or when no other weapon is available. If a sniper had a choice of weapon platform to engage troops, they would choose a more precise and lighter-weight platform.

The M82A1 is designed to provide commanders the tactical option of employing snipers with an anti-materiel weapon to augment the present anti-personnel M40A1 7.62mm weapon.

The M107 provides a man-portable, materiel destruction capability to the sniper team and/or supported force and complements the anti-personnel precision fire capability of the M24 Sniper Weapon System (SWS). The M107, with a family of ammunition, enables sniper teams to employ greater destructive force at greater ranges and at a higher rate of fire that exceed the terminal effect capability of the M24 (7.62mm, bolt action) SWS.

The primary mission of this rifle is to engage and defeat materiel targets at extended ranges to include parked aircraft; command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) sites; radar sites; ammunition; petroleum, oil and lubricants; and various other thin skinned (lightly armored) materiel targets out to 2000 meters.

As long as PR is incapable of permitting the proper employment of those weapons, they have no use in the game. If you need an anti-personnel rifle, there are already models present for every faction. Maybe one day we'll see the coding team figure out how to effectively use anti-material weapons, but until then I don't see them becoming available.

[John-117]

look i think that we could all decide that the bigger the gun the better :P