Falling in love with sniper role.

[scm_ming]

Just now I played a game and work as a sniper. And it is the only game that portraits snipers relatively realistically. One teammate joined me and be my spotter. In the Insurgency game.
Our main job is work as a recon. Spotting enemies and eliminating threats.
We sneaked into a 2 story house about 300 yards from the village where the insurgent storing weapon cache. After waiting for a while. Enemy starts rushing out from the village. A RPG soldier rushing toward our Vehicle Checkpoint so we contacted the team for RPG threat. It's too far away and he's running I couldn't take confident shot.
And then I spotted a sniper in a building. And I aimmed carefully and took him out. Perhabs now they awared of our existence. Some of the insurgent guy moving toward our building. I tell my spotter to take out his CQB weapon. They are getting closer and I said "Wait, hold your fire if they didn't see us.". But they trying to get in the building. My spotter tried to kill them. Then we got owned by RPG. Sigh...

Then again. I work as a sniper. And sneaked into a ruined building somewhere near the village. And contact my team for enemy threats. Our APC and tanks moving toward the village. Then I spotted 2 guys with AK47 and RPG appeared on the rooftop trying to set up ambush I think.
Then I notify my team for their positions. Obviously they are a threat to our APC and Tanks that are moving toward the village. So I decided to take the shot. I fired at the guy with RPG first.
When the RPG guy moving toward and prepared to take the shot. I shot him right in the head. Then the guy with AK notice his partner's death after maybe 2 second later. Obviously he don't know where the shot from. And I see him hesitating to retreat. Then I fired another shot and finished him off. And then I see a insurgent sniper appeared on the same rooftop. Obviously I took him out too. Ahhh...it supposed to be the time to reposition. Then again. I see someone moving toward my building. Damn maybe he heard my shot? I'm not sure if he spotted me. I tried to hide to see if he just trying to check out the building. Then a bunch of grenades spammed my building. And I'm dead lol.

By the way. It would be much much better if snipers are dressed in guillie suit in Reality mod. Snipers supposed to be stealthy. And it is best to provide different kind of guillie suit to suit different environment like forest, woodland, desert etc. We supposed to be difficult to spot. If we got spotted, our games are over.

[EOD_Security-2252]

I think this belongs more in the "Tales from the Frontlines" section, but it's good to hear you enjoy playing PR.

[charliegrs]

i love the fact that sniper is limited to 1 per team.

[Dr2B Rudd]

Originally Posted by scm_ming

By the way. It would be much much better if snipers are dressed in guillie suit in Reality mod. Snipers supposed to be stealthy. And it is best to provide different kind of guillie suit to suit different environment like forest, woodland, desert etc. We supposed to be difficult to spot. If we got spotted, our games are over.

Welcome to the forums, glad you had a good round and used the sniper kit effectively and with tactics and forethought; you can do the same supporting my squad any day mate.

But in BF2 kits do not render at range, i.e. they will see you without ghille suites after a couple of hundred of meters even if you have one.

Use building cover creatively like you did with the two story in its place.

[scm_ming]

Yes. I love the fact that only 1 sniper is allowed in a team too. I really hate to see 17 snipers camping on the same spot the Counter-Strike way like in the original BF2 game. The big failure of BF2 sniper is that snipers is fragile yet lacks the one shot kill(Except a direct headshot) firepower to threaten the enemy.

The guillie suit doesn't work in BF2 engine. That's too bad. IMO that's the most interesting thing of a true sniper. Blending into the environment sneaking around etc...
Anyway, I think another improvement is a more effective communication system. Snipers supposed to have better ability to do the scouting/recon job. e.g. I spot an enemy and I want all my teammates to know it. Now I can only type or use the mic. Check out the map grid and tell the rough position. By the time I reported it. The enemy has already gone. Especially those civilian who drive a car that look like a 1985 old Toyota, but faster than a F1 car.

[Dr2B Rudd]

Well atm, you can press Q, right click, and afaik if you select a vehicle spotted (not sure about infantry spotted) you will mark a vehicle on the map for all to see, and it even uses vBF2 tracking so it will move with the targeted vehicle for a time

there is an improved targeting communication system, its called teamspeak (or if you wanna be wierd; ventrillo) but its hard to get the necessary people on the teamspeak server to do it properly.

But TBH, talking via the commander when acting as a recon sniper team works quite well

"commander, this is sniper team"
wait 15 seconds, repeat if necessary
"sniper team go ahead"
"enemy blah blah on my attack marker/at grid ref yackedy yack yack roger that"
then your job is done, its in the commander's hands now

edit- *disclaimer* the above is probably wrong in terms of how the military use coms in real life, but as far as I can see it is the most descriptive and efficient way of talking ingame to your commander.

[Conman51=US=]

Originally Posted by charliegrs

i love the fact that sniper is limited to 1 per team.

im preety damn sure its 2

[Hotrod525]

i love do a Sniper team whit 1 of my clanmate, he use S.F. and i got the Sniper, we can take out target 700Meters + on Kashan !

[steve_06-07]

The number of snipers depend on the number of people on that side, maximum is 2.

[Craz3y|Assasin]

the guillue actualy does help sometimes,

When I was a sniper at qwai my spotter killed, so i coutinued my mission and went to temple. US forces atacked in large numbers so I near a a bunch of tree and went prone, knowing i couldn't take all them out myself. then they built a bunker 10m infront of me on the outside of temple. the intire time, they walked all around me and one almost steped on me. Out of my stupidity I use the commo rose to spot the bunker. the squad leader standing next to me heard me and knifed me.
So all in all the guillie suits do help u\you