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I don't see why you should be prejudiced against sniping.

just a personal opinion and class i dearly hate in the game.
 

It's a legit way of getting kills

i completely agree, any method of racking up kills in the game is legit.

and if you're a GOOD sniper, you won't get SPAS'd in the face from someone behind you.

thats the thing, most snipers dont have a good CQC game. they usually just camp, stay in one spot, and choose inferior sniper rifles to try and pick people off, severely limiting their effectiveness.

Since I'm a try-hard, I use Turtle Beach headsets, which lets me hear you coming unless you have Ninja.

absolutely, i will not and refuse to play mw2 without my turtle beach hpx's. i find sit rep pro worlds better than ninja too...basically, if you hear ANY footsteps, you know its not a friendly. i dont enjoy that luxury with ninja pro since it only silences my footsteps and i can still hear my teammates (moot in free for all, of course, but im a dom player). i also have the benefit of seeing explosives everywhere, which is simply amazing.

Besides, spraying and praying is stupid.

its a common term for people that use smg's. i didnt exactly mean shooting blindly at an enemy, like rolling my finger around the thumbstick and hoping it hits the side of a barn...but rather, in intense situations where reaction time is very minimal, spraying can be very effective, especially with weapons suited to CQC.

You get a lot more satisfaction when you quick-scope someone.

this is true, and only because a quick-scope is a very rare occurance in comparison to other methods of killing. i dont consider quick-scoping a legit killing strategy. there is almost no point to it, and other than sacrificing a few milliseconds and trying to look cool in the process, you pretty much cost yourself a clean shot and your accuracy goes through the floor. besides, isnt quick-scoping pretty much only viable for closer targets? doesnt this run counter-point to the exact role of a sniper? whats the point when i dont even have to go ADS to one-shot you with my spas? im sorry, i just dont get people that try to take quick-scoping seriously. of my 120+ days ingame-time of mw2, i can say with certainty i have only seen ONE person that was consistent enough with quick-scoping, and i suspect this person probably had a mod.

And, EVERYONE uses assault, and sprays and prays.

thats because assault rifles are easily the most versatile weapons in the game. good long, mid, close range...and lots of variations to find a gun that perfectly fits your style.

The Intervention proves your skill since you have basically one well-placed shot to kill them, versus the spray n' pray Barrett and all the other AR's/LMG/SMG.

this has merit if you define 'skill' as using weapons in the game that are inferior to others and trying to become good with them. i dont define skill that way...i define skill as racking up kills by any means necessary and as quickly and efficiently as possible. like i said before, i cant justify bringing a starter deck to type 1 2 player nationals and expecting to win with it. this might be a bit of hyperbole when i say it, as every single weapon in the game has the capability of consistently putting people down, but if my odds increase with weapons better suited for the task at hand, then im more in favor of those weapons.

Only n00b snipers use the Barrett.

great snipers use the barret. where you find personal satisfaction of getting a kill with a bolt-action and hearing the 'clik-clik' of a round reloading between each shot, i have the satisfaction of knowing i put down an enemy with a .50 cal slug.

Quote from: Master KChief on August 27, 2010, 10:40:43 PM

feels like it. reach better blow me away.

It better be good, cuz odst failed.

The game was waaay too dark

Well today in CoD4, I won a Free for All in Killhouse, using the Barrett w/ ACOG + Deagle. 30 minute match.  (Killhouse is a very small map, so most shots were point blank.)

why arent you using the m40...?

or the P90? 

Just because. 

Which do you think is more satisfying, winning with the same gun everyone else uses, or winning with a seriously out of place weapon?

Sure my K:D ratio isn't as good, but I still get the most kills. When you play hectic (20+ player for 30 minutes) free for alls like these, you sorta stop worrying about K:D, because its inevitable that you're going to die a lot. So, you just focus on winning the individual matches. I don't play for "status" of high K:D ratio, I play purely for the fun of it. 

Also, I made everyone quit the next match because I was utterly destroying with the RPD + Grip. 

What does Sit-Rep Pro do? And I absolutely HATE Commando Pro. And runners. They should all repent of their sinful ways.

I'm not quite sure, I don't have my own 360, so I have to play at friends' houses... 

All I know is the SPAS is a hoss of a secondary.

Today's vernacular is crap. A majority of people aren't smart enough to govern themselves and expect the government to take care of them. Sheep is all they are. And have you seen the FBI's new sniper rifle? Shoulder-fired 20mm (as in the Vulcan cannon on fighter jets) that is accurate out to more than 4900 YARDS. Fires a 1000-something grain bullet. Almost twice as big as the .50 BMG cartridge, bullet is almost twice the size, too.

Quote from: Master_Chi on September 01, 2010, 09:47:23 AM

What does Sit-Rep Pro do? And I absolutely HATE Commando Pro. And runners. They should all repent of their sinful ways.

sit rep pro amplifies all enemy footsteps while silencing your own and your entire teammates footsteps. like i said before, if you hear anything at all (and you will with turtle beaches), then you know its an enemy. i dont ever need a uav at all because sit rep pro acts as its own. i literally cannot live without it. sit rep is very time consuming to pro, but it is definately worth it.

and yes, i absolutely hate mlc runners. commando should be taken out. commando isnt melee anymore. its freakin' teleportation, what it is.

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All I know is the SPAS is a hoss of a secondary.

agreed, there are only two shotguns one should use: spas or the aa12. spas for the best range, or the aa12 if you're horrible at being accurate. of course, this is post-akimbo models (ugh...stupid magic wands, so glad they nerfed them.).

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And have you seen the FBI's new sniper rifle? Shoulder-fired 20mm (as in the Vulcan cannon on fighter jets) that is accurate out to more than 4900 YARDS. Fires a 1000-something grain bullet. Almost twice as big as the .50 BMG cartridge, bullet is almost twice the size, too.

i havent heard anything of that sniper rifle, but it sounds pretty sick. heres hoping its in mw3?

What is mlc? And yes, commando is so stupid. Knifing people halfway across the map is definitely NOT melee.

As for the Models, I loved using them, but then they downgrade the Models and do nothing to the Rangers...

Look it up, it's called the Anzio 20-50. And by MW3, do you mean Black Ops or actual MW3?

mlc: marathon lightweight commando. i probably loathe them more than i do snipers. used to be even crazier with the care package glitch.

rangers are perfectly balanced...they have high damage, but very low range. akimbo models used to be able to pick you off a very good distance away.

i meant mw3 as in modern warfare 3. i doubt a technologically advanced sniper such as the one you claim would be in a vietnam war-and-before cod.

It's not technologically advanced, it's just a really big bullet fired by a really big gun. And Black Ops is Vietnam-era? Since when?

/nerd: every treyarch cod has been a vietnam-or-before era game. infinity ward owns all rights to post-vietnam era cod's.

Fixed. And I didn't know that, and I'm teasing. 

...if that makes me a nerd, so be it.

Not really,you can find that info on the box of the game and of course their websites.

Can't wait for Black Ops either

dives and barrel rolls? crazy...not sure if im gonna like that...

thats good they slowed down player movement, im a mediocre sniper at best so that'll help me line up a shot better.

im loving the in-game currency system. absolute genius.

and the new modes look freakin' awesome. wager matches anyone?