Originally Posted by Redshift
He described a way of making a sniper useless if they want the chance to do head shots, that effectivly makes headshots worthless, so you might as well not include them. It's going to be hard as hell to land one anyway with bullet drop anyway.
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Useless?...You mean the cert will require skill, perhaps something you won't have?.....
The point of the Cert is to sacrifice something to be able to OSOK headshot Medics/engineers/light assult....So yes you will have to give up accuracy,recoil,etc in order to have that higher damage output....Now how much should the person sacrifice, well that is up to SOE to make it balance.I think making it kind of hard but functional will be great since I think the most skillful snipers should benefit from these certs and is also great since planetside players don't want everybody to do OSOK headshots.
Originally Posted by Raka Maru
I've played my sniper almost as much as my cloaker and don't like the idea of getting a cert to shoot less accurately... It doesn't make any sense.
Head shots should be OSOK, it should require skill, not a cert. it should kill because it causes 2x or 3x damage. NOT because of a cert.
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Well everyone in Planetside hates the idea of OSOK....So thats why I think the cert is a good solution.
Well it will still require skill to pull of a headshot, I mean the gun will probably have more sway and require more time to make it accurate(like in planetside 1)....So yeah it will require more skill in fact.
Originally Posted by Sirisian
It shows how I usually experienced sniping. What you describe about healing after every shot was a lot rarer than I think you're willing to admit. You had people that did it but while they were healing you were hitting other people making it an excellent suppression weapon.
I enjoyed sniping a lot how it was implemented in PS1 and the thought of turning it into something where I could just one-hit someone seems like it would really dumb down the weapon especially against regular soldiers. That and if I'm sniping I don't like the idea of dying one hit to another sniper even if I'm standing still lining up a shot on another player. Let me at least react to getting hit. I'm a big fan of giving players choices. If you want to one-hit another cloaker just join up with another sniper over vivox. I really don't see the problem.
You still haven't explained how your system would work with the empire specific sniper rifles. NC has a slower firing harder hitting rifle and TR have a weaker but faster firing rifle. Your system sounds like it wouldn't work with them.
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First of all...Sniping in PS1 was fun, yes you could snipe other running people like in that video..but as soon as you saw a sniper you would know that you wouldn't kill him(most likely)....As soon as I shot him, I knew he was gonna heal...to me that kind of ruined sniping battles, knowing that dead wasn't really a problem.
As for dying with one shot...Well I think is great that cloaks will most like get killed by one sniper shot....It will make sniping much more dangerous and require much more skill since you can't just be an idiot and pick a predictable place to snipe....As for regular troops get OSOK headshooted by snipers with a cert..well first of all it require a lot of skill to pull of such a headshot since the OSOK headshot cert will make the gun sway more,etc....so if a player is good enough to pull headshots with a harder to use gun and with snipers being able to OSOK them since they are cloaks....Then I don't see the problem of a sniper sniping a medic who is healing everybody...Seems to me that they will be vary valuable in the game.
As for the empire specific guns...Well the way I see it SOE could make NC weapons have a little bit more power(it will come to use since if they miss a headshot, they can still cause lots of damage)....TR faster rate of fire/faster reloading(will make sense since missing a shot with such a weapon is very possible)....VS slightly better accurate?
Well thats the way I see it, obviously their will be difference in the guns but SOE could figure that out to make it balance.
When I remember sniping it was on cliffs or bridges with tons of people and targets. Each round you'd just keep putting bullets into anything that stood still for a second. 
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