Here's what i wrote recently. By the context it came from, it may seem just a bit frank.
The fact of the matter is, all Treyarch did was address, redesign, and balance an exploit. All it did was affect people who quick scoped. Sniping is just fine and just as simple as it has always been. There is no defense for quick scoping, it ruined the online experience and people who think it's fun they way it was should stay in MW2. Let's be honest, most, if not all, people who quick scoped didn't play the objective, they just ran around trying to get fancy kills which just an annoyance to the team.
That plays in the argument against fun. You can have fun, but it's not fair when you're not helping your team. You're just making other players angry.
Now, the problem is simply this. The maps. There just aren't that many large maps for sniping. There are many flank routes and what not. Sniping is perfect, all you do is aim down and shoot like you always have and the chances of getting a kill are very high. It's the maps people; make a petition for something like Seelow from WaW or Wasteland/Derail from MW2. That is what is missing.
Here's something I read recently which I must digress upon that may be similar to your views. "It would not be wise for Treyarch to ignore such a large community." Where are your numbers? Large? I've seen nothing. I've been pretty active in these forums, and I feel I can make a pretty good assumption on the feeling from the community. You have no idea...you have no idea how many people complained, flamed, yelled, and cried about quick scoping since the past six months. They amount of posts and threads against it is NOTHING compared to the pleas from the people to have it returned. I'm just being frank here.
This game is for everyone. Everyone should have an opportunity at having "fun." When taking ideas, Treyarch attacks it from all angles, they take into consideration the millions of gamers that play the game but I do not necessarily believe we always do that. In all, people need to realize that every year it's a new game. You adapt, overcome, and enjoy. It's different every time in it's own way.
I enjoyed reading this thread recently, it have another insight that sniping is in fact fine if not better.
xaxy wrote:
In this post I’m going to try to explain why despite the relative power level of the sniper having gone way down, the skill cap of sniping in Black Ops is lower than it has ever been. Put more simply it's easier to be the "perfect" sniper in this game, regardless of how effective that "perfect" sniper is.
In previous CoD games, once you’d gained a sight picture, your sniper rifle would be accurate, as I’m sure we are all well aware by now, that is no longer the case, there is a ~2 second delay before your sniper rifle is accurate after scoping in.
Before if a player was able to get their crosshairs lined up on a target within 0.2 seconds of going into scope, they could reliably make that shot, and get credited a kill. Maybe someone who is a bit worse at sniping, their aim isn’t quite as precise, their reflexes aren’t as good, they can get their crosshairs on target 0.7 seconds after scope. In CoD4, WaW, and MW2, the first person gets rewarded for their increased accuracy with a faster kill, and that is going to transfer into a better score. It stands to reason.
In Black Ops, this isn’t the case. Once you’ve gained sight picture, you have 2 seconds to line up your target before you can take your shot, whether you need it or not. I’d say the majority of people can get a shot lined up within that period of time without any trouble at all.
Now how does that relate to the skill differential? Simply put, it lowers it. Whether you can reliably get a bead on a target in 0.1 seconds or 1.5, it doesn’t make the slightest difference. Both shots are going to go off at the exact same time. The success of the shot is determined by; do you have 2 seconds before you get hit by the first bullet? If yes, you score a kill, if not, you die. It’s that kind of binary outcome that kills the longevity and fun factor of games. It’s not a case of learning to play, refining your precision or your reflexes, you either have the time or you don’t.
Sniping needs to go back to how it was in CoD4 and WaW. It would both boost the power level of the snipers relative to the other guns in the game, and make skill play more of a roll in your success as a sniper.
Thanks for reading.
That's like the opposite to what some say but it has some real data.
