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Subject: let's shine some light on the Sniper....
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You know what I like at least on guns, REALISM, it should be replaced with a large muzzle flash. I forgot the caliber of that gun but only large caliber sniper rifles like the .50 BMG have muzzle breaks so it would gave a pretty big flash.

  • 08.11.2004 5:57 PM PDT
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It should be brighter than a thousand suns.

  • 08.11.2004 5:59 PM PDT
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and btw there may be health bars

  • 08.11.2004 6:00 PM PDT
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It needs to be big and somewhat bright but 1000 suns is a bit too much......

  • 08.11.2004 6:06 PM PDT
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Yes but think about it.. Even if you missed you would fry your opponent to death with the intense heat. Well come to think about it.. everyone would be burnt toast.

  • 08.11.2004 6:10 PM PDT
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Yeah he wasnt serious........ And everyone would lose their eyesight in Halo 2 if it was like that.

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  • 08.11.2004 6:12 PM PDT
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Everyone but spartans, cause their visors would block out the light.

  • 08.11.2004 6:14 PM PDT
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Oh yeah I forgot about that. Oh well who cares anyway. I say that the trail which is unrealistic and not in the books should be replaced by a muzzle flash.

  • 08.11.2004 6:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Valgas
I think that will be ok. I guess sniper battles between opponents weilding a human sniper and a covvie sniper will be interesting.

Now the next thing:

What is the speculation on the covvie sniper weapon? From what I've heard, it has infinite ammo, but overheats every shot, but the shots are instant kill. What of these are actually true, if any?


None of those are true. It takes 4% per shot, overheats after 2 quick shots, but you can keep up a constant stream of fire by firing steadily but slower. The shots are NOT an instant kill.

  • 08.11.2004 6:24 PM PDT
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the trail isnt unrealistic.. if you shot a sniper with finned rounds it would leave a trail, but it would be better if it had a flash

  • 08.11.2004 6:25 PM PDT
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The sniper is too powerfull and easy to use to not have a trail. It makes you go for Headshots when nobody is looking in your direction.

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  • 08.11.2004 6:31 PM PDT
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You know why its unrealistic, cause the Marines arnt stupid enough to use Sniper Rifle rounds have a trail.. And its not in First Strike, the Sniper Rifle has no trail in FS.

  • 08.11.2004 6:36 PM PDT
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The sniper is too powerfull and easy to use to not have a trail. It makes you go for Headshots when nobody is looking in your direction Again I will say this, it only comes with 8 rounds, if they miss your screen still tells you which way you were shot from, on most mapes it takes them around 1 whole minute to respawn, maybe more, maps like BG only have 1 for each team, a trail is unrealistic, it should be replaced by a muzzle flash, its not easy to use for most people, i can get a 1 hit kill while almost any target is moving no problem. When i find noob snipers ill be typing and all the sudden 4 quick wasted shots whiz around my body.

  • 08.11.2004 6:39 PM PDT
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it moves it (the target reticle) up when you shoot so you have to re-aim but besides that there are a few more things that are antisniper that i have sumed up in this simple but elegent bulleted list
Anti-Snipeing
* recoil
* sprinting
* battle rifle (at a sertain range you will win aginst a sniper)
* Banshee (easily kill a sniper once you find his location)

Snipeing advantages
* x5 zoom instead of x2
* less of a bullet trail (more invisible)

  • 08.11.2004 7:00 PM PDT
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some of those things shouldn't be there like...
Banshee easy solve just get under cover
BR What sniper would let a guy get close enough to shoot him.

  • 08.11.2004 7:06 PM PDT
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actually when i snipe (im the best sniper out of all the people i play 1 shot one kill) i usually try to shoot people behind the head bigger target and if lets say i miss only to shoot his back he turns around because of indicators the trail is gone and he strafes which any sniper knows its a easy kill.

  • 08.11.2004 7:07 PM PDT
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I am at least 1 of the best on Halo PC. Across the entire map a guy running to my left or right is a definate 1 hit kill. Headshot. It took me a while to get good though. is it just me or do you run even slower on the xbox version? It really seems like it, cause its even easier to snipe.

  • 08.11.2004 7:21 PM PDT
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That sucks I liked the sniper rifle the way it was. I hate the battle field snipers because you can have you crosshairs on some one's head and when you look at what shoold be a bloody mess the guy is still running along. The vapor trail from the SR in Halo was balance enough. You could't hide and snipe and if you weren't a good enough shot your baddie would just follow the trail back to you.

  • 08.11.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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You can see the trail when you die anyways.

  • 08.11.2004 7:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: SPARTAN 00029
I think it will just move around for a like 3 seconds, then go back to the original point you were aiming at.


count 3 seconds right now... do you think bungie would put recoil for a spartan soldier to that long?

i thought so

Has anyone ever thought of the gun actually moving on its own like a real sniper does when you hold it standing up? if anyone has ever played DOD or any real ww2 games they know what im talking about

  • 08.11.2004 8:10 PM PDT
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Yes, i do know what your talking about from shooting real rifles in real life. That is called shooting off hand, when your standing up like that without a rest. A real person can learn to be still with a rifle with practice but it is very hard to be steady using a scope and a rifle that is as big as the one in halo which would break most peoples colar bones from the recoil. But the spartans dont have that problem because they are 10 times stronger than a normal human with the aid of their physical augmentation and the MJOLNIR armor. They are like a rock, and even the recoil from that 14.5x114mm APFSDS round can't shake em'.

  • 08.11.2004 8:25 PM PDT
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a real person can not be completely still.. no matter what while standing or kneeling

prone is possible.. but its very hard.. the easiest way is to have a bipod to steady the gun

  • 08.11.2004 9:02 PM PDT
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I hope this isn't true cause i played desert storm and wow does the sniper suck

  • 08.11.2004 9:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: X Sonic
and btw there may be health bars


no there wont.. its confirmed already

  • 08.11.2004 9:26 PM PDT
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actually the covie sniper is confirmed...no info has been confirmed about it. People who have played the beta said that there will be recoil with the human SR but no one knows anything about the Covie Sniper yet..


Also the health bar is not confirmed...go read Frankies updates....the e3 04 demo had no health bar just a shield where u could take a couple hits after the shield was down...however the beta had a completley different health/shield and HUD.. The final HUD has not been confirmed...

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