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Subject: What Plays the Biggest Role in Making the Sniper so Easy?

Hi.

I think this question is a very hard one to answer because there are so many variables.

Could it the increase in aim assist? Or is it the increased area that registers as a headshot? Or is it simply the fact that the sniper is hitscan? Maybe it's the decreased movement acceleration rate, which makes strafing ridiculously ineffective and makes "dodging" sniper bullets next to impossible?

Could it be the change from a unique and high jump height to the overdone and realistic jump height? Or is it the decrease in general verticality (which is a direct effect of lowering the jump height) that leads to more "look forward and shoot" type gameplay?

Maybe it's simply the fact that previous Halos were much more fast-paced in general. Remember the Halo 3 sniper? How fast it shot? And yet, how easily you could be taken down?

I'm not really sure. Input?

  • 01.14.2012 7:57 PM PDT

Strafe acceleration. Enemy movements are too predictable.

  • 01.14.2012 8:00 PM PDT
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Combination of the giant headshot hitbox and massive aim assist. Maybe the slow movement speeds.

[Edited on 01.14.2012 8:01 PM PST]

  • 01.14.2012 8:00 PM PDT

YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS WITHOUT A DOUBT OF HESITATION
IF MONEY TALKS I GOT MY MASTERS IN COMMUNICATIONS

I always thought Reach was more fast-paced than the others, but that's just me. I think the Sniper takes skill in all the Halos. All though it is easier to snipe in Reach, definitely an increase in aim assist, which I don't like. I still think Reach is an amazing game.

  • 01.14.2012 8:01 PM PDT

Huh, weird.

If you're Zomechin, then who was the forum poster named....Zome?

0_o


  • 01.14.2012 8:01 PM PDT
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I'm listeni- Oh wait I don't give a -blam!- what you have to say.

I think I'm better with the H3 sniper, although the reach sniper is easier to line your shots up. I just prefer using h3's sniper.

  • 01.14.2012 8:01 PM PDT
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Probably aim assist.

  • 01.14.2012 8:01 PM PDT

If there was ever a weapon in Halo that should suffer from random recoil after firing it should be the Sniper Rifle.

  • 01.14.2012 8:03 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: bob bobby bobbb
I always thought Reach was more fast-paced than the others, but that's just me. I think the Sniper takes skill in all the Halos. All though it is easier to snipe in Reach, definitely an increase in aim assist, which I don't like. I still think Reach is an amazing game.
The maps are bigger because of Sprint, yet you can't shoot while sprinting. Therefore, take Halo 3's average game time, combine that with the amount of time you sprint in an average Reach match, add a couple seconds here and there for slightly longer kill times and slightly slower movement speed, then you have the average Reach game time. This is assuming there's no Armor Lock and various other things that further slows the game.

[Edited on 01.14.2012 8:06 PM PST]

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Banned just for calling someone retarded? lolBnet mods
Duardo = retard

So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!

I think its aim assist.

  • 01.14.2012 8:07 PM PDT

I've always found sniping to be pretty hard so idk. lol

  • 01.14.2012 8:07 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: Sanuel Jackson
I've always found sniping to be pretty hard so idk. lol
Lol, you're probably better than most people.

I'm not claiming to be good or anything, but I found the sniper in Halo 3 so ridiculously hard to use against people who were decent, while in Reach it's not really even challenging (though I still put myself in uneducated positions a lot of the time).

  • 01.14.2012 8:14 PM PDT
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I found the H3 sniper to be easier because I just swing it around like a crazy person, I can't be bothered to change that habit in Reach.

  • 01.14.2012 8:15 PM PDT
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Banned just for calling someone retarded? lolBnet mods
Duardo = retard

So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!


Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: Sanuel Jackson
I've always found sniping to be pretty hard so idk. lol
(though I still put myself in uneducated positions a lot of the time).
Meh, its Reach. We all do at some point.

  • 01.14.2012 8:15 PM PDT

A difficult tie between the decreased movement acceleration and the larger hitboxes. I don't really notice the aim assist, unless I'm blind as -blam!-.

  • 01.14.2012 8:16 PM PDT

I disagree about hitboxes being larger. Maybe bullet magnetism or aim deceleration is greater but I don't think the hitboxes are huge like you guys portray.

  • 01.14.2012 8:20 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.

Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.

[Edited on 01.14.2012 8:21 PM PST]

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Definitely the slow movement speeds.

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Posted by: TurnedSculpture
Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.

Sniping in default reach is just easier.

  • 01.14.2012 8:24 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


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Posted by: TurnedSculpture
Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.

Sniping in default reach is just easier.

I don't know. Knowing the people on these forums...

  • 01.14.2012 8:26 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: TurnedSculpture
Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with this post. :/

  • 01.14.2012 8:26 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: TurnedSculpture
Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with this post. :/

It just sounds to me like you are insulting those who snipe.

  • 01.14.2012 8:26 PM PDT

Hi.

Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: TurnedSculpture
Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with this post. :/

It just sounds to me like you are insulting those who snipe.
...?

No - I'm simply saying the Reach Sniper is very easy to use in contrast with the Halo 3 Sniper.

Sorry for the confusion.

  • 01.14.2012 8:28 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: Zomechin
Posted by: TurnedSculpture
Something tells me that someone is trying to get a stab at snipers.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with this post. :/

It just sounds to me like you are insulting those who snipe.
...?

No - I'm simply saying the Reach Sniper is very easy to use in contrast with the Halo 3 Sniper.

Sorry for the confusion.


Ok. Just making sure.

  • 01.14.2012 8:29 PM PDT

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