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That is the trend, generally speaking. In UT99, the true skill weapons were the shock rifle and sniper.

Must be fun waiting in the same spot for a whole game with your finger on that hair trigger.

So I see DragonsGrief start posting in the Video Games thread.

Anyways, I agree with you at some parts.

The sniper is definitely one of the hardest weapons to use in any FPS, except for in crappy games like Soldier Front, where you can just aim the un-realistically easy to use crosshair to get an instant kill any time. But the sniper is pretty easy to use in games like Call of Duty 4, but not in games such as Halo 3 or Counter-Strike.

But there are many weapons out there that takes some skill to use, such as the silenced MP5 in Call of Duty 4, the bruteshot and battlerifle in Halo 3, and the knife in practically all games.

But definitely, most sniper's are tough to use.

But it's hard to pwn with ANY weapon in Battlefield 2.

At 5/17/08 06:25 PM, Siblau wrote: ...for example in cod4 the noob tube.

Oh please please please please shut up.

this is game dependent, the new quake wars is first person, you have to choose a class and a weapon you're good with and adjust depending on the situation. such as whats needed for each objective and what the other teams are doing e.g. if they're using vehicles grab a rocket, if not pick depending on the rest of your team.

a whole team using sniper rifles isn't a good thing. balance is key.

At 5/17/08 06:22 PM, DragonsGrief wrote: I feel the only class or weapon that takes any sort of skill is a sniper/scoped rifle.

It's the only damn thing I can have fun killing people with too.

Anyone agree?

I tend to to prefear the short rang stelth kill wepons like a shootgun myself, although I do like sniping too. As for rather or not a certain wepon takes skill to use, I think that depends mostly on the game.

Realisticly a sniper whould whould be the most difficult wepon to use, if you ever get a chance to talk too a military sharp shoot they'll tell that it takes alot of extra training, beyond basic, but I think games offten countact the difficulty of sniping by giving the character you play a perfectly steady hand. Just thought I throw that in there.

At 5/19/08 01:05 PM, InsaneSmilie wrote:

Games offten countact (sic) the difficulty of sniping by giving the character you play a perfectly steady hand.

There's one notable exception to this rule in MGS. But they throw so much Pentazemin at you whenever you need to snipe, you're set for the whole game.