Haha. This was funny. Very well written. People on CoD4 are fucking morons, pay them no attention and continue to do what you do best. Anyone with any talent in that game has heard similar things.

The only thing I DO consider stupid is when people use jumping cheats to scale buildings you're not really supposed to be able to get on top of. No gun is out of line, but taking advantage of the level geometry is, in my book.

Great read.

Yea you can never win with some of the douchebags on the internets. Your basically a n00b if you are not them. Which is so fair!

I see what you're saying and I agree to an extent. The times where it can be seen as "noobish" behavior are there though. As you said you have camo, decent natual cover, claymore's covering your flanks and a gun that can kill in one shot. In that situation if you place yourself in a good position, even if someone knows where you are what options to fight back do they have? They could rush you and hope that you don't get off that one round before they are in proper range or perhaps spam the general area with grenades, but in that one to two seconds of coming out of cover to throw it you can line up a one hit shot from a safe distance away.

I think its called XBL.

My solution? Take off your headset, or mute everyone. Its that easy.

What I'm shocked by is B-Radicate's use of the word 'talented' to describe COD4 players.

Play hardcore, then most guns are 1 shot kill (all snipers, g3, m16 burst, etc) and there is no kill cam, at least on decent servers.

Also shame on you for using things available in the game to defeat people in the game, fucking noob... ;)

@simmy

That's likely because you have no recourse for sucking so much.

A good sniper is never seen nor found, and that is a crucial member of any team in any game.

Myself and a friend used to download MASSIVELY large UT2k4 maps and run them as instagib sniper maps. We'd have 30 minute matches with like 1-2 kills per match. It was a blast.

I would love for sniper rifles to become realistic in games.

There would be no more snipers.

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Whatever happened to chivalry?

I've been a sniper since shooters went online. Trust me, I completely understand where you're coming from.

I will say, one sniper to another, that many consider the .50 to be a rather noobish weapon. It's absolutely overpowered, especially when used in conjunction with the stopping power perk.

To gain more respect I'd suggest using one of the lower level rifle rigs, so that only head-shots are one hit kills.

Then again the .50 is part of the game, so obviously you can use it if you want. Just don't expect to get much in the way of props.

I have no problem with snipers, because most of them are easy pickings after they kill you once. If a sniper happens to kill me in a level I just switch to my sniper class and counter snipe them and move on. I've been playing COD4 long enough to know the good sniper points. There are some good ones that actually know how to use the sniper class very well and be frustratingly effective but they are few and far between. Note: I do know how to do this but normally don't because once you snipe a few people you are enemy #1 and the entire opposing team will hunt you down, and I prefer run and gun. Most of the noobs don't know how to deal with them and just bitch.

Heres a proposition for you, what would you do if the opposite team camped? Continue camping? Then nothing will happen because noone is moving. The reason people complain is because they are disadvantaged by taking the initiative.

Sniping/camping is something that really needs to be fixed in fps. The way this must be done is by preventing the person who uses initiative from having to sacrifice themselves for the sake of giving the game momentum and by balancing the sniper rifles with the rest of the weapons.

And don't kid yourself by thinking they are balanced, nearly all of the weapons in cod4 in reality would kill in one shot and be as accurate as a sniper rifle in the ranges represented in the game. The weapons are scaled down for the sake of gameplay exept for some of the sniper rifles which seem to have it all; range, rof, accuracy, power and clipsize. As rucksack said, if you want to earn some respect change to a bolt action sniper rifle so at least the rof is sacrificed for accuracy.

Don't take my post wrong here, I'm not insulting you here or crying of cheap tactics. I myself have faced the same critism on many occasion by those considering rush/zerg strategies as cheap. I accept that it's a legitimate strategy even if it does frustrate me sometimes and as such my thoughts here are of how to change the game rather than blame the player.

And as for the demographic of snipers, there are always too many of them and too few who contribute to the team's goals (the battlfield series I speak of here). I think film's like Enemy at the Gates have romantisized snipers a bit too much so it seems to be the go to class for newer players. If you haven't seen Jarhead then I'd recommend you do. Granted I have seen some insanely good snipers at cod2 lans before altough they didn't camp so much as they did get headshots using the scope for scarcely a second while on the move.

you don't play on pc do you? because I want to snipe you in the face and throw a nade at your camping room to blow up your mines (and you) (im serious, i wanna play some cod!) haha

Thus is the worst part of playing on line. This happened a lot when Gears was released: using any weapon at any time in any fashion in any situation against any player made you a "noob." Headshots from across the map? Noob. Using the chainsaw ever (a feature used to sell the game in the first place)? Noob.

Just turn off the mic, it's much easier.

Almost anyone can get a few kills with sniper rifles and camping, but I doubt half the people claiming "legitimate strategy" could rack up the same kills with run'n'gun tactics.
In my experience, theres two types of COD players;
people who switch it up between CQB and Assault variants, run around as squads and have fun clearing rooms etc., you know "team" stuff.

And snipers. They have fun.... apparently.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I hate all enemy combatants equally, I just respect the sheer audacity of a shotgunner or subby jumping through a window to stab me way more than the kids that stayed hiding an hour after everyone else stopped looking.

Having said all that, I fucking love headshotting snipers with my UMP45.
So keep doin your thing, you lonely, lonely warriors.