about sniping...

[ryum]

I really don't snipe that much, I mostly do it when we need some recon. One question I have is why can you strafe while crouching and the COF doesn't budge but you can't move the crosshairs 1/16th of an inch and it does move?



Does that make sense to anyone here? if anything shouldn't be the other way around or something???



just one of the the little things in the game that don't make sense


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[Turential]

An observation I did not notice when sniping. Best thing to do is bring it up in the bug forums @ the beta site.



Oh, and you guys should seriously try out the AV weapons, last night I went crazy and took out a TON of vehicles. It's really nice to get the kill shot on a galaxy when it's full and noone hot drops, my squad shit themselves from all the numbers that crossed the screen, I didnt add it up but it was over 1k.



More on the subject of bugs. There seems to be a loading bug when the driver of a galaxy is the last person to zone through. Tuesday when the servers were up I grabbed a quick group that had everything, 3 max's, 2 medics, an engineer, galaxy pilot, and 3 heavy infantry (including myself). We left the sanctuary and i'm usually the first to zone. We waited there in the galaxy for around 2 1/2 minutes for the pilot to zone through. He finally came across, appologized and kept going towards solsar. Once we got to the gate he flew right through the gate, thinking wtf... it didnt load, we flew through about 5x with nothing happening.



I was in the back in a marauder w/ the one infantry and the engy. We bailed out and we all got sent back to the sanctuary gate. We drove back to solsar gate and it worked fine.



These few small bugs, which I could tell tons of story's about.. are the reason I really do not think that the game will be ready in (count's on his fingers and toes) 18 days.



EIGHTEEN DAYS, and planetside is STILL using 800+mb of my ram. 18 days and I still crash to desktop 6x/night. 18 days and I still can't keep my keys the same. 18 days and the sound is still all screwed up.



I could go on and on and on, but I won't... i'm just going to laugh when they release it with all these bugs and noone actually plays more than a month.



-Tur/Gotenks


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[Lenardo]

my biggest bug i have found is if you are near a turret. you can die yet live.





you are saying WTF?



be on the loading circle for the turret and as you are going down (still alive but dropping fast) get in the turret. you DIE. but load into the turret alive. you then can kill the person who just killed you.



i had this one happen to me.


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[Aarthebs]

Hehe go read the Beta forums they have at least 10 people a day come and post about Sniping claiming how terrible and underpowered it is.



Then those threads get about 50 replies with people telling them that sniping is fine and how many kills they rack up per day with it.



Ya it is kinda funny to watch the crosshairs go flying out of control when you so much as twitch... BUT its necessary I'm afraid. Not only is the sniper rifle very powerful, able to kill an infantry in 2 shots, but its also incredibly popular. Everyone would use the sniper rifle in a heartbeat if they made it easier. As it stands now you have to be very patient to make it effective, but from the snipers I've talked to they love it to death. Don't give up on that thing. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)">


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[ryum]

yes i agree, they should definatly take care of these basic very visible bugs before they release the game



is there still a memory leak??


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[Skeeno]

Sniping is fine the way it is.



In fact I think there might be a bug with it, but my outfit have not been able to pin it down properly.



Seems that some of the guys in MAX suits are getting killed by snipers with a single shot. We are on TR faction and the guys in MAX suits are in pounders or cyclers running thru open area towards a base or tower and then they are dead from a single sniper shot. we have confirmed that no other weapons were hitting them, one minute alive and at full armor/health the next second respawning.


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[Lenardo]

are you sure its just one shot?



are your maxes at full armor? or down hp?






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[ryum]

I have sniped alot, and have never killed anything that was wearing more than an agile suit when they were at full health...



Now with Adv Targeting I have known when to shot, and finished off many things MAXes, most buggies, and even a reaver heh.



I'm pretty sure thats whats happening unless there was a bug involved.





One thing I'd like to add.. the shotgun is so powerful now.

With AP bullets I can take down MAXes almost to easily.

I think its border line over powering, during tower raids those Maxes couldn't break thru the barrage of shotgun shells me and my outfit were pluging into them.. It was kind sad.






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[Lenardo]

heh i am getting better at living ...i actually had to hit an equip terminal and reload my ammo...


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To add to this I have been "one shot" sniped in a max suit, multiple times.

I remember mostly because the first time it happened I was full armor/health/energy, was just walking towards the base and got pegged. Not a very happy person.



The other times sniper rifles have taken me out is with varying stages of armor left, always full health. Oddly enough when I run my sniper, i have yet to get a kill with it (and i am NOT a bad shot).



I think hp updating is a bit off, and I have had times on characters when I know i have killed them yet they are still standing (examples: 4 (yes 4) alt-fire/melee boosted knife shots on a tier 3 armored vanu. 2 full quasar max clips into one infantry. 1 full clip of the NC coalition shotgun pistol into a crouching, motionless, agile armored terran from melee range). in all these times I am the one that dies. does this not seem odd?



Anyway for some reason I can't get into the beta boards (i have valid test account go figure).


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[ryum]

the funniest thing I have seen was when I was loading intot he back of an outfit members magrider when The door opened, and you go into 3rd person veiw. Right as I stepped in a bullet went thru me and hit the driver and we both died....



was Really lucky and/or one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.



bout the one shot max kills I have never been able to do it but maybe the same way I have sniped people that were in their buggies, maybe there is a way to hit the gap in the max armor


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[Aarthebs]

There's currently a bug where a sniper can one-shot a vehicle. Not sure about MAX's, though.



Basically the snipers have reported that they see the driver of the vehicle standing in the middle of his craft, they shoot at that image and the driver and any passengers die. Happened to me twice so far in a Magrider.


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edit: advert your eyes...


</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub147.ezboard.com/bmonklybusiness43508.showUserPublicProfile?gid=ano nposter@monklybusiness43508>anonposter</A> at: 5/5/03 8:47:45 am