Balance Problems

As I said, bolt action rifles are also kind of ridiculous, but put more of a focus on the one shot one kill aspect you strive for, as well as not removing his ability to get quickscope shots. That said, if you were to make the sniper rifle bolt action, there best be some buff to his bot killing ability in other areas, as well as up his reload speed.

I don't like the idea over all, but I like it more than sway or recoil. An artificial handicap against people who can actually aim is retarded. Skill should be rewarded, not punished. Up the skill ceilings for other classes instead of lowering it for this one.

If they can "actually aim", they should have no problem overcoming the minute swing of recoil at passive 3. Skill would potentially be rewarded -more- by reducing the number of lucky, spammed headshots by less skilled players.

I'm in favor of recoil on the sniper rifle to reduce "spamming till you get a headshot". It should be "Boom, headshot."

I haven't seen a single successful spam-happy sniper. I don't see where these comments are coming from. Spamming got nerfed sufficiently with the bodyshot thing a while back imo.

And for the love of god no recoil. Keep your CoD **** in CoD and the **** out of my favorite game.

If you guys moved around more, instead of standing still flapping your hands like retarded kids, you probably wouldn't have problems with spammy snipers.

Also, raising the skill ceiling of other classes is a splendid idea. Problem is that nerfing classes LOWERS the skill ceiling. The less a class is capable of, the lower the skill ceiling. For example, the assault is capable of doing much less now, so the skill ceiling is greatly lowered, because you can't use a bomb for area denial AND damage anymore. You have to pick one or the other, which takes less skill than doing both.

Less "skill" and more strategy, which I am fine with.

And people act like sniper is the only class that benefits from aimbot level accuracy/reflexes. Aiming faster helps every class immensely. I can't play gunner due to my terrible aiming abilities. The gunners I've seen that can aim effectively? Congratulations, you no longer have a face. Neither does the rest of your team.

Sniper has no damage falloff, spin up, or spread on their rifle when scoped.

Everyone benefits from the increased controls, sniper benefits nearly twice as much as anyone else.

What?

Call of Duty has recoil? :shock:

Last I played all the rifles swerved obnoxiously when you shot. I may be mistaking it for another militaryesque game though, they all look the same to me.

Hi! How are you? Remember me? 25-1? Uber Streak 10 games into playing Sniper after nothing but Assassin for 8 months (with a max streak of maybe 15)? Crap for aim? At least half of my kills were lucky headshots thanks to spam. RoF, Armor, Clip Size. P'choo p'choo p'cho-DING!

Recoil pl0x.

EDIT: Most of my targets were moving and unaware, so they weren't dodging -me-, but were otherwise engaged in combat. I should not be able to spam OHKOs. The only other class with anything -close- to what the Sniper's capable of in that respect is the Assassin, who has a cooldown when grabbing, has to be at melee range, etc etc etc. "People can move and make aiming harder!" People can bunny-hop to avoid grappling. If you're a human aimbot, recoil shouldn't affect you much. If not, it'll lower your success rate for headshots that aren't your opening shot. Long-range assassinations should take as much care and planning and melee-range ones, if not more thanks to the potential distance between you and your victim. As for bot-killing effectiveness, if people are going to qq -that- much about how it will inevitably become impossible for them ( :roll: ), maybe buff bot bodyshot damage a bit.

TL;DR: The concept of being able to spam shots that kill instantly from long-range with no recoil and potentially very little need to adjust your aim for a second try less than a second later is a bit ridiculous. I = case in point.

Solution:
Nerf Yourself.
Switch out your mouse controlls with your arrows on your keyboard, then we'll all be happy with no more spam-happy headshotting snipers! :lol:

I lol'd.

... no really. I did.

Ironically, that would kind of be like playing with a gamepad. Map mouse controls to the number pad, and fire to 5.

Hence the Xbox.

That was my point. (Also, don't own a 360, prefer PC gaming.)