I thought it was 8 vs 8 on PS3, guess I didn't notice that... Yeah I were joking about that, but that will be expected in the first few days of the game, until they notice close-combat is more fun
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Maybe it was 12 v 12, for sure was 8 v 8 BC1 is 12 v 12 and so is 1943. But I don't really expect that to change, I have noticed as time moves on, the more snipers there are in games, in older FPS's it seemed rare, but now, it just seems everyone is too scared to die, so they would rather stay in the back. I agree close combat is where it's at, I die more, but I kill more, and I actually get objectives done.
The issue I've seen so far is that you are always exposed. That's why snipers are so popular as people can clearly see the advantages of being camping, crouching sniper, hidden wookie
. Unless you can find a wall to hide behind you will be re spawning soon. Many sniper videos clearly show this advantage for snipers. If one could go prone they could at least get out of line of sight from long range sniping. Even it it's nothing more then a low lying shrub it's something that can confuse the sniper. But as it is now with only crouching you are a sitting duck with a sniper with some experience.
Nah, theres a lot of cover, but there are specific areas where snipers have much better vantage points of coarse. The distances I watch some snipers in the PS3 beta go is just ridiculous, you would have had to seen it for me to really explain. But one guy must have been getting killed in the good spots up front, and I am running around I hear a bullet whiz past me, I look around confused, he eventually got me as I shouldn't have stood still. But death cam shows him, he is back behind the 1st spawn point, for a rough estimate, I would say he is easily about a mile out from the objectives that his teams going for. So I take the sniper rifle and start shooting at him. He was so far out, to even get my bullets to land by him I had to aim up at a 45 degree angle above him, then watch them do a massive arc. Which means thats all he had been doing, is aiming at the sky and lobbing in bullets like a arc when throwing a football. Was pretty sad. But about cover, most cover is easy to hide behind from a sniper, they can mark you hiding in a bush and kill you, you maybe camo'd but if you got a big triangle on you they marked you with, that doesn't do a ton of good. Any walls crates are big enough to crouch behind, some of them they could maybe pick off your head, but most things are meant to be crouched behind.
The only reason you could be considered a sitting duck is snipers now have mortar strike, which hits insanely hard, so if you stay behind cover for too long in the same spot, expect that to be called in you.
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