Sniper as of now leading by 105. with machine gun slightly beating melee for third (Shottie still second).

Let's all be sensible forum-goers. Sniper rifle will win the poll, Mr. Aksoy will pick up on all this and smell the bullshit, and admit the shotgun or melee. Just sayin.

^culminating post right there

leading by about ~86 as of now, with third place barly going to melee (followed closly by a MG).

Ben, i want answers, Answers of spiderman!

Red...never mind.

So, have those of us with more than 7 functional braincells agreed upon the fact that a sniper rifle would be useless?

Thank you.

SNIPER RIFLE? NO!!!

There's no point to having better zoom. The render limit is also a physical limit for how far your bullet goes. You can't just aim blindly past the fog and hope you hit somebody because that isn't possible. If the zoom was any better than it is right now, nobody would do anything but camp.

So whats the point of sniper rifle, huh? Actually, i do not NEED better zoom, but i'd like to see it.

Trying to use bbcode... that was cute.

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We don't need better zoom. I feel like I keep repeating myself.

If you, as a person, need better zoom, you fail at this game.

Why should sniper suck? Also, if you are saying about scopes like ironsights, it does not give you more zoom. If you make sniper rifle zoom further, it wont suck already.

people do now, and it one hits with head shots, like the sniper would.

See OP: what will ben do to make the Sniper not suck?

Yes, but we can have ACTUAL snipers, with better zoom. I say again, fucking zoom. And, if you are saying about realism, WHY NOT ATTACH DAM SCOPE TO SEMIRIFLE, so you can fuck everyone.

Yo red, you do realize that the russians used mosin nagants alot, RIFLES mind you, and used them as snipers because of how accurate and powerful they were?

So nerf the current weapon so that it's basically worthless, and re-add something we basically already had before nerfing it.

Okay.

Thats the point of sniper rifle. ZOOM. Semi-rifle is an ASSAULT rifle, it should be nerfed for long-range, and sniper, that i described, is shit for strait assault, but its perfect for SNIPING. Also, SMG should be improved some how, because its the tool mostly of crazy Deuces, who rush with smg, holding lmb. I saw only few people, how use it good.

Lmao. The zoom on the semi is already more than good enough, and with our huge heads, any better zoom will just mean free kills with no effort.

"If sniper is to be added, just make it bolt-action, a bit further field of view, same damage as semi, less ammo, no crosshair, louder noise and more visible tracer. "

so in other words worst than the Rifle in every way imaginable besides a little better zoom, yeah i dont think anyone would like that.

Snipers leading by 104 as of now. is the vote still rigged or do people seriously actually want it?

@grendle: If "undestroyable blocks" or "harder to destroy blocks" were added, the griefers would simply spam that shit everywhere, and it would also be used to make the intel nigh uncapturable.

If sniper is to be added, just make it bolt-action, a bit further field of view, same damage as semi, less ammo, no crosshair, louder noise and more visible tracer. But really, i want more explosives. Cmon, c4-like stuff, RPG's, airstrike radio, that damages terrain a bit. So much fun!

i wouldn't mind a hmg as long as it replaced the smg.

that and fucking concrete was added

@Kaede: Yeah, that's me, the sneaky cunning bastard that doesn't get to be annoying until he's stolen your intel a few times. I figure that spawncampers have annoyed me enough that it's high time I capatilized on the opportunities they provide.

Well, unless I'm feeling violent, in which case I just come down the middle of the map shooting anything that moves. It depends on whether I want to win or I'm just feeling bored.

Because you aren't drawing attention to yourself by killing them and them finding out there's a guy spawncamping or hiding and running behind their spawn area. People are going to mod the "get killed with pickaxe" sounds to be really loud, so they can hear where it's coming from. It's not rocket surgery. :P

@Kaede: Hearing and listening, though, are two different things. I've found I can get pretty far by not shooting people, even when I'm walking full-speed on the surface.

In a game where you can hear people running from nearly across the map, I don't think stealth matters unless you're using shift to walk, and using tunnels. If you're within render distance, you'll be able to hear any noise produced, regardless of how "quiet" the noise should be.

That needs to change though, of course. It's kind of absurd.

@Lokiamis: Yeah, I'm hoping we get registration and better admin controls so we can get more fun destructive things without having to worry about teamgriefing kiddies. I wanna blow $#@& the %*!@ up without having to worry that one of my teammates is going to do something childish.

as of now snipers at a 63 point lead. so i seriously hope ben either a)Makes the sniper actually worth using without making the rifle crap or b) clears the illegitimate votes.

....then again the secondary candidate isnt so great either...blegh.

More explosives, get to it. Make use of that wonderful terrain destruction.

I must admit, I am curious to see what buckshot tracers would look like in AoS. An option for slug ammunition would also be nice (selectable after choosing the shotgun from the "." menu).

@Chipou: Yeah, you're right, it'd still be stealthy. Almost nobody would notice it (unless they were the ones getting killed) anyways... there are a lot of ways for people to make that falling-damage noise, and most of them would involved, well, falling.