The Senior Gameplay Designer on Battlefield 3, Alan Kertz, has recently revealed that snipers will often have to hit enemies twice to get a kill.
Kertz was asked about sniping to which he responded “there are no 1 hit body kills with sniper rifles. Pull your side arm or use a semi auto for fast follow up hits.”
Has this been added for balance at the sake of realism? Comment below what you think of the decision on one hit kills.
1432jc
August 22, 2011 at 11:28 PMWhat about headshots?
Dan
August 23, 2011 at 3:13 PMIf they mean this in normal mode, no big deal, that is the way that it is in BC2, but if they confirm this in hardcore, believe me you I will be canceling my pre-order, they have gimped snipers enough with this iteration in the series, this might just be the straw that broke the camels back.
Scope glint that is like shining a surefire light in someones face regardless of ambient lighting
Ridiculous scope sway
Breath holding mechanics
Bullet drop that is a joke by any means. Show me a 308 that drops 20″ at 100yds, Ill show you a piss poor cartridge manufacturing company.
No gillie suits
This line tells me two things.
“Pull a side arm for follow up shots”
A. There will be little to no long distance sniping, which is total BS, unless he is saying that he expects someone to pull a 9mm and hammer a guy 300yds away. This line combined with the ungodly drop on snipers in the alpha seem to confirm this.
B. That battlefield devs hate snipers, regardless of what they do, and will continue to gimp them until they are literally so useless they might as well remove them from the a
If they are going to pull this crap they better darn well clean up the hit detection for head shots…bc2 is terrible with this at times.
Lucas
August 23, 2011 at 3:19 PMA skilled sniper will get headshots anyways. Which remain one hit kills
James
August 23, 2011 at 3:47 PMI agree with most of what Dan (on the realism)says but also agree with Lucas, the fun of distance sniping is getting headshots with bullet drop and bullet travel time (also unrealistic) on moving targets. I don’t bother with body shots at distance, soldiers tend to take cover when getting shot at… BOOM HEADSHOT!!!
Nade Ice
August 23, 2011 at 5:42 PMIf you’re talking realizm then a sniper body shot would kill some one. Have you seen what a sniper round looks like?? Come on folks, don’t be mad because you got shot
tegernako
August 23, 2011 at 7:07 PMCry harder babies.
1-Hit KO's
August 24, 2011 at 12:04 AMWTF Every game realistic or not has to have 1_Shot=1_Kill to the game. That’s the Sniper’s Code.
Nade Ice
August 24, 2011 at 11:39 AMI hate that if your not playing HardCore you need to shoot someone 5 times if its not a headshot anyway with a normal AR. FAIL
Scooby629
August 25, 2011 at 12:13 AMI normally don’t comment but I had to for something like this. If they’re stripping things from the sniper class in BF3 I won’t be to happy.. First off, no gillies suites??? That’s ridiculous, those suites are what distinguishes snipers from the rest, that would be a dumb move taking it out of the game.. Second, the most I look for in a game is realism and I feel they accomplished that of sniping very well in BC2. That’s why I play BC because of the realistic feel, not only the snipers but everything else in the game as well. Bullet drop, having to lead your running target at long shots, scope sway (not to much), and breathing mechanics are all very realistic and will add a lot to the game. …More than one body shot I feel is not at all realistic in sniping. Why would the military make a rifle for the specific reason of one shot one kill, only to end up having to shoot the enemy with 2 shots anyways? Well in the real world one shot one kill is reality, sniper rifles in the military are more than enough powerful to take out an enemy with one shot. They should incorporate that into the game then, to maintain realism. I know they have 2 shot kill in core, but if they add it in hardcore as well that’s a bad move… Adding scope sway to the game is going to make sniping hard enough, snipers shouldn’t have to worry about having time to crack a second shot off too.
jacob leblanc
October 30, 2011 at 3:15 PMi pre ordered the limited editon a month before it came out highley antecipating its release. The campaign is awesome,short,and full of intense moments. I love to snipe in a team based way and I do not camp and sit in the back of the map getting 3 kills per game like some. anaway when im 50yards from somebody and i get a hit marker while they are sprinting with my SV98 and they turn around and mow me down as im bolting another round and i get killed it really pisses me off as much as snipers get dissed…. im fine with the scope glint and no gulie suit but if dice claims that this game is soooooo realistic then their should be 1 hit kills with a sniper rifle if its like from the waist and up espically when theyre walking or running…. PLEASE FIX THIS DICE and if they are not moving it still should be a 1 shot kill if its from the waist and up cause this is bullshit i absoultley hate recon class now because of this issue so dice please fix this issue because there alot of recon players that HATE this so please please fix this im not trying to wine or cry about it but its a big issue. thank you for your time and please address this