Sniper RIfles - Could They Be Restricted?

[Wolf of God]

Hello,

May I suggest that all the scoping sniper rifles be restricted guns so that no one can use them.  The reason is apparent for those that play regularly on this server, for those that do not know, the sniper rifles cause the zombies to "hide" from the person with the rifle, as such it really slows down the game for all the other participants involved since all it takes is one guy.

This might not be an issue to most of you that play here.  I am one of the late night NOTD regular, as such we get a lot of non-English speaking players late at night so this becomes a problem trying to explain it to them.  This becomes a bigger issue if the person does not understand or chooses to ignore the requests and decides to snipe in an illegal spot with only him alive.

Usually most of the people are compliant about getting rid of the sniper rifle when asked, but there are the usual stubborn ones. 

I do not think it would do any harm if those guns were not allowed, meaning their buying worth was $16,001 like the SAW machine gun used to be back in the day.

Again, this is just a suggestion but not a critical suggestion that I may have posted in other threads.

Sincerely,

Wolf of God

[Vivi817 {D-B}]

Ditto man, you see me around sometimes late night, i know how annoying those late nighters are, so i usually grab an admin, seeing as all my time around them is usually preoccupied by telling them to gtfo of illegal spots, and stop BSing....... It would be nice if something could be done about this, BUT, shit you not, ive been saved countless times by sniping teammates

[[NotD] ShadowMomo]

Dude we already talked about this and I really don't think it matters that much. Its bad enough the zombies are that stupid in the first place.

[shadowofdeath]

That's not stupid that's smart D:. Who would rush head long into 5 snipers atleast 2 of which are auto? derp

[Necrobutcher]

Yea I think so too wolf. Another good reason to restrict them would be if someone goes Afk with a sniper rifle the zombies wouldn't go after them and it could possibly get to the point where they're last alive and there's not much the dead people can do but to Rtv, this has only happened to me once and u were there XD I'm sure it's happened quiet a few time's in the past.

[Sikk.]

Your all saying like if someone has a sniper of any type that no zombie is gonna attack.. That wont happen, its not the players fault its actually the bots being smart like Shadow stated.

[Ranger4071]

They have some smarts xD well maybe idk I don't mind it

[Wolf of God]

Your all saying like if someone has a sniper of any type that no zombie is gonna attack.. That wont happen, its not the players fault its actually the bots being smart like Shadow stated.

Regardless of whether the bots are being smart or dumb, the fact of the matter is that the sniper gun is an issue for those of us that play on the server late at night for reasons described.

The very thing Necrobutcher described happened, where the last person was AFK with a scout and zombie bots would look at him and walk away.

And here was the issue:  There were 3 or 4 AFK's that round so we were stuck with a sniper whom the zombies were avoiding and we could not get enough votes to RTV due to the AFK's.

It took about 10-15 minutes before a zombie finally got him.  Now that may prove your point that zombies do get snipers, but I am sure you can understand our displeasure with that wait time.  If it takes 10-15 minutes for the bots to kill an AFK sniper, obviously something is wrong.

[Death]

1. The autos/awps do make the bots hide sometimes, but not enough to make a big difference to tell you the truth. I have seen them hide and camp on bigger map regardless of people using snipers or not like jungle, metro, articstorm. What do you expect though when everyone is camping in one corner of the map, and bot are spawning all the way on the other side. Bots react more to sounds, and movement. So if they don't hear you they just camp, which is what bots do on any server.

2. AFK people will not get attacked because like I said in #1 bots go by movement, so it really doesn't matter what gun they have or don't have. You need to get an admin to kick those people, that is the only way unless you rtv TWICE to force a instant map change. I do think it the rtv should switch the map right away after the vote is finished instead of waiting till the end of the round to help with that problem though. Automatic AFK kickers won't work either, Local has tried that in the past but it didn't work so well. It ends up kicking not only the afk players, but the people who are playing but are camping in one spot for long periods of time, which  LOTS of people do. 

3.  If someone is camping in an illegal spot and won't get down take a screenshot of them and a screenshot of their Steam ID in console. Then go post it on the forums and post it in the right section with the right format for an admin to take care when they get a chance. Anybody can do this not just NotD members, and many guest do to help keep the server fun for themselves and others. If you report them they get banned and you won't have to deal with them everyday, I know people don't want to and think it is a hassle, but that is the only way sometimes.


I hope that answers everything. 

[Skorcher [Medic]]

What Death said is correct about BOT Zombies going for you by movement and sound like the noise of your gun. Your choice in weapon does not affect if a BOT will just camp and hide from you. I will say however that your weapon does sometimes affect the movement of the BOT coming towards you. If you have a sniper rifle the BOT will simply make its way to you by running to cover and hiding for a good 5-10 sec then makes it way to you, and once at you will move to your sides. For other weapons its different movement. Like I said sometimes the BOT will do this not always.

[Winters]

Hello,

May I suggest that all the scoping sniper rifles be restricted guns so that no one can use them.  The reason is apparent for those that play regularly on this server, for those that do not know, the sniper rifles cause the zombies to "hide" from the person with the rifle, as such it really slows down the game for all the other participants involved since all it takes is one guy.

This might not be an issue to most of you that play here.  I am one of the late night NOTD regular, as such we get a lot of non-English speaking players late at night so this becomes a problem trying to explain it to them.  This becomes a bigger issue if the person does not understand or chooses to ignore the requests and decides to snipe in an illegal spot with only him alive.

Usually most of the people are compliant about getting rid of the sniper rifle when asked, but there are the usual stubborn ones. 

I do not think it would do any harm if those guns were not allowed, meaning their buying worth was $16,001 like the SAW machine gun used to be back in the day.

Again, this is just a suggestion but not a critical suggestion that I may have posted in other threads.

Sincerely,

Wolf of God

agree. it does make the game a little slower but mabye not enough. scout only ya think? but that wouldn't fix the problem at hand.....

[Death]

It is the auto snipers that have to go in my opinion. I'm in ZH every day and there is always at least 6-7 people with them at a time. For example, Italy the other day we had to wait on average 30-35 min for each round, because there was always a couple of guys with autos sitting on that little ledge camping(which I also think is a cheap spot and should be illegal). At least an AWP or a scout takes some skill unlike the auto which you just scope in and spray. 

[[NotD-R] Pvt.M.Knucklehead]

or if theres a way to restrict it to like 1 or 2 auto and 1 awp...but then people would complain alot soo that might not be a good idea...but its a thought

[Wolf of God]

It is the auto snipers that have to go in my opinion. I'm in ZH every day and there is always at least 6-7 people with them at a time. For example, Italy the other day we had to wait on average 30-35 min for each round, because there was always a couple of guys with autos sitting on that little ledge camping(which I also think is a cheap spot and should be illegal). At least an AWP or a scout takes some skill unlike the auto which you just scope in and spray.

The sniper rifle glitch makes the game boring for those of us that do not snipe and die early since we are not the beneficiary of the bot glitch and have to wait for the times indicated for the next round to start and then go through it all over again.

Its come to a point where I have started to leave the server if there are multiple stubborn snipers on a given map.

The problem is real and it exists.

[.DoV. Serenity]

1. If the person has the rifle tell them to either drop it or go somewhere else.
2. Pauly was implemented to kill people that camp or use snipers. HE FEARS NO MAN!
3. Whinning about shit is pointless as some people prefer to sure scoped guns over normal ones.
4. If they refuse to do either options of 1 everyone go finds a new spot?
5. Ask and admin to kick the AFK awp holder. ( DO NOT TELL ME AN ADMIN ISNT ON! ADMINS ARE ON 20/7) there is rare occasion an admin isnt online.
6. Tell serenity hes awsome