The entire point of those spots is that they ARE good for snipers. And BF4 seems to do a lot more rewarding of base capture/defense, so not only are excessive numbers of non-spotting snipers not helping their team, they aren't helping themselves either.
I.M.O. suggesting they make them out of bounds is a bit silly, as they are clearly working as intended (if I understand your complaint correctly, anyway).
I say this as someone who spent most of last night's session as an engineer, and only brielfy tried recon before deciding it wasn't for me (or rather, not the right map for the class for me).
What does the recon gadget 3 do? It seems to be a rangefinder/laser designator or something, but also fires stuff? Is it a marker flare gun or something?
Yup the only way that I see those spots being good for snipers with regards to teamwork is when placing soflam down and spotting people, but we all know that the majority of snipers play for their k/d and not the team
And whilst those buildings are good for setting up soflam and having engineers fire their javs or rpgs etc. it is just going to be pointless using a tank or boat as just like in markiz monolith you aren't going to last long as there is nothing you can do about it. Only way to deal with it is to get the heli, spam the mortar or snipe them yourself and personally I find it annoying/dull having to deal with camping noobs like that.
I suppose making those areas out of bounds is a bit too much...... however, there definitely should be some restrictions i.e. not being able to place down spawn beacons, soflam and the mortar
Saying that, from the videos I have seen and as posted above...... it doesn't look/sound like snipers are the only ones camping up there......
As for the last point, sounds like it could fire some EMP dart or something that can take out soflams and other similar equipment i.e. like in bf 3 the way the MAV can take out stationary MAVs, TUGS and spawn beacons.
Won't we just be able to mortar those snipers though?
But yeah, very annoying that people seem to have fun sitting on top of a building picking off random soldiers and doing very little to help their team when there is so much else going on that they could be doing.
Get rid of the focus on K/D and you would eliminate a lot of the campers though...
Probably, as long as DICE haven't go a height limitation for them.....
And couldn't agree any more, k/d should be removed or at least removed from the in game scoreboard, games would be so much better & more fun
I went to the top of the skyscraper and used my LMG to fire at them, they panicked and were running all over the rooftop instead of jumping off of it. Eventually, some of my team saw what i was shooting at and started doing the same and we killed them.
Just parachute over them whilst dropping C4! Best troll weapon/method ever!
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Granted, the final game could be very different once the ac130 comes into play, if it is anything like it is in armoured kill map pack then anyone camping on the rooftops are just begging to be killed
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Just finished watching lvlcaps and a few other videos and it seems like that is all he did along with everyone else....... 