Making sniper rifles less powerful Thread

Disclaimer:
This isn't a full mod concept (not even close). I'm posting it here because a forum mod said it was OK. If it's not, please feel free to delete it.
Also, I'm aware that the following ideas wouldn't work with realism mods.

1) Harmless beam
The rifle works just like a regular sniper rifle, except:
When you're zoomed in, the rifle emits a harmless beam that gives away the sniper's position. The beam color depends on the sniper's team.
This feature would discourage camping.

2) Damage function
If you fire at a distant target, the rifle does a lot of damage.
If you fire at a close target, the rifle does very little damage.
(the damage function doesn't have to be linear)
This would discourage people from using the sniper rifle as a rail gun.

Comments please
And do you know any games/mods that already have these features?

1) Harmless beam
The rifle works just like a regular sniper rifle, except:
When you're zoomed in, the rifle emits a harmless beam that gives away the sniper's position. The beam color depends on the sniper's team.
This feature would discourage camping.

2) Damage function
If you fire at a distant target, the rifle does a lot of damage.
If you fire at a close target, the rifle does very little damage.
(the damage function doesn't have to be linear)
This would discourage people from using the sniper rifle as a rail gun.

The beam would be very stupid. Just make a stream follow the rifle after the shot.

The second part would be pretty stupid since a sniper rifle would do 10x as much damage as a close range but would just have horrible accuracy.
oldfaq

The 'Harmless' beam is already kind of featured but with a smoke trail in Apocalypse Weapons and ChaosUT. Both are mods for Unreal Tournament.

Yeah you just have to have something trailing each shot (call it a beam if you want) that stays for quite some time... but not before you fire; that just defies the purpose of sniping

But yeah I do think it would be a good idea to have some kind of trails on snipers like that.

-jEFF

It would be alright. BUT: The whole point of being a sniper is, correct me if I'm wrong, to camp. Well actually to hide in a place and pick people off.

um the point of snipers is to be unseen assasins that strike from a distance. Now I dont encourage camping but campers really dont make a huge difference in games eventually someone will figure them out and they will be screwed.

doesn't tfc have something kinda like that? you know the little red dot?

If you ask me, it just sounds like someone bitching about getting his ass whooped......

*ahem*

No swearing!

technically, its not a swear, just a bastardised word, AND THAT ISNT A SWEAR EITHER! It means stolen and generalised

If 40oz is allowed to talk about his gooch, i'm sure people should be able to say stuff like that.

treznz wrote: It would be alright. BUT: The whole point of being a sniper is, correct me if I'm wrong, to camp. Well actually to hide in a place and pick people off.

^seconded.

Perhaps if the beam was generated to be particle based and barely visible. It may work to some extent but I'm not sure there are that many developers who'd bother with such small niceties (except someone like me who is a balance freak )

How about a discreet lasersight that just sits wherever you're pointing the thing (make it automatically turn off when you're unzoomed I guess...) AND have it so that there's an effect something like follows: The closer your view angle is to looking straight at the sniper's gun, the more red glare you get... this distance wouldn't be linear, ie. looking anywhere but really close to it would hardley do anything then as you got REALLY close to it it would suddenly brighten up your screen red.

This would mean if you thought you saw a sniper and looked up you could get the shock of seeing the "lasersight" hitting you in the eyes +++++ panick.

Just an idea....

-jEFF