Bad Company 2′s Snipers Beware of Sniper Cop!
DICE‘s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been gathering up a loyal fanbase. While there will be never ending bickering about Bad Company 2 vs. Modern Warfare 2, there is one feature that Modern Warfare definitely lacks. BF: BC2 has a previously unknown class called the “Sniper Cop.” The Sniper Cop is a great asset when some teammates will not cooperate and gather the objectives. Hit the break for more details.
Have you been the victim of a squad with Recon players that don’t actually do any Recon? You know the types, the camping snipers who turn their FPS experience into a point and click adventure. In BF: BC2 there is a remedy, an industrious tipster FlyinJ has a cure for lazy Snipers on your team.
The tracer dart is a great tool to draw attention to your squadmates who taken it upon themselves to let everyone else do the actual work of achieving objectives. A shot right to the face with a dart will insure they are a brightly lit target for the enemy to take down. The best thing is there is no way to remove the dart without dying.
Did you know the tracer dart can stick to friendly targets? It sits there and glows. For instance, if you affix it to someone's head – say, someone with a sniper rifle crouching just behind a ridge or in some foliage – that person's head will be super easy to spot from a long way off by other players with sniper rifles. Furthermore, if you attach it to someone's face, it will shine a red glow into his line of site and maybe even obscure his vision. It's like a fantastic glowing clown nose, or the schnozz of a certain reindeer who saved Christmas. And the beauty of a friendly tracer dart is that there's no way to remove it short of dying.
So whenever I spawn, especially when attacking in Rush mode which relies largely on my team moving forward to capture objectives, I made a habit to visit those yahoos hanging back to snipe and pad their kill count instead of helping us win the round. I carefully line up the tracking pistol and fire a bright red beacon straight into their unhelpful faces.
I will be giving this tactic a shot next time I am on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, how about you?
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23 Responses to “Bad Company 2′s Snipers Beware of Sniper Cop!”
I suppose this could remedy the problem, but I would probably team kill somebody if they tracered me while I was sniping. And I would keep doing it too.
You could just leave that person’s squad and try to join another. If Dice didn’t intend for snipers, they wouldn’t have included a recon class and they wouldn’t have dressed the recons in full ghillie suits.
What if the person that you immaturely placed a tracer on was actually keeping the enemy away from the target?
The point of a sniper class is to sit in one place withe single shot weapons. Especially the bolt action ones like the M95, which can’t be easily used at close range with the same accuracy as sitting in one place.
And I’m not saying that I sit there and camp all day (my most used class is actually the medic class) but, if it was me being shot by a tracer round from a team mate, I would perceive that as an invitation for a full match of team killing.
Although he may not like Snipers hanging back and not physically moving up, sometimes he forgets that the OPFOR like to steal vehicles that respawn at the back of the map and use them against the Attackers and a well placed Sniper can make sure that they have a harder time stealing equipment to include the UAV that OPFOR don’t get in matches.
Dice could fix that by making the opposition spawn or conquered areas off limits/out of bounds as the game pushes forward so any one in that area commits suicide if they don’t move forward. This would also remove the ability for OPFOR soldiers in behind the lines…
I play as a Sniper most of the time and I am glad that this Soldier has not been on my side because I do move up but when I know that the rear area is clear of OPFOR. Usually the only OPFOR in the area are looking for me…
This “FlyinJ” is an idiot!!! He’s definitely not a team player. Most snipers stay back so they can be the eyes for rest of the team and clear out other snipers. Damn I thought we would leave behind all the noobs on COD.
snipers are the problem with this game, i quit because team deathmatch has became team sniper off… though this will not help because any good sniper is hiding in a place no one will look…
usually their places out of the map… or other places you wont bee seen, so even if you hit them you have to notice them anyways so no matter what if you tag them or not their gonna die at the same rate
Yea i agree with the other comments. The most annoying thing is when an opposing team member snipes me as I am nearing the objective. So a sniper staying back and picking off the other side helps, not hurts.
That’s quiet a debate going on here about snipers
you people complaining about this tactic don’t seem to get it…he doesn’t mean tagging every single sniper that’s in the game because they are pointless, obviously they have a point since they are included in the game. He’s talking about the ones that don’t do anything but lay down right away and snipe. If your role on your team is recon, then you need to go out and do recon. You can’t just lay down and snipe everyone thinking you are doing your team a favor. Doing your recon objectives and sniping when it is necessary to do so is the purpose of any and all snipers.
@giese
But all we need is for someone to go and tag people who are actually doing what they’re supposed to be doing. I really hope that nobody goes and does this.
I think that Dice made a great decision already by not allowing us to go prone, which gives everybody else an advantage in being able to see snipers. That should be good enough.
Tracer darting someone who is playing on your team is lame…. I to hope no one joins this craze LOLOL
Not to keen on clowns anyway and glowing nosed clowns? JESUS!
A lot of you are missing the point. First of all, this isn’t a problem solely tied to Bad Company 2. With just about all console FPS games, there are TOO MANY snipers on the team at any given time, generally speaking. Those of you talking about being eyes for the team are speaking about the role of the sniper, but the issue is that this is not how the sniper class is used most of the time. All players want to do is sit back outside of the fight like pussies and get easy kills. Its pathetic and it doesn’t help the TEAM, especially in a mode like Rush Attackers, as stated, where you are supposed to advance. Instead you have 3 snipers per squad camping together like brokeback mountain. FlyinJ is talking about snipers who arent playing their role, not snipers in general, though they’re annoying in general regardless.
The point of the game is to get the objective. Kills have nothing to do with the objective unless you are defending. If you are attacking, you are moving up, or killing people while moving up, or even not killing people while moving up! The point is all classes need to move up in order to take the objective, if you get a few kills along the way thats nice, congrats on lowering the defenders OH WAIT UNLIMITED RESPAWNS. They come back in 5-10 seconds, faster if they have a medic running around. There is no point in hanging back and sniping to “clear out defenders”. quit being retarded.
Gosh, I wonder why I have absolutely no interest in online shooters?
wow what a great post! not! time to stop visiting PSLS because they now post how to grief other players, kinda like a troll in game! way to go PSLS! boy i never knew a snipers position was up in the front line!
Wow great now people will shoot me with tracer darts even if i’m not playing a class other than recon i bet….
people like this ruin every game! who cares what the hell someone else does! they paid for the game let them play it the way they want too! If the makers of the game didn’t want you too snipe from afar why would they have such a severe bullet drop? why would they let you stay back in rush as attackers? get over it you immature people its only a game!
ps: they also give you extra marksman points for getting a head shot at a long distance! (my groups top is +506) why would they even bother with that if they didnt want you to snipe from afar? good day greifer ………………
PSS: no one mentions that when a attackers Sniper is killed because he has a shiny red face that the tickets also go down for the attackers and you loose faster! DUH! its just a grief tactic, and now this being posted @ PSLS as a RECOMMENDATION leave a shit taste in my mouth..
Cry louder
@ kwietstorm
obviously i am not crying loud enough and have not reached the point that im so upset that i resort to greifing other players.. i have enough “gamer” respect not to ‘cry” about how one decides to play the game they purchased. grow up..
@Caphead
Your an idiot…BFBC2 is a TEAM based game. Most of the snipers in the game are lone wolves and deserve to die. If there is a sniper on your team helping the team by actually marking targets for everyone to see then 9/10 you will win the match. Yea everyone paid their own $60 but it is the people that sit back and get 2-3 kills per match that ruin the experience for everyone on the team. I can play as assault, take the objectives, and get upwards of 15-20 kills while these losers sit back and don’t help. There are not many GOOD snipers, and this post is talking about taking out the horrible snipers.
That’s dumb as hell, another reason I won’t play this game. Duty is better
@ Matt dude don’t call me a idiot , seems I must be a good sniper because I always seem ahead in the scoreboards by at least 1000 points, say what you will, but causing any grief to your own team is just retarded and not very “team” like. you make no sense, you want team play, but you will do stupid shit to hurt your whole teams ticket count? taking out the horrible snipers? like you can tell the difference? your the idiot, just read your post.
This article just encourages people like you to give grief to other players just because they don’t want to conform to your style of play. so who is actually the crybaby here? whaaaa they don’t play my way so ill go be a team killing ,team grieving asshole.. yeah that’s a team i would like too be on! way to support team play, you ignit moron!
end of story in my eyes, good day..
I don’t see why everyone is freaking out…I thought this was funny.. and I use Sniper and Assault a majority of the time.
well i dont know bout bc2..but in mag lets sayyyy,…sabotage…. if theres snipers back at the spawnq while were supposed to be in C defending ill run by and knife them. TK anyone?