are there any good multiplayer sniper games?

mrhoohex

do you guys know of any good sniper games? the last good one for multiplay i played was a delta force so many years ago.

and cod2, when everyone agrees to not just rock up with a trench gun..

fragglefart

Halo 3 shotty snipers?

mrhoohex

bah.

they need a delta force mod for crysis.. they being me.

Kagnaros

Flippy Fortress 2.

Many Flippys. Many headshots.

Shadowfire

Sniper Elite was awesome, and has both competitive and co-op multi.

Myself980

Would Lite gun stuff work? Because the Wii has a couple of fun ones, like Ghost Squad, Resident Evil, that sort of thing. Haven't tried Target Terror yet.

GrimReaper

Armed Assault when running properly with just people sniping each other is pure awesome.

redfenix

scoutznknives?

acidlacedpenguin

battlefield 2?

Delta Force?

seconding the Armed Assault.

subedii

It's funny, games tend to avoid enemies that snipe since it's largely seen as frustrating (which it often can be), and that seems to have naturally extended into multiplayer as well.

Well, that and the fact that a game centred on sniping would be very... very... very slow. Long periods of people not moving, followed by one dude trying to change position and getting shot, and then more silence.

Sparrow

UT2004, at least 80% of the servers are now that crazy sniper mod.

Trevor

I may be crazy, but I'm pretty sure one of the Silent Scope games has multiplayer. I don't think it would be worth going out of your way to get for a console though, it really loses a lot when you don't have the big honking pink-eye giving PSG1 from the Arcade version.

TheDissolution

Back in the day there used to be a pretty hilarious mod for RTCW called Goldrush that was sniper rifles only. You could also sorta jetpack, which was diminished in ability by your weight. Which your weight increased by picking up gold bars that your enemy dropped when you killed them, and the objective was to waddle to the turn in point with a load without getting sniped. It was quite fun.

Norgoth

If you want to get pretty old school. Delta Force 2/3.

slash000

The original Ghost Recon games on the PC can be good for multiplayer snipe outs.

Otherwise.. a lot of games can be adapted to be sniper games.

My friends and I used to play the original PC Rainbow Six games (well mostly Rogue Spear), and we'd host games and only use sniper rifles. That was pretty fun.


Some crazy first person arcadey shooters like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are lots of fun when it's InstaFrag Rails-only. Then it becomes a crazy sniping party. Lots of fun.

Plutonium

Nothing better than going to a good arcade with two hooked up Silent Scope machines and playing with a friend for a few hours.

I love Silent Scope so much.

So good, but so hard to find.

Plutonium

Alternatively, sniping in Insurgency can get pretty realistic and gritty.

nameless

Myself980 wrote: »

Would Lite gun stuff work? Because the Wii has a couple of fun ones, like Ghost Squad, Resident Evil, that sort of thing. Haven't tried Target Terror yet.

Oh man, Ghost Squad. That game is so bad it's good. GHOST SQUAD : Leave no trace! Except for the mountains of bodies and the sound of unsilenced machine gun fire.

Disrupter

my friends apparently play a game in COD4 where one man is a sniper alone and everyone else is trying to infiltrate the building hes in. They say its fun, i havent played it. But they tell tales of ducking behind cars, coordinating their moves, weaving across the street together from cover to cover.

im just sad they didnt invite me

slash000

nameless wrote: »

Myself980 wrote: »

Would Lite gun stuff work? Because the Wii has a couple of fun ones, like Ghost Squad, Resident Evil, that sort of thing. Haven't tried Target Terror yet.

Oh man, Ghost Squad. That game is so bad it's good. GHOST SQUAD : Leave no trace! Except for the mountains of bodies and the sound of unsilenced machine gun fire.

Ghost Squad seems goofy with the dialogue and stuff, but there's a shocking amount of depth in that game that most light gun shooters can only dream of achieving.

Htown

slash000 wrote: »

nameless wrote: »

Myself980 wrote: »

Would Lite gun stuff work? Because the Wii has a couple of fun ones, like Ghost Squad, Resident Evil, that sort of thing. Haven't tried Target Terror yet.

Oh man, Ghost Squad. That game is so bad it's good. GHOST SQUAD : Leave no trace! Except for the mountains of bodies and the sound of unsilenced machine gun fire.

Ghost Squad seems goofy with the dialogue and stuff, but there's a shocking amount of depth that game that most light gun shooters can only dream of achieving.

Must... unlock... next... path...

Tiemler

Sniping in Bad Company is pretty good. Easier than it needs to be, with overly simplified bullet flight mechanics. But it doesn't have COD4's fucking ridiculous scope drift, and the actual job of a sniper is remarkably authentic compared with most FPS titles where they are at best infantrymen with a scoped rifle. The class is called Recon for a reason. The emphasis is on concealment, observation, and harassment.

What I really would love to see is a follow-up to Sniper Elite with better multiplayer and more emphasis on the excellent long-range marksmanship model. Maybe set it in Stalingrad in 1942. And keep the magnification on the scopes low, just like the optics of the time. They were more valuable for their light-collecting properties than for the "zoom."

Alistair Hutton

subedii wrote: »

It's funny, games tend to avoid enemies that snipe since it's largely seen as frustrating (which it often can be), and that seems to have naturally extended into multiplayer as well.

Well, that and the fact that a game centred on sniping would be very... very... very slow. Long periods of people not moving, followed by one dude trying to change position and getting shot, and then more silence.

Original CoD had a superb Sniper mod with a vast map collection. What you describe is pretty much how the game played. You missed out some subtleties though.

Making deliberate sprints to draw fire so that you team mates can spot muzzle flashes was my favourite. And selecting your spot to snipe from was a brain bustlingly hard thought process as you weighed up visibility-vs-field of fire.

Playing on the sniper server did make me vastly better with the rifles in the regular game, I started getting so many headshots with the K98 I bet other players were thinking I was using a bot.

subedii

Alistair Hutton wrote: »

Making deliberate sprints to draw fire so that you team mates can spot muzzle flashes was my favourite.

"OK Jim, you're up, you go and sprint to that cover."


*patter*patter*patter* *BLAM* *Thud*


*Pause*


"Anyone see where that came from?"

"Nope."

"Negative."

"Nah."

"OK Bob, Jim was an idiot, never liked him. You're going to go out there and you're going to be just fine."

mrhoohex

subedii wrote: »

It's funny, games tend to avoid enemies that snipe since it's largely seen as frustrating (which it often can be), and that seems to have naturally extended into multiplayer as well.

Well, that and the fact that a game centred on sniping would be very... very... very slow. Long periods of people not moving, followed by one dude trying to change position and getting shot, and then more silence.

so im the only one that thinks that sounds awesome? id love a 15 minute game where the end scores are 3, 2,2,1,1,0,0,0,0,,0,0,0,0,0

that and The End was the best boss ever.

subedii

mrhoohex wrote: »

subedii wrote: »

It's funny, games tend to avoid enemies that snipe since it's largely seen as frustrating (which it often can be), and that seems to have naturally extended into multiplayer as well.

Well, that and the fact that a game centred on sniping would be very... very... very slow. Long periods of people not moving, followed by one dude trying to change position and getting shot, and then more silence.

so im the only one that thinks that sounds awesome? id love a 15 minute game where the end scores are 3, 2,2,1,1,0,0,0,0,,0,0,0,0,0

that and The End was the best boss ever.

It could work but camouflage would have to be a very well implemented part of the gameplay, so that people can naturally blend in with their surroundings. The maps would have to be well designed as well so that good sightlines are rare, and leave you open from multiple angles.

Part of the gameplay would also have to be about stalking, keeping quiet whilst creeping up behind an enemy.

Then you can have repeats of this comic.

FyreWulff

DoubleEXP Snipers is coming up this weekend for Halo 3.

You could jump on that.

major_tom

Tiemler wrote: »

Sniping in Bad Company is pretty good. Easier than it needs to be, with overly simplified bullet flight mechanics. But it doesn't have COD4's fucking ridiculous scope drift, and the actual job of a sniper is remarkably authentic compared with most FPS titles where they are at best infantrymen with a scoped rifle. The class is called Recon for a reason. The emphasis is on concealment, observation, and harassment.

What I really would love to see is a follow-up to Sniper Elite with better multiplayer and more emphasis on the excellent long-range marksmanship model. Maybe set it in Stalingrad in 1942. And keep the magnification on the scopes low, just like the optics of the time. They were more valuable for their light-collecting properties than for the "zoom."

Truth. Bad Company nails sniping gameplay down to a tee - it's really good fun, and you have to stay on your toes, unless you like being knifed in the back because you weren't paying attention to your surroundings. It's easy to get counter-sniped once you're spotted, too. If you don't have the drop on someone its very diffcult to score the kill, which is how it should be.

Plus, crouching quietly in a forest and calling in a wire-guided bomb from the heavens onto an enemy tank is one of the most satisfying things anyone can hope to experience. Especially when you see the tank driver start going apeshit and eventually just bail when he gets the 'bomb incoming' warning.

So you guide the bomb onto the tank next to him (who has no idea its incoming and is parked perfectly still, shelling the objective).

What a game.

mattclem

Shadowfire wrote: »

Sniper Elite was awesome, and has both competitive and co-op multi.

Tiemler wrote: »

What I really would love to see is a follow-up to Sniper Elite with better multiplayer and more emphasis on the excellent long-range marksmanship model. Maybe set it in Stalingrad in 1942. And keep the magnification on the scopes low, just like the optics of the time. They were more valuable for their light-collecting properties than for the "zoom."

I was going to do my good-little-underling job and mention Sniper Elite, but it looks like some guys beat me to it. Glad you liked it!

bamjo

Day of Defeat: Source has a plethora of custom sniper maps, some of them are quite good. There are also many servers that run sniper maps 24/7.

Metacortex

I found the sniping on Battlefield 2142 to be very enjoyable, but then again I like that game as a whole.

My Park 52 logged many a headshot.

Gizzmo0411

slash000 wrote: »

The original Ghost Recon games on the PC can be good for multiplayer snipe outs.

Otherwise.. a lot of games can be adapted to be sniper games.

My friends and I used to play the original PC Rainbow Six games (well mostly Rogue Spear), and we'd host games and only use sniper rifles. That was pretty fun.


Some crazy first person arcadey shooters like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are lots of fun when it's InstaFrag Rails-only. Then it becomes a crazy sniping party. Lots of fun.

HELL. YES.

Rogue Spear. Sniper only. Bunkers = Unadulterated AWESOME!