TOO MUCH PRESSURE MAN, I CAN'T TAKE IT! AHH MAN, AAHHH! THE GNOMES! GAH!!


That's my way of saying "*bleep* this, too much damn effort"

Well I'll give my opinion on this, you were saying how the sniper would never get picked up if they took out actives. It would still get picked up all the time but it wouldn't be treated as a primary weapon that people desperate to get kills go for.

quote Deadman Rules

Well I'll give my opinion on this, you were saying how the sniper would never get picked up if they took out actives. It would still get picked up all the time but it wouldn't be treated as a primary weapon that people desperate to get kills go for.

quote Shattered Silence

In other words, it'd be treated like a sniper rifle.

I think that as tight as the Gears maps usually are, that active reloads shouldn't cause an active down. Ever. Headshots should be the only lethal kill that can be performed with it, though a chest shot should still give at least half damage, though that brings up the debate of exploiters using the COG pistol after every shot to down someone.

Still, it would give someone being shot at time to escape, which is always a good thing.

What if instead of sniper actives causing more damage, they had a special effect, like it would go through someone and also damage another player near him, or it would ricochet or something. These aren't really the greatest ideas I know, but I'm just coming up with examples to clarify what I said.

While having something like penetration on active sniper bullets would be pretty cool, I can't really imagine that many situations where that'd be useful. It's not very often you get your opponents line up when you're fighting them. As for ricochet, I don't really see how reloading your gun better (essentially what actives are) would change the properties of your bullets in the way that they could bounce.

Yeah, that's true, and having sniper bullets penetrate cover might be too cheap, but really anything is better than having 1 hit active downs.

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quote Shattered Silence

As for ricochet, I don't really see how reloading your gun better (essentially what actives are) would change the properties of your bullets in the way that they could bounce.

Haha, I suppose you have a point there.

And I also like the idea of snipers being able to penetrate cover, as I'm sure a high powered .50 would have no trouble in getting through thin walls or cover. Would stop people hiding behind cover for a whole match too.

Well, that could work with the destructible environments and all, but what I'm worried about is those times when you can just barely see someones head poking up, but not enough to shoot it, and they can just get through cover and kill you. Then again that still would require skill to get them in the head, maybe more so after people know that it can happen.

Cover penetration on an active would be simply amazing. I can't tell you the number of times I wished I could shoot through cover at some camper across the map instead of having a sniper battle with him.

You'd still need to hit him in the head Sereph, and most snipers have that exposed.

I know that, and since the head is below cover (and always in a certain spot, depending on which way they're facing), it could mean either instant death to campers or force them to keep moving back and forth on their cover.

Ahhh ok, you're talking about situations like the two Canal snipers. I was thinking about when they're standing behind a wall.

My bad.

It would be nice if they added a feature to the multiplayer where you can turn on and off active reloads, so instead of getting the white area all you see is the grey.

I would love that for sniper battles.

I mean why not go all out and have a mod where you can choose which guns have the white active reload and which dont i would love that.