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Ah sniping! Where to begin. We all love doing it. We all hate people better than us at it. Camper! is a favourite cry except when its YOU doing the sniping.
It all began for me about 6 years ago. Red Faction on the PS2. Me and my best m8 used to stay up until obscene hours of the mornin doing one thing, sniping. One on one, no messing, first to take the headshot.
Now for those of you familiar with Red Faction, you will be aware of its deformable rock. Now there was one MP level that had two sheer rock cliffs with multi story bases set into them backed by said deformable rock.
We obeyed 2 rules.
1 no combat for 5 mins or until agreed.
2 only sniperscoped weapons (allowing a weak and innaccurate auto-sniper and a full on 1-shot sniper rifle)
This tactical tour-de-force escalated to such a degree that after a few months of refining our camouflage tactics, our RPG hole digging skills and our pinpoint aim. We eventually had to affix a large peice of card across the screen divide and procure differently heighted chairs in order to have as pure a match as possible, we truly had become very adept console snipers.
Now we come to far cry instincts predator on the X360. Im sure many of you have not even touched the map editor yet, but let me tell you, for a console it is frankly superb. This got me to thinking (after a late night stealth game against two frenchies who were a lot more Luc Besson than my Jean Luc Picard) what about a true stealth sniper club. FC:IP is perfect for it, the foliage, the weapons, the map ed. I have been applying my knowledge of functional snipe maps to creating one and have come up with something thats near playable. Open plains for ammo and health refills. Stratigicall placed towers for plain sniping, stratigeic foliage for the more creative kind. Difficult-to-get-to prime snipe spots (try hopping up a barren hill and down a zip line on a map full of hidden snipers!!) scattered trappable trees. Nothing fancy, full on tactical pace-of-a-dead-snail stealth fest¬!!!!
Sign ups in here please, add my gamertag and ill let you know when the map is ready. Could do with someone on a hardline con (or a couple of u) to take the map and host cos my w/less con is arse.
Who's interested
It all began for me about 6 years ago. Red Faction on the PS2. Me and my best m8 used to stay up until obscene hours of the mornin doing one thing, sniping. One on one, no messing, first to take the headshot.
Now for those of you familiar with Red Faction, you will be aware of its deformable rock. Now there was one MP level that had two sheer rock cliffs with multi story bases set into them backed by said deformable rock.
We obeyed 2 rules.
1 no combat for 5 mins or until agreed.
2 only sniperscoped weapons (allowing a weak and innaccurate auto-sniper and a full on 1-shot sniper rifle)
This tactical tour-de-force escalated to such a degree that after a few months of refining our camouflage tactics, our RPG hole digging skills and our pinpoint aim. We eventually had to affix a large peice of card across the screen divide and procure differently heighted chairs in order to have as pure a match as possible, we truly had become very adept console snipers.
Now we come to far cry instincts predator on the X360. Im sure many of you have not even touched the map editor yet, but let me tell you, for a console it is frankly superb. This got me to thinking (after a late night stealth game against two frenchies who were a lot more Luc Besson than my Jean Luc Picard) what about a true stealth sniper club. FC:IP is perfect for it, the foliage, the weapons, the map ed. I have been applying my knowledge of functional snipe maps to creating one and have come up with something thats near playable. Open plains for ammo and health refills. Stratigicall placed towers for plain sniping, stratigeic foliage for the more creative kind. Difficult-to-get-to prime snipe spots (try hopping up a barren hill and down a zip line on a map full of hidden snipers!!) scattered trappable trees. Nothing fancy, full on tactical pace-of-a-dead-snail stealth fest¬!!!!
Sign ups in here please, add my gamertag and ill let you know when the map is ready. Could do with someone on a hardline con (or a couple of u) to take the map and host cos my w/less con is arse.
Who's interested