Sayt wrote:
Generally speaking, sniper rifles /are/ niche weapons, your averase infantryman doesn't carry one around, he carries an assault rifle or carbine.
Sniper Rifles are long range weapons, and in trained, skilled hands they can be accurate to incredible distances, but that comes at a cost: sniper rifles are long in the barrel for accuracy and heavy to resist recoil (and as a result of aforesaid long bareel, and sighting mechanisms), which means that they aren't nimble weapons.
Despite what Call of Duty tells us, you can't really take potshots on the run with a long rifle and expect to hit.
Thank you for this. So hard to explain to people that sniper rifles can't be used like a carbine.
