*rant mode on*
I try playing PR as infantry, but just can't stand it.
If I don't get shot by a instaproning scoped rifleman while having only ironsights, sniped by some marksman who just jumped out of the corner, a support gunner who prone dives and just sprays into my direction in CQC or a support gunner who sits on a rooftop and kills me with automatic sniper fire, grenaded by some noob tuber who uses the rifle attachment every once in a while, random AT guy who runs around with AT4 out and uses that on me, since it settles before my rifle does even though he'll get creamed by the APC in the next 15 seconds or killed by a Spec Op , because my game lags out when he opens fire with his 1337railgun due loading his awesomeness, then I'll actually get under fire and die slowly from bullets fired from a rifle.
In terms of realism, 0.75 is getting closer and closer, but in terms of game play it's just everyone requesting 1337 kits to save their asses and pwn the enemy because they won't stand a chance.
Why put suppressive fire on that guy, just dive in his face and unload bursts into him while he tries to single shot you with the G3 "because firing G3s on semi is realistic"
so let me guess: slamming your face with a LMG in front of you and get instantly accurate is too?Lets not forget the AK47, one of the best RL assault rifles and very good at close quarters -really? no just unload into those Militants with your L85 on full auto, none of them will ever manage to kill you since they'll get headshooted by your laser accurate line of fire, before you can say 'headshot'.
And why run away from suppression effects? Just turn around and headshot the guy with your marksman because even if you can't hit sh*t with a regular rifle, requesting a marksman instantly gives you the skill of an interweb sniper - just point and click.
I can't really work out, what Devs wanted to accomplish when they made the SAW a fully automatic sniper rifle and gave every squad a-more-accurate-than-sniper marksman rifle. Was it to make the enemy more challenging as you could expect anything to come your way or just "first come, first serve" where one guy requesting a marksman gets a guarantee to kill all his enemies as even with suppression effects, they don't stand a chance against his lazer point n click gun.
Same could be said for the rest: Why go medic/engineer/ironsight rifleman? Request your favorite kit and all your nightmares about sacrificing and dying a lot in the name of teamwork will go away!
I really miss the days, where everyones favorite kit was their rifle, marksmen got kicked out of their squads, spec ops were frowned upon and sniper rifle was the kit of the blue guys at the bottom of the score list, where the squad list ended.
The best infantry fights I had, were all on 0.708 when marksman/sniper rifles were busted and on 0.5 when the number of people with scopes was 1/4 of the number of medics on a team.
Rant off.
Jaymz
