I can’t think of one war from history were every soldier was a sniper so come on dice when are you going the regulate the the teams loadouts simmerly to how you regulate how many tanks and planes a team can have. There still too many snipers making the game unfun and almost impossible to move from flag to flag. I’m really enjoing bf1 but on most of the open maps movment is hard as hell when you have half a team of snipers shooting at you at the same time now Hardcore mode has made a real mess out of conquest like it did for bf3 and 4 i like to play support but when you have a team of mostly snipers for the esay kills you can’t take flags. I suggest that you can only have a limited amount of players able to play the sniper class per round. like with tanks and planes etc What do think.?
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Same here, Snipers up the team play.
Have some patience, there will be servers where the scout is disabled. 
I have to agree. A few matches I played were fine… now it seems like a lot of snipers.. I loved being a sniper in the last few battlefield games and I loved the feel and sound of it in bf1.
Now in every battlefield I’ve only played hardcore.
And this is the first battlefield I’ve had a problem playing any other class and being able to compete with snipers or been able to pretty much ignore them… until finally I say forget it and pick the scout class…
I think this is a combo of map design one shot with any sniper rifle from any distance and the ease in which everyone can snipe..it’s fun… just takes no skill anymore
Custom servers with Sniper limit…absolutely heaven.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Most used weapon in WW1 was iron sight BA rifles the same ones you put a scope on and call snipers
Could you repost this thread in all caps.
Easier to read.
Everyone did have iron sights bolt action… but in this game we have classes… so Noone is getting healed no one is getting ammo… tanks are killing everyone and Noone is happy. If this is the case.. all bolt action rifles should be like the DMR on bf4 and everyone can use them..
I think the sniper class has always been far too over powered with its one hit kills from the other side of the map. It should have restricted use same as horses tanks ect
Y’all forget that the custom servers only may exclude the scout class as a whole.
That means: No spotting / tripwire / iron sights bolt action guns. GG Dice
I don’t think they can only have so many snipers… it’s just not right. They would have to do this for every class then it’s just not fun to have a choice.. snipers use to have a damage drop off. But since they did the sweet spot mechanic every shot at any distance is one hit.
Use to be one shot in a certain range but when they are far out its 2 hits unless a heads hot.
As much as I like to be a sniper in battlefield I try not to be because everyone else is…
i Don’t think getting rid of sniping all together is the key dodging the odd sniper is kind of fun and a bit of a rush when getting from flag to flag in conquest but its not very realistic when you have half a team sniping. Not sure what to do about it maybe only allow a few snipers per squad or so many per team.?
I wonder how many people serpentine as they run from cover to cover?
I love the sound sniper rounds make when they miss.
It would be more realistic to add MORE bolt action rifles to the game, it is a WW1 game. If they don’t add more soon this may as well have just been a WW2 game.
Sniper limits won’t solve anything.
If, for example, each team was restricted to 8 or 10 snipers, you’d still end up with scenarios where of those 8-10, more than half of them would hill hump rather than push and play aggressively.
The thing that needs to change isn’t the amount of snipers, but the mindset of snipers - this year, snipers finally have incentive to play a more medium range roll (Especially the SMLE and Russian Model users), and yet, they still don’t.
Some of you are trying to fix the symptom, when we should be trying to fix the actual problem.
The number of people who play sniper isn’t the problem - it’s the mindset of the average sniper that needs to change.
How do DICE go about changing that?
Good luck trying to figure that one out.
While I have no intention in telling others how to play, and I am not a hard-core enough player to have all the answers, but personally, the counter to there being too many snipers would be… the snipers on your own team.
If more friendly ‘pure’ snipers (as opposed to those who play Scouts for spotting) made it their mission to hunt down and neutralise enemy snipers, it would enable the rest of the team to push forward much more safely. As it is, all I see - as a Support player - are snipers picking off easy marks on the map; this seems to be the aim (if you pardon the pun) of both sides. It makes my job, resupplying my team and suppressing the enemy, much more dangerous.
If my team’s snipers could concentrate on removing that threat, the rest of us could then focus on the other threats - it’s dangerous enough already out there without the added concern of a headshot from a hill 300m away…!
Again, this is my own opinion for how the sniper threat could be countered without having to resort to ‘nerfing’ or otherwise curbing the Scout class.
Class restriction would help in the games current state, yes. But the reason why EVERYONE is a sniper is that they are ridiculously easy to use. They need to work out the accuracy/trajectory with the sniper rifles.
Limit all clases to 25% of the team and be done with it
Just make sniping require more skill and people will quickly jump ship to something easier.
Most players are like a river taking the path of least resistance, hence so many medics in general and snipers on sinai desert etc. It’s generally easier.
OHK needs to go, excluding head shots.
I play scout a ton, but I am the scout that will top the scoreboard. If they limit it so I can’t use it the proper way, I will be sad.
Many useless scouts are annoying, but if they limit a class all you will see is useless soldiers.