The “camping snipers on my team suck because it’s one less person taking a flag” argument is unfounded - because at any given time in any game, one can look at the scoreboard and see players of EVERY class at the bottom with barely any points, most of which more than likely didn’t come from capping or defending bases, and barely any kills.
There are worthless players of every class, every match - not just snipers. Even FORCING every sniper in the game to PTO isn’t going to change that.
(Now I’m waiting for the reply: “Oh, but those other worthless players are at least extra bodies on the objective”, to which I’d reply - but if there’s 7 assault and engineer players at the bottom of the scoreboard with 6 kills and 800 points, and they’ve been in the game since the start, I very highly doubt they’re even going near objectives. They’re just as “useful” as the long-range sniper with 6 kills.)
Lastly - short of changing the game so it literally FORCES snipers to not camp on hills, no change they make will cause anyone who actually LIKES hill-camping to move in and PTO.
I saw earlier where someone brought up the fact that someone he knew only played in the hills because he didn’t want to die as much - well guess what - removing K/D isn’t going to change that. If you remove K/D and the guy moves in from the hills, he’s going to die just as much as before and migrate back to the hill where he’s more comfortable.
They already tried the “make a change to gameplay mechanics to help alleviate the camping snipers” thing by nearly removing marksman bonuses from the game, because they thought long-range snipers were doing so because it could potentially net them more points than capping objectives.
Now here we are months later, and there are still just as many camping snipers, and just as many people complaining about them.
In my experience (considering I have about 3-4 friends I REGULARLY play with who love to sit on air craft carriers on Naval Strike and snipe) long-range snipers mainly love doing so because of “that headshot” - you know the headshot I’m talking about. The shot that spans across the map to the head of an unsuspecting target.
In saying that - short of bringing back the visuals-hindering, butt ugly Battlefield 2 “wall of fog” to stop snipers from doing that - no change is going to stop them for going for those shots if that’s what they love doing.
The bottom line:
Unless DICE forces snipers to constantly be on the move or to actively play the objective - no slight change to the game is going to get them to stop. The camping snipers are never going to go away, it’s just a playstyle that people enjoy, whether it’s contributing or not. Just like some people love flying planes in to tanks, C4-jeeping tanks, and jumping out of jets to try and RPG an enemy jet in mid-air.
If someone else’s preferred playstyle butthurts you so bad that you want to advocate changes to make that specific experience worse for them - I think you need to start taking video games a little less seriously.
Sincerely,
A dedicated Aggro Sniper that actually and actively PTFO.