Whats up with re-spawning as a sniper with an m16?

[Aculaud 0]

Whats up with respawning with a standard assault rifle no matter what unit you are? Is this a bug? Does BIS even plan to do anything about this?

[Lt_Damage 0]

I think it is to make everything equal, you won't respawn with all your equiptment, M16 is standard for everyone who respawns. It has 30 bullets, enough to protect you until you rearm.

Don't forget that you can't drop things like LAW's and AA's when they are empty, merely swap them for another launcher, so it is actually handy that you start fresh again when you spawn.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Think of it as BIS's way of punishing you for getting popped.

[Aculaud 0]

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i guess! and a harsh lesson that is, especially with limeted supplies.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

The best advice is get better so it doesnt happen again, or get use to checking every corpse within 500 meters to see if yer rifle is still there.

[Aculaud 0]

LOL, iv done that before with some success. not too combat effective in the long run though

[Major Fubar 0]

I could be wrong, but isn't this mission dependant? I'm sure I've played missions where I respawn with my specialty weapons/equipment...

[Tex -USMC- 0]

By default, you respawn with an M16 or AK74 with one clip of ammo. It requires extra scripting etc. to get people to spawn with more than that.

[Aculaud 0]

I propose a new solution:

Crate AddWeaponCargo ["M21",500000]; Crate AddMagazineCargo ["M21",5000000]

[Tactician 0]

By default you start with an assault rifle and one clip, but the mission author can choose to use a reload-on-respawn system, so that you get all your default weapons back upon respawn.

[Mister Frag 0]

My understanding is that the respawn with just a basic assault rifle was done so you don't litter the battlefield with a bunch of non-basic weapons.

This way, if there is one sniper on each side, there is only one M21/Dragunov available to it. Otherwise, in a MP game with respawn, you could repeatedly team-kill the sniper, and equip each member with a sniper rifle.