SgtOneill

Im glad this topic is alive =]. Im still yet to find a player on a server that joins me in a sniper team. That would be nice. Whats the job of the spotter besides using binoculars and spotting enemies? (just to make sure being a spotter isnt boring)

http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=m107sw8.jpg that was a headshot (i took the print before i shot) thats a m107 and the target is at 1000meters why do i have to aim way below the dots? x_x the M24 seems to be ok, but the M107 confuses me. Wow ok, i just tried that same shot with teh M24 and i can hit the target at 1000meters. Same spot on the crosshair. Now im even more confused. However the shot was near the groin, and not in the Neck / Head like the m107 was.

do i need to calculate with theyr height? why cant i look on the map and see how far he is? thats what i usually do. I thought each dot on the M107 was 500m increments. But sometimes its completly random... i had a target at 1.200meters and i had to shoot when the target was pretty much on the bottom of the scope sight. and what if im not at the same level as the target? what if im higher? lower? how does that affect the bullet? And is ArmA that realistic? sometimes it seems so random... I always do the best effort to shoot someone with one bullet, i check the map, calculate the distance using the map scale, (true, sometimes i just cant get teh precise distance), aim, and shoot. Most of the time i miss the first one, and get the second one (depending on how extreme the range is) but i really wish that the heading of the bullet isnt a surprise everytime i shoot. I dont understand this one http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e294/jtheunknown/rangem24.jpg to shoot a target at 140meters i have to aim between those dots? i downloaded this mission http://kronzky.info/targetrange/index.htm and im gonna have it a try again. and yes Frederf I was talking about long range marksmanship. However i know a sniper is alot more than that. Another question: How "stealthy" can we be when fighting A.I? does crawling really slow helps us, or does A.i have x-ray vision? Thank you, im looking forward to improve my scouting skills.

yeah thats what i thought. Only with addons and stuff. Ok then, i think i snipe as good as i the game lets me atm. Thanks all.

I've seen nice guides for Arma lately. I Usually play as a sniper usign m24 or M107 when i can. Today i thought about making an effort for 1 shot kills but it didnt go well, it was usually 2 shot for a kill. Can anyone point me some info about the M24 and M107? whats the range on each dot on teh crosshair and stuff. i thought it was 200meter increment but doesnt seem so. Thanks for the reply.

"... and i checked after the show i was watching was over...I had been Team killed...but i was in the game...lol..."

Hi Everyone. Yesterday i wanted to play Arma. I was really into it "damn i feel like playing, and snipe some terrorists, hopefully ill find a good server with teamplay, a good mission, and maybe someone a sniper to team up with..." Well... yesterday wasnt a good day to play Arma... I joined probably... 6 ou 7 servers. and none were good... Eventually i would end up in a server that: - Was too lagged - The mission was Evolution - it was done all the way to corazol, and there were no cars, or no one taxing people to the war zone, and it would take too much time to drive to corazol to get shot in the first 10 meters inside the city. - The mission was evolution again, with no teamplay at all. (its a good mission, but if we dont start playing on the very begining of it, it will suck, specially because we dont have any rank to drive anything fast enough to get to the zone, and everyone is spread out. If we managed to find a good team, if we die it will take forever to meet back with the team, and so on. - There are one or two teamkillers in the base shooting everyone. - We join a mission where we start in the other side of the island without any cars at all to move. - We join a mission where everyone plays alone, no sense of teamplay, specially for me (I role a sniper / spotter, and sometimes i dont fire 1 shot, just spotting enemies and sneaking around) After a few hours trying to find a good server with people playing in teams, you eventually lose the will to play and just give up... So my question is, where do you guys usually play? Good servers with good teamplay, good missions, and CO-OP. I Only play Co-Op. I miss the days where i would snipe specified positions to protect a squad 500 / 800 meters away. I love the photography section on the forum, and i've seen soem really good screenshots of delta force units / motor cicles / A-10's, and other team-play looking screenshots. Are these Singleplayer screenshots, or there is a server where people actually team-up in various roles and play a mission? That would be great. Thanks all.