BF2S Forums What distance do you snipe?

Well you know me: city maps mostly, relatively short ranges (roughly <150m).

I'll snipe at longer ranges in the right circumstances (only out to 350m max. unfotunately) but I don't go out of my way to play those kinds of maps since my long-range shooting needs a lot of work and I prefer to work around flags.

1 meter.

Close range sniping is scx

nonexistentusmc wrote:

How do we measure distance in BF2? I've never seen a marker on the target. Someone up there mentioned 273 meters, how could you get such an accurate measurement count?

Two ways, first:
the quick-and-dirty way is to look for a nearby flag (to the target, not you ) and gauge the distance.

The second is more useful:
go squad leader, put an order down to attack, defend or whatever, near where your target is/was and a marker will show up with a range beside it (if your graphics are good you'll be able to see coloured smoke through the scope but the range will always be visible and you can do the order as many times as you need to get it to the right spot).

After a while you could actually estimate range fairly well just by how big something is in the scope, since players, vehicles etc. are a fixed size; but you don't need to know the numbers, you just need to have an instinctual/automatic compensation for bullet drop.

Todd_Angelo wrote:

nonexistentusmc wrote:

How do we measure distance in BF2? I've never seen a marker on the target. Someone up there mentioned 273 meters, how could you get such an accurate measurement count?

Two ways, first:
the quick-and-dirty way is to look for a nearby flag (to the target, not you ) and gauge the distance.

The second is more useful:
go squad leader, put an order down to attack, defend or whatever, near where your target is/was and a marker will show up with a range beside it (if your graphics are good you'll be able to see coloured smoke through the scope but the range will always be visible and you can do the order as many times as you need to get it to the right spot).

After a while you could actually estimate range fairly well just by how big something is in the scope, since players, vehicles etc. are a fixed size; but you don't need to know the numbers, you just need to have an instinctual/automatic compensation for bullet drop.

Ahh. That explains it. :

globefish23 wrote:

Why is it that you already see the fog when looking at the northern oil platform from the waterfront?
That distance is clearly shorter than the aforementioned two.

I think this is related to silhouetting (something outlined against the 'sky') as well as the relative height between you and the target. There are some odd results you get in some places because of this. I only noticed a month or two ago that in Warlord you can see the palace front better from street level than you can from the roof of the building north of Insurgent Hideout, even from a good 10m further back.

I think my longest ever kill was like 325m on Taraba Quarry.

WOoKie style...FTW

Usually about 300 - 450m just depends on the map.  Some times though i go CQC sniping.

d.cripz wrote:

well i snipe at a range equivalent to about 4000000300000052 of my penises

< 1 meter?

JET_G raidensen wrote:

gene_pool wrote:

d.cripz wrote:

well i snipe at a range equivalent to about 4000000300000052 of my penises

< 1 meter?

< 1mm

<.1mm

ok ok, i think we get it. d.cripz has a small penis. I think we've raped him enough now

my range is about 100-200m

although i can be closer, like if i'm on the Crane on Sharqi overlooking the surveillance post or something

Capping sniper.