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My Lucky M16
I like my M16/203. It is an accurate rifle that has been tried and tested in many combat environments. It is also my lucky rifle. Whenever I take her along, good things seem to happen. She looks sexy too – ok I know she’s just a rifle but come on. This weapon just looks the business, especially when it has the 203 attached to it and has been seen more around the world than any other rifle. Well ok maybe the AK47 has seen as much action too, after all, the bad guys have got to fight with something. Don’t they?
So anyway there I am in this chopper with my M16. In here with me are some guys I’ve never met before. There from this unit simply known as |TG|. Apparently these guys are meant to be the best. Now I’ve been with a fair amount of different squads. I usually get called in to help squads out. I have a reputation for being good – and I am. I hate to boast but I’m a damn good soldier. And for this reason I guess is the reason I’m on this chopper with these guys. Hell if they’re as good as I hear, I may even join them.
So we’re off to the jungle with my M16. Some drug lords need taking out and we’re the guys to do it. So I got these weird guys here with me. Our Platoon leader is some American guy called Blind (yeah – that installs a LOT of confidence) He looks like a vet though so I’m happy. Then there’s this dude called Manager (from Estonia I think). This guy looks like all he wants to do is shoot people. The gleam in his eye is scary. Directly opposite me is a Canadian called Teee (short for Teee-nacious). He looks comfortable and experienced and seems real easy going. And then there’s me, Jex. What a bunch of weirdo’s we must be to have names as FUBAR’d as these man. I mean come on, surely Pete, Bob, Mickey and Sue would do? (I’ll leave it up to you as to who is the Sue – man should’ve been a poet, not a soldier).
Anyway it’s 4 soldiers against 40. That’s 10 to 1 odds. Only a lunatic would accept such a job – pass me the straight jacket eh? The only good thing we have going for us is the jungle.
I hate the Jungle. The one thing I hate about the jungle is the heat and the humidity – ok that’s two things. Well there’s a lot of things I hate about the jungle, leeches, insects, drug barons – the usual things. The air is thick and I can taste the fumes from the engine as we skim over the tree tops. The chopper has already completed two dummy drops. We’re going on the third.
We’ve got 5 minutes. I could really use a smoke but I gave up a few weeks ago. I still carry tobacco with me though – in my socks. Keeps the leeches at bay. I check my M16 once more.
“1 minute,” shouts the pilot over the radio.
We all move into position. Myself and manager sit on one side, Blind and Teee on the other. A slight smile crosses managers lips – I get the feeling that the grim reaper is on the way. The chopper drops sharply, my stomach floats but I’m used to the feeling. Fifty feet, twenty feet, ten feet, we’re out. I bring my M16 up and scan my area – we’re clear. Everyone else reports their area clear too. Blind is on the ball and giving us our orders. Manager and Teee are covering the left side of the hill in front of us, myself and blind have the right. Intel reported a large concentration of troops patrolling the area so we’re gonna send them a couple of greeting cards. Just as I squeeze the trigger of my 203 I hear manager (or Teee?) launch about 3 nades off. Somebody brought along their OICW. Not a weapon I particularly like for no reason what-so-ever really.
Our greeting is accepted and returned in favour. Bullets fly over our heads, ripping through leaves and branches above us. But we’re ‘hull down’. The barrels of our rifle and the Kevlar of our helmets are the only things showing over the small hill we’re set up on. A few grenades come our way but they’re wildly off target. They’re trying to soften us up before they move in. We wait. Only seconds later I here Manager and Teee open up on the left. It’s not long before it’s our turn and we see targets come around our side of the hill. I start shooting, as does Blind. Something isn’t right here though, he’s getting most of the kills. Sneaky character must have put slow bullets in my mags when I wasn’t looking. Finally I start to drop some. I’m also moving off to the right to flank a little. As I do I see a tango suddenly run over the hill in front of me but I drop him with 2 shots – double tap J
The fire fight is in full swing but we’re in too good a position and they continue to eat jungle. Everyone of us is shooting. Tracer fire shrieks off eerily through the mist. Then silence. That strange silence that only comes from battlefields after death has paid a visit. I lob another grenade from my 203 into the gloom – just to let ‘em know we’re still here. Nothing is returned. We wait another minute – all quiet. I reload my M16 and we all check in fighting fit. My hand is shaking. The adrenaline is still pumping around my system. Bird song returns once again.
Blind orders us to push north. Myself and manager have point. There’s a bridge up ahead and we move cautiously towards it. Somebody spots a contact on the far bank but they move off into the fog. We all set up and wait for them to come back. After a minute or two they are spotted once again and we initiate contact. We’re getting more fire now coming in and from our south too. I yell on my mic to Manager that I’m relocating to the bridge, it should give me a little more height. I charge up onto the bridge and then throw my body on the floor. As I bring my rifle to bear I see to contacts to my front left drop – Manager I presume. Then 2 targets come out of the fog on the other side of the bank, straight ahead of me. I drop both – one shot each. I’ve found my form and I’m beginning to work with the team.
It’s a funny thing when you fight for the first time with a new squad. It’s like your skill drops a little bit because you’re not yet in sync with your newly found buddies. And then suddenly you regain your skill as you learn how to work with the guys who are with you – and in turn they learn how to work with me.
More targets present themselves and more targets drop. I think Blind and Teee are busy from contacts to the South. I hear footsteps as Manager runs past me a little – good he’s pushing forward. Then once again we are left in silence. I reload my M16.
We cross the bridge with Blind and Teee providing cover as we move. We’re getting close to the objective now and the terrain ahead is looking like it’s in their favour not ours. We cross over the bridge and then follow the path round to the east. We stop when the path turns north and Manager sets to guard the north whilst I move behind him a little to guard East. We’re at the base of a hill. Blind and Teee now move up. I notice Blind is limping a bit – old war wound perhaps?
Myself and Manager are going to move north and approach the house from the west side. Blind and Teee will attack from the south. We move out. Manager is on the left side covering right, and I’m right covering left. As we near the top I notice that to the left it opens out quite a bit. I’m concentrating for targets. Almost too hard because I hear Manager over the comms telling me I moving into an area he can’t cover. Excellent I think – this guy is on the ball. I turn and look behind me – he’s right. My back is exposed to the jungle behind me instead of the bank of the hill. It’s those kind of stupid mistakes that get yourself killed. We move north along the road some more. To my right the ground rises further – the other side should be the objective. I comm Manager that I’m moving up on this hill to get eyes on the house and suggest he go wide to make sure the road is clear as it bends round to the east. I slowly make my way up the hill, stopping every now and then to scan for targets. I’ve had rookies walk right past me before because they did their scanning on the fly. You don’t notice movement so much when your moving – remember that and you might live longer.
As I approach the top of the hill go prone and crawl the last few meters. I see the house but I see no targets. I call in my position to Blind and that things appear to be clear. I pull out my bins for a closer inspection. Nothing. Manager reports the same from the north side. I hear Teee and Blind talking about placing a sensor. I let them know that our sides are clear. Blind tells Teee to set the sensor down on the west side of the house. As he moves in I provide cover from the hill as Manager covers the front door. Teee’s in good hands. If anything so much as moves we’ve got them. The sensor goes down and we now have eyes inside the house. There’s several contacts. I move up now, we’re tightening the noose. Blind tells manager to use their GL’s on the house. Myself and Teee are going in. We enter the garage – I take position by the door. I turn to tell Teee to guard our six – he’s already there. These guys are pro’s – nothing needs to be said, it just gets done. I smile. We call in and show starts.
Holy ######! Don’t ever be by the door when Blind and Manager are nading – WooHoooo! The whole damn house is rocking. Huge bangs all around. Man I now know what it means to be at the epicentre of an earth quake. We got 12 on the Richter scale here and I’m doing all I can to keep on my feet. Should’ve taken more dancing classes. As soon as they nades stop we go in. I hate room clearing – or CQB as it is commonly referred. Nothing is like it. You know that from any direction, behind any box, a tango could suddenly pop out. The ‘nades got most of them but there’s still two left. In close quarters you have got to be on the ball. Concentration is 100%. Anything moves and it dies. A fly could ###### and I’d shoot it right now. We sweep the first floor – all clear. I slowly make my way downstairs. As I get to the bottom and round the corner I almost bump into a tango on the other side. I set my M16 to 3 bursts before we entered – I always do for CQB. Can’t take any chances at this range. It doesn’t matter though as this guy take all three at point blank. I let of another burst, 2 go into the woodwork as he moves and one catches him. Then we seem to go tit for tat.
Ok this needs a paragraph in itself to explain this one. I can’t tell you how weird this went. I’ve come down the stairs and shot him as I said above. My first burst hit him squarely but I only see half his body as the rest is covered. Only one bullet hit him from my second burst. So this guys had 4 bullets now, right? Ok so now he’s managed to bring his pistol (thank god it’s just a pistol) to bear on me and he starts firing. We’re at point blank remember. I take a hit, then another and then another. Whilst he’s shooting me I’m shooting him except I think his shots in my chest are putting off my aim cos I’m firing and he ain’t going down. Everything has gone into slow motion. It’s like we’re fighting in syrup, barely able to make fast movements. Each knowing that only one of us is going to live through this. Ha ha. I have my M16 – my LUCKY M16. I take a fourth bullet to the chest – I can count each one because from my point of view I’m getting shot once a second, well it feels that slow anyway. I let off another two bursts while he’s still shooting at me. Blood hits me in the face. I see a look of agony on his face, feel his final breath on my cheek as he is flung against the wall behind him. Time is once again running at normal speed. That whole fire fight took less than 2 seconds.
I’m in bloodlust mode. The objective targets, the drug lords, have been eliminated but there is one guy left. I hear Teee say something about leaving him. Poor guy has just seen me take 4 bullets to my chest. He probably thinks I’m not thinking straight. I’m not but I don’t care – I’m not leaving any survivors now. I just walk into the room and fire one 3 round burst. The guy drops. I feel cheated. Where was the battle I wanted? I was back in the days of the warrior. Where death was fought up close and personal. Something had awoken inside of me. It was soon laid to rest though. The ease of that last kill brought me back to the present.
Exiting the House things were not good. Manager was hit and hit bad. Him and blind had been fighting outside. When we got there it was all over. Blind was injecting morphine into managers arm. He mumbled something and then passed out. At least he wasn’t dead. Death of a buddy on the battle field is unfair. You just stand there for a few seconds looking at the body. There’s no time to mourn. No time to lay flowers or give a speech. It’s just a quick, mumbled ‘bad luck bud,’ and then it’s time to move again.
Our objectives were complete and it was time to extract. Teee took point and moved along the road north of the house. Myself and blind go high on the hill. After what seems like a few steps Teee reports contacts at the bridge which is close to extraction. I move up slowly. I am high on the hill and I am soon above them. They don’t see me. I count two, 1 more than Teee can see. I suggest this would be the perfect time for a GL. Blind gives the go ahead and I let them have one. Three bodies go down. Guess the other guy was hiding. Teee waits for us to join up with him before he moves out again on point. We hit the EP and secure it. We then go back and get Manager. He is still unconscious, probably a good thing. We call in the chopper and wait for the familiar sound of the blades above us.
As we leave the jungle behind, I reflect on our mission. It was a success. An outstanding success. It looked as though Manager was going to live for another day and another evil-doer was taken out. But what about my new found colleagues and of the famous |TG| unit? My team performed above my expectations. They kicked ###### against all odds. Credit goes to all three of them. Excellent leadership and excellent skills. Yeah these guys would do I think. I had respect for them. If these are the kind of soldier that makes up |TG| then I don’t think I have anything to worry about. I hear they got women too J
I close my eyes and smile. Once again the stink of the engines fill my nostrils but it is a comforting smell. I need a shower, some grub and a stiff drink. But first I need these damn slugs taken out of my chest.
I pat my M16/203. Her luck once again proven on the field of battle. Did I tell you how much I like her?
Jex.
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I dunno what all the fuss is about - I just went in their with 1 guy and a pistol. And it was on super elite level - a level only open to us l337 players
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Oh the joys of UBI!!
I'm guessing this is UBI - right?
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Let's keep em comming - I'm itching to read some other stories.
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aaaww thanks guys - brings a tear to my eye *sniff*
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Take it slow and move all your men up into good firing/covering positions.
If you put your guys on hold they will seek the nearest cover available, sometimes going where you don't want them too. If no cover then they should go prone.
You'll find that sometimes your men won't shoot even with a tango 30m in front of them.
Throwing grenades brings tango's to the point they were thrown from - not where they landed. Use this as a tactic for ambushing.
Play multiplayer with voice comm software - much more fun!
Good luck and have fun
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What the hell is a lone sniper doing on a recon missions to some crummy old castle in the middle of nowhere anyway? Against elite troops that out number me 60-1? I must've been crazy to accept this one.
Party time dude.
Even though I have no support I do have three things going for me. The first is that it is dark. Really dark - my night vision goggles barely penetrate the gloom in front of me. The second is my rifle - the SR25SD. Not the most powerful of rifles but considering the odds I could use the lower profile. Anyway - it doesn't really matter what rifle you use when you're shooting heads. The third of course is my skill. I'm not gonna spout all that 'I am the tree that bends in the breeze, the wolf spirit on the wind' crap. I am a sniper and if want you dead you're dead. Leave all that mysticism for the movies.
I'm inserted well clear of any patrols. There's a slight breeze from the north east but nothing to worry about. I'm not likely to be making any distance shots.
I scan 360 and wait until the noise of the chopper has receded. All I am left with is the noise of the woods. No animals call out but you can hear twigs falling off trees, leaves rustle in the breeze and my own breath. It is fast and shallow. I close my eyes and steady my breathing. I am calm now. My breathing is slow and steady. I open my eyes. It's time to move.
Moving crouched I use the trees and bushes as cover. Moving a few steps and then stopping. Careful never to get into a pattern. In this darkness I reckon I could pass within a few feet of the enemy and they wouldn't see me. However, I am in the woods - it will be lighter in open ground.
My first objective is a house on the south side of the castle. There's some intel there that needs collecting. I just hope the occupants are in a charitable mood - for their sake of course.
As I get to the edge of the woods I see the target house off in the distance. I bring up my scope and scan the area ahead. To the north is another house - I see no threat from there and it is probably too far away to worry about. There's a two many patrol around the back side of the house but nothing around the front. I move forward and settle myself into a low bush. I wait for the patrol at the back of the house to come into view. After a minute they appear and then stop in plain view. I target the rear guard. I aim for his neck hoping that without one he won't be able to scream. He drops but his friend is on the ball. He immediately hits the deck and starts to fire. He's out of my view though. He can't see me - he's spec firing. It doesn't matter to him, his friends will be along soon.
Speak the devils name and he shall appear!
Out the house, from both the south and west exits come soldiers. I start dropping them - one shot, one kill. I have them coming from 3 directions, all front though. The guy who originally started shooting stands up. I have a target comming towards me (does he not see me?) but I'm not letting my snitch get away. One bullet through the eye socket drops him down. The other guys is really close - his chest explodes and he hurtles back as the bullet catches his spine and launches him into the air.
And then as soon as it starts it is over. It is quiet, the leaves rustle in the breeze. I check the horizon ahead of me. No contacts. Then I hear the faint pad, pad, pad of footsteps behind me and to my left. They're coming from the direction of that house I chose to ignore earlier. Staying prone I turn myself around.
Out of the frying pan and straight into the fire.
There's five guys, no more than 15 feet from me. Amazingly they haven't seen me. I have no time to aim I just react and fire. The lead man drops. I can't wait to aim properly so I just open up. I spray five shots off in their general direction. I'm so glad this isn't bolt action. It's enough because they all run for cover. Three go down whilst they are digging in and the last guy is just bringing his rifle to bear on me when my bullet rips his lung out through the back of his chest.
I don't get a chance to stop because now the castle guards are out and they know where I am. Tracer fire rips over my head. There's too many of them to deal with and those bullets are gonna get me soon. I have to relocate. They're still far enough away to miss me so I stand and run for cover. Except I stand and a bullet rips through my neck. I'm flung to the floor.
I'm now bleeding. My jugular has been hit and I feel my life slowly ebbing away. I stare up into the night sky, only now do I hear the hum of my NV googles. As I lay there I think to myself...
I should've brought a pig.
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Anyone here ever play 'white tiger'?
If so does anymore need to be said lol
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Has anyone made a mission with say 12 tango's lined up, one in front of the other. You could then set your sniper up and see how many you can take down with one shot. I might try this tonight.
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Hmmm well if your story is one of triumph mine is one of disaster. The map where you have to blow up the to mobile artillery units with the village in the middle. I was at the very south edge of the map, in the middle. My friend was in the NW corner (probably 200-300M away). Anyway I shot a gl and aimed it too high and it went off into the fog. Next thing I see is soandso is dead - I hit him with that damn nade - I was stunned.
Jedi mind tricks perhaps?
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I think a lot of this ranting comes from having inexperience in GR and experience in other games. God knows I ranted too (as I think everyone has who started GR lol) and I know what you're saying. Sometimes they just get that shot off. Other times though I think players seem to forget the realism of GR when it is working well and think they can just side-step out a door, shoot a bad guy and side step back into cover.
In GR you open a door and go through it chances are you will die if there's a tango on the other side. Simply because in real-life if you opened a door and I was in there knowing bad guys where outside I'd shoot the 1st thing that came in. Same goes if your behind a rock, etc.
I agree that 200m pistol shot to the head in fog and force 9 winds is slightly pushing the realism
but on the whole GR is a completely different game and needs to be approached differently. I used to play RS and could clear the Tanker maps in about 3 or 4 minutes with a pistol on Elite. Not too realistic. Try that same method in GR and you'll be dead.One thing I will say, if you don't already, is play online with friends and get some comms going. Tacticalgamer.com (yes I had to plug it didn't I lol) is a game for realism players who like to use comms and work to a plan together. If you're into this sort of game play and not the rambo, run-n-gun style then come along sometime.
AOne last point. If you are playing the game on Elite skill level then you will find it harder because you have upped the enemy. On beginner is probably more of a breeze (though it still contains elite level tango's, but fewer than beginner) but where's the challenge in that?
Above all once you get used to the game (and it does take some getting used to) you'll find that you overcome your initial difficulties until one day you'll end up trying to remember what those problems where.
Jex
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Doesn't the fact that the weapons aren't that acurate have something to do with unloading a clip?
If your target is far away then it sometimes takes a lot of rounds before you get a kill or even a hit (even with your recticle straight on the guys head, etc).
Some players aren't that accurate though and do need to fire a few times to get a kill. Not everyone is a marksman. But the less skilled at shooting might be more skilled at stealth or other skills that give him an edge.
There is also the respawn mentality to. When does anyone run out of ammo? Practically never so no-one cares about shooting there entire load (hehe
). If you're going to get full ammo pack back when you die what's the point trying to be accurate when a full clip does the trick?Some limited ammo missions would be interesting to see.
J.
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BamBam, Apophis! - what you doin here?? - get back to TG this instant
you wait till i tell the others lol...
J
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nighty night
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I was thinking of doing that, but then I thought I would be jumping out of my car at traffic lights, rolling for cover behind a bush and shooting the postman, so I'll stick with the Stone Roses for now.
LMAO!!!
"Alpha team get out that damn bus and cover my flank!!"
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The 9 man team mysteriously appeared in the hallway of the compound. They only had two ways to go. We knew they're were tango's around both corners. Suddenly we were made. Shots rang out but we were pinned. Perfect time to throw a frag.
Priming the grenade I let it out. Weird - it disappeared as if some invisible hand had plucked it out the air. Just then the thought crossed my mind that perhaps the guy kneeling i front of me was a little too close...
BANG
The names of 7 of my (dead) team mates suddenly shot up on the screen. The other two were then killed by overwheloming forces.
Mission time?
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I run a pII400mhz celeron with a gefrorce 2 64mb card (£30/$26) and 256mb RAM, Win98. I have no problems running the game in SP though I do have my graphic options turned down.
I have no shadows what-so-ever and my graphics set to medium detail. The minimum spec is as follows;
PII 450Mhz
128mb Ram
16 MB Graphics Card.
1GB Disk Space
I only notice a slow down in performance when I play MP games (get rid of Show Dead Bodies and 0 bullet holes to increase performance). Saying this though it is only on certain maps in MP that it slows down. On the whole it's pretty good.
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What browser and version are you using? Also what is you monitor resolution set at (ie 800x600, 1024x768)?
My screen is set at 1152x864 and I have 2 inches clear each side of these posts that is just empty grey.
J.
PS - U should post questions like this in the technical section of this forum.
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have this team and this player reached puberty yet? Sounds like a bunch of children to me. Best leave these types well alone.
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Jex wrote:i can't find any mention of firing through walls
In my article I intentially left out the glitches where you can shoot through rocks and walls.
I know quite some spots where you can shoot through rocks and walls but I figured giving that kind of info publicly would be too much info for potential cheaters.
I see your point but disagree. Cheaters will find these out if they want to cheat. What you are doing here is on one hand good to limit cheating but bad for people like myself who would never cheat/glitch. Personally, well I'm not gonna say here what think of cheaters - suffice to say that I hate it/them.
By not posting that information here leaves us 'Honourable' players blind to what is going on. Having the knowledge would allow us to better spot these glitchers/cheaters. If we all know the glitch then we are better served to get them booted off the server. You could say that I could go in game and find these glitches for myself - but I don't play games to find glitches, it's not in my character. It would be apprecaited if you could email or pm me the full report.
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Going back to crater glitching, IF YOU SIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CRATER IT SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM. tHE PROBLEM STEMS FROM CRAWLING UP (Oops scuse caps - to far down the line now to delete and retype) to the edge of the crater where your barrel pokes out but your head is covered.
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for example, when you go prone and look 90 degrees to any direction, thats probably the worst profile you can give to tangos since you are perpindicular their line of fire. move forward a bit to get your profile aligned.
alternatively use the space bar and this will line your body to the direction your facing
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This link might help eleviate the problem. Click here
But not entirely
There is no bullet drop in the game.I know, just like the sniper rifles dont zoom in as realisticly in the game as the do in real life.
Sorry that was for Cajun's original question - I didn't see it answered anywhere.
LOL short post i know - but i've been throwing up at work all day and that's all I could manage (see - even in my weakened state I still have an interests in your posts guys (and girls? Do we have any here at GR
))J
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I play a racing sim called Grand Prix Legends that came out in '98. It still has a HUGE following. The graphics in the sim are improved so much, by people who just love it, that the cars are starting to look like photographs. I wouldn't worry about GR going away.
Proof exists that other games are played by the GR community!
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There is no bullet drop in the game.
Patience pays off
in GR War Journal
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LOL (this always opens up a whole can of worms)
So If I'm sniping and I happen to be covering a certain area, am I camping since I do not know where anyone is?