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Quote[/b] (Ironside @ Mar. 21 2004,03:53)]But it can get quite annoying sometimes, when I ran CoD with some friends, we had to ban the sniper rifle, thankss to that it was the most effective weapon, so all players ended up with it. And to point out I aren't even good at sniping and it was still the best weapon. And it isn't funny when all runs around with snipers.

It's a good weapon, but it can get a very high annoyence factor somtimes.
When you get yourself among experienced players, it's not. My friend's clan server also forbids snipers, but this other clan server does not; I rarely see someone using snipers, and those are mostly noobs. Experienced players (I am not one of them, but I imitate them well from time to time, thank you very much) go for rifles at the beginning of the match and after kill or two they pick up machine gun for real close quarters combat. Sniper is a drag, while rifle is precise as hell and gives you more maneuvering and firing space, and the snipers vision field is extremely narrow.

BTW, I just love to outflank some overzealous n00b sniper and beat the hell out of him with the gun melee attack.