Metal Gear Solid 4 -- Pick Your Play Style [Sniper]

[TheEnd1500]

I LOVE SNIPING IN THIS GAME!!!!

[Mazryonh]

I'm amazed that the VSS takes so many hits to kill the PMC troopers. Aren't the 9x39mm rounds it fires supposed to be one of the best kinds at penetrating ballistic armour?

[chiconspiracy]

@Mazryonh

Traditionally the soldiers are kind of damage sponges in metal gear games. In Snake Eater, when you use the Dragonov, it takes something like 3 chest shots to kill a guy wearing NO body armor.

[Mazryonh]

@chiconspiracy There is an exception in MGS2, however. Shoot both arms or both legs of an enemy soldier and they'll immediately keel over and die for no real reason, even if their limbs were armoured. Armour is strangely useless in the MGS series in some ways--the FROGs in MGS4 and the Arsenal Tengus in MGS2 both wear gas masks, but this provides no protection from gas nades or the coolant spray in MGS2, respectively.

[chiconspiracy]

@Mazryonh

A common video game mechanic unfortunately. Sniper rifles often do more far more damage than rifles without a scope, even if the caliber is the same.

[Mazryonh]

@chiconspiracy I find it pretty awful that you can mount a scope on the M14 EBR in this game, but you can't rip that same suppressor from that rifle and stick on the FAL Carbine/G3A3/Mk. 17 in this game despite the fact that all those rifles are the exact same caliber as the M14 EBR. Too bad.

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@Mazryonh

I'd just be happy if you could put a round into someone's center mass, hitting their spine, or heart for example, and it would drop them realistically.

[Mazryonh]

@chiconspiracy Actually, in MGS2, you can instantly drop unarmoured soldiers with a shot to the heart or to the crotch, as well as the usual headshot. It's pretty funny to do, actually.

[chiconspiracy]

@Mazryonh

Lol, I do remember the crotch shot from mgs3, 2 I haven't played for so long, I don't remember.

[TheEnd1500]

@Mazryonh i love shootin them by the stairs cause they roll down them or when they lean over a ledge and u shoot, they just fall right over it lol

[greengreens9]

@Mazryonh Yeah I remember shooting their feet in MGS2 and Twin Snakes, I always wondered why they died like that.

Pretty bad programming.

[mantis6907]

@starevan38 Thanks for the info

[mantis6907]

were can i get this sniper?

[guitarsly111]

@mantis6907 its just a bit further on in one of the crates I think, just search in google MGS4 VSS. Prob be a walkthrough

[mantis6907]

@guitarsly111 thanks