An actual sniper rifle plz!!

[26kmansp]

Unless the article is wrong in pcgamer, the crossbow is the ONLY weapon with a scope. Well, this is.... kinda gay. Come on!!! We got all these cool weapons, and the only weapon that can zoom in and fire is the crossbow?!?!? I already got the crossbow and am pretty dissapointed. What got me excited is when there was a sniper at that rail station and I could see a blue laser light searching the area. Now THAT would have been awesome to get.
Someone tell me that there's more than this crossbow for sniping.

 

[Maynard-]

Could always put the alpha sniper rifle back in....

 

[26kmansp]

what is the alpha sniper rifle? In any case, an actual gun would be nice.

 

[Maynard-]

The sniper rifle that was in the alpha version of HL2 is what I meant. It fired one shot per reload, some sort of massive anti-tank round.

 

[Foxtrot]

What is wrong with the crossbow? You probably suck with it that is all.

 

[mortiz]

There were less weapons in Half-Life 2 which was a bit surprising (if I remember correctly), it's almost as if VALVe tried to streamline Half-Life 2, I'm also wondering why they took the decision to get rid of the Hydra, don't get me wrong, I think Half-Life 2 is great, it's just these little niggling things.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Unless the article is wrong in pcgamer, the crossbow is the ONLY weapon with a scope. Well, this is.... kinda gay. Come on!!! We got all these cool weapons, and the only weapon that can zoom in and fire is the crossbow?!?!? I already got the crossbow and am pretty dissapointed. What got me excited is when there was a sniper at that rail station and I could see a blue laser light searching the area. Now THAT would have been awesome to get.
Someone tell me that there's more than this crossbow for sniping.

You should pay respect to the crossbow. In the first game, it was:
Silent (Marines did not have time to call the others as they did not here it coming)
Deadly (one bolt would kill a marine)
Accurate (With the scope an all)

 

[Maskirovka]

the crossbow is basically a sniper rifle with a different skin, sound, and reload time/animation. i don't understand the problem...you just want a different sound and skin? not to mention the fact that the crossbow pins people to walls...and with the physics, that's freakin cool.

 

[PvtRyan]

The crossbow is a sniper rifle which actually requires some patience and skill (at moving targets in the distance).

 

[Maskirovka]

The crossbow is a sniper rifle which actually requires some patience and skill (at moving targets in the distance).

yeah the slow movement thing...

i guess i just don't understand why the "shoot a guy who isn't moving and isn't aware of your presence" gameplay is fun at all.

also, the parts where the enemies have sniper rifles...i'd absolutely hate those parts if i was trying to snipe them the whole time....god it's so much cooler to have to use the grav gun to carry things that block their shots and run around crazily dashing from cover to cover.

 

[Mr Neutron]

I agree with that a sniper rifle in sp would just be redundent with the crossbow. Why though can't you fire most weapons when zoomed in? I don't get that. It's not like any of them are accurate at all (except the pistol). Also, the zoom key should have an option to be used as a toggle.

 

[Tkmaster]

i like the crossbow... its sufficient with the added bonus of pinning them to the wall

 

[Biscuit]

Crossbow is awesome, what's cooler than running a current through a bar of iron and then hurling it through the air, glowing hot, into someone?

 

[jtardiou]

That's what CS:S is for