Planned sniper and knife fixes in next few updates

[Anon. E. Moose]

* Increased headshot multipliers for sniper rifles. Sniper rifles with suppressors equipped will now always be ensured one-shot kill headshots.
* Subtle increase in sniper rifle accuracy when scoping in.

As for the knife, Vahn had this to say.

“We’ve made some changes to the knife tunables that will be available in the next game update.

We are not currently planning to remove the lunge, make the knife a 2 hit kill in the front, or make you pull it out to use it. These are all good community suggestions that are appropriate for a future game that has a Barebones or Pure version.

That said, after thinking about a bit more, it seemed reasonable that we could do additional (and larger) experiments on the lunge and swipe ranges and see how they play out.”

The only thing that needs to be fixed with the knife is the auto-aim.

Snipers are pretty moot in Black Ops, compared to previous CoD games. The only map I've noticed snipers being remotely useful is Radar...

Edit: Sorry, here's the source.

[mazmatt]

he only thing that needs to be fixed with the knife is the auto-aim.

Umm no the auto aim I don't care about as much as the half map lunge which is total BS.

OK slight exaggeration but for people to arm themselves with lightweight/XXXX/marathon or ninja and run,jump and prone all over the place and be up there score wise at the end of the round is a joke.

It should be a last resort weapon and its range should be no more than 4 - 6 feet at maximum, currently seems more like 10 feet.

[Jez]

he only thing that needs to be fixed with the knife is the auto-aim.

Umm no the auto aim I don't care about as much as the half map lunge which is total BS.

OK slight exaggeration but for people to arm themselves with lightweight/XXXX/marathon or ninja and run,jump and prone all over the place and be up there score wise at the end of the round is a joke.

It should be a last resort weapon and its range should be no more than 4 - 6 feet at maximum, currently seems more like 10 feet.

It is 10 feet, 10 ingame feet anyway. They're reducing it to 7 in next patch. Have already done so on console versions. Though given the faster reaction/aiming time given on the PC version by using the mouse, I'm not sure whether implementing the same balance changes is good.