Is sniping too easy?

[Potshot]

I feel sniping is too easy in MW3 Multiplayer. Players get sniped from, what seem like, impossible angles. When you watch the replay, a lot of the time the crosshairs are not even on the target - just very close. I also play Battlefield, and the sniping is more realistic in that game. Your crosshairs actually have to be on the target. I know CoD has always taken a more arcadey approach to gameplay, but I feel the sniping needs to be reviewed. Thoughts anyone?

Guys/Gals, please don't start a war over this. This is just my opinion, and I'm genuinely interested in a mature debate.

 

[StandardAmerican]

my beef is with the unrealistic ballistics...strafing doesnt even cause a flinch in the enemy player...no ballistic shield can stop a .50 bmg round, yet in this game it does and one can also kill another plyer by simply pushing his shield at the opposing player...utter nonsense

 

[StandardAmerican]

while I'm on a soap box, I also have a problem with players in team games not playing like a team member, for instance, sacrificing a teammate just to get a melee kill when you could have killed him from a distance...also, when I'm shooting a sniper that's lying prone and I'm hitting him in the only part of the body that's exposed, his head and shoulders, how is it that the sniper doesnt flinch and can shoot back accurately and get a one shoot kill, more nonsense...another is how can a mine explode with the guy that set it right next to me and it kills me and he is unharmed, more utter nonsense

 

[Carlos]

while I'm on a soap box, I also have a problem with players in team games not playing like a team member, for instance, sacrificing a teammate just to get a melee kill when you could have killed him from a distance...also, when I'm shooting a sniper that's lying prone and I'm hitting him in the only part of the body that's exposed, his head and shoulders, how is it that the sniper doesnt flinch and can shoot back accurately and get a one shoot kill, more nonsense...another is how can a mine explode with the guy that set it right next to me and it kills me and he is unharmed, more utter nonsense

Always been like that.

Hit detection has also been a long-time point of contention. In fact, if what you're saying is true, then the marketing for the body detection is broken.