[quote]Or there's COD we're it shoots perfectly accurate no drop or anything and it takes one shot to drop.[/quote]It depends on your range and hit location. Not all snipers are one hit kills.

I'll say that both should be in the game. We're talking a variety of different tech on the battlefield. If we want to give this a real perspective, it's the difference between covenant sniper rifles and human ones. I'm not saying that anything should be cut along strait lines like that, but variety in weapon tech would be nice. I can snipe with both, but I have my own preferences like anyone else. In other words, give players both options so we can play to our preferences.

The thing is that Destiny isn't bullet based Damage, its shown to be Damage based bullets. And since it's a future game there will likely be no drop anyway due to scientific advancement. I imagine that it'll be more difficult to kill an enemy, however hitting them likely won't be a problem.

Halo 4 has a pretty satisfying mix of skill and assist.

IMO all types of gunplay should require skill. However we need to consider why sniping mechanics behave like they do in each game. Call of Duty is designed to be a fast paced run and gun style of gameplay where ballistics do not necessarily take effect due to small map size and fast reactions are extremely beneficial. The distances at which sniper rifles are used in that game would not incur any noticeable bullet trajectory changes, and [i]mostly[/i] adhere to real life kill potential. A sniper rifle shot to the waist up will take you down and out, if not kill you. However, people also complain about trickshotting and quickscoping, which of course does not make sense considering CoD's perceived image as a realistic military shooter. Nevertheless, this type of sniping takes far more skill than Battlefield's take on sniping despite what people want to believe. Actual mechanics of trickshotting do exist, we simply see more cases of lucky shots getting hyped by little kids wanting to get into Faze or something which obviously annoys the shit out of everyone. Now Battlefield has implemented excellent trajectory mechanics in their game, and these are effective due to the vast size of Battlefied's maps. Don't lie to me about bullet drop existing when you stand 100m away from somebody with your zeroing set to 0m and simply aim at the head. I will admit to being a fan of this form of sniping mechanics over CoD's as they require you to take into account various range factors when taking far shots and being rewarded with that 1000m headshot, but, and this is a big but, hitting a shot like that from a .308 rifle should kill you. In no way will somebody continue sprinting full speed after getting their intestines ripped out by the SRR. This 2-3 shot kill is used for balancing mechanics where a sniper can simply sit in a bush and take people out undetected for half a game. It is a very good system, but a different one. Halo has its own mechanics, where it takes 2 body shots to kill, but it is offset with no bullet drop, as well as having the sniper rifle shoot with precision accuracy even without scoping. [b]Tl;Dr[/b] All three games actually require their own type of skill-based sniping, so please do not simply lump something as either a CoD mode or a Battlefield mode based on how many shots it takes to kill somebody. Every type of gunplay a Guardian wishes specialize in should test their abilities to the utmost.

I've always like the bullet time on battlefield, really makes sniping a skill. Tho from what I hear the pvp maps for Destiny wont be big enough for significant bullet time skill. You'd shoot for the nose on a side moving target and get a headshot which would probably compensate for people who didn't have the reaction time to pull the trigger when passing the crosshairs over their head, it make sniping easy in my opinion. For pve it would be awsome for real long range Target.