Why go into Team Snipers, when you want to play Team Pistols?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
IF YOU WANT TO USE PISTOLS, PLAY ANNIVERSARY. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
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I never understood why pistols and grenades were in a playlist called team SNIPERS.
I agree. A lot of sniper matches end up as handgun and beatdown-fests.
Perhaps ditch the pistol altogether? A single weapon playlist? Outrageous!
I only saw the pistol in Team Snipers for the double tap Y to zoom out, but in Reach you zoom out when you press Y so it is redundant to keep pistols in Snipers.
grenades have always been on every single team snipers playlist to date its just that reach is so broken to the point where grenades are actually miniature nuclear devices and the fact that you can’t jump but 1 foot so you can’t ever avoid them. I agree about the pistols though.
> I only saw the pistol in Team Snipers for the double tap Y to zoom out, but in Reach you zoom out when you press Y so it is redundant to keep pistols in Snipers.
I do like being able to “Y-Y”… but I never use the pistol in Snipers. So whack.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/careerstats/weapons.aspx?player=poppin%20curbs&vc=3&pf=111
214 is hardly never but still a pretty low amount.
i use it after i miss all 4 rounds. i would rather kill someone then die during reload.
> > I only saw the pistol in Team Snipers for the double tap Y to zoom out, but in Reach you zoom out when you press Y so it is redundant to keep pistols in Snipers.
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> I do like being able to “Y-Y”… but I never use the pistol in Snipers. So whack.
I didn’t notice this much in the normal Team Snipers playlist, but when I play Anniversary Classic and Anniv. Snipers gets selected, that’s another story. I played some Anniv. Snipers a few days ago and all people did was use the Anniv. Pistol against me, not even sniping.
All Team Snipers gametypes need to use only the Sniper Rifle, with no grenades or pistols. Isn’t that the reason for the playlist name? Now that I think about it, it makes sense why Shotty Snipers isn’t in Team Snipers.
I agree. They should put either a DMR or Shotgun. I’m sick of all the “around the corner” sniping.
In the Anniversary edition the pistol practically is a sniper rifle with a doubled magazine capacity! It doesn’t belong in a sniper-specific gametype.
As mentioned above, the pistol ends up being used way more than the rifle, and if you do use the rifle then it turns into a beat down fest, not sniping in anyway.
I think part of the problem is the extreme lack of true sniping maps (in general, but specifically on the sniper playlist).
Sniping requires distance and stealth, not pistols, grenades, beat downs, sprinting at an opponent and no-scoping.
Lets face it, if you remove the pistol, all those would-be pistol deaths will become beatdowns. People will simply sprint at you for the beatdown kill. But if you look at it like that then I guess you could say that the pistol in Team Snipers is a long range beatdown. (A simple action used to quickly kill an injured opponent)
I used to get mad at every pistol user to, until I realized how easily a skilled player can kill them with the sniper. Then I started messing with anyone who used a pistol in snipers by acting like I was a noob and wasting the first 3 shots before no-scoping them. 
But… But… the only time I ever play snipers is on the the Anniversary playlist…