I was watching a trailer from the game Sniper Ghost Warrior 2, and I wanted to comment my opinion regarding how bad this game will be if City Interactive don't fix their major mistake from the first game, which was making a Sniper focused game that had nothing about snipers at all! Then I posted a comment agreeing with the comment of a colleague when he started trying to show me how he's experienced in his "military career"

link of the video: http://www.gamespot.com/sniper-ghost-warrior-2/videos/sniper-ghost-warrior-2-the-sarajevo-urban-combat-trailer-6378130/#lf_comment=26587330

Read my conversation with him below, and take your own conclusions:

DITHRICH commented:

Not sniper talk..... In training they teach to squeeze the trigger never pull! Snipers in gaming are never like real living ones, this are shallow, low life's who blow sh*t up..... At sniper school they teach you to push your emotions down but never to be a loose cannon or to take video game shots at fuel tanks. hopefully, this game like the other will show better thinking at its next trailer or at the game itself...

dalua360 in reply to DITHRICH:

Once more City Interactivy showed their huge lack of knowledge about what is to be a real sniper, and this is a sign that this game will fail again like the first one! I wish not, because I would love a sniper exclusive game, but I don't see that coming at all! This is all COD and BF3's fault, they set this stupid base line and now everyone wants to follow that! Not that I don't like COD or BF3, but it's time to have something like ARMA or even better, it would be awesome to merge the destruction of BF games with the cinematic of COD games in a game that is more realistic like ARMA. There is even a mod where you need to dial your clicks on the scope to compensate wind and gravity! Long range shooting isn't 300 yds, it's more like 1500 yds or more!

DITHRICH in reply to dalua360:

First of all i said noting about the game being a fail, unrealistic sniper experience sure but not a fail. and by the way, snipers use the metric system, even Americans, me myself took part in many military operations involving recon, package security and clearing hostiles, 300 yds thats like 250-270m? its not cqb it is a range for a marksman with a scoped rifle or a grenade launcher. its not long range but its mid range since assault rifles become useless with out optics or marksmanship abilities from 200m, snipers come to the picture from a long range and or usually they go first, clean the area and then provide support for the on going team and even join them. marksman provide cover, snipers are the front line in urban areas or a semi "jungle" area. the only thing i wish for Ci's games that they will dig deep although i enjoy there games, i get disappointed from there lack of study, mainly graphics showing engine, and no depth. Hopefully i am wrong, i wish i was wrong a lot....

dalua360 in reply to DITHRICH:

Hey buddy you're talking with a former marine here, everyone here knows that, so I just don't understand what is wrong about my opinon? I used the yds system to make easier to understand to US people. I can make shots at 250m to 300m without scope if you want, how do you think the past wars were fought? With trijicon scopes? lol. But that's not important, I was agreeing with you, I just gave my opinion, there's no need to get all worked up about my comment!!! By the way, Marine recon or sniper don't clean the area like your saying, it's more of a 0311 job, we overwatch and pass intel to our OC giving support if needed after the situation deteriorates. If you're talking about ARMY, then it's a different thing. Like I said, it's just my opinion about a good game, because if you like 300m shots, you don't need a new game, there is plenty of them at your disposal already.

DITHRICH in reply to dalua360:

I am sorry mr former marine sir(semper fi), alloow me to introduce my self, former IDF warrior for the 7th armor division recon and surveillance, currently joined the British special forces, i never said anything about the marines. In my line of work i do not babysit ground forces, i give intel of the area, as well as you blokes do. and back at the day of ww2 many "snipers" didn't even had any scopes......a well know sniper known as "the white death" used his iron sight for distances. all i was saying is that even with Americans we used the metric system. If you think i offended you by my comment Mr jar head, i am sorry since i didn't mean to. call of duty is an example for "cqb sniping", at least battlefield tries a wee bit. and in my line of work i have cleared many sectors with the help of my team. we usually send a scout in, the scout is armed lightly with a rifle, a pistol, coms and etc. We only "eliminate" HVT's on our own and lets say this is risky line of work. me myself not long ago gat shot in the leg what leaves me here.

dalua360 in reply to DITHRICH:

And again, I must say that I agreed with you from the first time, so, your need to show up your military knowledge is totally unnecessary here, there was no reason for that type of explanation in our discussion, because I didn't say anything against your first statement or anything wrong, I just wanted a game with long range capabilities, and you started to teach me tactical approaches of 300m snipers?? Long range shooting means more than 1000m and I quote you "in my line of work". I don't see coherence in this discussion, which was about having a good realistic military game focused on the sniper role. I just don't understand why you started this whole talking about your skills. I didn't even say what I was or what I do now and you suddenly assumed that I had to be taught? I suggest to you Mr British Special Forces to save your rich military knowledge to military forums, or ask people if they want to learn something new from your vast experience before starting this extense recruiting class. [sigh]

DITHRICH in reply to dalua360:

well i thought yanks like hearing something about proper military work? nahh i am kidding, i enjoy seeing your work. and your absolutely positively right, games do need some long range shooting, but there comes the problem in making a game fun and realistic, they usually don't go together.

Conclusion:Proper military work? pfff. In my opinion this guy is a kid trying to show off his knowledge learned from the Hollywood movies.