Yes! Since the Barrett .50cal fires, what else, .50 caliber anti-tank rounds, then it also deals incredible damage to soft targets. Your statement about it not causing a "critical wound" because its like a stone is completely wrong. Larger bullets generally cause immense tissue damage and also leaves a massive exit wound, resulting in an evitable death. In short, larger bullets has more stopping power than smaller bullets. The intervention shoots a .408 round, whereas the Barrett shoots the .50 caliber round, so once again, why is it that the Intervention almost always results in a one shot kill and the .50cal doesn't? Im calling for a fix!
Slower bullets cause a larger exit wound. The loss in momentum increases time within the body before exit. The slower rate of movement means tissue causes a greater disruption. Hollow-points cause stopping power. The speer design of a bullet is 100 years old and was purely designed so that bullets could travel as far as possible and cause maximum damage to as many people. They were not designed to put any single man reliably to the ground. 305 gr (19.8 g) 3,500 ft/s (1,100 m/s) 8,298 ft·lbf (11,251 J) 647 gr (41.9 g) 3,044 ft/s (928 m/s) 13,144 ft·lbf (17,821 J) .408 travels faster than .50. Bullet dip would be much greater on the .50 cal. There are 2 things not included in MW2. Both would have a negligable effect on such small maps, but you are arguing that the 50. cal is underpowered. It is used to shoot out engine blocks, so you should be happy you can take off heads with it.
The intervention and the barret are very identical sniper rifles I personally use the intervention but for other cases, sometimes I use the barret. I think the main difference between the two is that the intervention seems very light and with seight of hand pro on it, it feels like a smg. The barret on the other hand doesn't give me this feeling. So I think the difference is that one seems like a very light and easy mobilized sniper rifle and the other one feels like its more powerful ( although it isn't) and heavy sniper rifle. Of course the stats however just say that the difference basically is the accuracy and that the intervention is bolt action and the barret isn't.
I like the intervention over the .50 cal because it seems to have less of a recoil. However, I greatly prefer a silenced EBR over both of these.
I use Intervention more often than the Barret but I've found quick scoping with a acog on Barret pretty good. For reliability i would use the Intervention since its usually a one shot kill with stopping power but going stealth i would use Barret FMJ and a suppressor (Intervention with a suppressor in non-hardcore is ****) EBR M21 ftw
I hate the other sniper rifles, they're for noobs not confident with their sniper. I literally seen people fire off 3 to 5 shots before killing someone. The only true snipers that challenges your skills as a sniper is the .50cal and Intervention. .50cal still rapes, I'd prefer it than anything. The "fake" recoil really isnt that bad once you get use to fire it, plus, as long as you have stopping power on, most of your kills will be one shot kills, especially on the upper body...
i quickscope just becuz that IS how i snipe. ive barely played mw2 (only borowed, neva owned) and someone juss let me borow cod4. i wuzz da person OBSESSED with ARs until I started fooling around with other primaries. Once I got to sniping, it was so weird. I'm so sure the first kill I got was a quickscope. It just felt natural. It felt like that was the easiest and most fun (aka the BEST) way for me to get kills with a sniper. I got some hardscope kills, but to me, that seems much harder (plus, it takes SO LONG to move the damn crosshairs while ADS). I've just recently have been getting good enuf to have a positive k/d in a match, so i'd like to think that im going somewhere with it. all in all, i basically quickscope because (to me) it is THE best way to snipe, not becuz im a stupid dumb**** tryin to get montage clips (and i dont even HAVE a capture card!) OT: OP, ur filipino, me too! kewl! nd bak on topic: i prefer (i guess) intervention. guys, if u r a good quick scoper nd u r used to the cod4 bolt actions, which sniper is betr? cuz then, that would most likely be my favorite.
Guys, besides the barret used for sniping, the barret is used my US military personel to blow up tank engines, through the tank. through, the, tank. through. the. tank. And we all know, tank beats everything.
Bullshit. The tanks you have that have been updated to modern specifications have depleted unanium plates, and nothing in hell will ever get through them. It's all down to density.
For those of you saying the Barrett is hard to quickscope with, I disagree entirely, If you throw an ACOG, or a Thermal Scope on it, and have a higher sensitivity then it is essentially just scope move boom. I use BOTH the Intervention and The Barrett, I just like the Intervention because as previously stated it is VERY satisfying to kill someone with a Bolt Action rifle, and it is the only Bolt action in the entire game, AND I have loved the Intervention for years now, I was happy to see it finally go into a video game. My thoughts) Intervention: Easy Full-Scope Quick Scoping Satisfying Kills Great Accuracy Good for No-Scoping Barrett: Great Short-Scope Quick Scoping Semi Auto Can be a Life Saver (Spray and Pray) Satisfying Sound Effects. The only thing that gives the Intervention a little more win over the Barrett is that the Barrett has ludicrous recoil. --- Nuke, shall, get, through, Tank.... And I am Pretty Sure the Roufuss (Spelling?) round would dominate a tank.
so many single digit posters have been hitting up the MW2 threads recently. on topic- i view the intervention as a trainer sniper. i use it because it MAKES me hit my shots. the barret. 50 cal and other snipers encourage you to try try try again. if you are confident enough with a sniper, than a semi-auto isnt neccesary. i want to hit my shots, so i use the intervention to avoid spraying. it also feels like it one hit kills people more often.
just a quick note, people need to stop using the phrase "automatic one hit kill". i quick scope w/ an intervention FMJ a lot and get SOOO many hitmarkers it's not funny
there is no such thing as automatic 1 hit kill. unless you are using FMJ stopping power hardcore mode.
The Barrett .50cal is an overpowered piece of s**t. I close quarters if you have rapid fire just unleash hell, then at long range just pick someone off in one bullet. I have a hacked class that goes as follows: M21 EBR (FMJ) ACR (Silenced) Intervention Scavenger (Pro) Stopping Power (Pro) Steady Aim (Pro) Cold Blooded It is really effective. 2 snipers and an assault rifle.
Pretty sure you can't have rapid fire on a 50.cal. and what's the point of hacked classes. It doesn't do anything but give you an unfair advantage. Can't the game just be played how it's meant to be?
I treat the intervention the same as the Barret, althoguh I use the Barret. Honetly people they are both the same for quickscoping. I play 5 sensitivity and either have thermal or default sight on, and I do great and noscoping. Also I know it sounds really stupid but alot of people I know who fight about this very topic say they like the Barret rather then the Intervention or the Intervention rather then the Barret because of the different noises that they both make. Im 3rd prestige and have like 2500 kills with Barret and actually 0 will Intervention so im not much to argue though, lol.