DUST Search - Lets talk about Sniper Rifles

Sgt Kirk wrote:

2100 Angels wrote:

Sgt Kirk wrote:

I'm not saying the weapon is OP. I'm saying the weapon is too easy to use. Like too many other weapons in this game.
We need to start rewarding players based on their capacity and not just because they can spam a button.

have you even used it? If so, how many kills did you get and how helpful were you to your team? If you think its easy you're either an incredibly coordinated fps gamer or a moron, and I'm willing to bet it's not the former. I'm sick of seeing this judgement get thrown around like nobodies business, especially when the people who are doing it have strapped into a sniper suit once, maybe twice. Complaining about things like this is the reason why we can never have nice things

Use it a damn lot get out of here ****.

Like a poster here mentioned earlier I want this weapon to be associated with skill. Not guys that are poor at this game It's easy to tell between the ones that are actually good with this weapon and saying it's fine and the people that are scared to lose the only weapon they can use without dying.

I could make several points with other weapons but this is a sniper rifle thread discussing the sniper rifle, not wanting to nerf it, not wanting to buff it.


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Operative 1171 Aajli Bragian Order Amarr Empire 120	Posted - 2013.08.12 23:38:00 - [1] - Quote I'm a sniper and I love to snipe. I love redline sniping if it is beneficial. Sometimes it can be. I move around where I can be useful and have be useful. I'd like to see sniping nerfed so that only those who have skilled into it can benefit though. Make it like an actual rifle for sniping (there is no such thing as a sniper rifle in RL) only a rifle that is good for long range shots and therefore gets adopted as a sniper rifle. Make it single shot and then you have to reload. Make it more powerful per shot. Make the skills give the rifle it's power and usefulness. Allow for better identification of specific targets so a squad leader can mark a target that is being especially tough and the sniper can do what a sniper's job is mainly for GÇö to take out specific, hard targets.
Operative 1171 Aajli Bragian Order Amarr Empire 127	Posted - 2013.08.13 01:09:00 - [2] - Quote calvin b wrote: I love my sniper rifle. I just started to really build a silent killing machine. I mean I am really going hardcore ninja here. I use my proto suit and my Thale yes I said Thale sniper rifle and I go huntin wabbit. SHHHHHH be very very quite. Leave the weapon alone, what is wrong with players always wanting to change things. Leave it be unless it has a problem that prevents it from working like a glitch. If it works leave it the F alone and I must say it is only one of a few that works the correct way. I gave up my proto Heavy because of the glitches that is why I went sniper. LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
Operative 1171 Aajli Bragian Order Amarr Empire 127	Posted - 2013.08.13 01:13:00 - [3] - Quote Sgt Kirk wrote: 2100 Angels wrote: Sgt Kirk wrote: I'm not saying the weapon is OP. I'm saying the weapon is too easy to use. Like too many other weapons in this game. We need to start rewarding players based on their capacity and not just because they can spam a button. have you even used it? If so, how many kills did you get and how helpful were you to your team? If you think its easy you're either an incredibly coordinated fps gamer or a moron, and I'm willing to bet it's not the former. I'm sick of seeing this judgement get thrown around like nobodies business, especially when the people who are doing it have strapped into a sniper suit once, maybe twice. Complaining about things like this is the reason why we can never have nice things Use it a damn lot get out of here ****. Like a poster here mentioned earlier I want this weapon to be associated with skill. Not guys that are poor at this game It's easy to tell between the ones that are actually good with this weapon and saying it's fine and the people that are scared to lose the only weapon they can use without dying. I could make several points with other weapons but this is a sniper rifle thread discussing the sniper rifle, not wanting to nerf it, not wanting to buff it. I'm ok with people criticizing me as a sniper when all I have to say is "I LOVE sniping, sorry". I don't like getting lumped into a critique of people who snipe to stay out of a fight. The skill base would allow for this differentiation. As it is sniping is VERY tedious. It isn't exactly easy mode. However, it is easy for people to just grab the fitting and go and do a decent job. The thing that makes a sniper a good sniper or a real sniper is all the other things in addition to the sniping. i.e. scouting and providing intel, holding down a specific area, ninja hacking, droplink support.
Operative 1171 Aajli Bragian Order Amarr Empire 510	Posted - 2013.10.06 16:02:00 - [4] - Quote DildoMcnutz wrote: I don't have much issue with the sniper rifle, the idea that once the racial variants are in the caldari ones will all charge is pretty cool. Thales in the redline however, it really is just a d!ck move Carlos Hathcock, the king of the d*ck move. It's even in his name! BTW redline=a simplified version of the unlikelihood of finding a sniper that would be dressed in a ghillie suit, laying in the prone flat position. Or, in my case a fence line down in GTMO (with a mine field too!). Until then I will consider the redline the in-game equivalent. Besides, in theheat of battle, no one is going to send someone off to a far flung hill to look for a sniperGÇª just sayin' How you sayGÇª Adapt or die?