DUST Search - Rooftop combat balancing

Interplanetary Insanitarium wrote:

excillon wrote:

I agree. I put in a post last week about making sniping more difficult. Make them use dropshots like BF3 if they want to hug the rooftops, make it harder for them to land a shot. If it's an energy weapon like the charge sniper rifle, make it lose energy at greater distances, ,meaning by the time the shot hits you on the ground, it does half the damage or something like that.

I guess CCP could disallow spawn beacons above ground level, and nanohives. That would make them run out of bullets eventually.

Either way, something has to be done about it, I can name 4 users I see every weekend that do nothing but that same tactic over and over. People always remind me Dust is about risk. Well, what are they risking then by sitting way up there?

I'm assuming they're sniping and not AV... Counter snipe if you see their names in the lobby or use a dropship... and the snipers are rail guns, like the forge gun which shoots metal slugs at 7,000 m/s, so in the distances that the sniper rifle can engage at (definitely within 7 km) There would be little to no drop off of the projectile.

And if you keep running into the same people doing the same thing it should be easy for you to gat them back.


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excillon united we stand x 16	Posted - 2013.08.14 08:05:00 - [1] - Quote I agree. I put in a post last week about making sniping more difficult. Make them use dropshots like BF3 if they want to hug the rooftops, make it harder for them to land a shot. If it's an energy weapon like the charge sniper rifle, make it lose energy at greater distances, ,meaning by the time the shot hits you on the ground, it does half the damage or something like that. I guess CCP could disallow spawn beacons above ground level, and nanohives. That would make them run out of bullets eventually. Either way, something has to be done about it, I can name 4 users I see every weekend that do nothing but that same tactic over and over. People always remind me Dust is about risk. Well, what are they risking then by sitting way up there?
excillon united we stand x 16	Posted - 2013.08.14 09:08:00 - [2] - Quote Interplanetary Insanitarium wrote: excillon wrote: I agree. I put in a post last week about making sniping more difficult. Make them use dropshots like BF3 if they want to hug the rooftops, make it harder for them to land a shot. If it's an energy weapon like the charge sniper rifle, make it lose energy at greater distances, ,meaning by the time the shot hits you on the ground, it does half the damage or something like that. I guess CCP could disallow spawn beacons above ground level, and nanohives. That would make them run out of bullets eventually. Either way, something has to be done about it, I can name 4 users I see every weekend that do nothing but that same tactic over and over. People always remind me Dust is about risk. Well, what are they risking then by sitting way up there? I'm assuming they're sniping and not AV... Counter snipe if you see their names in the lobby or use a dropship... and the snipers are rail guns, like the forge gun which shoots metal slugs at 7,000 m/s, so in the distances that the sniper rifle can engage at (definitely within 7 km) There would be little to no drop off of the projectile. And if you keep running into the same people doing the same thing it should be easy for you to gat them back. Ah the realism argument. Keep in mind that we're playing a game with clones, energy weapons, spaceships, etc. I think realism went out the window a while ago. I do see your point, and understand the physics quite well. However, the point is something needs to be done. It was merely a suggestion to allow the people that do it to keep doing it, just make them work for it more. It is getting a bit tired and out of hand. And I do counter snipe, however, I don't regularly play as a sniper, I dabble in it only because i have the covenant rifle. I mainly run assault. However, I think my no uplink/nanohive above a certain height idea is decent though. That way they have to come down at some point, or miss out on kills and become useless to their team.