There's been several heated discussions lately about tower sniping (mostly of the forge gun variety). Now in some cases the weapons do need some tweaking (ahem assault forge gun) but on the whole the problem is not the weapons, the suits, the players or the gear - it is the fact that many of the rooftops are such perfect sniping perches.

If you have a wide flat surface a hundred meters up, you create the following situation:
1) Only one way to get there - dropship
2) Once up there, only 2 infantry weapons can get range on you
3) Players are only visible at the edge of the roof
4) Roofs typically have view over at least 3/4 of the map

This results in the recent problems we have all been experiencing with tower forge gunners - they have the range and damage to get kills all over the place and any time anyone manages to get a hit on them, they just back away from the edge to rep and they're entirely safe. A lucky sniper might get off two quick headshots or a very lucky forge gunner on the ground might get that one direct hit to take him out but otherwise you're only hope is to fly a dropship up there and drop in on him - unfortunately, it is extremely easy to see a dropship coming in and take it out before it even gets a few meters off the ground.

The answer however, is not to change anything with forge guns or dropships or snipers or anything like that - what we need is better designed rooftops:

Every high flat roof in the game should be redesigned in one of the following two ways:
1) Reduce cover - roofs should either be slanted or peaked; this would mean that players can't just hide from any fire by backing away from the edge.
2) Reduce view - add walls or lips to the edges of the roof, so that the field of view is greatly hindered and can not be used as an unreachable sniping perch.

Now not all roofs need this treatment, particularly lower ones but anything that is unreachable without a dropship should allow reasonable opportunity to kill (not just get a single shot on) players camping there.

They could just make it so that Equipment fizzles out above a certain altitude, to make sure that any height advantage on a rooftop is always only tomporary.

Of course the point at which equipment fizzles out will be unique to each map.

ahem... jet packs.

ahem... jet packs.

Or we just need Jet Packs.

I believe they said they are working on a "lift" system. I don't want rooftops to be removed, just more accessible.

I agree very much with this sentiment. The rooftops should just be easier to access.

Also, you can counter snipe the forge gunners with another forge gun. Just charge it up, wait for them to stop, and POW!

Maybe they will just make swarms lock on to heavies, too!

More Ladders?

I hope they never do anything that silly.

That would break more than it could ever possibly fix.