I really dont thing CCP wants snipers in this game, I understand that they did need curtailing from their 40+ kills in the beginning but things have gone way to far against them.

CCP took away the hill advantages, more of the hack terminals are underground, they cut the visual distance and then the render distance, and now the fields are twice the size.

Time to respec I think, because being a sniper is pointless.

H.D

I really dont thing CCP wants snipers in this game, I understand that they did need curtailing from their 40+ kills in the beginning but things have gone way to far against them.

CCP took away the hill advantages, more of the hack terminals are underground, they cut the visual distance and then the render distance, and now the fields are twice the size.

Time to respec I think, because being a sniper is pointless.

H.D

Same here with scouts i badly need a respec

I really dont thing CCP wants snipers in this game, I understand that they did need curtailing from their 40+ kills in the beginning but things have gone way to far against them.

CCP took away the hill advantages, more of the hack terminals are underground, they cut the visual distance and then the render distance, and now the fields are twice the size.

Time to respec I think, because being a sniper is pointless.

H.D

Just another scrub whine for a respec. Sniper rifle is only a million or two in SP tops. Sniper is a one of those roles anybody can train into as a secondary which I do recommend. If you want to be primarily a sniper then once you have the weapon at a nice level you can cross train into other things so that you can switch tactics depending on the battle.

I really dont thing CCP wants snipers in this game, I understand that they did need curtailing from their 40+ kills in the beginning but things have gone way to far against them.

CCP took away the hill advantages, more of the hack terminals are underground, they cut the visual distance and then the render distance, and now the fields are twice the size.

Time to respec I think, because being a sniper is pointless.

H.D

render distance will be fixed, has to be. AI turrets dont have to see to nail your tank/dropship. it has to be fixed. snipers are just fine as long as you dont redline snipe. you have plenty of distance, just you have to be where you can get jumped. simple fix for that though. buddy system, bring a spotter with you.

I understand that passive scanning is important for a lot of classes, but it needs to be within a localized area of around 100m.

Just another scrub whine for a respec. Sniper rifle is only a million or two in SP tops. Sniper is a one of those roles anybody can train into as a secondary which I do recommend. If you want to be primarily a sniper then once you have the weapon at a nice level you can cross train into other things so that you can switch tactics depending on the battle.

render distance will be fixed, has to be. AI turrets dont have to see to nail your tank/dropship. it has to be fixed. snipers are just fine as long as you dont redline snipe. you have plenty of distance, just you have to be where you can get jumped. simple fix for that though. buddy system, bring a spotter with you.

I agree that Null Cannon defense shouldn't be done with a sniper, it should be done with a more combat based role. Someone that is actually risking something. It feels cheap when it is impossible to hack an objective because you can't even see, much less retaliate against the person defending it, without going to a supply depot and counter sniping.

Your points are just invalid:

• move yourself from the redline
• find some new sniper spots
• don't pretend the easy kills on hackers

I would like to change the sniper rifle, to give to snipers a more active role.
Hold your breath mechanic to fight the sight tremble, higher level in skill, more time for you to hold your breath and of course better scopes.

What an ass you are, I'm no scrub you idiot, at 22mill SP, I'm just thinking of changing the primary role of the character.

What an ass you are, I'm no scrub you idiot, at 22mill SP, I'm just thinking of changing the primary role of the character.

I agree, CCP hates snipers too. Not as much as you cry babies but close enough.
I only started playing at Uprising but I could immediately tell their was a bias against sniping. There are a few tell-tale signs but it's also important to note that CCP has at least done SOME thinking about making snipers viable:

Draw/render distance is horrible. There are WAY too many issues with invisible objects blocking shots past a certain distance (a distance which seems different from map to map). There are games MUCH older than this which can render objects much further and more accurately. This is a conscious choice by CCP to nerf the sniping mechanics otherwise snipers would absolutely dominate the game.
There are a ridiculously low number of viable high-ground sniping positions (like 12 max) on any given map. If you can tell me where on a map you were killed and a general direction of the shooter (I mean 180 degrees general direction), I can find and kill him in under a minute. ESPECIALLY if he's trying to relocate.

On the other hand:
There's very little hit direction indication which prevents you from communicating sniper fire with much accuracy.
There's also practically no muzzle flare and no bullet tracing. So as a sniper, your shots are relatively silent, untraceable, and invisible.

So here's my suggestions to CCP:
Change the charged rifle to a laser rifle that has a visible line of fire. This will encourage snipers to use the highest level rifles more carefully.
Add bullet drop and bullet lag. But then give much better draw/render distance. Make sniping something that takes practice and skill.

It's right to have covered terminals, despite i know that snipers must be there, it's a war game, they do not deserve the easy kill on a poor hacker.
Maybe the guy traversed the whole map to hack a terminal and the sniper kill him while he is hacking, he made his way through the enemy lines, he do not deserve to die while he's hacking.

It strikes me as odd, that most of these post on what I was hoping to be a good discussion is all QQing the sniper, probably because you've all been shot one to many times instead of looking at what the original post was meant to be about !

Sniper are fro area denial, meaning, yes the hack terminal is the perfect spot for a sniper to protect lol, so its usually an easy kill, but MOST of the terminal are covered, so those that are not, BE WARNED.

Since you're new and all, let me tell you something. Sniper Rifles leave a contrail behind. The duration of the contrail is Charged>regular>tactical. It used to be, that the contrail was how you found snipers. Those contrails still exist, the problem however is the same of that of the invisible swarms. Because I decided to stay outside your render range, my tracer doesn't render for you either. your other parts, bullet drop and bullet lag are impossible. 1) the coding is too much. it is too difficult to get that to work properly. It won't happen without it being glitchier than squad deployment. 2) the description of the weapon itself. 2500m/s travel speed. it gets to max range in 0.24 seconds. while (assuming earth standard gravity) bullet drop would be 0.24 meters at max range. That makes both of those things negligible, therefor making coding something like that a waste of time.

Add bullet drop and bullet lag. But then give much better draw/render distance.