Honestly, they should just change the redline mechanic so that they still exist, but friendlies have 30 seconds to a minute to exit it. Once they leave the redline, it applies the same timer to friendlies as well as enemies (same way it works for enemies now). This ensures that people have a safe place to be dropped in but a hostile place to stay.

Yay, hipfire crosshairs for sniper rifles! Now we can have charged rifles no-scope OHKing people all match every match! That's just what we've been needing!

I find this comment particularly interesting. I understand entirely what you mean and will take this into consideration on future designs.

I would however like to ask if you had considered that you could be protecting from say people entering into those closed off areas? This way you are still assisting. You just may not have your own men in sight. Granted this opportunity may not be extremely obvious or exist in ideal locations for a sniper as well. But I still do wonder if you had considered it in general.

I am absolutely astounded that level design has been designed specifically so that CQC takes place in an enclosed space protected specifically from sniper fire and hack points are safe zones from snipers. These two together, to say nothing of the limitations placed on height and concealment, absolutely cripple the snipers function. You take away any effective ability to defend and/or control a point? This was essentially the only thing that could be done well *within game mechanics* (not including obvious things like intel/spotting) aside from killing.

EDIT: To those saying snipers need to "learn to play on the ground", get a ******* grip. This is not CoD, where the real role for a sniper is completely ignored. Snipers are distance killers. If i'm going to "play on the ground", I'll take up an assault rifle not a sniper rifle, because that is the role it was intended for.