DUST Search - Snipers are worthless teammates.

Monkey MAC wrote:

Fizzer94 wrote:

They are useless. They do not hack, they do not push on the enemy. About the only thing they are good for was overwatch and marking enemies, but they can't even do that anymore. If any team has more than 3 of them that team will almost always lose, and everyone but the snipers gets slaughtered.
They are a completely selfish role, they often wait to shoot so they can steal a kill, even if it cost their ally a fitting. The only reason they play Skirmish and Domination is because there is a redline that they can hide in.
For any sniper that says "killing X enemies isn't useless". Yes it is. In a game where the enemy can just keep respawning, kills are worthless. Kill all the enemies you want, unless we clone them you were useless. Most matches are won with MCC destruction, not kills.
The only snipers I have much respect for are the Tac Snipers that get up near the battles(obviously not in them, but not 250m away on a mountain), and ones that provide overwatch with a mic, or (even better) a flux scanner.

At the moment snipers dont have many roles to fill other than killing!! This is not there fault they need new equipment modules and abilities to help the squad, besides snipers can make great assests, when deployed and used effectively, snipers work best in 3's 2 for the team down below and 1 countersniper!!

I regularly run with a sniper, grease spillet, from my alliance, he has more tactical advantages without firing a shot!! Besides if I have a guardian angel I feel much better knowing he has a sniper rifle!!


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Fizzer94 L.O.T.I.S. 161	Posted - 2013.09.11 09:25:00 - [1] - Quote They are useless. They do not hack, they do not push on the enemy. About the only thing they are good for was overwatch and marking enemies, but they can't even do that anymore. If any team has more than 3 of them that team will almost always lose, and everyone but the snipers gets slaughtered. They are a completely selfish role, they often wait to shoot so they can steal a kill, even if it cost their ally a fitting. The only reason they play Skirmish and Domination is because there is a redline that they can hide in. For any sniper that says "killing X enemies isn't useless". Yes it is. In a game where the enemy can just keep respawning, kills are worthless. Kill all the enemies you want, unless we clone them you were useless. Most matches are won with MCC destruction, not kills. The only snipers I have much respect for are the Tac Snipers that get up near the battles(obviously not in them, but not 250m away on a mountain), and ones that provide overwatch with a mic, or (even better) a flux scanner.
Fizzer94 L.O.T.I.S. 161	Posted - 2013.09.11 09:41:00 - [2] - Quote Monkey MAC wrote: Fizzer94 wrote: They are useless. They do not hack, they do not push on the enemy. About the only thing they are good for was overwatch and marking enemies, but they can't even do that anymore. If any team has more than 3 of them that team will almost always lose, and everyone but the snipers gets slaughtered. They are a completely selfish role, they often wait to shoot so they can steal a kill, even if it cost their ally a fitting. The only reason they play Skirmish and Domination is because there is a redline that they can hide in. For any sniper that says "killing X enemies isn't useless". Yes it is. In a game where the enemy can just keep respawning, kills are worthless. Kill all the enemies you want, unless we clone them you were useless. Most matches are won with MCC destruction, not kills. The only snipers I have much respect for are the Tac Snipers that get up near the battles(obviously not in them, but not 250m away on a mountain), and ones that provide overwatch with a mic, or (even better) a flux scanner. At the moment snipers dont have many roles to fill other than killing!! This is not there fault they need new equipment modules and abilities to help the squad, besides snipers can make great assests, when deployed and used effectively, snipers work best in 3's 2 for the team down below and 1 countersniper!! I regularly run with a sniper, grease spillet, from my alliance, he has more tactical advantages without firing a shot!! Besides if I have a guardian angel I feel much better knowing he has a sniper rifle!! I agree, I wish snipers had more use for the team, so that I wouldn't almost always lose when I get paired up with more than 2-3 of them on my team. I wish their scopes would light up enemies, or they used flux scanners more often instead of nanohives.
Fizzer94 L.O.T.I.S. 161	Posted - 2013.09.11 09:47:00 - [3] - Quote Lorhak Gannarsein wrote: Unless the blue snipers are getting like 20 kills, they're wasting space in skirmish matches. Green snipers, if they're good, are another story, of course. The overwatch they can provide is invaluable, although a Flux scanner is arguably more useful. Green snipers are good, especially with a mic, overwatch is great. Its the blue ones up in the hills that are doing nothing for the team that I particularly don't like, because they aren't playing Skirm and Dom because its an objective and team based gametype, but because they don't die there.