Why can't people use paragraphs? My eye's!!!

Some high ground outside of the compounds would be nice, so i can see what myself or my squad are running into or maybe cutting us a way in or holding the enemy back with a few well timed shots. but running into high enemy traffic areas. knowing you're going to have close engagements, idiotic. Yes plenty are adapting but soon enough when the new "nests" are known there will be more like me.

Thats what they are doing, the better the view, the more exposed you have to be to take the shot, if you have a limited view its more protected, but less useful!!

I thought it was a matter of terrain if you don't have good sniping terrain you don't have good snipers.

My bad I misunderstood you, I thought there were opportunities like this on the new maps, fractured road I will admit the main theater isnt exactly a snipers paradise, however there are points like on the bridge where a sniper can shine!!

Actually i think being a sniper is about finding A broken position you can camp in so long as it helps the team, when its no longer advantageous you move along. That being said if you don't need to move to continue helping your team AS A SNIPER then you don't need to move. If your no longer helping, you need to move and find the next whole in the enemies defense and set up there. The combat inside those compounds/sockets is to fast paced most of the time. I have fought inside of them as a sniper and i have been successful there. It's not impossible and i have done it, but, that is not what a sniper should do. We get this whole map to work with and then we're reduced to work within 1/10th of it.

I think that is being a good sniper and snipers were "getting to many kills" so enough people like you complained about it and now it's been "fixed." I want more of the old maps. i want people like you to cry when a good sniper ruins your attempts to kill his team or hack his objectives.

-reference- everything i've already said in this post, did you even read it all?

wth do you all think of when you think... sniper?

my bad, it think i did it again

If you put snipers into a game, make them snipers. If not.... take them out. No gamer in their right mind likes a sniper as a matter of fact you hate snipers. If they're in a game, sure reel them in make them less effective but don't take away the primary role.

i guess i'm more so talking about some of the new sockets that eliminate the sniper factor all together.

The Gallente research facility- the weapons lab and the power cores. wide open spaces blocked off by high walls and only good nest are within 50m of any enemy almost the entire time. <-- not prime for sniping

Sorry not what I meant go to
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=107073&find=unread
and take the image paste in so we can see it!!

why is always the sniper adjusting on our end?

I wouldn't have minded CCP's new direction if it was limited to only a few generated sockets, but the intention is to make ALL SOCKETS long-range attack proof.

not even going to bother reading this until its put in paragraphs

Objective hack locations are to be protected from "long range" attacks and any snipers if at all possible.

why would i search through a thread if im not going to read the op because its a wall of text.

I agree with you. Stationary snipers are often not "good" snipers if they don't take time to watch what is going on and try to help their team. They need to do a few other things:

Cover a medic, so he can heal your teammates.

Counter-snipe. Oh, baby! SO ... MUCH ... FUN.

Hack anything and everything.

Throw down drop uplinks.

Cover that poor, lone SOB trying to solo hack a red objective way, way behind the lines. I'm his best friend in a hostile, lonely world and he doesn't even know my name.

You can't do this if you are sitting on your butt, roasting marshmallows.

Get up and move around.