I was playing around tonight and noticed two things that sort of tie into one another.
Since CCP's new Executive Producer wanted to "turn up the action", I noticed something in Ambush OMS games and it ties to an earlier thought I had about redline sniping.

First things first: Redline Snipers.
You know when you play basketball, and if you shoot the ball and goes into the basket, but your foot stepped out of bounds, the shot doesn't count? Why would a sniper be allowed to sit out of bounds and still get rewarded with doing damage?

Now, I'm not venting about it. In fact, snipers are MEANINGLESS in this game. They don't contribute, even in Ambush game modes. Snipers can b*tch all they want about that, but face facts; snipers make no impact on games other than being nuisances. If I get killed by one, I really don't care, because its only one death and it won't happen again.

These maps are plenty big enough where the sniper can still have major distance without being out of bounds in the red zone.

How this ties into tighter maps: Shrinking games?
In all the Ambush OMS games I played tonight, as I looked over the map before i spawned in I noticed how small the space was. We were playing OMS in standard Ambush spaces, and Turrets even dropped. I am wondering if this is one of CCPs attempts to turn up the action? Because all those Ambush games were over in 5 minutes, just like a standard Ambush game would be, because the time between kill waves is tighter because of the tighter maps.

If this is the case, then smaller maps will hurt snipers in this game and render them to Call of Duty type of playstyles because you can't get enough distance between you and the enemy. But at the same time, I had good Shotgun performances tonight because of the tighter maps. I suppose tighter OMS games wouldn't be a bad thing, as long as the large games stay in the rotation as well.

Haven't seen athena and I think I saw Dark pop on then just leave. I'll check when I get on a little later

im sorry but i beg to differ, i have been on squads with snipers, and they provide fire support as well as enemy locations, one time me as a scout captured a null cannon alone vs 7 enemies thanks to that sniper that gave me info and killed 3 of them, i agree with you on the redline snipers, and GOOD snipers can kill target enemies that are destroying your team

Cool. That's great and I'm glad a scoutbro can contribute like that.

On a similar note: I do that dozens of times each week. All dedicated snipers do.

On another note: You can take the redline away OP but I want the sniper rifle damage and ranges to be scaled properly. Give me accurate long range rendering. This means making sniper scopes much, much better. With a proper scope, your body will fill my scope at 500m.

In real life, an average sniper should be able to kill reliably out to 1000m. The best that I'm aware of was a Canadian who killed a Taliban guy at 2430m. Master Corporal Rob Furlong of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

I'll be happy if I can sit back 1000m and harvest skulls. Trust me, you won't want to walk that far to get me. You'll just get tired and I'll have moved on anyway.


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