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Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders
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Posted - 2014.01.04 05:59:00 -
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This is a five second idea. It's probably bad.
Anyhow, I think for snipers to work well, they need to have good perches outside the redline, and yes, viably pointed towards objectives. However, snipers are both avoidable and removable if you know they're there. Unfortunately, current design leads it to being a role for players who don't want to play actively, or just want to score kills, without any focus on objectives.
Would it not give snipers back their role as area denial infantry and watchdogs/long-range scouts for them to have a laser sight activated when they're in ADS, which can be visibly detected by a merc who's being targeted in their sights? So an attentive merc could evade a sniper bolt before it's fired. A directional indicator, similar to the damage indicator, could make it possible for you to gauge their vague location as well.
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Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders
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Posted - 2014.01.04 07:56:00 -
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TheEnd762 wrote:Ah, the REAL reason for wanting crap like this: getting killed by a sniper annoys me, please give me a way to find them without actually having to do anything.
Actually, I'm a known sniper, though I haven't done it as much lately. I already feel snipers are pretty easy to avoid, hunt down, and kill. (I enjoy countersniping as much, if not more, than I enjoy sniping.)
But as I said, it was a musing, a thought. Based on how NPC snipers appear in a lot of games. I'd have to see it in practice in a PvP environment to know if it was balanceable or not.
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Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders
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Posted - 2014.01.04 09:30:00 -
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Mobius, look at the size of DUST maps. Do they really look like they're intended to be played with a shotgun? REALLY? It's a game that will be heavily reliant on vertical, long-range gameplay. That involves snipers. And lasers, because lasers own snipers in the face. And whatever the other two eventual long-range precision weapons for the other races end up being.
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Soraya Xel
The Corporate Raiders
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Posted - 2014.01.04 10:42:00 -
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I wasn't thinking for the benefit of me finding snipers. I was trying to think of a fix that might inspire snipers to go provide more area denial and less free kills. That would be best accomplished by giving players some manner of warning a sniper was targeting them (similar to vehicle lockon warnings).
Also, magic space lasers work at any range. ;)
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