And here we have the most garbage players in dust focused around a single thread.


List of current crutches for these players-

A 600m range of full damage.
Nearly 0 risk of death.
600+ damage per shot.
Only weapon able to use officer variant 100% of the time.
Only weapon able to use damage mods without real user risk.
Only infantry weapon able to sit in the invincible redline to be effective.
No bullet drop.
No innate inaccuracy, and no inaccuracy from wind speed.
Head glitch through shoddy sniper detection means snipers abusing the hill glitch are invincible.

And still they ask for buffs...

And somebody said snipers are hard to use? Wtf bro do you even have hands? If you have hands then NO sniping in dust IS NOT hard.

With their range? They must never become any stronger than they are now until there are bullet physics.

It's too easy to sit undetected and collect kills forever, and ever, and ever.

Hardest weapons in the game to use?
Are you joking?

Crouch, point, click. You can sit half a kilometre off at practically no risk and just point and click things.
Even rifles are more difficult to use, and that's really saying something.

And all of that effort for a single unit.

See? A sniper is disruptive enough without doing massive damage.
If you want a damage increase, bullet physics must happen.

I alternate between sniper and frontline on most maps. The main problem with being a long ranged sniper (I never hide behind the redline btw) is that most of the positions you have anything like a good vantage point of the battlefield are stupidly far out to the point where you can't see a damn thing (they could fix that by giving us a zoom like you would expect with a scope), are so close in that you're better off using an AR/RR/LR instead or you need to be able to use a dropship to get to them.

Even on the rare maps when I use only a sniper setup, I can be fairly sure I'll die once or twice and my k/d ratio is usually more towards the d than the k.

Someone mentioned that sniping's easy, just crouch, point and click. Try more like crouch, point click curse that they moved just slightly differently to how you expected, wait for a couple of seconds until you can shoot again and.... Oh look they're not in your scope anymore. And if you need to reload between shots forget about being able to find who you were aiming at again. Or, if you actually manage to hit them it's usually curse that you weren't aiming in the pixel or two where it registers as a headshot and watch their shields regenerate whilst they evade. That's a much harder kill than spray a load of bullets/light in the direction of the opponent and watch their hp melt away.

I'm not saying that a sniper rifle should be a rapid fire weapon, just that it should be usable as an accurate, hard hitting weapon. Zooms on scopes could be for advanced or prototype only maybe with a greater level of zoom being on the more expensive rifles. It would be nice if we had a map where you could be effective as a sniper as well, rather than having only a very small view of the main areas of the map where the assault, logis and heavies spend most of their time.

My playstyle may be different from yours, but it should no less valid as an option.

Bullet physics are less of an issue over the range of a map than you would think if the bullet is travelling at around 2 - 2.5km/s