I just went 42-0 over 4 matches, so I don't know what you mean...?

(Edit 2 min later....) Oh, you mean we need a special suit of our own with 6 high slots...?...

then yes I'm all for it....

Snipers are easy to use and very low risk.
Thus, low reward.

I respectfully disagree. I use charges more than thales and have success. But I use my covenant more than anything with great success as 75 percent of my kills are headshots. I go for people guarding points and countersnipe so I usually have plenty of time to line them up. I do take out guys on the move to but half the time I go for them it ends up an assist. Then again I do have prof. 4 as well so im sure that helps.

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 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.

Don't add up for what? I am sure you can score some decent assists with it and can area deny. You should not have the deadly efficiency of a slayer from the comfort of your perch 1 km away from the action.

1HKO all of my suits except the Heavy.

Snipers DO suck as you say. BUT the Sniper Rifle is good...

;)

advice for being a good sniper

1) ignore heavies till everything else is dead

2) spec into armor you need about 1000 ehp with triage hives to be able to snipe from any useful high ground position, for any length of time, eventually you will have a couple dozen wannabe snipers annoying you like flies, and if you are truly unlucky they will just being a advanced drop ship and you will be ******.

3) learn to accept that if you aren't thee ONLY person sniping on your team, you are part of the reason your team is losing, no matter how good you are at sniping if their is 10 snipers your team is losing because of you and all of them.

4) here is a list of all the things you will need to be a decent sniper level sniper op, level 5 sniper prof, thales, a proto suit, 3 proto weapon mods, repair hives, and nano hives.

5) come to terms with the fact that a militia suit using a basic version of any of the main rifles can get an equal KDR as you with near to no skill points and they say sniper is the easy mode =/

6) spec into a rifle fit, half the maps are now designed so that sniping is completely useless, on these maps you will need to fight from the ground unless you want to be useless. on the ones that are good for snipers expect to see 12 snipers on your team and you will likely be better off on the ground or just leaving....

You are joking, you have to be.

I guess all that high altitude red line sniping has finally gone to his head.

wrong. Snipers do not suck. The real problem is:

• Suits are moving faster
• have higher ehp
• map design blocks most of the clear shots snipers had before.

This is what is making snipers less effective than what they were before.

The real problem in balancing snipers is that those 3 points I mentioned where factors CCP implemented a few updates ago to balance snipers out because before snipers could get on roofs, other high structures and the MCC and defend objects from across the map with no repercussion.

Literally, there was no way to counter snipers without another sniper. On top of that objectives were too easy to defend as snipers could easily shoot right into them and get easy head shots on non-moving targets. either way sniping was way too easy. since all you had to do was stare at an objective long enough. The object flashes when someone is taking it anyway. In ambush, sniping was a little more complex but still very easy for the aforementioned reasons.

CCP's solution to snipers has always been map design and EHP increases, more so the former than the later. So the weapon itself has never received a direct nerf. I.e. skirmish 1.0 the entire mountain was moved.

With this in mind. How snipers can truely be balanced without becoming Over powered an issue that must consider many variables.