Keeriam Miray wrote:Teilka Darkmist wrote:I also have never used a prototype medium or heavy frame.
my bad, didn't noticed your sig...
My sig is referring to how long I've had an account on the forums and my frustration at having to wait five minutes before replying to posts. I've had a Dust character since the beta, I just haven't played all that much.
calisk galern wrote: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....
1) Doesn't apply when anyone can switch fits at any time. You're essentially saying ignore heavies if you're a sniper.
2) The alternative is to actually move sometimes during the match, that also makes you less likely to be spotted by an opposing sniper if you do it right.
3) Most of the time, I don't know what types of fits the rest of my team is using as I'm busy hunting for enemy targets. I do know that I've never been in a match where there's been more people sniping than are playing in other roles though. 2 - 4 snipers at any one time is not a detriment to the team and, as I pointed out in number 1 anyone can change their whenever they want to.
4) Out of what you list I've got level 5 sniper rifle proficiency and I've used nanohive (although not very often. I'm a fairly effective sniper without all the rest.
5) Agree.
6) Agree with the first part, disagree with the second. I have difficulty believing that any 16 man team would play as mostly snipers. We're a class that's mostly looked down on by other players, partly because our k/d ration is usually fairly small, partly because our usual warpoints are low and partly because they obviously weren't very good at it when/if they tried sniping so the quit early on and specialised at something else.