At first, I get angry, but just like Liam Neeson I then dedicate my whole match to finding and killing them, and of course, I finish off with a teabag before I am slapped to death at the hands of the invisible redline monsters.

Sometimes I even counter snipe in a rail tank.

Ummmm. No.

With the slow rate of fire for sniper rifles, those of us who don't redline snipe, i.e. the proper snipers, need the damage to contribute fully. I'm not saying that a sniper should be able to OHK a proto heavy with a strong tank. But Scouts should be comparatively easy to kill if we hit and we should have a chance of OHKing an assault or logi at least.

In the politest terms I can manage, if everyone you've spoken to agrees with that, you need to stop talking to people with an IQ under 60. Because that would inherently break the entire game design overnight. For all classes.

There are blue redline snipers too, you know.

Ummmm, No.

You're suggesting a shield that can tell the difference between a sniper bullet and a railgun bullet or an Assault rifle bullet. These just don't exist in New Eden. Partly because there's no difference between a railgun bullet and a Sniper bullet, at the moment at least, since all sniper rifles currently in game are railguns, just with an emphasis on range and damage rather than rate of fire. Plus I'd imagine the coding for that would be more complex than just disabling weapons inside the redline, which is essentially what the original idea of the shield is. But that would make it virtually impossible for a redlined team to break out.

There is no easy solution to redline snipers, not that a solution is needed most of the time as redline snipers make at best a minimal impact on the matches

Alot of it was hit on the head in the recent review of DUST 514.



The red-line often yields the best spt's on the map for snipers without having dropship proficiency and exploring towers and spots.

There is no true multi-level playability.. Half the maps with good high vantage points are only reachable by dropship, there are no ladders.. elevators..

Map's just aren't designed with DUST in mind to be played on them. Half the maps has a clear advantage starting off on one side versus the other, next to no separation of infantry and vehicle combat. Turrets placed often in irrelevant places roads that lead no where...


They even added a Volcano which adds cinders and smoke to everyone's screen.... While a cool feature it's more FOR A GAME THAT DOESN'T HAVE MASSIVE FRAMERATE ISSUES.

They could of started with a tree... FFS... a giant mushroom... How about something freaking Alien? have some creative fun instead of rocks and grass....

Map's are one of the biggest factors in causing massive Balance issues... NPE experience issues, Role functionality, Vehicle spam....You can attribute almost everyone problem dust has partially to the very very poor map designs that make hard to even play DUST on.