Read my posts about red line snipers.

Dust 514 has many specific roles. Sniping is a very minor specific role. if you're getting killed from the enemy red line you're doing it wrong.

1) You're probably winning already since you're pushing towards it
2) You're probably standing still or moving in predictable patterns
3) You're probably out in the open running around like you own the place

You deserve to get sniped. The enemy team is down a player who can spawn in and focus any objective on the map. They're sacrificing someone who could actively be participating to have them solely focus on a certain half or section of the map.

If you were a sniper you would know what the best hard counter to a sniper is. It's an ADS. They clear rooftops like nobody's business. They can even dive into the red line, get kills, and get out. I'll also cut you off and say if a sniper took time to call in a drop ship and get to a rooftop it's only fair you do the same.

Risk versus reward is still there as well. As I mentioned before, you'll always get way more kills with a charge sniper rifle out of the red line than with a thale's in the red line. You're also a lot more likely to die. It could be an ADS, anyone with a drop ship and a gun really. It's way easier to snipe people at 250m than 450m.

You read it wrong...he basically said " if you get snipped you were probly be stupid or predictable"

Your opinion as a sniper means nothing in comparison. Sniping from the ground? Yeah, I do that too. While I'm waiting for my drop ship to land.

You're the same narrow minded garbage I had described earlier. Just a cog in the meat grinder. If you had things your way there would be no mountains, no buildings, no vantage points. Just flat terrain and boxes. Get the **** out.

I just want to strangle you.

"why shouldn't my opinion mean nothing" - you're right it really should mean nothing.

"I play a combat sniper" - as opposed to a non combat sniper?

what the hell is "invictive?"

The game isn't fun at all if you're hiding in your own red line sniping. Let's not claim to know my sniping methodologies until you're on the receiving end of it.

I want my shots to always register, I want my enemies to render, I want to be viable in pc without a thales......... I don't want to have to hit multiple headshots to kill medium frames, or however many it takes to kill a proto gal sentinel (I think its 8 bodyshots or 5 headshots with the ishukone)

Yo you self righteous proto stomper. When people are getting crushed because you're abusing the terrible matchmaking with your all proto fits, you can't just expect people to sit there and get stomped for fun. They're either going to go cloaked scout/militia/sniper.

Deal with it.

Just like how we have to put up with the proto elite.

I would not agree completely on changing the magnification on sniper rifles. It's not something I feel is absolutely needed. It would certainly make red line sniping a little easier.

I just want the sniper to be useful in PC. (or whatever future end game content awaits DUST 514)

Increased damage seems logical because of increased suit health / armor + no updates to the weapon. It's antiquated.
Additional Functionality could be another answer. Allow anyone with a sniper rifle the ability to "spot" targets for their squad.

Sniping isn't good enough for PC. The rifles don't do enough damage at range to make it worth running a Sniper over let's say a slayer actively pushing or defending.

This is a push for Sniping to be more than what it currently is in end game DUST 514. Which is essentially non-factor unless using a Thale's at which point it's viable but not broken. Thanks to that huge long list of things I've named that keep the Sniper from being something desirable.

You shouldn't need things you can't purchase (OFFICER WEAPONS) to be considered worth putting on a team for competitive end game play.

When putting together a bunch of mercenaries to form a team it's NEVER desired or essential that a team fields a sniper. I'm not asking to make the role essential, just less undesirable than it currently is.