Sometimes I snipe and only get like 3 kills but I KNOW I saved the team in the Dom match by getting rid of so many of their uplinks. I think it's only fair that there is an award for it.

The sniper rifles at the middle and lower ends of the spectrum are pretty near useless. You sometimes have to get four shots on a target to drop it. Two or three should be sufficient for fatties.

There is NO EXCUSE for redline sniping, period.

Also I am a Sniper (every now and again) I operate from the ground not some rooftop where I can get a free shooting gallery.

There's a huge gap between the 200hp - 1500hp suits. If you can't body shot a militia suit, I guess taking 8 shots to kill a proto heavy is okay? You can shrink those numbers a bit, and it's still way too much.

Unless facing a high-level Sentinel Dropsuit that is armour tanking, a head-shot will always kill the target.

Bullshit i just got 2 shoted by a militia sniper and i was running a heavy sniper with 1300ehp

Not bad; a headshot is an OHK.

I play my matches as fairly as possible, yet when Im 1 shotted in 480 EHP suit by a Sentinel with a Sniper so far in his own redline you can't even get a dropship to him, I'm told its my fault for winning.

Allow anyone with a sniper rifle the ability to "spot" targets for their squad.

Change nothing. Make new guns if you want new mechanics.

(also your first rifle description is essentially the charge sniper rifle)

Wow, people will defend ANYTHING.

Is there an OP weapon? "I can do good with other weapons so it's not OP!"
Is there and UP weapon? "Not every weapon can be competitive" or "I killed someone with it so it's balanced"
Uncounterable tactic? "Just avoid them!"

All of those have some sort of counter
Sitting in the redline is 100% uncounterable

Once you get used to relying on Tacnet to place your shots (that is, once you get in the habit of pulling/releasing the trigger when damage profile information--ie, a % figure--is onscreen and your reticle is red), everything is much easier.

Attack Drop Ships / Militia Heavy in a Viper are pretty hard counters to take down stationary non contributing red line snipers.

And I'll say I again, RISK vs REWARD

btw heavies are not supposed to get ONE shot by snipers

I really sucks to get one shot killed from someone 400m risking absolutely nothing...

[ im fighting another enemy, and weaken him, snipers picks him off. i.e. 2 in the same area im fighting an enemy he weakens me, snipers shoots the weakned guy behind him, instead of helping me.. i die.i

Charge Sniper damage is pretty high already, I suspect a lot of you can't aim.

And buffing the Thale's is a pretty stupid idea.

If anything, a suitable buff would be to damage over the standard variant Sniper Rifle. And maybe the ability to toggle zoom?

Map design could be better, with the redline removed and areas redesigned to implement a wider variety of sniper spots. Though I think these sniper spots should not have direct overwatch of the null cannon hacking terminal, rather the wider area around it.

snipers should never 1 shot heavy or medium suit tanker.

Are you saying I'm OP? Because I do.

Dude, I haven't sniped enough to get officer weapons as salvage, let alone Thales.

I used a tactical on a weakened heavy.

I think you snipers deserve your buff IF you were to lose the ability to shoot from ~600m.

So you admit its ALREADY an OHK for militia vs militia or proto vs proto but you think that's not enough? Im talking about headshots, of course. I think youre a good player so that shouldnt be a problem for you.

A charge sniper headshot will OHK almost everything. Some bricked suits are two shots, but they're giving up a lot of mobility, damage output, and ewar potential to do that. The normal charge sniper headshot versus proto suit situation is an OHK, especially now everyone is in scout suits.

As for headshots being difficult, well yeah. You can hardly expect an OHK to be easy.

Part of being a sniper is getting heatshots, you will do more damage if you do get a heatshot, if you dont get a heatshot you are a bad sniper.

And of course I'm not saying 600m kills is a regular thing (Most I've taken is 599, actually), but if I were to record the distances they would mostly be on the 400-550m range

Well if you checked the link you'd notice I am not a sniper.

I meant that I got hit from that distance. It's not fun to get OHK'd every time I decide to cross the damn street. :(

If those 3 kills keep a blue NULL cannon firing for 3 minutes, then yes, it is a huge help to the team. And nobody on the blue team but the sniper realizes what is happening.

A full 3 minutes of NULL cannon fire can cause a lot of damage to the red MCC.

Plus, we hack when we move around.

And drop uplinks.

And drop hives.

And use remotes.

And use proximity mines.

And snipe tankers after they call in their tanks but before they can get into them. Then you can hack the tank and drive off to help the team.

And snipe hives and links.

And snipe medics when they stop to help patients. Then we snipe their patients.

And call out red movements.

And break red momentum. Even if we don't kill a bunch of charging reds, we can make them keep their heads down.

And snipe the two reds running at you when you are trying to hack. You never even know we were there. We are the invisible reaper.

And kill one or two of the three guys attacking you when you are alone in a cold, dangerous world. We even your odds.

And burn that proto fatties' shields to zero and half armour when he is looking to collect your skull for his mantlepiece. Again, we even your odds.

And, yunno, play the game along with everyone else.


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Over 600 with damage mods surely? And near 700 with cal commando.

they do need extra headshot damage.

It would make the tactical rifles a more valid weapon choice and reward snipers skills (paciently waiting and then making a good shot)