That's hilarious.

Thanks for the tips, bro!

When you're redlined by the enemy team and trying to support your squad moving up with sniper fire and a blue-dot decides you're the sole reason they're losing and wastes time by:

- Standing in front of you
- Shooting in front of you with a high-flash weapon (ASCR)
- Pushing you around with an LAV
- Blowing said LAV up because he realizes it can hurt you despite there not being friendly fire
- Calling in an LAV on top of you
- Constantly throwing grenades next to you to cause camera shake
- Realizing they can waste all your nanohives by constantly throwing grenades

For real, the precedent you guys have set for Snipers - even snipers that are actually trying to turn things around by supporting their team as they move up in an already red-lined match - is just disgusting. This community has put such a negative light on redline snipers that even when you're 5-capped, out-numbered, and out-classed you will STILL be the lowest of the low instead of a valuable asset to the team.

Literally all you have to do is tell a half-decent sniper where you're wanting to breach and they can force just about anyone guarding the area into cover, which means -you- can move up and stomp them. But, feel free to waste time by doing any of the listed things because clearly said sniper isn't doing anything useful.

Be sure not to hit the inertia dampeners on your way out of the MCC.

It is bad.

I honestly don't think people will let up on snipers unless they redo the sniper rifle. Honestly the only argument people have against it is "oh, red line, zero risk, high reward", I don't snipe because its low reward and boring, and very map dependent. I bet you if we cut its range and uped its stability and stopping power people would lose their argument line and still whine all the same.

The OP suggests that he was only sniping in the first place BECAUSE he was redlined.

Snipers are pretty much worthless. Anything a sniper can do (read: suppression), any other role/suit/weapon can do better.

red lined = pro scout fully dampen . uplinks ........ poof no more red line lol .

I don't think the range should be cut. It's already a sniper rifle with less range than a RL assault rifle.

Real sniping is dead, and domination killed it. Nothing we can do about it without turning them into CoD snipers, which would cause Dust players everywhere to storm the CCP offices and kill everyone.

The ScR functions like a high power short range sniper rifle. Its what I use if I want to be a "sniper", clears out shields and you can use a bolt pistol to clean up, its also easier to aim for headshots too, fixing the sniper rifle to be more within the line of the Laser rifle is not a radical suggestion.

Or just giving the Laser Rifle a scope and a range buff and making it a really awesome sniper rifle that rewards staying on target instead of maybe kinda/sorta getting lucky with hit detection.

There's literally never a time where you are doing less for your team than when you decide to snipe.

The high uplink guys are even above snipers in my book. Nothing would be better for Dust than completely removing the sniper rifle (aside from a PS4 port).

If snipers ruin my match, I'll spend the remainder of that match putting equipment in front of them to screw up their view and standing in front of them. It's also funny scraping them off of towers with a dropship.

Dont you relegate my LR to a ******* cowards weapon, its perfect as is >:[

There's literally never a time where you are doing less for your team than when you decide to snipe.

The high uplink guys are even above snipers in my book. Nothing would be better for Dust than completely removing the sniper rifle (aside from a PS4 port).

If snipers ruin my match, I'll spend the remainder of that match putting equipment in front of them to screw up their view and standing in front of them. It's also funny scraping them off of towers with a dropship.

Snipers are useless now.

I am saddened by this, but they are. They are also constantly shamed for trying to play the hardest role in the game.

Has anyone ever thought about how terrible the SR's Hit Detection is? How they will have dropships hunting them? That they must have to perfect spot to avoid getting killed?

The true shame should be directed towards those who direct it towards Snipers.

Well... except for Commando Snipers... those guys are really only there for KDR.

I remember back in closed beta, someone found out that driving at full speed toward a friendly sniper, then switching seats at the last second, would kill said sniper.
The game would believe that the LAV managed to roll on top of them by itself. Ofc now, the E-brake goes on the instant someone leaves the driver's seat.