One of the reason snipers are damn near useless (this is a realist assessment of many core failure points not an assessment of the character and contribution of snipers.) Is the fact that there is poor hit detection and framerate, coupled with the fact that it is entirely trivial to make it near impossible to line up a shot because direction changes are instant.

I've tried sniping. it sucks. Because of the aforementioned issues landing a shot on anything but a perfectly stationary target is hilariously unlikely.

The forge gun versus the idiot wiggling in place is a simple matter. You aim roughly where the wiggle bandit's trajectory is centered and let fly. Odds are his path and the projectile will intersect and you will be rewarded with a rag doll flying.

The sniper has to click a headshot to get the same thing. Much, much harder.

Precision weapons in DUST require an insane level of patience. Right now they aren't as much a threat as they simply weed out the gene pool of dumbasses and people who make mistakes.

I feel that difference in percieved utility is actually the sticking point about "forge sniping."