Larkson Crazy Eye
WarRavens
Imperium Eden
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Posted - 2015.09.19 06:45:00 -
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Kills don't matter if your not contributing to the objective. If your team was redlined you can get 30+ kills from way back, some times with something simple as a blaster turret inside the redline. That doesn't mean your helping your team. Just like a logi can get 3000+ WP dropping hives and having their team mates shoot bullets into the air or cover all the ground/MCC spawn points with uplinks to sneak in spawns.
The sad thing is snipers really don't have much of a choice on most maps. There are not a lot of good positions to snipe from these days after they nerfed the range on sniper rifles. If your not at least 300+ out your at great risk of some one with a regular rifle just turning and killing you. The fact the speed game has been increased dramatically also means your more likely to get body shots than ever now, and most suits take 2-4 shots to kill even with high end sniper rifles.
Unlike other FPS you can't quick scope snipe with a sniper riffle to any great degree, so your utterly useless at closer ranges. Never mind the horrible hit detection that plagues sniper riffles compared to most other weapons in dust. The worst is when a sniper is on top the MCC. I can hit them in the head dead on 2-3 times with no effect but the 4th shot kills them. All without moving the cross hair at all. All while they can shoot out of such 'cover' without penalty. It happens with rocks and other obstacles quite often too.
So other than a few close ranged Dom maps where the objective is within sight of a nice elevated position, preferably in the red line, a sniper really can't cover anything any more. It's not really the fault of the weapons so much as poor map design. The maps were mostly designed way back when sniper rifles and rail turrets had basically unlimited range. You could keep an eye on one or more objective as a sniper. They nerfed snipers hard because lets face it too many people were going 20/0 or higher from so far in the redline it was a joke. But the problem is they didn't really change the maps in reflection of this and truly good sniper locations are pretty hard to find on most maps.
You either have good lay of the land, or a safe defensible location. Rarely do you have both any more. Not to mention the ample amount of cover makes it hard when you have to 2-3 shot a person to get a kill now that drop suites have more armor and shields. No one is out in the open that long unless their a sniper themselves or stupid.
Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician: "Everybody but me--CHARGE!"
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