I wouldn't mind sniper rifles being removed from the game. Even when somebody on my team goes 15/1 as a sniper I still don't feel they contributed to the team. I'd rather have them be forced not to use them than sigh at those useless blue blobs/chevrons in the hills.

Try sniping when proto suits and good gear are back in the game, you couldn't drop a proto assault even with an ishukone and the best damage mods with one hit, hell even proto scouts "tanked" the shots on occasion and never mind proto heavies.

Everyone is running around in militia gear without a clue, stopping to look at the map in the open ...

You people are just jealous that we snipers get plenty of kills from clueless noobs but once they've died enough it's starts getting harder get skills, just like in previous builds where you always knew who was a n00b.
N00b was that guy who stopped running in the open where veterans never stopped moving and always zig zagged and ran in and behind a cover.

Also veterans don't stand still when they get shot, unlike noobs who wonder "oh some one's shooting me, maybe he won't hit if I move just a little bit behind this corner" where they should have ran like a devil was on their heels.

Also sometimes on ambush I've spawned right on a perfect distance from an enemy who instead of starting playing just stands there...
Well sadly for you I'm not giving you any mercy for being a noob and me spawning where I can snipe you right from the start.

Then we have ++ber noobs who get on a top of hill shooting well obviously those guys just beg getting sniped by standing still on a hill top shooting my team mates ...

I short use your brain cells and stop whining at least this isn't cod with those quick scoping ****, OHK every single time sniper rifles.

Meanwhile, if you do not find the idea of devoting your entire match to chasing snipers, you will randomly drop dead from snipers you did not see and who you had no way of fighting even if you did see them.

The solution isn't play tactics or new equipment. Sniper rifles are too strong right now. Especially with KB+M. It is a joke how easily I can get kills with a militia sniper rifle and essentially no sniper skills, because all it takes is one headshot or two body shots and you're down. That isn't fun for anyone. I don't want to see the game diminished so much by something like sniping.

So true.


In the last build I would rarely get sniped - now it's all the time

Give snipers just 3 bullets per match

Once suits get better snipers will be less of a problem and be more about sharing kills with your teammates by softening enemies hp and picking off weaker ones. Scrubs will still have no mercy but as people start building up passive skills and moving into better shielding and armor most snipers now will have a harder time, and as for snipers not helping anyone, one good sniper defending an objective or providing over watch can be very effective. Also a good counter for people grouping up, if you are sniping from a good position you are in a perfect spot to thin out the other teams ranks so your guys can have a much easier time breaking them.