Reout Karaal
Doomheim
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Posted - 2012.08.20 11:31:00 -
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Awesome QQ thread. Let's remove sniper rifles from the game. Let's give snipers 3 bullets per match. Let's nerf it, because when I stopped for 2 minutes, to take a **** in the middle of the field, somebody blew my stupid head off. Bwah bwah bwah.
If sniping is so easy then why don't you just start doing it? Oh, it's not in line with rushing the objective, is it? It takes patience and cunning to run naked, doesn't it? The militia sniper rifle is **** against people who are not wearing naked scout militia suits? People who use cover are immutable to "shoot the mark blindly"? Heavy with a LAV is able to ruin your scout party of two? Yeah.
You think I'm Scouting Sniper, right? I run Assault. Full militia, because hey, inflation. I use cover, duck, peek&hide, I never run in the straight lines (to the hills, objectives, high points, whatever) and without fail I get sniped in every match... while working on objectives or tactical hacks. And I respect those snipers -- they are giving their team the tactical advantage and I'm a sloppy dead meat in their scopes. So usually I respawn with Assault+Militia SR and clear the area from long range, without bothering to hike. Then I take the point and clear next area. Then I either re-equip to assault in supply depo or hunt goats until I get hunted. I usually don't bother the grunts, unless they amass to hold my people down, because my job is now taking out long-rangers. I try to never kill twice from the same spot. I never snipe from the flatland. I will look into using Tactical AR as soon as I get to build non-militia sets. Also Scout+SMG is very nice for flatland snipers, even with bodyguards. This will of course shift when people start equipping serious suits and boosters. End of last build sniping was almost senseless (I haven't got to proto, went Assault too), it will be like that again.
I don't get one thing. I get killed more often with ARs, shotguns, vehicle turrets and installations than by snipers (I estimate it's less than 1/10th of my deaths, so the ratio looks pretty healthy), so why the hate? Because if you don't see your attacker it's somehow not fair to get shot? Or is it the stupid "they are not participating in the game"? Well you will not make them participate otherwise, they will just camp with Tactical ARs, normal ARs, Mass Drivers, BFGs etc. Remove all the weapons? Yeah, why not remove all weapons and let's just talk our issues on the battlefield. Nobody needs to die, right? Oh, wait, you wanted to play a game where you kill people, but you're not OK with getting killed?
This is war. People have ways, skills and tools to kill you. So do you. At least potentially. Snipers are supposed to have high bodies:bullets ratio. They die easily when approached skillfully or rushed in greater numbers or even faced by counter-snipers. There are some kinks like "marker shooting", but quoting King Omar: "it's all in the game, yo".
tl;dr Stop sucking at the game & blaming the tools. It's you.
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