Whispercrow
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.08.20 17:29:00 -
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This goes out to the non-snipers, the sniper-haters, and all those who malign our craft.
When I snipe, which is frequent, my preferred prey and, indeed, most of my kills, comes from other Snipers. It's a simple fact that we're cannibals.
But... that's also a good thing. Snipers are sniper insurance. Their presence on your team means you have less to worry about the enemy's snipers, because they will be busy keeping their heads down or hunting me--their own kind.
A 'real' sniper isn't only concerned with his own kills, though, but helping the team finish the map. Sometimes to our own detriment. Yeah, it's actually easier to hurf-blurf with a pile of other randoms in a big heap and hump the Hacking nodes over and over, rushing back and forth like mindless drones. And you end up getting a LOT of skill points for it, because the game doesn't care how many times you die, just how many times you kill or slap that button. You know that empty place you left alone on the other side of the map? That node in the middle of BFE that you won't bother defending because, even though it might make the team win, it's not worth your while cause of the reward system? Yeah. I'm covering that. If the map has 4 or 5 nodes, I might even be covering two of them at the same time. When I kill someone at the node, they take notice. When I shoot them as they are running at it from a distance, half the time they turn around and run back, or waste at least half a minute looking for cover. That's more time for the node to chew away at the enemy base.
So, yeah, by all means, continue bitching about us. Continue complaining about how we don't contribute because we aren't part of the blob or out doing donuts in a disposable vehicle. We know how this works, even if you don't.
I am by no means a super-skilled sniper. I'm only slightly average, in fact, but I know this, and you should too.
I second about everything Gauss said. Especially the running in straight lines, that's just free instakills for us. If you know I'm there? Circle around from a distance behind cover. Get a vehicle. Drop a spawnpoint nearby. Or, better yet, do all three. Or just, you know, brush up on your own sniping skills. Find a place to perch. Not on top of the mountain or a building. Noob snipers go there, and it makes them a target, cause the FIRST place a counter-sniper looks is going to be the roofs of buildings and the peaks out mountains. Cause that's where the noob meat rushes to the slaughter. The more skilled you get, you tend to hide on the sides of mountains, in crevices, behind vehicles. Once you get a decent level of skill, you'll find places in the open ground, with nothing but a tiny rock or gentle fold in the land to use for cover... an almost nobody will look there until after getting sploded. |