DUST Search - Snipers are poopy.

Forlorn Destrier wrote:

STB-LURCHASAURUS EV wrote:

if the snipers played as scouts and actually did their job in its entirety, which involves at least dropping uplinks, calling out enemy locations, and being on the objectives being hacked with a sniper rifle, that would be very beneficial to any team.

unfortunately a lot of snipes dont do this and end up just wasting a player slot on some hill outside the map.

if they can do it right, good snipers are a great asset.

Scouts played as scouts should use drop uplinks, however Scouts used as snipers should not. This does nothing but advertise the location of the sniper, and if the sniper is a good one you don't want that to happen. The best perches take time to get to, and you will lose the target calling. And yes, snipers should serve as spotters for the rest of the team. You are dead on about that. Also, the best snipers should have visibility to at least one objective and a supply depot, or two objectives. If you don't have this, then you are in a bad perch.


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Primus Core Brimstone Tactical Covert Intervention 22	Posted - 2012.09.07 08:01:00 - [1] - Quote Forlorn Destrier wrote: STB-LURCHASAURUS EV wrote: if the snipers played as scouts and actually did their job in its entirety, which involves at least dropping uplinks, calling out enemy locations, and being on the objectives being hacked with a sniper rifle, that would be very beneficial to any team. unfortunately a lot of snipes dont do this and end up just wasting a player slot on some hill outside the map. if they can do it right, good snipers are a great asset. Scouts played as scouts should use drop uplinks, however Scouts used as snipers should not. This does nothing but advertise the location of the sniper, and if the sniper is a good one you don't want that to happen. The best perches take time to get to, and you will lose the target calling. And yes, snipers should serve as spotters for the rest of the team. You are dead on about that. Also, the best snipers should have visibility to at least one objective and a supply depot, or two objectives. If you don't have this, then you are in a bad perch. I don't know. I've been sniping a ton this build, been loving it, cleaning up plenty of targets. Generally, I try to find a good perch with some cover and drop the drop uplink nearby, behind a hill or something similar. If you've dropped it properly, no one's going to find your position short of coming up within radar range and potentially seeing it on the mini-map. Even then, most people who come after you in a good perch are only coming after you because they saw your blip on the over-map when you fired. The drop uplink provides me with a quick way to get back to my sniper spot - most snipers after taking out a target move their scope elsewhere, assuming that you don't have a nearby uplink. It also acts as a semi-efficient method of getting my team another spawn, and in ambush games it can be immensely useful if the entire team is spawning in the same area, despite the fact that it's usually on the edge of the map or in some strange cranny somewhere. TiMeSpLiT--TeR wrote: What snipers see, you see it on the radar. I've marked many an enemy for allies by doing this, and saved them from an untimely death from behind. 'Tis very true.