Your story, roughly translated -
"I capped an objective, then ran off up a hill. A red came along and capped the objective I just capped. I couldnt shoot him. Blue came along and played the game and helped the team by recapping. By a fluke I managed to kill the red."

Your story, roughly translated -
"I capped an objective, then ran off up a hill and then CAMPED the point. A red came along and capped the objective I just capped. I couldnt shoot him. Blue came along and played the game and helped the team by recapping. By a fluke I managed to kill the red."

Edited for more acurate scenario

If your looking for some love for Snipers you have come to the wrong place.

If your looking for some love for Snipers you have come to the wrong place.

Thing about snipers is.... they take no skill at all. I would know I've gotten tons of kills off the militia one, just rushing around, aiming in, and sniping headshots while crouched. No recoil, no sway when crouched, no distance drop. Way too easy.

Here's a little scenario for all you people hating on snipers...

2nd game last night, dropped in at the start of the fight, unusual enough in itself as I don't get much opportunity to put my speedy scout to it's best uses. So I sprint off and take two points, capping a supply depot and a few turrets on my way. Then I retire to a safe distance and prepare to watch one of the two points I've taken, a minute or two later and lil lonesome red dude comes to take my points over, he's using cover well and I have no clear shot. Red dude caps the point I'm watching and then retires to a hidey hole just around the corner waiting for the counter-cap team. Stupid blue sees the point get capped and wanders over, completely oblivious to red dot waiting to pounce. Mr Blue re-caps the point and steps away from the installation, at this point Mr Red decides it's do or die and emerges from his hidey hole to try and fill Mr Blue with hot plasma. Mr Blue nonchalantly strolls right across my line of fire right as I'm taking the shot, it must have passed within a few inches of his ear and neatly penetrates Mr Red, down in one, for a change. Mr Blue, still oblivious to the fact he just had a near death experience casually strolls off to find something else to do.

so, the moral of this story? You all have probably been saved at least once by "mr lonewolf sniper" and you didn't even realize.

I don't pad my K/D by sitting on a hill, most of the time I get assists as OSK'ing is nearly impossible these days with proto suits and what not.

Also, people should try sniping before complaining, these days it's like playing extreme range whack-a-mole with the demented witch from Chorlton and the Wheelies; dots be teleporting 5 feet that way and six feet this way, sometimes appearing curiously stationary when it's obvious they're not even there anymore....

I shot a guy in the foot, he died, full health, full shields, I shot him in the ankle and he died, what does that tell you about lag induced hit detection issues?

I'm not saying ALL snipers are useful, I've seen my fair share of redline campers and mountain pot-shotters, but you don't see many threads hating on assaults/heavies/logis. Give us a break, we save your kittens more often than you know.

Sniping is a part of any combat, if your good enough do it, screw the haters. Who do you whiners think mark half the red dots on the field?

[quote=Gunner Needed]Sniping is a part of any combat, if your good enough do it, screw the haters. Who do you whiners think mark half the red dots on the field?

STFU up

Who do you think kills half the people on the field????



not you homo

^^ ...and here is where the thread devolves into meaningless whining... screw you guys, I'm going home!

^^ ...and here is where the thread devolves into meaningless whining... screw you guys, I'm going home!

CCP get rid of the idiot protector red line. Then we'll see how good snipers think they are.

Let the snipers snipe. Afterall, that's just more WPs for me capping objectives.
Besides, when a sniper gets on your nerves, you can always snipe them back; that's what I do.

1 or 2 snipers are useful.

Any more than that right now is just stupid.

Here's a little scenario for all you people hating on snipers...

Here's a little scenario for all you people hating on snipers...

2nd game last night, dropped in at the start of the fight, unusual enough in itself as I don't get much opportunity to put my speedy scout to it's best uses. So I sprint off and take two points, capping a supply depot and a few turrets on my way. Then I retire to a safe distance and prepare to watch one of the two points I've taken,

a minute or two later and lil lonesome red dude comes to take my points over, he's using cover well and I have no clear shot. Red dude caps the point I'm watching and then retires to a hidey hole just around the corner waiting for the counter-cap team.

Stupid blue sees the point get capped and wanders over, completely oblivious to red dot waiting to pounce.

Mr Blue re-caps the point and steps away from the installation, at this point Mr Red decides it's do or die and emerges from his hidey hole to try and fill Mr Blue with hot plasma. Mr Blue nonchalantly strolls right across my line of fire right as I'm taking the shot, it must have passed within a few inches of his ear and neatly penetrates Mr Red, down in one, for a change. Mr Blue, still oblivious to the fact he just had a near death experience casually strolls off to find something else to do.

I do not know if you are new to the FPS world or are a seasoned sniper but there has never been a game where the community openly embraced snipers. It is the stigmata of being a sniper, we will always get the "cheap and easy" kills and be the kings of camping. Either get use to the hate or pick up a assault rifle. I not trying to be a kitten about it but it is just the way it is.

yeah, sure. sniping is soooo easy. just pull the trigger when the dot turns red.... except that in the 7 10ths of a second that it takes you to respond to the little dot turning red, lag has induced a margin for error. Hell, in that 7 10ths of a second I've seen people move 10ft! so yeah, sniping is uber-easy, skill-less, no one needs us...

GTFO. Troll harder guys.

ArmA and ArmA2 Those are the games where a sniper (or more accurately designated marksman) can be very helpful and needed. But, that's about the only game I have played where they can make a difference. Mainly because you cant just spawn out of thin air near everyone, unless the map maker did a crappy job.

Lol I always hate it when I get caught saying "never" would have been better to say the "very few" because you are very right. On a side note Day Z is a epic mod for ArmA2.

Zombies are overrated.

BTW could CCP make a zombie mode?

start rant
I usually play as a sniper unless whatever god awful team I get thrown on is either all sniping (really guys?) or not playing the objectives (again, really?), then I try and play assault to get something going. When sniping I try and support my team (re: Garretts recounting and more, more or less) but sometimes the team is turrible, just turrible, and no matter what I try and do it doesn't fix the idiotic and ridiculous... whatever it is they are doing. I'm not saying I can turn the tide of a battle on my own but I try and create opportunities rather than just doing... whatever it is they are doing.
/rant

I absolutely will go all camper sniper if the other team is tank/ds spamming the field. Mainly because I don't have a build to counter.
Yet.
And stupidly enough I don't have it in me to quit out of a game just because I'm getting owned for whatever reason...

FOR GOD SAKES GO PLAY CALL OF DUTY THERE ARE NO ZOMBIES IN THE FUTURE.

I appreciate any sniper that actually helps the team, but they seem to be few and far in between. Red line sniping is a mug's game.

Can't this be said for any specialty? AR/Heavy/SG/etc. The difference is dumb snipers don't necessarily die for their stupidity, they just are useless.

Snipers are lame. But in corp matches snipers have proven just as effective as tanks.

Heavies are lame, but in corp matches.... oh wait they just get sniped.

On a side note Day Z is a epic mod for ArmA2.

BTW could CCP make a zombie mode?

...Red line sniping...

Sniping is a part of any combat, if your good enough do it, screw the haters. Who do you whiners think mark half the red dots on the field?