I wonder if the fitting options have been carefully pondered here. A heavy suit sniper with a rack of 10% damage amps and armor tank is looking to be the only viable option for field contol sniping, oneshotting rest of the suits while sustaining a headshot from enemy snipers. The only thing lacking seems to be nanohive. With the sniper game being much about controlling field and hack points, heavies can do with the slightly worse mobility. Could this put all other sniping into a niche role? A possible fix would be to improve detection so, that scan resolution literally improves enemy suit visibility. Thus, a scout suit could be near invisible to bad scanres heavies from 600m distance.

Guy above me pretty much nailed it.


Heavies can snipe, but they get more HP for sacrificing the ability to use equipment. Further, you're missing one key thing. Sure... A heavy has more HP. But consider how long it takes for him to recover that HP when he starts getting countersniped. Then consider how easy it is for him to get flanked. Even if he's paying attention, he has much less escape options than a sniper running a scout setup.



To be frank... The absolute most effective sniper in dust is the logistics suit. At proto level you get 4 high, 4 low, and 4 equipment slot.

That means you can get A shield extender + 3 damage mods, two plates, a complex armor rep, and a CPU upgrade. You can then rock 2x nanohive, 1x remote explosive, 1x drop uplink.

With that fit you can oneshot pretty much any suit in the game except the really beefy heavies, and have enough HP to survive most other snipers, if you have cover to duck back behind once you get shot.

Wouldn't a Logi sniper be a sitting duck for an SMG scout or anyone else who can get in close?

Heavies can snipe, but they get more HP for sacrificing the ability to use equipment. Further, you're missing one key thing. Sure... A heavy has more HP. But consider how long it takes for him to recover that HP when he starts getting countersniped.

The logistics suggestion sounds pretty awesome. Sig is a non-issue as any decent player can spot the pixels instantly on screen. this is what i'd like sig affect; the visibility of suits. Moving around as a sniper is not contributing to team, the efficient way to snipe is akin to q1 team fortress, where sniper supremacy reduces enemy attack strenght. That's where logistics nanohive would rock as the longer the sniper can stay stationary flinging shots off, the more he is affecting the match outcome.

Wouldn't a Logi sniper be a sitting duck for an SMG scout or anyone else who can get in close?

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I wonder if the fitting options have been carefully pondered here. A heavy suit sniper with a rack of 10% damage amps and armor tank is looking to be the only viable option for field contol sniping, oneshotting rest of the suits while sustaining a headshot from enemy snipers. The only thing lacking seems to be nanohive. With the sniper game being much about controlling field and hack points, heavies can do with the slightly worse mobility. Could this put all other sniping into a niche role? A possible fix would be to improve detection so, that scan resolution literally improves enemy suit visibility. Thus, a scout suit could be near invisible to bad scanres heavies from 600m distance.

Wouldn't a Logi sniper be a sitting duck for an SMG scout or anyone else who can get in close?

A heavy sniper cannot do mountaingoating so it sacrifices abililty to get onto natural sniping positions on it's own.

Heavy snipers are rare because it takes far too long to move around and heavy suits have a huge profile the point of the sniper is to stay hidden and snipe consistantly which heavies can't do because of said huge profile leading them to be found quickly and counter sniped and as you mentioned lack of a nanohive so once they're spent they have to climb down from said sniper spot to find ammo then run all the way back up which just isn't feasible for a sniper