Free Healing
L.O.T.I.S.
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.01.10 06:46:00 -
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Well Junko,
Politically speaking your offering only a skimmed view of sniping under a very controlled circumstance. The fact of the matter that every players experience with snipers is circumstantial but can be summed up in average.
Bad Snipers are a waste of space for allies.
Good Snipers are an annoyance for the enemy.
Great Snipers are a force to be reckoned with.
Now i don't know you very well. You may only Snipe. I'll ask this question all the same. Have you ever been in a team that was comprised or attacking an enemy team consisting primarily of snipers (i'm talking about 1/3 ratio) because I have. Most people know this, but i EXCLUSIVELY run as a Logibro without exception (minus two games where i rolled as a heavy for teaching purposes). Anything at the NT-511 Level or higher can Snipe my Cheap fit in one body shot and my most expensive fit in 1 Headshot.
Having 1/3 of the enemy comprise of snipers is extremely frustrating because I kept getting killed off by many different places. However, we won that match with relative ease. This is my opinion why:
Lack of communication for one. The best way to use that many snipers is to form a grid. If you don't do that what happens is that all the snipers kinda huddle together facing one direction looking for the same targets and start competing with each other for +50 WP.
Counter Sniping. As mentioned above the competition between many snipers for kills will lead to them taking risks and being counter sniped due to tunnel vision.
Lack of ground support. Snipers don't get up close and personal which means that there are going to be some objectives they can't protect unless the enemy doesn't have a clue that they're around. This usually means that allied Ground Troops will be overrun by enemy forces which makes the capturing of Objectives easy.
Snipers can be easily avoided. Honestly it's not that hard. If you want to know a weapons weakness then use that weapon for a couple games i say. Snipers have a very fine line they shoot in which means as soon as your out of their scope they can't hit you and there are numerous obstacles the enemy can use to exploit that. The only place Sniper was every extremely prevailing was Manus Peak and, to a slightly less degree, New Manus Peak.
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Is what i see in most games when there are an abundance of snipers in a game. They are not useful but you don't need 6 of them when 2-3 could do the same job. There is such a thing as excess and because of the one track mind most, not all, snipers have they end up just not caring about whether or not their Team wins or Loses, and even if they are they still don't try to get their hands dirty due to the limited CQC that a Sniper has.
THAT is why snipers are hated.
(PS: Let this post be a lesson on what not to do as a sniper.)
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