Is killing a sniper fun?

I'm glad you are all enjoying the services we snipers are providing for you. It's a dirty job really, but someone's gotta do it.

Now you're being a drama queen. If a team is able to put five snipers in five different locations each watching over eachother, and not miraculously get killed in CQC, then that team is GOOD! I think you're just cranky because you died from a sniper, you can't snipe, so you got counter-counter sniped, and when you tried to sneak up on one you were ignorant enough to other snipers.

Snipers snipe from a long distance away, that's how it works. You just want the damn nerf hammer.

I walk behind enemy snipers all the time and get away with it. You're just pushing theoretical scenarios that happen so little in order to create a seemingly unbalance of snipers.

Even your little video is in support of me. Snipers add a new force on the field, something players must be aware of and adapt their strategies accordingly. Snipers open up limitless tactical opportunities that players can engage in. Just turned your video against you.

Good argument.

Just about every gun type is trying to kill you, and trying to make it fun for themselves. You could be running along and a forge gun gets you, a grenade gets you, a laser gets you, an HMG mows you down... none of those things tend to be fun for the victim.

Your solution? Stop being the victim.

I always laugh when people suggest using vehicles to counter snipers as if that means there isn't a problem. Sniper rifle costs 5k ISK or something minor like that. You can go out in a militia suit and a 5k rifle and two-shot most people from across the map. The "solution" isn't to bring in a vehicle worth tens of thousands of ISK and charge them down, as if killing them once will solve the problem. The solution is to make sniper rifles have power in-line with their cost, and in-line with their difficulty of use.

And I spent the past two builds as a sniper. I had a KDR of around 14 and thousands of kills across both builds. I know what works on snipers and what doesn't. I'm not missing out on anything. Bar none the only reliable way to deal with snipers is to counter-snipe them. And even though I've tried to stick to non-sniper weapons this build exclusively, sometimes I find myself having to resort to overpowered sniping to deal with overpowered snipers. Not very fun.

If there is a nest of annoying snipers, a precision strike works. And it doesn't matter how fast they can run although most likely they are still scoped when it rains.

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you know .. that is one of the roles of a sniper .. to distract and to waste your time.
The more time you waste hunting them down, or hiding for cover the longer the snipper's team has to fulfill their objective.

And for the aspect of "It's just the simple fact that they don't make the game more fun" snipping my not be fun for you, but for others it is..
iam sorry to say, the game or the world doesnt revolve around you or what you deem is "fun" *sorry if this seems harsh but iam getting sick off people whining just for the sake of whining, and iam getting in a pissy mood over it.

I dislike this suggestion, as it makes sniping more luck based (depending on enemy dodge pattern and movement). The games, where sniping works on a high level play, all employ instant bullet flight. Sniping is fairly balanced currently, based on the maps: a good offensive player on a tight map makes about the same difference as a good sniper on a large, open map. This is just IMHO.

Counter-strike had a good approach to sniping as well as q1 tf. Battlefield series is a good example of how bullet flight makes sniping useless in high level play. Planetside 2 sniping is very situational and mostly meaningless as well.

This all goes for skirmish, btw. In the tight ambush maps delayed sniping could work as well. Snipers are now a working field control asset because of the long range capability. Reducing the range capability would make them tactical units like the rest.

I think bullets/nades/etc. are OP!

I demand a hotfix!