Roy Ventus
Foxhound Corporation
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Posted - 2013.01.16 15:04:00 -
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Stop the whining.
People say they take away from the game. No. They don't. They're a part of the battle and have weaknesses as well. They can have many uses and should be respected by any tactician or strategist. I'm not the best sniper, by far, but I've seen guys better than me go running at the sight of assassins in the distance. Not just that but they're weak AF. If you can get close enough, you rip em apart OR make them run with their tail between their legs (If you take note of their constant sniping positions, you'll have a better chance of assassinating them). >_>. It's like saying Assault is OP because they're in your face and can kill you and can take objectives. Snipers have to get away from the front line (Which comes with short comings, e.g. not being able to counter-hack) and face counter-snipers all of the time just to complete whatever objective they have in mind.
If you don't like em, kill em.
If you find it hard to kill em, do better.
If you can't do better, you deserve it.
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Roy Ventus
Foxhound Corporation
172
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Posted - 2013.01.30 14:44:00 -
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Fivetimes Infinity wrote:2100 Angels wrote:I hate to be the one to say this, but if you're constantly getting killed by snipers have you ever considered, you know, changing the way you play? Gee whiz, what a brilliant idea. If only I'd have thought of "l2p nub" first! My comments are not based on me frequently dying to snipers. I don't often die to snipers. I get wounded by snipers fairly often, but not killed. My opinion on snipers is, instead, based on my extensive experience as a sniper. I know how powerful, how little skill is required, and how safe being a sniper is. These factors don't add up. There's supposed to be a certain arithmetic to this stuff. A gun as powerful and easy to use as sniping should have some serious negatives. It doesn't. That's a problem. But thanks for the amazing insight and brilliant tips on how to play this game, anyway. I'm sure all the people who've never played a video game before in their lives found your pro tips very educational.
Imo. The main weakness of a sniper is that they all need distance for long-term survival. With distance comes getting away from the frontline or a major objective as these areas are prone to flash assaults. Since the sniper is so far away all they can do is snipe, feed intel, and wait out a battle. If the battle really gets thick and the objective is about to be taken or the enemy team is pushing your team back with aggressive force, the sniper has low capabilities as they can't directly get into the frontline and help push the enemy back or help retake an objective.
E.G.
You're a sniper a good few ways out, watching an objective that is occupied by three mercs. A flash assault happens and the mercs are getting tore apart. All you can do is snipe, and not even fast enough to take down this flash assault. You can't pinpoint their uplink, if they're using one, and you have a hard time taking down the two enemy mercs hacking the objective. You take most, if not all, of them out after they're done hacking, only because they've ignored you or were ignorant of your position from the get go. Now that you've fired several shots back to back from the same area THEY KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. You high tail it out of there. If you don't you die because of being overran by the mercs.
Now let's go back to the moment you hacked the objective. Say you were able to take those two hacking the objective out quickly. The others would realize there was someone shooting, if they're competent at all, and track you down which leads to the ending scenario with the choice of you running or staying. While that happens more enemy mercs come in. And if they don't they still have made a breakthrough for an outstanding battle to which the enemy has a slight advantage because YOU'RE NOT THERE ANYMORE.
:3 Btw the caps aren't me being angry >:3. It's just serious bizz that I felt needed those caps.
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