Sleepy Zan wrote:KDR is as useful of a measurement of a sniper's skill as it is for anyone else. Bottom line is you can't use it since you don't know who is maintaining a high kdr while being useful and who is just padding with 10 kills per match. In a previous build I knew a sniper who had a KDR over 50, well over 1000 kills, and made 8-900 meter kills on plenty of occasions. I'm not saying he was a bad sniper at all but in many instances he would camp the same spot of the map for 3-10 kills per match. KDR is only useful to measure the progression of yourself, but in the long run it's too easy to get a high KDR while being useless for it to be a used to compare one player to another.
KDR isn't perfect but it's fairly good. The only real issue is that a supremely cautious sniper who only gets a couple kills a game and yet hardly ever dies might be indistinguishable from a more bold and talented sniper, who gets 20 kills a game but also between 1 and 2 deaths.
In either case I didn't mention it to compare ***** sizes. I don't care about what anyone's sniper stats are, because it's a hitscan gun which kills in ~2 hits from across the map. Excelling at uncomplicated tasks is generally not something noteworthy. Although I have no idea who you might be referring to with a KDR of 50. I didn't start paying attention to KDR until Precursor, when I set out to demonstrate how broken sniping is, and I didn't see anyone with a legitimate KDR that high. I guess he stopped playing sniper sometime during the summer.
My only point is that nobody here is in any great position of authority over the others. There have been a few fools attempting to patronize the rest of us, telling us we need to play sniper sometime to learn how to counter them, or acting as if sniping is some truly complicated endeavour and that we just don't understand it. It's total rubbish. Sniping is a braindead activity, and I have enough experience as a sniper to say that with a certainty. The people acting as if it's such a deep role and we just don't understand it are either fooling themselves or attempting to fool us.
Tailss Prower wrote:and it would seem you don't grasp you can kill me 100 times in a skirmish and I'm still gonna laugh as I don't care if you had a 100.0 kdr I snipe for the sport of sniping meaning I ain't sniping because I think it is hard I'm sniping because I find it fun so where ever your logic on what I said came from you can keep it to yourself
Whatever the reason you snipe for, you're not any better at it than I am, and you aren't in a position to tell why this is thus, and what the reason for this thusness is, in regard to sniping.